The spectral formulation of the stochastic finite-element method is applied to the problem of heat conduction in a random medium. Specifically, the conductivity of the medium, as well as its heat capacity are treated as uncorrelated random processes with spatial random fluctuations. Using the spectral stochastic finiteelement method, this paper analyzes the sensitivity of heat conduction proble...

BACKGROUND Age-related changes occur in both the peripheral and central nervous system, yet little is known about the influence of chronic pain on pain sensitivity in older persons. The aim of this study was to investigate pain sensitivity in elders with chronic neck pain compared to healthy elders. METHODS Thirty elderly women with chronic neck pain and 30 controls were recruited. Measures o...

In vitro sensitivity to porphyrin-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been examined in cell lines resistant to hyperthermia. Parental (HA-1) and heat-resistant (3012) Chinese hamster fibroblasts as well as parental (RIF-1) and temperature-resistant (TR-4, TR-5, and TR-10) mouse radiation-induced fibrosarcoma cells were evaluated for thermal and PDT sensitivity. Quantitative survival curves ...

Strains of Haemophilus influenzae that carry a defective prophage are more sensitive to heat than is a strain that does not, even in the presence of a rec-1 mutation, which normally renders prophage noninducible. The prophage of HP1c1, a nondefective phage, does not affect the heat sensitivity.

The work presented here applies deep learning to the task of automated cardiac auscultation, i.e. recognizing abnormalities in heart sounds. We describe an automated heart sound classification algorithm that combines the use of time-frequency heat map representations with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). Given the cost-sensitive nature of misclassification, our CNN architecture is tra...

The wMel strain of Wolbachia bacteria is known to prevent dengue and Zika virus transmission in the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. Accordingly, the release of wMel-infected A. aegypti in endemic regions has been recommended by the World Health Organization as a potential strategy for controlling dengue and Zika outbreaks. However, the utility of this approach could be limited if high temperatur...

Geothermal heat pumps are becoming more and more popular as the price of fossil fuels is increasing and a strong reduction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions is needed. The energy performances of these plants are closely related to the thermal and hydrogeological properties of the soil, but a proper design and installation also plays a crucial role. A set of flow and heat transport simulations has ...

The rapid advancement of numerical techniques and the availability of increasingly powerful supercomputers recently enabled scientists to use large eddy simulation (LES) to simulate numerically the flow in a full subassembly composed of wire-wrapped pins. Because of the extreme computational cost of such simulation, it was not possible to conduct a sensitivity case on the pin-wire interface mod...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the population of Fez and Casablanca in Morocco to dry white beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris) and to investigate the effect of food processing (heat and/or enzymatic hydrolysis by pepsin) on this sensitivity. Work was based on a bank consisting of 146 sera from patients with atopic hypersensitivity in order to evaluate specific immunoglobulin E...