“They carried their mugs and the kettle and the tin plate piled with thick slabs of brown bread and marmalade to the edge of the cliff. The island lay about a mile away towards the lower, southern end of the lake, its trees reflected in the glassy water. They had been looking at it for ten days, but the telegram had made it much more real than ever it had been before. Looking down from Titty’s ...

TiN films were prepared by the Cathodic arc evaporation deposition method under different negative substrate bias. AFM image analyses show that the growth mode of biased coatings changes from 3D island to lateral when the negative bias potential is increased. Nanohardness of the thin films was measured by nanoindentation, and residual stress was determined using Grazing incidence X ray diffract...

sufficient coating of tin being applied, or to the cooks cleaning the surface of the utensils with sand and thus laying bare the copper. The result is probably a committee, which either throws the blame on the cooks or the tinning contractor, and causes much trouble to the regimental authorities and the commissariat department A short time ago when inspecting the hospital cooking utensils which...

quarantine must necessarily have some connection with that country. But, owing perhaps to the conditions of the ocean trade with India and the unique relation of the Indian inhabitants to those of other countries not being sufficiently brought into prominence and accordingly misunderstood, it has been somewhat hastily assumed that there is great danger of transportation of cholera by sea from I...

The crystal structures of the tri- and tetrahydrate of tin tetrachloride, viz. diaquatetrachlorotin(IV) monohydrate, [SnCl(4)(H(2)O)(2)].H(2)O, and diaquatetrachlorotin(IV) dihydrate, [SnCl(4)(H(2)O)(2)].2H(2)O, are reported and shown to contain the cis-[SnCl(4)(H(2)O)(2)] species and water molecules in both cases. The trihydrate contains chains of the tin species linked by a single hydrogen-bo...

The case-only design, which requires only diseased subjects, allows for estimation of multiplicative interactions between factors known to be independent in the study population. The design is being used as an alternative to the case-control design to study gene-environment interactions. Estimates of gene-environment interactions have been shown to be very efficient relative to estimates obtain...

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From shacks in the shantytowns of Lima, Peru, to tin-roofed mud huts in the slums of Gujarat, India, insecurity of tenure and uneven income streams force the poor to build their homes tentatively, one wall at a time. Yet the poor lack access to financial institutions and financial products tailored to the way they build.This, despite the fact that in so many developing cities around the world a...

As a common resource, the CAN bus has to be shared by all computing nodes. Access to the bus has to be scheduled in a way that distributed computations meet their deadlines in spite of competition for the communication medium. The paper presents an evaluation of a resource scheduling scheme for CAN, which is based on time-slot reservation and dynamic priorities. The processing overhead as well ...