Hi, I guess Todd was writing to you, and not sage-support, but I work on hibernating mammals, which gives me some overlapping interests. I would be interested in helping him do what he needs, which sounds fairly straightforward.
Cheers, Marshall Hampton On Dec 15, 1:09 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 10:04 AM, Todd Sformo <> wrote: > > > Dear Dr. Stein, > > I just heard about Sage and am excited about trying it. I have a > > question: I work on overwintering physiology of arctic insects. To > > detect when they freeze, I hook up a thermocouple to the insect and lower > > the temperature. When an insect freezes, it releases the heat of > > crystallization, which is seen as a spike in temperature. What I see then > > on the x-axis is time (recording every 5 seconds) and temperature (C) on > > the y-axis. Would Sage allow me to integrate the area under the curve? > > Yes, definitely, and also draw a nice plot of your data. > If you get frustrated figuring out *how* to do this, join the > sage-support mailing list, and post some actual data, and > you'll get help -- writing Sage is such a vast amount of work > for everyone involved that helping with some applications > is actually relatively little additional work. > > > FYI: some of these insects can resist freezing down to -58C. > > Wow. So do some insects really freeze that much, > then thaw out and are alive later?! > > > Thanks for your time. > > -Todd > > > Todd Sformo > > University of Alaska Fairbanks/ > > Institute of Arctic Biology --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
