Glacial reworking of paraglacial rock slope material has been inferred from long-deglaciated terrains to be an important component of glacial sediment transfer. We provide the first description from a contemporary glacial environment of the geomorphological consequences of glacier advance (of the Feegletscher Nord, Switzerland) across a paraglacial rock avalanche deposit. The landform-sediment ...

Psychological approaches to seizure control in epilepsy have been known and practised since antiquity: indeed, in ancient times they must have been preferable to the alternatives which included drinking urine from a shoe, blood letting and insufflations of ‘mans scull pulverised’. The author of the Hippocratic tract On the Sacred Disease seemed to understand the concept of behavioural counterme...

The calpain proteolytic system has an important role in all animal cells, responding to fluctuating levels of Ca” to initiate irreversible limited proteolysis of specific target proteins. The enzyme system has been implicated in a number of physiological and pathological processes’ involving cytoskeletal reorganisation, and in muscle is thought to be involved in fibre differentiation, growth an...

Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will need to be greatly reduced to avoid the risk of harmful climate change. There are many different ways of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. It is important to be able to understand how the different options compare. This paper includes a comparison of the costs of three different options for reducing emissions of CO2; wind ...

Municipal solid waste incineration fly ash is generated in a significant amount; it is classified as hazardous waste in Taiwan. In order to reduce the volume of treated fly ash, a sintering technology can be considered. However, a traditional sintering consumes too much energy because of the limit of heat transfer. Hence, a microwave process which can provide quick, uniform, and selective heati...

This paper reports a modelling work on the existing experimental data of single coal particles combustion process [1,2]. Two kinds of coal particles (a high-volatile bituminous coal / a lignite coal) are injected in a drop-tube furnace, ignited and burned in quiescent O2/N2 and O2/CO2 atmospheres with oxygen mole fraction varying from 20% to 100%. Ignition delay time, particle life time and par...

The status of arsenic in Aiba Reservoir, Iwo, Nigeria was assessed to determine its levels and distribution in water, sediment and tissues of fish. Total arsenic was estimated by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The mean levels detected for reservoir water (1.50 ± 0.22ppb) and sediment (2.00 ± 0.17ppb) were below the World Health Organization recommended limit of 0.01mg/L (10ppb) for drinki...