This study attempts to predict the potential cost savings of employing ice thermal storage (ITS) systems in the office buildings cooling application in Malaysia over the next 20 years. During the past decades, huge amount of daytime peak power has been shifted to the off-peak hours by using cool thermal energy storage (CTES) systems around the world. However, the contribution of CTES systems in...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to establish whether sensory factors associated with cold-beverage ingestion exert an ergogenic effect on endurance performance independent of thermoregulatory or cardiovascular factors. METHODS Ten males performed three trials involving 90 min of steady state cycling (SS; 62% VO2max) in the heat (32.1 ± 0.9 °C, 40 ± 2.4% relative humidity) followed by a ...

Hydrogen storage is one of the most addressed issues in the green-economy field. The latest-discovered form of ice (XVII), obtained by application of an annealing treatment to a H2-filled ice sample in the C0-phase, could be inserted in the energy-storage context due to its surprising capacity of hydrogen physisorption, when exposed to even modest pressure (few mbars at temperature below 40 K),...

Plasma concentrations of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are raised in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Measurement of this peptide has a potential diagnostic role in the identification and assessment of patients with heart failure. The stability of this peptide over time periods and conditions pertaining to routine clinical practice has not been reported previou...

Changes in snow and ice conditions are some of the most distinctive impacts of global warming in cold temperate and Arctic regions, altering the environment during a critical period for survival for most animals. Laboratories studies have suggested that reduced ice cover may reduce the survival of stream dwelling fishes in Northern environments. This, however, has not been empirically investiga...

18 Cooked prawn colour is known to be a driver of market price and a visual 19 indicator of product quality for the consumer. Although there is a general 20 understanding that colour variation exists in farmed prawns, there has been no 21 attempt to quantify this variation or identify where this variation is most 22 prevalent. The objectives of this study were threefold: firstly to compare thre...

This protocol describes a simple and efficient procedure for preparation and storage of competent Escherichia coli cells applicable to transformation and transfection. This procedure is much simpler and more reproducible than other similar methods, and allows much higher transformation efficiency (1) even after 3 months storage of the competent cells. It is also superior to the electroporation ...