He had taken the same position in the World, where he said that in conceiving his new "world" (i.e., his conception of the universe), "I do not use the qualities called heat, cold, moistness, and dryness, as the Philosophers do" (11 25).
"It's the cold and the dryness here," he said, rubbing his hands.
Because of the exceptional preservation of the soft tissues of these mummies due to the intense cold and ambient dryness at altitudes at which they were found, important human pathologies accompanying life under Inca rule have become accessible to modern techniques (M. C. Ceruti).
As indicated in Figure 2, the PROFAD-SSI distinguished between patients and controls on all domains of the scale: PSS patients reported more somatic fatigue, mental fatigue, arthritic symptoms, uncomfortably cold hands, oral dryness, ocular dryness, cutaneous dryness and vaginal dryness, all ts > 12.0, all ps < 0.001.
To make buildings habitable and comfortable, the architect must control the effects of heat, cold, light, air, moisture, and dryness and foresee destructive potentialities such as fire, earthquake, flood, and disease.
To make buildings habitable and comfortable, he must control the effects of heat, cold, light, air, moisture, and dryness and foresee destructive potentialities such as fire, earthquake, flood, and disease.
Thus, following a discussion of the influence of climatic factors, such as "heat, cold, moisture, dryness, and electrical state," he added this coda: "In assigning certain conditions of the air as the cause of epidemic diseases, we are able to advance one step.
Each humour – physical substances such as bile (or choler), black bile, phlegm, and blood – is distinguished by its determinate qualities (associated with the four elements) of either heat or cold, and either moisture or dryness.
Not only the bud scales, but also this asymmetrical folding geometry, protect the leaf from cold, dryness, and the numerous small predators (insects).
