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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 25, Issue 19) Peer-ReviewedAs he boarded the icy bus for 'spring term', I advised my thinly clad teenage son to consult a dictionary when he got to school. There, between 'Coke' and 'colic', he would find the word 'cold'. As a noun, it has two...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 119, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLEONARD NEUFELDT is the author of six books of poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and major literary journals and magazines throughout Canada and the US. Several of his poems have been read on the...
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From:International Journal of Agronomy (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedImproper postsowing compaction negatively affects soil temperature and thereby cold and frost tolerance, particularly in extreme cold weather. In North China Plain, the temperature falls to 5 degrees below zero, even...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 39, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPervious concrete pavement (PCP) is an appropriate means to meet growing environmental demands. To apply pervious concrete as a pavement, its performance should be studied over its life span. This research aims to...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs if stepping from one dream to another, He shuffled past the neighbor's driveway And the concrete basketball court carrying A metal case in one hand, in the other, a shovel. He crossed a low row of ice-glazed azaleas...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedCold environment is the main constraint for tea plants (Camellia sinensis) distribution and tea farming. We identified two tea cultivars, called var. sinensis cv. Shuchazao (SCZ) with a high cold-tolerance and var....
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 129, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Many studies have investigated the devastating health effects of heat waves, but less is known about health risks related to cold spells, despite evidence that extreme cold may contribute to a larger...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 121, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedClimate change is likely to cause increased occurrence of extreme weather events, including both heat waves and cold spells (Molloy et al. 2008). Many studies have examined the relationship between extreme temperature...
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From:Consultant (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPainful cracks in the fingertips are a common problem, especially during cold weather. A simple but effective remedy is to have the patient apply petroleum jelly to the crack, cover it with an adhesive bandage put on...
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From:Industrial Health (Vol. 55, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPetroleum operations in the Barents Sea require personal protective clothing (PPC) to ensure the safety and performance of the workers. This paper describes the accomplishment of a user-centred design process of new PPC...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 103, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA Best Practice Statement of the American Meteorological Society (Adopted by the AMS Council on 20 December 2021) If no meaningful action is taken to strengthen the infrastructure, power outages will continue as the...
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From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn December, the valley cars barely turned over. Batteries died. Blankets were coiled on the sills of frosted windows, tacked over ill-fitting doors. Wood split with a tap of an axe. The ice on the lake was three feet...
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From:Advances in Meteorology (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedThe Eliassen-Palm flux and Plumb wave activity flux are calculated using the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts interim reanalysis daily dataset to determine the propagation of Rossby waves before a...
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From:Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science (Vol. 103, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe winter of 2009-2010 was cold and stormy with excessive snowfall. The average winter temperature for Illinois was 3.6 degrees F below normal, and winter snow amounts varied from 8 inches at Cairo to more than 52...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTwo ripe days of wet East wind have fumed the long black coast-- pressed the sea and scored its whiteness-- raised the muddy bottom. This isn't it, but the beginning of it. Along the creek that forms the marsh, salt...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Extreme cold weather events, such as the winter of 1962/63, the third coldest winter ever recorded in the Central England Temperature record, or more recently the winter of 2010/11, have significant consequences for...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn snowy Climes, school superintendents must frequently decide whether an impending storm warrants closing schools for the day. Concerns about student and teacher safety must be weighed against the loss of student...
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From:Cancer Nursing Practice (Vol. 10, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedGuidance for nurses on reducing the impact of winter on health has been published by the Department of Health. According to the Cold Weather Plan for England, about 1,560 more people die each week between December...
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From:Science Scope (Vol. 37, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA team of researchers studying plants has assembled the largest dated evolutionary tree (available at www.onezoom.org/vascularplants_tank2013nature.htm), using it to show the order in which flowering plants evolved...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 99, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction. The wheat belt of southwest Western Australia (SWWA) experienced several severe frosts just before harvest in September 2016, leading to a loss of one million tonnes of grain crops (GIWA 2016). Using the...