New specimens and records of chondrichthyan fishes (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes off the Mexican Pacific coast Nuevos ejemplares y nuevos registros de peces cartilaginosos (Vertebrata: Chondrichthyes de la costa del Pacífico mexicano

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Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos

2010-08-01

Full Text Available New specimens and new records of occurrence for 10 species of chondrichthyan (elasmobranch and chimaeroid fishes previously unknown or little documented for the continental shelf of the Mexican Pacific are reported. This contribution provides the first record of Centroscyllium nigrum, Isurus paucus, and Bathyraja trachura for the Mexican Pacific, as well as new specimens of Hydrolagus colliei, Hexanchus griseus, Echinorhinus cookei, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai, and Raja velezi for the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula, including the intermediate record within the known distribution range for Apristurus kampae, and the southernmost record for Raja inornata.Se reportan nuevos ejemplares y nuevos registros de concurrencia para 10 especies de elasmobranquios previamente desconocidos o con muy poca documentación en aguas del Pacífico mexicano. Esta contribución ofrece el primer registro de Centroscyllium nigrum, Isurus paucus, y Bathyraja trachura en el Pacífico mexicano; así como nuevos ejemplares de Hydrolagus colliei, Hexanchus griseus, Echinorhinus cookei, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai y Raja velezi en la costa occidental de la península de Baja California, con la inclusión del registro intermedio en el ámbito de distribución conocida para Apristurus kampae, y el registro más meridional para Raja inornata.

Atmospheric residence times of continental aerosols

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Balkanski, Y.J.

1991-01-01

The global atmospheric distributions of Rn-222 are simulated with a three-dimensional model of atmospheric transport based on the meteorology of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) general circulation model. The short-lived radioactive gas Rn-222 (half-life = 3.8d) is emitted almost exclusively from land, at a relatively uniform rate; hence it is an excellent tracer of continental influences. Lead-210 is produced by decay of Rn-222 and immediately condenses to preexisting aerosol surfaces. It provides an excellent measure of aerosol residence times in the atmosphere because its source is accurately defined by the Rn-222 distribution. Results from the three-dimensional model are compared to measurements of Rn-222 and Pb-210 atmospheric concentrations to evaluate model's long-range transport over oceanic regions and to study the deposition mechanisms of atmospheric aerosols. Model results for Rn-222 are used to examine the long-range transport of continental air over two selected oceanic regions, the subantarctic Indian Ocean and the North Pacific. It is shown that the fast transport of air from southern Africa causes substantial continental pollution at southern mid-latitudes, a region usually regarded as pristine. Air over the North Pacific is heavily impacted by continental influences year round, but the altitude at which the transport occurs varies seasonally. Observations of aerosols at island sites, which are commonly used as diagnostics of continental influences, may be misleading because they do not account for influences at high altitude and because aerosols are efficiently scavenged by deposition during transport. The study of Pb-210 focuses on defining the residence times of submicron aerosols in the troposphere. Scavenging in wet convective updrafts is found to provide the dominant sink on a global scale

Race, deprivation, and immigrant isolation: The spatial demography of air-toxic clusters in the continental United States.

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Liévanos, Raoul S

2015-11-01

This article contributes to environmental inequality outcomes research on the spatial and demographic factors associated with cumulative air-toxic health risks at multiple geographic scales across the United States. It employs a rigorous spatial cluster analysis of census tract-level 2005 estimated lifetime cancer risk (LCR) of ambient air-toxic emissions from stationary (e.g., facility) and mobile (e.g., vehicular) sources to locate spatial clusters of air-toxic LCR risk in the continental United States. It then tests intersectional environmental inequality hypotheses on the predictors of tract presence in air-toxic LCR clusters with tract-level principal component factor measures of economic deprivation by race and immigrant status. Logistic regression analyses show that net of controls, isolated Latino immigrant-economic deprivation is the strongest positive demographic predictor of tract presence in air-toxic LCR clusters, followed by black-economic deprivation and isolated Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant-economic deprivation. Findings suggest scholarly and practical implications for future research, advocacy, and policy. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - gas-particle partitioning, mass size distribution, and formation along transport in marine and continental background air

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Lammel, Gerhard; Mulder, Marie D.; Shahpoury, Pourya; Kukučka, Petr; Lišková, Hana; Přibylová, Petra; Prokeš, Roman; Wotawa, Gerhard

2017-05-01

Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAH) are ubiquitous in polluted air but little is known about their abundance in background air. NPAHs were studied at one marine and one continental background site, i.e. a coastal site in the southern Aegean Sea (summer 2012) and a site in the central Great Hungarian Plain (summer 2013), together with the parent compounds, PAHs. A Lagrangian particle dispersion model was used to track air mass history. Based on Lagrangian particle statistics, the urban influence on samples was quantified for the first time as a fractional dose to which the collected volume of air had been exposed. At the remote marine site, the 3-4-ring NPAH (sum of 11 targeted species) concentration was 23.7 pg m-3 while the concentration of 4-ring PAHs (6 species) was 426 pg m-3. The most abundant NPAHs were 2-nitrofluoranthene (2NFLT) and 3-nitrophenanthrene. Urban fractional doses in the range of air are the lowest ever reported and remarkably lower, by more than 1 order of magnitude, than 1 decade before. Day-night variation of NPAHs at the continental site reflected shorter lifetime during the day, possibly because of photolysis of some NPAHs. The yields of formation of 2NFLT and 2-nitropyrene (2NPYR) in marine air seem to be close to the yields for OH-initiated photochemistry observed in laboratory experiments under high NOx conditions. Good agreement is found for the prediction of NPAH gas-particle partitioning using a multi-phase poly-parameter linear free-energy relationship. Sorption to soot is found to be less significant for gas-particle partitioning of NPAHs than for PAHs. The NPAH levels determined in the south-eastern outflow of Europe confirm intercontinental transport potential.

Eurasian continental background and regionally polluted levels of ozone and CO observed in northeast Asia

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Pochanart, Pakpong; Kato, Shungo; Katsuno, Takao; Akimoto, Hajime

The roles of Eurasian/Siberian continental air masses transport and the impact of large-scale East Asian anthropogenic emissions on tropospheric ozone and carbon monoxide levels in northeast Asia were investigated. Seasonal behaviors of O 3 and CO mixing ratios in background continental (BC) air masses and regionally polluted continental (RPC) air masses were identified using trajectory analyses of Eurasian continental air masses and multi-year O 3 and CO data observed at Happo, a mountain site in Japan. RPC air masses show significantly higher O 3 and CO mixing ratios (annual average of 53.9±6.0 and 200±41 ppb, respectively) than BC air masses (44.4±3.6 and 167±17 ppb, respectively). Large scale anthropogenic emissions in East Asia are suggested to contribute about 10 ppb of photochemical O 3 and 32 ppb of CO at Happo. A comparative study of O 3 and CO observed at other sites, i.e., Oki Islands and Mondy in northeast Asia, showed similarities suggesting that O 3 mixing ratios in BC air masses at Happo could be representative for remote northeast Asia. However, CO mixing ratios in BC air masses at Happo are higher than the background level in Siberia. The overestimate is probably related to an increase in the CO baseline gradient between Siberia and the East Asia Pacific rim, and perturbations by sub-grid scale pollution transport and regional-scale boreal forest fires in Siberia when the background continental air masses are transported to Japan.

Registro e vivência

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Diego Acevedo Aguilar

2013-06-01

Full Text Available A memória natural, ligada ao corpo e ao seu universo sensitivo, parece ter cedido lugar à memória instrumental, dependente da tecnologia e dos seus dispositivos. A cultura dá um giro radical: privilegia-se o registro em detrimento da vivência, a prova em relação à experiência. Ao menos é o que parece nesta passagem da religiosidade quitenha.

El registro biológico humano de la costa meridional de Santa Cruz

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Suby, Jorge A.

2009-01-01

Full Text Available La costa patagónica constituye un sector de riesgo para el registro arqueológico, asociado a factores naturales y antrópicos. Al mismo tiempo, la conservación de las colecciones bioarqueológicas, destacándose la pérdida de restos óseos e información asociada por escasez de recursos, desconocimiento o falta de atención especializada, representa escenarios de riesgo para el registro. Una de las áreas para las cuales no se dispone hasta el momento de información bioarqueológica es la región que comprende la costa meridional de la provincia de Santa Cruz. Considerando esta ausencia de información, el objetivo de este trabajo es presentar y discutir los primeros resultados sobre restos óseos humanos hallados en la región costera próxima a la desembocadura del Río Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, Argentina. Los estudios incluyen el análisis de las situaciones de hallazgo y riesgo de los restos recuperados en acciones de rescate, el reconocimiento y puesta en valor de materiales depositados en el Museo Regional "Carlos Borgialli" (Puerto Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Argentina y estudios paleopatológicos. Al mismo tiempo se informan y analizan resultados cronológicos e isotópicos. Los resultados brindan evidencias claras de la ocupación de la región costera al menos durante los últimos 2000 años, consumo de recursos predominantemente terrestres y un estilo de vida que favorece el desarrollo de lesiones articulares, con escasos indicios de estrés sistémico que coinciden con los resultados reportados para la región continental del estrecho de Magallanes.

Spongicoloides sp. aff. a Spongicoloides galapagensis (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae: una nueva especie para la carcinofauna chilena y primer registro de un estenopodido en aguas del margen continental de Chile Spongicoloides sp. aff. to Spongicoloides galapagensis (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae: a new species for Chilean carcinofauna and the first record of aStenopodid for the Chilean margin

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Guillermo L Guzmán

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Se cita por primera vez para el margen continental de Chile una especie de camarón Stenopodidae, asociado a una esponja hexactinelida. Los especímenes fueron recolectados en dos sitios de Chile central (31°12'S, 71°52'W y 36°00'S, 73°38'W; 922 a 1000 m de profundidad. Las esponjas estaban adheridas al sustrato con probable origen en emanaciones de metano. Spongicoloides sp. aff. a S. gala-pagensis, es el primer registro de la familia en aguas del margen continental del Pacífico suroriental. Los ejemplares coinciden con los rangos de la variación morfológica de S. galapagensis, no obstante difieren en el número de branquias descrito.This is the first record of a species of Stenopodid shrimp along the Chilean margin, associated with a hexactinellid sponge. The specimens were collected at two sites in central Chile (31°12'S, 71°52'W and 36°00'S, 73°38'W; 922 to 1000 m depth. The sponges were attached to the substrate with probable origins in methane seepage. Spongicoloides sp. aff. to S. galapagensis constitutes the first record of the family for the eastern south Pacific continental margin. The specimens coincide with the ranges of morphological variation of S. galapagensis, although they differ in the number of brachia described.

Discharges and Emissions on the Norwegian Continental Shelf : Oil, chemicals and emissions to air; Utslipp paa norsk kontinentalsokkel 2000. Olje, kjemikalier og utslipp til luft

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2002-07-01

The report gives an overview of the discharges of oil and chemicals to sea and emissions to air from the Norwegian Continental Shelf for 2000. This report is based on the operators annual report to the Norwegian Pollution Control Authorities. (author)

El registro civil e identificación en la región y el mundo

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Felix Ortega de la Torre

2018-01-01

Full Text Available Realiza un repaso histórico, así como un recorrido por el desarrollo del proceso registral civil en la región latinoamericana. Enfatiza en la importancia que existe en la relación entre el registro de personas y el desarrollo, la democracia, la gobernabilidad; así como para la inclusión, la transparencia, la seguridad, la eficiencia de recursos y la generación de un Estado moderno digital. Puntualmente, analiza los modelos de registro e identificación, el fortalecimiento del registro civil en el siglo veintiuno, las tendencias futuras, el registro universal y sus nuevos desafíos

The influence of continental air masses on the aerosols and nutrients deposition over the western North Pacific

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Fu, Jiangping; Wang, Bo; Chen, Ying; Ma, Qingwei

2018-01-01

The air masses transported from East Asia have a strong impact on the aerosol properties and deposition in the marine boundary layer of the western North Pacific (WNP) during winter and spring. We joined a cruise between 17 Mar. and 22 Apr. 2014 and investigated the changes of aerosol composition and size distribution over the remote WNP and marginal seas. Although the secondary aerosol species (SO42-, NO3- and NH4+) in remote WNP were influenced significantly by the continental transport, NH4+ concentrations were lower than 2.7 μg m-3 in most sampling days and not correlated with non-sea-salt (nss)-SO42- suggesting that the ocean could be a primary source of NH4+. Moderate Cl- depletion (23%) was observed in remote WNP, and the inverse relationship between Cl- depletion percentages and nss-K+ in aerosols suggested that the transport of biomass burning smoke from East Asia might be a vital extra source of Cl-. Both Asian dust and haze events were encountered during the cruise. Asian dust carried large amounts of crustal elements such as Al and Ti to the WNP, and the dusty Fe deposition may double its background concentration in seawater. Differently, a dramatic increase of dry deposition flux of dissolved particulate inorganic nitrogen was observed during the haze event. Our study reveals that the transport of different continental air masses may have distinct biogeochemical impacts on the WNP by increasing the fluxes of different nutrient elements and potentially changing the nutrient stoichiometry.

VARIABILITY OF THE THERMAL CONTINENTALITY INDEX IN CENTRAL EUROPE

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CIARANEK1 DOMINIKA

2014-03-01

Full Text Available The paper presents the spatial and temporal variability of thermal continentality in Central Europe. Gorczyński’s and Johansson-Ringleb’s formulae were used to derive the continentality index. The study also looked at the annual patterns of air temperature amplitude (A, a component of both of these formulae, and D; the difference between the average temperatures of autumn (Sep.-Nov. and spring (Mar.-May. Records of six weather stations representing the climate of Central Europe were included in the study covering the period 1775-2012 (Potsdam, Drezden, Prague, Vienna, Krakow, Debrecen. The highest continentality index was found in Debrecen and the lowest in Potsdam. The continentality index fluctuated with time with two pronounced dips at the turn of the 19th century and in the second half of the 20th century. The highest continentality index values were recorded during the 1930s and 1940s.

Atmospheric Residence Times of Continental Aerosols.

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Balkanski, Yves Jacques

The global atmospheric distributions of ^{222}Rn and ^{210 }Pb are simulated with a three-dimensional model of atmospheric transport based on the meteorology of the NASA GISS^1>=neral circulation model. The short-lived radioactive gas ^ {222}Rn (half-life = 3.8d) is emitted almost exclusively from land, at a relatively uniform rate; hence it is an excellent tracer of continental influences. Lead -210 is produced by decay of ^{222} Rn and immediately condenses to preexisting aerosol surfaces. It provides an excellent measure of aerosol residence times in the atmosphere because its source is accurately defined by the ^{222} Rn distribution. Results from the three-dimensional model are compared to measurements of ^ {222}Rn and ^{210 }Pb atmospheric concentrations to evaluate model's long-range transport over oceanic regions and to study the deposition mechanisms of atmospheric aerosols. Model results for ^{222} Rn are used to examine the long-range transport of continental air over two selected oceanic regions, the subantartic Indian Ocean and the North Pacific. It is shown that fast transport of air from southern Africa causes substantial continental pollution at southern mid-latitudes, a region usually regarded as pristine. Air over the North Pacific is heavily impacted by continental influences year round, but the altitude at which the transport occurs varies seasonally. Observations of aerosols at island sites, which are commonly used as diagnostics of continental influences, may be misleading because they do not account for influences at high altitude and because aerosols are efficiently scavenged by deposition during transport. The study of ^{210}Pb focuses on defining the residence times of submicron aerosols in the troposphere. Scavenging in wet convective updrafts is found to provide the dominant sink on a global scale. The globally averaged residence time for ^{210 }Pb-containing aerosols in the troposphere is 7 days. The average increase in residence time

Avaliação dos registros de enfermagem em hemoterapia de um hospital geral

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Silvânia Paiva dos Santos

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Objetivo: avaliar os registros de enfermagem em hemoterapia nas unidades de internação de um hospital geral. Métodos: Estudo descritivo e exploratório, realizado no período de julho a outubro de 2009, em um hospital de grande porte no interior de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Foram auditados 606 prontuários de pacientes que se submeteram ao tratamento hemoterápico. Doze quesitos foram analisados nos registros de enfermagem. Resultados: Foram analisadas 7.272 anotações. Dos itens avaliados, 65,5% estavam em conformidade. Dentre as não conformidades auditadas, as que apresentaram maior frequência foram: os "Sinais Vitais Pós-Transfusional" (83,8%, o "Registro de Observação nos 10 minutos iniciais" (73,6%, o "Número da Bolsa" (61,2%, "Horário de Término" e "Sinais Vitais Início" (57,3%. Os procedimentos que obtiveram melhor resultado foram: "Assinatura" (0,7%, "Carimbo" (1,5% e "Cabeçalho" (2,8%. Conclusão: Apesar de necessitar melhorias, a qualidade dos registros foi considerada boa, pois a maioria dos registros sobre hemoterapia estava em conformidade.

O complexo holosericeus de Ommatius Wiedemann no Brasil: nova espécie e primeiro registro do grupo ampliatus para o País e novos registros para o grupo holosericeus (Diptera, Asilidae

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Rodrigo Vieira

2011-12-01

Full Text Available O complexo holosericeus de Ommatius Wiedemann no Brasil: nova espécie e primeiro registro do grupo ampliatus para o país e novos registros para o grupo holosericeus (Diptera, Asilidae. Neste trabalho é descrita uma nova espécie de Ommatius Wiedemann, 1821 para o estado do Amazonas, pertencente ao grupo ampliatus. Além disso, são fornecidos novos registros, variações taxonômicas, ilustrações e descrição das estruturas das terminálias masculina e feminina para as espécies do grupo holosericeus.

Registro de un ejemplar de Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied 1839) en la provincia de Jujuy, Argentina

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Quiroga, María Fernanda; González Baffa Trasci, Noelia; Akmentins, Mauricio

2015-01-01

La tortuga de orejas rojas (Trachemys scripta elegans) es originaria del centro este de los Estados Unidos y noreste de México (Ernst, 1990), pero debido al comercio internacional de animales silvestres se ha convertido en un invasor biológico a nivel global. En Argentina, Trachemys scripta elegans ha sido reportada para dos localidades en la provincia de Buenos Aires y en ambos casos se trató del registro de individuos aislados, por lo que se desconoce si la tortuga de orejas rojas ha lograd...

A Study of the Effects of Rank and Gender on Officers' Club Membership and Club Usage at U.S. Air Force Bases in the Continental United States

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Smith, C

1999-01-01

Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between both officer rank and officer gender and both club membership and member usage at Air Force officers' clubs in the Continental United States (CONUS...

CALIDAD DE LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCION DE ENFERMERÍA DEL SERVICIO DE NEUROCIRUGÍA DEL HOSPITAL BASE CARLOS ALBERTO SEGUIN ESCOBEDO, AREQUIPA 2014

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CUYA ZEVALLOS, CARLA MADELEINE GRACIELA

2015-01-01

CALIDAD REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA CALIDAD EN LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA INDICADORES DE CALIDAD DE LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA FINALIDAD DE LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA RESPONSABILIDAD DE LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LOS REGISTROS DE EVOLUCIÓN DE ENFERMERÍA

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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Laruelle, G. G.; Dü rr, H. H.; Lauerwald, R.; Hartmann, J.; Slomp, C. P.; Goossens, N.; Regnier, P. A. G.

2013-01-01

Past characterizations of the land-ocean continuum were constructed either from a continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs: COastal Segmentation and related CATchments) or from an oceanic perspective, through a regionalization of the proximal and distal continental margins (LMEs: large marine ecosystems). Here, we present a global-scale coastal segmentation, composed of three consistent levels, that includes the whole aquatic continuum with its riverine, estuarine and shelf sea components. Our work delineates comprehensive ensembles by harmonizing previous segmentations and typologies in order to retain the most important physical characteristics of both the land and shelf areas. The proposed multi-scale segmentation results in a distribution of global exorheic watersheds, estuaries and continental shelf seas among 45 major zones (MARCATS: MARgins and CATchments Segmentation) and 149 sub-units (COSCATs). Geographic and hydrologic parameters such as the surface area, volume and freshwater residence time are calculated for each coastal unit as well as different hypsometric profiles. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the distributions of coastal and continental shelf areas and how they connect with incoming riverine fluxes. The segmentation is also used to re-evaluate the global estuarine CO2 flux at the air-water interface combining global and regional average emission rates derived from local studies. © 2013 Author(s).

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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Laruelle, G. G.

2013-05-29

Past characterizations of the land-ocean continuum were constructed either from a continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs: COastal Segmentation and related CATchments) or from an oceanic perspective, through a regionalization of the proximal and distal continental margins (LMEs: large marine ecosystems). Here, we present a global-scale coastal segmentation, composed of three consistent levels, that includes the whole aquatic continuum with its riverine, estuarine and shelf sea components. Our work delineates comprehensive ensembles by harmonizing previous segmentations and typologies in order to retain the most important physical characteristics of both the land and shelf areas. The proposed multi-scale segmentation results in a distribution of global exorheic watersheds, estuaries and continental shelf seas among 45 major zones (MARCATS: MARgins and CATchments Segmentation) and 149 sub-units (COSCATs). Geographic and hydrologic parameters such as the surface area, volume and freshwater residence time are calculated for each coastal unit as well as different hypsometric profiles. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the distributions of coastal and continental shelf areas and how they connect with incoming riverine fluxes. The segmentation is also used to re-evaluate the global estuarine CO2 flux at the air-water interface combining global and regional average emission rates derived from local studies. © 2013 Author(s).

A VISÃO DA EQUIPE DE ENFERMAGEM SOBRE SEUS REGISTROS

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Lorena Mara Nóbrega de Azevêdo

2012-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo fue conocer la percepción de enfermeros acerca de sus registros y cómo están hechos. Estudio descriptivo, exploratorio, cualitativo, realizado en el Hospital Universitario Onofre Lopes en Natal/RN, Brasil, con 15 profesionales de equipo de enfermería. La recolección de datos ocurrió con entrevistas semiestructuradas sometidas a análisis de contenido temática. Los profesionales perciben sus registros como herramienta indispensable al servicio, cuyas funciones abarcan la comunicación, el apoyo legal y la evaluación del trabajo desarrollado. En su contenido hay información sobre los procedimientos realizados y pequeña descripción de los aspectos emocionales. También se comprobó que las anotaciones de enfermería se consolidan en sólo momento de la documentación, hay distorsión entre este concepto y la evolución de la enfermería. Los profesionales de enfermería comprenden la importancia, las funciones y el contenido de sus registros, todavía, necesitan mejorar su producción.

ESTUDIO CLIMATOLÓGICO CON REGISTROS DE ALTA RESOLUCIÓN TEMPORAL EN CAMPAMENTO POSESIÓN (ENAP): MAGALLANES, CHILE

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Santana,Ariel; Olave,Carlos; Butorovic,Nicolás

2010-01-01

A fines de 2007 se instaló una estación automática de tiempo (AWS) en la planta Posesión (ENAP), al oriente de la región, en plena estepa magallánica. Se analiza la información recolectada durante el 2008 y se la compara con registros similares obtenidos en Punta Arenas. Se describen los montos y distribución de la radiación solar en diferentes rangos, al igual que el resto de variables atmosféricas. Se muestra que la temperatura del aire, la humedad relativa y el viento, dependen directament...

