Libbrecht and Libbrecht recently described a thermoelectric temperature controller for which they claimed an absolute accuracy of 100 mK. They did not specify the heat-dissipation coefficient for their thermistor temperature sensor-which would dissipate more power than is usual in such circuits- nor make any allowance for self-heating in the thermistor. Self-heating can be expected to have intr...

where s,z(u) is the local-equilibrium entropy, T the local-equilibrium absolute temperature, q the heat flux, A, Some of the most basic questions in nonequilibrium thermodynamics are those concerning the fundamental thermodynamic concepts, namely, the definition and meaning of entropy and of absolute temperature out of equilibrium. Most of the nonequilibrium thermodynamic theories have assumed ...

The absolute temperature T has a recognized physical meaning in equilibrium thermodynamics. The scale realized by the closely related Lagrange coefficient  usually figures as an auxiliary scale. In this article, the scale spanned by  is a proper intensive thermal quantity for equilibrium and, suitably generalized, for stationary non-equilibrium state description. The coefficient  measures a...

In this study, we applied two stringency control strategies for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection of DNA hybridization and discrimination of completely and partially complementary 24-mer sequences. These sequences are specific to the human normal bcr and the hybrid bcr-abl genes, protein products of which are responsible for some leukemia. SPR sensors based on resonance phenomena in nan...

This brief presents a 0.65% relative inaccuracy CMOS temperature sensor with duty-cycle-modulated (DCM) output. It uses BJT-based front-end to generate proportional absolute voltage ( V PTAT ) and complementary xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">CTAT ), which are then modulated dig...

Epoxides have many primary and secondary atmospheric sources. As with other oxygenates, they exhibit a complex temperature-dependent reaction OH, whose full description is necessary in order to understand their interactions combustion environments. We measured the kinetics of title using two complementary absolute methods: pulsed-laser photolysis–laser-induced fluorescence (PLP–LIF) discharge-f...