Extreme heat
Impacts of extreme heat on emergency medical service calls in King County, Washington, 2007–2012: relative risk and time series analyses of basic and advanced life support
... one heat wave in 2009, expansion of the study time frame would likely attenuate them to a more relevant level for current management efforts and poten- tial policy ...most extreme exposures for this ...in ...
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Impact of two recent extreme heat episodes on morbidity and mortality in Adelaide, South Australia: a case-series analysis
... during extreme heat events suggesting that patients may die prior to presentation at hospital ...of heat on blood viscosity and heart rate, especially in people with pre-existing heart conditions ...
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Exposure to extreme heat and precipitation events associated with increased risk of hospitalization for asthma in Maryland, U.S.A.
... to extreme events and the risk of hospitalization for ...to extreme heat and precipitation event and risk of same day (lag 0) hospitalization for ...to extreme heat and precipitation ...
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Assessing the magnitude and uncertainties of the burden of selected diseases attributable to extreme heat and extreme precipitation under a climate change scenario in Michigan for the period 2041–2070
... Several limitations to our estimates of the burden of future EH and EP exist, largely stemming from uncer- tainty surrounding various model inputs. The uncer- tainty analysis indicated that our mortality projections are ...
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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: efficient evaporative cooling allows for extreme heat tolerance in four southern hemisphere columbids
... in heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity between the only two orders that are relatively well studied in this regard highlight the need for quantitative data on the contributions of REWL and CEWL to ...
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Extreme heat and runoff extremes in the Swiss Alps
... documented extreme event is a valuable con- trol event to evaluate if current hydrological models (Beven, 2001), are actually able to provide reliable projections on hy- drological impacts of climate change when ...
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Extreme heat in India and anthropogenic climate change
... in heat waves in India are represented in climate ...2016 heat wave due to an- thropogenic factors, but with a large uncertainty again due to uncertainties in the representation of aerosols and lack of ir- ...
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Bioinformatic analysis of RpoH sigma factors from the anoxygenic phototrophic Rhodobacter species
... extracytoplasmic/extreme heat stress sigma factor, σ 28 (RpoF) the flagellar sigma factor, σ 32 (RpoH) the heat shock sigma factor, σ 38 (RpoS) - the starvation/stationary phase sigma factor, σ 54 ...
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The value of local heatwave impact assessment : a case-crossover analysis of hospital emergency department presentations in Tasmania, Australia
... which extreme heat events impact human health; these include analyzing mortality data for the period of the event and shortly after [11]; analyzing morbidity indicators, such as ambulance dispatches, ...
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Application of spectral angle mapping and maximum likelihood classification techniques to evaluate forest fire severity from UAV multispectral images in South Korea
... A reference map was generated from data collected during the field survey and screen digitalization. To develop the reference map and validate the fire severity results, ten locations in each fire severity class ...
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Socioeconomic indicators of heat-related health risk supplemented with remotely sensed data
... from extreme heat exposure include the elderly, the urban poor, those living alone, and persons who do not have access to air conditioning ...for heat-related conditions is currently only con- ducted ...
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Impact of global climate change on the health, welfare and productivity of intensively housed livestock
... include heat waves, which are unusually hot weather conditions, occurring for an extended period of time of days or weeks, and characterized by air temperatures substantially higher than the average temperature ...
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Climate Change and Potential Health Effect in Benin, West Africa
... to extreme heat events, floods, and other extreme weather events in which climate change may play a role; (2) indirect impacts from environmental and ecosystem changes, such as shifts in patterns of ...
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Effects of extreme temperatures on cardiovascular emergency hospitalizations in a Mediterranean region: a self-controlled case series study
... during extreme hot weather [11] en- couraged by the action plan to prevent the impact of heat- waves implemented by the regional government [48, ...of extreme heat on the elderly might differ ...
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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: evaporative cooling capacity of arid zone Caprimulgiformes from two continents
... the extreme heat experienced by the North American species by roosting and nesting in tree cavities (Brigham and Geiser, 1997; Doucette and Geiser, ...
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Impact of Climate Change on Water Resource in Mongolia
... an extreme heat, as the result of this heat, there is always severe desertification because of the lack of rain precipitation and eventually the drought is eminent, consequences are that of soil ...
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Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Modulates Behavioral and Brain Responses to Social Stress
... exacerbates extreme heat events ...of heat related mortality (Davis, Knappenberger, Michaels, & Novicoff, ...urban heat island (Lilliana et al, 2013), reduce ambient air pollution and ...
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Measurement of ambient temperature and humidity exposure of outdoor street vendors in zimbabwe: an underrated public health issue
... include extreme heat wave events with high temperatures and humidity combining to create conditions that present a significant public health risk to various societal ...the heat wave (Gosling et al, ...
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Extreme neo-liberalism: an introduction
... of extreme neo-liberalism requires some thought if extreme neo-liberalism is not merely to be dismissed as the spread of empty terms like excellence or entrepreneurship, forward spies for the invasion of ...
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Extreme Interdependence and Extreme Contagion between Emerging Markets
... In the third and final stage, we include the set of fundamental controls with the aim that the correlation between omitted factors will capture non–fundamental factors only, i.e. herding, or correlation between ...
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