Search results for "GW"

Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Southern African summer rainfall

2007

Rain-causing mechanisms over Southern Africa (south of 15˚S) involve both tropical and temperate dynamics. Most studies focused on the synoptical timescale, while the intraseasonal (20-120 days) variability has more been neglected to date. This study aims at determining whether the dominant mode of intraseasonal variability in the Tropics, namely the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), has a significant impact on Southern African rainfall and associated atmospheric dynamics. The examination of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) over Southern Africa shows indeed significant intraseasonal fluctuations at the 30-60 day timescale, i.e. in the pe- riods that are typically reminiscent of the MJO. In ord…

Surface soil humidity retrieval using remote sensing techniques: a triangle method validation

2010

Soil humidity plays a key-role in hydrological and agricultural processes. In the rainfall-runoff processes the knowledge of its spatial distribution is fundamental to accurately model these phenomena. Furthermore in agronomy and agricultural sciences, assessing the water content of the root zone is required in order to optimize the plant productivity and to improve the irrigation systems management. Despite the importance of this variable the in situ measurements techniques based on Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) or on the standard thermo-gravimetric methods, are neither cost-effective nor representative of its spatial and temporal variability. Indirect estimations via Earth Observation (…

CO2LD: An innovation educational project for High Degree Professional Training in Refrigeration

2013

EN] Refrigeration is one of the technology sectors that has sufered the most changes in the last twenty years, because of the negative impact of the fuids used in the refrigeration cycles, i.e., refrigerants, due to their impact on the ozone layer and their contribution to global warming. As a result of their negative efects, the European Union has established several directives to restrict the use of refrigerant fuids, and the sector therefore needs to adapt to the new regulations. This process of adaptation of the refrigeration sector to the new regulations must be carried out by all the agents involved, including those engaged in the training and education of the future refrigeration tec…

Perché Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick? Leggere Stanze private.

2011

Escritores e intelectuales / 1: Españoles en y de París

2006

Self-consistent GW calculations of electronic transport in thiol- and amine-linked molecular junctions

2011

The electronic conductance of a benzene molecule connected to gold electrodes via thiol, thiolate, or amino anchoring groups is calculated using nonequilibrium Green functions in combination with the fully self-consistent GW approximation for exchange and correlation. The calculated conductance of benzenedithiol and benzenediamine is one-fifth that predicted by standard density functional theory (DFT), in very good agreement with experiments. In contrast, the widely studied benzenedithiolate structure is found to have a significantly higher conductance due to the unsaturated sulfur bonds. These findings suggest that more complex gold-thiolate structures where the thiolate anchors are chemic…

Coupled theoretical and experimental studies for the radiation hardening of silica-based optical fibers

2014

International audience; We applied theoretical and experimental spectroscopy tools to ad hoc silica-based "canonical" samples to characterize the influence of several dopants and of some drawing process parameters on their radiation sensitivities. We present in this paper, the recent advances and results occurring from our coupled approach. On the experimental side, we studied the doping influence on the response of optical fibers and showed that changing the drawing parameters has a negligible influence on the fiber response in the case of specialty fibers. We focus mainly on the ${rm SiE}^prime$ defect that is observed through Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) measurements in all cano…

Levels of self-consistency in the GW approximation

2009

We perform $GW$ calculations on atoms and diatomic molecules at different levels of self-consistency and investigate the effects of self-consistency on total energies, ionization potentials and on particle number conservation. We further propose a partially self-consistent $GW$ scheme in which we keep the correlation part of the self-energy fixed within the self-consistency cycle. This approximation is compared to the fully self-consistent $GW$ results and to the $G W_0$ and the $G_0W_0$ approximations. Total energies, ionization potentials and two-electron removal energies obtained with our partially self-consistent $GW$ approximation are in excellent agreement with fully self-consistent $…

Visa genoma asociācija identificē ģenētiskos marķierus, kas saistīti ar hipofīzes adenomas risku un fenotipu

2019

Visa genoma asociācijas pētījumi(GWAS) ir pētījumu metode noteikta klīniskā stāvokļa ģenētiskā cēloņa noskaidrošanai, izmantojot genotipēšanas mikromasīvus un SNP nelīdzsvarotās saistības principu. Hipofīzes adenomas(HA) ir nemetastazējoši audzēji ar dažādu molekulāro izcelsmi. Līdz šim zināmas vairākas somatiskas mutācijas (GNAS, MEN1, USP8, GPR101), kas asociētas ar noteiktu HA klīnisko tipu klātbūtni, kā arī veikti kandidātgēnu pētījumi HA ģenētisko cēloņu noteikšanai. Līdz šim pasaulē veikts tikai viens GWAS pētījums, lai konstatētu ar HA tumoroģenēzi asociētos SNP Ķīnas Han populācijā. Šajā darbā izmantoja 233 HA un 468 kontroles indivīdu genotipus, tika noteikti ar palielinātu hipofīz…

A combined genome-wide approach identifies a new potential candidate marker associated with the coat color sidedness in cattle

2019

Abstract Coat color is one of the most important phenotypic features in livestock breeds. Cinisara is a local cattle breed generally of uniform black color which occasionally presents a particular phenotype, with animals typically display a white band along their spine, from the head to the tail, and on the ventral line (color sidedness). Therefore, this breed provides an ideal model to study the genetic components underlying phenotypic variation in coat color. A total of 63 animals, ten with sidedness phenotype and 53 with uniform black color were genotyped with Illumina Bovine 50 K. The comparison among genome-wide association study and FST analysis revealed a single nucleotide polymorphi…