A study was conducted to determine how shade (0%, 40%, 80%) reduces high light intensity and temperature to optimize growth of ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus L.) under high altitude tropical conditions. The study was set up in a split plot design, replicated three times and repeated once. Ranunculus tuberous roots were preconditioned at 30C, 20C, 10C or 2C for two weeks and thereafter grown u...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study investigated the relation between heat and mortality in London to determine the temperature threshold at which death rates increase and to quantify the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality. DESIGN Daily data on all cause mortality and temperature were obtained for a 21 year period and the relation between them investigated both graphically and by using non-pa...

We examined the impact of extreme temperatures on mortality in 12 counties across Hubei Province, central China, during 2009-2012. Quasi-Poisson generalized linear regression combined with distributed lag non-linear model was first applied to estimate county-specific relationship between temperature and mortality. A multivariable meta-analysis was then used to pool the estimates of county-speci...

OBJECTIVES Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are a major irritant to children and their parents around the world. Each year millions of children are infested with head lice, a condition known as pediculosis, which is responsible for tens of millions of lost school days. Head lice have evolved resistance to many of the currently used pediculicides; therefore, an effective new treatment for h...

date palm (phoenix dactylifera l.) with its delicious and nutritious bearing fruit (dates) is an important agricultural core in iran. to extend the shelf life of date palm fruit, some such methods of preservation as drying are suggested and drying influences physicochemical and quality characteristics of products, thus modeling of drying kinetics is one of the tools for process control. in this...

the paper presents results of experimental studies on the methane and propane ignition process in various volumetric compositions of oxidizers heated to temperatures higher than ignition point of analyzed fuels (htac conditions–high temperature air combustion conditions). the increment of temperature dt and the ignition delay time tig are parameters characterizing the process of ignition under ...

Natural ventilation is among those effective methods that is useful in hot dry climates. One of its important uses is in the atrium spaces in the office buildings. Although, as a passive solution, it has a significant impact on the reduction of energy consumption, the control of inlet and outflow of air as well as the control of air current temperature has always been a challenge for architects...

there are a number of ideas to generate cloud and precipitation in the southern coasts of caspian sea, but none of them explain the cause of precipitation particularly heavy and super heavy precipitations precisely. this study describes main thermodynamic factors when the situation and location of synoptic patterns are effective. on the basis of daily data, monthly regimes and monthly trends of...