Considerable experimental evidence shows that functional cerebral asymmetries are widespread in animals. Activity of the right cerebral hemisphere has been associated with responses to novel stimuli and the expression of intense emotions, such as aggression, escape behaviour and fear. The left hemisphere uses learned patterns and responds to familiar stimuli. Although such lateralization has be...

This study is an application of the Statistical Severe ConvectiveRiskAssessmentModel (SSCRAM), which objectively assesses conditional severe thunderstorm probabilities based on archived hourly mesoscale data across the United States collected from 2006 to 2014. In the present study, SSCRAM is used to assess the utility of severe thunderstorm parameters commonly employed by forecasters in antici...

Intense thunderstorms produce rapid cloud updrafts and may be associated with a range of destructive weather events. An important ingredient in measures of the potential for intense thunderstorms is the convective available potential energy (CAPE). Climate models project increases in summertime mean CAPE in the tropics and subtropics in response to global warming, but the physical mechanisms re...

This eZp&iment is a repeat of an earlier experiment,’ but with more sensitive appaTatus and in a location with a higher incidence of thunderstorm activity. The experiment of Ref. (1) was undertaken by Ashby and Whitehead (AW) to investigate the theory that ball lightning might be associa.ted with the annihilation of small amounts of antimatter, and it yielded some very int.eresting but inconclu...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To document the existence and investigate the etiology of "thunderstorm asthma," which has been reported sporadically over the past 20 years. DESIGN We assessed the relationship between thunderstorms, air pollutants, aeroallergens, and asthma admissions to a children's hospital emergency department over a 6-year period. RESULTS During thunderstorm days (n = 151 days) compar...

Understanding computation as " a process of the dynamic change of information " brings to look at the different types of computation and information. Computation of information does not exist alone by itself but is to be considered as part of a system that uses it for some given purpose. Information can be meaningless like a thunderstorm noise, it can be meaningful like an alert signal, or like...