to design equipment and facilities to dry, preserve and process pomegranates, it is necessary to know their specific heat and thermal conductivity. the objectives of this study were to determine the specific heat and thermal conductivity of pomegranates and develop mathematical estimation models for them. the effects of moisture content (15-75% w.b.) and temperature (5-20°c) on the thermal prop...

PURPOSE Because monopolar radiofrequency energy has a denaturing effect on the glenohumeral joint capsule during thermal capsulorraphy, we hypothesized that thermal treatment would have a deleterious effect on the mechanoreceptors present within the capsule, thereby affecting proprioception and function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate proprioception and function following thermal cap...

In this paper, we develop an accurate dynamic thermal management DTM approach considering the interdependency of temperature and leakage. By modeling the leakage-thermal interdependence as a quadratic polynomial, we develop accurate analytical equations that capture the thermal transient. We also identify all the situations in which thermal runaway would occur, which should be avoided by DTM. W...

Severe burn injury can result in dramatic changes in human physiology and biochemistry. Aberrant responses, hypersensitivity and potentially lethal hyperkalemia to depolarising [1,2] and hyposensitivity to non-depolarising [2,3] muscle relaxants have been noted in burn trauma. The molecular basis of these responses is currently thought to be due to an increase in nicotinic acetylcholine recepto...

The far western Aleutian Island Arc is actively colliding with Kamchatka. Westward motion of the Aleutian Arc is brought about by the tangential relative motion of the Pacific plate transferred to major, right-lateral shear zones north and south of the arc. Early geologic mapping of Cape Kamchatka (a promontory of Kamchatka along strike with the Aleutian Arc) revealed many similarities to the g...

This paper investigates the growth-corruption relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period 1984-2009 using panel generalized method of moments. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to examine the effects by employing the hierarchical polynomial regression to evaluate the relationship after controllin...

The thermal conductivity of a solid thin film was investigated by using two nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) methods and changing the calculation conditions. Solid argon was selected as a target material because it has a typical Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential; hence, there was no need to consider the contribution by free electrons to a thermal conductivity. The results were not influence...