Cooling of thermosensitive patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) can improve clinical symptoms. In order to study the effectiveness of an advanced lightweight cooling-garment technology based on aquatic evaporation, a single-blinded balanced crossover study was performed on 20 patients with an Expanded Disability Status Scale score < or =6.5. The results using a tight-cuff cooling-garment proto...

We study laser cooling of two ions that are trapped in a harmonic potential and interact by Coulomb repulsion. Sideband cooling in the Lamb–Dicke regime is shown to work analogously to sideband cooling of a single ion. Outside the Lamb–Dicke regime, the incommensurable frequencies of the two vibrational modes result in a quasi-continuous energy spectrum that significantly alters the cooling dyn...

Some features of nonadiabatic electron heat pumps are studied and connected to general questions of quantum cooling. Inelastic reflection is shown to contribute to heating if the external driving signal is time-symmetric. The quantum of cooling power, π2k2 B T 2/6h, is shown to be an upper limit to the cooling rate per transport channel in the presence of an arbitrary driving signal. The quantu...

Low frequency dielectric measurements on plexiglass (PMMA) show that cooling and heating the sample at constant rate give an hysteretic dependence on temperature of the dielectric constant ǫ. A temporary stop of cooling produces a downward relaxation of ǫ. Two main features are observed i) when cooling is resumed ǫ goes back to the values obtained without the cooling stop (Chaos, i.e. the low t...

Vitrification is widely used for cryopreservation of oocytes. The present study has built the theoretical models of four vitrification systems (micro-droplet, open pulled straws, quartz micro-capillary and cryotop), and performed numerical analysis to predict the cooling rates. The numerical analysis shows that the average cooling rate of the cryotop system was higher than those of other three ...

The goal of this work is to study the incidence rate of “cooling flows” in the high redshift clusters using Chandra observations of z > 0.5 objects from a new large, X-ray selected catalog [1]. We find that only a very small fraction of high-z objects have cuspy X-ray brightness profiles, which is a characteristic feature of the cooling flow clusters at z ∼ 0. The observed lack of cooling flows...

The goal of this work is to study the incidence rate of “cooling flows” in the high redshift clusters using Chandra observations of z > 0.5 objects from a new large, X-ray selected catalog [1]. We find that only a very small fraction of high-z objects have cuspy X-ray brightness profiles, which is a characteristic feature of the cooling flow clusters at z ∼ 0. The observed lack of cooling flows...

The paper mainly deals with the match of solar refrigeration, i.e., solar/natural gas-driven absorption chiller (SNGDAC), solar vapor compression–absorption integrated refrigeration system with parallel configuration (SVCAIRSPC), and solar absorption-subcooled compression hybrid cooling system (SASCHCS), and building cooling based on the exergoeconomics. Three types of building cooling are cons...

Among fluctuations of instantaneous heart rate (IHR) in newly hatched chicks, heart rate (HR) oscillation with a mean frequency of 0.7 Hz has been designated as Type II HR variability characterized by low frequency (LF) oscillation [Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A 124 (1999) 461]. In response to exposure to lowered ambient temperature (Ta), chick hatchlings raised their HR baseline accompanied w...