The construction works of LNG inground storage tanks at Sodegaura Thermal Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. involve mass concrete for walls of 2-4 m in thickness. Strength requirement is 300kg/cm2. In order to meet the requirement and to reduce the thermal stress by heat hyde...
The San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California are in the background. (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company) Lockheed then converted 049-1961 to a prototype for the L-1049 Super Constellation with another registration, NX6700. In 1952, it was once again converted, this time as an aerodynamic ...
Pond snails, Lymnaea stagnalis, were bred at the University of Sussex and maintained in large holding tanks containing 18–22 °C copper-free water, at a 12:12 hour light-dark cycle. The animals were fed Tetra-Phyll (TETRA Werke) twice a week and lettuce three times a week. ...
Israel's military on Friday called on all civilians in Gaza City - more than one million people - to relocate south within 24 hours as it amassed tanks in preparation for an expected ground invasion. Amirabdollahian is due in Syria later on Friday, a day after Israel...
of the country. At the end of the month, Bulgaria’s government took a firm stance by banning fracking and thus becoming the second European country (after France) to do so. The concerns regarding the state of the environment, including the possibility of groundwater contamination and resulting...
IDF international spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus did not explicitly say Israel was preparing a ground assault of Gaza, but noted the troops, along with tanks, armored vehicles and other artillery, were "making preparations for the next stage of the war, which will come when the timin...
Germany announced it will send Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine, just a week after agreeing to send 14 of its much more modern Leopard 2 tanks to the embattled country on the back of pressure from allies. The Leopard 1 tanks were made in Germany after the end of World War II, but were phas...
Background There is increasing evidence that the ability to adapt to seawater in teleost fish is modulated by genetic factors. Most studies have involved the comparison of species or strains and little is known about the genetic architecture of the trait. To address this question, we searched for...
hatchery centre (Centro Ictiogénico de Infiesto, Principado de Asturias). After three months, a random sample of these age 0 + fish (N ≈ 300) was transferred to the facilities of University of Oviedo and stocked in circular holding 80-L PE tanks with an input flow of 12 L min...
A few individuals jumped out of the tank during the acclimation period, and we gently returned these guppies to their tanks but did not test them. Re-exposure phase Whereas guppies in half of the pails were tested 1 day after the background risk phase (experiment 1), guppies in the other...