Robusta coffee is the primary source of income for millions smallholder farmers throughout world’s tropics. The price can get their strongly influenced by bean characteristics (i.e. beans are a sufficient size and have minimal defects). Climate key determinant successful production, but scant research has been undertaken to test quantify climate impacts on robusta physical characteristics. Here...

This study analyzes the influence of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on the second mode of atmospheric variability in the north Atlantic/European sector, namely the East-Atlantic (EA) pattern, for the period 1950-2012. For this purpose, lead-lag relationships between SSTs and the EA pattern, ranging from 0 to 3 seasons, were assessed. As a main result, anomalies of the EA pattern in boreal summ...

The temperature in De Bilt in the Netherlands has risen by 1K over the 20th century. This rise parallels the rise in global temperature quite closely, albeit with a slightly higher amplitude. A linear relationship between the two, with a regression coefficient close to one, is an obvious first-order approximation. This is supported by the spatial homogeneity of global warming during the twentie...

RECENTL Y we reported that. in human liver transplantation, a preservation period of greater than 20 hours caused the rate of graft failure to increase nonlinearly.l Even with University of Wisconsin (UW) solution. there is a finite limit to the permissible time of cold storage of livers. In this study, we investigated whether microcirculatory disturbance during and after preservation is correl...

Pan measurement is a reliable and efficient method for indicating the evaporative demand of the atmosphere. There are several types of pan evaporimeters worldwide, and the estimation of the conversion coefficients (Kp) between them is necessary in hydrologic research. In China, E601B pans were installed at all meteorological stations beginning in 1998. They replaced the 20 cm pans (φ20). To ful...

A regional, high-resolution reanalysis was analyzed to explore extreme heat loss events in the Northern Red Sea (NRS) and their links specific regional atmospheric circulation patterns. Such are determinant for overturning of occur frequently between November March, with maximum frequency during December January. During these events, most intense loss, often daily-averaged values lower than -10...

The evaluation of graft function at various stages after transplantation is relevant, particularly at the moment of organ harvest, when a decision must be made whether to use the organ. Autofluorescence spectroscopy is noninvasive technique to monitor the metabolic condition of a liver graft throughout its course, from an initial evaluation in the donor, through cold ischemia transportation, to...

OBJECTIVE It is aimed to characterize the true relationship of the cold ischemia time (CIT) with graft survival and with the principal post-transplantation events. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed 378 kidney transplants, studying the relationship of the CIT with graft survival using a univariate analysis according to the COX model and seeking the optimum cutoff according to the Kaplan-Meier m...