adaptation of the lord of the rings is considered by many to be among the greatest, most successful and at the same time most popular of the above mentioned trend so far. it is my intention to look at the success and popularity of this epic fantasy in the light of the 9/11 attacks and the war on terror context of g. w. bush’s aura. in so doing i aim at bringing into the light the determining fa...

Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Y3Al5O12) is a transparent ceramic with a wide range of applications such as high mechanical strength windows, high power laser sources and radiation detectors. The most important challenge in making these ceramics is the problem of low light transmittance, especially in the visible area in the range of 400 to 700 nm, which is greatly affected and reduced by various fac...