Studies on Some Physiological Parameters of Black Bengal Goat During the Changing Ambient Temperature with the Generation of GIS Database

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihir Bhatta ◽  
Probal Ranjan Ghosh
1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Hassanin ◽  
F. A. Khali ◽  
A. M. S. Abd- Elaziz ◽  
H. E. El-Sobhy

The Auk ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen T. Downs ◽  
Mark Brown

Abstract Heterothermy in birds occurs in species that are generally small and whose diet fluctuates. This study of thermoregulation of Malachite Sunbirds (Nectarina famosa) showed that they have circadian fluctuations in Tb and VO2, as in most birds. Of special importance was the high degree of rest-phase hypothermy and exhibition of torpor at ambient temperatures of 10°C and lower. These patterns are significant because they have not been described in detail for a passerine species. Surgically implanted minimitters were used to measure Tb continuously and without disturbing the birds. Minimum VO2 during rest phase was 1.70 (mL O2 g–1 h–1) at 25°C. As ambient temperature decreased, VO2 minimum during the rest phase did not increase to maintain Tb. No birds remained normothermic during scotophase. At 5°C, that resulted in torpor in Malachite Sunbirds with a decrease of 15°C in Tb. Birds increased Tb to active-phase levels with the onset of light. It was difficult to define limits and ranges of physiological parameters associated with observed heterothermy. Individuals showed similar responses; however, those differed with ambient temperature. Malachite Sunbirds conserved energy nocturnally by reducing metabolic rate and, concomitantly, Tb. This plasticity in Tb shows that daily variations in Tb of homeotherms are biologically important. Furthermore, this heterothermy (particularly nocturnal hypothermia and torpor) in a small avian species would be important in an unpredictable environment where food resources fluctuate to prevent an energy deficit.


Author(s):  
S.W. French ◽  
N.C. Benson ◽  
C. Davis-Scibienski

Previous SEM studies of liver cytoskeletal elements have encountered technical difficulties such as variable metal coating and heat damage which occurs during metal deposition. The majority of studies involving evaluation of the cell cytoskeleton have been limited to cells which could be isolated, maintained in culture as a monolayer and thus easily extracted. Detergent extraction of excised tissue by immersion has often been unsatisfactory beyond the depth of several cells. These disadvantages have been avoided in the present study. Whole C3H mouse livers were perfused in situ with 0.5% Triton X-100 in a modified Jahn's buffer including protease inhibitors. Perfusion was continued for 1 to 2 hours at ambient temperature. The liver was then perfused with a 2% buffered gluteraldehyde solution. Liver samples including spontaneous tumors were then maintained in buffered gluteraldehyde for 2 hours. Samples were processed for SEM and TEM using the modified thicarbohydrazide procedure of Malich and Wilson, cryofractured, and critical point dried (CPD). Some samples were mechanically fractured after CPD.


Author(s):  
S. Mahajan

The evolution of dislocation channels in irradiated metals during deformation can be envisaged to occur in three stages: (i) formation of embryonic cluster free regions, (ii) growth of these regions into microscopically observable channels and (iii) termination of their growth due to the accumulation of dislocation damage. The first two stages are particularly intriguing, and we have attempted to follow the early stages of channel formation in polycrystalline molybdenum, irradiated to 5×1019 n. cm−2 (E > 1 Mev) at the reactor ambient temperature (∼ 60°C), using transmission electron microscopy. The irradiated samples were strained, at room temperature, up to the macroscopic yield point.Figure 1 illustrates the early stages of channel formation. The observations suggest that the cluster free regions, such as A, B and C, form in isolated packets, which could subsequently link-up to evolve a channel.


Author(s):  
Robert C. Rau

Previous work has shown that post-irradiation annealing, at temperatures near 1100°C, produces resolvable dislocation loops in tungsten irradiated to fast (E > 1 MeV) neutron fluences of about 4 x 1019 n/cm2 or greater. To crystallographically characterize these loops, tilting experiments were carried out in the electron microscope on a polycrystalline specimen which had been irradiated to 1.5 × 1021 n/cm2 at reactor ambient temperature (∼ 70°C), and subseouently annealed for 315 hours at 1100°C. This treatment produced large loops averaging 1000 Å in diameter, as shown in the micrographs of Fig. 1. The orientation of this grain was near (001), and tilting was carried out about axes near [100], [10] and [110].


Author(s):  
J. J. Laidler

The presence of three-dimensional voids in quenched metals has long been suspected, and voids have indeed been observed directly in a number of metals. These include aluminum, platinum, and copper, silver and gold. Attempts at the production of observable quenched-in defects in nickel have been generally unsuccessful, so the present work was initiated in order to establish the conditions under which such defects may be formed.Electron beam zone-melted polycrystalline nickel foils, 99.997% pure, were quenched from 1420°C in an evacuated chamber into a bath containing a silicone diffusion pump fluid . The pressure in the chamber at the quenching temperature was less than 10-5 Torr . With an oil quench such as this, the cooling rate is approximately 5,000°C/second above 400°C; below 400°C, the cooling curve has a long tail. Therefore, the quenched specimens are aged in place for several seconds at a temperature which continuously approaches the ambient temperature of the system.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renatus Ziegler ◽  
Ulrich Weger

Abstract. In psychology, thinking is typically studied in terms of a range of behavioral or physiological parameters, focusing, for instance, on the mental contents or the neuronal correlates of the thinking process proper. In the current article, by contrast, we seek to complement this approach with an exploration into the experiential or inner dimensions of thinking. These are subtle and elusive and hence easily escape a mode of inquiry that focuses on externally measurable outcomes. We illustrate how a sufficiently trained introspective approach can become a radar for facets of thinking that have found hardly any recognition in the literature so far. We consider this an important complement to third-person research because these introspective observations not only allow for new insights into the nature of thinking proper but also cast other psychological phenomena in a new light, for instance, attention and the self. We outline and discuss our findings and also present a roadmap for the reader interested in studying these phenomena in detail.


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