In international relations, each state has historically pursued its own interests by various means.Although these have not always taken a violent form (for example, there are international actors such as the empires of successive Chinese dynasties which, in their relations with their neighbours, emphasized the respect for the Jars emperor and prest
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, also known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) sparked a global public health pandemic that has impacted every aspect of daily life.Medical research was affected, and many clinical trials were halted to minimize COVID-19 transmission risk and spread while the world navigated this n
In nearly every lab, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is used to quantify gene expression.However, a comparison of different samples requires the careful selection of suitable reference genes (RGs), sometimes referred to as housekeeping genes.In the case of vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs), it is important to know under w
A rigorous exploration of the sea ice data assimilation (DA) problem using a framework specifically developed for rapid, interpretable hypothesis testing is presented.In many applications, DA is implemented to constrain a modeled estimate of a state with observations.The sea ice DA application is complicated by the wide range of spatiotemporal scal