Preliminary -- A One-dimensional Nonlinear Viscous and Heat-conductive Real Gas -- A One-dimensional Polytropic Viscous and Heat-conductive Gas -- A Polytropic Ideal Gas in Bounded Annular Domains in -- A Polytropic Viscous Gas with Cylinder Symmetry in -- One-dimensional Nonlinear Thermoviscoelasticity -- A Nonlinear One-dimensional Thermoelastic System with a Thermal Memory -- One-dimensional Thermoelastic Equations of Hyperbolic Type -- Blow-up for the Cauchy Problem in Nonlinear One-dimensional Thermoelasticity -- Large-Time Behavior of Energy in Multi-Dimensional Elasticity.