Seventeen healthy preterm babies had extra warmth provided in their cots by thermocontrolled, heated, water filled mattresses. As controls 17 babies of the same weight were nursed in air heated incubators. Both groups were studied for three weeks. No differences were found in minimal oxygen consumption (measured by indirect calorimetry), rectal and mean skin temperatures, or in daily weight gai...

Naja naja snake venom presents abundant thermostable peptides. Many of them possess useful pharmacological activity that may be employed for drug development. For the proteomic characterization of such toxins, in the present study, Naja naja venom solution was heated up to 100°C for 10, 30, 60, 120, 180 and 300 minutes and protein fractions of non-heated and heated venom were analyzed by twodim...

to prospect mineral deposits at regional scale, recognition and classification of hydrothermal alteration zones using remote sensing data is a popular strategy. due to the large number of spectral bands, classification of the hyperspectral data may be negatively affected by the hughes phenomenon. a practical way to handle the hughes problem is preparing a lot of training samples until the size ...

As Earth continues to warm globally, there is a need to conduct ecosystem plot warming experiments under conditions as representative of open fields in the future as possible. One promising approach is to use hexagonal arrays of infrared heaters such as described by [Kimball, B.A., Conley, M.M., Wang, S., Lin, X., Luo, C., Morgan, J., Smith, D., 2008. Infrared heater arrays for warming ecosyste...

A novel optical diagnostic technique, Molecular Tagging Velocimetry and Thermometry (MTV&T), was used for qualitative flow visualization and quantitative simultaneous measurements of velocity and temperature fields in the wake of a heated cylinder. The experiment was conducted in a water channel with the heated cylinder placed horizontally in the middle of the water channel, and the flow being ...

Large numbers of China's thermal power plants are in water-stressed regions. Changes the availability water resources due to climate change may impact vulnerability regional and national electricity generation. Here we explore this for coal-fired units (CPUs) as generation-type most exposed risk. We find many already experiencing scarcity 120–176 GW capacity will be at least one additional mont...

To prospect mineral deposits at regional scale, recognition and classification of hydrothermal alteration zones using remote sensing data is a popular strategy. Due to the large number of spectral bands, classification of the hyperspectral data may be negatively affected by the Hughes phenomenon. A practical way to handle the Hughes problem is preparing a lot of training samples until the size ...

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) allow devices to connect with a useable amount of bandwidth without being networked via a physical connection. Laptop users within range of the WLAN could connect anywhere and be granted instant access to all networking resources. WLANs, which exist over radio waves, have no physical structure and are therefore more vulnerable to tampering. Therefore, securi...

Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can cause undesirable nasal symptoms, such as congestion to obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients, whose symptoms can be attenuated by the addition of heated humidification. However, neither the nature of nasal symptoms nor the effect of heated humidification on nasal pathophysiology and pathology are convincingly known. 20 patients with OSA on...

The principal antiyeast compound of heated garlic was isolated and identified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) as allyl alcohol (2-propene-1-ol). The generation of allyl alcohol was observed in heated garlic as well as in heated pure alliin solution. The pattern of growth inhibition of Candida utilis ATCC42416 by allyl alcohol was...