They reached out to clinicians worldwide to identify patients with arhinia — before this study only 80 cases had been
reported during the past century — and gathered samples for genetic sequencing.
Not exact matches
An analysis of quakes and eruptions
during the
past several
centuries revealed about 20 pairs that struck within 750 kilometers of each other, according to a
report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.
«We have seen a substantial
century - to -
century variation on these fossil layers,» Anderson
reports, «but the monsoon wind strength has increased
during the
past four
centuries as the Northern Hemisphere has warmed.»
The temperature, rainfall, vapor pressure and number of months when conditions were suitable for malaria transmission, the researchers
report, «have not changed significantly
during the
past century or
during the period of
reported malaria resurgence.»
After improving steadily for half a
century, the health of American children as measured by key indicators began to deteriorate
during the
past decade, according to a
report released last week.
A record spanning the
past half -
century shows a dramatic increase (about 14 per year) in U.S. tornado
reports during this time [13](Fig. 6).
«Second, in contrast to the previously
reported slowing in the rate
during the
past two decades1, our corrected GMSL data set indicates an acceleration in sea - level rise (independent of the VLM used), which is of opposite sign to previous estimates and comparable to the accelerated loss of ice from Greenland and to recent projections, and larger than the twentieth -
century acceleration.
While average global temperatures rose about 0.74 degrees Celsius
during the
past century, the U.S. Midwest has experienced a noticeable slump in summer temperatures in recent decades,
reported David Changnon, a climatologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, on January 19 at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society.
On pages 267 and 270 of this issue, two groups of climate researchers
report that two climate models have passed a new test: simulating the warming of the deep oceans
during the
past half -
century.