Sentences with phrase «on environmental temperature»

An animal's water requirements change depending on environmental temperature, humidity, and activity level, among other factors.

Virus is shed in the stool for the first two weeks or less after the initial infection but only a tiny portion of infected stool (which could be months old depending on the environmental temperature and humidity) is needed to infect a non-immune dog.

Specifically, the researchers are evaluating soil samples from the warming chambers to determine the presence and prevalence of fungal pathogens that attack insects and how that prevalence changes based on environmental temperatures.

Development of microfilariae to the second larval stage (L2) and to the infective third stage (L3) occurs within the mosquito in ~ 1 - 4 wk, depending on environmental temperatures.

Development of these larvae occurs in the mosquito for 1 - 4 weeks depending on environmental temperatures before it becomes an infective stage.

Not exact matches

Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

Saildrone offers government researchers and private companies more easily accessible data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

A player's core temperature on the field is primarily related to exercise intensity and duration, clothing / equipment and environmental conditions.

I thought the insulated drawstring pockets on either side of the nuababy diaper bag were a clever feature to keep bottles warm and baby food protected from environmental temperatures.

Environmental factors like rainfall and temperature influence the ratios of male - to - female caiman hatchlings, making the gender balance dependent on shifts in climate.

Listening to how projected sound reverberates through kelp beds allows scientists to eavesdrop on environmental factors such as water temperature and photosynthetic activity, bioacoustician Jean - Pierre Hermand reported June 28 at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of...

Listening to how projected sound reverberates through kelp beds allows scientists to eavesdrop on environmental factors such as water temperature and photosynthetic activity, bioacoustician Jean - Pierre Hermand reported June 28 at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Some environmental groups have called on rich nations to assess how much carbon the world can continue to emit while still having a shot of keeping temperatures below 2 C above preindustrial levels, and then make the case for using up whatever it cites as a «fair share» of those gigatons.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

In 2003 the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to delete from its annual Report on the Environment any reference to a study showing that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, and also to delete temperature data showing a worsening warming trend.

For the study, the researchers incubated eggs from the Trachemys scripta elegans, a semi-aquatic turtle, under different temperature and moisture regimes to study the effect of the two environmental factors on developmental rate, egg mass, embryo mass and length, and sex ratio.

So Javier Martin - Torres of the Luleå University of Technology in Kiruna, Sweden, and colleagues have tracked the weather conditions on Mars throughout Curiosity's first Martian year, recording humidity, air and ground temperatures with its Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS).

The composition of microbes on frog skin can reflect the environment, and environmental conditions — including solar radiation and temperature regimes — differ between continuous and fragmented forests.

The cause of the wasting disease is unknown, though scientists working on the mystery are testing whether an underlying virus or bacteria is to blame, along with some environmental stress, such as water temperature or salt content, making the organisms more vulnerable to it.

We show that rapid light — induced free - radical polymerization at ambient temperature produces multifunctional fluorinated photopolymer coatings that confer luminescent and easy - cleaning features on the front side of the devices, while concurrently forming a strongly hydrophobic barrier toward environmental moisture on the back contact side.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

Temperature versatility is important because increasing evidence documents dynamic and often unpredicted behavior of ice that could affect environmental conditions — as with glaciers on earth, for example — and explain the evolution of satellites» bodies in space, as with Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

«Plants are highly sensitive to environmental changes and even small changes in temperature impact on their growth,» he said.

This temperature curve, established using an isotopic thermometer, is widely applied for reconstruction of past environmental conditions and in this case, is based on the isotopic composition of the oxygen contained in the fossilised remains of fossil marine fish (bone, teeth, scales).

Humans also evolved an ability to revise sleep schedules based on daily work schedules and environmental factors such as temperature.

«It is apparent from these studies that environmental temperature or day length has an impact on colostrum quality,» the researchers said.

During her master thesis, D. Batista investigated the effects of increased temperature on freshwater decomposers along a gradient of cadmium stress, which resulted on a publication in the journal «Environmental Pollution».

NOAA's global temperature data for February, to be released on Thursday, is expected to be roughly in line with NASA's, Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with ERT, Inc., at NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, said in an email.

If November and December have average temperatures, 2016 will tie for the second - warmest year on record, Chris Fenimore, a physical scientist with NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, said.

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 study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

This changing climate sensitivity may be the result of other environmental factors that have, since the 1950s, increasingly acted to reduce tree - ring density below the level expected on the basis of summer temperature changes.

University of Tsukuba - based researchers developed a way to recover environmental heat with a new type of thin - film thermoelectric cell, based on two different materials that show changes in their redox potential on cycling of temperature.

The team used temperature - controlled photoelectron spectroscopy in EMSL, the DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on the PNNL campus, to determine how tightly one cyanide ion and one to three water molecules interact at the very low temperature of -438 °F (12 Kelvin) and again at ambient temperature of 80 °F (equivalent to 300 Kelvin).

To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these changes we compile various environmental records (and model - based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes on Earth's radiative budget and, thus, on global annual mean surface temperature over the last 800,000 years.

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The Science paper was part of a large effort by Karl and others at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, as well as climate analytics specialist James McMahon of LMI Consulting, to develop the most accurate possible record of the Earth's surface temperature, based on thermometers.

The automaker also revealed to Reuters it created a third - party environmental study to see the long - term temperature effects on the inflators.

** Ford does not recommend using summer tires when temperatures drop to approximately 45 °F or below (depending on tire wear and environmental conditions) or in snow / ice conditions.

There are no fast and hard rules as to the maximum environmental temperature levels that dogs can safely go outside since everything actually depends on the levels of humidity.

In general, the risk of aerosol transmission increases with proximity and duration of exposure to the source; however, once aerosolized, certain pathogens may remain infective over long distances, depending on particle size, the nature of the pathogen, and such environmental factors as temperature and humidity.3

The temperature as it registers on a thermometer isn't the only environmental factor that affects how dogs feel the cold.

In mammals, resting energy requirements (RER) can be calculated based on the equation RER (kcal / day) = 70kcal ⋅ BWkg0.75 (Kleiber, 1961) and reflects the minimal amount of energy required daily to maintain body weight in the absence of factors such as exercise or environmental temperatures which could increase energy needs.

A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and published in Yale 360 shows that the ocean isn't the only body of water with a temperature on the hike.

However, tree growth is a complex biological process that is subject to a range of changing environmental influences, not just summer temperature, and so replication, coherence and consistency across records and other proxies are an important check on the results.

One simply can not do arithmetic (least squares trends) on the temperature of environmental air and expect the result to reflect the changes in heat content.

The annual average temperature this year was 54.4 °F — just shy of 55.3 °F, the average for 2012, the warmest year on record, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information annual summary.