This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project. / A reprint of Water-Supp1y Paper 320, United States Geological Survey. United States Department of the Interior, being No. 3 cooperative, between United States Departments and the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station. / Chapter on agriculture by R. H. Forbes

Estudamos propriedades magnéticas de ligas nano cristalinas de Sm-F e-Co. As ligas foram preparadas por mecano-síntese e posterior tratamento térmico. Como resultado, obtivemos ímãs nanocristalinos de Sm18 (Fe,Co)82 , com Sm(Fe,Co)7 como fase principal. As ligas apresentaram excelentes propriedades magnéticas: remanências relativas Mn/ Ms ~ 0.6 e coercividades na faixa 5-20 kOe, dependendo do teor de Fe nos materiais. Interações magnéticas nas ligas foram estudadas com base nos gráficos ele Henkel. Interpretamos, nestes gráficos, de maneira consistente a influência elas interações e dos estados desmagnetizados. / We studied the magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Sm-Fe-Co alloys. These alloys were prepared by mechanical alloying and subsequent annealing. We obtained nanocrystalline rnagnets of composition Sm18 (Fe, Co )82 , for which the main hard magnetic phase is Sm(Fe, Co)82. The alloys showed excellent magnetic properties: relative remanence Mn/ Ms :2; 0.6 and coercive fields ranging from 5 to 20 k0e, depending upon the amount of Fe present. Henkel plots were used in order to study magnetic interactions in these alloys. The influence of the interactions and the demagnetized state on the Henkel plots was also studied.

A crescente ocupação urbana desordenada e inadequada vem acarretando sérios problemas ao meio ambiente nos últimos anos. Em algumas cidades, os assentamentos urbanos são localizados principalmente em regiões de encosta sem nenhum critério técnico ou projeto ambiental. Esse tipo de irresponsabilidade tanto da população como do próprio governo geram transgressões de leis ambientais e freqüentes acidentes nas épocas de chuvas torrenciais, resultando em grandes tragédias. Portanto, o estudo dos diversos tipos de uso do solo associado as suas características físicas é de extrema importância para o entendimento dos processos de preservação e conservação dos recursos naturais, e principalmente em relação à restrição ao uso das terras em áreas de risco de deslizamento, assegurando assim a qualidade de vida da população. Esta dissertação propõe a analise da legislação ambiental do município de São Sebastião no Estado de São Paulo através do uso do Sensoriamento Remoto e Geoprocessamento. A área de estudo tem uma extensão de 402,3 Km2 e está localizada no Litoral Norte de São Paulo. Este município apresenta uma pressão da expansão urbana que acarreta sérios problemas de deslizamentos nas épocas de chuva devido a assentamentos irregulares. A metodologia utilizada foi adaptada da proposta por CREPANI et al. (1996) e MORAES (1999). Neste trabalho foram utilizadas as imagens dos sensores TM, ETM+ e HRV dos satélites Landsat 5, 7 e Spot dos períodos de 1988 a 2002, assim como do Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) de 2000. A partir das imagens orbitais gerou-se um mapa temático de uso e cobertura do solo, e da imagem de radar as isolinhas e a carta de declividade da referida área de estudo. Estes produtos foram integrados e/ou cruzados juntamente com as variáveis ambientais de geologia, geomorfologia, geotecnia e solos resultando no Mapa de Aptidão Física ao Assentamento Urbano. Este último foi integrado com o Mapa de Legislação Ambiental que contém as Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP`s) para gerar finalmente o Mapa de Incompatibilidade ao Uso. Todos os cruzamentos foram executados através da Linguagem Espacial para Geoprocessamento Algébrico (LEGAL) do software SPRING. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que existem poucas áreas compatíveis ao Uso, devido a Legislação Ambiental e também as características físicas da região. Existe ainda um avanço antrópico permanente em áreas de risco de deslizamentos e nas proximidades do limite do Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (PESM), comprovando o desrespeito às leis ambientais. A identificação das áreas compatíveis para o assentamento urbano pode impedir a expansão do crescimento antrópico em áreas de risco, e também sobre a degradação ambiental em regiões de preservação no município de São Sebastião. / In the last few years, increasing urban occupation considered inadequate and disordered is recognized to be a serious environmental problem. In some cities, the urban settlements are also located in areas of sliding land, which are occupied without any technical criterion or environmental project. Such irresponsible actions by the citizens and bye the government are roots of transgressions of environmental laws always leading to land sliding accidents and tragedies during torrential rainfalls. Therefore, investigating several types of land use associated to physical soil characteristics are extreme important for understanding the actual preservation and conservation processes associated to natural resources, especially, on issues relating to the restrictions of use and occupation in areas of land slide, in order to assure life quality of the population. This dissertation intends to analyze the environmental legislation of the municipality of São Sebastião in São Paulo State, applying Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. The study area extension is about 402.3 km2 and is located in the North Coast of São Paulo State. Due to irregular settlement associated to areas of urban pressure and expansion, the municipal area is actually subjected to land-sliding problem during raining season. Method used has adapted proposed ideas of CREPANI et al. (1996) and MORAES (1999). Were used images of TM, ETM+, HRV sensors of satellites Landsat 5, 7 and Spot of period from 1988 to 2002, and also of the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) of 2000. Using the orbital images was generated a thematic map of land use and cover, while the radar image has treated the isolines and declivity. Both products were crossed and integrated analyzed with others environmental variables of geology, geomorphology, geotechnical and soils that have resulted into a general Map of Urban Settlement considering Physical Capacity. This was linked with the Environmental Legislation Area Map containing the Areas of Permanent Preservation (APP`s) for determination of Land Use Incompatibility Map. All the crossings procedures were made using The LEGAL language (Linguagem Espacial para Geoprocessamento Algébrico) of SPRING software was utilized for all crossed analyses. Final results have revealed that there are only few areas that are available relating compatible Use and to the Environmental Legislation combined with the physical characteristics of the area. However, anthropic occupation is expanding continuous in sliding risk areas and also by the boundaries of Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (PESM), where environmental laws where not obeyed. The awareness of compatible Use for the urban settlement may aid in order to assist the expansion or anthropic occupation in risk areas, and also to avoid environmental degradation where preservation is expected in the municipality of São Sebastião.

