The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of thermal challenge at different intensities and durations on the production responses of 3 to 21-day-old broiler chickens. Two hundred and ten Cobb chicks were subjected to dry-bulb temperatures (tdb) of 27, 30, 33, or 36°C for the duration of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 days from the second day of life onwards. The experiment was carried out in four...

Recent research has demonstrated distinct advantages of using thermal infrared imaging for improving face recognition performance. While conventional video cameras sense reflected light, thermal infrared cameras primarily measure emitted radiation from objects such as faces. Visible and thermal infrared image data collections of frontal faces have been on-going at NIST for over two years, produ...

Theoretical and laboratory studies generally show that ectotherm performance increases with temperature to an optimum, and subsequently declines. Several physiological mechanisms probably shape thermal performance curves, but responses of free-ranging animals to temperature variation will represent a compromise between these mechanisms and ecological constraints. Thermal performance data from w...

Energy, power and resilience are the major challenges that the HPC community faces in moving to larger supercomputers. Data centers worldwide consumed energy equivalent to 235 billion kWh in 2010. A significant portion of that energy and power consumption is devoted to cooling. This thesis proposes a scheme based on a combination of limiting processor temperatures using Dynamic Voltage and Freq...

In modern computing facilities, higher and higher operating temperatures are due to the employment of powerhungry devices, hence the need for cost-effective heat dissipation solutions to guarantee proper operating temperatures. Within this context, dynamic thermal management techniques (DTM) can be highly beneficial in proactively control heat dissipation, avoiding overheating. The largescale a...

The increasing power and reduced die size of CPUs used in computers increases a need for significantly improved thermal interface materials (TIM). The TIM is used to reduce contact resistance at the CPU-heat sink interface. This work provides a state-of-the-art assessment on “thermal interface materials,” including fundamentals, materials used, their performance, and how interface resistance is...

Scope NVTherm (Night Vision Thermal Imaging System Performance Model) is a PC based computer program which models parallel scan, serial scan, and staring thermal imagers that operate in the mid and far infrared spectral bands (3 to 12 micrometers wavelength). The model can only be used for thermal imagers which sense emitted, infrared light. NVTherm predicts the Minimum Resolvable Temperature D...

Although thermal performance is widely recognised to be pivotal in determining species' distributions, assessment of this performance is often based on laboratory-acclimated individuals, neglecting their proximate thermal history. The thermal history of a species sums the evolutionary history and, importantly, the thermal events recently experienced by individuals, including short-term acclimat...

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Thermal analysis for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) optics (the primary mirror segment, the secondary mirror, and the tertiary mirror) was performed using finite element analysis in ANSYS and I-DEAS. In the thermal analysis, each of the optical assemblies (mirror, mirror supports, cell) was modeled for various thermal conditions including air convections, conductions, heat flux loadings, and ...