A method for assembling Drosophila embryos in a microfluidic device was developed for studies of thermal perturbation of early embryonic development. Environmental perturbation is a complimentary method to injection of membrane-impermeable macromolecules for assaying genetic function and investigating robustness in complex biochemical networks. The development of a high throughput method for pe...

We revisit the dynamics of the curvaton in detail taking account of effects from thermal environment, effective potential and decay/dissipation rate for general field values and couplings. We also consider the curvature perturbation generated through combinations of various effects: large scale modulation of the oscillation epoch, the effective dissipation rate and the timing at which the equat...

The zero momentum limit of thermal self-energies calculated in perturbation theory depends on the order in which the time and the space components of the momentum are taken to zero. We show that this is an artifact of the perturbative calculation, and in fact the limit is well-defined when higher orders of the perturbation expansion are properly taken into account. The existing calculations of ...

Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature is rewritten as a theory of plasmons which provides a Hamiltonian framework for perturbation theory with resummation of hard thermal loops.

We present a numerical integration of the cosmological scalar perturbation equations in warm inflation. The initial conditions are provided by a discussion of the thermal fluctuations of an inflaton field and thermal radiation using a combination of thermal field theory and thermodynamics. The perturbation equations include the effects of a damping coefficient Γ and a thermodynamic potential V ...

The problem of small UAVs flight optimization is considered. To solve this problem thermal updrafts are used. For the precise detection of the thermal updrafts center the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) type algorithm is proposed. If UAVs use thermal updrafts so they can save the energy during the flight. Therefore the flight time will be vary for different UAVs. In or...

We show that the unexpected chirality of aggregated structures based on an uncharged achiral porphyrin system originates from small temperature gradients that act as an asymmetrical physical perturbation; the consequent thermal force gives rise to the thermophoretic motion of the aggregates. We establish that the induced optical activity can be controlled, and even vanished, by minimizing the t...

In this article, magneto-thermo-elastic stresses and perturbation of magnetic field vector are analyzed for a thick-walled cylinder made from polystyrene, reinforced with functionally graded (FG) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in radial direction, while subjected to an axial and uniform magnetic field as well as a transient thermal field. Generalized plane strain state is considered in...

The pressure of a system in thermal equilibrium is expressed as a mass integral over a sum of thermal propagators. This allows a Dyson resummation and is used to demonstrate that potential infrared divergences are rendered harmless. The perturbative treatment of finite-temperature quantum field theories involving massless bosonic fields always faces infrared divergences starting at a certain lo...