Deal Organizer is a web-based application that scans multiple websites for online bargains. It allows users to specify their preferences in order for them to receive notifications based on personalized content. The application obtains deals from other websites through data extraction techniques that include reading RSS feeds and web scraping. In order to better facilitate content personalization, the application tracks the user's activity by recording clicks on both links to deals and rating buttons, e.g., the Facebook like button. Due to the dynamic nature of the source websites offering these deals and the ever-evolving web technologies available to software developers, the Deal Organizer application was designed to implement an interface-based design using the Spring Framework. This yielded to an extensible, pluggable and flexible system that accommodates maintenance and future work gracefully. The application's performance was evaluated by executing resource-intensive tests on a constrained environment. Results show the application responded positively. / text

Estudamos propriedades magnéticas de ligas nano cristalinas de Sm-F e-Co. As ligas foram preparadas por mecano-síntese e posterior tratamento térmico. Como resultado, obtivemos ímãs nanocristalinos de Sm18 (Fe,Co)82 , com Sm(Fe,Co)7 como fase principal. As ligas apresentaram excelentes propriedades magnéticas: remanências relativas Mn/ Ms ~ 0.6 e coercividades na faixa 5-20 kOe, dependendo do teor de Fe nos materiais. Interações magnéticas nas ligas foram estudadas com base nos gráficos ele Henkel. Interpretamos, nestes gráficos, de maneira consistente a influência elas interações e dos estados desmagnetizados. / We studied the magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Sm-Fe-Co alloys. These alloys were prepared by mechanical alloying and subsequent annealing. We obtained nanocrystalline rnagnets of composition Sm18 (Fe, Co )82 , for which the main hard magnetic phase is Sm(Fe, Co)82. The alloys showed excellent magnetic properties: relative remanence Mn/ Ms :2; 0.6 and coercive fields ranging from 5 to 20 k0e, depending upon the amount of Fe present. Henkel plots were used in order to study magnetic interactions in these alloys. The influence of the interactions and the demagnetized state on the Henkel plots was also studied.

