Aim Climatic niche breadth (the range of climatic conditions that a species experiences over space and time) is a fundamental topic in ecology, biogeography and evolution. But what determines the climatic niche width of species? In 1967, Janzen suggested that climatic niche widths for temperature were determined by levels of seasonal fluctuation in temperature at each locality, such that niche ...

To date, there has been little research examining whether short-time changes of external environmental conditions exert any effects on immune responses. The activation of metabolic changes, release of hormones responsive for immunomodulation and the action of interleukins play an important role in interaction with hormones of an anterior pituitary gland in the proestrous phase of the reproducti...

The behavioral response of piglets in a backtest early in life seems indicative of their coping strategy at a later age. Coping characteristics may depend on the interaction between backtest classification and housing conditions. We studied whether growth rate and partitioning of energy in adult gilts were related to response in the backtest early in life, and to housing in groups or individual...

Safety Correctness and Reliability Analysis using Formal Methods 2 SUMMARY The objective of this report was to further investigate and develop a methodology using formal methods for doing safety correctness and reliability analysis. In an earlier report some formal analysis methods were demonstrated. In this report, after an expansion of the possibility to express system functionality, further ...

The objective of the present study was to test a hypothesis that a high dietary salt intake potentiates a cold induced increase in blood pressure in normotensive men. Male subjects (n = 12) were given 7 g day-1 sodium chloride during the cold months of the year, divided in 3-4 doses per day and dissolved in water, for 14 days additional to their normal diet which contained on the average 9.7 g ...

in this paper a new process is presented for improving efficiency of cyclone de-dusting systems. the cyclone is coupled with a specially designed cylindrical chamber which includes a rotating tube inside it with air impinging nuzzles, drilled on the peripheral surface of the tube. the nuzzles help in pushing and throwing the particles to the outer radius distances during downward flow of dust i...

Light Detection And Ranging sensors (lidar) are key to autonomous driving, but their data is severely impacted by weather events (rain, fog, snow). To increase the safety and availability of self-driving vehicles, analysis phenomena consequences at stake necessary. This paper presents experiments performed in a climatic chamber with lidars different technologies (spinning, Risley prisms, micro-...

Researches were conducted in 2019-2020 the department of closed artificial agroecosystems for plant growing on basis Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Federal Agroengineering Center VIM”, Moscow. The object study was seeds tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum L. aim research to effect a biostimulant (succinic acid) biological characteristics and productivity grown substrate hydroponics c...

In the context of compounding health, environmental, and climatic crises, Brazil may witness two its most important environmental policy instruments, licensing impact assessment, be severely weakened. On May 13, 2021, Chamber Deputies passed a new General Law Environmental Licensing, ignoring concerns civil society, scientists, other relevant parties. If approved by Senate ratified President Bo...

While average temperature is likely to increase in most locations on Earth, many places will simultaneously experience higher variability in temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables. Although ecologists and evolutionary biologists widely recognize the potential impacts of changes in average climatic conditions, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential impacts of...