El registro de franquiciadores en el marco de las competencias de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra

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Lara González, Rafael

2000-01-01

Se ha creado un Registro de franquiciadores a nivel del Estado que garantiza la centralización de los datos relativos a las empresas franquiciadoras que operen en más de una Comunidad Autónoma, a los efectos de información y publicidad; y, a este fin, se fijan las directrices técnicas y de coordinación entre los registros similares que puedan establecer las Comunidades Autónomas. En todo caso, la llevanza del Registro de franquiciadores corresponde a las Comunidades Autónomas d...

Paralisia periodica tireotoxica: registro de um caso

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Athos Scherer Torres

1979-06-01

Full Text Available É relatado um caso de paralisia periódica tireotóxica. Os autores chamam a atenção para o fato de não haver registro de publicações semelhantes na literatura brasileira nos 10 últimos anos. São abordados diversos aspectos do diagnóstico diferencial com outros tipos de paralisia periódica.

Diptera, Muscidae, Cariocamyia maculosa Snyder: Primeiro Registro para o Nordeste do Brasil

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Thayana Monteiro; Freddy Ruben Bravo

2011-01-01

Cariocamyia maculosa Snyder, é um Muscidae com registros para a Colômbia e Brasil (regiões Sul, Sudeste e Centro-Oeste). Em um levantamento de dípteros saprófagos na cidade de Feira de Santana no estado da Bahia com iscas de origem orgânico animal em putrefação, foram coletados 46 espécimes de C. maculosa. Esse é o primeiro registro da espécie para a Bahia e Nordeste do Brasil. Apesar de C. maculosa ter sido encontrada...

Registro Español de Ablación con Catéter. IV Informe Oficial (2004

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Miguel Álvarez López

2006-01-01

Conclusiones: Aun con una participación ligeramente inferior a la de años anteriores, el volumen de ablaciones recogidas (> 4.000 y los resultados concordantes con los registros precedentes confirman la validez y la consistencia de nuestro registro.

Registro de datos en un servicio de crecimiento y desarrollo infantil del nivel primario

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J. Luis Segura

2006-03-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: Determinar el tiempo empleado en el registro de datos en las consultas de los servicios de crecimiento y desarrollo en un centro de salud. Lugar: Centro de Salud Mi Perú, Dirección de Salud Callao, Perú. Materiales y Métodos: Estudio de tiempos, mediante observación directa, durante el proceso de atención a 51 usuarios en la consulta del Servicio de Crecimiento y Desarrollo. Resultados: Durante la atención a los usuarios del servicio de crecimiento y desarrollo, se usó 5 formatos para el registro de datos. Cada vez que un niño fue atendido, se registró 31 variables; una de ellas fue registrada simultáneamente en 5 formatos, 3 variables en 6 formatos y 7 en 2 formatos. La mediana de tiempo requerido para el registro manual de todos los formatos fue 2,09 minutos, equivalentes a 15,3% del tiempo total de atención a cada niño. Conclusión: El registro de datos en los servicios de crecimiento y desarrollo demanda una alta proporción del tiempo disponible para la atención a los usuarios.

New records of Mexican Tardigrada Nuevos registros de Tardigrada mexicanos

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Łukasz Kaczmarek

2011-12-01

Full Text Available In 9 moss samples collected from Mexico, 6 tardigrade species, including 4 new records for the country, were found. The new records raise the number of known Mexican water bear species to forty-one. We provide a full list of the known Mexican tardigrade species and discuss some biogeographical and taxonomic issues.En 9 muestras de musgo recolectadas en México, se encontraron 6 especies de tardígrados, incluyendo 4 nuevos registros para el país. Los nuevos registros incrementaron a 41 el número de especies de tardígrados mexicanos conocidos. Se proporciona una lista completa de tardígrados mexicanos conocidos y se discuten algunas cuestiones biogeográficas y taxonómicas.

Características de 107 registros sanitarios españoles y valoración de su utilización (parte a

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Iñaki Imaz Iglesia

2005-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamento: La información sobre los registros sanitarios existentes en nuestro país es poco accesible y escasa y algunos son poco conocidos, pudiendo estar infrautilizados en relación con sus múltiples usos potenciales. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar las características de los Registros Sanitarios españoles y su utilización, especialmente en Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo transversal de los Registros Sanitarios españoles entre 1997 y 2002. La identificación de los registros se realizó a través de búsqueda bibliográfica y mediante encuesta a Sociedades Científicas y Administración sanitaria central y autonómica. Se ha realizado una búsqueda bibliográfica específica de las publicaciones que utilizan datos de los registros sanitarios incluidos y se han evaluado aplicando los criterios de calidad de la evidencia científica. Resultados: Se han identificado 107 registros sanitarios, preferentemente de cobertura local o regional (71% y dependientes en su mayoría de la Administración autonómica (64,5%. Las áreas con mayor número de registros identificados corresponden a la mortalidad (16,8% y al cáncer (15,9%. Se han recuperado 298 publicaciones que analizan datos producidos por los registros identificados, de las que la mayoría se dedican al estudio de la frecuencia y distribución de los eventos registrados (58,1% y con menor frecuencia a la realización de estudios de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias (24,4%. Conclusiones: La evaluación crítica de las publicaciones ha permitido identificar algunos elementos relacionados con el diseño y la metodología de análisis que incrementarían la calidad de los estudios de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias.Los registros sanitarios en España han tenido un desarrollo desigual y reciente. Se han detectado áreas relevantes sin registros y elementos de mejora relacionados con la utilización de los registros sanitarios para

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Iñaki Imaz

2005-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamento: La información sobre los registros sanitarios existentes en nuestro país es poco accesible y escasa y algunos son poco conocidos, pudiendo estar infrautilizados en relación con sus múltiples usos potenciales. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar las características de los Registros Sanitarios españoles y su utilización, especialmente en Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo transversal de los Registros Sanitarios españoles entre 1997 y 2002. La identificación de los registros se realizó a través de búsqueda bibliográfica y mediante encuesta a Sociedades Científicas y Administración sanitaria central y autonómica. Se ha realizado una búsqueda bibliográfica específica de las publicaciones que utilizan datos de los registros sanitarios incluidos y se han evaluado aplicando los criterios de calidad de la evidencia científica. Resultados: Se han identificado 107 registros sanitarios, preferentemente de cobertura local o regional (71% y dependientes en su mayoría de la Administración autonómica (64,5%. Las áreas con mayor número de registros identificados corresponden a la mortalidad (16,8% y al cáncer (15,9%. Se han recuperado 298 publicaciones que analizan datos producidos por los registros identificados, de las que la mayoría se dedican al estudio de la frecuencia y distribución de los eventos registrados (58,1% y con menor frecuencia a la realización de estudios de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias (24,4%. Conclusiones: La evaluación crítica de las publicaciones ha permitido identificar algunos elementos relacionados con el diseño y la metodología de análisis que incrementarían la calidad de los estudios de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias.Los registros sanitarios en España han tenido un desarrollo desigual y reciente. Se han detectado áreas relevantes sin registros y elementos de mejora relacionados con la utilización de los registros sanitarios para

Auditoria de prontuário: avaliação dos registros de aspiração traqueal em terapia intensiva

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Juliana Faria Campos

2008-06-01

Full Text Available Estudo descritivo, exploratório com abordagem quantitativa, cujo objetivo foi avaliar o registro da aspiração traqueal em Terapia Intensiva realizado pela equipe multiprofissional utilizando-se dos referenciais da auditoria. Para avaliação dos registros foi utilizada análise documental. Foram analisados 21 prontuários. Amostra composta por 37 registros da equipe intensivista. A pesquisa deu-se entre janeiro a maio de 2006, em uma instituição pública do Rio de Janeiro. Dados coletados utilizando-se instrumento do tipo check list. Os registros foram avaliados utilizando-se como parâmetro um barema. Observou-se que 89,6% da equipe de enfermagem e 100% da fisioterapia registram de modo incompleto o procedimento. Foi verificada a falta do registro em 10,4% dos prontuários analisados da equipe de enfermagem e em 100% da medicina. Conclui-se que o registro da aspiração traqueal encontra-se falho, sendo imprescindível que medidas de educação continuada e sensibilização dos profissionais sejam adotadas.

Registros de hóspedes como fonte de pesquisa para a História

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Liara Fagundes Echart

2016-03-01

Full Text Available O presente trabalho busca analisar os livros de registros e movimentação de hóspedes do Grande Hotel de Pelotas. O Grande Hotel foi inaugurado em 1928 e permaneceu em funcionamento até o ano de 2002. Atualmente no prédio, doado à Universidade Federal de Pelotas, encontra-se as dependências do Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Hotelaria. A metodologia utilizada consistiu na identificação e análise dos livros de registros e de movimentação de hóspedes do Grande Hotel de Pelotas. Concomitantemente ao processo de pesquisa documental, realizou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica acerca da temática proposta, a fim de realizar o questionamento sobre a relevância do assunto. Ao todo foram localizados 18 exemplares de livros de registros e movimentação de hóspedes, compreendendo o período entre meados de 1959 até 2002, sendo esta última data marcada pelo encerramento das atividades hoteleiras do Grande Hotel de Pelotas. Os livros de registros e movimentação de hóspedes do Grande Hotel mostraram-se uma importante fonte histórica para o estudo da hotelaria em Pelotas.

El registro más antiguo de Panochthus (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae

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Zamorano, M.

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Panochthus is one of the largest sized and most frequently recorded genera of Pleistocene South American Glyptodontidae. A recent taxonomic revision shows that the genus includes six species: P. intermedius>/i> and P. subintermedius (early Pleistocene-middle Pleistocene, P. tuberculatus and P. frenzelianus (middle Pleistocene-late Pleistocene, whereas P. greslebini and P. jaguaribensis only can be referred to the Pleistocene sensu lato. In this contribution the oldest record of the genus Panochthus (MMP 5171 is presented and described. The remains came from the late Pliocene (Playa Los lobos Aloformation, Chapadmalal Formation; Chapadmalalan; Paraglyptodon chapalmalensis Biozone of the Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The material is represented by a considerable fragment of dorsal carapace and some associated osteoderms, which are assignable to an indeterminate species of Panochthus. One of the most significant characters in the exposed surface of the osteoderms is the presence of a clear “reticular” pattern, a character only observed in Panochthus. From a biostratigraphic viewpoint, it is remarkable the absence of records of Panochthus in the Marplatan Age/Stage (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene.Panochthus es uno de los géneros de gliptodóntidos de mayores dimensiones y más ampliamente registrado en el Pleistoceno del sur de América del Sur. Una reciente revisión demostró que alberga seis especies distribuidas cronológicamente de la siguiente manera: P. Intermedius y P. Subintermedius (Pleistoceno temprano-Pleistoceno medio, Ensenadense; P. Tuberculatus y P. Frenzelianus tienen sus biocrones limitados al Pleistoceno medio-Pleistoceno tardío (Bonaerense-Lujanense, mientras que P. Greslebini y P. Jaguaribensis solo pueden referirse al Pleistoceno sensu lato. En la presente contribución se da a conocer el registro más antiguo de Panochthus, representado por el material MMP 5171, procedente del Plioceno tard

El registro bioarqueológico de poblaciones americanas tempranas: vías metodológicas para su análisis e interpretación

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Barrientos, Gustavo

2003-01-01

Full Text Available El registro bioarqueológico correspondiente a la transición Pleistoceno final/Holoceno temprano (ca. 12500 a 8500 años 14C AP es escaso, disperso y poco conspicuo. En años recientes, ha aumentado notoriamente el interés por el estudio de las relaciones biológicas existentes entre muestras de restos humanos tempranos, tanto desde un punto de vista morfológico como genético. Sin embargo, estos estudios no han estado acompañados, en general, por un aumento en nuestro entendimiento acerca de los procesos de formación de tales muestras. La idea sustentada en este trabajo es que el conocimiento de factores tales como las diferencias en las prácticas mortuorias de las sociedades americanas tempranas, en tanto sintomáticas de la organización de las mismas a distinto nivel (i.e. demográfico, espacial, social, político, simbólico, etc., resulta crítico para dar significado a las relaciones biológicas inferidas. En este sentido, el objetivo de esta ponencia será presentar la metodología que actualmente está siendo desarrollada para interpretar la estructura del registro bioarqueológico correspondiente a la transición Pleistoceno final/Holoceno temprano en el Nuevo Mundo, en términos de la organización de las poblaciones humanas correspondientes a dicho período a escala continental o subcontinental.

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus nuevo registro para la parte continental de la Península de Yucatán, México

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Jorge Correa Sandoval

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus sólo había sido reportado para Cayo Arenas del Banco de Campeche y no para la parte continental de la Península de Yucatán. En esta nota reportamos avistamientos de individuos de la especie en la caleta Xel-Ha, en Quintana Roo, durante el período del 15 diciembre de 2001 al 4 de mayo del 2002 y en la Reserva de la Biosfera Ría Lagartos, en Yucatán, el 23 y el 28 de septiembre de 2005.

Variable lifetimes and loss mechanisms for NO3 and N2O5 during the DOMINO campaign: contrasts between marine, urban and continental air

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Crowley, J. N.; Thieser, J.; Tang, M. J.; Schuster, G.; Bozem, H.; Beygi, Z. H.; Fischer, H.; Diesch, J.-M.; Drewnick, F.; Borrmann, S.; Song, W.; Yassaa, N.; Williams, J.; Pöhler, D.; Platt, U.; Lelieveld, J.

2011-11-01

Nighttime mixing ratios of boundary layer N2O5 were determined using cavity-ring-down spectroscopy during the DOMINO campaign in Southern Spain (Diel Oxidant Mechanisms In relation to Nitrogen Oxides, 21 November 2008-8 December 2008). N2O5 mixing ratios ranged from below the detection limit (~5 ppt) to ~500 ppt. A steady-state analysis constrained by measured mixing ratios of N2O5, NO2 and O3 was used to derive NO3 lifetimes and compare them to calculated rates of loss via gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions of both NO3 and N2O5. Three distinct types of air masses were encountered, which were largely marine (Atlantic), continental or urban-industrial in origin. NO3 lifetimes were longest in the Atlantic sector (up to ~30 min) but were very short (a few seconds) in polluted, air masses from the local city and petroleum-related industrial complex of Huelva. Air from the continental sector was an intermediate case. The high reactivity to NO3 of the urban air mass was not accounted for by gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions, rates of which were constrained by measurements of NO, volatile organic species and aerosol surface area. In general, high NO2 mixing ratios were associated with low NO3 lifetimes, though heterogeneous processes (e.g. reaction of N2O5 on aerosol) were generally less important than direct gas-phase losses of NO3. The presence of SO2 at levels above ~2 ppb in the urban air sector was always associated with very low N2O5 mixing ratios indicating either very short NO3 lifetimes in the presence of combustion-related emissions or an important role for reduced sulphur species in urban, nighttime chemistry. High production rates coupled with low lifetimes of NO3 imply an important contribution of nighttime chemistry to removal of both NOx and VOC.

Variable lifetimes and loss mechanisms for NO3 and N2O5 during the DOMINO campaign: contrasts between marine, urban and continental air

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J. Williams

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Nighttime mixing ratios of boundary layer N2O5 were determined using cavity-ring-down spectroscopy during the DOMINO campaign in Southern Spain (Diel Oxidant Mechanisms In relation to Nitrogen Oxides, 21 November 2008–8 December 2008. N2O5 mixing ratios ranged from below the detection limit (~5 ppt to ~500 ppt. A steady-state analysis constrained by measured mixing ratios of N2O5, NO2 and O3 was used to derive NO3 lifetimes and compare them to calculated rates of loss via gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions of both NO3 and N2O5. Three distinct types of air masses were encountered, which were largely marine (Atlantic, continental or urban-industrial in origin. NO3 lifetimes were longest in the Atlantic sector (up to ~30 min but were very short (a few seconds in polluted, air masses from the local city and petroleum-related industrial complex of Huelva. Air from the continental sector was an intermediate case. The high reactivity to NO3 of the urban air mass was not accounted for by gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions, rates of which were constrained by measurements of NO, volatile organic species and aerosol surface area. In general, high NO2 mixing ratios were associated with low NO3 lifetimes, though heterogeneous processes (e.g. reaction of N2O5 on aerosol were generally less important than direct gas-phase losses of NO3. The presence of SO2 at levels above ~2 ppb in the urban air sector was always associated with very low N2O5 mixing ratios indicating either very short NO3 lifetimes in the presence of combustion-related emissions or an important role for reduced sulphur species in urban, nighttime chemistry. High production rates coupled with low lifetimes of NO3 imply an important contribution of nighttime chemistry to removal of both NOx and VOC.

El registro electoral en la historia constitucional cubana (1901-1958

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Raudiel Peña Barrios

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Este artículo pretende analizar la regulación existente en los textos constitucionales cubanos de 1901, 1940 y en los Estatutos Constitucionales del Gobierno de Fulgencio Batista de 1952, así como en sus leyes complementarias, sobre la inscripción en el registro electoral. En vista de esto, analizaremos los diferentes sistemas empleados para la inscripción de los electores, mientras que veremos cómo se va desarrollando la institución del registro a causa del fortalecimiento de todo el marco legal e institucional que sobre este se va configurando, paulatinamente, durante esta etapa. Además, podremos apreciar cómo en determinado momento de la historia cubana esta institución fue comprometida en su cometido político-social lo que puede ser interpretado como una herramienta de fraude electoral.

Análisis de un registro de adenomas pituitarios

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Carolina Albiero

2010-10-01

Full Text Available Dada la complejidad que reviste el enfoque diagnóstico y terapéutico de los tumores pituitarios, el registro y análisis de la experiencia clínica acumulada es de gran ayuda en la toma de decisiones. En este trabajo se informan datos clínico-terapéuticos, extraídos de un registro computarizado, sobre 519 de un total de 670 pacientes con adenomas pituitarios. Trescientos cuarenta y cinco fueron mujeres (66% y 174 varones (34%, de 14 a 80 años de edad. El diagnóstico final fue: acromegalia en 176, enfermedad de Cushing en 153, prolactinoma en 101 y adenoma clínicamente no-funcionante (ANF en 89. La edad media al momento del diagnóstico de acromegalia fue 43.9 ± 13.5 (16-80, para enfermedad de Cushing 35.7 ± 12.9 (14-72, para prolactinomas 30.0 ± 13.4 (15-79 y para ANF 52.1 ± 15.2 (17-79 años. La creación de un registro institucional de tumores de hipófisis es un instrumento de gran utilidad para el análisis de la experiencia adquirida y constituye una herramienta valiosa para mejorar la estrategia terapéutica, optimizar la relación costo/beneficio y mejorar el cuidado del paciente. Contribuye a la docencia médica, tanto en el pre como en el posgrado y da base a la realización de trabajos de investigación clínica, aportando a la difusión y transferencia de conocimientos.

Evaluation of Aqua MODIS Collection 6 AOD Parameters for Air Quality Research over the Continental United States

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J. H. Belle

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Satellite-retrieved aerosol optical depth (AOD has become an important predictor of ground-level particulate matter (PM and greatly empowered air pollution research worldwide. We evaluated the AOD parameters included in the Collection 6 aerosol product of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS for two key factors affecting their applications in air quality research—coverage and accuracy—over the continental US. For the high confidence retrievals (QAC 3, the 10 km DB-DT combined AOD has the best coverage nationwide (29.7% of the days in a year in any given 12 km grid cell. While the Eastern US generally had more successful AOD retrievals, the highest spatial coverage of AOD parameters were found in California (>55% and other vegetated parts of the Western US. If lower QAC retrievals were included, the coverage of the 10 km DB AOD was dramatically increased to 49.6%. In the Eastern US, the QAC 3 retrievals of all four AOD parameters are highly correlated with AERONET observations (correlation coefficients between 0.80 and 0.92. In the Western US, positive retrieval errors existed in all MODIS AOD parameters, resulting in lower correlations with AERONET. AOD retrieval errors showed significant dependence on flight geometry, land cover type, and weather conditions. To ensure appropriate use of these AOD values, air quality researchers should carefully balance the needs for coverage and accuracy, and develop additional data screening criteria based on their study design.

Registro Español de Ablación con Catéter. III Informe Oficial (2003

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Enrique Rodríguez Font

2005-04-01

La elevada participación y la consistencia de los resultados con los de años previos ayudan a consolidar este registro como referencia para el resto de la comunidad científica. Los resultados del registro prospectivo ofrecen una información de mejor calidad y más detallada en sus resultados y complicaciones.

Formation of continental crust by intrusive magmatism

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Rozel, A. B.; Golabek, G. J.; Jain, C.; Tackley, P. J.; Gerya, T.

2017-09-01

How were the continents formed in the Earth? No global numerical simulation of our planet ever managed to generate continental material self-consistently. In the present study, we show that the latest developments of the convection code StagYY enable to estimate how to produce the early continents, more than 3 billion years ago. In our models, melting of pyrolitic rocks generates a basaltic melt and leaves behind a depleted solid residue (a harzburgite). The melt generated in the mantle is transported to the surface. Only basaltic rocks melting again can generate continental crust. Should the basaltic melt always reach the open air and cool down? Should the melt be intruded warm in the pre-existing crust? The present study shows that both processes have to be considered to produce continents. Indeed, granitoids can only be created in a tight window of pressure-temperature. If all basalt is quickly cooled by surface volcanism, the lithosphere will be too cold. If all basalt is intruded warm below the crust then the lithosphere will be too warm. The key is to have both volcanism and plutonism (intrusive magmatism) to reach the optimal temperature and form massive volumes of continental material.

Continental tectonics and continental kinetics

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Allegre, C.J.; Jaupart, C.; Paris-7 Univ., 75

1985-01-01

We present a model of continental growth which combines the results of geochemical studies and tectonic ideas about the evolution of continents through geological time. The process of continental growth is mainly controlled by surface phenomena. Continental material is extracted from the mantle along subduction zones at the periphery of oceans, and is destroyed in collision zones where it is remobilized and made available for subduction. We derive an equation for S, the portion of the Earth's surface occupied by continents, which reads as follows: dS/dt=a . √(1-S)-b . S. Coefficients a and b depend on the geometry of plates, on their number and on their velocities. We assume that they decrease exponentially with time with the same time-scale α. This model satisfies both geochemical and tectonic constraints, and allows the integration of several current observations in a single framework. (orig.)

Registro de la perdiz veracruzana o Chivizcoyo (Dendrortyx barbatus Gould en la sierra norte de Oaxaca, México

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Sergio H. Aguilar-Rodríguez

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Se describe el primer registro de la Perdiz Veracruzana o Chivizcoyo (Dendrortyx barbatus en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Los métodos usados para obtener su registro así como la vegetación del área son descritos. Se menciona el conocimiento local autóctono de ave y su importancia económica, pese a no haber sido anteriormente registrada por ornitólogos. Se discuten evidencias que agregan certeza al registro y se menciona la importancia de éste para la ampliación de su rango de distribución.

