Experiments were carried out on the survival and growth of Rasbora daniconius, Puntius ticto and Puntius conchonius. The motivation of the study was to obtain information for growing the fish on a commercial scale for their use as biological control agents against mosquito larvae. The effects of temperature, total hardness, DO, pH and feed on the growth of fish were also investigated. Excessive...

Makoto Kobayashi, M.D., Yohei Kawakami, M.D., Ph.D., Satoshi Tateda, M.D., Shusuke Ota, MD,PhD, Takanobu Otsuka, MD,PhD, Freddie H. Fu, MD, Johnny Huard, Ph.D.. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagoya City Univ...

Doctorate in Mathematics and Applications MAT/09 ii iii To Alessandra and Giovanna iv Acknowledgements Three years as a Ph.D student involved in a multidisciplinary field at the Department of Mathematics and at the Unit of Molecular Epidemiology gave me many opportunities to exchange opinions with a lot of people from completely different research area. Here I would like to take the opportunity...

The groundwater quality was assessed nearby places of Nagalkeni, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The selected physico-chemical parameters were pH, EC, TDS, total hardness (TH), anions like Ca, Mg, Na and K, and cations like SO4, NO3, Cl2, HCO3, and CO3, and Cr(VI). In order to suit the groundwater for drinking and irrigation purposes, compared the value of selected parameters with the value of sele...

V. Bozza and G. Veneziano a Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, via Panisperna 89/A, Rome, Italy. b Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Università di Salerno, I-84081 Baronissi, Italy. c Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy. d CERN, PH Dept., TH Unit, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. e Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, F-75005 Paris, Fr...

The process of nickel electroforming is becoming increasingly important in the manufacture of MST products, as it has the potential to replicate complex geometries with extremely high fidelity. Electroforming of nickel uses multi-component electrolyte formulations in order to maximise desirable product properties. In addition to nickel sulphamate (the major electrolyte component), formulation a...