Article history: Received 1 April 2010 Received in revised form 22 July 2010 Accepted 30 July 2010 Available online 1 Auguest 2010 Meta-heuristic approaches are general algorithmic framework, often nature-inspired and designed to solve NP-complete optimization problems in cellular manufacturing systems and has been a growing research area for the past two decades. This paper discusses various m...

Priti Joshi, “Mutiny Echoes: India, Britons, and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities” (pp. 48–87) This essay asks what, if any, import the Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 had on A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens’s fictionalized account of the French Revolution. Begun shortly after the Indian uprising started, Dickens’s historical novel appears studiously to avoid any mention of events on ...

Potential mapping measurements have been performed on passive surfaces in air using an Atomic Force Microscopy based technique, the Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscope (SKPFM). A linear relation was found between the potential measured this way and the corrosion potential in aqueous solution for a range of pure metals. The SKPFM can be considered to map the practical nobility of the surface....