Anatomical, physiologic, and socio-cultural changes during pregnancy and childbirth increase vulnerability of women and newborns to high ambient temperatures. Extreme heat can overwhelm thermoregulatory mechanisms in pregnant women, especially during labor, cause dehydration and endocrine dysfunction, and compromise placental function. Clinical seq...
Published in Environmental Research: Climate
The debate over the influence of weather on COVID-19 epidemiological dynamics remains unsettled as multiple factors are conflated, including viral biology, transmission through social interaction, and the probability of disease detection. Here we distinguish the distinct dynamics of weather on detection and transmission with a multi-method approach...
Published in Smart Materials and Structures
Recent years have seen significant advancements in the field of road vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric technology, including the watt-level road piezoelectric energy harvesters (RPEHs). However, research on the fatigue life of RPEH under thermal-mechanical coupling effect is lacking. In this study, six lead zirconate titanate (PZT) bl...
Published in Plant disease
Brown blight, a destructive foliar disease of tea, has become a highly limiting factor for tea cultivation in Taiwan. To understand the population composition of the causal agents (Colletotrichum spp.), the fungal diversity in the main tea-growing regions all over Taiwan was surveyed from 2017 to 2019. A collection of 139 Colletotrichum isolates wa...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Global temperature is projected to increase, which impacts the ecological process in northern mid- and high-latitude ecosystems, but the winter temperature change in ecosystems is among the least understood. Rice paddy represents a significant contributor to global anthropogenic CH4 emissions and has a strong climate forcing feedback; however, the ...
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Fall risk assessment needs contemporary approaches based on habitual data. Currently, inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based wearables are used to inform free-living spatio-temporal gait characteristics to inform mobility assessment. Typically, a fluctuation of those characteristics will infer an increased fall risk. However, current approaches with...
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
High-quality measurements of air quality are the highest priority for understanding widespread air pollution. Visibility has been widely suggested to be a good alternative to PM2.5 concentration as a measure. In this study, the similarities and differences between visibility and PM2.5 measurements in China are checked and the results reveal the pot...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
The adsorption state is one of the main states for shale gas occurrence, and the gas adsorption behavior in shale directly affects shale gas content under reservoir conditions. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on shale gas adsorption behavior and its affecting factors that have been developed in recent years. Influence factors ...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Background The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on the current aging society in China is substantial. Climate change, including extreme temperatures and humidity, has a detrimental influence on health. However, epidemiological studies have been unable to fully identify the association between climate change and CVD among older adults. Therefo...
Published in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Objective Climate change has effects on the economy development of any country. This paper aimed to fit the best marginal and joint distribution models of rainfall with minimum and maximum temperatures. Methods The average values of minimum and maximum monthly temperature, and rainfall were used in this study. For the marginal model, five probabili...
