This document summarizes research on the relationship between environmental factors like air pollution and climate change and neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorders. Several studies cited found associations between increased exposure to air pollutants like nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and nitric oxide during pregnancy and early childhood and higher risks of developing autism. The timing of exposure was found to be important, with some studies finding effects only during certain periods of pregnancy or post-natal development. While questions remain about specific pollutants and potential confounding factors, the overall evidence for air pollution contributing to autism risk is said to be increasingly compelling.
A motivational talk during the Mathematics Awareness Month in 2009, introducing students into the applications of elementary ideas of Mathematics to understand the weather and climate.
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An introduction to Biometeorology and its application in regards to asthma. It includes also, future ideas to be implemented along this line. Three consecutive years of asthma information and weather information are correlated together in order to find possible indicators to define an asthma index.
This document discusses hurricanes and their mathematical properties. It begins with a brief history of hurricanes and hurricane science. It then presents a simple model of a hurricane's anatomy including its typical size, shape as a hollow cylinder, and volume calculations. Further sections explore hurricane tracking patterns, storm surge forces, sea wave representations, and climatological trends. Mathematical concepts like functions, volumes, forces, and data analysis are applied to better understand hurricane dynamics and behavior.
The document summarizes the history of superconductivity research over the past 100 years. It describes key discoveries and theorists who contributed to the field, including Heike Kamerlingh Onnes who discovered superconductivity in 1911. It also discusses the development of theories like the BCS theory of superconductivity in the 1950s and developments in high-temperature superconductivity in the 1980s. The document is authored by David Quesada and outlines his own educational background and research focusing on effects of the density of states on superconductivity properties.
This document summarizes research on the relationship between environmental factors like air pollution and climate change and neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorders. Several studies cited found associations between increased exposure to air pollutants like nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and nitric oxide during pregnancy and early childhood and higher risks of developing autism. The timing of exposure was found to be important, with some studies finding effects only during certain periods of pregnancy or post-natal development. While questions remain about specific pollutants and potential confounding factors, the overall evidence for air pollution contributing to autism risk is said to be increasingly compelling.
A motivational talk during the Mathematics Awareness Month in 2009, introducing students into the applications of elementary ideas of Mathematics to understand the weather and climate.
The document analyzes the correlation between weather variability and seasonal asthma episodes in Miami Dade, Florida over three years. It describes the creation of a comprehensive weather database using sensors from WeatherBug and the National Weather Service to collect temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, and other variables. The analysis found a seasonal pattern with asthma episodes peaking in mid-December and bottoming out in mid-March each year.
The document summarizes key concepts about water, including its physical and chemical properties, the water cycle, humidity, phases of water, and more. It discusses how water vapor condenses to form clouds and rain, which then flows into rivers and oceans. The unique properties of water make it essential for life on Earth.
An introduction to Biometeorology and its application in regards to asthma. It includes also, future ideas to be implemented along this line. Three consecutive years of asthma information and weather information are correlated together in order to find possible indicators to define an asthma index.
This document discusses hurricanes and their mathematical properties. It begins with a brief history of hurricanes and hurricane science. It then presents a simple model of a hurricane's anatomy including its typical size, shape as a hollow cylinder, and volume calculations. Further sections explore hurricane tracking patterns, storm surge forces, sea wave representations, and climatological trends. Mathematical concepts like functions, volumes, forces, and data analysis are applied to better understand hurricane dynamics and behavior.
The document summarizes the history of superconductivity research over the past 100 years. It describes key discoveries and theorists who contributed to the field, including Heike Kamerlingh Onnes who discovered superconductivity in 1911. It also discusses the development of theories like the BCS theory of superconductivity in the 1950s and developments in high-temperature superconductivity in the 1980s. The document is authored by David Quesada and outlines his own educational background and research focusing on effects of the density of states on superconductivity properties.
