What was Killing Babies in Hermoupolis, Greece? An Investigation of Infant Mortality Using Individual Level Causes of Death, 1861–1930 by Michail Raftakis

“…Infant mortality in Hermoupolis was relatively high throughout the study period, with water-food borne diseases accounting for the highest number of infant deaths, especially during the hot and dry summer months. While the prominent winter peak of neonatal mortality but also congenital-birth disorders could be partially associated with birth seasonality and/or low temperatures over the winter months. …”
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‘Tais’: a new pear cultivar for the Middle Urals by G. N. Tarasova, L. А. Kotov, D. D. Telezhinskiy

“…The most significant agronomic traits are winter hardiness, high fruit yield, and good fruit quality. …”
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Soil CO2 Efflux in a Mixed Pine-Oak Forest in Valsaín (Central Spain) by Rosa Inclán, Daniel De la Torre, Marta Benito, Agustín Rubio

“…Soil respiration values were highest in pine stands during winter and in oak stands during spring and summer.…”
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Determination of Particulate Matter Dispersion in Eastern Black Sea Region Using Geographical Information Systems by Kazım Onur Demirarslan, Halil Akıncı

“…Air pollution reduces the life quality in cities and also it brings about many health problems. Especially, in winter, fossil fuels are used for the purpose of commercial heating and these fuels cause serious air pollution in the region. …”
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Disparity in low-flow trends found in snowmelt-dominated mountain rivers of western Canada by Paul H. Whitfield, John W. Pomeroy

“…These differences are associated with differences in the form of nival regime from the reliable cold winter and spring freshet of the north and east to regimes with fall and mid-winter melts, often associated with rainfall, in the south and west. …”
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Picea orientalis (L.) Peterm. at Peter the Great Botanic Garden by Firsov Gennadiy, Volchanskaya Alexandra, Orlova Larisa, Tkachenko Kirill

“…It was previously noted that this crop was not winter-hardy enough for the conditions of the North-West, periodically froze, but over time it was restored (grown) again. …”
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Cultural Dyphemisms in the Turkish Culture Region by İlhami Durmuş

“…Going from the plateau to winter quarters and from pasture to another pasture was made easy thanks to these. …”
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Disorders of Mineral and Bone Metabolism in Patients with Crohn's Disease by C. Von Westarp, A.B.R. Thomson, T.R. Overton, R.M. Rogers, P.E. Hodges, V.L. Fornasier, P.M. Crockford

“…The female patients had significant decreases in both summer and winter plasma vitamin D levels, metacarpal cortical thickness and fractional absorption of 47Ca. …”
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Digestate plus chlorella: Important alternative biotechnologies for soils and agricultural production in the context of climate change by Vozhehova Rayisa, Petrenko Svіtlana, Kholmurodova Dilafruz, Tursunova Gulmira

“…The paper presents the results of the effect of a suspension culture of living cells of the microalga Chlorella vulgaris, as well as a suspension preparation of Chlorella vulgaris grown on digestate, on changes in the chemical composition of sand and on the sowing qualities of winter wheat seeds of the Shestopalovka variety. A high positive correlation was established between the length of roots and coleoptiles of winter wheat seedlings of the Shestopalovka variety (r = 0.86) in the variant with an aqueous concentration of the suspension “Chlorella with Digestat”.…”
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Numerical Modelling of Oil Spills in the Area of Kvarner and Rijeka Bay (The Northern Adriatic Sea) by Goran Lončar, Gordana Beg Paklar, Ivica Janeković

“…Summer-season case shows significantly worse situation from the ecological point of view, oil spills spread on the larger area simply because stratification and mixing present during the winter period reduce oil slick effect.…”
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Effect of Fishing Season and Size on the Physicochemical and Microbiological Characteristics of Salted Sardines (Sardina pilchardus) by Charifa Aoua, Bouchra Yacoubi, Abderrahmane Zekhnini

“…Two batches of sardines, caught, in winter and summer, were sorted according to size, salted, matured, and stored at 18°C. …”
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Climate Comfort Changes and Its Response to Meteorological Factors in Liaoning Province by CAO Yongqiang, ZHAO Hui, LI Kexin, YANG Xueting, ZHOU Shuhan

