Asian social psychology has often focused on East/West comparisons. However, a latitudinal perspective suggests that cultures will vary in predictable ways along north/south (latitudinal) gradients, rather than east/west (longitudinal) gradients. We apply this to better understand the geographical placement of literacy rates across world. find 206 nations latitude shows no linear relationship w...

Reproductive maturation in both male and female three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus was strongly photoperiodic in a northern population (Alaska, 61 degrees N) but not in a southern population (Oregon, 43 degrees N) from western North America. Increasing reliance on photoperiod with increasing latitude is a general phenomenon among vertebrates, and is probably due to the anticipation...

The Almagest star catalog (ASC) has for centuries invited speculation about who actually compiled it. Of its many curious features, the fact that the catalog contains no stars which are visible in Alexandria but not visible in Rhodes suggested to Delambre that perhaps the catalog was actually compiled by Hipparchus, who is known to have lived in Rhodes (at about 36° north latitude), and not by ...

Body size of organisms often increases with latitude and elevation, a pattern commonly called Bergmann's Rule. Though this pattern has been documented in many endothermic taxa, relatively few insect taxa have been examined, with some taxa showing strong support and other taxa showing little or no support for the rule. For colonial organisms (social insects, corals, bryozoans) size can also be e...

A systematic analysis of the winter North Atlantic eddy-driven jet stream latitude and wind speed from 52 model integrations, taken from the coupled model intercomparison project phase 3, is carried out and compared to results obtained from the ERA-40 reanalyses. We consider here a control simulation, twentieth century simulation, and two time periods (2046–2065 and 2081–2100) from a twenty-fir...

The variability of the zonal-mean zonal wind in the Southern Hemisphere is studied using EOF analysis and momentum budget diagnostics of NCEP Reanalysis data (1978-1997). The leading EOF of the zonal-mean zonal wind is well separated from the remaining EOF’s and represents the north/south movement of the mid-latitude jet. Analysis of the momentum budget shows that a positive feedback between th...

Desertification in north China is ongoing despite the endeavours to mitigate it over the past 50 years. Overall examination of the context of desertification and defects of desertification-combating programmes is a prerequisite for desertification control, which is now attracting general concern in China. The physiographic circumstances of north China, including the dry, continental, mid-latitu...

We compare observations of the modulated intensities and spectra of galactic cosmic ray nuclei and anomalous heliumabove 30MeV/nmeasured by theCOsmic andSolar Particle INvestigations (COSPIN) High Energy Telescope (HET) on Ulysses with similar observations from the IMP-8 earthorbiting satellite between September 1994 and August 1995. During this interval Ulysses made a rapid scan of solar latit...

BACKGROUND Previously, we compared the hyperthymic scores of residents in Sapporo, Koshigaya, and Oita (which are located at latitudes of 43°N, 36°N, and 33°N in Japan, respectively) using the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego-auto questionnaire version (TEMPS-A). We found that residents who lived at lower latitudes had higher hyperthymic temperament scores; however, ...