Exploration of Synoptic-Scale Patterns in Early-Season Snowfall around the Lake Michigan Region

This research is part of a broader project that explores the role of Lake Michigan in the regional snowfall climatology. This study explores the statistics of snowfall through the month of November in the Lake Michigan region. Each November snowfall event was classified by whether it was a synoptic event or a lake-effect snow event. From these classifications, a table of dates and snowfall statistics were compiled for Lake Michigan snowfall events from 1950 to 2012. This table was used in coordination with NCDC netCDF re-analysis files to find relationships between the type of the event and 850-hPa, 500-hPa, and 300-hPa temperature, height, wind speed, and wind direction. In order to further understand the climatological development of the snow events around Lake Michigan, composite datasets were also assembled and analyzed. By doing this, the “mean-state” of lake-effect and synoptic snow events around Lake Michigan can be studied. Additionally, the variance between the two modes of snowfall can be statistically analyzed

The SAFE-PEDRUG project : an opportunity for academia to close the gap

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Management of hypertension in children and adolescents

Hypertension has been recognized as an important health issue in the pediatric population over the past years. This emphasizes the need for an organized and effective plan for diagnosis and management. This review provides information to guide physicians through a structured approach to (1) screen children for hypertension during routine visits; (2) use normative blood pressure tables for diagnosis and classification; (3) perform a clinical evaluation to identify the presence of risk factors, comorbidities and/or target organ damage; and (4) initiate an individualized plan of care that includes follow-up blood pressure measurement, therapeutic lifestyle changes and - if necessary - pharmacological therapies

Cyclic thermogravimetry of TBC systems

The previously developed cyclic thermogravimetry analysis (CTGA) method is applied to the cyclic oxidation at 1100 °C of ZrO2–Y2O3/NiPtAl or NiCoCrAlYTa/single crystal nickel-base AM3 superalloy TBC systems. Cyclic thermogravimetry with fast heating and cooling and high accuracy in mass measurement allows to measure oxidation kinetics of the bond coating and also to detect and quantify the occurrence of the top coating cracking and spalling. The resulting data could be used later on, for time of life modelling of TBC systems

Low-rank properties in the hybrid finite element-boundary integral method

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Les stratégies linguistiques utilisées pour renvoyer à des politiciens dans la presse écrite en espagnol: une analyse des constructions appositives

This article proposes an empirical study on the naming strategies when referring to politicians. More precisely, our analysis is based on a corpus of journalistic articles in contemporary Spanish and gathers a homogeneous set of so-called loose appositive constructions referring to politicians. The aim of the study is to provide a structured analysis of the linguistic features of the appositive constructions collected in our database. We will argue that the 1084 appositive constructions examined present a predicational relationship. We distinguish between three types of predicational appositive constructions: specificational, attributional, and identificational constructions. Together with a description of the syntactic and semantic characteristics of these constructions, we also examine their informative role in journalistic articles. More precisely, we consider how syntax reflects a different semantic content and a different discourse function

FixMyStreet Brussels: Socio-Demographic Inequality in Crowdsourced Civic Participation

FixMyStreet (FMS) is a web-based civic participation platform that allows inhabitants to report environmental defects like potholes and damaged pavements to the government. In this paper, we examine the use of FMS in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. Analyzing a total of 30,041 reports since its inception in 2013, we demonstrate how civic participation on FMS varies between the ethnically diverse districts in Brussels. We compare FMS use to a range of sociodemographic indicators derived from official city statistics as well as geotagged social media data from Twitter. Our statistical analysis revealed several significant differences between the districts that suggested that crowdsourced civic participation platforms tend to marginalize low-income and ethnically diverse communities. In this respect, our findings provide timely evidence to inform the design of more inclusive crowdsourced, civic participation platforms in the future

Full-wave simulation of optical waveguides via truncation in the method of moments using PML absorbing boundary conditions

Full-wave simulations of optical waveguides are often intractable due to their large electrical size. Naively focussing on a smaller part of the waveguide, e.g. to study coupling, offers no solution given the non-negligible interaction with the remaining parts of the structure. Thereto, in this paper, the coordinate stretching formulation of a perfectly matched layer is integrated into a method of moments based boundary integral equation solver in order to damp the interaction between multiple parts, allowing to focus on the part of interest. The new technique is validated using the classical example of scattering by a wedge. By truncation of the simulation domain to merely ten wavelengths from the tip, the advocated method is found to be both efficient and accurate compared to a traditional, analytical solution technique. Next, the method is applied to model a silicon polarization beam splitter excited by a Gaussian beam. (C) 2016 Optical Society of Americ