During Leg 59 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, five sites (447 to 451) were occupied and seven holes drilled between Okinawa and Guam in the Philippine Sea (Fig. 1). All holes except Hole 447 yielded common calcareous nannoplankton at certain intervals cored. Nannoplankton assemblages and their age assignments will be discussed for each site, and fossil lists for selected samples from Holes 44...

This paper provides a new methodology for the characterization of a defect embedded in a conductive nonmagnetic plate from the measurement of the impedance variations of an air-cored pancake coil at eddy current frequencies. The inversion problem is dealt with using the Expected Improvement (EI) global optimization algorithm. The efficiency of the approach is discussed in the light of prelimina...

We show that Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) predict distinct galactic acceleration curve geometries in $g2$-space - the space of total observed centripetal accelerations $g_{\rm tot}$ vs inferred from baryonic matter N}$ and corresponding rotation speed curves: MOND modified gravity predicts cored for isolated galaxies while inertia yields neutral geometries, ie. neither cuspy or cored, bas...

A method is developed to evaluate the magnifications of the images of galaxies with lensing potentials stratified on similar concentric ellipses. In a quadruplet system, there are two even parity images, two odd parity images, together with a de-magnified and usually missing central image. A simple contour integral is provided which enables the sums of the magnifications of the even parity or t...

A first generation dendrimer comprised of a 9,9,9’,9’-tetra-n-hexyl substituted 2,2’-bifluorene core, biphenyl dendrons, and 2-ethylhexyloxy surface groups can rapidly detect high electron affinity, explosive-related analytes such as pnitrotoluene and 2,4-dinitrotoluene. Stern-Volmer analysis of the dendrimer in solution showed that the quenching could be either collisional or static but not a ...