Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid analysis was performed to determine whether the sympathetic nervous system and T cells were key sources of catecholamines in current models of lung injury. Peak levels of adrenaline occurred in BAL fluids 2 h after the initiation of immune-complex-mediated injury (Fig. 4e).
An example to show covariance estimation with the Mahalanobis distances on Gaussian distributed data. For Gaussian distributed data, the distance of an observation to the mode of the distribution can be computed using its Mahalanobis distance: where and are the location and the covariance of the underlying Gaussian distribution. In practice, and are replaced by some estimates.
Anyway, the relevant numbers are: Earth-Sun distance, d = roughly 150 million km (defined as 1 Astronomical Unit). Radius of the Sun, R sun = roughly 700,000 km. Orbital speed of Earth, v = roughly 30 km/s. References: 1  Great Moments in the History of Solar Physics 1. 2  Eratosthenes of Cyrene. 3  Historical attempts to detect Astronomical parallax. 4  The Earth.