• acclimate the way that they do. The nouns acclimatization and acclimation (and the corresponding verbs acclimatize and acclimate) are widely regarded as synonymous...
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    of Mount Everest. When pO2 drops, the body responds with altitude acclimatization. The International Society for Mountain Medicine recognizes three altitude...
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    eventually outstrips acclimatization. As a result, no permanent human habitation occurs above 6,000 metres (20,000 ft). A period of acclimatization is necessary...
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  • Acclimatisation is the process by which the nervous system fails to respond to a stimulus, as a result of the repeated stimulation of a transmission across...
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    Highway 318. Climbers typically rest at base camp for several days for acclimatization, to reduce the risk of altitude sickness. The Everest Base Camp trek...
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    The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America...
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  • societies in New Zealand American Acclimatization Society Queensland Acclimatisation Society South Australian Acclimatization and Zoological Society Keller...
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    breathes more deeply and more frequently. But acclimatization requires days or even weeks. Failure to acclimatize may result in altitude sickness, including...
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    Thermoelectric acclimatization depends on the possibility of a Peltier cell of absorbing heat on one side and rejecting heat on the other side. Consequently...
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  • heavily depends upon the route, as routes vary considerably in terms of acclimatization profile and climb duration.[citation needed] Kilimanjaro has a number...
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  • days for acclimatization. New workers without recent exposure to heat may require additional time to adjust. On the first day of an acclimatization process...
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    will affect most climbers to some extent, depending on the degree of acclimatization. Although the normal climb is technically easy, multiple casualties...
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  • York Zoological Society. In 1877, he became chairman of the American Acclimatization Society and joined their efforts to introduce non-native species to...
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    the skin to radiate heat. This condition occurs within five days of acclimatization to higher temperatures, before the blood volume expands. The result...
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    Prague and keeps a core herd in its Przewalski's Horse Breeding and Acclimatization Facility in Dolní Dobřejov (Střezimíř municipality). The management...
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    Base Camp ranges from 1.5 to 2.5 hours, depending on the weather, acclimatization and physical conditioning of each individual. At this altitude, few...
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    travellers need two days to reach the village of Namche Bazaar, an altitude-acclimatization stop for those continuing on. The airport has 527 (1,729 feet) meters...
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  • blood and excrete bicarbonate into the urine. This is important in acclimatization to high altitude. The kidneys measure the oxygen content rather than...
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    in a brutalist style with heavy emphasis on the use of concrete and acclimatization to the Israel's desert climate. Several novel ideas such as the Garden...
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    lenses necessary for this effect would have required six weeks of acclimatization to wear them, so Hitchcock decided to forgo them. It is often claimed...
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    left tributary and Kabardino-Balkaria were unsuccessful. A successful acclimatization occurred in Belarus, where three introductions (consisting of 52, 37...
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    from the parent tree to be considered new cultivars. Apples have been acclimatized in Ecuador at very high altitudes, where they can often, with the needed...
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    organizations introducing the soybean to France were the Society of Acclimatization (starting in 1855) and Li Yu-ying (from 1910). Li started a large tofu...
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  • typical of HACE deaths. Most people who travel to high altitudes acclimatize. Acclimatization precludes the development of HACE by maintaining adequate levels...
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    and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Andrews, A. C. 1961. Acclimatization of citrus fruits in the Mediterranean region. Agricultural History...
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    effective cooling. People inhabiting tropical and subtropical climates acclimatize somewhat to higher dew points. Thus, a resident of Singapore or Miami...
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  • has been a great deal of research done on developmental adjustment, acclimatization, and cultural practices, but less research on genetic adaptations to...
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    (one who takes part in the Haskalah) would write about and promote acclimatization to the outside world. Jewish children began attending secular schools...
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    Batavia, the Europeans' graveyard: the nineteenth-century debate on acclimatization in the Dutch East Indies J Hist Med Allied Sci 2012; volume 67, issue...
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    cacti need higher light levels to produce strong growth, although acclimatization is needed to conditions in a greenhouse, such as higher temperatures...
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