Abstract Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, leading to an increase in direct, adverse thermoregulatory impacts on wildlife. Here, we document unprecedented, single-day, heat-related mortality event of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) at Punta Tombo, Chubut Province, Argentina, one the largest breeding colonies for this species. We found 264 dead adults 90...

Flow sensors are the key elements in most systems for monitoring and controlling fluid flows. With the introduction of MEMS thermal flow sensors, unprecedented performances, such as ultra wide measurement ranges, low power consumptions and extreme miniaturization, have been achieved, although several critical issues have still to be solved. In this work, a systematic approach to the design of i...

Every discussion of quantum computing starts with wave-particle duality, to explain how qubits differ from bits. But what if duality were wrong? How would we then? A little-known science called the Theory Elementary Waves (TEW) says that particles follow zero-energy waves backwards. Wave-particle cannot be true and travel in opposite directions. This article proposes first-ever TEW theory circu...

Big Data analytics applications such as social network analysis and web analysis have revolutionized modern computing. The processing demand posed by an unprecedented amount of data challenges both industrial practitioners and academia researchers to design and implement highly efficient and scalable system infrastructures. Unfortunately, Big Data processing is fundamentally limited by memory i...

The low-energy demonstration accelerator (LEDA) is an operational 6.7-MeV, 100-mA, cw proton accelerator consisting of an injector, radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), and all associated integration equipment. Achieving this unprecedented level of performance (670kW of beam power) from an RFQ required a number of design innovations. We highlight a number of those more-significant technical advanc...