Reddish fine sediment runoff from upland fields has been one of the causes of coastal environmental pollution in Okinawa, Japan. Planting grass strips is a well-known measure to reduce runoff of nonpoint-source pollutants from agricultural fields. In this study, we investigated the performance of a centipede grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.) strip for reducing sediment runoff from an...

One-way separation of amino acids by electrophoresis at high voltage is now a well-established procedure (Gross, 1955). With the large number of amino acids often found in biological fluids, it is, however, very difficult to obtain satisfactory separation without overlap of spots. Several investigators have used techniques for the separation of amino acids and other substances by a combination ...

the machine to be designed and developed with a view to resolve one ofthe irksome problems of this institute has been facing every year. this institute issurrounded by vast non- fertile land area of about 200 acres, which becomes widelyoccupied by numerous breads of bushes and shrubs during post-rainy season. due tothis unwanted proliferation of such verdant institute gets abysmal look and that...

Limited by the deficiency of the finite element method (FEM) to deal with infinite domain problems, the traditional FEM rolling model is not suitable enough to study the effect of the complex internal stress of the incoming strip on hot rolling deformation. To solve this problem, the finite element and infinite element (FE-IE) coupling method is adopted, where the finite element is for the roll...

We described an assay for theophylline in serum in which the reagents for the substrate-labeled fluorescent immunoassay procedure are dry reagents in a paper matrix. This assay format is both rapid and convenient. In one such paper strip assay, the competing drug conjugate is present in the diluting buffer (dilution-into-conjugate strip assay); in another, all necessary assay reagents are conta...

The results from ‘strip yield’ approach of the FASTRAN type models of plasticity induced crack closure effects of fatigue cracks subjected to variable amplitude loadings are presented. The strip yield results are compared with authors’ finite element (FE) and experimental results. It has been observed that the strip yield model is seen to be fundamentally limited by choice of α (constraint fact...

One advantage of smart grids is that they can reduce the peak load by distributing electricity-demands over multiple short intervals. Finding a schedule that minimizes the peak load corresponds to a variant of a strip packing problem. Normally, for strip packing problems, a given set of axis-aligned rectangles must be packed into a fixed-width strip, and the goal is to minimize the height of th...

Associate Professor, Graduate Aeronautical laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. The tip velocity of a crack propagating through a vi scoelastic material depends on geometry, apptied toad and its history , and material properties. A consideration of the work done by the unloading tractions at the crack tip shows that, f or a large crack propagating throitgh an infin...

In this paper, we report our first-step results of high resolution He i 10830 Å narrow-band imaging (bandpass: 0.5 Å) of an M1.8 class two-ribbon flare on July 5, 2012. The flare was observed with the 1.6 meter aperture New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. For this unique data set, sunspot dynamics during flaring were analyzed for the first time. By directly imaging the upper chro...

In 2 experiments, dark-cutting (DC) beef strip loins were used to test the effects of citric acid-enhancement pH on visual and instrumental color of fresh and cooked steaks. In Exp. 1 and 2, each DC (mean pH = 6.57 and 6.65, respectively) and normal-pH, low USDA Choice (CH; mean pH = 5.48 and 5.51, respectively) strip loin was cut into 2 equal-length sections, and DC sections were injected to 1...