Workshop on Antenna Measurement Techniques Held in Kolkata, India [Meeting Reports]

Low Perturbation Antenna Impedance Measurement Techniques

The indirect two-port reflection method for measuring antenna impedances is reviewed using scattering parameter techniques and developed into a more accurate low perturbation optically coupled transmission measurement. This transmission measurement infers the antenna impedance by measuring the voltage induced in a number of loads connected to the antenna port with reference to the antenna used ...

Rotavirus Vaccine Workshop Held

More than 125 participants from at least 15 countries attended the Fifth Rotavirus Vaccine Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, October 16-17, 1995. Rotavirus has emerged as the most important cause of severe diarrhea in children worldwide. It is a problem not only in developing countries, where it kills an estimated 870,000 children each year, b...

Meeting Reports

Evaluation of the impact of landfill leachate on groundwater quality in Kolkata, India

The present study is aimed at characterizing the landfill leachate as well as its impact on the surrounding groundwater in Kolkata, India. Landfill leachate has been seasonally characterized from 2012-2014, indicating the landfill site in methanogenic phase with high contamination of organics, nutrients, salts, and heavy metals. Sixty groundwater samples have been analyzed for twenty two physic...

Meeting Reports

The 8th Technicon International Congress, was held from the 12th-14th December, at the Wembley Conference Centre, London, UK. It is over seven years since such an event was last held in the United Kingdom and over the three days of the congress a wide range of analytical topics covering both industrial and clinical chemistry were covered in the various sessions. In addition the delegates were a...