We present results of a search for galaxies around the highly obscured giant radio galaxy PKS1343– 601 using the near-infrared DENIS survey. We compare our findings with surveys in the B-band, at the 21 cm line emission, and with 2MASS. Recession velocities of galaxies in this area suggest a low-velocity-dispersion group or cluster of galaxies including an X-ray confirmed Seyfert 2. The colours...

The Raman spectra of a lithium tantalate crystal doubly doped with chromium and neodymium LiTaO3:Cr(0.2):Nd(0.45 wt%) have been studied in this paper. the first second orders found to be located against background luminescent halo maximum at ?1250 cm?1. Several bands detected frequency range 900–2000 Their frequencies were 940, 1034, 1113, 1171, 1250, 1343, 1428, 1491, 1582, 1735, 1838, 1925 Th...

Is it in politicians’ interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population’s SWB or “happiness”. This paper investigates the extent to which citizens themselves judge national success in such terms. Using cross-country panel data, the analysis shows that the el...

The highly obscured radio-bright galaxy PKS 1343 – 601 at Galactic coordinates of (l, b) = (309. ◦7,+1. ◦8) has been suspected to mark the centre of a hitherto unknown cluster in the wider Great Attractor region. As such it presents an ideal region for a search of galaxies in the near-infrared (NIR) and an in-depth study of their colours as a function of extinction. A visual search of a ∼30 squ...