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Vast networks of meteorological sensors ring the globe, providing continuous measurements of an array of atmospheric state variables such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, and the concentration of carbon dioxide [ New et al. , 1999; Tans et al. , 1996]. These measurements provide input to weather and climate models and are key to detecting trends in climate, greenhouse gases, and air pollution. Yet to understand how and why these atmospheric state variables vary in time and space, biogeoscientists need to know where, when, and at what rates important gases are flowing between the land and the atmosphere. Tracking trace gas fluxes provides information on plant or microbial metabolism and climate‐ecosystem interactions.
Abstract Carbonylation gets a phase lift : The usual liquid‐phase, high‐pressure processes for carbonylating formaldehydes are avoided in a novel vapor‐phase reaction. Using an acid zeolite (Faujasite) at near‐atmospheric pressure dimethoxymethane (DMM; the dimethyl acetal of formaldehyde; see scheme) is carbonylated to produce methyl methoxyacetate (MMAc). This approach provides a new route to ethylene glycol under mild conditions. magnified image
The literature currently provides two ways to establish point correspondences between images with moving objects. On one side, there are energy minimization methods that yield very accurate, dense flow fields, but fail as displacements get too large. On the other side, there is descriptor matching that allows for large displacements, but correspondences are very sparse, have limited accuracy, and due to missing regularity constraints there are many outliers. In this paper we propose a method that can combine the advantages of both matching strategies. A region hierarchy is established for both images. Descriptor matching on these regions provides a sparse set of hypotheses for correspondences. These are integrated into a variational approach and guide the local optimization to large displacement solutions. The variational optimization selects among the hypotheses and provides dense and subpixel accurate estimates, making use of geometric constraints and all available image information.
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
The present invention is directed to a process for addition of amines to carbon-carbon double bonds in a substrate, comprising: reacting an amine with a compound containing at least one carbon-carbon double bond in the presence a transition metal catalyst under reaction conditions effective to form a product having a covalent bond between the amine and a carbon atom of the former carbon-carbon double bond. The transition metal catalyst comprises a Group 8 metal and a ligand containing one or more 2-electron donor atoms. The present invention is also directed to enantioselective reactions of amine compounds with compounds containing carbon-carbon double bonds, and a calorimetric assay to evaluate potential catalysts in these reactions.
Muchos expertos argumentan que la crisis economica esta afectando a la principal divisa del mundo, y algunos incluso senalan que la crisis podria resultar fatal para el dolar. Sin embargo, la libra, el yen, el euro, el renminbi y los derechos especiales de giro del Fondo Monetario Internacional no pueden reemplazar al dolar, al menos por ahora…
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