This document discusses a study examining the possible influence of weather on asthma episodes in Miami-Dade County and surrounding communities. It presents preliminary results showing seasonal variations in reported asthma cases. An integrated expert system is proposed to analyze geospatial health and weather data, model urban weather and the weather-asthma connection, and determine risk indexes. The study aims to better understand the complex relationship between environmental factors like climate and pollution and exacerbation of asthma episodes.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Climate change poses serious risks to both society and the environment according to climate scientists. The document summarizes that 97% of climate scientists agree human-caused climate change is occurring based on extensive evidence. Global temperatures have already risen 1.4°F over the past century and the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather, rising sea levels, and melting ice sheets are increasingly apparent. Further warming could lead to abrupt, unpredictable changes with severely damaging consequences. Acting now to reduce emissions can lower risks and costs compared to delaying action.
17 de marzo 2014 – (Washington, D.C.) La Asociación Americana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AAAS, por sus siglas en inglés) anuncia el lanzamiento de una nueva iniciativa para expandir el diálogo sobre los riesgos del cambio climático. El elemento central de la iniciativa es el informe de la AAAS “Lo que sabemos (–What we know)”, una evaluación actual de la ciencia del clima y los impactos que hacen hincapié en la necesidad de comprender e identificar posibles escenarios de alto riesgo.
“Somos la mayor sociedad científica en el mundo, y por lo tanto creemos que tenemos la obligación de informar al público y a los responsables de tomar decisiones sobre lo que la ciencia está mostrando sobre cualquier tema en la vida moderna, y el clima está particularmente presionando”, comentó el Dr. Alan Leshner, director ejecutivo de la AAAS. “Al ser la voz de la comunidad científica, tenemos que compartir lo que sabemos y llevar a los responsables de la toma de decisiones a la mesa para discutir cómo hacer frente a este problema.”
El Dr. Mario Molina laureado del Premio Nobel, distinguido profesor del Departamento de Química y Bioquímica de la Universidad de California, San Diego y la Institución Scripps de Oceanografía y los co-dirigentes, la Dra. Diana Wall, Profesora Distinguida de Biología de la Universidad Estatal de Colorado, Escuela de Sustentabilidad Ambiental Mundial y el Dr. James McCarthy, Profesor Alexander Agassiz de Oceanografía Biológica en la Universidad de Harvard, presidieron el panel de la ciencia climática que elaboró el informe. Ellos, junto con los 10 panelistas que abarcan especialidades de ciencias del clima, participarán en la iniciativa de diversas maneras, desde ofrecer eventos y testimonios en un sitio web interactivo que estará disponible próximamente, hasta compartir conocimientos con otros profesionales. La iniciativa alienta a los estadounidenses a pensar en el cambio climático como un tema de gestión de riesgos; el panel tiene como objetivo aclarar y contextualizar la ciencia para que el público y los tomadores de decisiones puedan ser adecuadamente informados sobre los riesgos y las posibles maneras de manejarlos.
“Este nuevo esfuerzo pretende afirmar de manera muy clara la evidencia excepcionalmente fuerte que el clima de la Tierra está cambiando, y que el futuro cambio climático puede afectar seriamente los sistemas naturales y sociales “, comentó el Dr. McCarthy. “Incluso entre los miembros del público en general que ya saben acerca de las evidencias del cambio climático y de qué lo está causando, algunos no saben el grado en que muchos científicos del clima están preocupados por los riesgos de cambios climáticos posiblemente rápidos y bruscos – eso es algo a lo que estamos dedicados a discutir con los diversos públicos, desde los líderes empresariales y expertos financieros hasta los tomadores de decisiones en todos los ámbitos de la vida.”
This document discusses a term paper presentation on recent developments, challenges, and opportunities related to climate data. It outlines the objectives and significance of studying this topic, and reviews literature on data sparsity in Africa due to declining weather stations, issues with data accessibility, and quality challenges. Recent opportunities include increased data from satellites, reanalysis models, and climate simulations, though data gaps remain an obstacle for climate research and applications in Africa.
One Health Hackathon 25/10/2020 - Cyril CaminadeLaiaBent
Climate change can impact vector-borne diseases like malaria through several mechanisms:
1. Temperature affects vector biting rates, development rates, mortality rates, and the extrinsic incubation period inside the vector. Higher temperatures generally increase these rates.
2. Statistical and mechanistic models are used to model the impact of climate factors like temperature and rainfall on vector-borne disease transmission and burden.
