Green Worlds: Shakespeare’s Plays and Early Modern Imagery by Anne-Marie COSTANTINI-CORNEDE

“…Shakespeare’s worlds, even in the very heart of pastoral comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It or The Tempest), reveal the same propensity to oscillate between the lightness of ‘gay green’ and the darker, disquieting vein of ‘lost green’. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and relaxation on pediatric respiratory virus hospitalizations in Southwest China: a retrospective study by Ting Gong, Fengqi He, Yongle Zhao, Shuya Lu, Daiyin Tian, Daiyin Tian

“…IAV peaks disappeared during winters of 2020 and 2021, peaking in spring 2023. …”
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A 1-Year Sediment Trap Study on the Downward Flux of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Settling Particulate Matter in Deep Basins of the Aegean and Ionian Seas, Northeastern Medi... by Ester Skylaki, Constantine Parinos, Maria Tsagkaraki, Ioannis Hatzianestis, Anastasia Christidi, Elisavet Skampa, Ioanna Nikolopoulou, Georgia Kambouri, Ioanna Stavrakaki, Dimitris Velaoras, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Maria V. Triantaphyllou, Maria Kanakidou, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, Alexandra Gogou

“…The fluxes were highest in winter and lowest in fall. In the Cretan Sea, petrogenic sources (~70%) dominated, driven by currents, with fluxes highest in spring and lowest in winter. …”
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Real-world outdoor air exposure effects in a model of the human airway epithelium – A comparison of healthy and asthmatic individuals using a mobile laboratory setting by Pavel Rossner, Helena Libalova, Tereza Cervena, Michal Sima, Zuzana Simova, Kristyna Vrbova, Antonin Ambroz, Zuzana Novakova, Fatima Elzeinova, Anezka Vimrova, Lubos Dittrich, Michal Vojtisek, Martin Pechout, Michal Vojtisek-Lom

“…In the Urban locality, sampled in winter, we observed high PM and BaP levels. We found lower AK levels in samples from healthy individuals exposed in this locality than in the asthmatic samples. …”
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Effects of temporal, spatial, and environmental factors on ciliates community in northeastern South China Sea, with notes on co-occurrence patterns of environment, phytoplankton, a... by Weiwei Liu, Zijun Cheng, Shaowei Wen, Gang Li, Zhixin Ke, Daning Li, Yehui Tan

“…Here, the distribution and determinants of ciliates in the northeastern South China Sea were investigated in summer and winter. We found that the alpha diversity were generally similar, but community composition showed clear difference in summer and winter. …”
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Assessment of Air Pollution and Lagged Meteorological Effects in an Urban Residential Area of Kenitra City, Morocco by Mustapha Zghaid, Abdelfettah Benchrif, Mounia Tahri, Amine Arfaoui, Malika Elouardi, Mohamed Derdaki, Ali Quyou, Moulay Laarbi Ouahidi

“…In contrast, O₃ concentrations were highest during summer afternoons due to photochemical reactions fueled by strong UV radiation, while winter levels were the lowest due to reduced sunlight. …”
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Air pollution Dynamics: The role of meteorological factors in PM10 concentration patterns across urban areas by Carolina Girotti, Luiz Fernando Kowalski, Tiago Silva, Ezequiel Correia, Alessandra R. Prata Shimomura, Fernando Akira Kurokawa, António Lopes

“…Seasonal analysis revealed distinct patterns influenced by atmospheric instability, wind speed, and direction. In winter, areas with dense street tree cover had reduced PM10 levels, while those without showed higher concentrations due to increased stability. …”
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Integration and Comparative Analysis of Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations of Aerosol Optical Characteristics Beneath Clouds by Jing Chen, Jing Duan, Ling Yang, Yong Chen, Lijun Guo, Juan Cai

“…Lu reveals the following: (1) The AOD seasonal distribution frequencies under both clear-sky and cloudy-sky conditions are unimodal, with a values of 0.2∼0.6, and the inhomogeneity of the aerosol distribution in winter is evident; the seasonal difference in the AOD under clear-sky conditions is more significant, following the order of spring > summer > winter > autumn, and the AOD seasonal difference under cloudy-sky conditions is not obvious. (2) In the analysis of the AOD monthly variations, due to the influence of the meteorological conditions (high humidity, low wind speed) and pollutant transport, the AOD reached its peak in February (clear-sky: 0.63, cloudy-sky: 0.82). (3) Under clear-sky conditions, the negative correlation between the daily variations in AOD, and visibility is more significant during the daytime, and after 12:00, the AOD is positively correlated with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><msub><mi>M</mi><mrow><mn>2.5</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>; these results indicate that the AOD is affected mainly by pollutants and the boundary layer height. …”
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Decades of leopard coexistence in the Himalayas driven by ecological dynamics, not climate change by Paras Bikram Singh, Pradip Saud, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pawan Rai, Jeff R. Muntifering, Huijian Hu, Ajay Karki, Yiming Hu, Kumar P. Mainali

