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Quantification of the Atmospheric Relativistic Electron Precipitation on 17 January 2013 

Shekhar, S; Millan, R; Woodger, L; Qin, M; 0000-0002-5770-6261; 0000-0002-2815-4998 (2022-09-29)
On 17 January 2013, relativistic electron precipitation (REP) was observed on Balloon Array for Radiation Belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) payloads, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Polar orbiting ...

Quasiparticle virtual orbitals in electron propagator calculations 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
The computational limits of accurate electron propagator methods for the calculation of electron binding energies of large molecules are usually determined by the rank of the virtual orbital space. Electron density ...

Quiet time equatorial mass density distribution derived from AMPTE/CCE and GOES using the magnetoseismology technique 

Min, Kyungguk; Bortnik, Jacob; Denton, Richard E.; Takahashi, Kazue; Lee, Jeongwoo; Singer, Howard J.; 0000-0002-2095-8529 (2020-06-05)
An inversion technique for estimating the properties of the magnetospheric plasma from the harmonic frequencies of the toroidal standing Alfven waves has been used to derive the global equatorial mass density covering ...

Radiation pressure measurements on micron-size individual dust grains 

Abbas, MM; Thomas, E.; 0000-0002-7747-0284 (2020-06-18)
Measurements of electromagnetic radiation pressure have been made on individual silica (SiO2) particles levitated in an electrodynamic balance. These measurements were made by inserting single charged particles of known ...

Rapid evolution of disease resistance is accompanied by functional changes in gene expression in a wild bird 

Bonneaud, Camille; Balenger, Susan L.; Russell, Andrew F.; Zhang, Jiangwen; Hill, Geoffrey E.; Edwards, Scott V. (2020-06-03)
Wild organisms are under increasing pressure to adapt rapidly to environmental changes. Predicting the impact of these changes on natural populations requires an understanding of the speed with which adaptive phenotypes ...

Re-Reconnection Processes of Magnetopause Flux Ropes: Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulations 

Guo, Jin; Lu, San; Lu, Quanming; Lin, Yu; Wang, Xueyi; Huang, Kai; Wang, Rongsheng; Wang, Shui; 0000-0003-3041-2682; 0000-0002-9950-1029 (2022-10-18)
Magnetopause flux ropes (FRs) play a crucial role in the transport of energy and plasma from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. Once formed by multiple X-line reconnection, the FRs move poleward, during which ...

Reactive transport of trace elements and isotopes in the Eutaw coastal plain aquifer, Alabama 

Lee, Ming-Kuo; Griffin, James; Saunders, James; Wang, Yang; Jean, Jiin-Shuh (2020-06-18)
[1] We integrate groundwater geochemistry, mineralogy, and numerical modeling techniques to study the reactive transport of heavy metals and isotopes in the Eutaw coastal plain aquifer, Alabama. Geochemical data show that ...

Reactive transport of trace elements and isotopes in the Eutaw coastal plain aquifer, Alabama 

Lee, Ming-Kuo; Griffin, James; Saunders, James; Wang, Yang; Jean, Jiin-Shuh; 0000-0003-2587-1307 (2022-10-25)
We integrate groundwater geochemistry, mineralogy, and numerical modeling techniques to study the reactive transport of heavy metals and isotopes in the Eutaw coastal plain aquifer, Alabama. Geochemical data show that the ...

Reduced Mitochondrial Respiration in Hybrid Asexual Lizards 

Klabacka, Randy; Parry, Hailey; Yap, Kang Nian; Cook, Ryan; Herron, Victoria; Horne, Miles; Wolak, Matthew; Maldonado, Jose; Fujita, Matthew; Kavazis, Andreas; Oaks, Jamie; Schwartz, Tonia; 0000-0001-8805-1520 (2022-09-20)
The scarcity of asexual reproduction in vertebrates alludes to an inherent cost. Several groups of asexual vertebrates exhibit lower endurance capacity (a trait predominantly sourced by mitochondrial respiration) compared ...

Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals 

Thornhill, Daniel J; Xiang, Yu; Fitt, William K; Santos, Scott R (2019-07-01)
BACKGROUND: The dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium forms symbioses with numerous protistan and invertebrate metazoan hosts. However, few data on symbiont genetic structure are available, hindering predictions of how these ...

