Sentences with phrase «higher environmental temperatures»

Unlike humans who have sweat glands all over their body, dogs only have sweat glands in their paws, rendering them less tolerant to high environmental temperatures.

A dog can not sweat and they absolutely can not tolerate high environmental temperatures as well as humans can.

Heat can kill: High environmental temperatures and related heat issues of dehydration, exhaustion, and heat stroke can occur in horses and can produce illness and death.

Disinfectants containing quaternary ammonium compounds have been found to kill Giardia cysts at the manufacturers» recommended dilutions (dilutions of one disinfectant upto 1:704 were found to be effective at both low and high environmental temperatures).

All rabbits, even those housed indoors, are especially sensitive to high environmental temperatures.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages the creation of green roofs for mitigating the urban «heat island effect,» whereby temperatures in crowded cities can soar some 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in less developed areas nearby.

In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents, which make environmental remediation expensive and challenging.

«If the temperature gets high enough then you get a self - propagating reaction and a fire that would burn like a sparkler,» says physicist Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

What this indicates, she says, is that the protozoa's failed attempt to eat the bacteria renders the germs better able to survive environmental assaults — including ultraviolet radiation, high temperatures, and germicidal chemicals.

An active illumination source is independent of environmental changes, including changes in temperature or light, and provides enhanced contrast and higher sensitivities.»

This protein proved to be a powerful protein remodeling agent that saved yeast from sudden high - temperature heat shocks and all sorts of other stressful environmental conditions her lab could conjure.

The decades of work that have gone into reducing PM2.5 through environmental regulations and technological improvements are being undermined by the West's worsening wildfire seasons, with large wildfires being amplified by higher temperatures and drier conditions associated with human - caused climate change.

For example, clade D Symbiodinium are more abundant in acroporid corals from back - reef lagoons in American Samoa, where the SSTs reach higher maximum temperatures than the fore - reef environments, where Acropora primarily hosts clade C. ref Because they are often found in increased abundance on reefs that are exposed to environmental stressors, the presence of clade D symbionts can be a biological indicator of negative changes in coral health.

The researchers said this process might be dominant in plants that experience long - term high light stress combined with other environmental stressors, such as drought or cold temperatures.

The primary application for our ECS is the high - precision Doppler spectrometer MINERVA - Red, where the thermal variations of the optical components within the... ▽ More We present an Environmental Control System (ECS) designed to achieve milliKelvin (mK) level temperature stability for small - scale astronomical instruments.

Under the guidance of advisors Martin and Karena McKinney, Associate in Environmental Science & Engineering, Wang used lightweight materials that could withstand high jungle temperatures and humidity.

«Coral breaching, in which symbiotic photosynthetic algae of corals are killed by high temperatures and coral reefs are severely damaged, is regarded as a serious environmental issue, but plausibly, similar phenomena may be ubiquitously found in the ecosystem,» said Dr. Fukatsu.

But persistent high temperatures, overfishing and other environmental stresses make it more likely they will starve and die.

As an osmolyte, betaine protects cells, proteins, and enzymes from environmental stress (e.g., low water, high salinity or extreme temperature).

As an osmolyte, betaine protects cells, proteins, and enzymes from environmental stress (eg, low water, high salinity, or extreme temperature).

NHTSA says its team of independent experts reviewed the findings of three independent investigations and concluded that the inflator ruptures are caused by a combination of time, environmental moisture, and fluctuating high temperatures.

We already mentioned that an 85 - degree environmental temperature is just fine with dogs as long as the humidity levels aren't that high.

If he is a young hatchling, the cause is likely due to low calcium or too high phospherus in the diet, low vitamin D from lack of UVb lighting low environmental temperatures, or most often a combination of all of the above.

It is normal for your puppy to paint after performing a physical activity or when the environmental temperature is high, and this should not be confused with tachypnea.

In comparison, sled dogs who were more active and exposed to low environmental temperatures had a much higher requirement with MER ranging from 228kcal ⋅ BWkg0.75 to 1,053 ± 192kcal ⋅ BWkg0.75 per day (Orr, 1966; Hinchcliff et al., 1997).

While the specific triggers for BCC episodes may vary from one dog to another, warm or hot environmental temperature, intensity of exercise, excitement during exercise, an excitable disposition, or high stress levels may contribute.

ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE Note: Undersized, premature or poorly furred kittens need slightly higher temperatures at each stage.

The obsession restricted focus to higher temperatures and increased CO2, which directed funding of impact analyses, whether economic or environmental to cost only, instead of cost / benefit.

When the reseachers at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) applied their computer «model and statistics to analyse temperature readings from the air and ocean for the period ending in 2000, they found that climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will most likely be 3.7 °C, which is somewhat higher than the IPCC prognosis.»

«The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future,» says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Meanwhile, a climatologist and professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, told a packed auditorium at Dartmouth College last week that computer climate change models have regularly projected higher temperatures than have actually occurred, Fox News reported.

NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) thermal stress products used in this study were based on nighttime - only Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data from sensors aboard operational NOAA Polar - Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), produced in near - real - time at 0.5 - degree (50 - km) spatial resolution.

Expertise: renewable energy; environmental and water issues; high - temperature superconductivity; materials science

Effects of climate change, including higher temperatures, have direct effects on public health, but historically it's largely been framed as an environmental issue.

And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.

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Because of the lapse rate (environmental lapse rate = -6.49 K / km), that means that the surface of the Earth has an average temperature that is about 33 C higher, or about 15C.

The more we expect that we should be able to control our physical environment in all situations — and air conditioning allows us to do this with temperature and humidity, albeit at a high environmental and social cost, as authors like Stan Cox have repeatedly demonstrated — the more we psychologically need that level of control.

The team — led by Dole, Hoerling, and Judith Perlwitz from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder — sifted through long - term observations and results from 22 global climate models, looking for trends that might help explain the extraordinarily high temperatures in western Russia during the 2010 summer.

Operation of solar facilities, and especially concentrating solar power facilities, involves high temperatures that may pose an environmental or safety risk.

What's more, the device meets the MIL - STD - 810G military specification, which, according to Samsung, means it has been tested against a «subset of 21 specific environmental conditions, including temperature, dust, shock / vibration, and low pressure / high altitude,» to guarantee its heavy duty design (though Samsung notes that the unit may not perform correctly during exposure to extreme conditions).

Performed various environmental climatic simulation tests which include High / Low Temperature, Temperature Variation, Temperature Shock, Humidity, Sand and Dust, Rain / Waterproofness, Altitude / Decompression, Overpressure, and Salt Fog using custom test specifications and DO - 160 and / or MIL STD's.

The benefits of green homes include: • Lower operational costs than conventional homes due to greater energy and water efficiency, which can result in lower utility bills; • High quality construction, since green label requirements for building materials and techniques often go beyond standard building codes; • More comfortable and stable indoor temperatures; • Healthier indoor air quality; and • Other features that reduce environmental impact such as proximity to parks, shops and transit.