Relationship between pollution and susceptibility to infectious disease in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica     

F. -L. E. Chu  R. C. Hale  A. Volety  G. Constantin 《Marine environmental research》1996,42(1-4)

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Mid-infrared observations of methanol maser sites and ultracompact H ii regions: signposts of high-mass star formation     

A.J. Walsh  F. Bertoldi  M.G. Burton  T. Nikola 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(1):36-56

N -band (10.5 μm) and/or Q -band (20.0 μm) images taken with MANIAC on the ESO/MPI 2.2-m telescope are presented for 31 methanol maser sites and 19 ultracompact (UC) H  ii regions. Most of the maser sites and UC H  ii regions are coincident with mid-infrared (MIR) sources to within the positional uncertainties of ∼ 3 arcsec, consistent with the maser emission being powered by the MIR source. The IRAS source positions, however, do not always coincide with the MIR sources.
Based on an average infrared spectral energy distribution, we deduce that the MIR objects are luminous enough that they should also produce a strong ionizing radiation. Some sources are consistent with stars of later spectral type, but not all can be. A number of maser sites show no detectable radio continuum emission associated with MIR emission, despite a powering source luminous enough potentially to produce an UC H  ii region. Since no signs of an UC H  ii region are detected here, these maser sites might be produced during a very early stage of stellar evolution.
We present objects that show evidence of outflow activity stemming from a maser site, exhibiting CO and/or CS line profiles indicative of outflows coincident with the MIR source. These cases are promising examples of maser sites signposting the earliest stages of high-mass star formation.  相似文献   

Period changes in the pulsating extreme helium stars V652 Her and BX Cir     

D. Kilkenny  L. A. Crause  F. van Wyk 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,361(2):559-564

A new statement of the eigenvalue problem of studying small perturbations in arbitrary integrable self-gravitating systems is presented. An example of such a system, a 2D stellar disc, is considered in detail. The theory, based on the general equation for disc eigenmodes, reveals mechanisms for the formation and growth of global galactic structures. This new point of view specifies the limits of the unified theory of bar-like and spiral modes that was based on the assumption that global galactic structures could be understood in terms of low-frequency disc modes.  相似文献   

Reliability assessment of serviceability performance of braced retaining walls using a neural network approach     

A. T. C. Goh  F. H. Kulhawy 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2005,29(6):627-642

In urban environments, one major concern with deep excavations in soft clay is the potentially large ground deformations in and around the excavation. Excessive movements can damage adjacent buildings and utilities. There are many uncertainties associated with the calculation of the ultimate or serviceability performance of a braced excavation system. These include the variabilities of the loadings, geotechnical soil properties, and engineering and geometrical properties of the wall. A risk‐based approach to serviceability performance failure is necessary to incorporate systematically the uncertainties associated with the various design parameters. This paper demonstrates the use of an integrated neural network–reliability method to assess the risk of serviceability failure through the calculation of the reliability index. By first performing a series of parametric studies using the finite element method and then approximating the non‐linear limit state surface (the boundary separating the safe and ‘failure’ domains) through a neural network model, the reliability index can be determined with the aid of a spreadsheet. Two illustrative examples are presented to show how the serviceability performance for braced excavation problems can be assessed using the reliability index. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Convection flow over a uniform-flux vertical surface with variable viscosity     

F. S. Ibrahim  A. H. Khater  F. M. Hady 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1985,112(2):303-310

A regular perturbation analysis is presented for natural convection flow over an uniform flux vertical surface with temperature dependent viscosity. Numerical calculations are presented forP _r=6.7 which show that the first-order correction to the local temperature difference and to the local skin-fraction are negative whereas it is positive for the local Nusselt number. The effects of variable viscosity on the temperature, velocity profiles, the local temperature difference, the local Nusselt number and the local skin fraction are discussed.  相似文献   

The unresolved hard X-ray background: the missing source population implied by the Chandra and XMM–Newton deep fields     

M. A. Worsley  A. C. Fabian  F. E. Bauer  D. M. Alexander  G. Hasinger  S. Mateos  H. Brunner  W. N. Brandt  D. P. Schneider 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,357(4):1281-1287

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Red-violet asymmetry in pearl satellites' birth     

F.Z. Feygin  YU.P. Kurchashov  V.A. Troitskaya  K. Dobeš 《Planetary and Space Science》1985,33(3):271-273

A high resolution numerical sonagram of Pc-1 magnetic record has shown that single narrow lines of Pc-1 spectra produce lower frequency (“red-shifted”) satellite lines more than twice as often as their higher frequency (“violet”) counterparts. The violet satellites usually emerge only when at least two ancestor lines are present simultaneously.  相似文献   

The radial distribution of blue straggler stars and the nature of their progenitors     

M. Mapelli  S. Sigurdsson  F. R. Ferraro  M. Colpi  A. Possenti  B. Lanzoni 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,373(1):361-368

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Polarization of Evolved Stars Envelopes     

C. Kahane  E. Viard  F. Ménard  P. Bastien  N. Manset 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1997,251(1-2):223-226

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Response of reef coral communities to sea-level rise: a Holocene model from Mauritius (Western Indian Ocean)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

LUCIEN F. MONTAGGIONI  GÉRARD FAURE† 《Sedimentology》1997,44(6):1053-1070

The fringing reef at Pointe-au-Sable (Mauritius, Indian Ocean) was used to examine the effects of Holocene sea-level rise on coral growth. This reef is about 1000 m wide and comprises a forereef slope (30 m maximum depth), a narrow reef crest and a very shallow backreef (1·5 m maximum depth). Four major coral communities were recognized, which developed within relatively narrow depth ranges: a Pachyseris/Oulophyllia community (deeper than 20 m), an Acropora‘tabulate’Faviid community (20–6 m); a robust branching Acropora community (less than 6 m) and a Pavona community (less than 10m). Three high-recovery cores show the Holocene reef sequence is a maximum of 19·3 m thick and comprises four coral biofacies which are similar to counterparts identified in modern communities: robust branching, tabular-branching, robust branching-domal and foliaceous coral facies. A minimum sea-level curve for the past 7500 years was constructed. Using distribution patterns of coral biofacies and radiocarbon dates from corals, reconstruction of reef growth history indicates that both offshore and onshore reef zones were developing coevally, aggrading at rates of 4·3 mm year^?1 from 6900 years B.P. The reef caught up with sea-level only after sea-level stabilized. Changes in coral community and reef growth rates were driven principally by increasing water agitation due to the decrease in accommodation space. Based on the composition of the successive coral assemblages, the reef appears to have grown through successive equilibrium stages.  相似文献