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Contrasting patterns of litterfall seasonality and seasonal changes in litter decomposability in a tropical rainforest region [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2014 The seasonality of litter inputs in forests has important implications for understanding ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles. We quantified the drivers of seasonality in litterfall and leaf decomposability using plots throughout the Australian ...
S. A. Parsons +3 more
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Seasonality of tuberculosis in the Republic of Korea, 2006-2016 [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2018 OBJECTIVES While the seasonality of notified tuberculosis has been identified in several populations, there is not a descriptive epidemiological study on the seasonality of tuberculosis in Korea.
Eun Hee Kim, Jong-Myon Bae
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Autoregression as a means of assessing the strength of seasonality in a time series
Population Health Metrics, 2003 Background The study of the seasonal variation of disease is receiving increasing attention from health researchers. Available statistical tests for seasonality typically indicate the presence or absence of statistically significant seasonality but do ...
Upshur Ross EG +3 more
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Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 2012 OBJECTIVE: Studies conducted mainly in countries located in the Northern Hemisphere have shown that season of birth influences mood seasonality. Greater mood seasonality has been observed for individuals born during spring/summer months than those born ...
Taciano L. Milfont +4 more
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The complex transmission seasonality of hand, foot, and mouth disease and its driving factors
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background The transmission rate seasonality is an important index for transmission dynamics in many childhood infections, and has been widely studied in industrialized countries. However, it has been neglected in the study of pathogens in China. Methods
Jijun Zhao, Xiangyu Hu
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Anthropogenic climate change has influenced global river flow seasonality
ScienceRiverine ecosystems have adapted to natural discharge variations across seasons. However, evidence suggesting that climate change has already impacted magnitudes of river flow seasonality is limited to local studies, mainly focusing on changes of mean or
Hong Wang +5 more
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Seasonality of riverine macroplastic transport
Scientific Reports, 2019 Marine plastic pollution is an increasing environmental threat. Although it is assumed that most marine plastics are transported from land to the ocean through rivers, only limited data on riverine plastic transport exists.
T. V. van Emmerik +4 more
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Cyprus as a winter destination. An exploratory study [PDF]
, 2012 Seasonal fluctuations of demand are regular in the Mediterranean islands. this could be attributed to the distinct qualities of island destinations, their vulnerability, peripherality, and isolation.
Kariopouli, S, Koutra, Christina
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Seasonality of childhood tuberculosis cases in Kampala, Uganda, 2010-2015. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundSeasonality in tuberculosis (TB) has been described, especially in children. However, few studies have assessed seasonality of TB in the equatorial region, and none in children.ObjectivesTo assess for seasonality of childhood TB cases in ...
Cattamanchi, Adithya +5 more
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Gestão & Produção, 2019 This study aims to present an alternative technique of exponential smoothing to estimate the demand for items with intermittent and seasonal demand. The usual technique would aggregate demand periods (months in quarters, for instance) to calculate a ...
Jorge Luiz de Biazzi
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