3. Early scenarios from the 1990s predicted that climate change could increase malaria risk at higher latitudes and altitudes. However, the impact of climate change on malaria is complex with many other social and environmental factors also influencing transmission.
Climate Change: Science Versus Consensus and AlarmismTJSomething
This document discusses skepticism about claims of catastrophic human-caused climate change and analyzes Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth". It notes that global temperatures have risen in recent centuries but that natural factors also influence the climate. The author argues that climate models have limitations and that some scientists have distorted data to support alarmist views for political or funding reasons.
This document summarizes a study that assessed how graduate students perceive the risks of climate change and their willingness to pay for climate change mitigation policies. The study found that students had diffuse risk perceptions, with a wide range between their upper and lower estimates of temperature increases in Boston by 2100. On average, students estimated a median temperature increase of 1-3 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. However, the study also found evidence of behavioral biases influencing risk perceptions, such as those with higher risk estimates for climate change also perceiving greater risks for unrelated issues. The study aimed to examine rational and behavioral influences on risk perception and willingness to pay for climate policies.
This document discusses how information about climate change is communicated and framed by different groups. It explores how scientists communicate their findings and who believes climate change is real based on evidence. It also examines how fossil fuel industry groups have run disinformation campaigns using tobacco industry tactics to sow doubt and delay action, similar to how tobacco companies denied health risks of smoking for decades.
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This document provides an overview of the rules and guidelines for the 2014 Disease Detectives event for Science Olympiad. It outlines that the topic for 2014 will be environmental quality. It provides resources for training materials, including sample problems and event guidelines. It describes the format of the event and emphasizes checking the official rules for parameters. It also gives an overview of epidemiology concepts focused on for 2014, including environmental causes of health problems and the scientific method as it relates to outbreak investigation.
This document contains 6 abstracts from epidemiology conferences that discuss various topics related to climate change and environmental health. The abstracts report on research related to heat-related mortality and heat warning systems in the US, mortality related to temperature extremes, the impact of diurnal temperature range on cardiovascular hospital admissions, defining temperature thresholds for heat warning systems in France, the effects of heatwaves on health outcomes in Adelaide, Australia, and projecting temperature-related mortality impacts in New York City under climate change.
health can be affected by many factors.These may be in terms of environment and also internal body changes depending on climate.It is discussed in details on these slides the main factors that attribute to the health problems.Countries vary differently in terms of number of people contracting diseases due to different physical,social and psychological effects.
The document summarizes the key findings of a report published in The Lancet medical journal on the health impacts of climate change on children worldwide. The report found that failing to limit global temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius as outlined in the Paris Agreement would lead to increased health problems for children from infectious diseases, air pollution, heat, and malnutrition. Children are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their developing bodies and lungs. Without action to reduce emissions, air pollution and wildfires will increase, worsening health problems. The report aims to highlight the huge costs of climate change on children's health and well-being in an effort to spur stronger climate action.
High throughput analysis and alerting of disease outbreaks from the grey lite...Nigel Collier
The document discusses text mining of disease outbreak reports from online news and other unstructured sources for early detection of public health threats. It describes the BioCaster system which analyzes over 9,000 news reports daily using natural language processing and a multilingual ontology to extract structured event data on outbreaks from multiple languages. The system aims to supplement traditional surveillance and support timely response by public health experts.
This document discusses the relationship between climate change and the spread of Lyme disease. It begins with an introduction about how a colleague contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite. The rest of the document is divided into three sections:
1) Biological background on Lyme disease, how it is transmitted by deer ticks, and its current prevalence.
2) A study that found using climate models that deer tick habitat is expected to expand 213% by 2080 due to warming temperatures and increased humidity from climate change.
3) Limitations of the climate model which only considered temperature and humidity and not biological factors like the distributions of deer and mice hosts that also impact tick ranges. More accurate risk projections will require models considering both
The document discusses several ways that global warming may negatively impact human health, including increased deaths from heat waves, worsening air pollution and spread of diseases. Higher temperatures are projected to increase heat-related deaths in cities across the United States. Flooding from stronger storms can spread infectious illnesses if sanitation is compromised. Rising seas may also force coastal population displacement.
