Snoek relaxation in interstitial bcc solid solutions is the origin of peak frequency-dependent and temperature-dependent internal friction measurements. When applied to low-carbon steels, profiles show a linear dependence height with carbon content. However, recent Monte Carlo simulations exhibited non-linear giant at high contents. To investigate this effect friction, we developed thermo-kinet...

PURPOSE The current study examines the effect of fever-range hyperthermia and mild hypothermia on human cancer cells focusing on cell viability, proliferation and HSP90 expression. MATERIALS AND METHODS A549 and H1299 lung carcinoma, MCF7 breast adenocarcinoma, U87MG and T98G glioblastoma, DU145 and PC3 prostate carcinoma and MRC5 normal fetal lung fibroblasts cell lines were studied. After 3...

i. Thermo-physiological comfort: achieving a comfortable thermal and humid condition in which the thermo-regulating capacity, the thermal insulation and the moisture-regulating capacity of the garment are considered as a function of environmental conditions (climate) and the working conditions (level of effort). Thermo-physiological comfort is strongly affected by the fabric, the style and the ...

In the mouse, the Grueneberg ganglion (GG) is an olfactory subsystem implicated both in chemo- and thermo-sensing. It is specifically involved in the recognition of volatile danger cues such as alarm pheromones and structurally-related predator scents. No evidence for these GG sensory functions has been reported yet in other rodent species. In this study, we used a combination of histological a...

Despite many advantages, hydrodynamic bearings tend to induce nonlinear vibrations on rotor systems at low external loads. The occurrence and also the amplitudes of these are very sensible operating conditions system such as gaseous cavitation, oil viscosity (strongly dependent temperature), bearing clearance (dependent metal temperature thermal expansion coefficients) or imbalance. This contri...

The principal purpose of the present article is to examine a fractional model of convective radial fins having constant and temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. In order to solve fractional order energy balance equation, a numerical algorithm namely homotopy analysis transform method is considered. The fin temperature is derived in terms of thermo-geometric fin parameter. Our method is n...

Typically, the elastic and electrical properties of composite materials are strongly microstruc-ture dependent. So it comes as a nice surprise to come across exact formulae for eeective moduli that are universally valid no matter what the microstructure. Such exact formulae provide useful benchmarks for testing numerical and actual experimental data, and for evaluating the merit of various appr...