Thermodynamics and kinetics are thought to be linked in glass transitions. The quantitative predictions of alpha-relaxation activation barriers provided by the theory of glasses based on random first-order transitions are compared with the experimental results for 44 substances. The agreement found between the predicted activation energies near T(g) and experiment is excellent. These prediction...

purpose: in order to express human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (hgm-csf) under heat shock. materials and methods: two expression plasmids were constructed based on pbc(sk) plasmid. the expression cassettes in the two plasmids are equipped with a 75 base pair fragment, derived from the pl promoter of the bacteriophage lambda (λ). the plasmids also contain a temperature muta...

in this paper the changes in the heat capacity of cooling towers has been investigated as a result of injecting combustion products of boilers. in the tower, the air is re-heated through mixing with hot flue gas after passing through the heat exchangers. as a result of this process, the draft of the cooling tower is increased. the additional produced draft depends on the ambient temperature and...