Reconstructions of the early thermal history of the H-chondrite parent body have focused on two competing hypotheses. The first posits an undisturbed thermal evolution in which the degree of metamorphism increases with depth, yielding an “onion-shell” structure. The second posits an early fragmentation–reassembly event that interrupted this orderly cooling process. Here, we test these hypothese...

Life history theory seeks to explain patterns of variation among geographically widespread populations of same species to understand their ecology and adaptations. To date, very few attempts have been made to review and compare life history traits of tropical reptiles, especially those that inhabit the Asian continent. Among tropical reptiles, the agamid lizard Calotes versicolor is widespread,...

Article history: Received 23 May 2015 Accepted 16 June 2015 Available online xxxx Weperformed thermal and constant voltage stress on oligothiophene-based p-type organic thin-film-transistors. The devices subjected to thermal stress without bias showed limited variations. The bias stress performed at 20 °C inducedmonotonic charge trapping, andmobility degradation. The devices subjected to simult...

We examine a database containing the results of Ar/Ar step-heating experiments performed on 194 basement K-feldspars to recover thermal history information. Qualitative examination of Ar/Ar systematics reveals that about half of the K-feldspars examined are sufficiently well-behaved to be suitable for thermal history analysis. Correlation algorithms are developed to quantitatively assess the de...

UNLABELLED The presence and growth of spoilage organisms in food might affect the shelf life. In this study, the effects of experimental, reproduction, and strain variabilities were quantified with respect to growth and thermal inactivation using 20 Lactobacillus plantarum strains. Also, the effect of growth history on thermal resistance was quantified. The strain variability in μmax was simila...

We examine a database containing the results of Ar/Ar step-heating experiments performed on 194 basement K-feldspars to recover thermal history information. Qualitative examination of Ar/Ar systematics reveals that about half of the K-feldspars examined are sufficiently well behaved to be suitable for thermal history analysis. Correlation algorithms are developed to quantitatively assess the de...

Mobile ectothermic animals can control their body temperatures by selecting specific thermal conditions in the environment, but embryos--trapped within an immobile egg and lacking locomotor structures--have been assumed to lack that ability. Falsifying that assumption, our experimental studies show that even early stage turtle embryos move within the egg to exploit small-scale spatial thermal h...