Professor Plum was murdered in his new SMC science building office! Unfortunately, the killer was clever enough to eliminate most physical evidence of how the crime was committed. Your boss, Inspector Clouseau of Santa Monica Homicide has called in your team of forensic chemists to examine a blood stain found on the carpet under Professor Plum's desk for possible clues. It is hoped that chemica...

The mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, covering the electromagnetic spectrum from about 2.5 to 25 ┤m wavelength, is of unique interest for many applications, especially for molecular spectroscopy, because the vibrational frequencies of almost all target molecules and hydrocarbons are in this spectral region, such as NO, NO2, CO, CO2, HF, and CH4. The specific application areas for molecular spectros...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 245 I. BACKGROUND OF PIRACY IN CHINA .................................................. 246 A. Piracy Today and the Increase in Internet Users .................. 246 B. History of Piracy as an Acceptable Practice in Chinese Culture .....................................................................

sulfur mustard (sm) has been used as a chemical weapon in some conflicts, and many veterans and civilians have been injured thereby. pulmonary, cutaneous, and ocular effects of sm have been frequently reported, although it seems that other organs such as the cardiovascular system are probably also affected. there are a number of studies evaluating the cardiovascular impacts of sm. however, thes...

Cyanide is highly toxic Cyanide is one of the most toxic chemical substances on Earth. Cyanide is toxic to most aquatic life and humans, even at low concentrations. Its use in gold mining is controversial. The extreme toxicity of cyanide arises from its readiness to react with other elements and hence interfere with normal biological processes. Cyanide gas is a biological weapon and was used in...

The elimination of stockpiled weaponry constitutes a key step in arms control and disarmament processes, lending permanence irreversibility to reductions. Yet it has proven challenging practice. destruction advanced weapon components, like lethal chemical agents the fissile materials from which nuclear weapons are constructed, is often technically complex costly. To elucidate dynamics this back...

Multi-Agent System for Predictive Reconfiguration of Shipboard Power Systems. (December 2003) Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava, B.E., University of Gorakhpur; M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Karen Butler-Purry The electric power systems in U.S. Navy ships supply energy to sophisticated systems for weapons, communications, navigation and operation. The re...

This paperreporrsa test of the endowmenteffect in an economicanalysisof localizedair pollution. Regressiontechniquesare used to test the significanceof perceivedproperty rights on householdWTP for improvedair qualityversus WTA compensationto forgo an improvementin air quality. Ourexperimentcontributesto the researchintothe WTP/WTAdivergenceby providing a new basis for supportingthe existenceof ...

Iran and Iraq war data were obtained from internet and curve-fitted with Lanchester/Osipov war model. It was found that the data obeys the square law and that the war was a mixed one of 10.8% guerilla and 89.2% conventional as depicted by their parameters in the model. Also it was found that Iraq heavily used Chemical weapon (e.g. mustard gas, arsenic, mytotoxic) against Iranian soldiers. This ...