Abstract Extreme heatwaves will occur more frequently and with higher intensity in future. Their consequences for human health can be fatal if adaptation measures not taken. This study analyses factors related to heat private households Germany. During the summer months of 2019, indoor temperatures were measured over 500 City Augsburg, Germany, accompanied by a survey find out about perception ...

production and approval of trastuzumab (herceptin®) for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mbc) was a millstone in antibody-based targeted therapy in the cancer treatment. however, despite the early success in the clinical trials, trastuzumab failed to appreciate the initial attraction due to development of resistance to the drug. the majority of patients who benefit from the drug acqui...

Learning, according to Oxford Dictionary, is "to gain knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, from being taught, etc." In order to learn from experience, the central nervous system has to decide what action leads to what consequence, and temporal perception plays a critical role in determining the causality between actions and consequences. In motor adaptation, causality between action...

The East Mediterranean region suffers from high levels of air pollution which has a negative impact on pregnancy outcomes. This work systematically reviews the epidemiological evidence on maternal exposure to air pollution and adverse pregnancy outcomes in the region. Relevant papers and reports published between 2000 and 2014 were searched. Combinations of search terms including countries, exp...

This paper describes articulatory adaptation in humanto-human communication, a computational model of such adaption by human communicators, and the application of this work — intended primarily for the design of communication aids, but with potential application to multimodal communicative agents.

Responses to climate change may be viewed as requiring primarily ‘‘Resilience’’ or ‘‘Adaptation.’’ We examine how those two terms affect lay responses to the risks of coastal flooding and sea level rise. We use two tasks requiring substantial participant involvement, one providing minimal information and one substantial information. In Study 1, participants spent ten minutes writing an essay ab...