Newborn piglets weigh about 1 kg, which facilitates handling, bleeding, surgery, repeated sampling, measuring of temperature, heartbeat, respiratory rates, collection of intestinal content for microbiome analyses and of intestinal epithelial cells for analyzing the transcriptional response.
Barnett, A., Tong, S. & Clements, A. What measure of temperature is the best predictor for mortality?
Tree-rings are an indirect measure of temperature, and are inherently less accurate than thermometers.
The new research examined how a combined measure of temperature and humidity, called wet bulb temperature (WBT), would increase if carbon emissions continue on current trends and the world warms by 4C this century.
To calculate the limits in which it is safe for people to work in extreme heat, scientists rely on a measure of temperature that takes into account both the heat and the humidity.
Using the normal measure of temperature, the study shows 45C would become the usual summer maximum in Gulf cities, with 60C being seen in places like Kuwait City in some years.
Utilizing willingness to pay as a measure of preference, this paper regresses wage rates for a few narrowly defined occupations in metropolitan areas on measures of temperature and size of city and finds that people prefer warm climates.
Plus, its hot, muggy days are getting hotter and muggier: In mid-June, when I was there, the heat index, a measure of temperature and humidity, peaked at 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
We anticipate that changes in heatwave frequency, intensity and duration relative to global warming will be highly regionally variable and will differ from prior work on more general measures of temperature extremes24,25,26.
Since the objective is to measure the effect of a warmer climate, it is simplest to use regression (2) because its measure of temperature is the mean during the year.
After a quick review of some of the weather service's numbers around midday today, Mr. Tauber said that the heat index -- a measure of temperature and humidity -- was generally at least five degrees higher in New York City than in its northern and western suburbs.
