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K-330-23.5 steam turbine for replacing K-300-240 turbines of KhTGZ past their lifetime
A new K-330-23.5 steam turbine is presented. It is intended both for newly constructed power engineering installations and for replacing K-300-240 turbines that have exhausted their lifetimes. It is shown that...
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Reconstruction of cogeneration plants equipped with LMZ R-50-130 steam turbines
The problems of how to use backpressure turbines underloaded for objective reasons at industrial cogeneration plants (CPs) are analyzed. The means of modernization of R-50-130 turbines implemented by the Teplo...
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Antarctic ice volume and contribution to sea-level fall at 20,000 yr BP from raised beaches
THE contribution of the Antarctic ice sheets to global sea-level fall at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) depends largely on how the extent and thickness of peripheral ice changed. Model studies1–3 suggest that the...
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Plants and landscape in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
Maps are presented showing the recorded distribution and species density of terrestrial plants in the Vestfold Hills. The distribution, biomass and species diversity of terrestrial lithic algae, mosses and lic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Plants and landscape in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
Maps are presented showing the recorded distribution and species density of terrestrial plants in the Vestfold Hills. The distribution, biomass and species diversity of terrestrial lithic algae, mosses and lic...
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Pottery tempered with sponge from the White Nile, Sudan
Pottery containing abundant organic and siliceous particles of the swamp-dwelling spongeEunapius nitens occurs at occupation sites dated between 3500 and 1500 bp flanking the White Nile in central Sudan. Megascle...
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Late Quaternary history of the Nile
During the intertropical cold dry phase from ∼20,000 to 12,500 yr BP, the aggrading Nile was a braided, highly seasonal river. With a headwaters change to warmer, wetter conditions, it became an incised, sinuo...
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Plio–Pleistocene environments at Gadeb prehistoric site, Ethiopia
Widespread artefact-bearing gravels overlie Pliocene diatomites in the plain of Gadeb (7°02′–7°13′N, 39° 15′–39°28′E) at 2,300 m in east-central Ethiopia. The diatomites are from 2.7 to 2.35 Myr old, and the b...
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Late Pleistocene desiccation along the White Nile
MORE than a century ago Baker1 described the Blue Nile as a mountain stream, rising and falling with great rapidity, and the White Nile as a river of lake origin, flowing through vast treeless swamps in a land of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Chemistry and Biological Action of Podolactones and Other Inhibitors of Plant Growth
The responses to auxin and gibberellin of a system of excised stem segments from etiolated dwarf peas have been described previously (Adamson, Low and Adamson, 1968). In this system, differences in the effects...