This study aims to investigate the floristic composition, biological spectrum, chorological affinities, and describes the vegetation inhabiting the main channel and the deltaic part of Wadi Kid as one of the principal coastal wadis in South Sinai. The life-form spectrum in the present study is characteristic of an arid desert region with the dominance of therophytes (30.43% of the total) and chamaephtyes (26.09%), followed by hemicryptophytes (26.09%), phanerophytes (14.49%), geophytes (1.45%) and parasites (1.45%). Phytogeographically, the Saharo-Arabian element forms the major component of the floristic structure. The investigation revealed that Wadi. Kid is potential shelters of 5 vegetation groups. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) represented the distribution of the recognized groups along the first two axes. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) indicated that clay, coarse sand, electric conductivity, chlorides, magnesium and calcium were the main soil parameters which determined the distribution of vegetation in the study area.

A new series of coordination polymers of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(ІІ), Cd(II) and UO2(ІІ), 5-(3-pyridyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole- 2-thiol (POZT) and benzimidazole (BIMZ) has been prepared and characterized. The compounds have been characterized based on elemental analysis, FT-IR and electronic spectral studies, thermal analysis and X-ray powder diffraction. Thermogravimetry (TG), derivative thermogravimetry (DTG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) have been used to study the thermal decomposition steps and to calculate the thermodynamic parameters of the nanosized metal coordination polymers. The kinetic parameters have been calculated making use of the Coats-Redfern and Horowitz-Metzger equations. The scanning electron microscope SEM photographs and particle size calculations from the powder XRD data indicate the nano-sized nature of the prepared supramolecular coordination polymers (average size 17-28 nm). The antimicrobial activity of the synthesized compounds was tested against six fungal and five bacterial strains. The majority of compounds were effective against the tested microbs. The bacteria and fungi strains are common contaminants of the environment in Egypt. In this article the studied strains are frequently reported from contaminated soil, water and food.

A new series of coordination polymers of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(ІІ), Cd(II) and UO2(ІІ), 5-(3-pyridyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole- 2-thiol (POZT) and benzimidazole (BIMZ) has been prepared and characterized. The compounds have been characterized based on elemental analysis, FT-IR and electronic spectral studies, thermal analysis and X-ray powder diffraction. Thermogravimetry (TG), derivative thermogravimetry (DTG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) have been used to study the thermal decomposition steps and to calculate the thermodynamic parameters of the nanosized metal coordination polymers. The kinetic parameters have been calculated making use of the Coats-Redfern and Horowitz-Metzger equations. The scanning electron microscope SEM photographs and particle size calculations from the powder XRD data indicate the nano-sized nature of the prepared supramolecular coordination polymers (average size 17-28 nm). The antimicrobial activity of the synthesized compounds was tested against six fungal and five bacterial strains. The majority of compounds were effective against the tested microbs. The bacteria and fungi strains are common contaminants of the environment in Egypt. In this article the studied strains are frequently reported from contaminated soil, water and food.

A new series of coordination polymers of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(ІІ), Cd(II) and UO2(ІІ), 5-(3-pyridyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole- 2-thiol (POZT) and benzimidazole (BIMZ) has been prepared and characterized. The compounds have been characterized based on elemental analysis, FT-IR and electronic spectral studies, thermal analysis and X-ray powder diffraction. Thermogravimetry (TG), derivative thermogravimetry (DTG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) have been used to study the thermal decomposition steps and to calculate the thermodynamic parameters of the nanosized metal coordination polymers. The kinetic parameters have been calculated making use of the Coats-Redfern and Horowitz-Metzger equations. The scanning electron microscope SEM photographs and particle size calculations from the powder XRD data indicate the nano-sized nature of the prepared supramolecular coordination polymers (average size 17-28 nm). The antimicrobial activity of the synthesized compounds was tested against six fungal and five bacterial strains. The majority of compounds were effective against the tested microbs. The bacteria and fungi strains are common contaminants of the environment in Egypt. In this article the studied strains are frequently reported from contaminated soil, water and food.

The mechanism of coupled migration and shear is studied in a range of [0001] tilt boundaries in hexagonal close-packed metal using atomic-scale computer simulation. Symmetrical tilt boundaries spanning the low- and high-angle regimes and comprising regular arrays of grain boundary dislocations are simulated. For each misorientation, h, the perfect boundary (pristine) is investigated as well as one containing a disconnection. Both types of structures are subjected to incremental applied strains to determine the stress that produces coupled migration and shear. The stress for motion in the pristine case, entailing nucleation, is higher than the Peierls stress for motion when disconnections are present. We conclude that the applied stresses in our simulations exert a Peach–Koehler force on pre-existing disconnections, thereby providing a feasible mechanism with a well-defined driving force that produces coupled migration and shear. This mechanism is feasible for the lower-angle boundaries studied, and facile for the high-angle cases.  2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Disconnection motion along (10
12) and (11
21) twins in Zr is investigated using atomic-scale simulation. In particular, the high mobility of glissile disconnections is studied in terms of the atomic shears and shuffles involved. Using a quasi-static simulation procedure, the displacements of individual atoms are followed as they transit from matrix sites, through interfacial sites, and hence to twin sites by repeated passages of disconnections along the interface. It is found that the overall displacements for the cases studied are those predicted by the Bilby and Crocker (1965) theory which invokes homogeneous shear deformation. However, the present work enables atomic tracks to be followed through the cores of moving disconnections. The combinations of shears and shuffles in the two twinning systems are found to be quite distinct. In addition to tracking their coordinates, the variation of hydrostatic pressure experienced by the atoms is also quantified.