Mortality and morbidity associated with extreme summer heat and poor air quality continues to be one of the most pressing human health challenges in cities and is likely to be exacerbated in the future due to urban growth and climate change. Heat is currently the leading weather-related cause of death in the developed world (e.g. CDC 2004), and future heat vulnerability for the elderly is proje...

laboratory experiments were performed to determine the effect of various scarification treatments at four temperature regimes on germination of licorice seeds . a randomized complete block design with four replications was used. germination counts were made every day for 2 weeks. at 50c, none of the chemically and mechanically scarified and non scarified seeds germinated. at 15, 25, and 350...

Cellulase and xylanase production from rice straw using M.thermophila SH1 was assessed. The waste was dried, grinded to mesh size of 2.0mm and microwave pretreated. The powdered waste was than used as a substrate. Fermentation was carried out in flasks containing pretreated and untreated rice straw, vogel;s medium, cultured at 50C initially for 8 days to verify cellulase production and for 5 da...

T he Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2 million people to surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive writings into the stream of real social media posts, as if they were the genuine opinions of ordinary people. Many academics, and most journalists and activists, claim that these so-called 50c party posts vociferously argue for the gove...

Measurement in science has a long tradition as described by Lemmerich /LEMM88/. While the measurement of length the meter was defined in 1889 /LEMM88/, p.87, the measurement of temperature was more complicated. The graduation of the distance of the fixpoints was introduced by Fahrenheit in 1714 and by Celsius in 1742. Celsius devided the scale of 100 degrees and 0 degrees in hundred equal secto...

Composites can be manufactured in numerous ways. Among the available methods, Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) is most advanced and latest technology utilized by companies for aerospace other projects. Although it offers many benefits, has unique manufacturing challenges quality issues. The presence of tow placement defects such as gaps, overlaps, twisted tows, incomplete missing tows AFP proces...

Case report A 65-year-old woman presented with a 48-hr history of rigors and generalized muscle pain and weakness. She had had no serious illness in the past and had been on no drugs before admission. She had no history of upper respiratory tract infection or bronchitis. On examination, her temperature was 38 50C; pulse was regular 90/min; BP, 100/70 mmHg. The heart sounds were normal and the c...