to assess required growing degree days (gdd) for phenological stages of four clover species in different planting dates a field experiment was conducted in 2010-11 and 2011-12 cropping seasons in seed and plant improvement institute in karaj, iran. three planting dates (14 september, 28 september and 13 october) and six clover varieties were assigned to main plots and sub-plots, respectively, a...

Pigs aged about 8 weeks will learn to operate infra-red heaters at ambient temperatures of 20 degree Celsius but not at 25 degree Celsius. Hypothalamic temperature, cortical EEG and skin temperatures have been recorded in pigs exposed to ambient temperatures of 0, +10 or +20 degree Celsius in both heat reinforcement and heat escape situations. The amount of heating received decreased with incre...

— The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting the malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the ‘‘globalization as it is’’ (the Halcyon days of the 1870–1913, and the record of the last two decades of development) are...

The impact of climate change is evident in the variability weather patterns, hence, affecting electricity generation and consumption. Existing literature examines effect humidity temperature on energy, but suffers from omitted variable bias. Here, we adopt several parameters namely ambient air pollution, precipitation, surface pressure, dew-frost point, relative humidity, wind speed, earth skin...

Climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events. The consequences of increasing global temperature on the operating cost existing buildings, and associated health, safety, economic risks were investigated. Eight cities in Ontario, Canada, across climate zones 5 to 8, selected for this study. Statistical models employed forecast daily temperatures 50 years. impact buildings’ heati...