REGISTROS DE REPRESENTAÇÃO SEMIÓTICA E SUAS CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA O ENSINO DE FÍSICA

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Cintia Ap. Bento dos Santos

Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta dados de uma pesquisa que tem por objetivo apresentar como ocorrem as mobilizações de conhecimentos matemáticos na resolução de tarefas de Física, considerando os registros de representação semiótica. Para evidenciar o exposto, trazemos uma análise qualitativa centrada na transformabilidade dos registros de representação semiótica e em aspectos didáticos de três tarefas que fizeram parte de um de nossos instrumentos utilizados na pesquisa, bem como uma síntese explicitando o que Duval entende por registros de representação semiótica. Ao final, apresentamos algumas considerações que apontam para as dificuldades que alunos podem ter no momento da resolução de tarefas de Física que, de certa forma, associam-se com a transformabilidade de um registro de representação semiótica.

Avaliação dos registros de enfermagem quanto ao exame físico Evaluación de los registros de enfermería referentes al examen físico Evaluation of nursing records on the physical examination

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Sandra Patricia da Costa

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Os registros de enfermagem geram subsídios essenciais ao planejamento do cuidado individualizado, sendo a coleta de dados a primeira etapa do Processo de Enfermagem. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar os registros realizados pelos enfermeiros quanto ao exame físico do cliente na unidade de tratamento intensivo (UTI e na unidade de internação clínica (UIC. O estudo é transversal-retrospectivo, no qual foram avaliados 69 prontuários de clientes internados em UTI e transferidos para UIC de um hospital público e outro privado. Constatou-se que os registros realizados pelos enfermeiros, mais freqüentes e com melhor qualidade acerca do exame físico, foram os da UTI, enquanto na UIC eram mais frequentes os registros de intercorrências clínicas ocorridas durante o plantão. Evidenciou-se um déficit nos registros acerca do exame físico, o que pode dificultar a assistência individualizada com enfoque nas reais necessidades do cliente, uma vez que muitas alterações podem ser deixadas de serem registradas.Los registros de enfermería son esenciales para la planificación de la atención individualizada, y la recogida de datos el primer paso del proceso de enfermería. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar los registros realizados por los enfermeros referentes al examen físico del paciente de la Unidad de Tratamientos Intensivos (UTI y en la Unidad de Internación Clínica (UIC. El estudio es transversal retrospectivo, donde fueron evaluados prontuarios de pacientes internados en UTI y UIC de un hospital público y otro particular. De los 69 prontuarios evaluados, se verificó que los registros más frecuentes y con mejor calidad a respecto del examen físico fueron los de la UTI, mientras en la UIC ocurrían más evaluaciones solamente de intercurrencias sufridas por los pacientes. Se evidenció una caída en los registros a respecto del examen físico, lo que puede dificultar la asistencia individual y vuelta para las reales

Registro de altitud del Aedes Aegypti en Colombia

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Marco F. Suárez

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Full Text Available En Colombia se había considerado que el mosquito Aedes oegypti no habitaba en alturas superiores a los 1.500 metros sobre el nivel del mar (m/nm. Se disponía de los registros de Oiba [Santander, a 1.400 m/nm  y con temperatura media de 20°C y del Líbano (Tolima], a 1.585 m/nm y con temperatura media de 20°C. (1.

Ley de paternidad responsable y Registro Civil

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Irene Montarano Lacayo

2007-07-01

Full Text Available Con la promulgación de la Ley de Paternidad Responsable en abril del 2001, los derechos de las madres de hijos extramatrimoniales y de los propios menores han cambiado en lo que a filiación se refiere. El artículo explica ampliamente el procedimiento administrativo que lleva el Registro Civil para la inscripción de nacimientos extramatrimoniales, desde la declaración de paternidad, citatorio, prueba de marcadores genéticos, hasta concluir con la declaración de la paternidad vía administrativa.

Metodologia de Baixo Custo para Registro de Imagens do Arco Voltaico de Soldagem

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Anna Louise Voigt

2017-12-01

Full Text Available Resumo Equipamentos que permitem o registro de imagens são importantes ferramentas no estudo dos processos de soldagem. Contudo, câmeras de alta velocidade que permitem a captura de imagens do arco voltaico e dos fenômenos envolvidos, a exemplo da transferência metálica, são limitadas devido ao seu alto custo. Tendo em visto a utilização de câmeras de baixo custo relativo, o presente estudo tem por objetivo avaliar os efeitos dos parâmetros de exposição no registro do arco voltaico, sendo este, semelhante ao que se observa através da máscara de soldagem. Logo, analisou-se os efeitos da abertura do diafragma, tempo de exposição e sensibilidade ISO. Além destes parâmetros, foram empregados filtros na lente da câmera a fim de melhorar a qualidade das imagens. Por fim, aplicou-se o conhecimento adquirido no registro do processo TIG com alimentação de arame frio, sendo possível a visualização das gotas sendo transferidas bem como da poça de fusão.

Valor de los registros audiovisuales en educación intercultural

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Antonio Bautista García-Vera

2012-10-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza las posibilidades de los registros audiovisuales como datos en la investigación sobre relaciones interculturales, o aquellas que van dirigidas al conocimiento del otro. Pretende contribuir a la teorización sobre el valor de las narraciones fotográficas y videográficas en la representación y análisis de realidades de la enseñanza que son difíciles de captar y cuantificar. Concretamente, estudiamos si el registro audiovisual es una buena herramienta para recoger y analizar información situada sobre las intenciones e interpretaciones contenidas en las relaciones humanas. Después de presentar algunos dilemas epistemológicos y metodológicos, como la denominada crisis de la representación en ciencias sociales o el conflicto «etic-emic», y de plantear algunas soluciones dadas desde la antropología audiovisual, analizamos la naturaleza de algunas situaciones de educación intercultural recogidas en los dos colegios –etnografías– que soportan el estudio finalizado en 2011 y financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España, sobre el uso de narraciones audiovisuales como sustrato de las relaciones entre el alumnado diverso culturalmente de educación infantil y primaria. A modo de ejemplo, describimos cómo hemos llegado a algunas de las categorías o constructos que llevan a entender el universo de significados que dan sentido a la vez que condicionan y configuran las relaciones interculturales de esos centros. Finalmente, describimos las aportaciones de algunas herramientas del software NVivo 9 en el análisis del contenido de registros y narraciones foto-videográficas.

Registros nuevos de especies de Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae en el departamento de Cesar, Colombia

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Luis Gregorio Estrada

2015-09-01

Full Text Available El estudio de los insectos asociados a la epidemiología de la leishmaniasis, en la Costa Caribe colombiana, se ha concentrado en los departamentos de Sucre y Córdoba, por consiguiente existe un escaso conocimiento de la fauna de flebotomíneos del resto de la región. En la presente nota se presentan cuatro nuevos registros de Lutzomyia spp., para el departamento de Cesar. Los insectos fueron colectados con dos trampas de luz tipo CDC, equipadas con LED de color azul, en el Balneario Hurtado de la ciudad de Valledupar, Cesar. Se recolectaron en total 50 flebotomíneos, los cuales estuvieron representados por las especies Lutzomyia cayennensis cayennensis (38 %, L. evansi (28 %, L. trinidadensis (14 %, L. venezuelensis (10 %, L. micropyga (6 % y L. rangeliana (2 %. Como primeros registros para el departamento sobresalen L. evansi, L. venezuelensis, L. micropyga y L. rangeliana, con lo que se eleva a ocho el número de especies reportadas hasta la fecha en el Cesar. Entre los nuevos registros se destaca el hallazgo de L. evansi, reconocido vector de Leishmania spp. en la Costa Caribe de Colombia.

Trans-Continental Transport of Air Pollution from Central Asia

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Granberg, I.; Chen, B.; Carmichael, G.; Solomon, P.; Sofiev, M.; Sitnov, S.; Rubinstein, K.; Maximenkov, L.; Artamonova, M.; Pogarski, F.

2009-04-01

was made in adjoint mode, aiming at evaluation of the footprint of the two observations sites - Bishkek and Lidar stations. Here the footprint is the area, which sources affected the observations within the selected period. The analysis of carry of aerosol particles on Central Tien-Shan and further on the basis of construction 4- day time back and direct trajectories is carried out, which were calculated for all days of realization of lidar measurements. The resulting trajectory air mass and density distribution of impurities, which is regionally polluted continental (RPC) air masses transported from Western air flow from Central Asia contributed significantly to the level of pollution at Japanese station Happo. Measuring the content of aerosols in the atmosphere in Central Asia held in a small number of items, and currently available data are insufficient to specify the initial conditions and / or verification of long-range transport models. It should be noted that the main source of aerosol in Central Asia is Taklamakan desert. Average value and AOT variability over it several times higher than corresponding AOT values over the rest of the region. The greatest variability aerosol over Taklamakan observed from late March to mid-May. For example, on April 22, 2008 average of the AOT in cell 5° x 5° over the western part of Taklamakan - value reached 3,171. AOT virtually throughout the region positively correlated with AOT over Taklamakan desert. The most noticeable effect makes an aerosol of Taklamakan found in the south-east Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan in the east and north of the Tibetan highlands. The impact of the Aral Sea area is restricted significantly less. In doing so, AOT in the central part of the region reveals a weak negative correlation with the AOT over the Aral Sea.

Registros nuevos y notables de aves acuáticas en Querétaro y estados adyacentes

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Rubén Pineda-López

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Como resultado de muestreos mensuales durante un año en embalses de Querétaro y zonas adyacentes de estados vecinos, así como de visitas a la Sierra de Lobos en Guanajuato, presentamos nuevos registros estatales de aves acuáticas para los estados de Querétaro (Bucephala albeola, Fregata magnificens, Numenius americanus, Hidalgo (Charadrius semipalmatus, Leucophaeus atricilla, Hydroprogne caspia y Guanajuato (Pelecanus occidentalis; además de registros notables de especies poco conocidas en zonas alejadas de las costas mexicanas. Estos registros muestran que los embalses de zonas semiáridas altas de México son más utilizados por especies poco frecuentes que lo que se ha pensado, y elevan a 70 las especies observadas en la zona semiárida de Querétaro, lo que confirma la importancia de los cuerpos de agua artificiales de esta región para la conservación de las aves acuáticas.

The Latin American Ongoing Clinical Trial Register (LATINREC El Registro Latinoamericano de Ensayos Clínicos en Curso (LATINREC

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Ludovic Reveiz

2006-06-01

Full Text Available Debido a los sesgos que afectan a la publicación de ensayos clínicos y sus resultados, los estudios cuyos resultados son positivos son más fáciles de encontrar que los que tienen resultados sin significación estadística y a ello se debe que los primeros estén sobrerrepresentados. Para contrarrestar este tipo de sesgo se ha propuesto ingresar en un registro toda investigación, desde sus comienzos. No obstante, estos registros se encuentran en distintas fases de evolución, especialmente en países en desarrollo, de tal manera que la Red Cochrane Iberoamericana, parte de la Colaboración Cochrane, ha establecido el Registro Latinoamericano de Ensayos Clínicos en Curso (LATINREC, por Latin American Clinical Trial Registry con la idea de facilitar el registro de los datos contenidos en el protocolo de todo ensayo clínico que se esté llevando a cabo en un momento dado y poner esa información a la disposición del público. El LATINREC, que viene a respaldar los objetivos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS, representa un intento por reducir la duplicación de trabajo y el financiamiento poco equitativo de la investigación sobre enfermedades rezagadas al olvido; por evitar que se efectúen investigaciones sobre asuntos de poca cuantía o que se midan resultados poco útiles; y por fomentar las prácticas éticas y la transparencia. Se han detectado algunos obstáculos mayores que hasta ahora han impedido crear un registro único y común de ensayos clínicos. Con el fin de franquearlos, LATINREC será un registro gratuito que permitirá hacer búsquedas y que se ceñirá a la Plataforma Internacional de Registro de Ensayos Clínicos (ICTRP de la OMS. Además, LATINREC permitirá que los investigadores ingresen en el registro cualquier modificación del protocolo, así como los resultados preliminares. LATINREC ofrecerá grandes ventajas para los consumidores, el gobierno, los profesionales de la salud pública y la industria

Western Continental Margin of India - Re-look using potential field data

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Rajaram, M.; S P, A.

2008-05-01

The Western Continental Margin of India (WCMI) evolved as a result of rifting between India and Madagascar that took place during mid Cretaceous (~88Ma).The WCMI is equally important in terms of natural resources as well as research point of view. The major tectonic elements in the western offshore includes the Laxmi and Chagos- Laccadive ridge dividing the WCMI and the adjoining Arabian sea into two basins, Pratap Ridge, Alleppey platform etc. Different theories have been proposed for the evolution of each of these tectonic elements. In the current paper we look at geopotential data on the west coast of India and the western off-shore. The data sets utilized include Satellite derived High Resolution Free Air Gravity data over the off-shore, Bouguer data onland, Champ Satellite Magnetic data, published Marine Magnetic data collected by ONGC, NIO, ground magnetic data over west cost collected by IIG and available aeromagnetic data. From the free air gravity anomaly the structural details of the western offshore can be delineated. The Euler depths of FAG depict deep solutions associated with Pratap Ridge, Comorin Ridge, the west coast fault and the Laxmi Ridge. These may be associated with continental margin and continental fragments. From the aeromagnetic and marine magnetic data it is evident that the West Coast Fault is dissected at several places. The shallow circular feature associated with Bombay High is evident both on the FAG and the analytic signal derived from satellite Magnetic data. The crustal magnetic thickness from MF5 lithospheric model of the Champ appears to suggest that the continental crust extends up to the Chagos- Laccadive ridge. Based on the analysis of these geopotential data sets the various theories for the evolution of the WCMI will be evaluated and these results will be presented.

Nuevas evidencias de la presencia del Oso Andino (Tremarctos ornatus en las Yungas de Puno, el registro más austral de Perú

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Gisella Márquez

2011-05-01

Full Text Available El oso de anteojos Tremarctos ornatus es el único representante de la familia Ursidae en Suramérica. La población más grande y de distribución continua del oso andino en el Perú, se localiza en la ladera oriental de la cordillera oriental, incluyendo al departamento de Puno, donde casi todos los registros de esta especie provienen solamente de encuestas. Se describe aquí dos registros indirectos de la presencia del oso en el departamento de Puno, obtenidos en agosto del año 2009. El primer registro corresponde a una feca, con semillas perteneciente a la familia Lauraceae, encontrada en Yanacocha; y el segundo registro corresponde a unas marcas de garras del oso hallado en Challohuma. Este último representa el registro más austral con- firmado para la distribución del oso de anteojos en el Perú. Nuestros registros evidencian una continuidad en la distribución de esta especie en la vertiente oriental de la cordillera andina, desde el sur del Perú hasta el noroeste de Bolivia. Estos registros se hallan también muy próximos al Parque Nacional Bahuaja Sonene (PNBS, uno de los corredores de conservación más importantes en el mundo, y muestran la importancia de establecer estrategias de conservación tanto dentro como fuera de la zona de amortiguamiento del PNBS.

La inscripción de las sociedades profesionales en el Registro mercantil y en el de Sociedades profesionales

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García Presas, Inmaculada

2008-01-01

La Ley 2/2007, de 15 de marzo, de Sociedades Profesionales considera, entre otras cuestiones, la inscripción de las Sociedades profesionales en el Registro mercantil y en el de las Sociedades profesionales. En este sentido se valora, entre otros contenidos de dicha Ley, su artículo 8, incidiéndose en el grado de exigencia de la inscripción de las Sociedades profesionales en el Registro Civil.

REGISTROS DO ENFERMEIRO NO ACOMPANHAMENTO DO CRESCIMENTO E DESENVOLVIMENTO: ENFOQUE NA CONSULTA DE PUERICULTURA

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Gabrielle Gama Teixeira Lima

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Estudio documental, con planteo cuantitativo, con el propósito de averiguar si los registros de crecimiento y desarrollo del niño, en el contexto de la consulta de enfermería en el sistema de salud pública, están de acuerdo con lo propuesto por el Ministerio de Salud Pública y reflexionar si, en realidad, en los registros, el enfermero planea acciones que pueden impac- tar la salud de la población infantil. La muestra constó de 39 historiales médicos de niños, nacidos en 2006, acompañados durante un año, en la puericultura. Se comprobó que los criterios que estandarizan el acompañamiento del niño durante el primer año de vida, no estaban siendo efectuados, puesto que el acompañamiento estaba desvinculado de lo que preconiza el Ministerio de Salud Pública. De esa manera, se observó que en el espacio que estaría destinado a las consultas de puericultura hechas por los enfermeros, los registros muchas veces no existían, o estaban incompletos, por lo tanto, se percibió la necesidad de introducir e estimular discusiones sobre la importancia de la consulta de enfermería.

Expansión del rango de la Paloma Coroniblanca Columba leucocephala al territorio continental de Colombia

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Moreno José Gregorio

1999-06-01

Full Text Available Entre las 32 especies de la familia Columbidae anotadas para Colombia, Hilty & Brown (1986 incluyeron a la Paloma Coroniblanca Columba leucocephala L. como restringida al archipiélago de San Andrés y Providencia. Esta especie, de amplia distribución en las Antillas, ha sido registrada en algunas islas continentales o localidades costeras en el sur de la Florida, Costa Rica y Panamá (Bond 1950, 1961, Wetmore 1968, Stiles & Skutch 1989. En Colombia C leucocephala fue encontrada en las islas de San Bernardo, a menos de 30 km del litoral Caribe del Departamento de Sucre (9° 40'Norte, 75° 45'Oeste en 1980 y 1981 por Moreno & López (1982, hallazgo que no fue reseñado en la literatura ornitológica de amplia circulación. En esta nota formalizamos la ampliación del rango geográfico de esta especie al territorio continental colombiano, agregando registros adicionales recientes.

Sistemas de Registro Audiovisual del Patrimonio Urbano (SRAPU)

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Conles, Liliana Eva

2006-01-01

El Sistema SRAPU es un método de relevamiento fílmico diseñado para configurar una base de datos interactiva del paisaje urbano. Sobre esta base se persigue la formulación de criterios ordenados en términos de: flexibilidad y eficacia económica, eficiencia en el manejo de datos, democratización de la información. El SRAPU se plantea como un registro audiovisual del patrimonio material e intangible en su singularidad y como conjunto histórico y natural. En su concepción involucra los pro...

Extensión del límite austral de distribución de tres especies de peces óseos tropicales en la costa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina Southern extension of three species of tropical bony fishes along the coast of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

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Andrés C Milessi; Jorge H Colonello; Federico Cortés; Carlos A Lasta; Juan A Waessle; Lucrecia Allega

2012-01-01

Se presentan tres nuevos registros de especies de peces óseos cuya distribución corresponde a aguas tropicales, capturados por buques pesqueros en la costa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina (CPBA, 36°-38°S). Los ejemplares corresponden a las especies: Rachycentrum canadum, Elops saurus y Caulolatilus chrysops. Estos registros amplían significativamente el límite austral de su distribución. La presencia ocasional de estas especies está asociada al transporte de agua subtropical cálida...

Registro multimodal de mamografías: resonancia magnética y rayos-x.

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2014-01-01

Solves Llorens, JA. (2014). Registro multimodal de mamografías: resonancia magnética y rayos-x [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. doi:10.4995/Thesis/10251/38940. Alfresco

AVALIAÇÃO DE ESTUDANTES SOBRE A PRÁTICA DE PRODUZIR REGISTROS DAS ATIVIDADES DE CIÊNCIAS

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Helder de Figueiredo e Paula

Full Text Available Nesta pesquisa, apresentamos os resultados da avaliação de um recurso que utilizamos para ensinar ciências: a produção de registros das atividades realizadas pelos estudantes em seus próprios cadernos. Nós investigamos se os estudantes valorizam a produção dos registros, bem como suas justificativas para o interesse ou o desinteresse por essa prática. Nossos dados foram gerados a partir de uma análise das respostas dadas por 196 estudantes a um questionário de avaliação do curso. No processo, nós utilizamos métodos estatísticos combinados com uma análise de enunciações fundamentada na Filosofia da Linguagem de Bakhtin e na Gramática Sistêmico- Funcional de Halliday. Nossos dados mostram que a maioria dos estudantes declara ter feito os registros com frequência e interesse, além de atribuir diversas funções aos mesmos.

Antarctic new particle formation from continental biogenic precursors

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E.-M. Kyrö

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Over Antarctica, aerosol particles originate almost entirely from marine areas, with minor contribution from long-range transported dust or anthropogenic material. The Antarctic continent itself, unlike all other continental areas, has been thought to be practically free of aerosol sources. Here we present evidence of local aerosol production associated with melt-water ponds in continental Antarctica. We show that in air masses passing such ponds, new aerosol particles are efficiently formed and these particles grow up to sizes where they may act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN. The precursor vapours responsible for aerosol formation and growth originate very likely from highly abundant cyanobacteria Nostoc commune (Vaucher communities of local ponds. This is the first time freshwater vegetation has been identified as an aerosol precursor source. The influence of the new source on clouds and climate may increase in future Antarctica, and possibly elsewhere undergoing accelerating summer melting of semi-permanent snow cover.

Antarctic new particle formation from continental biogenic precursors

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Kyrö, E.-M.; Kerminen, V.-M.; Virkkula, A.; Dal Maso, M.; Parshintsev, J.; Ruíz-Jimenez, J.; Forsström, L.; Manninen, H. E.; Riekkola, M.-L.; Heinonen, P.; Kulmala, M.

2013-04-01

Over Antarctica, aerosol particles originate almost entirely from marine areas, with minor contribution from long-range transported dust or anthropogenic material. The Antarctic continent itself, unlike all other continental areas, has been thought to be practically free of aerosol sources. Here we present evidence of local aerosol production associated with melt-water ponds in continental Antarctica. We show that in air masses passing such ponds, new aerosol particles are efficiently formed and these particles grow up to sizes where they may act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). The precursor vapours responsible for aerosol formation and growth originate very likely from highly abundant cyanobacteria Nostoc commune (Vaucher) communities of local ponds. This is the first time freshwater vegetation has been identified as an aerosol precursor source. The influence of the new source on clouds and climate may increase in future Antarctica, and possibly elsewhere undergoing accelerating summer melting of semi-permanent snow cover.

Segundo registro de Sterrastrolepis brasiliensis Volkmer-Ribeiro & De Rosa-Barbosa (Demospongiae, Potamolepidae com descrição do habitat e de assembléia, Bacia do Rio Paraná, Brasil Second register of Sterrastrolepis brasiliensis Volkmer-Ribeiro & De Rosa-Barbosa (Demospongiae, Potamolepidae with description of the habitat and of assembly, Paraná Basin, Brazil

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Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro

2005-12-01

Full Text Available A descoberta recente, no fundo rochoso do Rio Piquiri, Bacia do Paraná, Brasil, de Sterrastrolepis brasiliensis Volkmer-Ribeiro & De Rosa-Barbosa, 1978, uma espécie de esponja continental ameaçada, possibilitou o registro fotográfico de espécimes vivos, o aperfeiçoamento das ilustrações ao MEV e da descrição de algumas características, a descrição do habitat e o registro de uma assembléia de esponjas composta por S. brasiliensis, Oncosclera navicella (Carter, 1881 e Oncosclera tonolli (Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago, 1968. Oncosclera tonolli tem seu primeiro registro para águas brasileiras e para a Bacia do Paraná. Gêmulas de O. navicella são tambem ilustradas ao MEV.The recent discovery of Sterrastrolepis brasiliensis Volkmer-Ribeiro & De Rosa-Barbosa, 1978, a brazilian endangered freshwater sponge, at the rocky bottom of River Piquiri, Paraná Basin, Brazil, enhanced the photographing of living specimens, the improving of SEM illustration and description for some characteristics, the description of the habitat and the register of an sponge assembly composed by S. brasiliensis, Oncosclera navicella (Carter, l881 and Oncosclera tonolli (Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago, 1968. Oncosclera tonolli has its first register for Brazilian waters and for the Parana Basin. Gemmules of O. navicella are also SEM illustrated.

