An experimental study of the effect of silt and influence of cell confinement on the bearing capacity of circular footings on silty sand was carried out. Laboratory experiments on clean sand and sand containing silt up to 25 % were performed. Cells with different heights and diameters were used to confine the silty sand. The effect of proportion of silt in sand, cell diameter, cell height and t...

Comparisons were made between diameters of 54 bovine follicles greater than 5.9 mm from 32 pairs of ovaries measured on the ovarian surface and diameters of the same follicles subsequently dissected from the ovaries. Seventy-eight percent of follicles measured on the ovarian surface were within 1.9 mm of the size measured after dissection. The remaining 22% of follicles measured on the surface ...

Kantor, W.M., Some large trivalent graphs having small diameters, Discrete Applied Mathematics 37/38 (1992) 353-357. If Iz 2 10, then there is a tnvalent Cayley graph for G =PSL (n. y) whose diameter is O(logla). This paper concerns an improvement of a result of Babai, Kantor and Lubotzky [ 11. In that paper it was shown that there is a constant C such that every non-Abelian finite simple group...

Airborne lidar (light detecting and ranging) is a useful tool for probing the structure of forest canopies. Such information is not readily available from other remote sensing methods and is essential for modern forest inventories. In this study, small-footprint lidar data were used to estimate biophysical properties of young, mature, and old cottonwood trees in the San Pedro River basin near B...

Information on diameter frequency distributions and spatial patterns, together with estimates of diameter growth and mortality, are used to draw up regeneration balance sheets for three stands of red beech (Nothofagus fusca) on Mount Colenso, New Zealand. Because large canopy gaps are a feature of these forests, attention is directed particularly to their future status. It is concluded that, in...

remote sensing and aerial photographs are used to produce medium to small scale images. however, for detailed information especially to estimate rangeland vegetation canopy cover there is a need to larger scale images. it is therefore necessary to study the technical applicability of different devices such as short range light airplanes, kites, gliders and balloons. in this research, we focused...