The Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, hosts several parasites with zoonotic potential. As this semiaquatic mammal has large ranges across terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, it has the capacity for wide dispersion of pathogens. Despite this, parasites of otters have received relatively little attention. Here, we examine their ectoparasite load and assess whether this is influenced by abioti...

This study explores the effects that the weather has on people's everyday activity patterns. Temperature, rainfall, and wind speed were used as weather parameters. People's daily activity patterns were inferred, such as place visited, the time this took place, the duration of the visit, based on the GPS location traces of their mobile phones overlaid upon Yellow Pages information. Our analysis ...

â â â  this paper attempts to investigate the relationship between 500hpa circulation patterns and weather types (coldest, warmest and raining) over 16 synoptic stations of mountainous region of iran. the mountainous region of iran covers about 670000 square kilometer (41 percent) of iran. in this paper have been investigated the relationship between circulation patterns in 500hpa level with we...

Advective ocean{atmosphere interaction: an analytical stochastic model with implications for decadal variability Abstract Atmospheric variability on timescales of a month or longer is dominated by a small number of large-scale spatial patterns (\teleconnections"), whose time evolution has a signiicant stochastic component because of weather excitation. One may expect these patterns to play an i...

This study examines how aerosol absorption affects the extratropical circulation by analyzing the response to a globally uniform increase in black carbon (BC) simulated with an atmospheric general circulation model forced by prescribed sea surface temperatures. BC-induced heating in the free troposphere stabilizes the mid-latitude atmospheric column, which results in less energetic baroclinic e...

Introduction: About one-third of children are involved in bullying in primary school. Parental mood as a family background plays an important role in bullying. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the parent training programs of CALM (coaching approach behavior and leading by modeling) and SPACE (supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions) on the rumination and anxiety of m...

atmospheric circulation patterns are responsible for drought and flood occurrences around the globe specifically in moderate mid latitude climates. while some circulation patterns are responsible for wet spells and floods as well, the drought events can be attributed to some other circulation patterns. therefore, identification and distinction of dry/wet producing patterns and the geographical ...

The impact of climate change on extreme weather is one the most concerning problems. Climate could cause more frequent and unexpected weather. Still, synchronization features under are not fully understood. Here, we develop a network approach to study global patterns events based 500-hPa geopotential field. We find that positive event (PES) associated with tropical circulations in tropics; nega...