Continental Divide Trail

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Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico — This shapefile was created to show the proximity of the Continental Divide to the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail in New Mexico. This work was done as part...

Primer registro de Serratospiculum tendo (Nematoda: Diplotriaenidae para el Perú

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Luis A. Gomez-Puerta

2014-05-01

Full Text Available Reportamos por primera vez la presencia del nematodo, Serratospiculum tendo Nitzsch, 1819, parasitando los sacos aéreos de un halcón peregrino (Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771. Seis nematodos (2 machos y 4 hembras fueron colectados e identificados como S. tendo. El hallazgo de este nematodo constituye el primer registro en el Perú.

PRIMER REGISTRO DEL FLEBOTOMÍNEO BRUMPTOMYIA PINTOI (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) EN COLOMBIA

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BEJARANO EDUAR ELÍAS; DUQUE PATRICIA; VÉLEZ IVÁN DARÍO

2004-01-01

Durante un estudio entomológico de la leishmaniosis realizado en La Macarena,Departamento del Meta, Colombia, se colectó un espécimen macho de Brumptomyiapintoi, el cual constituye el primer registro de la especie para el país. Este flebotomíneofue capturado con un aspirador bucal mientras reposaba en el interior de una cuevade armadillo.

REGISTRO DE CÁNCER COLORRECTAL HEREDITARIO: UNA EXPERIENCIA DE “CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION”

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Church J, MBCHB

2017-07-01

RESUMEN: Se describe el enfoque de “Cleveland Clinic” para el cáncer colorrectal hereditario. Esto es multidisciplinario, involucrando varias especialidades y así como servicios de asesoramiento genético y de salud mental dentro del registro.

Seasonal and long-term change in lead deposition in central Japan: evidence for atmospheric transport from continental Asia

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Bellis, David J.; Satake, Kenichi; Inagaki, Michiko; Zeng, Jiye; Oizumi, Tsuyoshi

2005-01-01

Long-range transport of air pollution from continental Asia is currently an important issue concerning the Japanese environment, especially in regions susceptible to acidification due to low buffering capacity, such as Murakami, Niigata prefecture, located on the west coast of central Japan. Evidence for long-range transport was obtained through lead and lead isotopic analysis of 84 archived precipitation filters, showing seasonal changes in lead deposition from May 1999 to May 2002. Lead deposition was highest in winter and spring (November through May) each year and lowest in summer. Computed 72-h back trajectories showed that in winter air masses were predominantly transported from the northwest, passing over northern China and eastern Russia, whilst in summer air masses predominantly originated from the southeast passing over Japan. Lead isotopic analysis showed higher 208 Pb/ 206 Pb during winter, indicating that lead originated from a different source. A plot of 207 Pb/ 206 Pb vs. 208 Pb/ 206 Pb identified a thorogenic component, which is excess 208 Pb compared to a standard lead growth curve, indicative of certain lead ores and coals in continental Asia. The data provided evidence of long-range transport of lead from continental Asia to Japan. Bark pockets included within the trunks of two Japanese cedar trees harvested near Murakami, dating between 1972 and 1982, exhibited lead isotope ratios indicative of Japanese-sourced lead. In contrast, current (2003) bark showed thorogenic ratios, consistent with a relative decline in Japanese-sourced and increase in continental-sourced lead

Acianthera hygrophila(Orchidaceae, nuevo registro para Uruguay

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Andrés J. Rossado

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Se reporta por primera vez para la flora de Uruguay la orquídea epífita Acianthera hygrophila (Barb. Rodr. Pridgeon & M.W. Chase. La misma fue hallada en el bosque ribereño del Río Yaguarón en el este del departamento de Cerro Largo próximo al límite con Brasil. Este registro representa el límite sur de distribución de la especie. Se presenta una descripción ampliada, ilustración y mapa de distribución de A. hygrophila, así como una clave para la identificación de las especies de Acianthera presentes en Uruguay

Sistema instrumentado para o registro de comportamentos ingestivos

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Pereira, Gustavo Vieira

2003-01-01

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica. Este trabalho descreve um sistema automático para registro de parâmetros que permitam o estudo de atributos do comportamento ingestivo de animais em laboratório. Este sistema é orientado a usuários que não são profissionais da área de engenharia. Portanto, dispensa a necessidade de configurações eletrônicas que são desestimulantes para biólogos, fisiologist...

PRIMER REGISTRO DE LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM (LYCOPODIACEAE PARA URUGUAY

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Héctor A. González

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Se registra por primera vez para la flora uruguaya a Lycopodium clavatum (Lycopodiaceae, hallada en los departamentos de Durazno y Maldonado. Este nuevo registro extiende su área de distribución, es- tableciendo las localidades situadas en el centro y este del Uruguay como el límite distribucional austral de Lycopodium s. str. Se presenta una descripción diagnóstica, un mapa de distribución en el país, así como la ilustración de la especie y fotografías del hábitat.

Registros cerámicos de época Taifa en madina labla (Niebla, Huelva) : un acercamiento tipológico

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Beltrán Pinzón, José Manuel

2010-01-01

El presente estudio constituye un intento de clasificación de la cerámica del periodo taifa del asentamiento de Niebla (Huelva), según los registros obtenidos en la excavación realizada en el sector de murallas de El Desembarcadero, actividad enmarcada dentro del Proyecto de Arqueología Urbana de la Ciudad de Niebla (PAUCN). El conjunto cerámico estudiado revela unas conexiones bastante estrechas con otros registros cerámicos del Suroeste Peninsular.__________________________The present study...

Violência contra crianças e adolescentes no Amazonas: análise dos registros

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Angela Costa Maia

2012-06-01

Full Text Available A violência contra crianças e adolescentes é um fenômeno frequente, mas pouco se conhece sobre o contexto em que ocorre e sobre suas consequências. O objetivo deste estudo é caracterizar esta violência no Interior do Estado do Amazonas. Foram analisados 193 registros do Relatório Txain sobre a Violência contra Crianças e Adolescentes. Como resultado, verificou-se que grande parte dos registros oficiais omitem informações. A agressão física é o tipo de violência mais relatado, e a maior parte das vítimas é constituída de adolescentes do sexo feminino de idades entre 12 e 15 anos. Os agressores são predominantemente desconhecidos das vítimas e são do sexo masculino. Em termos de consequências para a saúde, há referência a algumas lesões físicas, mas os dados são bastante omissos em relação à saúde mental. Estes dados sugerem a necessidade de integralização e aprimoramento dos sistemas de registro, informação e atendimento a vítimas fora das grandes cidades.

Influences of Regional Climate Change on Air Quality Across the Continental U.S. Projected from Downscaling IPCC AR5 Simulations. Chapter 2

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Nolte, Christopher; Otte, Tanya; Pinder, Robert; Bowden, J.; Herwehe, J.; Faluvegi, Gregory; Shindell, Drew

2013-01-01

Projecting climate change scenarios to local scales is important for understanding, mitigating, and adapting to the effects of climate change on society and the environment. Many of the global climate models (GCMs) that are participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) do not fully resolve regional-scale processes and therefore cannot capture regional-scale changes in temperatures and precipitation. We use a regional climate model (RCM) to dynamically downscale the GCM's large-scale signal to investigate the changes in regional and local extremes of temperature and precipitation that may result from a changing climate. In this paper, we show preliminary results from downscaling the NASA/GISS ModelE IPCC AR5 Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 6.0 scenario. We use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model as the RCM to downscale decadal time slices (1995-2005 and 2025-2035) and illustrate potential changes in regional climate for the continental U.S. that are projected by ModelE and WRF under RCP6.0. The regional climate change scenario is further processed using the Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system to explore influences of regional climate change on air quality.

Primer registro para Peru del genero Nielsonia Young, 1977 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae: Cicadellini)

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En este articulo se reporta por primera vez para el Peru una especies del genero Nielsonia Young, 1977, de material procedente del Departamento de Tumbes. El genero ha sido reportada anteriormente de Ecuador, como unico registro para Sudamerica, y America Central. El unico especimen hembra encontra...

Primer registro de artropodofauna cadavérica en sustratos humanos y animales en San Juan, Argentina

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Fernando H. ABALLAY

2008-01-01

Full Text Available En el presente trabajo se estudiaron los artrópodos carroñeros que acudieron a cadáveres de vertebrados al aire libre en la provincia de San Juan, Argentina. El objetivo fue inventariar la composición específica de la artropodofauna cadavérica, asociada a diferentes sustratos de vertebrados en descomposición. Se colectaron muestras de artrópodos sobre restos animales y humanos en condiciones de campo y sobre cadáveres de cerdos domésticos colocados al aire libre bajo condiciones controladas. Se registraron, por primera vez para la provincia de San Juan, 40 especies de artropodofauna tanatológica incluidas en cuatro órdenes y 15 familias. Se incorpora, como primera cita para la fauna forense argentina, un necrófago: Megelenophorus americanus Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, y tres necrófilas: Polybia ruficeps Schrottky (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Pheidole bergi Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae y Ectatomma brunneum Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae. Se citan 18 especies necrófagas, 18 necrófilas, una omnívora y seis oportunistas sobre siete diferentes sustratos cadavéricos de vertebrados. Se brindan nuevos registros de distribución de 18 especies de insectos. Se confirma la estacionalidad invernal de Callíphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae.

Dynamic Evaluation of Two Decades of CMAQ Simulations over the Continental United States (book chapter)

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This paper focuses on dynamic evaluation of the CMAQ model over the continental United States using multi-decadal simulations for the period from 1990 to 2010 to examine how well the changes in observed ozone air quality induced by variations in meteorology and/or emissions are s...

Contribuições dos registros eletrônicos para a segurança do paciente em terapia intensiva: uma revisão integrativa

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Paulino Artur Ferreira de Sousa

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Revisión integrativa que analizó en las publicaciones las contribuciones de los registros electrónicos de salud para la seguridad de los pacientes en unidades de cuidados intensivos. La investigación se realizó en las bases de datos CINAHL, MEDLINE y SciELO, utilizando las palabras clave: registros médicos electrónicos, sistemas de información, informática de enfermería, informática médica, unidades de cuidados intensivos, seguridad del paciente y gestión de la seguridad. Se incluyeron 64 artículos y se analizaron en dos categorías empíricas: "Los sistemas de información y tecnología de la información: el registro electrónico para la continuidad de los cuidados de enfermería", "sistemas de apoyo: las contribuciones a la seguridad del paciente" y "los indicadores de calidad de la atención y seguridad de los pacientes de los registros electrónica". Los estudios señalaron como contribuciones a la continuidad de la atención, la toma de decisiones basadas en los sistemas de soporte de decisiones y la creación de indicadores de calidad y seguridad de los pacientes de los registros electrónicos.

la escritura oficial del registro civil: cuando la ciudadanía pasa por la inscripción*

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Claudine Dardy

2002-01-01

Full Text Available Los estados modernos registran oficialmente las identidades de los individuos. Este registro es una obligación, un cierto tipo de control; pero al mismo tiempo brinda un espacio social con todos los derechos que le corresponden, es decir, provee de identidades sociales. Aunque esta inscripción y burocratización de la vida cotidiana es un control, paradójicamente abre espacios de libertad. Así, aunque el modelo identitario del Registro Civil otorga privilegios a ciertas marcas (nombre, apellido, nacionalidad, sexo, impone la permanencia de las mismas. Un estado democrático dirige y codifica las posibles salidas de este modelo.

Prótesis total. Una innovación para el registro de trayectorias condíleas en la fase de plancha base y rodetes

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Salsench Cabré, Juan; Samsó Manzanedo, Jorge; Nogueras Bayona, Joaquim

1993-01-01

Se hace una revisión bibliográfica del registro de trayectorias condíleas en la construcción de prótesis totales. Se presenta un nuevo método sencillo y eficaz, para su registro en la fase de planchas base y rodetes.

Obtención de una placa fotosensible como material de registro holográfico

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García, C.

2000-08-01

Full Text Available In this article was showed the procedure of obtaining and depositing of photosensitive dry films uses as holographic recording materials. We compare the thickness and the uniformity of plates obtained with two different depositing method, with a manual depositor and an automatic depositor. The influence of the thickness on the behaviour of the material as holographic recording material has been studied.

En este artículo se presenta, en primer lugar, el procedimiento de obtención y depositado de películas fotosensibles secas utilizadas como material de registro holográfico, comparando el espesor y uniformidad de las placas obtenidas con dos métodos de depositado distinto, con un depositador manual y con un depositador automático. En segundo lugar se analiza la influencia del espesor en el comportamiento del material como material de registro holográfico.

Effect of land cover on atmospheric processes and air quality over the continental United States – a NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF model study

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Z. Tao

2013-07-01

Full Text Available The land surface plays a crucial role in regulating water and energy fluxes at the land–atmosphere (L–A interface and controls many processes and feedbacks in the climate system. Land cover and vegetation type remains one key determinant of soil moisture content that impacts air temperature, planetary boundary layer (PBL evolution, and precipitation through soil-moisture–evapotranspiration coupling. In turn, it will affect atmospheric chemistry and air quality. This paper presents the results of a modeling study of the effect of land cover on some key L–A processes with a focus on air quality. The newly developed NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecast (NU-WRF modeling system couples NASA's Land Information System (LIS with the community WRF model and allows users to explore the L–A processes and feedbacks. Three commonly used satellite-derived land cover datasets – i.e., from the US Geological Survey (USGS and University of Maryland (UMD, which are based on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR, and from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS – bear large differences in agriculture, forest, grassland, and urban spatial distributions in the continental United States, and thus provide an excellent case to investigate how land cover change would impact atmospheric processes and air quality. The weeklong simulations demonstrate the noticeable differences in soil moisture/temperature, latent/sensible heat flux, PBL height, wind, NO2/ozone, and PM2.5 air quality. These discrepancies can be traced to associate with the land cover properties, e.g., stomatal resistance, albedo and emissivity, and roughness characteristics. It also implies that the rapid urban growth may have complex air quality implications with reductions in peak ozone but more frequent high ozone events.

Miastenia gravis familiar: registro de dois irmãos

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Marcos R. G. de Freitas

1985-03-01

Full Text Available A forma familiar da miastenia gravis é condição relativamente rara, ocorrendo em cerca de 3,4% dos pacientes miastênicos. Os autores registram os casos de dois irmãos não-gêmeos, apresentando miastenia gravis com acometimento predominantemente ocular desde o nascimento. Um terceiro irmão faleceu na infância, provavelmente com a mesma afecção. Os pais eram consanguíneos. Estudo da incidência da forma familiar da miastenia e de seus aspectos clínicos, genéticos e terapêuticos complementa os registros.

Primer registro del frutero pechinegro Pipreola lubomirskii (Aves, Cotingidae en la vertiente occidental de los Andes

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Letty Salinas

2013-06-01

Full Text Available El frutero pechinegro, Pipreola lubomirskii, es un cotíngido registrado como raro y de distribución local en los Andes del Norte. Antes del presente registro sólo había sido reportado para la vertiente oriental del Perú y Ecuador, así como los Andes del sur de Colombia. El presente registro amplia su distribución a los bosques montañosos de la vertiente occidental de los Andes peruanos, habiéndose encontrado en los bosques nublados del valle del río Zaña, en el departamento de Cajamarca (6º50’-6º52’ latitud S, 79º10’-79º07’ longitud O.

Siete nuevos registros de Arctiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae para Perú

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Juan Grados

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Se presenta siete nuevos registros de Arctiini (Erebidae: Lepidoptera para Perú. Algunas de las especies son raras en colecciones. Cada nuevo reporte pertenece a géneros diferentes, proporcionando para cada género las especies que ocurren en el Perú, basado en colecciones y las fuentes bibliográficas de las descripciones originales. Se da a conocer un nuevo sinónimo para Agyrtiola niepeltiGaede, 1926.

Registro de enfermedad cerebrovascular isquémica Ischemic stroke registry

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Juan I. Rojas

2006-12-01

Full Text Available El conocimiento de los factores de riesgo y los aspectos epidemiológicos del accidente cerebrovascular (ACV provienen fundamentalmente de estudios de EE.UU. y Europa, con escasa información procedente de los países en desarrollo. Las características clínicas y epidemiológicas del ACV son variables en relación a factores regionales, por lo cual es necesario conocer cuál es la situación en nuestro continente. El objetivo del trabajo es describir los subtipos clínicos y los factores de riesgo de los pacientes con ACV isquémico. Se analizaron consecutivamente los pacientes ingresados desde el 01/06/2003 al 01/06/2005 con diagnostico de ACV isquémico. Sobre un total de 395 pacientes, la edad media fue de 71.36 años (± 13.82, el 55% fueron varones. Los subtipos de ACV fueron los siguientes: infarto lacunar (40%, enfermedad de gran arteria (20%, cardioembolia (10% y otras causas (5%. La hipertensión arterial (76%, la dislipidemia (50% y el antecedente de ACV previo (34% fueron los factores de riesgo más frecuentes. Los pacientes con síntomas corticales presentaron más frecuentemente estenosis carotídea > del 70% en el doppler de vasos de cuello, siendo esto estadísticamente significativo. La información sobre el ACV en los países en desarrollo es difícil de obtener. Esta puede ser la razón del escaso número de registros provenientes de Sudamérica. La hipertensión fue el factor de riesgo más prevalente en nuestra serie. El subtipo de ACV difiere de lo informado en otras regiones del mundo predominando la enfermedad de pequeña arteria.Current knowledge of stroke risk factors and epidemiology is based mostly on USA or European studies; scarce data have been published from developing countries. Because epidemiological and clinical characteristics in stroke vary according to regional factors, we need to know the peculiarities of stroke on this subcontinent. The purpose is to describe the clinical subtypes and risk factors in

Primeros registros de la cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus en el estado de Hidalgo, México

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Iriana Zuria

2017-04-01

Full Text Available La cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus es una especie de ave exótica e invasora en México. En esta nota presentamos los primeros registros de esta especie en el estado de Hidalgo. Observamos individuos adultos y nidos activos desde 2011 en dos ciudades de la entidad: Huejutla y Pachuca. Los nidos en Huejutla los ubicamos tanto en una galera metálica como en una antena de telefonía, mientras que en Pachuca un nido estaba en una yuca dentro de un campo de golf. La presencia de nidos activos indica que la especie está en proceso de establecerse en la entidad. La distribución de la cotorra argentina se ha incrementado de manera significativa en México ya que actualmente se tienen registros en 23 entidades del país.

Registro Nacional de Internación por Insuficiencia Cardíaca

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Raúl Borracci

2009-01-01

Full Text Available IntroducciónLa insuficiencia cardíaca representa una de las principales causas de internación con una tasa elevada de complicaciones y cuyo enfoque no parece que haya mejorado en los últimos años.ObjetivosConocer el perfil epidemiológico y clínico, analizar las medidas terapéuticas y la evolución durante la internación y a los 3 meses de pacientes admitidos por insuficiencia cardíaca descompensada.Material y métodosRegistro prospectivo, multicéntrico de pacientes internados por insuficiencia cardíaca descompensada en 31 centros de todo el país que aceptaron la invitación a participar del registro. Se analizaron variables vinculadas con la presentación y la evolución hospitalaria y a los 90 días.ResultadosSe incluyeron 736 pacientes, mediana de edad 74 años (64-82, 41% mujeres, 75% hipertensos, 27% diabéticos, 20% infarto previo, 30% fibrilación auricular crónica, 17% insuficiencia renal crónica, 18% EPOC. Sólo el 29% era de etiología isquémico-necrótica. El 47% había tenido internación en el último año por insuficiencia cardíaca. Las causas de descompensación más frecuentes fueron infecciones, suspensión del tratamiento y transgresión alimentaria.Las formas graves de presentación (shock cardiogénico, edema agudo de pulmón, anasarca representaron el 30%. El 60% de los pacientes se internaron en área crítica. La mediana de permanencia fue de 7 (5-11 días. La mortalidad hospitalaria fue del 8%. A los 90 días, la reinternación fue del 24,5% y la mortalidad posalta fue del 12,8%.ConclusionesEl presente registro confirma que se trata de una población de edad avanzada con una incidencia alta de comorbilidades. Muchas descompensaciones ocurren por factores prevenibles. La tasa de complicaciones es elevada y no se redujo en la última década.REV ARGENT CARDIOL 2009;77:33-39.

The time series variations of tritium concentration in precipitation and its relationships to the rainfall-inducing air mass

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Shimada, Jun

1978-01-01

The author measured the tritium concentration in precipitation of Tokyo for every ten-day period from August 1972 to May 1974. Judging from the daily synoptic weather chart, the rainfall-inducing air masses in Japan were classified into five types; polar maritime air mass (Pm), polar continental air mass (Pc), tropical maritime air mass (Tm), tropical continental air mass (Tc), and equatorial maritime air mass (Em). And the precipitation for every ten-day period sampled for tritium measurement were classified into these five types. Based on this classification, it is confirmed that there exist clear difference in the tritium concentration between the rainfall from the continental air mass and ones from the maritime air mass. It is characteristic that the tritium concentration in rainfall induced by equatorial maritime air mass such as typhoon in summer and early fall season is very low whereas the tritium concentration in rainfall and snowfall induced directly by the polar continental air mass in late winter season is very high. The regional difference of the tritium concentration in intermonthly precipitation could considerably be explained by this synoptic meteological classification of rainfall-inducing air mass. In spite of these regional difference of tritium concentration in precipitation, use of the tritium concentration of Tokyo as a representative value of Japan may be allowed because of the similarities of the changing pattern and annual mean tritium concentration. The time series variations of tritium concentration in precipitation of Tokyo from August 1972 to December 1977, Tsukuba from December 1976 to April 1978, and Nagaoka from April 1977 to March 1978 are listed. (author)

UNA ESPECIE NUEVA DE MYRCIA (MYRTACEAE Y NUEVOS REGISTROS DE LA FAMILIA PARA COLOMBIA

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CARLOS PARRA-O.

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Se describe e ilustra una especie nueva de Myrcia (Myrtaceae para los Andes de Colombia. Se discuten las afinidades taxonómicas del nuevo taxón dentro de las Myrtaceae colombianas. Adicionalmente, se presentan cinco nuevos registros de Myrtaceae para la flora nativa colombiana.

