Ion beam diagnostics are routinely used for quantitative analysis of the surface composition of mixture materials up to a depth of a few m. Unfortunately , advantageous properties of the diagnostics, like high depth resolution in combination with a large penetration depth, no destruction of the surface, high sensitivity for large as well as for small atomic numbers, and high sensitivity are mut...

Load-depth curves of an unpoled Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) film composite as a function of temperature were measured by nanoindentation technique. Its reduce modulus and hardness were calculated by the typical Oliver-Pharr method. Then the true modulus and hardness of the PZT film were assessed by decoupling the influence of substrate using methods proposed by Zhou et al. and Korsunsky et al...

Cotton hanks were dyed with three different sulphur dyes using non-sulphide reducing agents such as glucose, fructose, invert sugar and molasses. The alkalies employed for reduction were sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide. Invert sugar as a reducing agent and sodium carbonate as alkali proved to be better as this combination gave results comparable to those obtained with the conventional sod...

For a distribution function F on R and a point q ∈ R, the spherical depth SphD(q;F ) is defined to be the probability that a point q is contained inside a random closed hyper-ball obtained from a pair of points from F . The spherical depth SphD(q;S) is also defined for an arbitrary data set S ⊆ R and q ∈ R. This definition is based on counting all of the closed hyper-balls, obtained from pairs ...

In this paper, we present a system to redistribute computational power in plane sweeping. Plane sweeping allows the generation of novel viewpoints of a scene by testing different depth hypotheses across input cameras. Typical plane sweeping approaches incorporate a uniform depth plane distribution to investigate different depth hypotheses to generate a depth map. When the scene consists of a sp...

12 The potential coupling of nitrogen (N2) fixation and sulfate reduction (SR) was explored in 13 sediments of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Sediment samples were retrieved 14 by a multiple corer at six stations along a depth transect (70 1025 m water depth) at 12°S, 15 covering anoxic and hypoxic bottom water conditions. Benthic N2 fixation, determined by 16 the acetylene reduction a...

The potential coupling of nitrogen (N2) fixation and sulfate reduction (SR) was explored in sediments of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Sediment samples were retrieved by a multiple corer at six stations along a depth transect (70–1025 m water depth) at 12 S, covering anoxic and hypoxic bottom water conditions. Benthic N2 fixation, determined by the acetylene reduction assay, was detec...