The aim of this study was to assess the effects of strip cropping and different weed control methods on the yield and yield structure of dent maize, narrow-leafed lupin and spring oat. A split-plot design with four replications was conducted in 2008-2010. The following factors were analysed in the experiment: I. Cultivation method – sole cropping and strip cropping; II. Weed control method ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the in vitro susceptibility of chloramphenicol against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, from January to June 2012. METHODOLOGY One hundred and seventy four isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wer...

Two new Chinese species of the leafhopper genus Onukigallia, Onukigallia neoonukiisp. n. from Sichuan and Guangdong Provinces, and Onukigallia tumidasp. n. from Hubei and Hunan Provinces are described and illustrated. A key and an updated checklist with distributions of Onukigallia species are provided.

Abstract In the present paper, fundamental frequency optimization of symmetrically laminated composite plates is studied using the combination of Elitist-Genetic algorithm (E-GA) and finite strip method (FSM). The design variables are the number of layers, the fiber orientation angles, edge conditions and plate length/width ratios. The classical laminated plate theory is used to calculate the n...

Sandwich construction is widely accepted as a method of construction especially in the aircraft industry. It is a type of stressed skin construction formed by bonding two thin faces to a thick core, the faces resist all of the applied edge loads and provide all or nearly all of the required rigidities, the core spaces the faces to increase cross section moment of inertia about common neutral ax...

ISSN 2277 – 5056 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract--A FEM simulation study was carried out to investigate the influence of the rolling parameters on the rolling process. Using commercial FEM software, ABAQUS, a number of cases were studied. In this paper, a twodimensional Elastic-plastic finite element model to simulate the cold rolling of thick strip with different roll angular velocity and roll diam...

Frontal lobe epilepsies may present difficulties in focus localization in the pre-operative work-up for epilepsy surgery. This is specially true in patients with normal MRIs. We report on a 16 years-old girl that started with seizures by the age of 8 years. They were brief nocturnal episodes with automatisms such as bicycling and boxing. Seizure frequency ranged from 4-10 per night. Scalp EEG s...

An optimized design of a neutron detector based on timing RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) with boron-10 converters is presented. The composed stack ten double gap aluminium cathode plates coated both sides 10B4C. This enables simultaneous determination high accuracy the time-of-flight (down to ns resolution) and interaction position in 3D 0.25 mm resolution across ∼1 along beam). It shown that ...