Evading Arctic Heat Death

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-559
Author(s):  
Miles Powell
Keyword(s):  
Heat Death

Heat Death Temperatures and Exposure Times of Goniobasis livescens

Science ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 119 (3100) ◽  
pp. 773-774
Author(s):  
C. B. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Heat Death

Heat death in a pig

1968 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. I. Christison ◽  
C. J. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Heat Death

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bronwen Horton
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Cardiovascular Mortality ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Migrant Farmworkers ◽  
Heat Death ◽  
Shed Light

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.

scholarly journals INTRINSIC PERIODICITY OF TIME AND NONMAXIMAL ENTROPY OF UNIVERSE

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (25) ◽  
pp. 5151-5162 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER B. NIELSEN ◽  
MASAO NINOMIYA
Keyword(s):  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Maximal Entropy ◽  
Thermodynamical Equilibrium ◽  
Heat Death ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Random State

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.

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