Cryotherapy is a treatment modality that uses a technique to selectively freeze tissue and thereby cause controlled tissue destruction. The procedure involves placement of multiple small diameter probes through the perineum into the prostate tissue at selected spatial intervals. Transrectal ultrasound is used to properly position the cylindrical probes before activation of the liquid Argon cool...

In recent years, an increasing number of laboratories have been applying in situ heating (and ultimately, gas reaction) techniques in electron microscopy studies of catalysts and other nanophase materials. With the advent of aberration-corrected electron microscopes that provide sub-Angström image resolution, it is of great interest to study the behavior of materials at elevated temperatures wh...

Maintaining environmental stability in a dynamic system is a difficult challenge. In your living room, when you set your thermostat to 68 degrees the actual temperature cycles above and below 68 degrees. We attempt to use a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in an Aquarium Control System that reduces such environmental swings (see Figure 1).

The temperature responses of photosynthesis (A) and growth were examined in rice and wheat grown hydroponically under day/night temperature regimes of 13/10, 19/16, 25/19, 30/24 and 37/31 degrees C. Irrespective of growth temperature, the maximal rates of A were found to be at 30-35 degrees C in rice and at 25-30 degrees C in wheat. Below 25 degrees C the rates were higher in wheat, while above...

We analyze the Farey spin chain, a one dimensional spin system with effective interaction decaying like the squared inverse distance. Using a polymer model technique, we show that when the temperature is decreased below the (single) critical temperature Tc = 1 2 , the magnetization jumps from zero to one.

Tobacco processing practices of humidifying rooms with mist and using steam to soften cured leaf, raise relative humidity (r.h.) and temperature in the rooms during February to March, creating conditions suitable for Liposcelis entomophila multiplication. High r.h. values and high temperatures in these buildings corresponded with the annual peak in booklice numbers. The number of booklice trapp...

The activity of the enzyme adenylate cyclase, a component of the plasma membrane, has been determined in chick-embryo fibroblasts and in cells transformed by either Bryan high-titer strain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV-BH) or a temperature-sensitive mutant of this virus (RSV-BH-Ta). Adenylate cyclase activity is reduced in cells transformed by the wild-type virus and also by the temperature-sensit...