Effects of land use on temperatures during severe heat waves have been rarely studied. This paper examines land use-temperature associations during the 2011 heat wave in Greater Houston. We obtained high resolution of satellite-derived land use data from the US National Land Cover Database, and temperature observations at 138 weather stations from Weather Underground, Inc (WU) during the August...

The physical activities of daily living are a final outcome of many functions and dependent on many factors. This study was aimed at exploring the relationships of motor function, dementia, education, age, and cognitive function to the physical activities of daily living in 67 elderly people residing in an institution in Taegu, Korea. Their mean ( +/- SD) age was 75.6 +/- 8.1 and 24 (35.8%) wer...

The paper presents an example of exploratory data analysis of climate measurements using a recently developed denoising source separation (DSS) framework. We analysed a combined dataset containing daily measurements of three variables: surface temperature, sea level pressure and precipitation around the globe. Components exhibiting slow temporal behaviour were extracted using DSS with linear de...

BACKGROUND In the context of climate change, an efficient alert system to prevent the risk associated with summer heat is necessary. The authors' objective was to describe the temperature-mortality relationship in France over a 29-year period and to define and validate a combination of temperature factors enabling optimum prediction of the daily fluctuations in summer mortality. METHODS The s...

BACKGROUND Trauma is a leading global cause of death, and predicting the burden of trauma admissions is vital for good planning of trauma care. Seasonality in trauma admissions has been found in several studies. Seasonal fluctuations in daylight hours, temperature and weather affect social and cultural practices but also individual neuroendocrine rhythms that may ultimately modify behaviour and...

killifish (aphanius sophiae) of the cheshme-ali of damghan and shour river of eshteherd were studied and compared from morphological point of view. for morphometric studies, 34 truss morphometric measurements and  10 traditional  measurements  were made for each individual. nine meristic traits were counted. multi-variate analysis of variance (manova) revealed a significant different between va...

Background: It has been hypothesized that COVID-19 is less prevalent in regions with warm climates. Contradictory results led us to investigate the correlation between temperature and the cumulative COVID-19 incidence rate. Method: We obtained COVID data from CRONALAB, COVID-DASHBOARD, and MCMC databases of Fars province, linked data, and finalized daily COVID-19 cases. Daily data on the temp...