In the 21st century, ethnomusicology tends to welcome an integrated study as a reason of diversifications of research theories and methods. How does Chinese tradition music maintain its natural active state in folk cultural soil under this globalization trend, and how does it adapt this new culture shock? Meanwhile, how do researchers explore interrelationships between music and its culture sur...

The Turaszówka crude oil field is situated within the borders of Krosno town. The oil resources are nearly depleted. Many of the boreholes have already been liquidated. Currently, only 22 boreholes are being exploited. Eight of them are watered and exploiting oil along with the reservoir water. The boreholes were submitted for producing the geothermal energy, because of their location. They are...

Aqueous drops on silicone oil infused lubricating surfaces are cloaked with a thin layer of oil to minimize their surface energy. These oil cloaked aqueous drops exhibit pseudo-stable coalescence or spontaneous coalescence depending upon the lubricating oil thickness which controls the interaction point of the drops. For thick oil films, drops interact with each other through the surrounding oi...

The repellent action of neem oil was evaluated against sand flies under laboratory and field conditions. Concentrations of 2% neem oil mixed in coconut or mustard oil provided 100% protection against Phlebotomus argentipes throughout the night under field conditions; against Phlebotomus papatasi it repelled sand flies for about 7 h in the laboratory. Neem oil is an indigenous product and a low-...

iranian oil buy back contract is a kind of service contract that foreign party carries out all operations in development or reconstruction of oil or gas field with its costs. in return, national iranian oil company obliges to compensate contractor all capital or non-capital costs necesserly by produced oil or gas from the same field. the energy charter treaty as the most perfect international t...

The European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a highly destructive pest. Methods to control it are limited and alternatives are needed. Observations of cherry fruit flies suggest that females exert much effort to penetrate cherries at color change stage (from green to yellow) for oviposition. Therefore, the question arose as to whether a physical barrier on th...

We consider a spherical thick 3-brane immersed in a five-dimensional bulk spacetime. We demonstrate how the thick brane equation of motion expanded in powers of the thickness of the brane can be obtained from the expected junction conditions on the boundaries of thick brane with the two embedding spacetimes. It is shown that the finite thickness leads to a faster collapse of the spherical shell...

In Vitro Activity and Durability of a Combination of an Antibiofilm 1 and an Antibiotic against Vascular Catheter Colonization 2 3 4 5 6 Mohammad D. Mansouri,* ,a,b Richard A. Hull, Charles E. Stager, Richard M. Cadle, 7 and Rabih O. Darouiche 8 9 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; and Michael E. DeBakey 10 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA 11 12 13 Running Titl...