With careful design, mixed microstructures consisting of fine plates of upper bainitic ferrite separated by thin films of stable retained austenite have exhibited impressive combinations of strength and toughness in highsilicon bainitic steels. The silicon suppresses the precipitation of brittle cementite leading to an improvement in toughness. The essential principles governing the optimisatio...

gastrointestinal obstruction by a gallstone is an uncommon but important complication of biliary stone disease which mostly affects the elderly. the classic triad of radiological features includes pneumobilia, ectopic gallstone and evidence of intestinal obstruction. terminal ileum is the most common site of obstruction, followed by jejunum and gastric outlet. we present a case of duodenal gall...

Malling-Merton 106 apple rootstocks inoculated with Pratylenchus penetrans, or uninoculated, were grown in a growth chamber in pots of loamy sand maintained at two moisture levels, 0 to -0.4 bar or 0 to -10 bars. Either inoculation or low soil moisture suppressed shoot growth and increased root necrosis. However, the nematode-soil moisture interaction was not significant.

Influence of application of sewage sludge and manure compost on crop ZN concentration and soil Zn availability index in a loamy sand soil in Ontario Guang Wen1, R. P. Voroney2 J. J. Schoenau1 and T. E. Bates22 ‘Dept. of Soil Science, Univ. of Saskatchewan, SASK., Canada S7N 5A8. ‘Dept. of Land Resource Science, Univ. of Guelph, Ont., Canada NIG 2WI. _-__-____-----______~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--------...

rally affected, it would suggest that the benefits associated with a nitrification inhibitor may also be spatially The economically optimum N rate (EONR) required for corn (Zea and temporally influenced. mays L.) may vary spatially due to variation in soil characteristics and temporally due to the interactions of environmental factors. The The potential economic and environmental benefits objec...

mixed layer is a part of the atmospheric boundary layer in which pollutants are uniformly distributed. it is sensitive to the earth’s surface, controls the flow of heat and momentum between the surface and the free atmosphere, thus playing a key role in atmospheric circulation. most of atmospheric pollution models require the height of the mixed layer as an input to determine the depth of atmos...

Recent progress in string theory moduli stabilization has motivated a mixed modulus–anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario, also dubbed ‘mirage mediation’. This scenario has a number of phenomenologically attractive features, in particular with respect to the cosmological gravitino/moduli problem. In this note, we investigate the issues of fine–tuning associated with obtaining the cor...

Modern coreference resolution systems require linguistic and general knowledge typically sourced from costly, manually curated resources. Despite their intuitive appeal, results have been mixed. In this work, we instead implement fine-grained surface-level features motivated by cognitive theory. Our novel fine-grained feature specialisation approach significantly improves the performance of a s...

We present an algorithm that compresses two-dimensional data arrays, which are piece-wise smooth in one direction and have oscillatory events in the other direction. Seismic and hyperspectral data have this mixed structure. The transform part of the compression process is an algorithm that combines wavelet and the local cosine transform (LCT). The quantization and the entropy coding parts in th...

In the present study, impact of tannery and other industrial effluents on the physico-chemical characteristics of loamy drain water and their consequent impact on soil and plants irrigated with effluent have been studied. The study reveals most of the parameter pH, BOD5 and COD at sampling station I was higher than station II. Waste water quality at both Stations I and II exceeded prescribed li...