PMMB COVID-19 Bulletin: Spain (18th April 2020) by Hooi-Leng Ser, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Learn-Han Lee

“…Through the advancement in technologies, improved trade, heightened human mobility and as well as the spurning of social media, we are able to closely monitor the latest progress of this pandemic; working together to remove the gloomy clouds before us will eventually lead to a solution of this pandemic. …”
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On the Formation of Planets in the Milky Way’s Thick Disk by Tim Hallatt, Eve J. Lee

“…One key difference between the two stellar populations is the time at which they emerged: thick-disk stars are the likely product of cosmic noon (redshift z ∼ 2), an era characterized by high star formation rate, massive and dense molecular clouds, and strong supersonic turbulence. Solving for the background radiation field in these early star-forming regions, we demonstrate that protoplanetary disks at cosmic noon experienced radiation fields up to ∼7 orders of magnitude more intense than in solar neighborhood conditions. …”
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Rural Household Perception of Drought Occurrence and Its Influence on Livelihood Strategy in Northeast Ethiopia by Sisay Demeke Molla, Menberu Teshome Zeleke, Sisay Misganaw Tamiru

“…The results show that climate variability and drought occurrence were perceived by the households as decreasing rainfall, increasing temperature, variations in rainfall onset and cessation, variations in heat waves and cold waves, heavy rainfall events, changes in sporadic rain, a lesser coverage of clouds, and adverse weather events. Within the last 25 years, households have perceived the number of extreme, severe, or moderate droughts to be increasing. …”
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The Glocalization of Sport: A Research Field for Social Innovation by Zijing Li, Arnaud Waquet, Philippe Campillo

“…These analyses were presented in the form of figures such as histograms, dendrograms, and word clouds, thereby facilitating the identification of lexical co-occurrence relationships and the understanding of emerging trends. …”
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Hybrid salp swarm maximum power point tracking algorithm for photovoltaic systems in highly fluctuating environmental conditions by Mohd Nasrul Izzani Jamaludin, Mohammad Faridun Naim Tajuddin, Tarek Younis, Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti, Mohammad Khishe

“…Abstract The maximum power delivered by a photovoltaic system is greatly influenced by atmospheric conditions such as irradiation and temperature and by surrounding objects like trees, raindrops, tall buildings, animal droppings, and clouds. The partial shading caused by these surrounding objects and the rapidly changing atmospheric parameters make maximum power point tracking (MPPT) challenging. …”
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Efficient iodine sequestration by chemically robust C-C bonded hyper-crosslinked porous organic polymers by Mayakannan G, Karthikkumar R, Himan Dev Singh, Debanjan Chakraborty, Shyamapada Nandi

“…Density Functional Theory (DFT) studies revealed the interaction of the iodine with the methyl C-H and methylene C-H groups with a short contact distance of 3.4–3.5 Å Additionally, there have been favorable interactions between the π-electron clouds of the monomers such as pyrene, naphthene, and triphenylmethane with iodine/polyiodide species.…”
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Interneuron FGF13 regulates seizure susceptibility via a sodium channel-independent mechanism by Susan Lin, Aravind R Gade, Hong-Gang Wang, James E Niemeyer, Allison Galante, Isabella DiStefano, Patrick Towers, Jorge Nunez, Maiko Matsui, Theodore H Schwartz, Anjali Rajadhyaksha, Geoffrey S Pitt

“…Disruption of, or variants in, FGF13 were implicated as causal for a set of DEEs, but the underlying mechanisms were clouded because FGF13 is expressed in both excitatory and inhibitory neurons, FGF13 undergoes extensive alternative splicing producing multiple isoforms with distinct functions, and the overall roles of FGF13 in neurons are incompletely cataloged. …”
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Laboratory Measurement of CH317OH Transitions in the Frequency Range from 216 to 264 GHz for Astronomical Application by Akemi Tamanai, Takahiro Oyama, Yoshimasa Watanabe, Takeshi Sakai, Riouhei Nakatani, Shaoshan Zeng, Isabelle Kleiner, Nami Sakai

“…Molecular lines of its rare isotopologues ^12 CH _3 ^17 OH and ^12 CH _3 ^18 OH therefore play a crucial role in examining the column density of ^12 CH _3 ^16 OH, which serves as a reference for organic molecular chemistry in interstellar clouds. In this study, we have recorded the spectroscopic emission spectrum of ^12 CH _3 ^17 OH in the frequency range between 216 and 264 GHz by making use of an emission-type millimeter and submillimeter spectrometer. …”
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Web-based platform to collect, share and manage technical data of historical systemic architectures: the Telegraphic Towers along the Madrid-Valencia path by Margherita Lasorella, Pasquale de-Dato, Elena Cantatore

“…Specifically, the main digital objects used for testing the applied techniques and setting up the platform are based on Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and mapped point clouds of the historical Telegraphic Towers located along the Madrid-Valencia path, resulting from the on-site investigations. …”
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Assessment of Radiometric Calibration Consistency of Thermal Emissive Bands Between Terra and Aqua Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers by Tiejun Chang, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Carlos Perez Diaz, Aisheng Wu, Hanzhi Lin

