This thesis consists of the description of a series of experiments with cold imidogen(nitrogen monohydride) molecules in helium buffer gas. Much of this volume will befocused on the technological development of the apparatus and technique for makingand trapping cold molecules, which was the focus of my graduate work. The resultswill focus on measurements made on the physics of c...

Many persons world wide are exposed to cold environments, either indoors for example in cold stores, or outdoors. Cold is a hazard to health and may affect safety and performance of work. Basis for the creation of safe and optimal working conditions may be obtained by the application of relevant international standards. ISO 11079 presents a method for evaluation of whole body heat balance. On t...

in the present study, the mechanical behavior of aa5052 aluminum alloy during cold deformation and subsequent isothermal annealing in a temperature range of 225-300oc was investigated using the uniaxial tensile test data. it is found that by increasing the annealing time and temperature the material yield strength is decreased. the microstructural investigations of the annealed samples show tha...

natural convective heat transfer of nano-fluid in porous media is present in many advanced engineering applications. in this work, this problem has been computationally simulated, using lbm. the configuration used includes a cold exterior region and hot interior cylinders with one-, two-, or three-cylinder arrangements. however, the effective area for heat transfer has been kept the same for al...

Surface roughness is the main indicator of technological performances of a component for electrical discharge machining (EDM). EDM process of manganese alloyed cold-work tool steel was modelled. In this paper we used the fuzzy logic (FL) and neural network (NN) to predict the effect of machining variables (discharge current and pulse duration) on the surface roughness of manganese alloyed cold-...

The cooling of molecules during the adiabatic expansion of supersonic seeded molecular beams is reviewed and illustrated by the example of NO -molecules. The reduction of the Doppler width by collimation of the beam and the cooling to low rotational temperatures brings a significant simplification of the complex NO -absorption spectrum and allows its assignment. The measured rotational tem...

The aim of the present work was to examine the relationship between proline metabolism and NAD kinase activity in greenbeans submitted to cold-shock. For this, 15-day-old greenbean plants were subjected to a temperature of 4 degrees C (cold shock) for 180 min. Our results indicate that the plants showed foliar accumulation of proline, with the enzymes ornithine-delta-aminotransferase (OAT) and ...