Historical maps are precious materials, which show various spatial distribution of land use, streets and so on of the historical importance at the time the maps were produced. They may be a dependable source of information regarding concepts of city planning of the past. In analysis of historical maps, the most practical method is to compare them with the present ones, for instance, by overlayi...

Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol (EVOH) is a random copolymer of ethylene and vinyl alcohol, commonly used as a barrier to hydrocarbons in automotive fuel systems and agricultural pesticide and herbicide solvents. EVOH provides extremely high resistance to the migration of gases and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s). The incorporation of EVOH in radon resistant new construction has the potential to dram...

The design of multi stage deep drawing processes requires the evaluation of many process parameters such as the intermediate die geometry, the blank shape, the sheet thickness, the blank holder force, friction, lubrication etc..These process parameters have to be determined for the optimum forming conditions before the process design. In general sheet metal forming may involve stretching drawin...

In this paper, I propose a new methodology for analysing landscape drawing methods using a GIS. The subject of my analysis is the genre of Japanese screen paintings known as rakuchū rakugai zu, created between the 16th and 18th centuries. Rakuchū rakugai zu provide bird’s-eye views of the then-capital city of Kyoto, including buildings, natural features, and human activities. The methodology in...

Many termite species use clay to build foraging galleries and mound-nests. In some cases clay is placed within excavations of their wooden food, such as living trees or timber in buildings; however the purpose for this clay is unclear. We tested the hypotheses that termites can identify load bearing wood, and that they use clay to provide mechanical support of the load and thus allow them to ea...

Very high resolution (VHR) satellite images have the potential for revealing changes occurred overtime with a superior level of detail. However, their use for metric purposes requires accurate geo-localization with ancillary DEMs and GCPs to achieve sub-pixel terrain correction, in order to obtain images useful for mapping applications. Change detection with a time series of VHS images is not a...

Stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, is a biting fly that can cause severe irritation to livestock resulting in reduced productivity. The most common method of monitoring S. calcitrans is through the use of sticky traps and many designs have been developed using different colours and materials such as alsynite fibreglass and polypropylene sheeting. Laboratory experiments and some field experimentat...

Data mining is part of the interdisciplinary field of knowledge discovery in databases. Research on data mining began in the 1980s and grew rapidly in the 1990s.Specific techniques that have been developed within disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and pattern recognition have been successfully employed in data mining. Data mining has been successfully introduced in ma...

Pesticide spills are common occurrences at agricultural cooperatives and farmsteads. When inadvertent spills occur, chemicals normally beneficial can become point sources of ground and surface water contamination. We report results from a field trial where approximately 765 m3 of soil from a metolachlor [2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl) acetamide] spill site was t...

PURPOSE To describe a noninvasive instrument that estimates intraocular pressure during episodes of external globe compression and to demonstrate the accuracy and reliability of this device by comparing it to the intraocular pressures simultaneously and manometrically measured in cannulated eyes. METHODS A thin fluid-filled bladder was constructed from flexible and inelastic plastic sheeting ...