A crescente ocupação urbana desordenada e inadequada vem acarretando sérios problemas ao meio ambiente nos últimos anos. Em algumas cidades, os assentamentos urbanos são localizados principalmente em regiões de encosta sem nenhum critério técnico ou projeto ambiental. Esse tipo de irresponsabilidade tanto da população como do próprio governo geram transgressões de leis ambientais e freqüentes acidentes nas épocas de chuvas torrenciais, resultando em grandes tragédias. Portanto, o estudo dos diversos tipos de uso do solo associado as suas características físicas é de extrema importância para o entendimento dos processos de preservação e conservação dos recursos naturais, e principalmente em relação à restrição ao uso das terras em áreas de risco de deslizamento, assegurando assim a qualidade de vida da população. Esta dissertação propõe a analise da legislação ambiental do município de São Sebastião no Estado de São Paulo através do uso do Sensoriamento Remoto e Geoprocessamento. A área de estudo tem uma extensão de 402,3 Km2 e está localizada no Litoral Norte de São Paulo. Este município apresenta uma pressão da expansão urbana que acarreta sérios problemas de deslizamentos nas épocas de chuva devido a assentamentos irregulares. A metodologia utilizada foi adaptada da proposta por CREPANI et al. (1996) e MORAES (1999). Neste trabalho foram utilizadas as imagens dos sensores TM, ETM+ e HRV dos satélites Landsat 5, 7 e Spot dos períodos de 1988 a 2002, assim como do Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) de 2000. A partir das imagens orbitais gerou-se um mapa temático de uso e cobertura do solo, e da imagem de radar as isolinhas e a carta de declividade da referida área de estudo. Estes produtos foram integrados e/ou cruzados juntamente com as variáveis ambientais de geologia, geomorfologia, geotecnia e solos resultando no Mapa de Aptidão Física ao Assentamento Urbano. Este último foi integrado com o Mapa de Legislação Ambiental que contém as Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP`s) para gerar finalmente o Mapa de Incompatibilidade ao Uso. Todos os cruzamentos foram executados através da Linguagem Espacial para Geoprocessamento Algébrico (LEGAL) do software SPRING. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que existem poucas áreas compatíveis ao Uso, devido a Legislação Ambiental e também as características físicas da região. Existe ainda um avanço antrópico permanente em áreas de risco de deslizamentos e nas proximidades do limite do Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (PESM), comprovando o desrespeito às leis ambientais. A identificação das áreas compatíveis para o assentamento urbano pode impedir a expansão do crescimento antrópico em áreas de risco, e também sobre a degradação ambiental em regiões de preservação no município de São Sebastião. / In the last few years, increasing urban occupation considered inadequate and disordered is recognized to be a serious environmental problem. In some cities, the urban settlements are also located in areas of sliding land, which are occupied without any technical criterion or environmental project. Such irresponsible actions by the citizens and bye the government are roots of transgressions of environmental laws always leading to land sliding accidents and tragedies during torrential rainfalls. Therefore, investigating several types of land use associated to physical soil characteristics are extreme important for understanding the actual preservation and conservation processes associated to natural resources, especially, on issues relating to the restrictions of use and occupation in areas of land slide, in order to assure life quality of the population. This dissertation intends to analyze the environmental legislation of the municipality of São Sebastião in São Paulo State, applying Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. The study area extension is about 402.3 km2 and is located in the North Coast of São Paulo State. Due to irregular settlement associated to areas of urban pressure and expansion, the municipal area is actually subjected to land-sliding problem during raining season. Method used has adapted proposed ideas of CREPANI et al. (1996) and MORAES (1999). Were used images of TM, ETM+, HRV sensors of satellites Landsat 5, 7 and Spot of period from 1988 to 2002, and also of the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) of 2000. Using the orbital images was generated a thematic map of land use and cover, while the radar image has treated the isolines and declivity. Both products were crossed and integrated analyzed with others environmental variables of geology, geomorphology, geotechnical and soils that have resulted into a general Map of Urban Settlement considering Physical Capacity. This was linked with the Environmental Legislation Area Map containing the Areas of Permanent Preservation (APP`s) for determination of Land Use Incompatibility Map. All the crossings procedures were made using The LEGAL language (Linguagem Espacial para Geoprocessamento Algébrico) of SPRING software was utilized for all crossed analyses. Final results have revealed that there are only few areas that are available relating compatible Use and to the Environmental Legislation combined with the physical characteristics of the area. However, anthropic occupation is expanding continuous in sliding risk areas and also by the boundaries of Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (PESM), where environmental laws where not obeyed. The awareness of compatible Use for the urban settlement may aid in order to assist the expansion or anthropic occupation in risk areas, and also to avoid environmental degradation where preservation is expected in the municipality of São Sebastião.

