The aim of this study is to determine the effect of environmental conditions with emphasis on the main meteorological factors (air temperature variables, sunshine hour, and humidity), on phytoplankton communities. As important primary producers in aquatic ecosystems, phytoplankton communities could be affected by several factors. Environmental factors play the major role in occurrence and diver...

Abstract: The supersolidus liquid phase sintering characteristics of commercial 2024 pre-alloyed powder was studied at different sintering conditions. Pre-alloyed 2024 aluminum alloy powder was produced via air atomizing process with particle size of less than 100 µm. The solidus and liquidus temperatures of the produced alloy were determined using differential thermal analysis (DTA). The sinte...

Urbanisation and a changing climate are leading to more frequent and severe flood, heat and air pollution episodes in Britain's cities. Interest in nature-based solutions to these urban problems is growing, with urban forests potentially able to provide a range of regulating ecosystem services such as stormwater attenuation, heat amelioration and air purification. The extent to which these bene...

A method has been developed, which we call the "response probability density function technique," which has applications in predicting the probability of injury in a wide range of biodynamic situations. The method, which was developed in connection with sonic boom damage prediction, utilized the probability density function of the excitation force and the probability density function of the sen...

It is common knowledge that death rates vary from area to area, year to year, and between different groups of the population. These differences have been extensively studied but, very often, only in relation to a particular cause of death or a particular feature of the environment-the association of bronchitis with air pollution, for example, or population density with respiratory death rates. ...

Singapore is a bustling cosmopolitan island city, situated at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia. It is 602 square kilometres with a population density of 3784 persons per square kilometre. The population is made up of Chinese (76 %), Malays (15 %), Indians (7 %), and others (20%). The distribution of the sexes in the population is equal except for Indians who still exhibit a migrant patter...

in this study, the effect of edible coat (carboxy methyl cellulose) before osmotic dehydration anddifferent drying methods on sensory and physical properties of dried apple (v. golden delicious)rings was investigated. the coated and non-coated samples pretreated with 50% sucrose osmoticsolution and dried in freeze drier (-40 to -50°c, 0.026-0.017 mbar, 24 hr), vacuum drier (70°c, 200mbar, 8-10 ...