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Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19. Various mitigation measures have been implemented to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including widely adopted social distancing and mandated face covering.
This document discusses a study examining the possible influence of weather on asthma episodes in Miami-Dade County and surrounding communities. It presents preliminary results showing seasonal variations in reported asthma cases. An integrated expert system is proposed to analyze geospatial health and weather data, model urban weather and the weather-asthma connection, and determine risk indexes. The study aims to better understand the complex relationship between environmental factors like climate and pollution and exacerbation of asthma episodes.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Climate change poses serious risks to both society and the environment according to climate scientists. The document summarizes that 97% of climate scientists agree human-caused climate change is occurring based on extensive evidence. Global temperatures have already risen 1.4°F over the past century and the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather, rising sea levels, and melting ice sheets are increasingly apparent. Further warming could lead to abrupt, unpredictable changes with severely damaging consequences. Acting now to reduce emissions can lower risks and costs compared to delaying action.
17 de marzo 2014 – (Washington, D.C.) La Asociación Americana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AAAS, por sus siglas en inglés) anuncia el lanzamiento de una nueva iniciativa para expandir el diálogo sobre los riesgos del cambio climático. El elemento central de la iniciativa es el informe de la AAAS “Lo que sabemos (–What we know)”, una evaluación actual de la ciencia del clima y los impactos que hacen hincapié en la necesidad de comprender e identificar posibles escenarios de alto riesgo.
“Somos la mayor sociedad científica en el mundo, y por lo tanto creemos que tenemos la obligación de informar al público y a los responsables de tomar decisiones sobre lo que la ciencia está mostrando sobre cualquier tema en la vida moderna, y el clima está particularmente presionando”, comentó el Dr. Alan Leshner, director ejecutivo de la AAAS. “Al ser la voz de la comunidad científica, tenemos que compartir lo que sabemos y llevar a los responsables de la toma de decisiones a la mesa para discutir cómo hacer frente a este problema.”
El Dr. Mario Molina laureado del Premio Nobel, distinguido profesor del Departamento de Química y Bioquímica de la Universidad de California, San Diego y la Institución Scripps de Oceanografía y los co-dirigentes, la Dra. Diana Wall, Profesora Distinguida de Biología de la Universidad Estatal de Colorado, Escuela de Sustentabilidad Ambiental Mundial y el Dr. James McCarthy, Profesor Alexander Agassiz de Oceanografía Biológica en la Universidad de Harvard, presidieron el panel de la ciencia climática que elaboró el informe. Ellos, junto con los 10 panelistas que abarcan especialidades de ciencias del clima, participarán en la iniciativa de diversas maneras, desde ofrecer eventos y testimonios en un sitio web interactivo que estará disponible próximamente, hasta compartir conocimientos con otros profesionales. La iniciativa alienta a los estadounidenses a pensar en el cambio climático como un tema de gestión de riesgos; el panel tiene como objetivo aclarar y contextualizar la ciencia para que el público y los tomadores de decisiones puedan ser adecuadamente informados sobre los riesgos y las posibles maneras de manejarlos.
“Este nuevo esfuerzo pretende afirmar de manera muy clara la evidencia excepcionalmente fuerte que el clima de la Tierra está cambiando, y que el futuro cambio climático puede afectar seriamente los sistemas naturales y sociales “, comentó el Dr. McCarthy. “Incluso entre los miembros del público en general que ya saben acerca de las evidencias del cambio climático y de qué lo está causando, algunos no saben el grado en que muchos científicos del clima están preocupados por los riesgos de cambios climáticos posiblemente rápidos y bruscos – eso es algo a lo que estamos dedicados a discutir con los diversos públicos, desde los líderes empresariales y expertos financieros hasta los tomadores de decisiones en todos los ámbitos de la vida.”
This document discusses a term paper presentation on recent developments, challenges, and opportunities related to climate data. It outlines the objectives and significance of studying this topic, and reviews literature on data sparsity in Africa due to declining weather stations, issues with data accessibility, and quality challenges. Recent opportunities include increased data from satellites, reanalysis models, and climate simulations, though data gaps remain an obstacle for climate research and applications in Africa.
