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FACTORS INFLUENCING ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION OVER SUB-ARCTIC NORTH-AMERICA DURING SUMMER
Visual BFI: an Exploratory Study for Image-based Personality Test
This paper positions and explores the topic of image-based personality test.
Instead of responding to text-based questions, the subjects will be provided a
set of "choose-your-favorite-image" visual questions. With the image options of
each question belonging to the same concept, the subjects' personality traits
are estimated by observing their preferences of images under several unique
concepts. The solution to design such an image-based personality test consists
of concept-question identification and image-option selection. We have
presented a preliminary framework to regularize these two steps in this
exploratory study. A demo version of the designed image-based personality test
is available at http://www.visualbfi.org/. Subjective as well as objective
evaluations have demonstrated the feasibility of image-based personality test
in limited questions
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Troposheric Reactive Odd Nitrogen Over the South Pacific in Austral Springtime
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ORIGIN OF TROPOSPHERIC NOX OVER SUB-ARCTIC EASTERN CANADA IN SUMMER
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Tropospheric reactive odd nitrogen over the South Pacific in austral springtime
The distribution of reactive nitrogen species over the South Pacific during austral springtime appears to be dominated by biomass burning emissions and possibly lightning and stratospheric inputs. The absence of robust correlations of reactive nitrogen species with source-specific tracers (e.g., C2H2 [combustion], CH3Cl [biomass burning], C2Cl4 [industrial],210Pb [continental], and 7Be [stratospheric]) suggests significant aging and processing of the sampled air parcels due to losses by surface deposition, OH attack, and dilution processes. Classification of the air parcels based on CO enhancements indicates that the greatest influence was found in plumes at 3–8 km altitude in the distributions of HNO3 and peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN). Here mixing ratios of these species reached 600 parts per trillion by volume (pptv), values surprisingly large for a location several thousand kilometers removed from the nearest continental areas. The mixing ratio of total reactive nitrogen (the NOy sum), operationally defined in this paper as measured (NO + HNO3 + PAN + CH3ONO2 + C2H5ONO2) + modeled (NO2), had a median value of 285 pptv within these plumes compared with 120 pptv in nonplume air parcels. Particle NO−3 was not included in this analysis of the NOy sum due to its 10- to 15-min sampling time resolution, but, in general, it was \u3c10% of the NOy sum. Comparison of the two air parcel classifications for NOy and alkyl nitrate distributions showed no perceivable plume influence, but recycling of reactive nitrogen may have masked this direct effect. In the marine boundary layer, the NOy sum averaged 50 pptv in both air parcel classifications, being somewhat isolated from the polluted conditions above it by the trade wind inversion. In this region, however, alkyl nitrates appear to have an important marine source where they comprise 20–80% of the NOy sum in equatorial and high-latitude regions over the South Pacific
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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS OF PEROXYACETYL NITRATE AND OTHER ORGANIC NITRATES AT HIGH-LATITUDES - POSSIBLE SOURCES AND SINKS
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SUMMERTIME DISTRIBUTION OF PAN AND OTHER REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES IN THE NORTHERN HIGH-LATITUDE ATMOSPHERE OF EASTERN CANADA
A facile method for the stain-free visualization of hierarchical structures with electron microscopy
Diblock copolymers form hierarchical morphologies with numerous applications in drug delivery and as nanoreactors. Yet, the visualization of these structures by electron microscopy can be extremely difficult, requiring complex staining techniques with associated health risks and the potential to alter structural morphology. Reported here is the synthesis of diblock copolymers by RAFT containing 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl functionality allowing for facile visualization of their resulting hierarchical structures by TEM with no further sample preparation.P.E.W. thanks the AWE and E.A. thanks Schlumberger for financial support,
and J.d.B is grateful for a Marie Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship
(project # 273807). This work was also supported by an ERC Starting
Investigator Grant (ASPiRe) and a Next Generation Fellowship provided
by the Walters-Kundert Foundation.This is the accepted manuscript. The final published version is available from Wiley at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pola.27517/abstract
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