Recently, gaining knowledge about thermal refuges for vulnerable species has been a major focal point of ecological studies, and this focus has been heightened by predicted temperature increases associated with global climate change. To better understand how organisms respond to thermal landscapes and extremes, we investigated the thermal ecology of a gallinaceous bird species (northern bobwhit...

Article history: Received 14 April 2014 Received in revised form 13 May 2014 Accepted 15 May 2014 Available online 20 May 2014 Editor: M. Cvetič We revisit the definition of rotating thermal states for scalar and fermion fields in unbounded Minkowski space–time. For scalar fields such states are ill-defined everywhere, but for fermion fields an appropriate definition of the vacuum gives thermal...

A novel formal equivalence between thermal averages of coherent properties (e.g. conductance), and time averages of a single wavepacket arises for Fermi gasses and certain geometries. In the case of one open channel in a quantum point contact (QPC), only one wavepacket history, with wavepacket width equal to thermal length, completely determines thermally averaged conductance. The formal equiva...

The selective annealing of point defects with different activation energies is studied, by performing sequences of thermal treatments on gamma irradiated silica samples in the temperature range 300-450 °C. Our experiments show that the dependence on time of the concentration of two irradiation induced point defects in silica, named ODC(II) (standing for oxygen deficient centre II) and the E(γ)(...

[1] The Urey ratio describes the contribution of internal heat production to planetary-scale energy balance, and knowing this thermal budget for Earth is essential to understand its long-term evolution. Internal heat production is provided by the decay of radiogenic elements, whose budget is constrained by geochemical models of Earth. Understanding the thermal budget thus requires contributions...

Article history: Received 30 May 2012 Accepted 24 June 2012 Available online 12 August 2012 0026-2714/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2012.06.087 ⇑ Tel.: +81 52 612 6111; fax: +81 52 612 5623. E-mail address: [email protected] A power semiconductor module using a bonding film with anisotropic thermal conduction has been studied. The bonding fil...

The thermal conductivity of superconducting MgB 2 was studied in both the superconducting and normal state region. The latter is almost equally determined by the electronic-and the lattice thermal conductivity. In the superconducting state, however, the lattice thermal conductivity is larger. The electronic thermal conductivity below T c was derived from the experimental data considering the Ba...

Article history: Received 18 March 2016 Revised 16 July 2016 Accepted in revised form 28 July 2016 Available online xxxx Photoluminescence piezospectroscopy (PLPS) was used as a non-destructive technique for the measurement of residual stresses within the thermally grown oxide (TGO) layer beneath plasma-spray thermal barrier coatings (TBC). The technique has proved to be very effective for such...

Coastal California has evolved through a series of plate tectonic interactions that significantly affected the geologic, thermal, and hydrocarbon maturation histories of the area. Numerical solutions for steady-state heat transfer are used to estimate temperature suppression resulting from plate subduction along coastal California, and to model thermal refraction within the Pismo basin. Numeric...