Thermal imaging warms up

Inflammation warms up the metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic Syndrome To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Hung et al1 claiming that activation of interleukin 18 (IL-18) is involved in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome. These data add to the mounting evidence describing association between circulating markers of vascular inflammation and features of metabolic syndrome, either alone or in combination.2 The potential clini...

Exercise warms adult leatherback turtles.

Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) can maintain body temperature (T(B)) up to 18 degrees C above that of the surrounding sea water (T(W)) which allows leatherbacks to enter cold temperate waters and have the largest global range of any reptile. Using a cylindrical model of a leatherback we investigated the extent to which heat production through variation of swim speed could be used...

SNMMI Leadership Update: SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting Warms Up in Orlando.

Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms.

E cologists have long sought to understand how vegetation relates to climate (1, 2). Such knowledge underlies effective mitigation and adaptation to contemporary climate change (3). Warming temperatures associated with anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases have led ecologists to predict that vegetation gradients will ‘‘march’’ up the hill as climate envelopes shift with elevation, at a la...

2. Thermal Imaging

111 The 3D visualization activity is implemented in software using the Open Inventor environment with the Silicon Graphics hardware technology. Textures can be realized through the use of three-component texture maps that include rgb values to specify characteristics in the texture coordinate (s,t) plane. In summary, this paper addresses the use of thermal imaging for 3D object characterization...