Thermoregulation of the thorax allows honeybees (Apis mellifera) to maintain the flight muscle temperatures necessary to meet the power requirements for flight and to remain active outside the hive across a wide range of air temperatures (Ta). To determine the heat-exchange pathways through which flying honeybees achieve thermal stability, we measured body temperatures and rates of carbon dioxi...

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Increases in ambient temperatures have been a severe threat to crop production in many countries around the world under climate change. Chloroplasts serve as metabolic centers and play a key role in physiological adaptive processes to heat stress. In addition to expressing heat shock proteins that protect proteins from heat-induced damage, metabolic reprogramming occurs during adaptive physiolo...

Liquid salts (LS) provide an important candidate fluid for high-temperature heat transport for hydrogen production and other applications, due to their high volumetric heat capacities and boiling temperatures. This report discusses functional requirements for a 50 MW(t) LS intermediate loop, designed for heat transfer between hightemperature, high-pressure helium and process heat exchangers for...

In this paper comprehensive studies have been carried out for the design optimization of a waste heat recovery system for effectively utilizing the domestic air conditioner heat energy for Keywords—Air-conditioning system, Energy conversion system, Hot water production from waste heat, Waste heat recovery system.

The draft genome sequences of two heat-resistant mutant strains, A52 and B41, derived from Rhodobacter capsulatus DSM 1710, and with different hydrogen production levels, are reported here. These sequences may help understand the molecular basis of heat resistance and hydrogen production in R. capsulatus.

To determine the effect of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (P-ExA) on cytokine production, we studied cytokine release induced by heat-killed P. aeruginosa (HKPA) in human whole blood in the presence or absence of P-ExA. P-ExA (0.01^1 Wg ml31) caused a dosedependent decrease in HKPA-induced production of tumor necrosis factor K (TNF), interleukin (IL-) 10, IL-6 and IL-8 (all P6 0.05). P-ExA-i...