Do insect larvae ever self-heat significantly from their own metabolic activity and, if so, under what sets of environmental temperatures and across what ranges of body size? We examine these questions using larvae of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus), chosen for their large size (>20g), simple body plan, and underground lifestyle. Using CO2 respirometry, we measured larval...

In self-emulsification higher-energy micrometre and sub-micrometre oil droplets are spontaneously produced from larger ones and only a few such methods are known. They usually involve a one-time reduction in oil solubility in the continuous medium via changing temperature or solvents or a phase inversion in which the preferred curvature of the interfacial surfactant layer changes its sign. Here...

The attenuation of VLF signals from lightning and ground-based VLF transmitters during transionospheric propagation has been the subject of recent interest, as discrepancies have been found between satellite data and model calculations. Previous modeling efforts, however, have not considered the self-absorption effect due to nonlinear heating and ionization in the lower ionosphere. A self-consi...

A mathematical model was developed to predict the self-heating and self-ignition processes of relatively dry biomass during storage, considering in detail effects moisture exchange behaviour, low-temperature oxidation reaction associated heat mass transfer. Basket heating tests on fir pellets powder at temperatures 180–200 °C were conducted observe process determine kinetics chemical for valida...

in this study, we have theoretically investigated the effect of electron stopper layer on internal temperature distribution of high performance vertical cavity surface-emitting laser emitting at 1305 nm.  simulation software pics3d, which self-consistently combines the 3d simulation of carrier transport, self-heating, gain computation and wave-guiding, was used. simulation results show that cha...

This thesis presents experimental work performed to develop a sensitive screening test procedure for biomass pellets, using isothermal calorimetry for direct measurement of the heat production rate. This method can be used to directly compare the reactivity, that is how prone the fuel is to self-heating, of different batches of biomass pellets. The results could be used for safety assessment by...

This work demonstrates that excess hot-carrier currents in SO1 MOSFETs are caused by self-heating. Self-heating-free Ism data should be used for dynamic lifetime extrapolation due to long thermal time constant. The underlying mechanism, increased impact ionization with temperature at low drain bias, is studied experimentally from the angle of thermal activation energy. Our study indicates that ...

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...