Life-Assurance and Residence in Hot Climates

How To Be Healthy in Hot Climates

monqs, especially insulin and cortisone, on metabolism is dealt with; attempts are being made to localize the action of these hormones to specific metabolic steps. The production, disposal, and regulation of blood glucose is reviewed by S. Soskin in an introductory address, while more specific problems of glucose utilization under the influence of hormones are discussed by A. Wick and D. R. Dru...

Eye diseases in hot climates (5th edition)

We put aside our sadness at the death of Erika Sutter, at the impressive age of 98, to celebrate the life of a truly remarkable pioneering ophthalmologist and inspirational human being. Some of the Community Eye Health Journal’s readers will have been touched by Erika’s powerful promotion of community development in her capacity as an ophthalmologist, a teacher at the International Centre for E...

Thermal comfort educational software for hot climates

Thermal comfort studies have been developed all around the world by many authors and some adaptive comfort models have been proved specifically for warm climates. An educational software developed some years ago for temperate climate, ACT (Program for the Evaluation of Thermal Comfort), by Isalgué and Serra, has been proved and used successfully by students in the Mediterranean climate of Barce...

Viroids and their potential danger to potatoes in hot climates

Viroids are the smallest agents known to be pathogenic to plants. Unlike viruses, they are devoid of a protective protein coat and are composed entirely of circular ribonucleic acid of low molecular weight (ca. 85,000-130,000 d. In spite of their small size, viroids cause serious diseases of avocado, chrysanthemum, citrus, coconut, cucumber, hop, potato and tomato. Although viroid diseases have...

Physical Exercise in Hot Climates: Physiology, Performance, and Biomedical Issues