the molecular dynamic technique was used to simulate the nano-indentation test on the thin films of silver, titanium, aluminum and copper which were coated on the silicone substrate. the mechanical properties of the selected thin films were studied in terms of the temperature. the temperature was changed from 193 k to 793 k with an increment of 100 k. to investigate the effect of temperature on...

Physical characteristics of different features in desert is a reflection of severe thermal and climatic conditions. In this paper, diurnal surface temperature patterns of important surface features in Lut Desert were studied and the relationship among different surfaces analyzed. Diurnal trend in surface temperature of surface types, marl, dark sand, light sand, salt-affected soil, soul at 10 c...

Extreme temperatures restrict the performance of terrestrial arthropods and variations in low temperatures on a latitudinal scale influence physiological variables. Recovery time from chill coma is a measure of cold tolerance and it is a good index of climatic adaptation. We tested differences in recovery time of the common woodlouse (Porcellio laevis) exposed to different thermal conditions. I...

As with clinical studies, health economic studies vary in scope and quality. Their usefulness for decision and policy making is linked to their methodological rigor, accuracy, and generalizability. Thus, critical appraisal is important to put the results in the context of study quality. Economic evaluations identify and compare appropriate alternatives of care, their incremental impact on healt...

[1] Quantifying temperature trends across multiple decades in Alaska is an essential component for informing policy on climate change in the region. However, Alaska’s climate is governed by a complex set of drivers operating at various spatial and temporal scales, which we posit should result in a sensitivity of trend estimates to the selection of reference start and end dates as well as the ch...

A Fetch&Inc object stores a non-negative integer and supports a single operation, fi, that returns the value of the object and increments it. Such objects are used in many asynchronous shared memory algorithms, such as renaming, mutual exclusion, and barrier synchronization. We present an efficient implementation of a wait-free Fetch&Inc object from registers and load-linked/store-conditional (...