the effect of temperature on demographic parameters of the greater wax moth, galleria mellonella (l.) was studied at 23, 25, 27, and 30 °c, 50 ± 10% rh and a photoperiod of 16:8 (l: d) h. the life table parameters were estimated according to the age-stage, two-sex life table procedure. in addition, the bootstrap technique was employed for estimating the means, variances, and standard errors of ...

conclusions in samples stored in plastic syringes, overestimation of pao2 levels should be noted if samples cooled before analysis. in samples stored in plastic syringes, it is not necessary to store samples in iced water when analysis delayed up to one hour. results pao2 of the samples stored at 0°c was increased significantly after 60 minutes (p = 0.007). the paco2 of the samples kept for 30 ...

introduction recent studies of public underground parking lots showed the influence of radon concentration and the probable discomfort caused by parking cars. materials and methods radon concentration was measured in semi-closed public parking lots in the six governorates of kuwait, using durridge rad7radon detector (usa). results the peak radon concentration in the parking lots of kuwait gover...

the effluent quality of a sewage treatment plant using activated sludge process and finally secondary treatment depends on the flocculation efficiency and settling of the flocs. the survey of various treatment processes in water and wastewater treatment shows that temperature and ph are the important factors affecting efficiency of flocculation and settling properties. this study was performed ...

the evaluation of treatment characteristics and sludge properties of an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (uasb) process was investigated using a pilot-scale 1.15 m3reactor. the uasb, inoculated with digester sludge, was operated at a hydraulic retention time of 8 h at sewage temperatures ranging from 10.6 to 27.7 °c for more than 1100 days. the stable removal efficiencies for total codcr and ss...

the δ18o, δ13c, and strontium/calcium (sr/ca)-record was measured from a 7-year old platygyrasinensis coral located offshore larak island in the persian gulf at a resolution of 22 samples/year. an increasedsampling resolution of 55 samples/year over two annual cycles was also compared with the 22 sampleresolution to evaluate the effectiveness of the sampling procedure. the resulting data exhibi...

the calling behavior of virgin carob moth females, ectomyelois ceratoniae (zeller) (lep.: pyralidae) was evaluated under two different thermal regimes, cycling and constant temperatures under laboratory condition. the period of calling activity under cycling temperature was prolonged and the total period of calling activity of an individual female was increased. although moths maintained under ...

precipitation and air temperature data, only, are often recorded at meteorological stations, with radiation beingmeasured at very few weather stations, especially in developing countries. therefore there arises a need for suitablemodels to estimate solar radiation for a completion of data sets. this paper is about an evaluation of eight models foran estimation of daily solar radiation (q) from ...

abstract in order to evaluate crop water stress index (cwsi) and canopy temperature of wheat cultivars under terminal drought stress, a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station of shiraz university, shiraz, during 2009 growing season. five wheat cultivars including shiraz, bahar, pishtaz, sistan and yavaros and four levels of water regime including well watering [irr...

in this experiment six healthy adult dairy jersey cattles and eight calves (aged 4-6 months) were selected to measure temperature of different body skin sites, rectal temperature, respiration and heart rates during summer and winter. body sites maximum and minimum temperature in calves during summer belonged to the ear, forehead, right flank, abdomen (38.4-38.9 ˚c) and carpus (32 ˚c). this was ...