Climate change and obesity are two major concerns for policy makers globally, but can climate be a driver of obesity? This is what our analysis tries to establish. To this purpose, we exploit inter-annual variations the Body Mass Index (BMI) children adults in 134 countries over 39 years, study extent changes air temperature precipitations affect obesity. Using panel data econometrics exploitin...

Rapid process cascades can lead to destructive debris flows. Identifying and characterizing the processes conditioning debris-flow occurrence will strongly contribute mitigation of hazards. In recent years, rock slope near “Spitze Stei”, in Kandersteg region, Switzerland, has exhibited elevated displacement rates exceeding 10 cm per day, suggesting a growing instability up 20 million m 3 . The ...

Antibodies against phycobilisom es o f Porphyridium cruentum immunoreact with B-phycoerythrin from the same organism. A strong antigen-antibody com plex is not only formed with the native B-phycoerythrin but also when the chromophore is chemically reduced, split or even degraded with chromic acid. Characteristics o f precipitations and dissolutions in the presence of the chaotropic reagents ure...