Twenty-six bicycle helmets and their associated visors were characterized for radiant heat transfer using a thermal manikin headform in a climate chamber to assess their ability to protect the wearer from heating by the sun. A single configuration for applied radiant flow of 9.3 W was used to assess the roles of the forward and upper vents and the visor. The helmets shielded 50-75% of the radia...

Real-time distributed system speciication and veriication in asynchronous propositional temporal logic. Let A be the integrator system deened in Figure 5. We use the xpoint computation procedure to prove that the formula y 60 ! 20t y is an invariant of A. It follows that the gas burner leaks at most one twentieth of the time in any interval of at least 60 seconds. Let R i = hpc = 1 ^ t = 0 ^ x ...

To better understand the combustion chemistry of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) which has been considered as promising bio-fuel, the structure of their stoichiometric (φ=1.0) low-pressure laminar premixed flame has been investigated. The flames have been stabilized on a burner at a pressure of 50 Torr (6.7 kPa) using argon as dilutant (78 %), with a gas velocity at the...

The dynamic response of a premixed flame stabilized on a heat-conducting perforated plate depends critically on their coupled thermal interaction. The objective of this paper is to develop an analytical model to capture this coupling. The model predicts the mean flame base standoff distance; the flame base area, curvature and speed; and the burner plate temperature given the operating condition...

Burner or stinger syndrome is a rare sports injury caused by direct or indirect trauma during high-speed or contact sports mainly in young athletes. It affects peripheral nerves, plexus trunks or spinal nerve roots, causing paralysis, paresthesia and pain. We report the case of a 57-year-old male athlete suffering from burner syndrome related to a lumbar nerve root. He presented with prolonged ...

The body temperatures of infants weighing less than 1500 g under radiant warmers during routine care were documented in the first week of life. Ten infants (median gestational age 28 weeks, median birthweight 913 g) were studied. During 30 nursing interventions (mean 9.2 minutes) mean oesophageal and foot temperature changed 0 degrees C and -0.11 degrees C, respectively. A radiant warmer may li...

BACKGROUND Increasing radiant exposure offers a means to increase treatment efficacy during laser-mediated treatment of vascular lesions, such as port-wine stains; however, excessive radiant exposure decreases selective vascular injury due to increased heat generation within the epidermis and collateral damage to perivascular collagen. OBJECTIVE To determine if cryogen spray cooling could be ...

An experimental investigation on the reduction of nitrogen oxide emission from swirling, turbulent diffusion flames was conducted using a prototype multi-annular burner. The burner utilizes swirl-induced centrifugal body forces to dampen turbulent exchange between the fuel and air streams, allowing an extended residence time for fuel pyrolysis and fuel-N conversion chemistry in a locally fuel-r...