The main purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the geometry and size of the aggregate, as well as the drying temperature on the compressive strength of the ordinary concrete. To this end, two aggregates with sharp and round corners were prepared in three different aggregate sizes. After preparing concrete samples, the drying operations were carried out in the vicinity of room tempera...

Abstract Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) is an endemic osteoarthropathy. Its distribution region covers a long and narrow belt on the Pacific side belongs to continental climate with short summer, frost period, large temperature differences between day night. In particular, KBD patients are typically scattered in rural areas seasonal features such as cold winters rainy autumns. Etiological studies ha...

Athletes who perform repeated exercise while breathing cold air have a high prevalence of asthmalike chronic airway disease, but the mechanism linking such activity to airway inflammation is unknown. We used a novel animal model (exercising horses) to test the hypothesis that exercise-induced chronic airway disease is caused by exposure of intrapulmonary airways to unconditioned air, resulting ...

Several thousands of people, including children, suffer from acute respiratory disease (ARD) every year worldwide. Pro-active planning and mitigation for these diseases require identification of the major drivers in a location-specific manner. While the importance of air pollutants in ARD has been extensively studied and emphasized, the role of weather variables has been less explored. With Del...

In practice we are often faced with random experiments whose outcomes are not numbers (or vectors in &I”) but are expressed in inexact linguistic terms. As an example, consider a group of individuals chosen at random who are questioned about the weather on a particular city on a particular winter day. Some possible answers would be “cold,” “more or less cold,” “very cold,” “ extremely cold,” an...

1. Arthropod performance is a non-linear function of temperature, and thus global climate change may impact arthropods in a variety of non-obvious ways. 2. In this paper, the well-known thermal performance curve is reviewed briefly and attention is drawn to the importance of variance in temperature, particularly major weather events such as cold snaps and heatwaves. 3. A model is developed that...