in this research, the decay resistance of bagasse-polypropylene composite has been evaluated. the scope of research was to assess the effect of different weight percentages of bagasse (40, 55 and 70%) and coupling agent, (mapp) maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (0, 4 and 6%) on the fungal decay of the composite. astm d1413-99 modified test method was used to carry out the decay test, trame...

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“We are without allies amongst the Iraqi populace, including those who have benefited from the ouster of Saddam. . . . Across Baghdad, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, Salman Pak, Baqubah, Balad, Taji, Baiji, Ramadi, and just about everywhere else you can name, the people absolutely hate us. . . . The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans are selling, and no amount of military activity is ...

The research work was carried out to evaluate and compare the growth performance and productivity of a strain of silkworm, Bombyx mori (EC1) fed with three different varieties of mulberry plant (K2, S-36 and E-Lobe).The experiment was carried out at ambient conditions 37oC and 55% R.H. The parameters used to evaluate the growth performance were larval length, width and weight while the characte...

The tame kernel of the K2 of a number field F is the kernel of some explicit map K2F → ⊕ k∗ v , where the product runs over all finite primes v of F and kv is the residue class field at v. When S is a set of primes of F , containing the infinite ones, we can consider the S-unit group US of F . Then US ⊗ US has a natural image in K2F . The tame kernel is contained in this image if S contains all...

A (k1, k2)-outdegree-splitting of a digraph D is a partition (V1, V2) of its vertex set such that D[V1] and D[V2] have minimum outdegree at least k1 and k2, respectively. We show that there exists a minimum function fT such that every tournament of minimum outdegree at least fT (k1, k2) has a (k1, k2)outdegree-splitting, and fT (k1, k2) ≤ k 1/2+3k1/2+k2+1. We also show a polynomial-time algorit...

We show that there exist knots K ⊂ S with g(E(K)) = 2 and g(E(K#K#K)) = 6. Together with [5, Theorem 1.5], this proves existence of counterexamples to Morimoto’s Conjecture [10]. This is a special case of [6]. Let Ki (i = 1, 2) be knots in the 3-sphere S, and let K1#K2 be their connected sum. We use the notation t(·), E(·), and g(·) to denote tunnel number, exterior, and Heegaard genus respecti...

If the correct interpretation of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data is νμ → ντ oscillation, the contained data sample should already have more than 10 τ appearance events. We study the challenging task of detecting the τ , focussing on the decay chain τ → ρ ± → π±π0 in events with quasi-elastic τ production. The background level, which is currently quite uncertain because of a lack ...

The strangeness-changing (∆S = 1) weak baryon-baryon interaction is studied through the nonmesonic weak decay of double-Λ hypernuclei. Besides the usual nucleon-induced decay ΛN → NN we discuss novel hyperon-induced decay modes ΛΛ → ΛN and ΛΛ → ΣN . These reactions provide unique access to the exotic ΛΛK and ΛΣK vertices which place new constraints on Chiral Pertubation Theory (χPT) in the weak...