We have discovered a new type of galaxy in the Fornax Cluster: “ultracompact” dwarfs (UCDs). The UCDs are unresolved in ground-based imaging and have spectra typical of old stellar systems. Although the UCDs resemble overgrown globular clusters, based on VLT UVES echelle spectroscopy, they appear to be dynamically distinct systems with higher internal velocity dispersions and M/L ratios for a g...

Abstract. Threshing floors are common cultural features of the Mediterranean agricultural landscape and have been used from antiquity until some decades ago to thresh grains. Therefore, they constitute an integral part our tangible intangible heritage as constructions that linked with complex relationships between crops, technology, folklore, local materials traditions ancestors. However, today...

The results of the Fornax Compact Object Survey (FCOS) are presented, complementing the first part of the FCOS described in Mieske et al. (2002). The FCOS aims at investigating the nature of the Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) recently discovered in the center of the Fornax cluster (Drinkwater et al. 2000a). 280 unresolved objects with colours 0 < (V −I) < 1.5 mag in the magnitude space cov...

With the aim of circumventing challenges faced farmers in soya bean threshing operation a demonstration new thresher was conducted Guto Gida and Ayana woredas total four kebeles. The demonstrated at farmer training center as well on farmers’ field evaluated for its performance against existing practices by sixty participating both sexes who were members farmer’s research groups. All valuable da...

Some mechanical and process parameters of a developed millet thresher have been optimized using numerical optimization technique. The machine threshes panicles cleans the grains from straw. speed threshing number pegs attached to drum were investigated, while moisture content was parameter under investigation. Threshing efficiency, cleaning percentage losses used as performance characteristics ...