In an era of technological growth, cloud computing is one of the hottest topics on the market. This, along with the overall increased use of digital systems, requires solid integration options to be developed. Redpill Linpro recognizes this and has developed a cloud-based Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) solution called Connectivity Engine. New techniques like this can however seem very abstract to a customer, something which a demo application could help substantiate. To aid in this issue we have developed a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well as an Integration Application to connect the ERP system with Salesforce.com in a bidirectional integration. With the use of Connectivity Engine this can be hosted in the cloud and be easily accessible. The project has been a success for Redpill Linpro as well as the authors. A solid way to demonstrate the abilities of Connectivity Engine has been developed along with descriptive documentation for any sales representative assigned to pitch the platform.

The topic of this master's thesis is a comparison of web Rapid Application Development frameworks Ruby on Rails and Spring Roo. The paper focuses on creating extensive overview of pros and cons of the subjected tools from the web developer's point of view to enhance his awareness about the subject, also to come up with new questions for further analysis or even convince him to use one of the frameworks in the real projects. Firstly, the paper contains a theoretical overview of the common conceptions for better understanding of the following parts and then specific principles for each of the selected frameworks. Secondly, there is a practical part. On one hand it demonstrates the implementation of a reference application using both platforms to illustrate the practical distinctions. On the other hand, it also contains an overall comparison based on the defined methodology. Altogether, it should form a comprehensive comparison of the selected frameworks for web developers interested in Ruby and Java platforms.

Mawira Sitima is a thermal spring located in the village Sitima outside of Liwonde,Malawi. The spring is used by many of the local villagers to take baths, play around and wash clothes. Washing using detergents in springs may cause harm to the aquatic ecosystems and worsen the water quality, which might pose a health risk to people swimming in the spring. This study compared physico-chemical properties of Mawira Sitima and the soil and plants around it with standards, guidelines and other studies to assess thewater quality of the spring. The water quality of another hot spring, Mawira Liwonde, was also assessed and compared to Mawira Sitima to investigate the potential for recreationaluse of Mawira Sitima. The findings were then used to produce recommendations for future monitoring of relevant variables in the spring. The results indicate that the current water quality of Mawira Sitima is of no concern for the local health and has all basis to be of recreational use. A monitoring system including electrical conductivity, water temperature, pH, total phosphorous, copper, manganese, and iron was recommended based on correlations and trends. Monitoring of extreme meteorological conditions, such as heavy rainfall or drought, were also recommended. / Mawira Sitima är en varm källa belägen i byn Sitima utanför Liwonde, Malawi. Källan används av lokalbefolkningen för att bada, leka och tvätta kläder. Att tvätta med tvättmedel i källor kan skada de akvatiska ekosystemen och försämra vattenkvaliteten vilket kan leda till hälsorisker för de som använder källan. I denna studie jämfördes fysikaliska och kemiska parametrar i Mawira Sitima, och jorden och plantor runtom den, med standarder, riktlinjer och andra studier för att utvärdera vattenkvaliteten i källan. Vattenkvaliteten i en annan källa, Mawira Liwonde, utvärderades också och jämfördes med Mawira Sitima i syftet att undersöka potenitalen för fritidsbruk av Mawira Sitima. Undersökningsresultaten användes sedan för att föreslå ett framtida övervakningssystem av relevanta variabler i källan. Resultaten i studien visar på god vattenkvalitet i Mawira Sitima och stora möjligheter för fritidsbruk. Övervakningssystemet föreslogs innefatta elektrisk konduktivitet, vattentemperatur, pH, totalfosfor, koppar, mangan och järn baserat på korrelationer och trender. Även extremväder såsom stora mängder regn eller extrem torka rekommenderades ingå i övervakningssytemet

Data lineage forms an important aspect of today's enterprise environment. MANTA Flow is a data lineage analysis platform that already has basic support for analysis of Java programs, provided by one of its components called Bytecode Scanner. Neverthe- less, there are very few applications in today's enterprise environment that do not use dependency injection at least in a very limited way. Therefore, we present an extension of Bytecode Scanner in the MANTA Flow platform to support data lineage analysis of dependency injection frameworks as well. The extension is able to process even complex definitions of standard dependency injection containers. Since the dependency injec- tion influences a selection of method call targets, we also provide a description of call graph structure and its modification to support dependency injection. Last, we use this infrastructure to design and implement a plugin into Bytecode Scanner for the Spring Framework, a popular dependency injection framework targeting Java Platform. The plugin has been successfully tested on a small but realistic software system that can read data from a file, transform them, and write them into a database. 1