A lot of effort has been invested in the development of the Microstrip Gas Chamber (MSGC) [2] in order to be used as tracker for the LHC project. This technique allows good localization accuracy and double track resolution. However, it is necessary to operate it with a relatively low gas gain because of the presence of the insulator near the amplification region and because of the fragility of ...

Could globalization trigger an environmental "race to the bottom," in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrades environmental standards? Since billions of people subsist on less than two dollars a day, it would be cavalier to dismiss this threat lightly. Indeed, the race-to-the-bottom (RTTB) model provokes widespread concern because its underlying assumptions have an air o...

We present a review of the mean-field approaches describing superdeformed states, which are currently used and/or being developed. As an example, we discuss in more details the properties of superdeformed A∼60 nuclei, and present results of calculations for the rotational band in the doubly magic superdeformed nucleus S.

Monte Carlo calculations are presented for pho-toproduction of the h 0 1 meson at TJNAF energies. The kinematics of these events are then examined to estimate some of the requirements for charged particle detection with a new detector using E 6GeV beams. 1 The 1 +? Nonet and Experimental Status In the constituent quark model for mesonss1], the 1 +? nonet consists of a bound quark-antiquark pair...

639 Dengue virus (DV) infect ion is most ly asymptotic or produces a mild self-limiting acute febrile illness, dengue fever (DF), and a lifethreatening severe illness, dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) with minor or major bleeding from different sites. DHF has emerged as the most important arbovirus disease in man in the last three decades. It has been estimated that about 50 to 100 million cases...

Silicon technology and nanoelectronics are two important components which will shape the future of the IC industry. This paper discusses their mutual interaction, i.e. the contribution that nanotechnology may o er to the evolution of MOS processing, as well as the role that silicon technology could play in the projected development of nanoelectronic

Poverty reduction, as an overarching objective of development, has recently been adopted as an international development goal (IDG). Using the proportion of people living on less than one dollar a day per person as the measure of poverty, the international community identified the reduction of poverty by half by the year 2015 as an international development goal. The one-dollar a day per person...

I discuss the exciting prospects for Higgs and technicolor Goldstone boson physics at a muon collider.

Reflections on the progress, prospects and problems of the voluntary service in mental health movement.

Power transformers are essential assets in power system networks that must be meticulously monitored throughout their operational life cycle. Given a substantial percentage of in-service around the world have reached end projected technical lifespan, utilities adopting various transformer condition-based maintenance strategies to minimize potentially devastating equipment failure. Thus, further...