The bibliographic impact factor (BIF) of Thomson Scientific is sometimes not a valid scientometric indicator for a number of reasons. One major reason is the strong influence of the number of “source items” or “articles” for each journal that the…

Two sets of experimental data have been obtained flushing seawater through columns packed with sediment which had been previously in equilibrium with freshwater. The sets of data contain the ion concentrations of the outflow and the physical and chemical parameters…

The precipitation of gypsum during the intrusion of seawater in a coastal aquifer is shown to be a possible cause of the decrease of the sulphate concentration with respect to the conservative freshwater / seawater mixing observed in many field…

A model for simulating transport of reactive multispecies components has been applied to simulate the chemical changes occurring during salt water intrusion in a confined aquifer. One-dimensional reactive flow in permeable media is simulated by means of a numerical method…

An analytical approximate technique for conservative nonlinear oscillators is proposed. This method is a modification of the generalized harmonic balance method in which analytical approximate solutions have rational form. This approach gives us not only a truly periodic solution but…

Very few studies exist on biomechanics of rhythmic gymnastic. Four leaps of an experienced high
level (national competition) rhythmic gymnast athlete (16yo, 175 cm height, 50 kg weight) were analyzed
in order to provide firsts descriptive data of these movements,…

Optical densities before bleaching and final Lin curves of planewave phase holograms recorded in Agfa—Gevaert 8E75HD emulsions were measured for various combinations of developers (AAC, Pyrogallol and Catechol) and bleaching agents (R-9 and EDTA). To characterize the processing, the square…

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge…

A comparison between different emission rates of various pollutants obtained from various wastes is presented. The studied wastes were the following: polyethylene (PE), tyres, sewage sludges, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), cotton textiles, polyester textiles, meat and bone meals (MBMs), varnish wastes,…

This paper describes a multisensorial robotic system to automatically construct metallic structures. Two robots must work cooperatively in the same workspace to perform the task. The robots are automatically guided using visual and force sensor information. A new time-independent visual…