Background: A field study on the transfer of primordial radionuclides 238U, 232Th, 40K and fallout radionuclides 210Po in different plant species in tropical forest of western Ghats environment is presented. Material and Methods: The Top storey, Second storey, Shrubs and epiphytic plant species were chosen and concentration of these radionuclides in plant and soil were measured by employing gam...

Martin Z. Bazant, Mustafa Sabri Kilic, Brian D. Storey, and Armand Ajdari 1 Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 2 Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 3 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA 02492 4 UMR Gulliver ESPCI-CNRS 7083, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75005 Paris, France (...

The paper analyses the wind-induced responses of multi-storey timber buildings. These structures are characterized by light weight and high flexibility in comparison with traditional materials. Therefore, the analysis of the wind induced vibrations are very important for their designing.

In this paper, we develop a new nonmonotone Armijo-type line search for LS (Liu-Storey) conjugate gradient method for minimizing functions having Lipschitz continuous partial derivatives. The nonmonotone line search can guarantee the global convergence of original LS method under some mild conditions. AMS Subject Classification: 90C30, 65K05

Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the effect soil type on buildings experiencing floor-to-column pounding during earthquakes. Five with 4-storeys, 6-storeys, and 7-storeys were considered. Three types 4-storey building different total heights taken into account which leads at 1/3, 1/2 2/3 height impacted column. Two scenarios considered, i.e. between 6-storey (three cases when co...

Cavallo and Storey subject much received wisdom to scrutiny. They argue persuasively, for example, that early modern doctors and lay people were less obsessed with putrid air as a cause of disease than with the effects of the coldness and dampness of air. (Thus, the taste spread for canopies of thick curtains around the bed to protect the vulnerable brain.) The authors also revisit the accepted...

of metabolic plasticity that enables them to tolerate the constantly changing environmental conditions imposed by the tidal cycle. One such species, the periwinkle snail Littorina littorea, is highly tolerant of oxygen deprivation and has also developed the ability to survive freezing. Many of the biochemical mechanisms that support freezing and/or anoxia survival in intertidal invertebrates ha...