Some reading material to combat the winter cabin fever

[Gilberdyke John]

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Sounds thrilling

 

[user 6228]

Sounds thrilling

it is ...

 

[madasafish]

Sounds thrilling

Feynman was the best explainer of physics in his day. He brought it to life.

(But then I am biased having one oof his books at home and having trained as a physicist

I quote from Volume 1 2.1 Introduction:

"A few hundred years ago, a method was devised to find partial answers to such questions. Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. ......"

I commend the scientific method to all readers

 

[Finman]

I commend the scientific method to all readers

The all reader cannot understand what is scientific method. In this forum the term is a mere joke.

I have followed here, how difficult is to understand what means insulation. Or how difficult is to understand heat leaking or influence of wind.

IT is something outside of every day life.

Or if some one has studied in university, and even got a degree ready.... Ban him!... Or at least shoot him to legs. In Australia that game is called Poppy Cutting. In Finland it is called "Talents on your knees".

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[For want of a better word]

influence of wind

A little butterfly beats its wings in the frozen wastes of Finland... causes flooding in Cumbria?

Nos da

 

[Finman]

influence of wind

A little butterfly beats its wings in the frozen wastes of Finland... causes flooding in Cumbria?

Nos da

I have heard about that. What about when one million butterflyes move their wings?

In old days reason was "Evil Spirit".
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[user 6228]