“…Climate comfort is a bio-meteorological index developed to evaluate the comfort state of the human body under different weather/climate conditions from a meteorological perspective,and it is an important factor affecting human activities and the living environment.In this paper,the comfort index of the human body (CIHB) and the corresponding numbers of comfortable days of different grades in Liaoning Province were counted on the basis of the observation data of 23 meteorological stations in Liaoning Province for many years,and the influences of meteorological factors on human body comfort in various environments were analyzed.The following conclusions can be drawn from the results:① In the past 55 years,the meteorological factors in Liaoning Province showed an overall trend of increasing temperature,decreasing wind speed,and decreasing humidity.② Over those years,the annual province-wide number of comfortable days is 7~8 months,and the whole province is within the comfortable range in June.The average CIHB of the province for the 55 years is 45.2.③ The frequency of comfortable days is highest in summer and lowest in winter.The variation of CIHB days indicates that CIHB is more affected by meteorological factors in summer than in winter.④ The meteorological factor most closely correlated with the comfort index is temperature,with a correlation coefficient as high as 0.894.In contrast,wind speed and relative humidity are negatively correlated with it,although relative humidity is the one most weakly correlated with the index among them.…”
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On the Potential of 25 Years (1991–2015) of Rawinsonde Measurements for Elucidating Climatological and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Afternoon Boundary Layer Depths over the Contiguou... by Temple R. Lee, Sandip Pal

“…Differentiating by climate type, BWk (arid, desert, and cold) has the largest median winter (1075 m) and summer (2500 m) PBL depths. Median PBL depths for Cfa (temperate, no dry season, and hot summers), Dfa (cold, no dry season, and warm summer), and Dfb (cold, no dry season, and hot summers) climate types are 750 m and 1000 m during winter and summer, respectively.…”
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Editorial Note by Suvi Rautio

“…It gives me great pleasure to present this year’s Winter Issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. …”
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Experimental Thermal Assessment of a Trombe Wall Under a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Climate of Mexico by Iván Hernández-Pérez, Álan Rodriguez-Ake, Daniel Sauceda-Carvajal, Irving Hernández-López, Balaji Kumar, Ivett Zavala-Guillén

“…Thus, a TW is an option for reducing energy consumption related to thermal comfort for buildings in the northwestern region of Mexico, characterized by arid and semi-arid conditions with low winter temperatures. The thermal behavior of the TW and a conventional facade (CF) of concrete were compared when installed in the southern wall of reduced-scale test boxes in Ensenada, B.C. …”
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Investigation of genetic polymorphism of Russian rape and turnip rape varieties using SSR and SRAP markers by I. A. Klimenko, V. T. Volovik, A. A. Antonov, V. A. Dushkin, A. O. Shamustakimova, Yu. M. Mavlyutov

“…According to Nei’s genetic diversity index, in the cluster of winter rapeseed, VIK 2 and Gorizont varieties had the longest genetic distance, and in the spring cluster, these were Novosel and Veles. …”
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The effects of wind farm wakes on freezing sea spray in the mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy areas by D. Rosencrans, D. Rosencrans, J. K. Lundquist, J. K. Lundquist, J. K. Lundquist, M. Optis, M. Optis, N. Bodini

“…During the 2019–2020 winter season, CAOs lasted a total duration of 202 h. …”
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Seasonal variation of underwater sound propagation in the Beibu Gulf by Feihong Zeng, Feihong Zeng, Lingling Xie, Lingling Xie, Lingling Xie, Mingming Li, Mingming Li, Mingming Li, Qiang Li, Qiang Li, Qiang Li, Simeng Liu, Simeng Liu

“…In summer, this phenomenon is more pronounced than in winter due to the presence of positive sonoclines. …”
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Investigating Precipitation Changes in the Southern Coast of Iran using ERA5 Data by Maryam Kamali, Masoud Torabi Azad

“…Examining the time series of the data indicated an increase in regional rainfall in the spring season and a decrease in the winter season.Intra-seasonal changes showed that winter rains decreased compared to autumn rains, spring rains increased compared to autumn, summer rains increased compared to autumn rains, and summer rains increased compared to spring rains in the region. . …”
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Temporal and Spatial Change Monitoring of Drought Grade Based on ERA5 Analysis Data and BFAST Method in the Belt and Road Area during 1989–2017 by Changdi Xue, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Jiang

“…The results show that the overall change trend of arid area shows a change of “up-down-up-down.” The winter drought area is larger than the summer drought area, and the drought center gradually moves from the Southeast Asia region in winter to the West–Central Asia region in summer. …”
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