Extensión del límite austral de distribución de tres especies de peces óseos tropicales en la costa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Milessi, Andres Conrado; Colonello, Jorge H.; Cortés, Federico; Lasta, Carlos Ángel; Waessle, Juan A.; Allega, Lucrecia

2012-01-01

Se presentan tres nuevos registros de especies de peces óseos cuya distribución corresponde a aguas tropicales, capturados por buques pesqueros en la costa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina (CPBA, 36º-38ºS). Los ejemplares corresponden a las especies: Rachycentrum canadum, Elops saurus y Caulolatilus chrysops. Estos registros amplían significativamente el límite austral de su distribución. La presencia ocasional de estas especies está asociada al transporte de agua subtropical cálida...

Registro de Nephridiophaga sp. (Protista: Nephridiophagidae en Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae del Sur de la región Pampeana Record of Nephridiophaga sp. (Protista: Nephridiophagidae in Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae of the southern Pampas

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Santiago Plischuk

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Durante estudios prospectivos tendientes a la detección de protistas asociados a ápidos en la región Pampeana, se observó la presencia de esporos ovales bicóncavos y grupos de esporos (cúmulos en los túbulos de Malpighi de abejas de Dufaur, partido de Saavedra, sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Los esporos maduros midieron 4,8 ± 0,05 x 2,4 ± 0,03 μm y la carga (intensidad promedió 5,71 ± 1,49 x 10(6 esporos/abeja. Las detecciones se efectuaron entre julio y octubre de 2006 y la prevalencia en las colmenas positivas osciló entre 1 y 16,7 %. Las características morfológicas de los esporos, el lugar de desarrollo y la especie huésped involucrada sugieren que el microorganismo en cuestión, pertenece al género Nephridiophaga y sería N. apis Ivani, especie tipo cuyo conocimiento es extremadamente limitado. El hallazgo constituye el primer registro de un nefridiofágido asociado a A mellifera fuera del continente europeo.During surveys for the detection of protists associated to Apidae in the Pampas region, biconcave oval spores, and spore clumps were observed in the Malpighian tubules of honeybees from Dufaur, Saavedra county, southwestern Buenos Aires province. Mature spores measured 4.8 ± 0.05 x 2.4 ± 0.03 μm, and mean spore load was 5.71 ± 1.49 x 10(6 per honeybee. Detections were from July to October 2006, and prevalence in positive colonies ranged from 1 to 16.7%. Morphology of the spores, the site of development, and the identity of the host species suggest that the isolated microorganism belongs to the genus Nephridiophaga and would be N apis Ivani, the type species, knowledge on which is extremely limited. The finding constitutes the first record of a nephridiophagid in honeybees outside of Europe.

Clasificación automática del registro lingüístico en textos del español: un análisis contrastivo

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John Roberto Rodríguez

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Las aplicaciones colaborativas como los Sistemas de Recomendación se pueden beneficiar de la clasificación de textos en registros lingüísticos. En primer lugar, el registro lingüístico proporciona información sobre el perfil de los usuarios y sobre el contexto de la recomendación. En segundo lugar, considerar las características de cada tipo de texto puede ayudar a mejorar los métodos actuales de procesamiento de lenguaje natural. En este trabajo contrastamos dos enfoques, uno morfosintáctico y el otro léxico, para categorizar textos por registro en español. Para su evaluación aplicamos 38 algoritmos de aprendizaje automático con los que obtuvimos niveles de precisión superiores al 89%.

Gravity anomalies over a segment of Pratap ridge and adjoining shelf margin basin, western continental margin of India

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Subrahmanyam, V.; Rao, D.G.; Ramprasad, T.; KameshRaju, K.A.; Rao, M.G.

Bathymetric and gravity data totalling 2000 line km on the continental margin off Goa and Mulki, west of India have been studied. The free-air gravity anomalies vary between -60 to 25 mgals with prominent NNW-SSE trends in the outer shelf region...

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — This data represents geographic terms used within the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA or Act). The Act defines the United States outer continental shelf...

Bathymetric highs in the mid-slope region of the western continental margin of India - Structure and mode of origin

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Rao, D.G.; Paropkari, A.L.; Krishna, K.S.; Chaubey, A.K.; Ajay, K.K.; Kodagali, V.N.

Analysis of the multi- and single beam bathymetric, seismic, magnetic and free-air gravity (ship-borne and satellite derived) data from the western continental margin of India between 12 degrees 40 minutes N and 15 degrees N had revealed...

PREVALENCIA Y MORTALIDAD DE LA ENFERMEDAD DE HUNTINGTON A PARTIR DEL REGISTRO POBLACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS DE LAS ISLAS BALEARES DURANTE EL PERÍODO 2010-2013

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Mercedes Cáffaro Rovira

2017-01-01

Full Text Available La enfermedad de Huntington (EH es una enfermedad hereditaria de baja prevalencia, por lo que se incluye en los registros de enfermedades raras. El registro poblacional de enfermedades raras de las Islas Baleares se inició en el año 2010. Previamente no existían datos de prevalencia y mortalidad de la EH en las Islas Baleares. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la prevalencia y la mortalidad de la enfermedad de Huntington en las Islas Baleares durante el periodo 2010-2013. Métodos: Se utilizaron como fuentes de información el registro poblacional de enfermedades raras de las Islas Baleares, del que se obtuvieron los casos diagnosticados, el Registro de mortalidad de las Islas Baleares, del que se obtuvieron los casos fallecidos, el registro del Servicio de Salud de las Islas Baleares del que se obtuvieron el número de tarjetas sanitarias y del Instituto Nacional de Estadística se obtuvieron los datos de población. Se calcularon las tasas de prevalencia y de mortalidad. Resultados: El registro poblacional de enfermedades raras de las Islas Baleares durante el periodo 2010-2013 registró 27 casos de EH. El 63% fueron mujeres. La tasa de prevalencia fue de 2,6 por 105 y la tasa de mortalidad de 1,1 por 105. La isla de Menorca fue la más afectada con una prevalencia de 5,9 por 105 y una mortalidad de 2,1 por 105. Conclusiones: La prevalencia y mortalidad de la EH en las Islas Baleares son bajas en comparación con zonas del entorno.

El Registro de Gemelos de Murcia. Un recurso para la investigación sobre conductas relacionadas con la salud

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Juan R. Ordoñana

2018-01-01

Full Text Available Los diseños genéticamente informativos, y en particular los estudios de gemelos, constituyen la metodología más utilizada para analizar la contribución relativa de los factores genéticos y ambientales a la variabilidad interindividual. Básicamente, consisten en comparar el grado de similitud, con respecto a una característica o rasgo determinado, entre gemelos monocigóticos y dicigóticos. Además de la clásica estimación de heredabilidad, este tipo de registros permite una amplia variedad de análisis únicos por las características de la muestra. El Registro de Gemelos de Murcia es un registro de base poblacional centrado en el análisis de conductas relacionadas con la salud. Las prevalencias de problemas de salud observadas son comparables a las de otras muestras de referencia de ámbito regional y estatal, lo que avala su representatividad. En conjunto, sus características facilitan el desarrollo de diversas modalidades de investigación, además de diseños genéticamente informativos y la colaboración con distintas iniciativas y consorcios.

The accelerating effects of the microorganisms on biodeterioration of stone monuments under air pollution and continental-cold climatic conditions in Erzurum, Turkey

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Nuhoglu, Y.; Oguz, E.; Uslu, H.; Ozbek, A.; Ipekoglu, B.; Ocak, I.; Hasenekoglu, I.

2006-01-01

The aim of this research was to determine the accelerating effects of microorganisms on the biodeterioration of stone under air pollution and continental-cold climatic region in Erzurum, Turkey. Studies have been carried out on specimens of the Rustempasa Bazaar, the Lalapasa Mosque, the Erzurum Castle Mosque, the Double Minarets-Madrasah, the Great Mosque and the Haji Mehmet Fountain aged from 441 to 823 years old. The results showed that vegetative and reproductive (generative) forms of the microorganisms could develop during the winter months when the night time average temperature was even - 25 deg. C. Also the reproductive forms had developed and the whole stone surface was covered with a biofilm caused by the microorganisms. Silicon, aluminum, calcium, potassium, titanium, magnesium, zinc, sulfur, iron, sodium, and niobium were found in the stones of the historical buildings with varying amounts through the SEM-EDS analysis. Some of these elements could be used as an energy resource for the microorganisms together with the air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particles on the stone surfaces. Of 21 isolates, 15 species from 6 bacterium genera and 5 species from 5 fungi genera plus 1 fungi genera were identified on the deteriorated stone surfaces even during the coldest months by microbial identification system (MIS) and these findings were tested by SEM investigations

Registros adicionales del carrao (Aramus guarauna en el estado de Jalisco, México

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Carlos Palomera-García

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Se reportan registros adicionales del carrao (Aramus guarauna para el interior del Estado de Jalisco, México. Esta información, en conjunto con la previa conocida, apoya la idea que dice que la distribución de la especie podría está relacionada con la del caracol (Pomacea flagellata, Gastropoda: Ampullaridae que le sirve de alimento.

Deep continental margin reflectors

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Ewing, J.; Heirtzler, J.; Purdy, M.; Klitgord, Kim D.

1985-01-01

In contrast to the rarity of such observations a decade ago, seismic reflecting and refracting horizons are now being observed to Moho depths under continental shelves in a number of places. These observations provide knowledge of the entire crustal thickness from the shoreline to the oceanic crust on passive margins and supplement Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP)-type measurements on land.

Palaeomagnetism and the continental crust

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Piper, J.D.A.

1987-01-01

This book is an introduction to palaeomagnetism offering treatment of theory and practice. It analyzes the palaeomagnetic record over the whole of geological time, from the Archaean to the Cenozoic, and goes on to examine the impact of past geometries and movements of the continental crust at each geological stage. Topics covered include theory of rock and mineral magnetism, field and laboratory methods, growth and consolidation of the continental crust in Archaean and Proterozoic times, Palaeozoic palaeomagnetism and the formation of Pangaea, the geomagnetic fields, continental movements, configurations and mantle convection.

Racionalidade e métodos: estudo BREATHE - I registro brasileiro de insuficiência cardíaca

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Full Text Available FUNDAMENTO: Diversos registros locais buscam de forma isolada retratar características clínicas de pacientes internados com Insuficiência Cardíaca (IC em hospitais e comunidades brasileiras. De forma geral, a análise desses dados sugere que existam diferenças importantes na etiologia, nos fatores de descompensação, no tratamento e no prognóstico de pacientes com IC nas diferentes regiões brasileiras. OBJETIVOS: Avaliar as características demográficas, clínicas, prognósticas de 1.200 pacientes admitidos com diagnóstico clínico de insuficiência cardíaca descompensada em um grupo de 60 hospitais representativos das diferentes regiões brasileiras. MÉTODOS: Estudo observacional transversal (registro com seguimento longitudinal de doze meses (visitas de admissão, alta hospitalar, três meses, seis meses e doze meses após inclusão, em que pacientes admitidos em hospitais da rede pública e privada com quadro clínico primariamente de IC definida serão estudados. RESULTADOS: Os resultados serão apresentados logo após o término da coleta, avaliação da qualidade e análise estatística dos dados. CONCLUSÕES: A análise dos resultados deste registro multicêntrico permitirá um planejamento mais adequado do aporte de recursos financeiros, pessoais e tecnológicos para a área da saúde, bem como o planejamento de medidas preventivas mais eficazes na IC descompensada.

Nuevos registros para la herpetofauna del departamento de Lima, descripción del renacuajo de Telmatobius rimac Schmidt, 1954 (Anura: Ceratophrydae y una clave de los anfibios

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César Aguilar

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Full Text Available En el presente trabajo la larva de Telmatobius rimac es descrita y ocho nuevos registros de anfibios y reptiles para el departamento de Lima son dados a conocer. Los nuevos registros de anfibios para Lima son Gastrotheca peruana y Pleurodema marmorata. Los nuevos registros de reptiles son las lagartijas Phyllodactylus gerrhopygus y Ameiva edracantha, y las serpientes Leptotyphlops tricolor, Philodryas tachymenoides, Sibynomorphus vagus y Tantilla capistrata. Con este estudio la herpetofauna presente en el departamento de Lima queda compuesta de 7 anfibios y 33 reptiles. Se proporciona una clave de identificación para los anfibios y una lista actualizada de la herpetofauna del departamento de Lima.

Effects of continental anthropogenic sources on organic aerosols in the coastal atmosphere of East China

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Shang, Dongjie; Hu, Min; Guo, Qingfeng; Zou, Qi; Zheng, Jing; Guo, Song

2017-01-01

Although organic compounds in marine atmospheric aerosols have significant effects on climate and marine ecosystems, they have rarely been studied, especially in the coastal regions of East China. To assess the origins of the organic aerosols in the East China coastal atmosphere, PM 2.5 samples were collected from the atmospheres of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and Changdao Island during the CAPTAIN (Campaign of Air PolluTion At INshore Areas of Eastern China) field campaign in the spring of 2011. The marine atmospheric aerosol samples that were collected were grouped based on the backward trajectories of their air masses. The organic carbon concentrations in the PM 2.5 samples from the marine and Changdao Island atmospheres were 5.5 ± 3.1 μgC/m 3 and 6.9 ± 2.4 μgC/m 3 , respectively, which is higher than in other coastal water atmospheres. The concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the marine atmospheric PM 2.5 samples was 17.0 ± 20.2 ng/m 3 , indicating significant continental anthropogenic influences. The influences of fossil fuels and biomass burning on the composition of organic aerosols in the coastal atmosphere of East China were found to be highly dependent on the origins of the air masses. Diesel combustion had a strong impact on air masses from the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), and gasoline emissions had a more significant impact on the “North China” marine atmospheric samples. The “Northeast China” marine atmospheric samples were most impacted by biomass burning. Coal combustion contributed significantly to the compositions of all of the atmospheric samples. The proportions of secondary compounds increased as samples aged in the marine atmosphere indicating that photochemical oxidation occured during transport. Our results quantified ecosystem effects on marine atmospheric aerosols and highlighted the uncertainties that arise when modeling marine atmospheric PM 2.5 without considering high spatial resolution

Long-term Changes in Extreme Air Pollution Meteorology and the Implications for Air Quality.

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Hou, Pei; Wu, Shiliang

2016-03-31

Extreme air pollution meteorological events, such as heat waves, temperature inversions and atmospheric stagnation episodes, can significantly affect air quality. Based on observational data, we have analyzed the long-term evolution of extreme air pollution meteorology on the global scale and their potential impacts on air quality, especially the high pollution episodes. We have identified significant increasing trends for the occurrences of extreme air pollution meteorological events in the past six decades, especially over the continental regions. Statistical analysis combining air quality data and meteorological data further indicates strong sensitivities of air quality (including both average air pollutant concentrations and high pollution episodes) to extreme meteorological events. For example, we find that in the United States the probability of severe ozone pollution when there are heat waves could be up to seven times of the average probability during summertime, while temperature inversions in wintertime could enhance the probability of severe particulate matter pollution by more than a factor of two. We have also identified significant seasonal and spatial variations in the sensitivity of air quality to extreme air pollution meteorology.

PRIMER REGISTRO DE DENNSTAEDTIA DISSECTA (DENNSTAEDTIACEAE PARA LA FLORA ARGENTINA

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Agustina Yañez

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Se cita por primera vez para la flora argentina a Dennstaedtia dissecta, hallada en la provincia de Misiones. Este nuevo registro surgió del estudio de ejemplares de los herbarios BA y LP, y luego se corroboró con colecciones realizadas en los Parques Provinciales Cruce Caballero y Urugua-í. Además de las características del rizoma y la lámina, las esporas resultaron una importante fuente de información en la identificación de esta especie. Se describen e ilustran los caracteres diagnósticos, y se incluye una clave para identificar a las especies de Dennstaedtia presentes en Misiones.

How Continental Bank outsourced its "crown jewels.".

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Huber, R L

1993-01-01

No industry relies more on information than banking does, yet Continental, one of America's largest banks, outsources its information technology. Why? Because that's the best way to service the customers that form the core of the bank's business, says vice chairman Dick Huber. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Continental participated heavily with Penn Square Bank in energy investments. When falling energy prices burst Penn Square's bubble in 1982, Continental was stuck with more than $1 billion in bad loans. Eight years later when Dick Huber came on board, Continental was working hard to restore its once solid reputation. Executives had made many tough decisions already, altering the bank's focus from retail to business banking and laying off thousands of employees. Yet management still needed to cut costs and improve services to stay afloat. Regulators, investors, and analysts were watching every step. Continental executives, eager to focus on the bank's core mission of serving business customers, decided to outsource one after another in-house service--from cafeteria services to information technology. While conventional wisdom holds that banks must retain complete internal control of IT, Continental bucked this argument when it entered into a ten-year, multimillion-dollar contract with Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation. Continental is already reaping benefits from outsourcing IT. Most important, Continental staffers today focus on their true core competencies: intimate knowledge of customers' needs and relationships with customers.

Situação do registro de medicamentos fitoterápicos no Brasil

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Ana C. B. Carvalho

Full Text Available Fitoterápico é uma classe de medicamento largamente utilizada no país e constitui um mercado em potencial expansão. Este artigo busca traçar um panorama sobre os medicamentos fitoterápicos registrados no país e as espécies vegetais que lhe deram origem, enfocando o papel regulador da Anvisa. Realizou-se uma pesquisa nas seguintes bases de dados: Visalegis e site da Anvisa para verificar os medicamentos fitoterápicos registrados na Anvisa, obtendo-se os seguintes dados: há 432 fitoterápicos simples registrados e 80 compostos, as espécies vegetais com maior número de derivados registrados são o Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba e a Castanha da Índia (Aesculus hippocastanum, com 33 e 29 registros, respectivamente. O artigo traz ainda uma tabela com as espécies vegetais que possuem derivados registrados como fitoterápicos simples, sua classificação terapêutica, lista as espécies registradas em associação, as principais formas farmacêuticas registradas e os percentuais de registro e empresas por região do país, fornecendo assim um panorama da atuação da Anvisano setor de fitoterápicos.

Registros nuevos para la avifauna del estado de Hidalgo, México New records for the avifauna of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico

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Raúl Valencia-Herverth

2010-04-01

Full Text Available Se presentan 6 registros nuevos de aves para el estado de Hidalgo que se obtuvieron durante el trabajo de campo realizado de agosto 2006 a octubre 2007 y de registros no publicados de especímenes de la Colección Ornitológica del Instituto Tecnológico de Huejutla.Six new state records of birds for Hidalgo based on field work carried out from August 2006 to October 2007 are presented, and from unpublished records of specimens in the Ornithological Collection of the Instituto Tecnológico de Huejutla.

Computer simulations of large asteroid impacts into oceanic and continental sites--preliminary results on atmospheric, cratering and ejecta dynamics

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Roddy, D.J.; Schuster, S.H.; Rosenblatt, M.; Grant, L.B.; Hassig, P.J.; Kreyenhagen, K.N.

1987-01-01

Computer simulations have been completed that describe passage of a 10-km-diameter asteroid through the Earth's atmosphere and the subsequent cratering and ejecta dynamics caused by impact of the asteroid into both oceanic and continental sites. The asteroid was modeled as a spherical body moving vertically at 20 km/s with a kinetic energy of 2.6 ?? 1030 ergs (6.2 ?? 107 Mt ). Detailed material modeling of the asteroid, ocean, crustal units, sedimentary unit, and mantle included effects of strength and fracturing, generic asteroid and rock properties, porosity, saturation, lithostatic stresses, and geothermal contributions, each selected to simulate impact and geologic conditions that were as realistic as possible. Calculation of the passage of the asteroid through a U.S. Standard Atmosphere showed development of a strong bow shock wave followed by a highly shock compressed and heated air mass. Rapid expansion of this shocked air created a large low-density region that also expanded away from the impact area. Shock temperatures in air reached ???20,000 K near the surface of the uplifting crater rim and were as high as ???2000 K at more than 30 km range and 10 km altitude. Calculations to 30 s showed that the shock fronts in the air and in most of the expanding shocked air mass preceded the formation of the crater, ejecta, and rim uplift and did not interact with them. As cratering developed, uplifted rim and target material were ejected into the very low density, shock-heated air immediately above the forming crater, and complex interactions could be expected. Calculations of the impact events showed equally dramatic effects on the oceanic and continental targets through an interval of 120 s. Despite geologic differences in the targets, both cratering events developed comparable dynamic flow fields and by ???29 s had formed similar-sized transient craters ???39 km deep and ???62 km across. Transient-rim uplift of ocean and crust reached a maximum altitude of nearly

Thermal models pertaining to continental growth

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Morgan, P.; Ashwal, L.

1988-01-01

Thermal models are important to understanding continental growth as the genesis, stabilization, and possible recycling of continental crust are closely related to the tectonic processes of the earth which are driven primarily by heat. The thermal energy budget of the earth was slowly decreasing since core formation, and thus the energy driving the terrestrial tectonic engine was decreasing. This fundamental observation was used to develop a logic tree defining the options for continental growth throughout earth history

Variability of aerosol, gaseous pollutants and meteorological characteristics associated with continental, urban and marine air masses at the SW Atlantic coast of Iberia

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Diesch, J.-M.; Drewnick, F.; Zorn, S. R.; von der Weiden-Reinmüller, S.-L.; Martinez, M.; Borrmann, S.

2011-12-01

Measurements of the ambient aerosol were performed at the Southern coast of Spain, within the framework of the DOMINO (Diel Oxidant Mechanisms In relation to Nitrogen Oxides) project. The field campaign took place from 20 November until 9 December 2008 at the atmospheric research station "El Arenosillo" (37°5'47.76" N, 6°44'6.94" W). As the monitoring station is located at the interface between a natural park, industrial cities (Huelva, Seville) and the Atlantic Ocean a variety of physical and chemical parameters of aerosols and gas phase could be characterized in dependency on the origin of air masses. Backwards trajectories were examined and compared with local meteorology to classify characteristic air mass types for several source regions. Aerosol number and mass as well as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and black carbon concentrations were measured in PM1 and size distributions were registered covering a size range from 7 nm up to 32 μm. The chemical composition of the non-refractory submicron aerosol was measured by means of an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (Aerodyne HR-ToF-AMS). Gas phase analyzers monitored various trace gases (O3, SO2, NO, NO2, CO2) and a weather station provided meteorological parameters. Lowest average submicron particle mass and number concentrations were found in air masses arriving from the Atlantic Ocean with values around 2 μg m-3 and 1000 cm-3. These mass concentrations were about two to four times lower than the values recorded in air masses of continental and urban origins. For some species PM1-fractions in marine air were significantly larger than in air masses originating from Huelva, a closely located city with extensive industrial activities. The largest fraction of sulfate (54%) was detected in marine air masses and was to a high degree not neutralized. In addition small concentrations of methanesulfonic acid (MSA), a product of biogenic dimethyl sulfate (DMS) emissions could be identified in the particle phase. In all

ANÁLISIS DE LA CALIDAD DEL REGISTRO DE PARO CARDÍACO EN CASOS DE RESPONSABILIDAD MÉDICO LEGAL EN MÉDICOS GENERALES, 1999-2007

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Gabriel Barragán

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Antecedentes. El registro del paro cardíaco es una actividad que se debe acompañar en la reanimación cerebro cardio pulmonar. En Colombia no existe un formato de registro oficial de paro cardiorrespiratorio, lo que dificulta la investigación en reanimación y la conducción de los procesos de responsabilidad médica que se deriven de esta atención. Objetivo. Analizar la calidad del registro de paro cardíaco en casos de responsabilidad médico legal iniciada a médicos generales que tuvieron asesoría científica del Fondo para Auxilio de Demandas de la Sociedad Colombiana de Anestesiología y Reanimación (SCARE-FEPASDE, 1999-2007. Material y métodos. Se realizó una investigación tipo serie de casos, en donde se incluyeron los casos de paro cardiorrespiratorio que tuvieron demanda médico legal y que fueron atendidos por médicos generales, entre 1999 y 2007, y que requirieron asesoría jurídica por SCARE-FEPASDE. La información se registró en tablas de Excel®, según las recomendaciones Utstein. La calificación de calidad se hizo por tres médicos expertos en responsabilidad médica de manera independiente. Se utilizó un formato de calificación sobre la proporción de registros realizados sobre 25 ítem posibles. La calidad se consideró alta (mayor de 95% ítem, media (70-94% ítem y baja (menor de 70%. En los casos de desacuerdo se realizó consenso. Resultados. Se incluyeron en total 83 casos. La calidad del registro del paro fue media en 49 casos (59%, baja en 32 casos (39% y alta en dos casos. Conclusión. El registro de paro cardiorrespiratorio en casos de responsabilidad médica es de mediana calidad, por lo que no se alcanza a cumplir con los estándares internacionales y las guías al estilo Utstein.

