Foliation in the Malvern Hills

Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern.

In 1842 when Captain Richard Claridge first described a new form of hydrotherapy to British patients' there were only two places in England that could be visited in order to see what the system offered.2 Ten years later, however, despite scandals about the dramatic death of at least one aristocratic patient,3 there were 24 water-cure establishments in Britain and Ireland, many of which were fam...

Filariasis in the Mikir Hills

Blackwater Fever in the Hills

The Mobius Band and the Mobius Foliation

Some years ago we introduced a new topological invariant for foliated manifolds using techniques from noncommutative geometry, in particular the pairing between K-Theory and cyclic cohomology. The motivation came from flat principal G-bundles where the base space is a non simply connected manifold. The computation of this invariant is quite complicated. In this article we try to perform certain...

Natural radioactivity in rock samples of Aravali hills in India

Background: Natural radionuclides in rock samples, primarily 238U (uranium), 232Th (thorium) and 40K (potassium), are the main source of radiation exposure to workers and general public and their measurement is of paramount importance from radiation protection point of view. Materials and Methods: Gamma spectrometry using HPGe detector was used to measure the radioactivity and assess the radiol...