Publications

The large majority of studies on job insecurity have focused upon the individual level. Recent research has also paid some attention to job insecurity at the level of the organisation, referred to as job insecurity climate. This research has shown negative relationships between job insecurity climate and employees' individual job attitudes. Nevertheless, in these studies no attention has been paid to organisational climate strength, in spite of ...

This paper gives an onset to whole building hygrothermal modelling in which the interaction between interior and exterior climates via building enclosures is simulated under a moderately cold and humid climate. The focus is particularly on the impact of wind-driven rain (WDR) on the hygrothermal response, mould growth at interior wall surfaces, indoor climate and energy consumption. First the WDR load on the facades of a 4×4×10 m3 tower is ...

The accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) becomes imperative in the planning and management of irrigation practices. The Penman-Monteith FAO 56 (PMF-56) model which incorporates thermodynamic and aerodynamic aspects is recommended for estimating ETo across the world. However, the use of the PMF-56 model is restricted by the unavailability of input climatic variables in many locations and the option is to use simple approaches ...

Global greenhouse gases increase could be a threat to sustainable agriculture since it might affect both green water and air temperature. Using the outputs of 15 general circulation models (GCMs) under three SRES scenarios of A1B, A2 and B1, the projected annual and seasonal precipitation (P) and cardinal temperatures (T) were analyzed for five climatic zones in Iran. In addition, the probable effects of climate change on cereal production were ...

The phenology of many species shows strong sensitivity to climate change; however, with few large scale intra-specific studies it is unclear how such sensitivity varies over a species’ range. We document large intra-specific variation in phenological sensitivity to temperature using laying date information from 67 populations of two co-familial European songbirds, the great tit ( Parus major ) and blue tit ( Cyanistes caeruleus ), covering a ...

This paper presents a study of the sensibility of evapotranspiration (ET) to climatic change in four types of climates (i.e., humid, cold semi-arid, warm semi-arid and arid). The use of a reference crop ET (ETo) permits the standardization of ET estimates across varying conditions. So, ETo was estimated with the FAO-56 Penman-Monteith equation using data from eight Iranian sites over a 41-year period (1965-2005). The sensitivity analyses were ...

There is evidence for early Pleistocene Homo in northern Europe, a novel hominin habitat. Adaptations enabling this colonisation are intriguing given suggestions that Homo exhibits physiological and behavioural malleability associated with a 'colonising niche'. Differences in body size/shape between conspecifics from different climates are well-known in mammals, could relatively flexible size/shape have been important to Homo adapting to cold ...