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The hose u-tube level
With the growing use of soil conservation practices throughout the farming areas, there has been an increasing demand for a simple levelling device that will enable farmers to take their own levels. When they have become familiar with the use of pasture furrows, contour banks and the various other mechanical erosion control measures, farmers with the aid of such an instrument would be able to make an immediate start on an erosion control programme. The instrument would also prove useful for numerous small jobs around the farm when accurate levels are required. Tests have shown the Hose U-Tube Level here described, to be an accurate and reliable farm levelling instrument
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Effects of food intake, rumen development and live weight of calves of replacing barley with sugar beet-citrus pulp in a starter diet
Point Source C-Band Mueller Matrices for the Green Bank Telescope
C-Band Mueller matrices for the Green Bank Telescope are presented here which
enable on-sky Stokes parameters for point sources at the beam center to be
determined. Standard calibrators, 3C138 and 3C286, were observed using the
Spider program to steer the telescope across a broad range of Right Ascensions
on both sides of the zenith transit. For this analysis, only the observations
at the peak of the Spider pattern were used rather than the full sweep of the
runs. Therefore, the results presented here only apply to point sources at the
beam center. The Mueller matrices are shown to vary with frequency and with use
of the Hi-Cal or Lo-Cal noise diodes, due to the relative calibration gain
between the X and Y components of the feed.
However, the relative calibration gain can be determined from observations of
a source with known polarization. Correcting the data for the relative
calibration gain prior to data analysis allows for use of a frequency
independent Mueller matrix. This generic Mueller matrix is shown to provide
reliable C-Band polarization measurements.Comment: Acceptance for publication in The Astronomical Journa
Superdeformation in Po
The Yb(Si,5n) reaction at 148 MeV with thin targets was used
to populate high-angular momentum states in Po. Resulting rays
were observed with Gammasphere. A weakly-populated superdeformed band of 10
-ray transitions was found and has been assigned to Po. This is
the first observation of a SD band in the region in a nucleus
with . The of the new band is very similar to those of
the yrast SD bands in Hg and Pb. The intensity profile suggests
that this band is populated through states close to where the SD band crosses
the yrast line and the angular momentum at which the fission process dominates.Comment: 10 pages, revtex, 2 figs. available on request, submitted to Phys.
Rev. C. (Rapid Communications
A stacking-fault based microscopic model for platelets in diamond
We propose a new microscopic model for the planar defects in
diamond commonly called platelets. This model is based on the formation of a
metastable stacking fault, which can occur because of the ability of carbon to
stabilize in different bonding configurations. In our model the core of the
planar defect is basically a double layer of three-fold coordinated
carbon atoms embedded in the common diamond structure. The properties of
the model were determined using {\it ab initio} total energy calculations. All
significant experimental signatures attributed to the platelets, namely, the
lattice displacement along the direction, the asymmetry between the
and the directions, the infrared absorption peak
, and broad luminescence lines that indicate the introduction of
levels in the band gap, are naturally accounted for in our model. The model is
also very appealing from the point of view of kinetics, since naturally
occurring shearing processes will lead to the formation of the metastable
fault.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Submitted for publication on August 2nd, 200
On the equivalence of pairing correlations and intrinsic vortical currents in rotating nuclei
The present paper establishes a link between pairing correlations in rotating
nuclei and collective vortical modes in the intrinsic frame. We show that the
latter can be embodied by a simple S-type coupling a la Chandrasekhar between
rotational and intrinsic vortical collective modes. This results from a
comparison between the solutions of microscopic calculations within the HFB and
the HF Routhian formalisms. The HF Routhian solutions are constrained to have
the same Kelvin circulation expectation value as the HFB ones. It is shown in
several mass regions, pairing regimes, and for various spin values that this
procedure yields moments of inertia, angular velocities, and current
distributions which are very similar within both formalisms. We finally present
perspectives for further studies.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
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