Evaluating the Baluti Formation at Sararu village, Ora Anticline, Iraqi Kurdistan : a stratigraphic and geochemical approach

Open access through Springer Compact Agreement Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Colin Taylor and Walter Ritchie from University of Aberdeen for their technical support and assistance with laboratory work. We would also like to thank Mr. Omer Kamil Ali, the Head of the Qumri village, for providing accommodation during fieldwork.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Crack detection in a rotating shaft using artificial neural networks and PSD characterisation

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Translation practices and the nation development: a critical study based on Sri Lanka

Translation is democratizing knowledge. There is a serious demand for Translation and translators in Sri Lanka. There is a considerable lack of good translators. When compared to the contemporary Translation work done in other countries, Sri Lanka is yet to enrich it. In Sri Lanka the Translation practices are not meeting the current demand. Compared to the global trend, today it is not in sufficient to the nation development. There are some contemporary Translation practices, but those are not to the level of expectation. Regarding Translation practices in Sri Lanka there are very few competent translators to meet the needs of the nation. Sri Lanka's multi-lingual and multi-ethnic context, demands more Translation works. In the field of economic, science and information technology. Translations have lost their quality and the public awareness. Unless this situation is remedied, Sri Lanka will be so behind the rest of the world in popular access to disciplinary knowledge, as well as to suffer internally due to the lack of communication between and among its multiple ethnic groups. This research is not a mere attempt to compare both the quality and quantity of Translation in Sri Lanka but it attempts to identify the contribution of Translation practice for the nation development. And the research deals with the social harmony and peace, science and technology and economic development referring the Translation practices. Trans I at ion is a human activity, which enables human beings to exchange ideas and thoughts. Translation acts as a bridge in linking language based communities. Through the Translation the social, cultural and linguistic values are being transferred from one language to another. Translation is an activity of enormous importance in the modern world and it is a needed subject not only to linguists, language teachers and professional translators but also to those who work for social harmony and peace. It is used as an important tool for the development of human race. And the importance of Translation has been thought and practiced from ages. The Translation has become an indispensable necessity all over the world in all movements of life such as academically, administratively, politically, economically, socially and culturally.lt is found through the research that 'The Quality and Quantity of Translations are not satisfactory and sufficient to manage the great demand in the field of Translation for the nation development'. Therefore, it is suggested that the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has to pay more attention on the field of Translation in Sri Lanka. And it is suggested that, the government of the socialist republic of Sri Lanka has to establish a National Translation Mission to encourage the Sri Lankan translators, enrich the knowledge and the national integrity and nation development

New strategies for a sustainable 99mTc supply to meet increasing medical demands: Promising solutions for current problems.

The continuing rapid expansion of 99mTc diagnostic agents always calls for scaling up 99mTc production to cover increasing clinical demand. Nevertheless, 99mTc availability depends mainly on the fission-produced 99Mo supply. This supply is seriously influenced during renewed emergency periods, such as the past 99Mo production crisis or the current COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, these interruptions have promoted the need for 99mTc production through alternative strategies capable of providing clinical-grade 99mTc with high purity. In the light of this context, this review illustrates diverse production routes that either have commercially been used or new strategies that offer potential solutions to promote a rapid production growth of 99mTc. These techniques have been selected, highlighted, and evaluated to imply their impact on developing 99mTc production. Furthermore, their advantages and limitations, current situation, and long-term perspective were also discussed. It appears that, on the one hand, careful attention needs to be devoted to enhancing the 99Mo economy. It can be achieved by utilizing 98Mo neutron activation in commercial nuclear power reactors and using accelerator-based 99Mo production, especially the photonuclear transmutation strategy. On the other hand, more research efforts should be devoted to widening the utility of 99Mo/99mTc generators, which incorporate nanomaterial-based sorbents and promote their development, validation, and full automization in the near future. These strategies are expected to play a vital role in providing sufficient clinical-grade 99mTc, resulting in a reasonable cost per patient dose

On the Effect of Correlated Measurements on the Performance of Distributed Estimation

We address the distributed estimation of an unknown scalar parameter in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Sensor nodes transmit their noisy observations over multiple access channel to a Fusion Center (FC) that reconstructs the source parameter. The received signal is corrupted by noise and channel fading, so that the FC objective is to minimize the Mean-Square Error (MSE) of the estimate. In this paper, we assume sensor node observations to be correlated with the source signal and correlated with each other as well. The correlation coefficient between two observations is exponentially decaying with the distance separation. The effect of the distance-based correlation on the estimation quality is demonstrated and compared with the case of unity correlated observations. Moreover, a closed-form expression for the outage probability is derived and its dependency on the correlation coefficients is investigated. Numerical simulations are provided to verify our analytic results.Comment: 5 page

Spectral Data for Generation of Molecular Complexity from Cyclooctatetraene: Preparation of Optically Active Protected Aminocycloheptitols and Bicyclo[4.4.1]undecatriene

Spectral data created in the course of the research project. Supports specific findings in Generation of Molecular Complexity from Cyclooctatetraene: Preparation of Optically Active Protected Aminocycloheptitols and Bicyclo[4.4.1]undecatriene . The racemic (6-cyclo-heptadienyl)Fe(CO)3+ cation ((±)-7), prepared from cyclooctatetraene, was treated with a variety of carbon and heteroatom nucleophiles. Attack took place at the less hindered C1 dienyl carbon and decomplexation of the (cycloheptadiene)Fe(CO)3 complexes gave products rich in functionality for further synthetic manipulation. In particular, a seven-step route was developed from racemic (6-styryl-2,4-cycloheptadien-1-yl)phthalimide ((±)-9 d) to afford the optically active aminocycloheptitols (−)-20 and (+)-20

A review of recent methodologies, technologies and usability in English language content delivery

English Language Teaching (ELT) and content delivery have undergone vast shift in this era of modernization. With analogue content digitized as a common form of knowledge delivery, methodologies equipped with current technologies have produced new perspectives on English Language Learning. This paper reviews the status, context, teaching parameters, assessment parameters, teaching strategies and usability in the current research capacity of ELT, highlighting the current works with technologies in their content delivery methods. Emerging technologies in ELT has also inspires the other spectrum of study involving the usability of technological interfaces, which has evolved constantly with the progression of human and computer interactivity. The aim of this research is to rediscover usability evolution surrounding the technologies in ELT and to redefine the gap existed in between English learning and tools interactivity. Current technologies and usability measures used in ELT will be discussed, highlighting the current trends in gauging interface interaction. A summary of comparative results in the aforementioned works will also be highlighted in this review paper, together with the categorization of reviewed parameters, variables and metrics in ELT. The reviews conducted have shown that there are still many unexplored areas in ELT, ELT technologies and usability in ELT