Specialty Cut Flower Production Guidelines for Florida - Zinnia by Rick Schoellhorn, Everett Emino, Erin Alvarez

“…Zinnia is a drought-tolerant, warm-weather annual that does not tolerate frost. This flower is available in a wide variety of colors, and color availability is often seasonally dependent for cut flower sales. …”
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Yellow Fly, Diachlorus ferrugatus (Fabricius) (Insecta: Diptera: Tabanidae) by G. B. Fairchild, Howard V. Weems, Jr., Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Tabanids are most likely encountered in hot summer and early fall weather. They are active during daylight hours. This document is EENY-320 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 139), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Peach Scab by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Philip Harmon

“…Peach scab is typical during periods of humid weather because rain splashes the conidia (asexual spores) from the fungus between leaves, twigs, and fruit in the tree canopy, which spreads the disease. …”
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Optimization of VGG-16 Accuracy for Fingerprint Pattern Imager Classification by Agus Andreansyah, Julian Supardi

“…However, its quality can decline due to external factors such as uneven surfaces, weather conditions, or distortion. The dataset used in this study is FVC2000. …”
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Statistical methods in grape and wine research for quantifying the impact of climate change by German Puga, Kym Anderson

“…It first focuses on how to estimate appropriate models of the impact of climate or weather on wine-related outputs. It then explains the challenges of using those statistical estimates to predict the impact of climate change. …”
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Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey by Orhan Ahmet Sener, Serife Cınar, Taner Zıylan

“…Several factors are involved in sports injuries including age, quality of the material used, weather, lighting, court, hall, component, physical condition of the athlete etc. …”
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Managing Your Tropical Fruit Grove Under Changing Water Table Levels by Carlos F. Balerdi, Jonathan H. Crane, Bruce Schaffer

“… This fact sheet has been prepared by IFAS faculty working with tropical fruit crops in an effort to assist growers manage their groves under conditions of flooding, high water tables, or drought. Although weather events cannot be controlled, becoming familiar with the effects of a high water table, flooding, or drought on tropical fruit crops may assist growers in managing their fruit trees so they survive these events with minimal or no damage. …”
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Youth climate activism in the United States by Melanie MEUNIER

“…As the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events devastate regions and impact millions, the unapologetic anti-environmentalism of the Trump administration may have been the ultimate spark that ignited mass action from the young generations. …”
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Peach Scab by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Philip Harmon

“…Peach scab is typical during periods of humid weather because rain splashes the conidia (asexual spores) from the fungus between leaves, twigs, and fruit in the tree canopy, which spreads the disease. …”
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Integrated Management of Bacterial Spot on Tomato in Florida by Amanda Strayer-Scherer, Ying-Yu Liao, Peter Abrahamian, Sujan Timilsina, Mathews Paret, Tim Momol, Jeff Jones, Gary Edward Vallad

“… Bacterial spot is one of the most detrimental diseases of tomato and is especially severe in the southeast United States when weather conditions (high temperature, high humidity, and rain) become conducive for disease development. …”
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THE PATTERN OF TOPIC CHANGE IN INDONESIAN AND SINGAPOREAN CONVERSATION by Ulfa Putri Andalasia, Azwandi Azwandi, Irma Diani

“…Data analyzed through ethnography methodology in communication and conversation analysis. Weather, this condition was quite different to the theory. …”
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DETECTION OF URBAN SUMMER WARMING IN TEMPORAL CHANGE OF HEAT STRESS-RELATED INDICES IN THE ROMANIAN PLAIN REGION by DANA MICU, LOREDANA HAVRIŞ, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ

“…The analyses aimed also at assessing the change in the frequency, persistence and magnitude of heat stress at six weather stations located in the Romanian Plain Region, found representative for urban and suburban thermal conditions. …”
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Smart Strawberry Advisory System for Mobile Devices by Clyde W. Fraisse, Natalia A. Peres, José Henrique Debastiani Andreis

“… Like the web-based SAS, the SAS: Strawberry Advisory System mobile app monitors real-time and forecast weather conditions that increase the risk for Botrytis (gray mold) and anthracnose fruit rots, providing risk level information for each disease. …”
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Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters by Sandika Edria, Rizano Gindho, Yeni Marliza

“…The novel explores how social and environmental degradation amidst the extreme weather and climate change in the fictional setting of America in 2024-2027 mirrors West Sumatra’s lack of preparedness to face similar situations in reality. …”
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Activités cycloniques et nouveaux risques dans le golfe d’Aden by Jean-Philippe Cherel, Bouh Omar Ali, Moustapha Nour Ayeh, Freddy Vinet

“…The low resilience of countries in the region facing weather events is revealed by the impact of Cyclone Sagar on 19 and 20 May 2018 in Djibouti. …”
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Evaluating climatic vulnerability in India: Moving from risk to resilience by Nikam Rahul J, Arunachalam Kantha Deivi, Mayani Suranjana V., Bhattacharya Debleena, Mayani Vishal J., Sharma Archana

“…Climate adaptation has been a top priority in the UN climate negotiations due to the increasing frequency of extreme weather occurrences. Assessments of Climate Vulnerability and Risk are crucial for designing adaptation strategies and identifying vulnerable locations and individuals. …”
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The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) by Joseph M. Schaefer, Mark E. Hostetler

“…It occasionally is found in Missouri and South Carolina. However, cold weather limits the northern boundary of the armadillo's range. …”
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Recent progresses and challenges in smart contact lens by Jiandong XU, Ruisong LI, Hao CHANG, Yi YANG, Sheng ZHANG, Tianling REN

“…With advances in the Internet of things, contact lenses not only are limited to vision correction, but also have become an emerging field of the smart wearable device.And with the proposal of the concept of “meta universe”, augmented reality (AR) technology has once again become the mainstream development direction of science and technology.The latest research progress of key technologies of smart contact lenses in physiological signal monitoring, intraocular pressure monitoring, eye-movement tracking, and augmented reality, as well as the energy supply scheme of the contact lenses were summarized comprehensively.And the future development direction of smart contact lenses in intelligent health and augmented reality was looked forward.In the future, smart contact lenses will realize or surpass the functions of smartphone.Their displays can be controlled by eye movement, which enables us to browse various information, such as news, weather, biomarker level, etc.Therefore, the smart contact lens will play an important role in intelligent medical health and meta universe.…”
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Silvopastoral systems as a strategy for drought resilience: A short international review by Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan

“…The results indicated that silvopastoral systems could be beneficial to the landowners and farmers which could improve drought resilience by increasing air humidity and reducing weather temperature impact which eventually contributed to mitigation fire risks in farms. …”
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Waypoint Position Optimization for Accurate Ground-Based Arrival Time Control of Aircraft by Noboru Takeichi

“…The models of flight time uncertainty and the arrival time control window were developed using the actual track and numerical weather forecast data. An optimization problem was formulated that defined the arrival time uncertainty at the terminal point as the objective function and numerically solved using sequential quadratic programming. …”
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