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Aquaculture vis-a-vis agriculture
The effect of aquaculture, especially shrimp farming, on agriculture has caused heated debate among aquaculturists, agriculturists, and non-governmental organizations. As data on the negative impact of shrimp farming on adjacent rice fields are not available, a study was undertaken in rice fields skirting three shrimp farms: a semi-intensive farm; an extensive farm; and a semi-intensive farm with a buffer zone. The buffer zone was found to be helpful in preventing salinization of the adjacent agricultural fields and the Electrical Conductivity (EC) values (less than 1) reported were found to be harmless to the rice crop. Thus, aquaculture and agriculture can coexist in coastal areas if there are buffer zones in between
Collective excitations in the inner crust of neutron stars : supergiant resonances
We investigate the nuclear collective excitations of Wigner-Seitz cells
containing nuclear clusters immersed in a gas of neutrons. This baryonic
non-uniform system is specific to the structure of inner crust matter of
neutron stars. The collective excitations are studied in the framework of a
spherical Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov + Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation,
formulated in coordinate representation. The calculations are done for two
representative Wigner-Seitz cells with baryonic density equal to 0.02 fm
and 0.08 fm. It is shown that the excitations with low multipolarities
are concentrated almost entirely in one strongly collective mode which exhausts
a very large fraction of the energy-weighted sum rule. Since these collective
modes are located at very low energies compared to the giant resonances in
standard nuclei, they may affect significantly the specific heat of baryonic
inner crust matter of neutron stars.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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