Satellite remote sensing offers a convenient way to monitor changes in the thermal budgets of Earth’s subaerially active volcanoes. By using data acquired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer, we have calculated the amount of heat released into the atmosphere by 45 volcanoes active during 2001 and 2002, in order to quantify the co...

The IT industry is the fastest growing sector in US energy consumption. Improving data center energy efficiency is a pressing issue with significant economic and environmental consequences. Heat distribution is a key operational parameter that affects data center cooling and energy consumption. However, typical data centers lack effective finegrained sensing systems to monitor heat distribution...

This paper presents the thermal analysis of cyclic compression experiments which were carried out on commercial PC and PMMA cylindrical specimens. The thermal problem is solved numerically (®nite element). Uniform internal heat generation is assessed from the experimental evolution of the hysteretic energy rate throughout the experiment. The results show a very good agreement between the calcul...

In RFID reader systems, power amplifier plays a critical rule for efficiency enhancement. A high efficiency power amplifier may not only increase the life expectancy of portable RFID devices but also reduce the reliance on heat sinks. Heat sinks usually occupy plenty of space and lead to packing difficulties. A well-designed power amplifier with high efficiency and output power may also increas...

Subsurface heterogeneity in hydraulic properties and processes is a fundamental challenge in hydrogeology. We have developed an improved method of borehole dilution testing for hydrostratigraphic characterization, in which distributed temperature sensing (DTS) is used to monitor advective heat movement. DTS offers many advantages over conventional technologies including response times in the or...

Previously, air blowing or heating techniques has been used for presentation of the scents. As a consequence, the scents of lowvolatile substances are difficult to be released at an acceptable speed. Also, the effect from heat to the nearby environment cannot be avoided. In this research, we proposed an olfactory display using miniaturized electroosmotic pumps and a surface acoustic wave device...

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Studies have shown that long-term (5alpha,6alpha)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol (morphine) treatment increases the sensitivity to painful heat stimuli (thermal hyperalgesia). The cellular adaptations contributing to sustained morphine-mediated pain sensitization are not fully understood. It was shown previously (J Neurosci 22:6747-6755, 2002) that sustained morphine exposu...