In the last decade, energy consumption for air conditioning applications has been dramatically rising because of growing global population and increasing comfort demand. Consequently, direct evaporative cooling (DEC) technology is emerging as an alternative to vapour compression conditioners due its lower environmental impacts, less consumption, operating costs. This paper aims verify experimen...

Viticulture is carried out for different purposes in almost every region of the world. Although V. vinifera L. cultivars are most commonly grown species Turkey, their cultivation very limited Yalova and similar humid regions. In these regions, fungal diseases common due to heavy rain, sunlight stagnant air movement, especially spring summer months. For this reason, viticulture can only be perfo...

The Hangjiahu Plain in the lower Yangtze is one of core areas that sustained flourishment Liangzhu Civilization. This study reconstructed Holocene environmental change on based a sediment collected from Tangqi ZK-3 location situated low-lying Hangzhou-Taihu region Delta. We applied OSL dating, grain size analysis, pollen and magnetic susceptibility to reconstruct compared our data with other pu...

Fe3Al intermetallics (Fe3Al, Fe3Al-Zr, Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,Nb) were oxidized at 950 C in dry and humid (11 vol% water) synthetic air. Thermogravimetric measurements showed that the oxidation rates of the tested intermetallics were lower in humid air than in dry air (especially for Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,Nb). The addition of small amounts of Zr, Mo or Nb improved the kinetics compar...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have investigated mortality during a heatwave, while few have quantified heat associated morbidity. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between hospital admissions and intensity, duration and timing of heatwave across the summer months. METHODS The study area (Veneto Region, Italy) holds 4577408 inhabitants (on January 1st, 2003), and is subdivided in seven...