Laboratory studies and a single field study have shown that heart rate in some reptiles is faster during heating than during cooling at any given body temperature. This phenomenon, which has been shown to reflect changes in peripheral blood flow, is shown here to occur in the lizard Varanus varius (lace monitor) in the wild. On a typical clear day, lizards emerged from their shelters in the mor...

Necessary conditions for minimax problems with isolated or flat maxima are presented. Some relevant properties concerning the peak heating rate and the peak deceleration during atmospheric entry are discussed. As application of the theory, the problem of minimizing the peak heating rate of a skip trajectory is solved with special emphasis on the discussion of the continuity of the lift control ...

Sucrose hydrolysis reaction, catalysed by invertase under microwave irradiation was carried out in aqueous, isopropanol + water and polyethylene glycol + water system. The effect of conventional and microwave heating on the rate of hydrolysis was studied under a range of physical exposure conditions. The catalytic activity of invertase in aqueous and organic solvents were measured at different ...

Title of Document: ENERGETIC BIOCIDAL MATERIALS AND SPORE NEUTRALIZATION Wenbo Zhou, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor Michael R. Zachariah, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The objective of this dissertation is to explore a more accurate and versatile approach to investigating the neutralization of spores suffered ...

We perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the crystallization process in binary Lennard-Jones systems during heating and cooling to investigate atomic-scale crystallization kinetics in glass-forming materials. For the cooling protocol, we prepared equilibrated liquids above the liquidus temperature Tl and cooled each sample to zero temperature at rate Rc. For the heating protocol, we fi...

Effects of local skin temperature on sweat gland activity were analyzed quantitatively by measuring changes in the rates of thermal sweating and of drug-induced sweating by local heating. The data indicates that a rise in local temperature causes an accelerated increase in the rate of sweat production, the Q10 being around 2.5 regardless of the basal sweat rate with some individual variations. ...

The electron current density in nanoscale junctions is typically several orders of magnitude larger than the corresponding one in bulk electrodes. Consequently, the electron-electron scattering rate increases substantially in the junction. This leads to local electron heating of the underlying Fermi sea in analogy to the local ionic heating that is due to the increased electron-phonon scatterin...

ABSTRACT This paper presents a 2.45 GHz microwave cavity resonator with the novel dual function of both sensitive dielectric characterisation and directed, volumetric heating of fluids in a microfluidic chip. This method is shown to have a higher efficiency (>90 % for methanol), higher rate of heating and more accurate control than previous microfluidic microwave heating methods [1], [2]. The s...

We measure and characterize anomalous motional heating of an atomic ion confined in the lowest quantum levels of a novel rf ion trap that features moveable electrodes. The scaling of heating with electrode proximity is measured, and when the electrodes are cooled from 300 to 150 K, the heating rate is suppressed by an order of magnitude. This provides direct evidence that anomalous motional hea...

The mau requirements of arrcraft static tests are stated. The extent and effects of kinetx heating are described, and various methods of simulating and controlL.ng heatug In the laboratory are discussed. The further problem of kin&x cooling leads to the technique of heating and cooling by convection where the heating rate 1s low. Xecsurenents and test observations are d~s-cussed with reference ...