“…Routine post-launch calibrations are performed using the sensor’s onboard blackbody and space view port, the moon, and vicarious targets that include the ocean, Dome Concordia (Dome C) in Antarctica, and quasi-deep convective clouds (DCC). The calibration consistency between the satellite measurements from the two instruments is essential in generating a multi-year data record for the long-term monitoring of the Earth’s Level 1B (L1B) data. …”
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A Method to Evaluate Orientation-Dependent Errors in the Center of Contrast Targets Used with Terrestrial Laser Scanners by Bala Muralikrishnan, Xinsu Lu, Mary Gregg, Meghan Shilling, Braden Czapla

“…Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) are portable dimensional measurement instruments used to obtain 3D point clouds of objects in a scene. While TLSs do not require the use of cooperative targets, they are sometimes placed in a scene to fuse or compare data from different instruments or data from the same instrument but from different positions. …”
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Dark Galactic Subhalos and the Gaia Snail by Daniel Gilman, Jo Bovy, Neige Frankel, Andrew Benson

“…We also develop a phenomenological treatment for the diffusion of phase-space spirals caused by gravitational scattering between stars and giant molecular clouds, a process that erases the kinematic signatures of old ( t  ≳ 0.6 Gyr) events. …”
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Introducing the Condor Array Telescope. V. Deep Broad- and Narrowband Imaging Observations of the M81 Group by Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Stefan Gromoll, Michael M. Shara, David Valls-Gabaud, Frederick M. Walter, John K. Webb

“…The difference images exhibit extensive extended structures of ionized gas in the direction of the M81 Group, from known galaxies of the M81 Group, clouds of gas, filamentary structures, and apparent or possible bubbles or shells. …”
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The Extraordinary Long-lasting Infrared Echo of PS16dtm Reveals an Extremely Energetic Nuclear Outburst by Ning Jiang, Di Luo, Jiazheng Zhu, Roc M. Cutri

“…Such large energetic output compared to normal TDEs could be boosted by the preexisting accretion disk and gas clouds around the black hole. Our model can be validated in the near future by IR time-domain surveys such as the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, given the recent retirement of WISE. …”
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Core Outcome Set development for LEPtospirosis trials (COS-LEP): a study protocol to develop a core outcome set for the evaluation of clinical therapeutic interventions for human l... by Nathaniel Lee, Chris Smith, Robin Bailey, Koya Ariyoshi, Sarah Smith, Nick Black, Tansy Edwards

“…The method for the management of leptospirosis, particularly in severe disease, is clouded by methodological inconsistency and a lack of standardized outcome measures. …”
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The Application of Fast Fourier Transform Filtering to High Spatial Resolution Digital Terrain Models Derived from LiDAR Sensors for the Objective Mapping of Surface Features and D... by Alberto González-Díez, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Pablo Cruz-Hernández, Antonio Barreda-Argüeso, Matthew Doughty

“…This facilitates the design of validation and correction procedures for DEMs derived from LiDAR point clouds, enhancing the potential for more accurate and objective Earth surface representation.…”
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Towards a Noninvasive Intracranial Tumor Irradiation Using 3D Optical Imaging and Multimodal Data Registration by R. Posada, Ch. Daul, D. Wolf, P. Aletti

“…The 3D data used for the positioning is point clouds spread over the patient's head (CT-data usually acquired during treatment) and points distributed over the patient's face which are acquired with a structured light sensor fixed in the therapy room. …”
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JWST/NIRCam 4–5 μm Imaging of the Giant Planet AF Lep b by Kyle Franson, William O. Balmer, Brendan P. Bowler, Laurent Pueyo, Yifan Zhou, Emily Rickman, Zhoujian Zhang, Sagnick Mukherjee, Tim D. Pearce, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Lauren I. Biddle, Timothy D. Brandt, Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Justin R. Crepp, James W. Davidson Jr., Jacqueline Faherty, Christian Ginski, Elliott P. Horch, Marvin Morgan, Caroline V. Morley, Marshall D. Perrin, Aniket Sanghi, Maïssa Salama, Christopher A. Theissen, Quang H. Tran, Trevor N. Wolf

“…Its youth and spectral type near the L/T transition make it a promising target to study the impact of clouds and atmospheric chemistry at low surface gravities. …”
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An Initial Validation of the NASA TROPICS Pathfinder Microwave Radiometer Observations by Amelia Gagnon, Samantha N. Hasler, Juliana Chew, William J. Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Michael DiLiberto, Kerri Cahoy

“…To minimize errors due to radiative transfer uncertainties, we compare TROPICS Pathfinder L1B data from October 2021 with simulated brightness temperature values from the CRTM for observations that are filtered for points near-nadir, over-ocean, free of clouds, and within latitudes from 40<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^\circ$</tex-math></inline-formula> N to 40<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^\circ$</tex-math></inline-formula> S. …”
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The Age–Velocity Dispersion Relations of the Galactic Disk as Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia Red Clump Stars by Weixiang Sun, Han Shen, Biwei Jiang, Xiaowei Liu

“…These results indicate that the thin disk stars are likely heated by long-term heating from giant molecular clouds and spiral arms, while thick disk stars are likely heated by some violent heating process from merger and accretion, and/or formed by the inside-out and upside-down star formation scenarios, and/or born in the chaotic mergers of gas-rich systems and/or turbulent interstellar medium. …”
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