One Health Hackathon 25/10/2020 - Cyril CaminadeLaiaBent
Climate change can impact vector-borne diseases like malaria through several mechanisms:
1. Temperature affects vector biting rates, development rates, mortality rates, and the extrinsic incubation period inside the vector. Higher temperatures generally increase these rates.
2. Statistical and mechanistic models are used to model the impact of climate factors like temperature and rainfall on vector-borne disease transmission and burden.
3. Early scenarios from the 1990s predicted that climate change could increase malaria risk at higher latitudes and altitudes. However, the impact of climate change on malaria is complex with many other social and environmental factors also influencing transmission.
Climate Change: Science Versus Consensus and AlarmismTJSomething
This document discusses skepticism about claims of catastrophic human-caused climate change and analyzes Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth". It notes that global temperatures have risen in recent centuries but that natural factors also influence the climate. The author argues that climate models have limitations and that some scientists have distorted data to support alarmist views for political or funding reasons.
This document summarizes a study that assessed how graduate students perceive the risks of climate change and their willingness to pay for climate change mitigation policies. The study found that students had diffuse risk perceptions, with a wide range between their upper and lower estimates of temperature increases in Boston by 2100. On average, students estimated a median temperature increase of 1-3 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. However, the study also found evidence of behavioral biases influencing risk perceptions, such as those with higher risk estimates for climate change also perceiving greater risks for unrelated issues. The study aimed to examine rational and behavioral influences on risk perception and willingness to pay for climate policies.
This document discusses how information about climate change is communicated and framed by different groups. It explores how scientists communicate their findings and who believes climate change is real based on evidence. It also examines how fossil fuel industry groups have run disinformation campaigns using tobacco industry tactics to sow doubt and delay action, similar to how tobacco companies denied health risks of smoking for decades.
(The Ima Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications) Terry Speed (editor), M...EdizonJambormias2
(The Ima Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications) Terry Speed (editor), Michael Waterman (editor) - Genetic Mapping and DNA Sequencing-Springer Verlag (2012).pdf
This document provides an overview of the rules and guidelines for the 2014 Disease Detectives event for Science Olympiad. It outlines that the topic for 2014 will be environmental quality. It provides resources for training materials, including sample problems and event guidelines. It describes the format of the event and emphasizes checking the official rules for parameters. It also gives an overview of epidemiology concepts focused on for 2014, including environmental causes of health problems and the scientific method as it relates to outbreak investigation.
This document contains 6 abstracts from epidemiology conferences that discuss various topics related to climate change and environmental health. The abstracts report on research related to heat-related mortality and heat warning systems in the US, mortality related to temperature extremes, the impact of diurnal temperature range on cardiovascular hospital admissions, defining temperature thresholds for heat warning systems in France, the effects of heatwaves on health outcomes in Adelaide, Australia, and projecting temperature-related mortality impacts in New York City under climate change.
health can be affected by many factors.These may be in terms of environment and also internal body changes depending on climate.It is discussed in details on these slides the main factors that attribute to the health problems.Countries vary differently in terms of number of people contracting diseases due to different physical,social and psychological effects.
The document summarizes the key findings of a report published in The Lancet medical journal on the health impacts of climate change on children worldwide. The report found that failing to limit global temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius as outlined in the Paris Agreement would lead to increased health problems for children from infectious diseases, air pollution, heat, and malnutrition. Children are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their developing bodies and lungs. Without action to reduce emissions, air pollution and wildfires will increase, worsening health problems. The report aims to highlight the huge costs of climate change on children's health and well-being in an effort to spur stronger climate action.
High throughput analysis and alerting of disease outbreaks from the grey lite...Nigel Collier
The document discusses text mining of disease outbreak reports from online news and other unstructured sources for early detection of public health threats. It describes the BioCaster system which analyzes over 9,000 news reports daily using natural language processing and a multilingual ontology to extract structured event data on outbreaks from multiple languages. The system aims to supplement traditional surveillance and support timely response by public health experts.
