In 1974, Dr. Frank Drake, then of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and now the institute's chairman, beamed a message at a star cluster 25,000 light-years away, a string of bits -- or ones and zeroes -- that could be assembled into a two-dimensional array, a pictogram, showing the figure of a man, a telescope, the numbers, DNA and the solar system.
Early warning signs, "P waves" from the start of each earthquake, are picked up by the institute which then beams the warning to Japanese phones and even the iPhone with a special app.
The paper is concerned with sintering of near-surface layers of ceramic materials by ion beam irradiation, a technique that has been developed in our institute in Stuttgart in recent years.
Although the design equations for Δfps specified in American concrete institute (ACI) provision are conservative in the present beams, the safety level exhibits a significant decrease when compared with the results obtained in the internally post-tensioned LWAC beams.
Another equation for moment of inertia of cracked section, which was originally suggested by the precast/prestressed concrete institute (PCI) Design Handbook for bonded partially prestressed concrete beams, is also evaluated in the study.
A Drabkin-type spin resonator was designed and successfully implemented at the multi-purpose beam line BOA at the spallation neutron source SINQ at the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Usage of a triplet Q-magnet for focussing the beam to micrometer levels is an outstanding feature compared to facilities of other institutes.
Recently, institutes in Taiwan, Japan, the United States, China, and Brazil have used EMS, MNU, SA, γ-ray, and ion beam to prepare more mutant populations.
