We present Hubble Space Telescope and ground{based data on the z abs = 0:8596 metal line absorption system along the line of sight to PKS 0454+0356. The system is a moderate redshift damped Lyman alpha system, with N(HI) = (5:7 0:3) 10 20 cm 2 as measured from the Faint Object Spectrograph spectrum. We also present ground{ based images which we use to identify the galaxy which most probably giv...

Modeling impacts of management alternatives on soil carbon storage of farmland in Northwest China F. Zhang, C. Li, Z. Wang, and H. Wu State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, 710 075, PR China Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science...

Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry are combined to determine condensation coefficients for plasma sputtering deposition. The method is applied for palladium deposition onto various substrates and condensation coefficients are found to lie between 0.4 and 0.9. PACS numbers: 81.15.Cd, 52.77.Dq Submitted to: J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. § Corresponding author: Fax ...

This is a case report about the anterior segment findings of epithelial ingrowth in a young female patient after penetrating trauma. The patient underwent multiple surgeries after penetrating trauma and epithelial ingrowth was noted on regular follow-up. Epithelial ingrowth was noted along the inner surface of corneal endothelium along with the presence of cysts. These findings suggest that epi...

We have calculated diffractive dijet production in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at lowQ2 and next-to-leading order (NLO) of perturbative QCD, including contributions from direct and resolved photons. We study how the cross section depends on the factorization scheme and scale Mγ at the virtual photon vertex for the occurance of factorization breaking. The strong Mγ -dependence, which is pres...