A number of the world’s major libraries are embarking on large-scale projects to digitize books, journals, newspapers, and other printed materials. The main purpose of these mass digitization initiatives is to make published content visible to text indexing engines and accessible online for viewing and printing. The projects also present significant archiving challenges: capabilities must be de...

This paper presents empirical evidence and analysis suggesting significant heat loss from air movement through cavities in party walls in masonry construction. The measurements have been made during the course of coheating tests undertaken as part of the Stamford Brook housing field trial. Direct measurements show the additional heat loss may amount to up to 30% of total heat loss in the dwelli...

Functionalized single-wall carbon nanotubes (f-SWCN) are dispersed in chitosan films by self-assembly of both components aqueous media. This form is a promising nanofiller to achieve nanocomposites with refined thermal, mechanical and surface features. In this study, we investigated the influence functionalized concentration on resulting properties structures. molecular scale polymeric matrix d...

The glp-1 gene is essential for two cell interactions that control cell fate in Caenorhabditis elegans: induction of anterior pharynx in the embryo and induction of mitotic proliferation in the germ line. To identify other genes involved in these cell interactions, we have isolated suppressors of two temperature sensitive alleles of glp-1. Each of 14 recessive suppressors rescues both embryonic...