Acid deposition near a sour gas plant in southwestern Alberta     

C. M. L. Dufour  B. Chapman  J. A. Lore  M. Nosal 《Water, air, and soil pollution》1985,24(4):361-373

Atmospheric fallout in the vicinity of a sour gas plant in southwestern Alberta was collected on an event basis with bulk precipitation collectors during June, July and August of 1972, 1973 and 1982. Samples were collected at 9 sites within 20 km of the plant. Total atmospheric sulfation measurements defined a higher exposure area located downwind of the plant, but the precipitation measurements did not. Bulk deposition of H⁺ ion in the study area was an average 10.77 mmol H⁺ m^?2 3 mol^?1 in 1972 and 0.014 and 0.049 in 1973 and 1982, respectively. 1972 samples were also significantly more acidic (average pH of 4.3 vs 5.7 in 1973 and 5.3 in 1982). Deposition of SO₄ ⁼ averaged 2.1 kg S ha^?1 3 mol^?1 in 1972 and 0.96 and 0.72 in 1973 and 1982. The higher deposition of both S and H⁺ in 1972 is mainly a result of more precipitation. There was no significant correlation between H⁺ and SO₄ ⁼ species in the samples. There was no significant relationship between plant S emissions and deposition rates, or plant S emissions and average total atmospheric sulfation measurements.  相似文献   

Necessity for afferent activity to maintain eye-specific segregation in ferret lateral geniculate nucleus     

Chapman B 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2000,287(5462):2479-2482

In the adult mammal, retinal ganglion cell axon arbors are restricted to eye-specific layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus. Blocking neuronal activity early in development prevents this segregation from occurring. To test whether activity is also required to maintain eye-specific segregation, ganglion cell activity was blocked after segregation was established. This caused desegregation, so that both eyes' axons became concentrated in lamina A, normally occupied only by contralateral afferents. These results show that an activity-dependent process is necessary for maintaining eye-specific segregation and suggest that activity-independent cues may favor lamina A as the target for arborization of afferents from both eyes.  相似文献   

Lung cancer and indoor air pollution in Xuan Wei, China   总被引：20，自引：0，他引：20  

J L Mumford  X Z He  R S Chapman  S R Cao  D B Harris  X M Li  Y L Xian  W Z Jiang  C W Xu  J C Chuang 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1987,235(4785):217-220

In Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, lung cancer mortality is among China's highest and, especially in females, is more closely associated with indoor burning of "smoky" coal, as opposed to wood or "smokeless" coal, than with tobacco smoking. Indoor air samples were collected during the burning of all three fuels. In contrast to wood and smokeless coal emissions, smoky coal emission has high concentrations of submicron particles containing mutagenic organics, especially in aromatic and polar fractions. These studies suggested an etiologic link between domestic smoky coal burning and lung cancer in Xuan Wei.  相似文献   

Long-term synaptic potentiation   总被引：16，自引：0，他引：16  

T H Brown  P F Chapman  E W Kairiss  C L Keenan 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1988,242(4879):724-728

Long-term synaptic potentiation (LTP) is a leading candidate for a synaptic mechanism of rapid learning in mammals. LTP is a persistent increase in synaptic efficacy that can be quickly induced. The biophysical process that controls one type of LTP is formally similar to a synaptic memory mechanism postulated decades ago by the psychologist Donald Hebb. A key aspect of the modification process involves the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-ionophore complex. This ionophore allows calcium influx only if the endogenous ligand glutamate binds to the NMDA receptor and if the voltage across the associated channel is also sufficiently depolarized to relieve a magnesium block. According to one popular hypothesis, the resulting increase in the intracellular calcium concentration activates protein kinases that enhance the postsynaptic conductance. Further biophysical and molecular understanding of the modification process should facilitate detailed explorations of the mnemonic functions of LTP.  相似文献   

Laser altimetry of small-scale features on 433 Eros from NEAR-Shoemaker     

Cheng AF  Barnouin-Jha O  Zuber MT  Veverka J  Smith DE  Neumann GA  Robinson M  Thomas P  Garvin JB  Murchie S  Chapman C  Prockter L 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2001,292(5516):488-491

During the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)-Shoemaker's low-altitude flyover of asteroid 433 Eros, observations by the NEAR Laser Rangefinder (NLR) have helped to characterize small-scale surface features. On scales from meters to hundreds of meters, the surface has a fractal structure with roughness dominated by blocks, structural features, and walls of small craters. This fractal structure suggests that a single process, possibly impacts, dominates surface morphology on these scales.  相似文献   

Role of land-surface changes in arctic summer warming   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chapin FS  Sturm M  Serreze MC  McFadden JP  Key JR  Lloyd AH  McGuire AD  Rupp TS  Lynch AH  Schimel JP  Beringer J  Chapman WL  Epstein HE  Euskirchen ES  Hinzman LD  Jia G  Ping CL  Tape KD  Thompson CD  Walker DA  Welker JM 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,310(5748):657-660

A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse-gas forcing. Here we synthesize field data from arctic Alaska, showing that terrestrial changes in summer albedo contribute substantially to recent high-latitude warming trends. Pronounced terrestrial summer warming in arctic Alaska correlates with a lengthening of the snow-free season that has increased atmospheric heating locally by about 3 watts per square meter per decade (similar in magnitude to the regional heating expected over multiple decades from a doubling of atmospheric CO2). The continuation of current trends in shrub and tree expansion could further amplify this atmospheric heating by two to seven times.  相似文献   

Saturn ring particles as dynamic ephemeral bodies     

Davis DR  Weidenschilling SJ  Chapman CR  Greenberg R 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1984,224(4650):744-747

Although Saturn's rings are within the Roche zone, the accretion of centimeter-sized particles into large aggregates many meters in diameter occurs readily, on a time scale of weeks. These aggregates are disrupted when tidal stresses exceed their very low strengths; thus most of the mass of the ring system is continually processed through a population of large "dynamic ephemeral bodies," which are continually forming and disintegrating. These large aggregates are not at all like the idealized ice spheres often used in modeling Saturn's ring dynamics. Their coefficient of restitution is low, hence they form a monolayer in the ring plane. The optically observable characteristics of the rings are dominated by the swarm of centimeter-sized particles.  相似文献   

Applied physics. Focus on x-ray diffraction     

Chapman HN 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,321(5887):352-353

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Mercury cratering record viewed from MESSENGER's first flyby     

Strom RG  Chapman CR  Merline WJ  Solomon SC  Head JW 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,321(5885):79-81

Morphologies and size-frequency distributions of impact craters on Mercury imaged during MESSENGER's first flyby elucidate the planet's geological history. Plains interior to the Caloris basin displaying color and albedo contrasts have comparable crater densities and therefore similar ages. Smooth plains exterior to Caloris exhibit a crater density approximately 40% less than on interior plains and are thus volcanic and not Caloris impact ejecta. The size distribution of smooth-plains craters matches that of lunar craters postdating the Late Heavy Bombardment, implying that the plains formed no earlier than 3.8 billion years ago (Ga). At diameters less than or equal to 8 to 10 kilometers, secondary impact craters on Mercury are more abundant than primaries; this transition diameter is much larger than that on the Moon or Mars. A low density of craters on the peak-ring basin Raditladi implies that it may be younger than 1 Ga.  相似文献   

THE BRAIN OF THE ORANG     

Chapman HC 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1880,1(27):326-328

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