some more reading
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Bogdan M., Hoerter J. & Moore F. (2005) Meeting the Insulation Requirements of the Building Envelope with Polyurethane and Polyisocyanurate Foam. J Cell Plast 41(1):41-56 doi:10.1177/0021955X05049869.
Buttemer W.A. (1985) Energy relations of winter roost-site utilization by American goldfinches (Cardue/is tristis). Oecologia (Berlin) 68:126-132 doi:10.1007/BF00379484.
Chen Y. et al. (2012) Nosema ceranae infection intensity highly correlates with temperature. Invertebrate Patholology 111(3):264-7 doi:10.1016/j.jip.2012.08.014.
Coombs A.B., Bowman J. & Garroway C.J. (2010) Thermal Properties of Tree Cavities During Winter in a Northern Hardwood Forest. J Wildlife Manage 74(8):1875–1881 doi:10.2193/2009-560.
Crane E. (1990) Bees and Beekeeping Heineman Oxford .
Cushman D. (2011) Drawings of Hives and Hive Parts. http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/britparts.html Accessed 11th January 2014.
de Jong D., Goncalves L.G. & Morse R.A. (1984) Dependence on climate of the virulence of Varroa jacobsoni. J Apicult Res 65(3):117-121.
Delaplane K.S., van der Steen J. & Guzman-Novoa E. (2013) Standard methods for estimating strength parameters of Apis mellifera colonies. J Apicult Res 52(1) doi:10.3896/IBRA.1.52.1.03.
Doull K.M. (1976) The Effects Of Different Humidities On The Hatching Of The Eggs Of Honeybees. Apidologie 7(1): 61 - 66 doi:10.1051/apido:19760104.
Erdogan Y. (2009) Some physiological characteristics of honeybee housed in heated fan Wooden and insulated beehives. Journal of Animal and Vetinary Advances 8(8):1516-1519.
Erickson E.H. (1990) Stress and Honey Bees. Gleanings in Bee Culture 118(11):650-654.
Even N., Devaud J.-M. & Barron A.B. (2012) General Stress Responses in the Honey Bee. Insects 3:1271-1298 doi:10.3390/insects3041271.
Flores J.M. (2011) Temperature and Climate in Chalkbrood disease presentation to Coloss commitee. http://www.uco.es/dptos/zoologia/Ap...mperature_and_climate _chalkbrood_disease.pdf Accessed 22nd January 2014.
Flores J.M. et al. (1996) Effect of temperature and humidity of sealed brood on chalkbrood development under controlled conditions. Apidologie 27(4):185–192 doi:10.1051/apido:19960401.
Fornito L., Lee R. & Tajchman S.J. (1982) Heat transfer models for nesting cavities. J Archives for meteorology, geophysics, and bioclimatology 30(3):271-282 doi:10.1007/BF02323367.
Franck P., Garnery L., Solignac M. & Cornuet J.-M. (1998) The Origin of West European Subspecies of Honeybees (Apis mellifera): New Insights from Microsatellite and Mitochondrial Data. Evolution 52(4):1119-1134 doi:10.1002/ece3.312.
Free J.B. & Racey P.A. (1968) The Effect Of The Size Of Honeybee Colonies On Food Consumption, Brood Rearing And The Longevity Of The Bees During Winter. Ent. exp. & appl. 11:241-249.
Furgalau B. & McCrutcheon D.M. (1992) Wintering Productive Colonies. The Hive and the HoneyBee, p.849.
Guzman-Novoa E., Eccles L., Yireli Calvete Y. & Mcgowan J. (2010) Varroa destructor is the main culprit for the death and reduced populations of overwintered honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in Ontario, Canada. Apidologie 41(4):443-450 doi:10.1051/apido/2009076.
Hagenmaier R.D. & Shaw P.E. (1992) Gas Permeability of Fruit Coating Waxes. Journal of American Society of Horticultural Science 117(1):105-109.
Hossam F.A. (2012) Tolerance of two honey bee races to various temperature and relative humidity gradients. Environmental and Experimental Biology 10(4):133–138.
Huang Z. (2012) Varroa Mite Reproductive Biology. American Bee Journal 140(10):981-985.
Human H., Nicolson W. & Dietemann, Vincent V. (2006) Do honeybees, Apis mellifera scutellata, regulate humidity in their nest? J Naturwissenschaften 93(8):397-401 doi:10.1007/s00114-006-0117-y.
Incopra, DeWitt, Bergman & Lavine (2006) Fundamentals of heat and Mass transfer John Wiley and sons
Kraus M. & Kubečková D. (2013) Airtightness of Energy Efficient Buildings. 1st Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering :29-35 doi:10.5176/2301-394X_ACE13.10.
Kraus B. & Velthuis H.H.W. (1997) High humidity in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) brood nest limits reproduction of the parasitic mite Varroa jacobsoni. Naturwissenschaften 84:217-218 doi:10.1007/s001140050382.
Lawrence M.G. (2005) The Relationship between Relative Humidity and the Dewpoint Temperature in Moist Air. American Meterological Society 86(2):225-233 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-86-2-225.
Linden P.F. (1999) The Fluid Mechanics of Natural ventilation. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech 31:201-238 doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.31.1.20.
Lin Y.J. & Xu Z.Y. (2013) Buoyancy-driven flows by a heat source at different levels. Int J Heat Mass Tran 58:312-321 doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.11.008.
Mayack C. & Naug D. (2008) Energetic stress in the honeybee Apis mellifera from Nosema ceranae infection. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 100(3):185–188 doi:10.1016/j.jip.2008.12.001.
Maziarz M. & Wesołowski T. (2013) Microclimate of tree cavities used by Great Tits (Parus major) in a primeval forest. Avian Biology Research 6(1):47-56 doi:10.3184/175815513X13611994806259.
Microchip Inc (n.d.) TCN75A 2-Wire Serial Temperature Sensor. http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21935D.pdf Accessed 11th January 2104.
Mlakar J. & Štrancar J. (2013) Temperature and humidity profiles in passive-house building blocks. Building and Environment 60:185-193 doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.11.018.
Olszewski K. (2007) Winter-Hardiness Of Buckfast Bees Under Specific Weather Conditions Of Areas Withalternating Influences Of Maritime And Continental Climate. Journal of Apicultural Science 51(1):73-82.
Owens C. (1971) The thermology of wintering honey bee colonies. U.S. Agricultural Research Service Technical bulletin 1429.
Ptáček V. (2000) How Many Individuals Survive Winter In Intact Colonies Of Apis Mellifera L. (Hymenoptera,Apidae)? Pszczelnicze zeszyty naukowe 44(2):15-22.
Seeley T.D. (1985) Honeybee Ecology Princeton University Press Princeton .
Seeley T.D. & Morse R.A. (1976) The nest of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Insect Soc 23:495-512 doi:10.1007/BF02223477.
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Southwick E.E. (1982) Metabolic energy of intact honeybee colonies. Comp BIiochem Phys B 71(2):277-281 doi:10.1016/0300-9629(82)90400-5.
Southwick E.E. (1985) Allometric relations, metabolism and heat conductance in clusters of honey bees at cool temperatures. J Comp Physiol B 156:143-149 doi:10.1007/BF00692937.
Stabenthiener A. (2010) Honeybee Colony Thermoregulation – Regulatory Mechanisms and Contribution of Individuals in Dependence on Age, Location and Thermal Stress. PloS One 5(1) doi: 0.1371/journal.pone.0008967.
Tamashbi G.H. (2009) The effect of temperature and humidity on grooming behaviour of honeybee. Journal of the Entomological Research Society Iran 28:7–23.
The Forest Products Laboratory (2010) The Wood handbook. Madison: USDA. pp.4-1 - 4-19.
Thorkelson J. & Maxwell R.K. (1974) Design and Testing of a Heat Transfer Model of a Raccon (Procyon Lotor) in a Closed Tree Den. Ecology 55(1):29-39 doi:10.2307/1934615.
Villa D.J. (2009) Overwintering of Russian honey bees in North Eastern Iowa. Science of bee culture 1(2):19-21.
Villumstad E. (1974) Importance if hive insulation for wintering, development and honey yield in Norway. Apiacta 9:277-281.
Williams G.R. (2013) Standard methods for maintaining adult Apis mellifera in cages under in vitro laboratory conditions. J Apicult Res 52(1) doi:10.3896/IBRA.1.52.1.04

 

[Hivemaker.]

Buttemer W.A. (1985) Energy relations of winter roost-site utilization by American goldfinches (Cardue/is tristis). Oecologia (Berlin) 68:126-132 doi:10.1007/BF00379484.

Found one thing of interest among that lot.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...ion_by_American_Goldfinches_Carduelis_tristis

 

[Swarm]

We need a tumbleweed emoticon.

 

[REDWOOD]

Not my cup of tea.

 

[Finman]

Not my cup of tea.

Your avatar reminds me about life style of modern young people. They live like Jesus.

They live with their mother up to age of 30 years, and if they do something after that, it is a miracle.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

Your avatar reminds me about life style of modern young people. They live like Jesus.

They live with their mother up to age of 30 years, and if they do something after that, it is a miracle.

Thanks, Finnie - that alone was worth switching the computer on today!

CVB

 

[REDWOOD]

Your avatar reminds me about life style of modern young people. They live like Jesus.

They live with their mother up to age of 30 years, and if they do something after that, it is a miracle.

I left home at 19, never looked back and everything I achieved was on my back and not on the back of others, i'm a great believer that one should stand on their own two feet when they reach adulthood although I think girls that age need protection in today's world

 

[clv101]

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

Remarkable books, read them 20 years ago. Great to see them freely available around the world now.