My paper has two parts. First, I talk about the golden rule. After introducing the rule and its global importance, I explain why many scholars dismiss it as a vague proverb that leads to absurdities when we try to formulate it clearly. I defend the golden rule against such objections. Second, I talk about the golden rule in Persia and Islam; I consider Persian sources (Muslim and non-Muslim) an...

A survey of the River Kali in western Uttar Pradesh (India) has been carried out to assess the contribution of point and non-point sources of pollution to the river. The river shows strong seasonal dependence for various constituents and the water quality deteriorates sharply as it flows through Muzaffarnagar city. The important characteristic associated with the pollution of the river is the d...

In an agricultural catchment area in Germany we analyzed water samples from five entry routes for 2 insecticides. 5 fungicides and 13 herbicides. The sewage plant outlet and the emergency overflow of a sewage sewer contained only herbicides. In each farmyard runoff we found on average 24 g pesticides during application period, presumably caused by cleaning the spraying equipment. In comparison,...

This study analyses the sources of atrazine contamination in the Brusselian sandy aquifer of central Belgium. Atrazine has in the past been used for both agricultural and non-agricultural applications, but it is difficult to distinguish the contamination originating from these two sources. The spatial and temporal covariance of atrazine concentrations was studied by fitting semi-variogram model...

Photometry of individual sources requires an initial phase of detection. The detection process can be separated into two phases: (1) preprocessing of the image, and (2) actual detection, yielding a list of discrete sources. Given a distribution of background intensities, the probabilityof intensitydeviations for light sources as a result of the background can be calculated. Setting a maximum ac...

1.1.3.) Produce a statistical summary that includes: (a.) counters for the spectral combinations produced, binned by brightest-band magnitude; (b.) mean position offsets and variances on both position axes for all band-pair combinations; (c.) chi-square values for all band-pair position discrepancies, binned by brightest-band magnitude. Items (b.) and (c.) will use only bandmerged sources with ...

We construct a perturbative solution to classical noncommutative gauge theory on R3 minus the origin using the Groenewald-Moyal star product. The result describes a noncommutative point charge. Applying it to the quantum mechanics of the noncommutative hydrogen atom gives shifts in the 1S hyperfine splitting which are first order in the noncommutativity parameter.