The temperature and humidity regime of the Right Bank is considered according to data four weather stations in three natural climatic periods – stabilization, first second waves global warming. There an increase rate warming from one period another. Against background a progressive rise temperatures, there amount precipitation cold half year its decrease warm one. revealed trend may indicate cl...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study is to evaluate in a time-series study the short-term effects of particulate matter-2.5exposure on respiratory emergency visits in six central-southern Chilean cities highly contaminated by wood smoke. METHODS: Association was assessed using both distributed lag linear and non-linear Poisson models constrai...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death globally and evidence is steadily increasing on the role of non-traditional risk factors such as meteorology and air pollution. Nevertheless, many research gaps remain, such as the association between these non-traditional risk factors and subtypes of CVD, such as acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The objective of this study was to ...

In a letter to the editor, Sundby (2015) expresses concerns about our study of changing spawning locations of the Northeast Arctic (NEA) stock of Atlantic cod over the period 1866–1969, where we identified statistically significant effects of the stock’s demography whereas various climate indices all fell below statistical significance. Our conclusion on the role ascribed to climate disagrees w...

Oxygen-isotope ratios of a stalagmite from Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean provide a record of changes in monsoon precipitation and climate for the time period from 42 to 55 thousand years before the present. The pattern of precipitation bears a striking resemblance to the oxygen-isotope record from Greenland ice cores, with increased tropical precipitation associated with warm periods in th...

Embryonic development of the common chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, was monitored from oviposition to hatching at a field site in southwestern Spain and in the laboratory under five experimental temperature regimes. Embryos were diapausing gastrulae at the time of oviposition; developmental arrest in the field continued as cold torpor during winter. Postarrest development in the field commence...

Singular spectrum analysis (SSA), a linear (univariate and multivariate) time series technique , performs principal component analysis (PCA) on an augmented dataset containing the original data and time-lagged copies of the data. Neural network theory has meanwhile allowed PCA to be generalized to nonlinear PCA (NLPCA). In this paper, NLPCA is further extended to perform nonlinear SSA (NLSSA): ...

A reconstruction of the last 2,000 years BP environmental and oceanographic changes on western margin Spitsbergen was performed using a multidisciplinary approach including fossil assemblages diatoms, planktic benthic foraminifera calcareous nannofossils use geochemistry (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction). We identified two warm periods (2,000–1,600 1,300–700 BP) that were ass...