Abstract The paper wants to present the progress of a research project focused on study and design Snoezelen room made with wooden components. “Snoezelen” refers closed environments capable stimulating senses in people severe intellectual disabilities non-self-sufficient people. Within these environments, multisensory stimulation takes place through various equipment instruments such as optical...

Virtual geographic environments (VGEs) have been regarded as an important new means of simulating, analyzing, and understanding complex geological processes. Plants and light are major components of the geographic environment. Light is a critical factor that affects ecological systems. In this study, we focused on simulating light transmission and distribution within a three-dimensional plant c...

We model the ESS investment of limiting resources for survival of rare severe stresses, with an emphasis on investment by trees in mechanical strength for survival of storm stresses. The basic model includes the effects of the fitness benefits of increased survival, the cost in reproduction, the effects of the distributions and timing of the stress in the population, and of stress-independent m...

The ability of climate models to predict extremes is determined by its ability to adequately simulate certain environmental conditions both spatially and temporally. Some of the conditions conducive to the occurrence of extreme weather can be quantified from the convective available potential energy (hereafter referred to as CAPE) and vertical shear of the horizontal wind from 0-6 kilometer (he...

Wind profiling radars have been in use since the 1970s (Green et al. 1979). They are now being used with increasing frequency in operational meteorology under a wide range of conditions. One limitation to operation at many sites is contamination from ground and intermittent clutter and radio frequency interference (RFI). Currently, wind profiler radars must be deployed at locations with a minim...

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

Although severe thunderstorms are one of the primary causes of catastrophic loss in the United States, their response to elevated greenhouse forcing has remained a prominent source of uncertainty for climate change impacts assessment. We find that the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5, global climate model ensemble indicates robust increases in the occurrence of severe thunderstorm...

Data from the C-band weather radar located in central Estonia conjunction with latest reanalysis of European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), ERA5, and Nordic Lightning Information System (NORDLIS) lightning location system data are used to investigate climatology convective storms nine summer periods (2010–2019, 2017 excluded). First, an automated 35-dBZ reflectivity threshol...