Recent years have seen increasing interest in the potential for using caesium-137 as a tracer in soil erosion investigations and caesium-137 measurements are now accepted as an effective and valuable means of producing retrospective information on medium-term rates and patterns of soil redistribution. There are, however, two important limitations to the general application of the approach. Thes...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Alberto Díaz Esteban under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) and Dr. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Univ. Europea). The author was examined in July 13 2005 by the commitee formed by Dr. Carmen Fernández Chamizo (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Univ. de Alicante), Dr. Juan Pavón Mestras (...

The severe and unanticipated economic downturn in Indonesia mirrored the regional economic fallout following the 1997 financial crisis. Although it seems likely that the crisis in neighboring countries had an adverse impact on Indonesia, the issue has so far received little attention. This paper examines economic contagion from Thailand to Indonesia. It finds evidence of such contagion, which w...

Many institutions are in a state of flux in relation to the implementation and use of information communication technology (ICT) by faculty, staff, and students. Earlier research (Stockley 2002) indicates that most institutions are neither at the beginning – nor the end of the implementation continuum; rather, they are more likely to be found somewhere in the middle as institutions vary in thei...

Spheroidal and fritted particles of three size classes from closein fallout samples collected from Small Boy were separated by hand. Analysis of spheroidal and fritted groups fror the > lU00-u and the 35O-7OO-U size classes showed that spheroidal particles had higher specific activities than the fritted particles; however this difference was less pronounced for the smaller size groups. Contrary...

This article presents the original draft of the Zimmermann telegram from 1917 in facsimile. Its various annotations provide interesting insights, such as the idea to promise California to Japan and instructions concerning transmission and encryption. Further documents clarify how the telegram was sent and put various alternatives suggested in the literature to rest. The political background and...