This document discusses the relationship between climate change and the spread of Lyme disease. It begins with an introduction about how a colleague contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite. The rest of the document is divided into three sections:
1) Biological background on Lyme disease, how it is transmitted by deer ticks, and its current prevalence.
2) A study that found using climate models that deer tick habitat is expected to expand 213% by 2080 due to warming temperatures and increased humidity from climate change.
3) Limitations of the climate model which only considered temperature and humidity and not biological factors like the distributions of deer and mice hosts that also impact tick ranges. More accurate risk projections will require models considering both
The document discusses several ways that global warming may negatively impact human health, including increased deaths from heat waves, worsening air pollution and spread of diseases. Higher temperatures are projected to increase heat-related deaths in cities across the United States. Flooding from stronger storms can spread infectious illnesses if sanitation is compromised. Rising seas may also force coastal population displacement.
Airborne COVID Study (2020) - Texas A&M, The University of Texas at Austin, C...chaganomics
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1. Mathematics & Physics in the Real World David Quesada, Ph.D. School of Science, Technology and Engineering Management, St. Thomas University.
2. Graduated from Moscow State University, M.V. Lomonosov, Russia 1990 M.S. in Physics and Mathematics – Suma Cum Laude – School of Physics
3. CINVESTAV, Mexico DF Graduated from Universidad de La Habana, Cuba 2000, Ph.D. in Physics, Best young scholar research of the year 2000 – School of Physics Dr. Carlos Trallero-Giner Dr. Rafael Baquero
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6. What is Mathematics after all? The word mathematics is derived from the Greek word Mathematikos, which means “inclined to learn”. Thus, literally speaking, to be mathematical is to be curious, open-minded, and interested in always learning more !! Do you consider yourself to be either “ math phobic” (fear of mathematics) of “ math loathing” (dislike math )? Many adults harbor fear or loathing of mathematics and, unfortunately, these attitudes are often reinforced by classes that present mathematics as an obscure and sterile subject . Some common misconceptions about Mathematics Mathematics also may be viewed as a tool for creating models, or representations that allow us to study real phenomena 1.Learning mathematics requires special and rare abilities. 2. Math in modern issues is too complex. 3. Math makes you less sensitive, and is irrelevant to my life 4. Math makes no allowance for creativity. 5. Math provides exact answers. Economics Business Management Financial Analyst Psychology and Sociology Strategic Management and Politics Bioinformatics Applied Mathematics Biology and Ecology Actuarial Mathematics – Risk & Insurance Medicine and Physiology Atmospheric Physics or Meteorology Physics and Chemistry Engineering Computer science and Artificial Intelligence
7. What is Quantitative Literacy? Literacy is the ability to read and write, and it comes in varying degrees. Some people can recognize only a few words and write only their names; others read and write in many languages. Today, the abilities to interpret and reason with quantitative information - information that involves mathematical ideas or numbers – are crucial aspects of this literacy. This so called quantitative literacy is essential to understanding modern issues that appear in the news everyday. The process of interpreting and reasoning with quantitative information is called quantitative reasoning. Adapted from Education: The knowledge gap, supplement to The Wall Street Journal, February 9,1990
8. Adapted from Education: The knowledge gap, supplement to The Wall Street Journal, February 9,1990
20. The WeatherBug Network is the largest weather network in the world. More than 8000 schools across the U.S. operate WeatherBug Tracking Stations, including Saint Thomas University, to integrate live, local weather data and technology into classroom learning. This is accomplished through WeatherBug Achieve, an online teaching tool that automatically embeds live weather readings and images from any source on the WeatherBug Network into lessons.
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22. Data collected by the weather tracking station in campus. It is interesting to notice; how many parameters may be correlated at once by looking at these graphics. Hail storm took place on May 26, 2005 in the area of Miami Gardens and Opa-Locka. Hails of size an inch and a half were collected that day.
25. Ongoing research project # 1.1: Climate and Weather Variability Slopes, Trigonometric Functions, Average Values, and Global Warming Range of variation Cloudiness and Random Fluctuations in the weather are responsible for theseirregularities It is worth to notice the periodicity (24 hrs) of these peaks; however it is clear the irregular shape of all these peaks too – Why?
