Various marine fishes, amphibians, and reptiles survive at temperatures several degrees below the freezing point of their body fluids by virtue of adaptive mechanisms that promote freeze avoidance or freeze tolerance. Freezing is avoided by a colligative depression of the blood freezing point, supercooling of the body fluids, or the biosynthesis of unique antifreeze proteins that inhibit the pr...

Laboratory research involving berries is a promising example of food-based cancer prevention. Berries contain many known chemopreventive agents such as anthocyanins and ellagitannins that can be greatly concentrated in freeze-dried berry powders. Based on our program of berry research, this commentary presents the first reported stepwise scheme for the preclinical and clinical development of fo...

Information security is a very important component in the context of an organization’s dependence on ICT. The operational environment where these technologies are operating is a very complex one. Offering a good level of protection by information security process needs a well defined managerial framework. This paper discusses the reasons why having a well defined managerial security framework i...

While many insects cannot survive the formation of ice within their bodies, a few species can. On the evolutionary continuum from freeze-intolerant (i.e., freeze-avoidant) to freeze-tolerant insects, intermediates likely exist that can withstand some ice formation, but not enough to be considered fully freeze tolerant. Theory suggests that freeze tolerance should be favored over freeze avoidanc...

We present a novel and generalised notion of doping cleanness for cyber-physical systems that allows perturbing the inputs observing perturbed outputs both in time- value-domains. instantiate our definition using existing notions conformance systems. As formal basis monitoring conformance-based cleanness, we develop temporal logic HyperSTL*, an extension Signal Temporal Logics with trace quanti...

Although efforts have been made to sample microorganisms from polar regions and to investigate a few of the properties that facilitate survival at freezing or subzero temperatures, soil communities that overwinter in areas exposed to alternate freezing and thawing caused by Foehn or Chinook winds have been largely overlooked. We designed and constructed a cryocycler to automatically subject soi...

To evaluate the effects of industrial by-products materials on the performance of porous concrete for plant growth, this study investigated the physical, strength, and freeze/thaw resistances of porous concrete for plant growth, prepared by replacing cement with blast furnace slag powder at 60% by weight, and replacing natural stone aggregates with coarse blast furnace slag aggregates at rates ...

In this talk we present a simple model describing the p⊥-spectra of various hadrons measured recently at RHIC. Our approach combines the thermal model, used frequently in the studies of the relative hadron yields [1-10], with a model of the hydrodynamic expansion of matter at freeze-out. The main assumptions of the model are as follows [11-13]: First of all, we assume that the chemical freeze-o...