Significant research efforts have been devoted in the past decades to accurately modelling complex heat transfer phenomena within biological tissues. These modeling and analysis assisted a better understanding of intricacies associated factors that affect treatment outcomes hyperthermic therapeutic procedures. In this contribution, we report three-dimensional non-Fourier bio-heat model cardiac ...

We report on a synchronization-breaking instability observed in a noisy oscillator unidirectionally coupled to a pacemaker. Using a phase oscillator model, we find that, as the coupling strength is increased, the noisy oscillator lags behind the pacemaker more frequently and the phase slip rate increases, which may not be observed in averaged phase models such as the Kuramoto model. Investigati...

A mechanism for generating metric perturbations in inflationary models is considered. Long-wavelength inhomogeneities of light scalar fields in a decoupled sector may give rise to superhorizon fluctuations of couplings and masses in the low-energy effective action. Cosmological phase transitions may then occur that are not simultaneous in space, but occur with time lags in different Hubble patc...

In previous work, we developed an algorithm for acoustically tracking singing humpback whales near Hawaii. Pair-wise time-differences in arrival of whale calls as measured by a phase-only correlation process are compared to time-lags predicted by an acoustic propagation model. Differences between measured and modeled time-lags defined an ambiguity surface that identifies the most probable whale...

Background: Urban air pollutants may affect respiratory mortality. This study was conducted to investigate this effect in Ahvaz, one of the most polluted cities in the world. Methods: The impact of 7 major air pollutants including O3, PM10, NO2, CO, and SO2 were evaluated on respiratory mortality in different gender and age groups using a quasi-Poisson, second degree polynomial constrained, di...