Calidad del registro del diagnóstico de demencia en atención primaria. La situación en España en el periodo 2002-2011

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María del Canto de Hoyos-Alonso

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Conclusiones: Casi la mitad de los pacientes con anticolinesterásicos o memantina no tienen registrado diagnóstico de demencia en su HCE-AP. El registro mejora al aumentar el tiempo de seguimiento. Se requieren mejoras de la HCE-AP, coordinación asistencial adecuada y actitud activa para aumentar la calidad del registro de demencia.

Protótipo de um software para registro de enfermagem em unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal

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Luciana de Medeiros Lima

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Introducción: el creciente volumen de informaciones originadas de los registros de enfermería exige estrategias de tratamiento del conocimiento producido, de forma que se eviten las desventajas del histórico de papel. Objetivo: se plantea en este estudio desarro - llar un software aplicado a la sistematización de la asistencia de enfermería que les brinde a los enfermeros el registro informatizado, eficiente y rápido. Metodología: se trata de un estudio metodológico con producción tecnológica, dividido en tres fases: construcción de las afirmativas de diagnósticos e intervenciones de enfermería, validación de las afirmativas y desarrollo del software. El sistema se desarrolló sobre la plataforma Java, con utilización de framework JSF, incorporado a la especificación J2EE, para desarrollar aplicaciones web de forma ágil. Resultados: el banco de datos se compone de 143 afirmativas de diagnósticos de enfermería y 130 referentes a las intervenciones de enfermería. El software desarrollado presenta 17 pantallas que incluyen datos de identificación, examen físico completo del recién nacido, organizado de acuerdo con las necesidades humanas básicas, listado de diagnósticos e intervenciones de enfermería sugeridas por el programa y hoja final para impresión. Consideraciones finales: el software proporciona la ejecución del proceso de enfermería con un registro completo, uniforme y rápido, y se constituye una importante fuente de datos para investigación.

El registro de los estudios observacionales: es el momento de cumplir el requerimiento de la Declaración de Helsinki

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Rafael Dal-Ré

2015-05-01

Full Text Available El sesgo de publicación es una grave deficiencia del actual sistema de comunicación de los resultados de estudios de investigación en seres humanos. Los investigadores clínicos saben que, desde el punto de vista ético, deben inscribir los ensayos clínicos antes de su inicio en un registro público. Se entiende que este hecho ayudará a reducir el sesgo de publicación. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de los estudios en seres humanos son de tipo observacional y no de tipo experimental. Se estima que se han registrado menos del 2% de los 2 millones de estudios observacionales concluidos o en curso. La revisión de 2013 de la Declaración de Helsinki exige el registro de todo estudio de investigación en seres humanos, sus muestras o datos identificables. Se propone que los agentes financiadores, como el Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias, requieran el registro de los estudios observacionales para proveer la financiación. Las empresas deberían hacer lo propio. Así mismo, se propone que los comités de ética de la investigación, que cumpliendo la regulación española utilizan desde 1990 la Declaración como marco de referencia para evaluar los aspectos éticos de los ensayos clínicos con medicamentos, hagan lo mismo con los estudios observacionales del ámbito sanitario; deberían, por tanto, exigir el registro del estudio antes de otorgar su aprobación definitiva. Esto permitiría educar a los investigadores de estudios observacionales en el cumplimiento de un requisito ético de reciente introducción en el código ético de mayor relevancia en la realización de investigaciones en seres humanos.

Permafrost warming and vegetation changes in continental Antarctica

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Guglielmin, Mauro; Dalle Fratte, Michele; Cannone, Nicoletta

2014-01-01

Continental Antarctica represents the last pristine environment on Earth and is one of the most suitable contexts to analyze the relations between climate, active layer and vegetation. In 2000 we started long-term monitoring of the climate, permafrost, active layer and vegetation in Victoria Land, continental Antarctica. Our data confirm the stability of mean annual and summer air temperature, of snow cover, and an increasing trend of summer incoming short wave radiation. The active layer thickness is increasing at a rate of 0.3 cm y −1 . The active layer is characterized by large annual and spatial differences. The latter are due to scarce vegetation, a patchy and very thin organic layer and large spatial differences in snow accumulation. The active layer thickening, probably due to the increase of incoming short wave radiation, produced a general decrease of the ground water content due to the better drainage of the ground. The resultant drying may be responsible for the decline of mosses in xeric sites, while it provided better conditions for mosses in hydric sites, following the species-specific water requirements. An increase of lichen vegetation was observed where the climate drying occurred. This evidence emphasizes that the Antarctic continent is experiencing changes that are in total contrast to the changes reported from maritime Antarctica. (paper)

The extent of continental crust beneath the Seychelles

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Hammond, J. O. S.; Kendall, J.-M.; Collier, J. S.; Rümpker, G.

2013-11-01

The granitic islands of the Seychelles Plateau have long been recognised to overlie continental crust, isolated from Madagascar and India during the formation of the Indian Ocean. However, to date the extent of continental crust beneath the Seychelles region remains unknown. This is particularly true beneath the Mascarene Basin between the Seychelles Plateau and Madagascar and beneath the Amirante Arc. Constraining the size and shape of the Seychelles continental fragment is needed for accurate plate reconstructions of the breakup of Gondwana and has implications for the processes of continental breakup in general. Here we present new estimates of crustal thickness and VP/VS from H-κ stacking of receiver functions from a year long deployment of seismic stations across the Seychelles covering the topographic plateau, the Amirante Ridge and the northern Mascarene Basin. These results, combined with gravity modelling of historical ship track data, confirm that continental crust is present beneath the Seychelles Plateau. This is ˜30-33 km thick, but with a relatively high velocity lower crustal layer. This layer thins southwards from ˜10 km to ˜1 km over a distance of ˜50 km, which is consistent with the Seychelles being at the edge of the Deccan plume prior to its separation from India. In contrast, the majority of the Seychelles Islands away from the topographic plateau show no direct evidence for continental crust. The exception to this is the island of Desroche on the northern Amirante Ridge, where thicker low density crust, consistent with a block of continental material is present. We suggest that the northern Amirantes are likely continental in nature and that small fragments of continental material are a common feature of plume affected continental breakup.

Noteworthy reptiles records from Guanajuato, Mexico Registros notables de reptiles para Guanajuato, México

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José Ismael Campos-Rodríguez; Berenice Pérez-Valera; Leonor E. Evaristo-Aguilar; Cynthia Elizalde-Arellano; Juan Carlos López-Vidal; Raúl Hernández-Arciga

2010-01-01

Five new reptile records for the Mexican state of Guanajuato are reported: Lampropeltis triangulum dixoni, Leptodeira annulata cusiliris, Oxybelis aeneus, Tropidodipsas sartorii, and Scincella silvicola caudaequinae. These records are within western versant of the Sierra Gorda at Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato. Evidence is given that supports the idea that the area supports a herpetofaunal assemblage of tropical affinities.Se presentan 5 nuevos registros de reptiles para el estado de Guanajuato; ...

Normativa sobre el registro contable de los derechos de emisión

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M. G. López Gordo; J. F. López Gordo

2007-01-01

Normativa sobre el registro contable de los derechos de admisión. La entrada en vigor del Protocolo de Kioto ha dado lugar a la puesta en marcha de los denominados mecanismos de flexibilidad, entre los que se encuentra el mercado de derechos de emisión de gases de efecto invernadero. En el ámbito de la Unión Europea, el mercado comienza su andadura el 1 de enero de 2005, afectando a unas 12.000 instalaciones emisoras de CO2. Las especiales características del mercado de emisiones req...

El Registro Civil costarricense a 125 años de su nacimiento

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Luis Antonio Bolaños Bolaños

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Destaca la importancia de las funciones que cumple el Registro Civil en la sociedad costarricense realizando un breve repaso de sus orígenes y organización, centrando su atención en la credibilidad que los costarricenses tienen en los actos registrales que ejecuta, su aporte al desarrollo de la democracia costarricense al ofrecer un padrón electoral actualizado diariamente y la constante búsqueda en la mejora de los servicios que presta mediante la incorporación de nuevas tecnologías.

El registro más completo de un Hoplophorini (Xenarthra: Glyptodontidae para los Pisos/Edades Chapadmalalense-Marplatense (Plioceno tardío-Pleistoceno temprano The most complete record of a Hoplophorini (Xenarthra: Glyptodontidae for the Chapadmalalan-Marplatan Stages (Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene

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Alfredo E Zurita

2011-06-01

Full Text Available Los Glyptodontidae del Neógeno tardío (Pisos/Edades Chapadmalalense-Marplatense; ca. 3.9-1.8 Ma constituyen un grupo escasamente conocido, en tanto la mayoría de los registros están limitados a restos aislados de la coraza dorsal y/o caudal. Las únicas excepciones están representadas por Paraglyptodon chapalmalensis (Ameghino in Rovereto, un fósil guía para el Chapadmalalense superior, y el Plohophorini Plohophorus figuratus Ameghino. Por otro lado, los "Hoplophorinae" Hoplophorini son gliptodontes que tienen sus primeros registros durante los Pisos Huayqueriense (Mioceno tardío y "Araucanense" (Mioceno tardío-Plioceno, pero están prácticamente ausentes durante los Pisos Chapadmalalense-Marplatense (Plioceno-Pleistoceno temprano. Posteriormente, los Hoplophorini (Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto son, junto con Glyptodon Owen, los Glyptodontidae de registro más frecuente en el Pleistoceno de América del Sur. En esta contribución damos a conocer el primer registro de un Hoplophorini de antigüedad Chapadmalalense, asignado al género Eosclerocalyptus C. Ameghino (Eosclerocalyptus cf. E. lineatus. Este nuevo material, representado por una coraza dorsal, fue exhumado de la sección superior de la Fm. Chapadmalal, Mar del Plata, provincia de Buenos Aires. Desde una perspectiva morfológica, esta coraza presenta un tamaño intermedio entre E. tapinocephalus Cabrera, E. proximus (Moreno & Mercerat y Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto. Junto con cf. Paraglyptodon chapalmalensis y Plohophorus figuratus Ameghino, estos registros representan los Glyptodontidae Pliocenos más completos que se conocen; a su vez, completa parcialmente la distribución estratigráfica de los Glyptodontidae Hoplophorini.The late Neogene (Chapadmalalan-Marplatan Stages; ca. 3.9-1.8 Ma Glyptodontidae from southern South America are poorly known since most of the record are limited to remains of the dorsal and/or caudal armour. In this sense, the exceptions are represented

Algunos aportes para una taxonomía de los registros artificiales de información

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Nicolás Golovchenko Villagrán

2013-01-01

Se sugleren algunos criteríos para una clasificacíón delos distintos tipos de registro empleados para la información, partiendo del discernimiento entre la naturaleza de la información, por un lado, y las características físicas y propiedades básicas de /os soporfes que lacontienen, por otro.

Da Imagem à Cena: o palhaço fotógrafo e o registro do circo-teatro

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Alda Fátima de Souza

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo trata do registro, a princípio registro fotográfico e depois escrito, realizado pelo palhaço Cadilac e evidencia a forma de atuação nos pequenos circos mambembes e o início de uma troupe circense, no período entre 1950 e 1970. A pesquisa, concluída em fevereiro de 2012, teve como resultado final a dissertação na área de Artes Cênicas intitulada A memória do circo mambembe: o palhaço Cadilac e a reinvenção de uma tradição. Para a realização deste artigo, utilizou-se o levantamento da pesquisa, em que foram feitos cruzamentos de dados entre as entrevistas, documentos de arquivos públicos, fotos, escritos do próprio palhaço, além de diversas publicações sobre o assunto em questão.

O INVENTÁRIO E O REGISTRO DO PATRIMÔNIO IMATERIAL:NOVOS INSTRUMENTOS DE PRESERVAÇÃO

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Beatriz Freire

2012-09-01

Full Text Available O Registro de Bens de Natureza Imaterial, criado em agosto de 2000 pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional –IPHAN –tornou possível o reconhecimento de bens culturais processuais e a definição de estratégias específicas de preservação e divulgação dos mesmos. Sua aplicação pressupõe a documentação dos bens culturais a serem registrados. Para procedê-la, o IPHAN desenvolveu uma metodologia específica, o Inventário Nacional de Referências Culturais/INRC. A aplicação do INRC e as primeiras experiências de Registro serão comentadas à luz da ampliação do conceito de patrimônio que hoje orienta a política nacional de preservação.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Registro de Bens de Natureza Imaterial; patrimônio; atual política nacional de preservação; bens culturais; IPHAN.ABSTRACT:The Register of ImmaterialNature Possessions, createdin August 2000, by Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN, became possible the recognition of processcultural possessions as well as the definition of specific strategies for their preservation and publication. His application supposes the cultural possessions document that will be registered. To proceed with her, IPHAN developed a specific methodology denominated National Inventory of Cultural References (INRC. This application and first experiences will be analyzed based on an enlargement of heritage’s  concept which, nowadays, positions the national politics about preservation.KEY-WORKS: Register of Immaterial Nature Possessions; heritage; national politics about preservation;IPHAN; cultural possessions.

The Continental Market Seen from the UK

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Romieu, Michel

1998-01-01

In this presentation, the Chairman of a French gas company (Elf) comments on the evolution of the Continental gas market from a British point of view. He first discusses the differences between the US, British and Continental gas markets, recalls the provisions of the European Gas Directive and states why a fully competitive system is a long-term prospect in Continental Europe. Seen from the UK, the provisions of the EU directive may appear modest. Due to the long transportation, British gas companies may find it hard to compete on the gas market of Continental Europe. When Inter connector, the gas pipeline connecting the gas markets in UK and the Continent, begins operation, there will be a flow of gas from the UK to the Continent according to already signed contracts. But there may be contractual flows both ways. Gas prices will level off between the UK and Northern Europe, at least for the industry. The continental markets will change gradually, the Gas Directive and the Inter connector will help the move towards a more competitive gas industry, but the fundamentals will not change: low gas prices for the next few years, competition between the big three exporters to Continental Europe, and long-term contracts that will extend beyond 2005

Contributions to knowledge of the continental margin of Uruguay. Uruguayan continental margin: Physiographic and seismic analysis

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Preciozzi, F

2014-01-01

This work is about the kind of continental margins such as a )Atlantic type passive margins which can be hard or soft b) An active or Pacific margins that because of the very frequent earthquakes develop a morphology dominated by tectonic processes. The Uruguayan continental margin belongs to a soft Atlantic margin

Evaluación de la calidad de los registros empleando la auditoría odontológica en una clínica dental docente

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Manrique Guzmán, Jorge A.; Manrique Chávez, Jorge E.; Chávez Reátegui, Beatriz; Manrique Chávez, Carolina B.

2014-01-01

Objetivo: Evaluar la calidad de registro o llenado de historias clínicas de pacientes nuevos atendidos en unaClínica Dental Docente durante el período de enero a julio de 2012 empleando la auditoría odontológica comoherramienta sistematizada. Material y métodos: Se tomaron como muestra 140 historias clínicas de pacientesnuevos de las cuales se evaluó la frecuencia y porcentaje de registro de los diferentes aspectos que componenla historia clínica. Resultados: Se encontró que el 78% de las his...

Sub-registro de nascimentos vivos em localidade do Estado de Piauí, Brasil Underregistration of live births in city of the State of Piauí, Brazil

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Maria Helena de Rezende Brito Portela

1989-12-01

Full Text Available Decorrente de falta de dados que informem de modo fidedigno aos planejadores da área de Saúde, objetivou-se estimar a taxa mínima de sub-registro de nascimentos vivos na cidade de Piripiri, Piauí, no período de 1 de julho de 1983 a 30 de junho de 1984. O método utilizado para medir o sub-registro foi a comparação dos dados oficiais (Cartório de Registro Civil com os não oficiais (Fundação Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública - FSESP e Igreja Católica, cujo resultado mostrou uma taxa mínima de sub-registro muito alta (68,4% quando comparada com taxas de outras localidades brasileiras. Estudou-se a associação entre registro civil e variáveis interveníentes como local do parto, sexo da criança, estado civil e zona de residência da mãe. Concluiu-se ser o sub-registro um problema de Saúde Pública cujos fatores fundamentais como a educação, a conscientização da população e a gratuidade do registro, dentre outros, poderão contribuir para sua diminuição, com a conseqüente melhoria do planejamento das ações na área da Saúde Pública, de benéfica repercussão na vida da população.The minimum rate of underregistration of live births in the city of Piripiri, Piauí, between Jury 1,1983 and June 30,1984, is calculated. The lack of trustworthy data on underregistration of births is of the utmost importance in the area of Public Health, principally to those responsible for planning the Health Services. The method used to measure underregistration was the comparison of official data (Civil Registry Office with unofficial data (Foundation SESP and the Catholic Church, the results of which show a very high minimum rate of underregistration - 68.4% - as compared with the rates of other places in Brazil. The association between the civil register and such variables as place of births, sex of child, civil status and residential zone of mother was also studies. It is concluded that underregistration is a public health problem

Volatile components and continental material of planets

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Florenskiy, K.P.; Nikolayeva, O.V.

1984-01-01

It is shown that the continental material of the terrestrial planets varies in composition from planet to planet according to the abundances and composition of true volatiles (H 2 0, CO 2 , etc.) in the outer shells of the planets. The formation of these shells occurs very early in a planet's evolution when the role of endogenous processes is indistinct and continental materials are subject to melting and vaporizing in the absence of an atmosphere. As a result, the chemical properties of continental materials are related not only to fractionation processes but also to meltability and volatility. For planets retaining a certain quantity of true volatile components, the chemical transformation of continental material is characterized by a close interaction between impact melting vaporization and endogeneous geological processes

Avances y retos en el registro de ensayos clínicos en América Latina y el Caribe Progress and challenges of clinical trials registration in Latin America and the Caribbean’s

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Ludovic Reveiz

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Los registros de ensayos clínicos (EC constituyen una de las mayores fuentes de información de investigaciones en intervenciones en salud que se han o se están llevando a cabo en el mundo. La Organización Mundial de la Salud estableció un conjunto mínimo de datos que se deben registrar (20 ítems, consensuado a nivel internacional con las partes interesadas, y estableció una red de registros primarios y de registros asociados. Existen actualmente dos registros primarios en las Américas (Brasil y Cuba avalados por la OMS, además del registro ClinicalTrial.Gov (de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica que aportan datos a la plataforma internacional de registros de EC de la OMS (ICTRP. Adicionalmente, hay avances importantes en la región relacionados con las regulaciones, el desarrollo e implementación de registros nacionales y la adhesión de comités de ética y editores a la iniciativa.Clinical trial registries are one of the main sources of information concerning health research interventions that have been or are being carried out throughout the world. The World Health Organization (WHO established a minimum data set to be recorded (20 items, which was agreed upon internationally with the stakeholders, and established a network of primary and associated records. In addition to the register ClinicalTrial.Gov (of the United States of America, there are currently two primary registries in the Americas (from Brazil and Cuba that meet WHO requirements and provide data to WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP. Furthermore, there are important advances in the region related to the regulations, development and implementation of national registries and to the support of the ethics committees and editors to this initiative.

Contribution to the tritium continental effect

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Lewis, R.R.; Froehlich, K.; Hebert, D.

1987-01-01

The results of tritium measurements of atmospheric water vapour and precipitation samples for 1982 and 1983 are presented. The data were used to establish a simple model describing the tritium continental effect taking into account re-evaporation of tritium from the continental land surfaces and man-made tritium. (author)

Registro Fossílifero das Raias (Chondrichtes-Batomorphi em Bacias Sedimentares Brasileiras.

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Paloma Tâmega da Silva Abreu Moreira

2007-07-01

Full Text Available A classe dos Chondrichthyes é representadapelos Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias e Holocephali(quimeras. A presença de fósseis de raias em baciassedimentares brasileiras é conhecida desde o séculoXIX, sendo representadas atualmente por seisfamílias. São estruturas de difícil preservação, sendo,portanto raras no registro fossilífero. A grande maioriados registros é de espinhos e dentes, mas ocorrênciasextraordinárias de exemplares quase completos deraias e tubarão foram encontradas na Chapada doAraripe, nordeste do Brasil. A primeira espécie foidescrita da bacia de Pernambuco e posteriormentemais três espécies foram assinaladas nas baciasde Sergipe, Pernambuco e Araripe. O restante domaterial é conhecido apenas em nível de gêneroou família. Com base na literatura, foi realizadoum inventário destas ocorrências, pertencentes aoacervo de várias instituições de pesquisa, permitindorecuperar e atualizar as informações, sistematizandoas ocorrências e o material depositado nas diversascoleções. No Museu de Ciências da Terra/DNPM,Rio de Janeiro foram encontrados 69 dentes isolados,provenientes das bacias de Pernambuco, Sergipe ePirabas e um exemplar quase completo da bacia doAraripe. Constam sete placas dentárias, 118 dentese quatro espinhos caudais provenientes das baciasde São Luís, Pirabas, Acre, Pernambuco, Sergipee Pelotas. Dentre os gêneros estudados, os maisrepresentativos são: Myliobatis sp. com 60 dentes eRhombodus binkhorsti com 52 dentes.

Tafosfera: el registro de las relaciones biogeológicas

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Nieto-Díaz, M.

