Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is regularly used for stereotactic imaging of Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery patients for GK treatment planning. MRI-induced thermal injuries have occurred and been reported for GK patients with attached metallic headframes. Depending on the specific MR imaging and headframe conditions, a skin injury from MRI-induced heating can potentially occur where the four h...

We describe the design rationale for a hardware tamper resistant secure storage system based on probe storage with a patterned magnetic medium. This medium supports normal read/write operations by magnetising individual dots perpendicular to the media plane. We report on an experiment to show that in principle the medium also supports a separate class of read/write-once operations by allowing i...

Pulsating heat pipe is an efficient heat exchange device which is being used for cooling and heating recovery. In the present work, we made a closed-loop pulsating heat pipe with six U-turns and we used water in our system. Moreover the use of water-Fe3O4 nanofluid was studied with two different filling ratios 40% and 50% and 1% mass concentration. At the end we calculated heat resistance and h...

Pulsating heat pipe is an efficient heat exchange device which is being used for cooling and heating recovery. In the present work, we made a closed-loop pulsating heat pipe with six U-turns and we used water in our system. Moreover the use of water-Fe3O4 nanofluid was studied with two different filling ratios 40% and 50% and 1% mass concentration. At the end we calculated heat resistance and h...

Infestation of grain by insects is widely controlled by the use of insecticides. Use of contact insecticides results in chemical residues left in the food which may have adverse effects on humans. Also insects develop resistance to both contact insecticides and fumigants. Microwave disinfestation offers an alternate way to disinfest grain. Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with frequencies r...

The electron transport though ferromagnetic-metal–superconducting hybrid devices is considered in the nonequilibrium Green’s function formalism in the quasiclassical approximation. Attention is focused on the limit in which the exchange splitting in the ferromagnet is much larger than the superconducting energy gap. Transport properties are then governed by an interplay between spin accumulatio...

Similar populations of Pseudomonas fragi were grown at 25 C for 20 hr or at 7 C for 7 days in milk containing 0, 10, and 20% fat; they were then heated at 48, 50, and 52 C in milk containing 0, 10, and 20% fat. After inoculation, the heating medium contained 2.1 x 10(6) to 6.9 x 10(6) organisms per milliliter. The P. fragi cells grown in skim milk had greater thermal resistance (D(52) = 3.0 to ...

In this note, we determine the stability boundary for the thermoelastic contact of a rectangular elastic block sliding against a rigid wall in the presence of a pressure-dependent thermal contact resistance. This geometry can be seen as intermediate between the idealized ‘Aldo’ rod model and continuum solutions for the elastic half-plane. The solution is obtained by comparing the expression for...

The paper presents an electro-thermal numerical model which can be used for the modelling and optimization of high currents dismountable contacts for dc current. The model is obtained by coupling of the electrokinetic field problem with the thermal field problem. The coupling is carried out by the source term of the differential equation which describes the thermal field. The model allows the c...