Following up the effects of climate change in urban areas in the previous chapter, this chapter gives an inventory of the possible measures to improve urban areas in relation to thermal comfort.Many adaptation measures to improve thermal comfort also adress other climate hr cable adaptation aspects such as water nuisance and draught.This inventory

Members Sifters and Sieves of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are an important cause of opportunistic or nosocomial infections that may be hard to treat due to a high incidence of multidrug resistance.We characterised a collection of 51 clinical isolates from this complex, assigning them to 18 sequence types using multi-locus sequence type a

Brazil is one of the centers of diversity of Cactaceae, yet studies addressing both pollination biology and the breeding system in Brazilian cacti are scarce.We herein present a detailed analysis of two native species with economic relevance: Cereus hildmannianus and Pereskia aculeata.The first species produce edible, sweet, spineless fruits and th

Due to the dynamism of topology, sharing of bandwidth and constraint of resources in wireless nodes, the provision of quality of service (QoS) for routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) presents a great challenge.Security is another crucial aspect of providing QoS since the existence of malicious nodes present all kinds of threats to MANETs.Alt