Search results for "Heat"

Extracellular release of HSP60 from tumor cells occurs via various secretory pathways

2008

Spanish People on the Silver Screen: Nation and Region in the Cinema of the Second Republic

2013

The article reflects on the presence and scope of the discourses of Spanish nationalism in the mass culture through the study of Spanish cinema produced during the years of the Second Republic. From a theoretical perspective based on the latest theoretical developments on nationalism, and particularly those concerning the role of culture, the article seeks to place the cinema in the heart of the study of Spanish nation-building process in the first decades of the twentieth century. The analytical axis will be the examination of the filmic construction of the regional imaginaries as a representation of Spain. After some general considerations concerning the presence of regional and national …

Imperfections et hybridation générique dans « Les Employés » d’Honoré de Balzac

2020

L’imperfezione dell’essere umano e delle sue costruzioni sociali è al centro della Comédie humaine. Il presente articolo intende esplorare questo aspetto della produzione letteraria di Balzac attraverso l’analisi de Les Employés (1845), in cui la mediocrità del mondo burocratico viene esaminata in dettaglio. Nel romanzo, la mediocrità vince sul merito, ma la rappresentazione dell’imperfezione trascende la dimensione puramente narrativa: Les Employés è un grande laboratorio in cui l’ibridazione tra genere romanzesco e genere teatrale interroga i limiti della creazione letteraria. The imperfection of the human being and his social constructions is at the heart of the Comédie humaine. This art…

Optimal Heating of an Indoor Swimming Pool

2020

This work presents the derivation of a model for the heating process of the air of a glass dome, where an indoor swimming pool is located in the bottom of the dome. The problem can be reduced from a three dimensional to a two dimensional one. The main goal is the formulation of a proper optimization problem for computing the optimal heating of the air after a given time. For that, the model of the heating process as a partial differential equation is formulated as well as the optimization problem subject to the time-dependent partial differential equation. This yields the optimal heating of the air under the glass dome such that the desired temperature distribution is attained after a given…

Daytime sensible heat flux estimation over heterogeneous surfaces using multitemporal land‐surface temperature observations

2016

Equations based on surface renewal (SR) analysis to estimate the sensible heat flux (H) require as input the mean ramp amplitude and period observed in the ramp‐like pattern of the air temperature measured at high frequency. A SR‐based method to estimate sensible heat flux (HSR‐LST) requiring only low‐frequency measurements of the air temperature, horizontal mean wind speed, and land‐surface temperature as input was derived and tested under unstable conditions over a heterogeneous canopy (olive grove). HSR‐LST assumes that the mean ramp amplitude can be inferred from the difference between land‐surface temperature and mean air temperature through a linear relationship and that the ramp freq…

Low-Intensity Neutron Emission from TiDx Samples Under Nonequilibrium Conditions

2001

Several experiments were performed that loaded titanium samples with deuterium from the gas phase, changed the temperature of the samples over a wide range, and monitored the neutron emission. Neutron emissions in very low intensity bursts, still significantly above the background, were recorded, revealing that low-energy nuclear reactions in condensed matter can be produced at a very low rate, which occasionally can be high enough to become detectable.

Formation of nanosized strontium substituted hydroxyapatites

2012

Incorporation of specific elements into calcium phosphates offers the combination of a bioactive material and a therapeutic effect. This is important for improving the integration of implants as well as treating medical conditions. Strontium is a suitable candidate and displays the ability to stimulate bone growth and reducing bone resorption. This study investigated the formation of strontium carbonated hydroxyapatite nanoparticles from an amorphous phase. Crystallization of carbonated hydroxyapatite occurred at 585 o C, but samples with an intended 25% and 75% replacement of calcium with strontium crystallized at 624 o C. Heat treatment at the crystallization temperature revealed that str…

Margaret Atwood and Adaptation: The Handmaid’s Tale and Beyond

2021

Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry. However, an aspect of her work that has perhaps been less thoroughly examined is her work both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood’s fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood’s own tendency to explore the possibilities of media (graphic novels), genres (s…

Interfaces, volume 40: "Gestures and Transmission"

2018

Sexualidad, política del cuerpo y función socioeducativa del cine en Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie, 2018)

2020

Este artículo analiza la ópera prima de la cineasta Adina Pintilie, Touch Me Not (Nu mă atinge-mă, 2018), ganadora del Oso de Oro y del premio a la Mejor Ópera Prima en el Festival de cine de Berlín. En primer lugar, contextualizamos el texto fílmico, abordando su distanciamiento de la tradición del denominado “nuevo cine rumano” y su planteamiento estético híbrido, a medio camino entre el cine observacional y experimental. En segundo lugar, analizamos las tesis que el discurso fílmico plantea en su tematización de la sexualidad y el cuerpo. Para ello, nos servimos de la teorización freudiana de la sexualidad y la reflexión foucaultiana sobre el biopoder, siguiendo el planteamiento de Teres…