26. Ongoing research project # 1: Climate and Weather Variability Periodic Patterns in Nature and its Graphical Representation Time Series Analysis Daily variations – Days and Nights Period = T = 24 hr Daily, monthly, and yearly variations - three periods T1= 24 hr, T2= 90 days, T3= 365 days Maximum Mean or Average Minimum Range More complicated behaviors are indicators of hidden dynamical processes to be studied
27. How far weather variability influences seasonal asthma episodes: Three years of correlations in Miami Dade, Florida David Quesada School of Science, Technology and Engineering Management, St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens FL 33054 Climatic and environmental changes occurring since the middle of the Twentieth Century as well as the aggravating pollution levels in megacities are exacerbating asthma episodes and the number of hospitalizations due to this disease. Since 1999, in Miami Dade County the hospitalization rates were doubling the Healthy People 2010 objectives in every age group. A comprehensive weather database including outdoor temperature (T), humidity (H), barometric pressure (P), wind direction (θw) and speed (vw) as well as the values of maximum and minimum and the range of all these variables has been created. As a result, a seasonal pattern emerged, with a maximum appearing around the middle of December and a minimum around the middle of March every year for the three years of analysis. Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
28. Why to study Asthma? How far Bio-Meteorology may help with? Asthma Statistics Worldwide Number of people diagnosed: more than 150 M Europe: the # of cases has doubled USA: the number of cases has increased more than 60% India: between 15 and 20 M Africa: between 11 and 18% population Number of deaths yearly: around 180,000 Miami Dade County, Florida 7.1% Middle and HS children were reported with asthma The number of hospitalizations due to asthma has doubled. The number 1 cause of school absences and 35 % of parents missed work Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
29. Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
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31. Larger seasonal variation associated with a decrease in age. AichatouHassane, UNH; Robert Woodward, PhD, UNH; Ross Gittell, PhD, UNH - May 27, 2004 Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
32. Miami Dade Asthma Snapshot Areas of major incidence Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
33. Zip codes patients came from WeatherBug Mesonet stations NWS stations, MIA & Tamiami
34. Seasonal Variations of Asthma diagnosed cases by the Kendall Medical Group in Miami Dade, FL Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
35. Seasonal Variations of Asthma diagnosed cases in standard units Z = (N – Nave)/S by the Kendall Medical Group in Miami Dade, FL
40. Correlations between the number of cases and the given set of variables (IBM-SPSS-19) Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
41. Factors affecting respiratory gas exchange Concentration Gradient == CG Temperature == T Surface Area == S Molecular size == MS Distance == d Diffusion Rate == D D = [CG x T x S] / [MS x d] Ventilation – Perfusion ratio == V/Q V/Q < 1 hypoventilation Florida Academy of Sciences, 75th Anniversary Meeting, FIT - Melbourne FL March 2011
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43. Macroscopic Mechanical Description of Breathing Bronchial Hyper-responsiveness: Excessive constriction of smooth muscle that surrounds bronchi and bronchioles, resulting in narrowed airway passage and airflow limitation. Mathematical expressions appealing to basic laws of aerodynamics describe the basics of breathing and disorders within the lung functioning. Atopy: A genetically determined state of hypersensitivity to environmental allergens that is detected by increased serum immunoglobulin E and/or positive dermal allergen tests
44. Mesoscopic immune description of an asthma episode A system of differential equations describes the population dynamics of each one of the cells involved in an asthma episode. In asthmatic individuals, antigen presentation is thought to results in the polarization of T-cells towards a Th2 patterns whereas T cells from non atopic, non-asthmatic individuals show the opposing Th1 (interferon-γ and IL2) pattern of cytokine secretion A very complicated Network of cells (IL4, IL3, IL5, IL13- Cytokines, IgE – Immunoglobuline)Interacting and Competing.
45. Microscopicgenetic analysis of asthma incidence Bio-informatics of Asthma The multigenic nature of asthma has greatly hampered efforts to identify the specific genes involved. Genetic heterogeneity across populations, variability in disease expression, phenocopies and uncontrolled environmental influences confound the analysis of asthma and other complex genetic disorders.