AIR-LAUNCH EXPERIMENT USING SUSPENDED RAIL LAUNCHER FOR ROCKOON

Air-Launch Experiment Using Suspended Rail Launcher for Rockoon

The method of air-launching a rocket using a launcher Lockers suspended from a balloon, referred to as a rockoon, can improve the flight performance of small rockets.However, there have been safety issues and flight trajectory errors due to uncertainty with respect to the launch direction.Air-launch experiments were performed to demonstrate a rail

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New perspectives in glioblastoma antiangiogenic therapy

Glioblastoma (GB) is highly vascularised tumour, known to exhibit enhanced infiltrative potential.One of the characteristics of glioblastoma is microvascular proliferation surrounding necrotic areas, as a response to a hypoxic environment, which in turn increases the expression of angiogenic factors and their signalling pathways (RAS/RAF/ERK/MAPK p

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Casting the Buddha across Southern Asia

The production of copper alloy devotional images of the Buddha probably began in northern India sometime in the late second century CE but certainly by the third century.From there the transmission of copper alloy Buddha sculpture technology traveled across Asia, beginning with the earliest known images from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Car Stere

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Response of Common Bean Genotypes Grown in Soil with Normal or Limited Moisture, with Special Reference to the Nutrient Phosphorus

Drought and phosphorus deficiency in the soil are the major production limitations of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Sub-Saharan Africa.This study measured the yield responses of low phosphorus-tolerant common beans to drought stress.A field experiment was conducted under two drought conditions codenamed, non-drought-stress (NDS) and droug

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