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Miniature ingestible telemeter devices to measure deep-body temperature
A telemetry device comprised of a pill-size ingestible transmitter developed to obtain deep body temperature measurements of a human is described. The device has particular utility in the medical field where deep body temperatures provide an indication of general health
An ingestible temperature-transmitter
Pill-sized transmitter measures deep body temperature in studies of circadian rhythm and indicates general health. Ingestible device is a compromise between accuracy, circuit complexity, size and transmission range
Cardiotachometer with linear beat-to-beat frequency response
Cardiotachometer detects and displays the human heart rate during physiological studies. It provides linear response to the heart rate, records heart rate during rest and under heavy stress, provides a beat-to-beat indication of changes in heart rate, and is relatively free of interfering signals from activities other than the heart rate
An implantable multi-channel temperature transmitter
Implantable multi-channel temperature transmitte
Sub-Kolmogorov-Scale Fluctuations in Fluid Turbulence
We relate the intermittent fluctuations of velocity gradients in turbulence
to a whole range of local dissipation scales generalizing the picture of a
single mean dissipation length. The statistical distribution of these local
dissipation scales as a function of Reynolds number is determined in numerical
simulations of forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence with a spectral
resolution never applied before which exceeds the standard one by at least a
factor of eight. The core of the scale distribution agrees well with a
theoretical prediction. Increasing Reynolds number causes the generation of
ever finer local dissipation scales. This is in line with a less steep decay of
the large-wavenumber energy spectra in the dissipation range. The energy
spectrum for the highest accessible Taylor microscale Reynolds number
R_lambda=107 does not show a bottleneck.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures (Figs. 1 and 3 in reduced quality
Terror management theory: A theoretical perspective on orgination, maintenance, and research
Research suggests that humans engage in several worldview defense mechanisms to shield against the terror associated with an awareness of mortality (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986). To mitigate anxiety, people strongly adhere to their cultural worldviews that allow them to boost their self-esteem. This self-esteem fosters a sense of immortality because the world is considered a \u27just place that will not harm someone that is living in adherence to cultural guidelines (Rosenblatt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, & Lyon, 1989). This paper provides a theoretical background for Terror Management Theory including its philosophical origination, the primary tenets of the theory, and the experimental methods used to manipulate death awareness
On the mass of a Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetime in D dimensions
We show how to compute the mass of a Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetime with
respect to the anti-de Sitter background in any dimension, using a
superpotential which has been derived from standard Noether identities. The
calculation takes no account of the source of the curvature and confirms
results obtained for black holes via the first law of thermodynamics.Comment: minor changes; accepted by CQ
Galilean invariance and homogeneous anisotropic randomly stirred flows
The Ward-Takahashi (WT) identities for incompressible flow implied by
Galilean invariance are derived for the randomly forced Navier-Stokes equation
(NSE), in which both the mean and fluctuating velocity components are
explicitly present. The consequences of Galilean invariance for the vertex
renormalization are drawn from this identity.Comment: REVTeX 4, 4 pages, no figures. To appear as a Brief Report in the
Physical Review
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