Heat Death Temperatures and Exposure Times of Goniobasis livescens

Science ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 119 (3100) ◽  
pp. 773-774
Author(s):  
C. B. Nash
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1968 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. I. Christison ◽  
C. J. Heidenreich
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Author(s):  
Sarah Bronwen Horton

Why do farmworkers experience heat death more frequently than other outdoor workers, and why are migrant men at particular risk? While heat death may appear a “natural” phenomenon, this book instead implicates U.S. public policies in its production. Drawing upon nearly a decade of ethnography with the same 15 migrant farmworkers, this book examines the way that U.S. labor and immigration policies place them at particular risk in the fields, even as health and social assistance policies offer them little succor when their bodies begin to decline. Yet this book is not about heat death alone; instead, it uses the phenomenon to shed light on migrant farmworkers’ higher burden of chronic illness and cardiovascular mortality at home as well. The introduction addresses the ethical and logistical challenges posed by conducting longitudinal research with vulnerable populations such as migrant farmworkers and makes the case for an advocacy anthropology.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (25) ◽  
pp. 5151-5162 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER B. NIELSEN ◽  
MASAO NINOMIYA

The universe is certainly not yet in a total thermodynamical equilibrium. Thus some law of special initial conditions is needed. A universe or a system imposed to behave periodically will then require "initial conditions." Those initial conditions will not look like the type we already have, which have been suffered the heat death. In other words, the required initial conditions should not have been obtained the maximal entropy — like a random state. The intrinsic periodicity successfully explains why entropy is not maximal but it fails, phenomenologically, in leading to a constant entropy.


2002 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 291-299
Author(s):  
Milan M. Ćirković

Recent intriguing discussion of heat death by Kutrovátz is critically examined. It is shown that there exists another way of answering the heat death puzzle, already present in the ancient philosophical tradition. This alternative route relies not only on the final duration of time (which has been re-discovered in modern times), but also on the notion of observational self-selection, which has received wide publicity in the last several decades under the title of the anthropic principle(s). We comment here on some further deficiencies of the account of Kutrovátz. Although the questions Kutrovátz raises are important and welcome, there are several errors in his treatment of cosmology which mar his account of the entire topic. In addition, the nascent discipline of physical eschatology holds promise of answering the basic explanatory task concerning the future evolution of the universe without appealing to metaphysics. This is a completely novel feature in the history of science, in contradistinction to the historical examples discussed by Kutrovátz.


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