Cooling is one of several reversible methods used to inactivate local regions of the brain. Here the effect of cooling was studied in the primary visual cortex (area 17) of anaesthetized and paralyzed cats. When the cortical surface temperature was cooled to about 0 degrees C, the temperature 2 mm below the surface was 20 degrees C. The lateral spread of cold was uniform over a distance of at l...

We analyzed the cooling phase of an x-ray superburst of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 using different models in XSPEC software. Our goal was to find the behavior of certain properties of the neutron star, e.g. radius and temperature, and to find the chemical composition of the neutron star atmosphere. We tried 6 different models for the cooling phase of the superburst and found that the ...

Objectives: The consumption of electricity and its costs are expected to be increased in Saudi Arabia due to its rapid growth in population. As the Kingdom is characterized by extreme hot climate, a massive amount of electricity consumed by the residential sector goes to power air conditioners. To control this huge amount of energyconsumedin homes, thermal models have been generated with two or...

Effects of peripheral and central thermoreceptor reflexes on sympathetic nerve activity to the skin (SkNA) and kidney (RNA) were compared in anesthetized cats. Sudden warming of the skin produced a rapid increase of RNA, wheras sudden cooling produced a rapid increase of SkNA. When the bath temperature (TB) was 17.6, 29.7, and 41.9 degrees C, the normalized SkNA was 100, 82, and 48%, while the ...

We propose a method that uses off-the-shelf binary classifiers and combines them in real-time to achieve quality, time, and cost characteristics that satisfy user-provided constraints; moreover, it shares intermediate computation (e.g., features, classifiers, kernels) between classes to reduce time and cost. An important distinction between this approach and others is that the primary focus of ...

Gravity-dominated systems have a negative specific heat. We investigate the negative specific heat of self-gravitating systems enclosed in a spherical container with reflecting walls by means of N-body simulations. To simulate nonequilibrium processes, a particle reflected at a nonadiabatic wall is cooled to mimic energy loss by reflecting walls, while an adiabatic wall is employed for microcan...