2006-12-01

érmino Tafosfera, enfatizando el hecho del enterramiento causante de que materiales originados directa o indirectamente por los organismos pasen a la Litosfera, escapando de la Biosfera. La Tafosfera pretende ser un concepto paleontológico y sedimentológico que plantee un escenario coherente para la comprensión de los procesos tafonómicos que han ocurrido a lo largo de la historia de la Tierra. La Tafosfera se encuentra limitada, por una parte, por su interfase con la Biosfera y, por otra, por las capas de la corteza terrestre que no han sufrido alteraciones biológicas directas. El concepto de Tafosfera suministra un escenario general mucho más coherente y preciso para el conocimiento de la evolución de la Vida y su interacción con la Litosfera que denominaciones procedentes de ámbitos diferentes, tales como «registro fósil» o «corteza terrestre». La Tafosfera incluye la totalidad del Registro fósil, junto con el Registro geológico formado como respuesta a las condiciones bióticas existentes en la superficie terrestre. La entidad del concepto permite distinguir dos génesis diferentes en la formación de la corteza terrestre: una abiótica, en la que los materiales son mayoritariamente basaltos originados en el Manto litosférico y otra biótica, en cuya composición intervienen materiales que, en algún momento de su historia, han residido en la Biosfera.

Geological constraints on continental arc activity since 720 Ma: implications for the link between long-term climate variability and episodicity of continental arcs

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Cao, W.; Lee, C. T.

2016-12-01

Continental arc volcanoes have been suggested to release more CO2 than island arc volcanoes due to decarbonation of wallrock carbonates in the continental upper plate through which the magmas traverse (Lee et al., 2013). Continental arcs may thus play an important role in long-term climate. To test this hypothesis, we compiled geological maps to reconstruct the surface distribution of granitoid plutons and the lengths of ancient continental arcs. These results were then compiled into a GIS framework and incorporated into GPlates plate reconstructions. Our results show an episodic nature of global continental arc activity since 720 Ma. The lengths of continental arcs were at minimums during most of the Cryogenian ( 720-670 Ma), the middle Paleozoic ( 460-300 Ma) and the Cenozoic ( 50-0 Ma). Arc lengths were highest during the Ediacaran ( 640-570 Ma), the early Paleozoic ( 550-430 Ma) and the entire Mesozoic with peaks in the Early Triassic ( 250-240 Ma), Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous ( 160-130 Ma), and Late Cretaceous ( 90-65 Ma). The extensive continental arcs in the Ediacaran and early Paleozoic reflect the Pan-African events and circum-Gondwana subduction during the assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent. The Early Triassic peak is coincident with the final closure of the paleo-Asian oceans and the onset of circum-Pacific subduction associated with the assembly of the Pangea supercontinent. The Jurassic-Cretaceous peaks reflect the extensive continental arcs established in the western Pacific, North and South American Cordillera, coincident with the initial dispersal of the Pangea. Continental arcs are favored during the final assembly and the early-stage dispersal of a supercontinent. Our compilation shows a temporal match between continental arc activity and long-term climate at least since 720 Ma. For example, continental arc activity was reduced during the Cryogenian icehouse event, and enhanced during the Early Paleozoic and Jurassic-Cretaceous greenhouse

Los Catastros y Registros de Aguas como herramientas indispensables para garantizar la gestión integrada y desarrollo ambientalmente sustentable de las aguas subterráneas

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Diego De Rosa

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Los catastros y registros de aguas resultan ser herramientas indispensables para garantizar la  gestión integrada y desarrollo ambientalmente sustentable de las aguas subterráneas.  Ellos constituyen instrumentos fundamentales ya no solo para asegurar el control y vigilancia respecto a quién o quienes se otorgan estos permisos, derechos o usos -y a quienes éstos son transmitidos-; sino también, y fundamentalmente, para determinar  qué cantidad, qué calidad y qué regularidad se tiene o posee del recurso hídrico subterráneo. A pesar de estar legislados en normas provinciales, no en todas se hallan implementados.  He aquí unos breves contrastes surgidos entre un  análisis comparativo de legislación sobre aguas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires y Mendoza.

Comportamento da síndrome coronariana aguda: resultados de um registro brasileiro

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Leopoldo Soares Piegas

2013-06-01

Full Text Available FUNDAMENTO: O Brasil carece de registros multicêntricos publicados de síndrome coronariana aguda. OBJETIVO: O Registro Brasileiro de Síndrome Coronariana Aguda é um estudo multicêntrico nacional com objetivo de apresentar dados representativos das características clínicas, e manejo e evolução hospitalares dessa síndrome. MÉTODOS: Participaram 23 hospitais de 14 cidades. Foram elegíveis pacientes que se apresentaram com suspeita de síndrome coronariana aguda nas primeiras 24 horas, com quadro clínico sugestivo, associado a alterações eletrocardiográficas compatíveis e/ou marcadores de necrose. O seguimento foi realizado até o óbito ou a alta hospitalar. RESULTADOS: Entre os anos de 2003 e 2008, foram incluídos 2.693 pacientes com diagnóstico de síndrome coronariana aguda, sendo 864 (32,1% mulheres. O diagnóstico final foi de angina instável para 1.141 (42,4% pacientes, com mortalidade de 3,06% deles; de infarto agudo do miocárdio sem supradesnível de ST para 529 (19,6% pacientes, com mortalidade de 6,8% deles; e de infarto agudo do miocárdio com supradesnível de ST para 950 (35,3% pacientes, com mortalidade de 8,1% deles; tiveram diagnóstico não confirmado 73 (2,7% pacientes, com mortalidade de 1,36% deles. A mortalidade global foi de 5,53%. O modelo de regressão logística múltipla identificou o gênero feminino (OR=1,45, o diabetes melito (OR=1,59, o índice de massa corporal (OR=1,27 e a intervenção coronariana percutânea (OR=0,70 como fatores de risco de óbito, para demografia e intervenções. Um modelo para óbito por complicações maiores identificou choque cardiogênico/Edema Agudo de Pulmão (OR=4,57, reinfarto (OR=3,48, acidente vascular cerebral (OR=21,56, sangramento grave (OR=3,33, parada cardiorrespiratória (OR=40,27 e classe funcional de Killip (OR=3,37. CONCLUSÃO: Os dados do Registro Brasileiro de Síndrome Coronariana Aguda não diferem de outros coletados fora do país. Seus achados poder

Contribution to the tritium continental effect

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Lewis, R.R.; Froehlich, K.; Hebert, D.

1987-01-01

The results of tritium measurements of atmospheric water vapour and precipitation samples for 1982 and 1983 are presented. The data were used to establish a simple model describing the tritium continental effect taking into account re-evaporation of tritium from the continental land surfaces. Some comments on man made tritium are given. (author)

Is ozone, rather than PM2.5, actually the largest contributor to premature deaths associated with trans-continental transport of air pollution?

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Henze, D. K.; Davila, Y.; Anenberg, S.; Malley, C.; Kuylenstierna, J. C. I.; Vallack, H.; Ashmore, M. R.; Turner, M.; Sudo, K.; Jonson, J. E.; Chin, M.; Doherty, R. M.

2017-12-01

While both ozone and PM2.5 contribute to a range of deleterious human health impacts, evaluations of regional and global burdens of disease associated with exposure to these pollutants have concluded that PM2.5 is the larger driver of premature deaths from degraded air quality. This is owing to both high PM2.5 concentrations in heavily populated areas and stronger concentration-response relationships between PM2.5 exposure and increased mortality risk. Meanwhile, both PM2.5 and O3 are formed and/or advected far downwind of their sources and contribute to long-range (trans-continental) pollution transport. Ozone most often makes greater contributions to long-range pollution transport in terms of percent changes in surface-level concentrations given its longer tropospheric lifetime than PM2.5. Combining these factors, previous works have identified PM2.5 as more frequently being the dominant long-range source of air pollution related premature deaths, closely followed by O3. Here we re-evaluate this question using several updates, drawing from ensembles of model simulations performed as part of Phase 2 of the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants (HTAP) project. Most importantly, we use recently revised concentration-response relationships for respiratory (and, less confidently, cardiovascular) disease associated with long-term O3 exposure, which we have shown increases estimates of premature death owing to O3 several-fold, and integrated exposure response (IER) functions for PM2.5. Further, we attempt to overcome well-recognized biases in estimating PM2.5 exposure with global-scale models via assimilation of high resolution (0.1 x 0.1) maps of surface PM2.5 derived from satellite observations. Overall, we find that our revised estimates of long-range O3 and PM2.5 related premature deaths are most often dominated by O3. These findings provide additional incentives for considering the global-scale consequences of regional emissions controls of O3 precursors.

Contributions to knowledge of the continental margin of Uruguay. Description of background samples in the continental margin of Uruguay

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Preciozzi, F

2015-01-01

This study provide data concerning of the background sediments of the continental margin of Uruguay. There were carried out different works with witnesses in order to extract various sediment samples from the continental shelf

Una mirada semiótica-comunicativa a nuestros registros

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Rodríguez, María Itatí

2016-07-01

Full Text Available [es] La celebración de los actos patrios escolares que cuenta con más de un centenar de años de su realización, postula determinados modos de hacer/saber/poder puestos en escena mediante formatos comunicativos densos. En este artículo presentaremos algunos análisis y discusiones al registro durante el trabajo de campo desde herramientas teórico-metodológicas que nos ofrecen la comunicación y la semiótica. Las escenas analizadas corresponden a una investigación doctoral en curso que comprende un estudio empírico sobre efemérides patrias escolares, construcción identitaria y mecanismos de memoria, en el cual se analizan los actos patrios escolares vinculados con la conformación de la identidad nacional, expresiones identitarias locales y en territorios de fronteras, particularmente de la provincia de Misiones, Argentina. De esta manera, en un primer momento narramos nuestras travesías durante la puesta en escena de la efemérides del “25 de Mayo”. Finalmente, pretendemos realizar un aporte a los debates en torno al investigador en campo: ¿Qué lugares ocupan los sentidos y el cuerpo del investigador durante estas travesías? ¿Qué huellas dejamos en nuestros registros?. [en] The celebration of patriotic acts schools with more than one hundred years of its implementation, postulates certain ways of making/knowledge/power staged by dense communication formats. This article presents some analysis and discussion to record during field work from theoretical and methodological tools that we provide communication and semiotics. The scenes analyzed correspond to a doctoral research course comprising an empirical study on school national days, identity construction and mechanisms of memory, in which schoolchildren are analyzed patriotic acts connected with the formation of national identity and local identity and expression border territories, particularly in the province of Misiones, Argentina. Thus, at first we narrate our

Racionalidade e métodos: registro da prática clínica em pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular

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Luiz Alberto Piva e Mattos

2011-07-01

Full Text Available FUNDAMENTO: Até o momento, nenhum registro brasileiro foi desenhado para documentar a prática clínica em relação ao atendimento de pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular em uma representativa e ampla amostra de centros investigadores, incluindo hospitais públicos e privados em âmbito nacional. Sendo assim, este estudo permitirá identificar os hiatos na incorporação de intervenções com benefício comprovado em nosso meio. OBJETIVO: Elaborar um registro dedicado à aferição da prática clínica brasileira no que se refere ao atendimento do paciente cardiovascular classificado como de alto risco. MÉTODOS: Estudo observacional do tipo registro, prospectivo, visando documentar a prática clínica atual aplicada a nível ambulatorial para pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular, classificados quando da presença de uma das variáveis: evidência de doença arterial coronariana, doença cerebrovascular, vascular periférica, em diabéticos ou não diabéticos; ou na presença de pelo menos três dos seguintes fatores de risco cardiovascular: hipertensão arterial sistêmica, tabagismo ativo, dislipidemia, idade superior a 70 anos, nefropatia crônica, história familiar de doença arterial coronariana e ou doença carotídea assintomática. Os pacientes serão coletados em 43 centros de todas as regiões brasileiras, incluindo hospitais públicos e privados, assim como em unidades básicas de atendimento a saúde, e revisados clinicamente até um ano após a inclusão. RESULTADOS: Os resultados serão apresentados um ano após o início da coleta (setembro de 2011, e consolidados, após a reunião da população e dos objetivos almejados posteriormente. CONCLUSÃO: A análise deste registro multicêntrico permitirá projetar uma perspectiva horizontal do tratamento dos pacientes acometidos da doença cardiovascular no Brasil.

Nuevos registros de hongos entomopatógenos en acridios (Orthoptera: Acridoidea de la República Argentina

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Sebastian A. PELIZZA

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Los acridios (tucuras y langostas continúan ocasionando pérdidas económicas en la agricultura a nivel mundial. En Argentina, la importancia de estos insectos ha sido reconocida desde mediados del siglo XIX, dependiendo de la región considerada y en relación al progresivo desarrollo agropecuario en el país. Los hongos son los microorganismos parásitos de insectos más frecuentemente encontrados en la naturaleza y la mayoría de las investigaciones con hongos entomopatógenos se ha centrado en su desarrollo como bioplaguicidas. En el presente trabajo se dan a conocer cinco registros nuevos de Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv. Vuill., y dos de Entomophaga grylli (Fresen. A. Batko que se encontraron afectando distintas especies de acridios; se amplía así la distribución geográfica y el espectro hospedador para estas especies fúngicas. Cabe destacar que con el aporte de estos siete registros nuevos, el número total de hongos entomopatógenos de acridios citados para la República Argentina se eleva de 22 a 29.

El primer registro de Simón Fernández de Moya, escribano público de Cuenca. 1423

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Francisco Antonio Chacón Gómez-Monedero

2005-01-01

Full Text Available El estudio y publicación de los registros notariales de la Edad Media proporciona interesante información sobre aspectos sociales de los habitantes de cualquier población. En este trabajo estudiamos el primer registro que confeccionó el escribano Simón Fernández de Moya, investido de la «fieles pública» por el Concejo de Cuenca en sesión municipal de 7 de mayo de 1423. Se presta especial atención a los dos aspectos básicos que interesan al diplomatista: el de los caracteres externos e internos, según la tipología diplomática de los negocios que fedata el «auctor». Ante la imposibilidad material de transcribir el Registro hemos optado por regestar los asientos, acompañados de un índice onomástico.The publication of the present article shows the importance of notarial records in the Middie Ages and how they provide interested Information about social issues of the inhabitants of whichever town. On this review, it is studied the first record elaborated by Simón Fernández de Moya who was invested with «fieles publica» by the Council of Cuenca at municipal session on 7th May 1423. Two aspects can be taken into account by the diplomatist: the external and the infernal characters according to the typificatlon of Diplomatic about business. Because of the material imposibility to transcribe completely the record book, the present essay only summarize all seats as well as an Índex of ñames.

Nuevos registros de plantas micoheterótrofas aclorofiladas para la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina

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Ernesto R. Krauczuk

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Se presentan nuevos registros de plantas micoheterótrofas aclorofiladas para la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina. Sobre la base de especímenes de herbario recolectados en el territorio de la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina, se documenta por primera vez la presencia de tres especies de plantas micoheterótrofas sin clorofila. Las especies son ilustradas mediante fotografías y se brinda información ecológica sobre los sitios donde las plantas fueron halladas.

Evidências da evolução dos sistemas de paleodrenagens na plataforma continental da região de São Sebastião (litoral norte do estado de São Paulo

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Luis Américo Conti

2009-11-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho apresenta aspectos da relação entre a evolução da paleodrenagem e evolução do nível do mar pós Ultimo Máximo Glacial (UMG para a região da plataforma continental da região de São Sebastião, Litoral norte do Estado de São Paulo – Brasil. Para tal, foram analisados modelos topográficos de detalhe da região de Plataforma Continental a partir de Modelos Digitais de Terreno além de dados de subsuperfície obtidos a partir de linhas sísmicas de alta resolução. Dois grandes sistemas de paleodrenagens foram identificados e descritos para a área. Ambos os sistemas fluviais apresentam boas evidencias de preservação tanto em topografia de fundo (ainda que recoberto por sedimentos transgressivos marinhos quanto em subsuperfície, associado a feições de corte e preenchimento (escavação de superfície regressiva erosiva. O conjunto de evidencias do estabelecimento de paleodrenagens foi denominado neste trabalho como Sistemas Canal/Vale (SCV. No caso da região estudada, é possível observar que os registros dos SCVs apresentam dimensões consideravelmente grandes (tamanho dos vales/canais em relação à atual rede de drenagem costeira na área. Modelos descritos na literatura sugerem que rápidas transgressões marinhas tendem a amplificar o efeito erosivo da passagem da linha de costa e afogamento dos canais o que poderia explicar a incongruência entre as características dos sistemas hidrológicos atuais e os registros geológicos e geomorfológicos, sugerindo que os processos de subida do nível do mar pós UMG deve ter sido rápido o suficiente, na região estudada para que pequenos canais fluviais (como o Rio Juqueriquerê tenham sido fortemente erodidos, formando feições como vales e canais escavados de dimensões consideráveis

78 FR 32183 - Importation of Avocados From Continental Spain

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2013-05-29

.... APHIS-2012-0002] RIN 0579-AD63 Importation of Avocados From Continental Spain AGENCY: Animal and Plant... continental Spain (excluding the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands) into the United States. This action will... avocados from continental Spain (excluding the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands) into the United States...

Atlantic continental margin of the United States

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Grow, John A.; Sheridan, Robert E.; Palmer, A.R.

1982-01-01

The objective of this Decade of North American Geology (D-NAG) volume will be to focus on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, including the onshore coastal plain, related onshore Triassic-Jurassic rift grabens, and the offshore basins and platforms. Following multiple compressional tectonic episodes between Africa and North America during the Paleozoic Era that formed the Appalachian Mountains, the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras were dominated by tensional tectonic processes that separated Africa and North America. Extensional rifting during Triassic and Early Jurassic times resulted in numerous tensional grabens both onshore and offshore, which filled with nonmarine continental red beds, lacustrine deposits, and volcanic flows and debris. The final stage of this breakup between Africa and North America occurred beneath the present outer continental shelf and continental slope during Early or Middle Jurassic time when sea-floor spreading began to form new oceanic crust and lithosophere between the two continents as they drifted apart. Postrift subsidence of the marginal basins continued in response to cooling of the lithosphere and sedimentary loading.Geophysical surveys and oil-exploration drilling along the U.S. Atlantic continental margin during the past 5 years are beginning to answer many questions concerning its deep structure and stratigraphy and how it evolved during the rifting and early sea-floor-spreading stages of the separation of this region from Africa. Earlier geophysical studies of the U.S. continental margin used marine refraction and submarine gravity measurements. Single-channel seismic-reflection, marine magnetic, aeromagnetic, and continuous gravity measurements became available during the 1960s.

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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G. G. Laruelle

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Past characterizations of the land–ocean continuum were constructed either from a continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs: COastal Segmentation and related CATchments or from an oceanic perspective, through a regionalization of the proximal and distal continental margins (LMEs: large marine ecosystems. Here, we present a global-scale coastal segmentation, composed of three consistent levels, that includes the whole aquatic continuum with its riverine, estuarine and shelf sea components. Our work delineates comprehensive ensembles by harmonizing previous segmentations and typologies in order to retain the most important physical characteristics of both the land and shelf areas. The proposed multi-scale segmentation results in a distribution of global exorheic watersheds, estuaries and continental shelf seas among 45 major zones (MARCATS: MARgins and CATchments Segmentation and 149 sub-units (COSCATs. Geographic and hydrologic parameters such as the surface area, volume and freshwater residence time are calculated for each coastal unit as well as different hypsometric profiles. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the distributions of coastal and continental shelf areas and how they connect with incoming riverine fluxes. The segmentation is also used to re-evaluate the global estuarine CO2 flux at the air–water interface combining global and regional average emission rates derived from local studies.

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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Laruelle, G. G.

2012-10-04

Past characterizations of the land–ocean continuum were constructed either from a continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs: COastal Segmentation and related CATchments) or from an oceanic perspective, through a regionalization of the proximal and distal continental margins (LMEs: large marine ecosystems). Here, we present a global-scale coastal segmentation, composed of three consistent levels, that includes the whole aquatic continuum with its riverine, estuarine and shelf sea components. Our work delineates comprehensive ensembles by harmonizing previous segmentations and typologies in order to retain the most important physical characteristics of both the land and shelf areas. The proposed multi-scale segmentation results in a distribution of global exorheic watersheds, estuaries and continental shelf seas among 45 major zones (MARCATS: MARgins and CATchments Segmentation) and 149 sub-units (COSCATs). Geographic and hydrologic parameters such as the surface area, volume and freshwater residence time are calculated for each coastal unit as well as different hypsometric pro- files. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the distributions of coastal and continental shelf areas and how they connect with incoming riverine fluxes. The segmentation is also used to re-evaluate the global estuarine CO2 flux at the air–water interface combining global and regional average emission rates derived from local studies.

Evaluación de los registros de enfermeros en historias clínicas de pacientes internados en una unidad de clínica médica

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Franco, Maria Teresa Gomes; Akemi, Elizabeth Nishio; D´inocento, Maria [UNIFESP

2012-01-01

OBJETIVO: Analisar os registros de enfermagem (RE) realizados por enfermeiros em prontuários de pacientes da Clínica Médica (CM) de um hospital público. MÉTODOS: A amostra do estudo foi composta de 240 (100%) prontuários de pacientes que tiveram alta ou óbito, de fevereiro a abril de 2008. Os critérios de classificação para o preenchimento, basearam-se nos estabelecidos pela instituição pesquisada. RESULTADOS: Os registros foram preenchidos de forma completa na maioria dos itens: histórico de...

Factores determinantes de la calidad de los registros de enfermería en el servicio de medicina del Hospital Nacional Ramiro Prialé Prialé, 2015

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Canchari Zambrano, Nelly Ninfa

2015-01-01

En el estudio de investigación efectuado sobre; los factores determinantes de la calidad de los registros de enfermería en el servicio de Medicina del Hospital Nacional Ramiro Prialé Prialé, EsSalud, Huancayo, 2015, se tuvo como objetivo; Establecer los factores determinantes de la calidad de los registros de enfermería en el servicio de Medicina del Hospital Nacional Ramiro Prialé Prialé, EsSalud, Huancayo, este estudio se efectuó a un total de 20 enfermeras que laboran en este servicio a qu...

A Facies Model for Temperate Continental Glaciers.

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Ashley, Gail Mowry

1987-01-01

Discusses the presence and dynamics of continental glaciers in the domination of the physical processes of erosion and deposition in the mid-latitudes during the Pleistocene period. Describes the use of a sedimentary facies model as a guide to recognizing ancient temperate continental glacial deposits. (TW)

ESPAMACS: el nuevo Registro Español de Asistencia Mecánica Circulatoria

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Paloma Martínez Cabeza

2016-10-01

Full Text Available ESPAMACS es el nuevo Registro Español de Asistencia Mecánica Circulatoria, que ha sido creado en el seno del Grupo de Trabajo de Asistencia Mecánica Circulatoria y Trasplante Cardiaco de la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Torácica-Cardiovascular (GRUTAT-SECTCV con el objetivo de registrar todas las asistencias, tanto de corto como de largo plazo, que se implanten en España. Técnicamente, es una base de datos «on-line» que permite a los usuarios introducir datos a tiempo real desde cualquier puesto con acceso a Internet. Está operativa desde octubre del 2014, sustituyendo a la anterior base de datos en formato Microsoft Excel en la que se recogieron los dispositivos implantados entre 2007 y 2012. En el presente artículo se justifica la necesidad de este registro en el actual escenario de tratamiento de la insuficiencia cardiaca, caracterizado por la progresión de la asistencia mecánica circulatoria y la limitada disponibilidad del trasplante cardiaco. Asimismo, se describen las características y el funcionamiento de ESPAMACS: propiedad, modo de acceso, planificación y desarrollo, financiación, objetivos, aspectos éticos, requisitos para participar, selección de pacientes, dispositivos incluidos, diseño, variables registradas, sistema de extracción de datos para su análisis estadístico y posterior elaboración de estudios científicos y control de calidad.

