BACKGROUND Season of birth or seasonal changes in putative etiologic factors are thought to influence the development of several psychiatric illnesses. The aim of this investigation was to examine seasonal differences in the frequency of birth in a clinical sample of patients with seasonal affective disorder (SAD). METHOD 553 outpatients suffering from SAD-DSM-IV-defined depressive disorder w...

Forty-five male yaks (born April 2001) were studied to determine how seasonal changes on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau affected BW and body composition. Thirty yaks were weighed monthly from birth to 26 mo of age to determine seasonal changes in BW. The remaining 15 yaks were allocated randomly to five groups (three yaks per group), designated for slaughter at 13, 15, 18, 22, and 25 mo to measure...

The paper presents the results of studying influence season on change in physico-chemical and amino acid composition milk obtained from black-and-white cows. During analysis, it was revealed that throughout year not constant. highest fat content produced autumn winter, while protein found spring summer milk. autumn-winter period is higher compared to spring-summer period, which due a diet, name...

abstract one of the most variability of atmospheric parameter is precipitation, which changes seasonally. it is important to understand exact characteristic of rainfall seasonal variable. therefore, it is unavoidable to study rainfall season in hamedan province, because hameden is one of the important centers of agriculture in iran. in this research, the seasonal variability of rainfall is cons...

Plant diseases are caused by pathogen populations continuously subjected to evolutionary forces (genetic flow, selection, and recombination). Ascochyta blight, caused by Mycosphaerella pinodes, is one of the most damaging necrotrophic pathogens of field peas worldwide. In France, both winter and spring peas are cultivated. Although these crops overlap by about 4 months (March to June), primary ...

INTRODUCTION The influence of season at diagnosis on cancer survival has been an intriguing issue for many years. Most studies have shown a possible correlation in between the seasonality and some cancer type survival. With short expected survival, lung cancer is an arena that still is in need of new prognostic factors and models. We aimed to investigate the effect of season of diagnosis on 3 m...

Although the health effects of ambient ozone have been widely assessed, their tempo-spatial variations remain unclear. We selected 20 communities (ten each from southern and northern USA) based on the US National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS) dataset. A generalized linear model (GLM) was used to estimate the season-specific association between each 10 ppb (lag0-2 day av...

The purpose was to determine the prevalence and related factors of vitamin D (VitD) insufficiency in adolescents and young adults with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus. A cohort of 65 patients (17.6 ± 2 years) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were examined for pubertal development, nutrition, serum parathormone and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [s25(OH)D]. s25(O...

Alpine snowbed communities are characterized as having areas of longer lasting snow cover duration compared with the surrounding landscape. The predictable accumulation deep and long-lasting on lee side ridges drives a unique ecology, providing stable microclimatic conditions under through winter, supplying meltwater in spring, controlling many biological processes. timing rate plant litter dec...