“…Utilizing historical accounts dating back to the 1950s and our winter sighting data from trail cameras from 2016 to 2023 in the trans-Himalayan part of Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal (3100–4696 m), we provide substantial evidence of the common leopard’s established residency at high altitudes traditionally associated with snow leopards. …”
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Risk of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome associated with meteorological factors in diverse epidemic regions: a nationwide longitudinal study in China by Nan Chang, Wenzhong Huang, Yanlin Niu, Zhihu Xu, Yuan Gao, Tingting Ye, Zihao Wang, Xiaohui Wei, Yuming Guo, Qiyong Liu

“…Targeted preventive measures should be taken during cold and dry spring days in Rattus-dominant regions, and during warm and moderately humid winter days in Apodemus-dominant regions. In mixed epidemic regions, both scenarios require attention. …”
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Thermal Behavior of an Asphalt Pavement in the Laboratory and in the Parking Lot by J. B. Martinkauppi, A. Mäkiranta, J. Kiijärvi, E. Hiltunen

“…What are the temperatures under the pavement in Finland where the winter can be pretty hard? How can those temperatures be measured accurately? …”
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Porfiry Afanasyevich Dibrova: at the origins of scientific pomiculture in the Urals by T. N. Slepneva, A. V. Shlyavas

“…He launched the main plant breeding trends in the Middle Urals, now followed by contemporary breeders: the development of highly winter-hardy cultivars of apple and pear with fruiting precocity, stable yields, excellent fruit quality, and improved biochemical composition in fruits.…”
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Changes on the Temporal Patterns of Ichthyoplankton Assemblages in the Çanakkale Strait, Türkiye by İsmail Burak Daban, Oğuzhan Ayaz, Ali İşmen

“…Our findings indicated a 3 oC difference in sea surface termperature in the late spring and early winter compared to earlier studies. As expected, the highest mean abundance and biodiversity of ichthyoplankton were found in the late spring-early summer period but they showed rapid fluctuations even in consecutive weeks. …”
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Le printemps à la portée des gestes. Danser le solo de l’élue dans Le sacre du printemps au XXIe siècle by Aurore Després

“…Few scenic artworks raise the climatic and atmospheric issue in a such crucial way: after having celebrated earth and awaken winter, a community acclaims the Chosen One that will be ultimately sacrificed to make spring happen. …”
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Top Challenges Facing the Florida Strawberry Industry: Insights from a Comprehensive Industry Survey by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Alicia Whidden

“… Florida is the largest supplier of winter strawberries in the United States and the second largest overall after California. …”
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Existence results for singular nonlinear BVPs in the critical regime by Francesca Anceschi, Giuseppina Autuori, Francesca Papalini

“….$$ The prototype for the operator $\Phi$ is the $\Phi$-Laplacian; the function $k$ is assumed to be continuous and it may vanish in a subset of zero Lebesgue measure, so that the problem can be singular; finally, $f$ is a Carathéodory function satisfying a weak growth condition of Winter–Nagumo type. The approach we follow is based on fixed point techniques combined with the upper and lower solutions method.…”
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Natural variation in growth and yield to waterlogging across climate-diverse pennycress accessions by Rachel Combs-Giroir, John Lagergren, Daniel A. Jacobson, Andrea R. Gschwend

“…Many winter annual crops, such as pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.), are subjected to heavy precipitation events during their growing season. …”
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2024 Cool-Season Forage Variety Recommendations for Florida by Marcelo Wallau, A. R. Blount, E. Rios, J. M. B. Vendramini, J. C. B. Dubeux, M. A. Babar, K. E. Kenworthy, C. H. de Souza, K. H. Quesenberry

“…The recommendation of varieties is based on multi-location, multi-year cultivar evaluation experiments that may include trials in Florida (https://programs.ifas.ufl.edu/forage/technical-information/), Georgia (https://georgiaforages.caes.uga.edu/species-and-varieties/variety-trials/forage-variety-trial-information.html), Alabama (https://aaes.auburn.edu/blog/2024/06/05/winter-forage-summary-tables-2023-2024/), and other states. …”
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Advanced Energy Management for Residential Buildings Optimizing Costs and Efficiency Through Thermal Energy Storage and Predictive Control by Ricardo Felez, Jesus Felez

“…Simulations conducted for both summer and winter scenarios demonstrate significant reductions in energy costs. …”
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Growing Plums in Florida by E. P. Miller, Peter C. Andersen, Jeffrey G. Williamson, James J. Ferguson, J. Bitter

“… Plum production has good potential for commercial growers and homeowners in Florida and other mild winter areas throughout the Gulf coast. However, most seasonal plums on the market are from California and will not perform well enough in Florida to produce fruit. …”
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