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In this talk I present several models which turned out to be quite successful in reproducing the experimentally measured hadron spectra in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The discussed models use concepts borrowed from relativistic hydrodynamics but they do not include the complete time evolution of the system. For this reason, they may be called hydro-inspired (freeze-out) models. The measured par...

This dissertation examines the phenomenology of statistical hadronization at ultrarelativistic energies. We start with an overview of current experimental and theoretical issues in Relativistic heavy ion physics. We then introduce statistical hadronization, and show how it gives a description of particle abundances and spectra through relativistic covariance and entropy maximization. We argue t...

In this talk I present several models which turned out to be quite successful in reproducing the experimentally measured hadron spectra in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The discussed models use concepts borrowed from relativisitic hydrodynamics but they do not include the complete time evolution of the system. For this reason, they may be called the hydro-inspired (freeze-out) models. The measure...

From Jan 12th to Feb 12th 2008, the most severity cold chilling and freeze injury weather took place during the last 50 years in the southern of China. Sugar-cane was suffered injury severity. However, the losing of sugar-cane which it was aroused by this weather disaster had not been exactitude evaluated till on Apr 1st, 2008. It was not only affected the sugar-cane ordinary harvesting and cru...

Freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa can be used for normal embryonic development after injection into oocytes, thus indicating that freeze-drying is a useful method for the storage and transportation of genetic materials from animals. We recently reported that storage of freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa requires maintenance at temperatures lower than -80 C for long-term preservation and a pressure of ...

Freezing is a common defensive response in animals threatened by predators. It is characterized by reduced body motion and decreased heart rate (bradycardia). However, despite the relevance of animal defense models in human stress research, studies have not shown whether social threat cues elicit similar freeze-like responses in humans. We investigated body sway and heart rate in 50 female part...

Using an analytical parameterization of hadronic freeze-out in relativistic heavy ion collisions, we present a detailed study of the connections between features of the freeze-out configuration and physical observables. We focus especially on anisotropic freeze-out configurations (expected in general for collisions at finite impact parameter), azimuthally-sensitive HBT interferometry, and final...