The oxidation of acid-soluble calf skin collagen type I caused by metal-dependent free radical generating systems, Fe(II)/H2O2 and Cu(II)/H2O2, was found to bring down in a specific, discrete way the collagen thermal stability, as determined by microcalorimetry and scanning densitometry. Initial oxidation results in splitting of the collagen denaturational transition into two components. Along ...

In this paper we proposed a thermal-aware scheduling algorithm for peak temperature reduction with stochastic workloads. The proposed approach consists of two steps. The first step constructs a job sequence based on the mean of the execution time of each job; and the constructed job sequence interleaves the execution of hot jobs and cool jobs. The hot job pushes up the chip temperature while th...

This paper proposes an aggregation-based model reduction method for nonlinear models of multi-zone building thermal dynamics. The full-order model, which is already a lumped-parameter approximation, quickly grows in state space dimension as the number of zones increases. An advantage of the proposed method, apart from being applicable to the nonlinear thermal models, is that the reduced model o...

Future gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) such as Advanced LIGO upgrades and the Einstein Telescope are planned to operate at cryogenic temperatures using crystalline silicon (cSi) test-mass mirrors at an operation wavelength of 1550 nm. The reduction in temperature in principle provides a direct reduction in coating thermal noise, but the presently used coating stacks which are composed of si...

The well-known increase of the decoherence rate with the temperature, for a quantum system coupled to a linear thermal bath, no longer holds for a different bath dynamics. This is shown by means of a simple classical nonlinear bath, as well as a quantum spin-boson model. The anomalous effect is due to the temperature dependence of the bath spectral profile. In the case of the second model, a li...

We present an algorithm that prepares thermal Gibbs states of one dimensional quantum systems on a quantum computer without any memory overhead, and in a time significantly shorter than other known alternatives. Specifically, the time complexity is dominated by the quantity N(‖h‖/T), where N is the size of the system, ‖h‖ is a bound on the operator norm of the local terms of the Hamiltonian (co...

Microwaves have been used to cause thermal destruction of various pathogens by heating the substrate they are found on. It has been found that microwaves also cause non-thermal destruction of bacterial cells thereby reducing the cellular population. The method to detect the non-thermal killing effects of microwaves is one of the highlight of the study undertaken. This has been an originally dev...

Resurfacing arthroplasty of the hip is being used increasingly as an alternative to total hip replacement, especially for young active patients. There is concern about necrosis of the femoral head after resurfacing which can result in fracture and loosening. Most systems use a cemented femoral component, with the potential for thermal necrosis of the cancellous bone of the reamed femoral head. ...

We studied how the period length and the mass ratio affect the thermal conductivity of isotopic nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) phononic crystal of Si. Simulation results by equilibrium molecular dynamics show isotopic nanoscale 3D phononic crystals can significantly reduce the thermal conductivity of bulk Si at high temperature (1000 K), which leads to a larger ZT than unity. The thermal cond...