Regime transition of ion Bernstein instability driven by ion shell velocity distributions 

Min, Kyungguk; Liu, Kaijun; 0000-0001-5882-1328 (2022-09-29)
Linear kinetic dispersion theory is used to investigate a regime transition of the ion Bernstein instability driven by a proton velocity distribution with positive slopes with respect to the perpendicular velocity, ...

Regime transition of ion Bernstein instability driven by ion shell velocity distributions 

Min, Kyungguk; Liu, Kaijun; 0000-0002-2095-8529; 0000-0001-5882-1328 (2020-06-03)
Linear kinetic dispersion theory is used to investigate a regime transition of the ion Bernstein instability driven by a proton velocity distribution with positive slopes with respect to the perpendicular velocity, ...

The relative importance of life-history variables to population growth rate in mammals: Cole's prediction revisited 

Oli, Madan; Dobson, F. Stephen; 0000-0001-5562-6316 (2023-05-17)
The relative importance of life-history variables to population growth rate (lambda) has substantial consequences for the study of life-history evolution and for the dynamics of biological populations. Using life-history ...

A Remodeled Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) Generates Symmetric Dimethylarginine 

Gui, Shanying; Gathiaka, Symon; Li, Jun; Qu, Jun; Acevedo, Orlando; Hevel, Joan M. (2020-07-24)
Protein arginine methylation is emerging as a significant post-translational modification involved in various cell processes and human diseases. As the major arginine methylation enzyme, protein arginine methyltransferase ...

Reproduction and development in Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963 (Crustacea: Atyidae) clarifies larval ecology in the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem 

Havird, Justin C; Vaught, Rebecca C; Weese, David A; Santos, Scott R (2019-08-01)
Larvae in aquatic habitats often develop in environments different from those they inhabit as adults. Shrimp in the Atyidae exemplify this trend, as larvae of many species require salt or brackish water for development, ...

Reproductive Value and the Stochastic Demography of Age-Structured Populations 

Engen, Steinar; Lande, Russell; Sæther, Bernt‐Erik; Dobson, Stephen; 0000-0001-5562-6316 (2022-09-15)
The dynamics of an age-structured population in a fluctuating environment is determined by the stochastic individual contributions from annual survival and fecundity to the total reproductive value of the population the ...

Reproductive Value and the Stochastic Demography of Age-Structured Populations 

Engen, Steinar; Lande, Russell; Saether, Bernt-Erik; Dobson, F. Stephen; 0000-0001-5562-6316 (2020-06-03)
The dynamics of an age-structured population in a fluctuating environment is determined by the stochastic individual contributions from annual survival and fecundity to the total reproductive value of the population the ...

Reptile Embryos Lack the Opportunity to Thermoregulate by Moving within the Egg 

Telemeco, Rory; Gangloff, Eric; Cordero, Gerardo; Mitchell, Timothy; Bodensteiner, Brooke; Holden, Kaitlyn; Mitchell, Sarah; Polich, Rebecca; Janzen, Fredric; 0000-0002-2101-3295; 0000-0002-7136-769X; 0000-0002-9137-1741 (2023-05-17)
Historically, egg-bound reptile embryos were thought to passively thermoconform to the nest environment. However, recent observations of thermal taxis by embryos of multiple reptile species have led to the widely discussed ...

Reversal of magnetic field rotation in the reconnection layer due to shear flow effects 

Sun, Xiaoxia; Lin, Yu; Wang, Xiaogang (2022-09-29)
We investigate the effects of shear flows on the so-called component reconnection, in which the guide field B-y not equal 0, by solving a one-dimensional Riemann problem for magnetopause reconnection using a resistive MHD ...

Reversal of magnetic field rotation in the reconnection layer due to shear flow effects 

Sun, Xiaoxia; Lin, Yu; Wang, Xiaogang; 0000-0001-8003-9252 (2020-06-18)
We investigate the effects of shear flows on the so-called "component reconnection," in which the guide field B-y not equal 0, by solving a one-dimensional Riemann problem for magnetopause reconnection using a resistive ...