Rubisco activase (RCA) constrains the photosynthetic potential of plants at high temperatures (heat stress). Endogenous levels of RCA could serve as an important determinant of plant productivity under heat-stress conditions. Thus, in this study, the possible relationship between expression levels of RCA and plant yield in 11 European cultivars of winter wheat following prolonged exposure to he...

Ballistic–diffusive heat conduction, which is predominantly affected by boundaries and interfaces, will occur in nanostructures whose characteristic lengths are comparable to the phonon mean free path (MFP). Here, we demonstrated that interactions between phonons and boundaries (or interfaces) could lead to two kinds of slip boundary conditions in the ballistic– diffusive regime: boundary tempe...

The numerical simulation of various physical phenomena in infinite domains poses great difficulties. Truncation of the domain is usually necessary in such cases. To ensure stability of the resulting problem on the restricted domain, appropriate boundary conditions should be applied. Here, we develop a boundary condition for the case in which the heat equation is satisfied outside the domain of ...

Abstract. Motivated by diffusion processes on metric graphs and open books, we consider an abstract setting for interface problems with quite general coupled boundary conditions, which we also allow to depend on time. Beside well-posedness, we discuss positivity, L∞-contractivity and further invariance properties. We show that the parabolic problem with time-dependent boundary conditions enjoy ...

We compute the first 5 terms in the short-time heat trace asymptotics expansion for an operator of Laplace type with transfer boundary conditions using the functorial properties of these invariants.

Heat treatments are applied to orthodontic wires in order to relieve the stresses arising during orthodontic work. Four types of wires were heated in air, argon or vacuum environments, and cooled in the furnace or in a water bath. The susceptibility to corrosion and mechanical properties of the heat-treated wires were investigated. Heat treatment marginally increased the yield strength and elas...

This work presents an experimental approach to study the refrigerant flow through capillary tube-suction line heat exchangers. Lateral heat exchanger performance with refrigerant HFC-134a was experimentally evaluated for a range of heat exchanger assemblies and operating conditions typically found in household refrigerators and freezers. Based on the resulting performance data base, the influen...

low stacking fault energy face centered cubic (fcc) materials contain characteristic defect structures. stackingfault tetrahedral are one of those rare structures that occur under special experimental conditions. for the first time,stacking fault tetrahedral were observed in fe-30mn-3al-3si twinning induced plasticity (twip) steel. theirpresence resulted from a quenching heat treatment.

This study examined the impact of heat acclimation on improving exercise performance in cool and hot environments. Twelve trained cyclists performed tests of maximal aerobic power (VO2max), time-trial performance, and lactate threshold, in both cool [13°C, 30% relative humidity (RH)] and hot (38°C, 30% RH) environments before and after a 10-day heat acclimation (∼50% VO2max in 40°C) program. Th...

Climate change is having considerable impact on biological systems. Eras of ice ages and warming shaped the contemporary earth and origin of creatures including humans. Warming forces stress conditions on cells. Therefore, cells evolved elaborate defense mechanisms, such as creation of heat shock proteins, to combat heat stress. Global warming is becoming a crisis and this process would yield a...