Man-made marine structures (MMS) are commonly used to describe any artificial structure in the environment, encompassing oil and gas infrastructure pipelines, reefs, jetties, piers shipwrecks. MMS increasingly proposed address issues facing planners, including augmenting fish stocks through creation of reefs repurposing redundant offshore (‘rigs reefs’). Marine spatial planning is a highly cont...

THIS little book by Professor Rendle Short sets out to give an account of the structure and functions of the human body for the non-medical reader, and to present the student of physiology with accurate and up-to-date facts from a somewhat unusual angle. There is no doubt that the author succeeds in both these objects, and he gives a most interesting and instructive set of chapters ranging in s...

The Beef Information Nucleus is a series of large, well structured progeny test programs undertaken by Breed Societies with cofunding assistance from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). Young bulls of high genetic merit are joined by either AI or natural mating to a commercial cow base to produce progeny which are managed commercially as one cohort and measured for a range of economically traits....

The impeller under consideration is a rotor wheel of centrifugal compressor, made 17-4PH martensitic precipitated hardening stainless steel. Its total operating lifetime was estimated to 80,000 h, but it fractured beforehand, 4 days after the scheduled overhaul without any observed pre-symptoms. important causes failure were its working conditions: moist H2S environment, applied shaft fitting s...