Simulations studies have been carried out to examine the impact of the energy of the proton driver on muon production. The muon flux is calculated as a function of proton energy over a wide range, which covers the energies at the existing muon and neutron facilities worldwide. The muon and higher energy pion yields are normalised per beam current and accelerator power. The case of a higher ener...

In most of the practical applications the concept of vague environment [1] gives a simple way for fuzzy approximate reasoning. If the fuzzy partitions (used as primary sets of the fuzzy rulebase) can be described by vague environments [1], the primary fuzzy sets of the antecedent and the consequent parts of the fuzzy rules can be characterised by points in their vague environments. So the fuzzy...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a multidisciplinary technology devoted to development and implementation of methods and systems that realize inspection and damage detection by integration with structures. This chapter covers the major SHM disciplines which are based on topics such as piezoelectric transducers, elastic waves propagation phenomenon, phased array techniques, damage mechanics...

The objective of the present work is extraction of pectin from waste of orange fruit peel and further characterization for useful alternative pharmaceutical excipient. The pectin was subjected to phytochemical and physicochemical characterization of its safety and suitability to use as binding and suspending agent. FT-IR spectroscopy, DSC studies were performed for drug, orange peel pectin powd...

The crossover of a pure (undiluted) Ising system (spin per site probability p = 1) to a diluted Ising system (spin per site probability p < 0.8) is studied by means of Monte Carlo calculations with p ranging between 1 and 0.8 at intervals of 0.025. The evolution of the self averaging is analyzed by direct determination of the normalized square widths RM and Rχ as a function of p. We find a mono...

Ground pollution arises from the impact of past and current industrial activity and due to improper disposal of waste generated by society. Geoenvironmental engineering deals with the most important aspects: (a) Soil pollution processes and effect on geotechnical properties, and (b) Waste Management. Soil-pollutants interaction changes soil behaviour and also can lead to various geotechnical pr...

The literature on the recent exponential growth of extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented various processes through which this sector been empowered to expand its frontier, as well strategies that affected communities employ resist it. However, article we instead focus how some Maya-Mam residents San Miguel Ixtahuacán understood addressed divisive effects Marlin Mine, op...

Gaussian98 is a connected series of programs from Gaussian, Inc., that can perform a variety of semi-empirical, ab initio, and density functional theory calculations. For more than 20 years, the Gaussian program has been extensively used at universities, and in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries to carry out basic research in the simulation and elucidation of new pharmaceuticals or mate...

Current paper attempts to answer an “exotic” question of usability of OPACs'. The possibilities of implementation of a web usability research in improving efficiency of on-line catalogues interfaces is discussed. Search strategies of users have been analysed as well as a new customer-orientation paradigm, widely used in business, has been suggested in reader treating. The most common mistakes i...

Contextual evidence plays a significant role in perception. It influences the interpretation of sensory evidence and can increase both speed and accuracy. Researchers and clinicians have paid a lot of attention to the auditory sensory evidence available to hearing-impaired subjects and its enhancement by hearing aids and cochlear implants. Much less attention has been paid to the role and use c...