The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) addresses these shortcomings by using an advanced thermo-physiological model. The aim of this study was to investigate and prepare zoning of thermal comfort condition using UTCI. Meteorological data including temperature, wind speed, cloudiness and relative humidity were obtained on a daily time scale from 10 synoptic stations during (2004-2013) period...

(Note : This paper is based primarily on the perception of the relationship between education and women’s status by the authors of papers prepared for the Mount Holyoke college, International Conference on Worldwide Education for Women : Progress, Prospects and Agenda for the Future; November 1987. References to statistical data are made only to substantiate an argument. The statistics appended...

Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...

The topic of this paper is the variability of phrase-initial pitch patterns of South Swedish. Central Swedish pitch patterns for phrase-initial accent I both to the East (Stockholm) and to the West (Gothenburg) display an apparent constancy, albeit with distinct patterns: East Central Swedish rising and West Central Swedish fall-rise. In South Swedish, the corresponding pitch patterns can be de...

Purpose The aim of the study was a systematic review of refractive errors across the world according to the WHO regions. Methods To extract articles on the prevalence of refractive errors for this meta-analysis, international databases were searched from 1990 to 2016. The results of the retrieved studies were merged using a random effect model and reported as estimated pool prevalence (EPP) w...

To investigate the origin and evolution of aboriginal populations of South Siberia, a comprehensive mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis (HVR1 sequencing combined with RFLP typing) of 480 individuals, representing seven Altaic-speaking populations (Altaians, Khakassians, Buryats, Sojots, Tuvinians, Todjins and Tofalars), was performed. Additionally, HVR2 sequence information was obtained for 110 ...

A combined population genetic and reproductive analysis was undertaken to compare free-ranging cheetahs from east Africa (Acinonyx jubatus raineyi) with the genetically impoverished and reproductively impaired south African subspecies (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus). Like that of their south African counterparts, the quality of semen specimens from east African cheetahs was poor, with a low concentr...

Recent reports of the World Health Organization have shown that malaria as an indigenous disease has disappeared from Europe and from the U.S.A., from most of the U.S.S.R., from Israel, Lebanon, large parts of India, from Singapore, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Chile, most of Argentina and Venezuela, most of the islands of the Caribbean, and from Mauritius. Nevertheless, the whol...

1. introduction although solar energy is one of the important renewable, free and clean energy sources, constant exposure to the sun, especially uv radiation, can lead to some problems. these problems include skin diseases, loss of pregnancy, permanent or temporary infertility, and cataracts (strom, 2003), weak immunity system, and an increased risk of diseases especially in children (hoyos-bac...