The recent case of a 41-year-old British tourist, whose breast cancer was first suggested by a visit to a popular tourist attraction in Scotland, prompted us to consider how travel may serendipitously yield unforeseen diagnoses. The woman and her family were entertained in the thermal imaging camera room of the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions exhibit in Edinburgh when she noticed that her...

This paper presents the results obtained after studying the thermal stability and decomposition kinetics of perindopril erbumine as a pure active pharmaceutical ingredient as well as a solid pharmaceutical formulation containing the same active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Since no data were found in the literature regarding the spectroscopic description, thermal behavior, or decomposition ...

The production of soft dileptons in a thermal mesonic medium is discussed in the context of recent CERN experimental data reported by the CERES Collaboration. We do not intend to give a general and critical review, but instead concentrate mainly on our approach, however, incorporating many of the recent attempts in the literature. We calculate the contributions to the dilepton yield arising fro...

Warm dark matter (WDM) of order keV mass may be able to resolve the disagreement between structure formation in cold dark matter simulations and observations. The detailed properties of WDM will depend upon its energy distribution, in particular how it deviates from the thermal distribution usually assumed in WDM simulations. Here we focus on WDM production via the Ultra-Violet (UV) freeze-in m...

We examined the underlying mechanisms for thermal conductivity suppression in crystalline silicon by substitutional doping with different elements (X = boron, aluminum, phosphorus, and arsenic). In particular, the relative effects of doping-induced mass disorder, bond disorder, and lattice strain were assessed using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Stillinger–Weber potential param...

Ionomers are generally described by copolymers having either acrylic or methacylic acid as one component and the other component is mostly either ethylene or styrene. The objective of this research was to study the thermal behaviour and stability of ionomers of styrene with some alkali metal acrylates. These materials have been synthesized by neutralization of the respective copoly...

The old model of an unevolved, cool contact binary, in which the secondary component is strongly oversized due to energy transfer from the primary, and the whole system is out of thermal equilibrium, encounters serious problems. I present a new scenario for evolution of contact binaries, which solves the problem of thermal nonequilibrium by assuming that contact binaries are past mass exchange ...

The thermal characterization of bolometers is needed for optimal design as well as applications. In this letter, we present results of the effect of environment on the thermal properties of micromachined bolometers. We find that while in vacuum, the thermal response can be represented by a single time constant, in presence of an ambient gas, the thermal response can no longer be described by a ...