The oceanic forcing of basal melt under floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica is one of the major sources of uncertainty in climate ice sheet modelling.We use a high-resolution, nonhydrostatic configuration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) to investigate basal melt rates and melt-driven circ
The advantages of peritoneal dialysis (PD) over hemodialysis (HD) are well-documented.Notwithstanding, only a small proportion of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are managed with PD.This may be related to the high glucose load that PD solutions in current use have on the patient.The effects of such excess glucose include the relatively
In both excitable and non-excitable cells, many chemical and physical stimuli elicit continuous Ca2+ influx through yet poorly understood pathways distinct Dog Supplies from voltage-gated Ca2+ channels, leading to activation and modulation of various cellular functions.The molecular entities of these pathways have long been enigmatic, but important
Observations of interspecies interactions during volcanic activity provide important opportunities to study how organisms respond to environmental devastation.Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica L.) and its main avian pollinator, the Japanese White-eye (Zosterops japonica), offer an excellent example of such an interaction as key members of the bi
Phase change materials combined with silicon photonics are emerging as a promising platform to realize miniature photonic devices.We study the basic optical properties of a subwavelength-dimension silicon ridge waveguide with a 20-nm-thick Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) top-clad layer.Numerical simulations show that the effective index of the Si-GST hybrid wavegu