Stochastic heat engines beyond a unique definition of temperature

When Carnot and Stirling initially conceptualized heat engines, temperature unambiguously represented our everyday perception of cold and hot.However, as this energy scale is expanded to measure the strength of noise in general nonequilibrium heat baths, such as those consisting of bacteria or active particles, it takes on different definitions and

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Structural Classification of Marshes with Polarimetric SAR Highlighting the Temporal Mapping of Marshes Exposed to Oil

Pet Food Empirical relationships between field-derived Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Leaf Angle Distribution (LAD) and polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) based biophysical indicators were created and applied to map S.alterniflora marsh canopy structure.PolSAR and field data were collected near concurrently in the summers of 2010, 2011, and

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The Ontologies of Science and Religion

Preview: Science and religion are complex cultural phenomena, which bear on our understanding of the world, life, consciousness, agency, morality, as well as all other fundamental issues human beings puzzle over.There exists a longstanding question about whether science and religion, and the responses they offer to these issues, are complementary o

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