Riboflavin (RF), also known as vitamin B2, belongs to the class of water-soluble vitamins and is widely present in a variety of food products. It is sensitive to light and high temperature, and therefore, needs a consideration of these factors for its stability in food products and pharmaceutical preparations. A number of other factors have also been identified that affect the stability of RF. ...

Variation in physical factors, such as slope, orientation, and wind exposure, shapes thermal conditions. Variation in substrate size is common in many habitats, but its thermal consequences for organisms are not well characterized. Larger substrates should remain more thermally stable and act as thermal refuges for associated organisms during short, thermally stressful periods such as midday te...

Increased power density, hot-spots, and temperature gradients are severe limiting factors for today’s state-of-the-art microprocessors. However, the flexibility offered by the multiple cores in future Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) results in a great opportunity for controlling the chip thermal characteristics. When a process is to be assigned to a core, a thermal-aware scheduling policy may be in...

This paper presents a comprehensive thermal scaling analysis of multilevel interconnects in deep nanometer scale CMOS technologies based on technological, structural, and material data from ITRS ’03 [1]. Numerical simulations have been performed using three-dimensional (3-D) electrothermal finite element methods (FEM), combined with accurate calculations of temperatureand size-dependent Cu resi...

AIMS To review the thermal effects of MDMA in humans, and discuss the practical implications. METHODS The literature on Ecstasy/MDMA, body temperature, and subjective thermal self-ratings was reviewed, and explanatory models for the changes in thermal homeostasis were examined and debated. RESULTS In human placebo-controlled laboratory studies, the effects of MDMA were dose related. Low dos...

The innate immune system is comprised of many components that function coordinately to prevent bacterial sepsis. However, thermal injury suppresses many of these factors, and the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa takes advantage of this condition, making it one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the setting of thermal injury. P. aeruginosa is extremely efficient at ...