New Zealand microcosm of subtropical soils

Some examples of zonal soils in New Zealand are described by a visiting Soviet soil scientist. Analyses made in Moscow of samples collected during the visit are given and compared with results obtained by New Zealand Soil Bureau. The soi1s are correlated with some soils in Transcaucasia and alternative methods of classification are proposed

Photosynthesis of phytoplankton of the Klyaz'minsk reservoir. [Translation from: Trudy VI Soveshchaniya po Problemem Biologii Vnutrennikh Vod. Moscow, Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR. pp. 273-287, 1955]

The processes of synthesis and destruction of organic matter play an important role in the ”self-cleaning” of reservoirs. The basic problem of this investigation consists of the role of phytoplankton in enriched waters of the Klyaz'minsk water reservoir through the solution of oxygen and its part in the ”self-cleaning” of the water reservoir. Observations on the interesting process of photosynthesis and the breakdown of organic matter was conducted by us on the eastern stretch of water in the Klyaz'minsk Reservoir during the growing periods of 1945 to 1948, by the widely applied bottle method (Vinberg 1934). This study reports mainly on the he vertical distribution of photosynthesis and respiration in plankton of the reservoir

Footloose Capital, Market Access, and the Geography of Regional State Aid

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster in locations that offer market access advantages. The more so the stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As such features are likely to differ widely across sectors, those results provide theoretical ground to the promotion of regional policies that are also sectorspecific and not only region-specific as currently in the EU.economic integration, specialization, home market effect, regional disparities, regional policy, International Relations/Trade, Political Economy, F12, L13, R13,

The biostratigraphy of the Albian and Cenomanian succession in the Ventnor No. 2 borehole, Isle of Wight

This report describes the foraminifera found in the uppermost part of the Gault, Upper Greensand, Glauconitic Marl and West Melbury Marly Chalk of Ventnor No.2 Borehole (the "Carstone of the Isle of Wight" was barren of calcareous microfaunas). Albian foraminiferal zones followed those defined by CARTER & HART (1977), HART et al. (1989, 1990) and HART (2000). Cenomanian zones are those described by WILKINSON (2000). Albian foraminiferal zones 3 to5 were recognised in the Gault and foraminiferal zone 6 and questionable 6a were observed in the Upper Greensand Cenomanian foraminiferal zones BGS1 was present in the Glauconitic Marl and BGS2 and BGS3 were present in the West Melbury Chalk

A conceptualisation of social capital in economics : commitment and spill-over effects

economics;social capital;comparative analysis;social theory

Studies of Thermochemical Heat Recovery of Exhaust Gases of Furnaces

The review of schemes and methods of thermochemical heat recovery (TCR) of exhaust flue gas for different power plants operating on hydrocarbon fuels have been performed. The essence of the heat of flue gases TCR is to use their physical endothermic heat for pre-processing the original hydrocarbon fuel, which thus receives a greater supply of chemically bound energy in the form of increased heat of combustion. If the traditional VTU, energy of fuel is converted into heat in one stage by direct incineration, in plants with TCR the process of transformation of the fuel energy is divided into two stages. The first stage is the heating of the reaction mixture and carrying out endothermic reactions of the initial fuel conversion, resulting in an increase in its calorific value. The second stage is burning of the reaction products, i.e., reformed gas having a large heat of combustion compared to the original fuel