Light is an electromagnetic transverse wave, which means that it oscillates in directions perpendicular to its propagation (see Figure 1). Since light is a wave, it is characterized by its wavelength—the distance from peak to peak. Electromagnetic wavelengths cover a very wide range but only a tiny part of this range (about 400 to 700 nanometers) is visible to humans and thus of interest for sh...

This paper presents an advanced methodology for the detection of damage in aircraft composite materials based on sensor fusion two image-based non-destructive evaluation techniques. Both techniques, phased-array ultrasonics and infra-red thermography, are benchmarked aircraft-grade painted material skin panel with stringers. The sensors systems carrying out inspections have been developed minia...

more, syringes cannot be sterilized assembled or lubricated, and the syringe containers, whether multiple or single, must be so constructed that steam can freely penetrate to all surfaces of the syringe (Stewart, 1957; Darmady and Hughes, 1955). After sterilization a separate process is necessary to seal the containers before distribution to the user. Although syringes in their containers can b...

The Standard Model (SM) is a great success in describing the strong and electroweak interactions based on an underlying gauge principle, but one of its main weaknesses is that the masses of the matter particles, the quarks and leptons, are free parameters of the theory. This weakness persists in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The fermions mass problem in the MSSM arises from ...

Incorporation of copper species into silica matrix was performed by the sol-gel method. Copper ions and copper particles were doped using two different copper sources; Cu(NO3)2.3H2O and copper particles chemically synthesized.The particles of copper metallic, cuprous and cupric oxide were prepared and the synthesis and characterizations of copper species were compared together. On the other han...

Near IR, multi epoch, spectroscopic and photometric observations of the enigmatic, eruptive variable V838 Mon in the JHK bands are reported. One of unusual features of the spectra is the detection of several strong neutral TiI lines in emission in the K band. From the strength of these lines, the mass of the ejected envelope is estimated to be in the range 10−7 to 10−5 M . The spectra also show...

Gauged supergravities (in four and five dimensions) with eight supercharges and with vector supermultiplets have a unique ultra-violet (UV) fixed point on a given physical domain M of the space of the scalar fields. We show that in these models the infra-red (IR) fixed points are located on the boundary of M, where the space-time metric becomes singular. e-mail: [email protected] e-mai...