The term ‘propolis’ was used in Ancient Greece meaning: pro (for, in front of, e.g., at the entrance to) and polis (city or community); a substance that is for or in defence of the city or hive. Propolis is a resinous substance collected by honeybees from leaf buds and exudates from various plant sources, which is employed for construction and repair of the honeycomb. More than 180 compounds ha...

A catalog of 383 earthquakes in southeastern New York, southwestern Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, including metropolitan New York City and Philadelphia, is compiled from historical and instrumental data from 1677 through 2006. A magnitude-felt area relationship is used to calculate the equivalent magnitudembLg prior to the advent of abundant instrumental data in 19...

subject, but populations of subjects, with varying distributions of capacities. And the practices that produce these capacities can be analyzed with political categories. Following Deleuze's bio-political orientation, we can call the socially embedded person the "body politic." The relationality of bodies politic is shown when we consider that access to training in affective and cognitive copin...

In cities with tall buildings, emergency responders need an accurate floor level location to find 911 callers quickly. We introduce a system to estimate a victim’s floor level via their mobile device’s sensor data in a two-step process. First, we train a neural network to determine when a smartphone enters or exits a building via GPS signal changes. Second, we use a barometer equipped smartphon...

The spatial stability analysis of two dimensional, steady channel flow is investigated in the downstream entry zone. A model based on previous work, is presented for the base flow, which represents a small deformation of plane Poiseuille flow. The base flow evolution towards the fully developed state comes from the experimental and theoretical study of M. Asai and J.M. Floryan ”Certain aspects ...

Transmission of an arbitrarily polarized plane wave by an arbitrarily oriented spheroid in the short-wavelength limit is considered in the context of ray theory. The transmitted electric field is added to the diffracted plus reflected ray-theory electric field that was previously derived to obtain an approximation to the far-zone scattered intensity in the forward hemisphere. Two different type...

our understanding of the patterns of ectopic activity that might arise as a consequence of the interaction of two pacemakers across a zone of block. Superfusion of the central segment of a dog Purkinje fiber with an ion-free isotonic sucrose solution provided a narrow region of block. The modulation of pacemaker activity by electrotonic potentials transmitted across the area of block was shown ...

In this paper the analytical solutions for radial consolidation that include time dependent surcharge loading and vacuum pressure are proposed, whilst also considering the impact of the parabolic variation of permeability in the smear zone. The use of the spectral method for multilayered soil consolidation is introduced and verified. The Elliptical Cavity Expansion Theory is used to predict the...

Generation of acidic groundwater attributed to pyrite oxidation in low-lying acid sulfate soil has caused substantial damage the soil-water environment and civil infrastructure coastal Australia. The installation permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) is a frontier technology field neutralisation removal toxic heavy metal cations – for example, soluble iron (Fe) aluminium (Al). This study aims asse...