The establishment of the Croatian National Spatial Data Infrastructure has started at the beginning of the 1990's. The main agitator of the activities was the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. They started to build the documentation that describe vision and goals, while through studies and pilot projects they developed procedures and exact steps for realization of the go...

seems to be the only logical way of beginning this article. In the normally functioning brain, cells only react when they are stimulated by another cell in some other part. A fit is caused by a cell somewhere in the brain beginning to discharge spontaneously. As an illustration one may liken the brain to a smoothly running factory. In this factory one individual suddenly becomes an agitator and...

A simple and rapid vortex assisted ionic liquid based liquid-liquid microextraction technique (VALLME) was proposed for preconcentration of trace levels of cadmium. According to this method, the extraction solvent was dispersed into the aqueous samples by the assistance of vortex agitator. Cadmium preconcentration was mediated by chelation with the 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) reagent and an IL, ...

Background The novel bioreactor system from PBS Biotech is the first with a pneumatic mixing device powered solely by gas buoyancy, eliminating the need for an external mechanical agitator. The patented design of the AirWheel mixing device promotes not only high tangential fluid flow around the wheel but also efficient radial and axial flows. The leverage effect of the Air-Wheel mixing device a...

Due to high surface area, low density, open pore structure and excellent insulation properties aerogels were intensively investigated in the past decades for diverse range of applications. The state of the art of aerogel production by supercritical drying is to produce monolithic aerogel, where the sol is aged in molds and dried by extraction with supercritical CO2. Aerogels in form of spherica...