Four distinct Northeast US heat wave circulation patterns and associated mechanisms, trends, and electric usage

Rising heat wave trends in large US cities

Exposures to dangerously high temperatures are a public health threat expected to increase with global climate change. Heat waves exacerbate the risks associated with heat exposure, and urban residents are particularly vulnerable to threats of heat waves due to the urban heat island effect. To understand how heat waves are changing over time, we examine changes in four heat wave characteristics...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Identification of Distinct Usage Patterns and Prediction of Customer Behavior

The given BPI Challenge 2016 provides a case study based on a reallife event log. In this report, we analyze usage data from IT systems of the Dutch employee insurance agency (UWV). The data comprises information about customer demographics, click data describing their behavior when using the agency’s website, and data from customer service systems. We identify distinct usage patterns, report o...

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns associated with the occurrence of severe storms Zab basin

Should electric fans be used during a heat wave?

Heat waves continue to claim lives, with the elderly and poor at greatest risk. A simple and cost-effective intervention is an electric fan, but public health agencies warn against their use despite no evidence refuting their efficacy in heat waves. A conceptual human heat balance model can be used to estimate the evaporative requirement for heat balance, the potential for evaporative heat loss...