Environmental Justice is a movement that was born in the early 1980s to assure fair distribution of environmental risks and benefits (Bullard 1996). In many occasions, minority communities are more affected by environmentally hazardous substances and activities than other population groups. This normally happens because they either ignore the problem or have less power to have an opinion about ...

Converging evidences have indicated that the ability to generate creative ideas could be limited by recently activated knowledge such as examples of solutions. However, neuroimaging studies have recently demonstrated that exposure to examples did not systematically lead to fixation and could on the contrary have a stimulation effect on creativity.Our hypothesis is that there are two types of ex...

It is shown that for any expansive, integer valued 2×2 matrix, there exists a (multi-)wavelet whose Fourier transform is compactly supported and smooth. A key step is showing that for almost every equivalence class of integrally similar matrices there is a representative A which is strictly expansive in the sense that there is a compact set K which tiles the plane by integer translations and su...

A general framework for investigating topological actions of Z d on compact metric spaces was proposed by Boyle and Lind in terms of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces of R d. Here we completely describe this expansive behavior for the class of algebraic Z d-actions given by commuting automorphisms of compact abelian groups. The description uses the logarithmic image of an alg...

Expansive soil is one of the most widely distributed special soils in world. It developed Henan, Anhui, Guangxi and other places China, highly overlaps with densely populated economically active areas. considered a typical “problematic soil” because its mechanical behaviour very sensitive to water content changes; such mainly manifests as swelling upon wetting shrinking drying, so presence expa...

Crack development in a changing environment is the controlling factor for stability and strength of expansive soils. Expansive soils exhibit large volumetric changes with their moisture conditions that may occasionally lead to reduced bearing capacity foundation failures. This study purports model crack initiation its spatial progression relation content drying period, respectively. Volumetric ...

The design and construction of a high-performance, low-cost, and easy to assemble adiabatic extension set for homebuilt and commercial spectrometers is described. Described apparatus set was designed for the fast adiabatic passage generation and is based on direct digital synthesizer DDS. This solution gives generator high signal to noise ratio, phase stability even during frequency change whic...

The spectrum of neurological complications associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is broad. The most frequent etiologies include primary diseases (caused by HIV itself) or secondary diseases (opportunistic infections or neoplasms). Despite these conditions, HIV-infected patients are susceptible to other infections observed in patients without HIV infection. Here w...

Video games, unlike traditional, non-digital games, are based on a combination of fixed rules which cannot be broken from the player position, and implied rules which are not enforced by the computer program. It is relatively common, however, for players to impose additional or alternative rules on video games, in order to refine or expand gameplay and to create new gaming experiences. This pap...

Soil is naturally occurring material that is used for the construction of structures except the surface layers of pavements. This naturally occurring soil may not suit the design requirements of ongoing project. So, soil is to be prepared to meet the requirements called soil stabilization. Stabilization is the process of blending of different soils or mixing of additives to a soil to improve ch...