Solution temperatures were monitored with a VWR digital thermometer or an Ertco model 4400 thermometer.
While the EQ-5D descriptive system is an indirect approach to eliciting health state preferences, the VAS directly asks the respondent to assign a quality of life score on a vertical 0-100 thermometer.
Salinity was recorded with a conductivity meter (Hach sensION5, Loveland, CO, USA) and treatment temperature was verified with a Fluke 1523 thermometer (Fluke, Everett, WA, USA) whenever spectrophotometric pH was measured.
While temperatures have fallen considerably in recent days, and a light cooling rain swept Paris in the early morning hours today, thermometers hovered over 100 degrees in many parts of France for about a month.
Temperatures have varied wildly - on March 11 it plummeted to minus 12.9C (8.8F) at Kinbrace in the Highlands and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, while on March 5 thermometers reached 17.5C (63.5F) at Trawsgoed in Ceredigion, west Wales.
Our overall climate of fear - white fear - has soared more quickly than the summer thermometers.
Dr. Grant Colfax, director of H.I.V. prevention and research in the Department of Public Health, calls San Francisco's mapping of the viral loads measured from 2005 through 2007 "a thermometer".
