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Synthesis of spherical nanoparticles of Cu2L2O5 (L = Ho, Er) from W/O microemulsions
No full textNanoparticles of Cu2L2O, (L = Ho, Er) (15-25 nm in size) were synthesised by the intermediate use of W/O microemulsions. In this process the aqueous cores of water/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide/n-octane/1-butanol microemulsions were used as microreactors for the precipitation of Cu2Ho2(CO3)(4)(OH)(2) (25-30 nm) and Cu2Er2(CO3)(4)(OH)(2) (10-40 nm) as precursors. These mixed salts were separated and further decomposed to the corresponding mixed oxides at 900 degrees C for 16 h. All solids were characterised by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, IR, XRPD, ICP-OES, TCA, XPS measurements and elemental analyses
Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
No full textWe explore the thermal state of the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant using the recent result of Ho & Heinke that the thermal radiation of this star is well described by a carbon atmosphere model and the emission comes from the entire stellar surface. Starting from neutron star cooling theory, we formulate a robust method to extract neutrino cooling rates of thermally relaxed stars at the neutrino cooling stage from observations of thermal surface radiation. We show how to compare these rates with the rates of standard candles – stars with non-superfluid nucleon cores cooling slowly via the modified Urca process. We find that the internal temperature of standard candles is a well-defined function of the stellar compactness parameter x=rg/R, irrespective of the equation of state of neutron star matter (R and rg are circumferential and gravitational radii, respectively). We demonstrate that the data on the Cassiopeia A neutron star can be explained in terms of three parameters: f?, the neutrino cooling efficiency with respect to the standard candle; the compactness x; and the amount of light elements in the heat-blanketing envelope. For an ordinary (iron) heat-blanketing envelope or a low-mass (? 10?13 M?) carbon envelope, we find the efficiency f?? 1 (standard cooling) for x? 0.5 and f?? 0.02 (slower cooling) for a maximum compactness x? 0.7. A heat blanket containing the maximum mass (?10?8 M?) of light elements increases f? by a factor of 50. We also examine the (unlikely) possibility that the star is still thermally non-relaxe
Muslim Tionghoa : Cheng Ho
No full textBuku ini membahas catatan perjalanan muhibah Cheng Ho untuk bahan kajian ataupun renungan bagi generasi yang akan datang bahwa pada abad ke-14 telah ada seorang bahariwan asal tiongkok yang telah berlayar ke Asia Afrika.Buku ini terdiri dari Bagian:1. Mengembalikan sejarah yang tenggelam2. Cheng Ho di Indonesia - Apa dan Siapa3. Apa dan siapa Cheng Ho dalam Sejarah Indonesia4. Menggali sejarah Cheng Ho di Indonesia5. Cheng Ho dan Sejarah Indonesiaxiiv, 299 hlm.: ilus.; 22 c
Additions to the moss flora of Endau Rompin National Park, Johore State, peninsular Malaysia
No full textIn a recent survey of the Endau Rompin National Park (ERNP) in Johore State, 81 species and 4 varieties of mosses were documented. This increases the previous count from 62 species and 3 varieties of mosses in ERNP to 111 species and 5 varieties in total. Of these, 30 species are new records for Johore State. Rhaphidostichum bunodicarpum and Trichosteleum stigmosum are two species new to Peninsular Malaysia. Thuidium assimile is a new record for West Malesia. A new combination, Papillidiopsis aquaticum (Dix.) Boon-Chuan Ho & B.C. Tan is proposed. In terms of species composition, the pan-tropical families of Calymperaceae, Fissidentaceae, Leucobryaceae and Sematophyllaceae predominate the moss flora of ERNP
The Ho-Zhao problem
Get PDFGiven a poset P, the set Γ(P) of all Scott closed sets ordered by inclusion forms a complete lattice. A subcategory C of Posd (the category of posets and Scott-continuous maps) is said to be Γ-faithful if for any posets P and Q in C, Γ(P) ∼= Γ(Q) implies P ∼= Q. It is known that the category of all continuous dcpos and the category of bounded complete dcpos are Γ-faithful, while Posd is not. Ho & Zhao (2009) asked whether the category DCPO of dcpos is Γ-faithful. In this paper, we answer this question in the negative by exhibiting a counterexample. To achieve this, we introduce a new subcategory of dcpos which is Γ-faithful. This subcategory subsumes all currently known Γ-faithful subcategories. With this new concept in mind, we construct the desired counterexample which relies heavily on Johnstone’s famous dcpo which is not sober in its Scott topology
Oligonychus litchii is an important agricultural pest in Taiwan (Acar: Tetranychidae)
No full textOligonychus litchii was first reported in 1989 by Lo and Ho. The known host
plants of this mite have rapidly increased to 34 plants in 17 families, including fruit
trees, ornamental plants, and some wild trees. It has become the key mite pest of
guava, litchi, longyan, loquat, and wax apple. In the opinion of the author, the
importance of this spider mite to agriculture in Taiwan is second only to Tetanychus
kanzawai Kishda, T. urticae Koch, and Panonychus citri (McGregor)
Study of Ho-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films
Get PDFThis publication arises from research funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund and the Research Complex at Harwell is acknowledged for their hospitality. This work was supported by a DARPA MESO project (No. N66001-11-1-4105). S.E.H. was supported by the VPGE (Stanford University). L.C.M. and A.A.B. acknowledge partial financial support from EPSRC (UK) through a Doctoral Training Award. Diamond Light Source is acknowledged for beamtime on I10 (proposal SI10207).Breaking time-reversal symmetry through magnetic doping of topological insulators has been identified as a key strategy for unlocking exotic physical states. Here, we report the growth of Bi2Te3 thin films doped with the highest magnetic moment element Ho. Diffraction studies demonstrate high quality films for up to 21% Ho incorporation. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry reveals paramagnetism down to 2 K with an effective magnetic moment of ∼5 μB/Ho. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows that the topological surface state remains intact with Ho doping, consistent with the material's paramagnetic state. The large saturation moment achieved makes these films useful for incorporation into heterostructures, whereby magnetic order can be introduced via interfacial coupling.Peer reviewe
The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
Get PDFBy 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore
Graduate recital, piano. Ho, L.-c., 1988
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, June 18, 1988, 8:00 p.m., the 368th concert of the School of Music's 1987-1988 season.Lu-chien Ho, piano.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in performance, Western Michigan University, 1988.Information from performance program.Preludes, books I and II. Voiles ; La sérénade interrompue ; La danse de Puck ; Canope ; Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. / Claude Debussy -- Improvisations, op. 20 / Béla Bartók -- Sonata in A minor, op. 143 / Franz Schubert
Booktalk at library : Prof Ho Lok-sang
No full textIn this booktalk, Prof. Ho Lok-sang talked over the inspiration and writing of his recent works. Ho, L. S. (2013). The psychology and economics of happiness: Love, life and positive living. Routledge. Ho, L. S. (2011). Human spirituality and happiness : a tribute to life, the source of inspirations, the source of hope, the source of joy. AuthorHouse
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