One year after his demise, the reinforced concrete shells of engineer Luis Alberto Monsalve Ortiz, from Cuenca-Ecuador, are discovered. His structures range elliptical to hyperbolic paraboloids, rectangular hexagonal umbrellas, whether they were inverted or straight ones, conoids conical segments, cylinders spherical caps, and other double-curved surfaces designed built between 1964 1980. Start...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.004 0003-3472/© 2014 The Association for the Study of A In resource defence polygyny, where males defend resources that females use for reproduction, the resource characteristics preferred by the two sexes are expected to match. We tested this expectation by comparing the shell characteristics preferred by males and females in the shell-brooding cichl...

Abstract— The main aim of this study was to control the nonlinear process using multi-model PI controller. A multi model is developed for conical tank and it is validated against the real time setup conical tank process. A Multi model based PI controller is also developed, and implemented with realtime setup, and their performances are compared with that of the conventional controller of real t...

in this work, efficiency and performance of hazelnut shells (hs) adsorbent was examined for the removal and recovery of direct red 12b (dr12b) from wastewater. the absorbance of dr12b was measured spectrophotometrically at λmax=523 nm before and after adsorption of dr12b. the maximum removal was 99.8% for 30 mg l –1 ofdr12b concentration on 0.3 gr hs adsorbent. acidic ph was favourable for the ...

one of the effective methods to improve the thermal efficiency of solar collectors is using nanofluids as the coolant. the present study experimentally investigated the effect of sio2/water nanofluid with 1% mass fraction on the performance of a symmetric collector, i.e. conical solar collector. the conical solar collector with 1 m2 area and normal to the earth was tested in ahvaz, a city in th...

In Shark Bay, Western Australia, bottlenose dolphins Tursiops sp. carry conical sponges Echinodictyum mesenterinum on their rostra in the only documented cetacean foraging behaviour using a tool (‘sponging’). In this study, we examined the influence of various ecological factors on live sponge distribution and the occurrence of sponging in parts of the western gulf of Shark Bay. We assessed spo...

The existing formula for the transfer matrix of conical elements assumes constant wave number, which is only valid for sufficiently short conical elements. In acoustic waveguides, the phase velocity, attenuation constant, and hence complex wave number depend on frequency and cross-section radius. As for conical waveguides, the cross-section radius is position dependent, the transfer matrix must...