Solar energy is the highly recognized energy source, capable of fulfilling the world’s future energy demands. The solar photovoltaic technology involves the unmediated transformation of sunlight into electricity. A little fraction is converted into electricity and the remaining gets exhausted as unused heat. This results in an increase in the operating temperature of the PV Panel. The conversio...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to describe the use of prescribed and non prescribed medicines in a non-institutionalised population older than 15 years of an urban area during the year 2000, in terms of age and gender, social class, employment status and type of Primary Health Care. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Information came from the 2000 Barcelona Health Interview Survey. T...

Nucleation and interface propagation criteria are derived with account for temperature variation in the course of phase transition (PT) and internal variables. A model problem concerning the nucleation of thin inclined infinite layer in a rigid-plastic half-space under prescribed normal and shear stresses is solved. Nontrivial effect of shear stress on the PT pressure is shown.

In this paper we investigate the similarity solutions of a plane mixed convection boundary layer flow near a semi-vertical plate, with a prescribed power law function of the distance from the leading edge for the temperature, that is embedded in a porous medium. We show the existence and uniqueness of convex and concave solutions for positive values of the power law exponent.

A 25-year-old woman presents with fever, rash, mild headache, and decreased appetite. About 1 week earlier, she had dysuria, urgency, and suprapubic pain. Trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) was prescribed, and the urinary tract symptoms quickly resolved. However, 3 days later, fever developed and her temperature has been gradually rising since then. She denies cough, sputum, urinary sympt...

Prescribed burning is a popular method for the control of invasive species; however, research is lacking on the application of fire in a species-specific manner. We assess whether heat sensitivity differences among seeds of Texas grassland species can be used to target invasive species in prescribed burns. We conducted heat treatments on the invasive yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum), an...

BACKGROUND We recently reported the derivation of a diagnostic aid to rule out pneumonia in adults presenting with new onset of cough or worsening of chronic cough and increased body temperature. The aim of the present investigation was to validate the diagnostic aid in a new sample of primary care patients. METHODS From two group practices in Zurich, we included 110 patients with the main sy...

An experimental study and a method for simulating the constitutive response of elastomers at temperatures in the chemorheological range (90–150 1C for natural rubber) are presented. A comprehensive set of uniaxial experiments for a variety of prescribed temperature histories is performed on natural rubber specimens that exhibit finite elasticity, entropic stiffening with temperature, viscoelast...

An unsteady mixed convection flow of Williamson nanofluid over a stretchable surface embedded in porous medium is scrutinized numerically. Here the characterized by Darcy Forchheimer model under influence magnetic field. Heat transfer analysis with two different conditions namely, prescribed temperature (PST) and heat flux (PHF) are taken into account. The evolved mathematical numerically solve...