in this paper, the effect of polypropylene fibers added to concrete on strength and thermal resistance of high strength concrete has been investigated. therefore, five tests have been carried out to reach this goal which it includes; effect of weight percent of polypropylene fibers on mechanical properties of concrete, effect of fiber’s length on the strength of high strength concrete, effect o...

A two dimensional deformation due to internal heat source in a thermoelastic solid with microtemperatures under the dependence of modulus of elasticity and thermal conductivity on reference temperature has been studied. A mechanical force of constant magnitude is applied at the free surface of thermoelastic half space. The normal modes technique has been applied to obtain the exact expressions ...

Accurate values of the thermal conductivity and specific heat of deuterium are necessary to make high quality cryogenic laser fusion targets. Due to the difficulty of measuring these values at cryogenic temperatures, the “3ω” method is used. This involves passing an oscillating current through a platinum wire embedded in deuterium and measuring the third-harmonic voltage that results from the t...

I study the mobility and economic outcomes of European immigrants and their children in 19th-century Argentina, the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration. I use new data linking males across censuses and passenger lists of arrivals to Buenos Aires. First-generation immigrants experienced faster occupational upgrading than natives. Occupational mobility was substant...

The quantum magnetic oscillations of electrical sShubnikov–de Haas effectd and thermal conductivities are studied for graphene which represents a distinctive example of planar systems with a linear, Dirac-like spectrum of quasiparticle excitations. We show that if utmost care is taken to separate electron and phonon contributions in the thermal conductivity, the oscillations of electron thermal...

Recent evidence suggests that the neural mechanisms underlying memory for serial order and interval timing of sequential events are closely linked. We present a dynamic neural field model which exploits the existence and stability of multi-bump solutions with a gradient of activation to store serial order. The activation gradient is achieved by applying a state-dependent threshold accommodation...

We present experimental results on shallow junction formation in germanium by phosphorus ion implantation and standard rapid thermal processing. An attempt is made to improve phosphorus activation by implanting phosphorus at high and low temperature. The focus is on studying the germanium damage and phosphorus activation as a function of implant temperature. Rutherford backscattering spectromet...

Satellite remote sensing of smoke aerosol and estimates of aerosol forcing of climate require knowledge of the aerosol optical properties. A smoke aerosol physical and optical model is developed from a database of over 800 volume size distributions inverted from sky radiance data measured by the AERONET radiometer network in Brazil over a 3-year period. The model represents total column, ambien...

We use hydrodynamical N -body simulations to study the kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect. We construct sets of maps, one square degree in size, in three different cosmological models. We confirm earlier calculations that on the scales studied the kinetic effect is much smaller than the thermal (except close to the thermal null point), with an rms dispersion smaller by about a factor five in the...