Freiburg is a city with about 200.000 inhabitants located in the southwest of Germany where thermal level is the highest within the country. Therefore, urban climate plays a dominant role in urban planning in Freiburg. Due to its location in the river Rhine's valley, urban climate in Freiburg is influenced by a regional wind system (‘Hoellentaeler“) caused by the near black forest (Gross 1989)....

Cryptococcus gattii, emergent on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), Canada, in 1999, was detected during 2003-2005 in 3 persons and 8 animals that did not travel to Vancouver Island during the incubation period; positive environmental samples were detected in areas outside Vancouver Island. All clinical and environmental isolates found in BC were genotypically consistent with Vancouver Is...

Animals can exploit spatial and temporal variation in microclimates to avoid stressful conditions, behavior that is likely to become increasingly important in a warming world. Recent research shows that during hot weather cool tree trunk surfaces can provide an important heat-loss avenue for arboreal mammals and other tree-dwelling animals.

let $mathbb{f}$ be an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic $p>2$ and $(g, [p])$ a finite-dimensional restricted lie superalgebra over $mathbb{f}$. it is showed that anyfinite-dimensional indecomposable $g$-module is a module for a finite-dimensional quotient of the universal enveloping superalgebra of $g$. these quotient superalgebras are called the generalized reduced enveloping ...

an analysis of the stages of crop growth presents an important step in the improvement of production management. through growth analysis, planning for planting systems, fertilization, pruning operations, harvest time as well as obtaining economical yield can be more accessible. therefore, a development of mathematical models simulating plant growth would be helpful in improving crop management,...

Developing artificial neural network (ANN), a model to make a correct prediction of required force and torque in ring rolling process is developed for the first time. Moreover, an optimal state of process for specific range of input parameters is obtained using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods. Radii of main roll and mandrel, rotational speed of main roll, pr...

Climate strongly influences ecological patterns and processes at scales ranging from local to global. Studies of responses climate usually rely on data derived weather stations, where temperature humidity may differ substantially that in the microenvironments which organisms reside. To help remedy this, we present a model leverages first principles physics predict microclimate above, within, be...