Cerro Bombero: registro de Hippidion saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Equidae, Perissodactyla en el Holoceno temprano de Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina

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Alberdi, M. T.

2008-06-01

Full Text Available A new record of Hippidion saldiasi with new radiocarbon data referred to early Holocene (8,850 ± 80 year C-14 B.P of Patagonia is reported. Both its peculiar geographic location in a scarcely prospected zone and its radiocarbon age, provide new elements to discuss the previous hypotheses about the extinction of the horses and its relations with the human beings that inhabited the different environments of South America.Presentamos un nuevo registro de Hippidion saldiasi con datación radiocarbónica directa correspondiente al Holoceno temprano de Patagonia (8.850 ± 80 años C-14 AP. Su particular ubicación temporal y geográfica en una zona poco estudiada hasta ahora y su registro reciente, aportan nuevos elementos para discutir las hipótesis previas sobre la extinción de los caballos y su relación con los grupos humanos que colonizaron los diferentes ambientes de América del Sur.

O desenvolvimento do conhecimento na Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento e o registro através de patentes no Brasil – uma experiência profissional

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Cynthia Helena Soares Bouças Teixeira

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho tem como objetivo fornecer um detalhamento sobre o processo de busca do conhecimento, partindo de uma ferramenta básica que é a informação. No contexto que envolve Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento, o conhecimento pode ser estruturado para o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias, produtos ou processos, em que o registro do conhecimento pode ocorrer  através das patentes. Dado que é preciso conhecer a legislação do país de depósito,trataremos mais especificamente do sistema de registro de patentes brasileiro denominado Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Intelectual – INPI. As reflexões apresentadas são provenientes de uma experiência profissional.

Contributions to knowledge of the continental margin of Uruguay. Uruguayan continental margin: morphology, geology and identification of the base of the slope

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Preciozzi, F.

2014-01-01

This work is about the morphology, geology and the identification of the base of the slope in the The Uruguayan continental margin which corresponds to the the type of divergent, volcanic and segmented margins. Morphologically is constituted by a clearly defined continental shelf, as well as a continental slope that presents configuration changes from north to south and passes directly to the abyssal plain

Familial myasthenia gravis: report of four cases Miastenia grave familial: registro de quatro casos

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José Lamartine de Assis

1976-09-01

Full Text Available Two pairs of siblings with myasthenia gravis, belonging to two different families, are reported. This is the only record of familial myasthenia during the past twenty years, in a total of 145 patients seen at the Neurological Clinic of the São Paulo Medical School. In spite of the fact that myasthenia gravis does not show hereditary characteristics, the peculiar features of the four cases justify the present report. The two pairs of siblings were born from non myasthenic nor consanguineous parents. The disease started at birth showing bilateral partial eyelid ptosis in all patients. The course of the illness has been favorable. There was no thymoma.Os autores registram dois pares de gêmeos com miastenia grave, pertencentes a duas famílias diferentes. Este é o único registro de miastenia familial durante os últimos 20 anos, num total de 145 pacientes examinados na Clínica Neurológica da FMUSP. Apesar do fato de a miastenia grave não ter características hereditárias, os aspectos peculiares dos quatro pacientes justificam o presente registro. Os dois pares de gêmeos nasceram de pais não miastênicos e sem consanguinidade. A doença iniciou-se no nascimento, evoluindo com ptose bilateral parcial da pálpebra superior precocemente em todos os pacientes. O curso da moléstia tem sido favorável. Não havia timoma.

Nuevos registros de aves en el bosque mesófilo de montaña del noreste de Hidalgo, México

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Miguel Angel Martínez-Morales

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Se reportan nuevos registros y ampliaciones en el área de distribución de Harpagus bidentatus, Glaucidium sanchezi, Attila spadiceus, Cyanolyca nana, Oreoscoptes montanus y Peucedramus taeniatus. Estas seis especies de aves fueron registradas en el bosque mesófilo de montaña del estado de Hidalgo, México. Dos de estas especies (G. sanchezi y C. nana son especies de distribución restringida, lo que eleva a tres el número de especies de distribución restringida en la zona. Esto enfatiza la importancia de esta región en la conservación de la diversidad de aves. Se discuten las implicaciones de estos nuevos registros en la obtención de inventarios completos de la avifauna de la región y en la conservación de su diversidad de aves.

El ciclo formativo del registro arqueológico. Una alternativa a la dicotomía deposicional/posdeposicional

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Víctor JIMÉNEZ JÁIMEZ

2009-08-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: El interés de los investigadores peninsulares sobre la formación del registro arqueológico decreció considerablemente una vez que, en los años ochenta del pasado siglo, la influencia de la obra de L. Binford fue remitiendo y la Nueva Arqueología entró en decadencia. No obstante, la reflexión sobre los procesos de formación del registro arqueológico ha continuado hasta la actualidad, y de hecho ha ido progresivamente cobrando mayor importancia. Las últimas tendencias en este campo han insistido en la aplicación de lo que llamaremos el ciclo formativo del registro arqueológico, un esquema conceptual que viene siendo profusamente empleado en muchos estudios sobre formación del registro arqueológico, especialmente entre los seguidores de la Arqueología Conductual de M. Schiffer. En efecto, sus últimas propuestas no usan las nociones de deposicional y posdeposicional, sino que asumen, con ligeras variaciones de unos autores a otros, un esquema biográfico que sitúa los procesos de formación del registro en una de estas tres fases: 1 ocupación/uso; 2 abandono; 3 posabandono. Dentro de este esquema, la denuncia a lo que se denomina Premisa Pompeya es una clave esencial. Desgraciadamente, y pese a su utilidad, este marco conceptual sigue siendo ignorado por los arqueólogos de la Península Ibérica. En el presente artículo definiremos el concepto, expondremos algunas de sus implicaciones, señalaremos el escaso eco que ha tenido en el ámbito académico peninsular y, finalmente, indicaremos las críticas que ha recibido desde las Arqueologías Posprocesuales. Como conclusión, afirmaremos su utilidad en la práctica arqueológica, aunque convenientemente matizada por los apuntes realizados por autores como Hodder o Moore. Como ejemplo de las posibilidades interpretativas que abre un esquema como el referido, en la última parte del texto se hará una breve exposición de la que actualmente es una de las nociones más de

Registro de ensayos con vacunas del Programa Mundial de Vacunas e Inmunización de la OMS

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Robertson S. E.

1998-01-01

Full Text Available En 1995, el Programa Mundial de Vacunas e Inmunización de la OMS estableció un registro para ensayos con vacunas. En septiembre de 1996, este registro contenía 50 ensayos de vacunación patrocinados por la OMS, de los cuales 25 (50% eran estudios ya terminados. Las vacunas que se habían estudiado con mayor frecuencia fueron las de sarampión (9 ensayos, poliovirus (8 ensayos, cólera (8 ensayos, Escherichia coli enterotoxígena (4 ensayos y neumococo (4 ensayos. Casi 80% de estos ensayos se llevaron a cabo en países en desarrollo, principalmente en el África. En los 25 ensayos ya terminados, los resultados investigados fueron la respuesta inmunitaria (24 ensayos, las reacciones adversas (13 ensayos, la morbilidad (4 ensayos y la mortalidad (1 ensayo. La OMS contribuyó a estos ensayos con el aporte indirecto de fondos, ayuda con el diseño metodológico, visitas a las localidades, el análisis de los datos, la adquisición de vacunas y la investigación de su potencia.

Registros administrativos de policía para la consolidación de cifras de criminalidad en Colombia

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Julián Ricardo Buitrago Cubides

2015-08-01

Full Text Available La Policía Nacional de Colombia desarrolla la operación estadística "Conductas y servicios de policía", para tener insumos que permitan la formulación de políticas públicas en seguridad y seguimiento permanente del impacto del servicio de policía; esta operación usa como herramienta tecnológica el Sistema de Información Estadístico, Delincuencial, Contravencional y Operativo - SIEDCO. La metodología para la recolección, registro, consolidación y difusión de los registros administrativos, con propósitos estadísticos, permite obtener las cifras de criminalidad de acuerdo con los tipos penales del Código Penal colombiano, delitos de mayor impacto y actividad operativa, con la posibilidad de ubicarlos por jurisdicción política o policial. De otra parte, las herramientas tecnológicas de software actuales, para extracción de información, ofrecen diferentes maneras de analizar y estudiar los datos en un menor período de tiempo en cada una de las unidades policiales.

Primeros registros de 4 especies de felinos en el sur de Puebla, México

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Farías, Verónica; Téllez, Oswaldo; Botello, Francisco; Hernández, Omar; Berruecos, Jessica; Olivares, Saúl J.; Hernández, Julio C.

2015-01-01

Se presentan los primeros registros de margay (Leopardus wiedii), gato montés (Lynx rufus), puma (Puma concolor) y jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi) en el sur del estado de Puebla. El trabajo de campo fue parte de una monitorización participativa que incluyó a las autoridades civiles del ejido. Se colocaron 11 estaciones de cámaras-trampa digitales que funcionaron del 18 de diciembre de 2012 al 18 de febrero de 2014. Con un esfuerzo de muestreo de 2,669 días-trampa y dentro del conjunto de regis...

Responsabilidad civil derivada de la inclusión indebida en un registro de morosos

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Lagunas Reyes, Lucia

2014-01-01

El presente trabajo se aborda con motivo de la reciente Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo (Sala de lo Civil) núm. 176/2013, de 6 marzo. Avanzando en la línea marcada por sentencias precedentes, el Tribunal Supremo declara que “la inclusión de datos personales en un registro de morosos por una deuda dudosa vulnera el derecho al honor”. La citada sentencia del Tribunal Supremo asume como propia la doctrina del Tribunal Supremo ya consolidada, según la cual la inclusión incorrecta de datos en u...

Nuevos registros de hongos marinos en el litoral sur de Guantánamo, Cuba

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Samón Legrá, E.; Enríquez Lavandera, D.

2010-01-01

Por primera vez se realizó la identificación de hongos marinos filamentosos aislados en cuatro playas del litoral sur de la provincia de Guantánamo, Cuba. Para el aislamiento de los hongos se empleó el método indirecto de incubación de sustratos vegetales en cámara húmeda. Se describieron 25 especies de hongos marinos: 18 ascomicetes, seis hongos mitospóricos y un basidiomiceto. De las especies descritas, seis constituyen nuevos registros para el país. Con estos resultados, el número total de...

Continental Contributions to Philosophy of Science

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REGINE KATHER

2006-01-01

The author reviews the book Continental Philosophy of Science, edited by Gary Gutting. Introductory remarks about the historical relationship between philosophy and science are followed by a presentation and discussion of different philosophies of science and commentaries on the eleven German and French authors whose texts are found in this volume. In addition to her assessment of Guttings’s collection, the author’s overall conclusion is that one characteristic trait of the Continental philos...

Oceanic-type accretion may begin before complete continental break-up

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Geoffroy, L.; Zalan, P. V.; Viana, A. R.

2011-12-01

Oceanic accretion is thought to be the process of oceanic crust (and lithosphere) edification through adiabatic melting of shallow convecting mantle at oceanic spreading ridges. It is usually considered as a post-breakup diagnostic process following continents rupturing. However, this is not always correct. The structure of volcanic passive margins (representing more than 50% of passive continental margins) outlines that the continental lithosphere is progressively changed into oceanic-type lithosphere during the stage of continental extension. This is clear at least, at crustal level. The continental crust is 'changed' from the earliest stages of extension into a typical -however thicker- oceanic crust with the typical oceanic magmatic layers (from top to bottom: lava flows/tuffs, sheeted dyke complexes, dominantly (sill-like) mafic intrusions in the lower crust). The Q-rich continental crust is highly extended and increases in volume (due to the magma) during the extensional process. At the continent-ocean transition there is, finally, no seismic difference between this highly transformed continental crust and the oceanic crust. Using a large range of data (including deep seismic reflection profiles), we discuss the mantle mechanisms that governs the process of mantle-assisted continental extension. We outline the large similarity between those mantle processes and those acting at purely-oceanic spreading axis and discuss the effects of the inherited continental lithosphere in the pattern of new mafic crust edification.

Evaluación de la calidad de registro de historias clínicas en consultorios externos del servicio de medicina interna de la Clínica Centenario Peruano Japonesa, 2010-2011

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Juan P. Matzumura Kasano

2014-07-01

Full Text Available El eje de la auditoria médica es una historia clínica adecuadamente confeccionada. La historia clínica es la constancia escrita de todos los exámenes médicos, estudios realizados y tratamientos aplicados durante el transcurso de la enfermedad. Objetivo: Evaluar la calidad de registro de las historias clínicas de Consultorios Externos del Servicio de Medicina Interna en la Clínica Centenario Peruano Japonesa. Diseño: Descriptivo de corte transversal. Lugar: Consultorios externos del Servicio de Medicina Interna de la Clínica Centenario Peruano Japonesa. Material: Historias clínicas de pacientes atendidos en la consulta externa del Servicio de Medicina Interna. Métodos: Se evaluó 323 historias clínicas mediante un muestreo aleatorio simple, las cuales fueron sometidas a una ficha de auditoría que comprendía 10 ítems, cada uno calificado con 10 puntos, para un total de 100 puntos: fecha y hora de atención, pulcritud y legibilidad, anamnesis adecuada, signos vitales, examen físico, diagnóstico, plan de trabajo, exámenes auxiliares, tratamiento completo y firma y sello del médico. Las historias que obtenían un puntaje total mayor o igual de 80 fueron calificadas como ‘aceptables’; las restantes como ‘falta mejorar’. Principales medidas de resultados: Historias auditadas aceptables o falta mejorar. Resultados: El 63,8% (206 de las historias tenía una calidad de registro ‘aceptable’, mientras que en 36,2% (117 de historias, la calidad de registro ‘falta mejorar’. Los ítems diagnóstico y tratamiento completo fueron los que presentaron un registro deficiente con mayor frecuencia, tanto en aquellas historias que cumplían un registro aceptable (64,6% y 62,6% llenadas de modo completo, respectivamente como en aquellas con registro falta mejorar (20,5% y 23,1%, respectivamente. La firma y sello del médico tratante fue el ítem que en ambas categorías era el mejor registrado (99,5% y 93,2%, respectivamente

Acurácia do relacionamento probabilístico de registros na identificação de óbitos em uma coorte de pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca descompensada

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Pedro Pimenta de Mello Spineti

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Resumo O relacionamento probabilístico de registros vem sendo cada vez mais empregado na identificação de desfechos em estudos de coorte. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a acurácia deste método na identificação de óbitos em uma coorte de 450 pacientes admitidos em um hospital universitário por insuficiência cardíaca descompensada, em um período de seis anos. O estado vital dos membros da coorte foi determinado a partir dos registros no prontuário eletrônico dos pacientes (padrão-ouro. O software OpenRecLink foi utilizado para relacionar os registros da coorte com aqueles da base do Sistema de Informações de Mortalidade, visando à identificação de óbitos. Apenas 53,6% pacientes apresentavam estado vital conhecido ao final do seguimento e destes 59,3% haviam falecido. O método apresentou sensibilidade de 97,9%, especificidade de 100%, valor preditivo positivo de 100%, valor preditivo negativo de 97% e acurácia de 98,8%. Esses resultados sugerem que o relacionamento probabilístico de registros é uma valiosa ferramenta na identificação de óbitos para estudos de coorte.

Métodos gravi-magnetométricos modernos para analizar las características estructurales de la plataforma continental Argentina

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Antonio Introcaso

2008-12-01

Full Text Available El análisis de la composición y estructura del margen continental argentino implica realizar el estudio de sus cortezas continental y oceánica, de los fallamientos y de las cuencas sedimentarias involucradas (localización, geometría y espesor sedimentario. Como una contribución a COPLA (Comisión Nacional del Límite Exterior de la Plataforma Continental, quien se encuentra abocada al estudio de nuestra plataforma continental, hemos realizado un estudio piloto sobre la cuenca de Claromecó (provincia de Buenos Aires, y su extensión a la plataforma continental. A los métodos gravi-magnetométricos tradicionales que definen modelos desde las inversiones 2D, 2½D y 3D, agregamos para este estudio: a Métodos semi-empíricos: deconvolución de Euler y Werner, señal analítica, gradientes y cambios de gradientes; éstos permiten definir lineamientos, contactos y fallas. b Estudios de la isoterma de Curie obtenida en base al análisis espectral de las anomalías magnéticas (determinación de las profundidades del basamento magnético, de su techo y fondo a través de la temperatura de Curie. Su ascenso-descenso anómalo es de primera importancia para comprender, desde su historia, el estado cortical actual. c Estudios de características corticales (espesor y densidad que involucra el estado isostático, a partir de ondulaciones del geoide N; probable movilidad futura en monto y signo. d Doble inversión de gravedad g y ondulaciones del geoide N, para obtener mayor consistencia en el modelado. Mediante la aplicación de esta metodología sobre la cuenca de Claromecó, se han encontrado lineamientos de gran importancia y se certificó el balance isostático. Se determinó que la cuenca presenta un espesor sedimentario del orden de la tercera parte del espesor cortical normal de la zona.The Argentinean continental shelf will be studied by analysing the continental and the oceanic crusts, the faulting and the neighbour sedimentary basins. In

78 FR 32184 - Importation of Fresh Apricots From Continental Spain

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Study of southern CHAONAN sag lower continental slope basin deposition character in Northern South China Sea

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Tang, Y.

2009-12-01

Northern South China Sea Margin locates in Eurasian plate,Indian-Australia plate,Pacific Plates.The South China Sea had underwent a complicated tectonic evolution in Cenozoic.During rifting,the continental shelf and slope forms a series of Cenozoic sedimentary basins,including Qiongdongnan basin,Pearl River Mouth basin,Taixinan basin.These basins fill in thick Cenozoic fluviolacustrine facies,transitional facies,marine facies,abyssal facies sediment,recording the evolution history of South China Sea Margin rifting and ocean basin extending.The studies of tectonics and deposition of depression in the Southern Chaonan Sag of lower continental slope in the Norther South China Sea were dealt with,based on the sequence stratigraphy and depositional facies interpretation of seismic profiles acquired by cruises of“China and Germany Joint Study on Marine Geosciences in the South China Sea”and“The formation,evolution and key issues of important resources in China marginal sea",and combining with ODP 1148 cole and LW33-1-1 well.The free-air gravity anomaly of the break up of the continental and ocean appears comparatively low negative anomaly traps which extended in EW,it is the reflection of passive margin gravitational effect.Bouguer gravity anomaly is comparatively low which is gradient zone extended NE-SW.Magnetic anomaly lies in Magnetic Quiet Zone at the Northern Continental Margin of the South China Sea.The Cenozoic sediments of lower continental slope in Southern Chaonan Sag can be divided into five stratum interface:SB5.5,SB10.5,SB16.5,SB23.8 and Hg,their ages are of Pliocene-Quaternary,late Miocene,middle Miocene,early Miocene,paleogene.The tectonic evolution of low continental slope depressions can be divided into rifting,rifting-depression transitional and depression stages,while their depositional environments change from river to shallow marine and abyssa1,which results in different topography in different stages.The topographic evolvement in the study

Continental Mathematics League.

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Quartararo, Joseph

2002-01-01

This article describes the activities of the Continental Mathematics League, which offers a series of meets for children in grades 3 though 9. In addition, a Calculus League and a Computer Contest are offered. The league allows schools to participate by mail so that rural schools can participate. (CR)

Registro Español de Ablación con Catéter. V Informe Oficial (2005

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Miguel Álvarez López

2007-01-01

Conclusiones: Con un número de procedimientos de ablación superior a 6.000 y con la participación más numerosa de centros de todo el Estado, el Registro Español de Ablación con Catéter aumenta su representatividad y su valor como referencia. El número de procedimientos de ablación de fibrilación auricular se incrementa progresivamente en nuestro país.

Continental distribution as a forcing factor for global-scale temperature

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Barron, E J; Thompson, S L; Hay, W W

1984-08-16

Since the advent of the continental drift hypothesis, changing continental geometries have been proposed as an explanation for long-term temperature variability. The climatic influence of a few specific past geographies has been investigated quantitatively, but these studies do not indicate the potential temperature variability due to continental positions. This problem has been examined only with simple climate models having limiting assumptions such as no cloud cover. Here idealized continental geometries are used as boundary conditions in a simulation using a general circulation model (GCM) of the atmosphere. The range in model simulated globally-averaged surface temperature is 7.4 K with a difference in polar surface temperature of up to 34 K. The simulations suggest a substantial climatic sensitivity to continental positions with the coldest global climate when land masses are in high latitudes. Although the simulations have not captured theoretical limits of climatic variability due to continental positions, present-day geography is near the cold end of this spectrum. 20 references, 1 figure.

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Realidad de la cirugía cardíaca en la República Argentina. Registro CONAREC XVI

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Diego M. Lowenstein Haber

2010-01-01

Full Text Available RESUMENIntroducciónLos dos grandes registros multicéntricos de cirugía cardíaca realizados en la Argentina,CONAREC y ESMUCICA, datan de más de 10 años. Considerando los avances médicosy quirúrgicos de la última década, surgió la necesidad de realizar un nuevo registronacional, prospectivo y multicéntrico para conocer las características, la evolución, lascomplicaciones y los predictores de mortalidad de los pacientes sometidos a cirugía cardíaca.ObjetivosConocer el perfil epidemiológico, la modalidad quirúrgica y la evolución posoperatoria de lospacientes sometidos a cirugía cardíaca en la Argentina.Material y métodosRegistro prospectivo, consecutivo y multicéntrico realizado en 49 centros cardioquirúrgicosde la República Argentina por residentes de cardiología. Se analizaron las características yla evolución de 2.553 pacientes sometidos a cirugía cardíaca entre septiembre de 2007 yoctubre de 2008: 1.465 (57,4% a cirugía coronaria, 359 (14,1% a reemplazo valvular aórtico,169 (6,6% a cirugía valvular mitral, 312 (12,2% a cirugía combinada coronariovalvular y248 (9,7% a otros procedimientos.ResultadosHubo predominio de hombres (74,9%; la edad promedio fue de 63 ± 11 años. La prevalenciade diabetes fue del 24,9%, la de hipertensión del 76,3% y la de insuficiencia cardíaca del17%. La disfunción ventricular moderada a grave prequirúrgica fue del 23,8% y el 19,8% delas cirugías fueron no programadas.En las cirugías coronarias, el 41,9% de ellas se realizaron sin circulación extracorpórea y seempleó puente mamario en el 89%.El 81,7% de las cirugías mitrales se indicaron por insuficiencia y el 62,6% de las aórticas,por estenosis. En estas cirugías se emplearon válvulas mecánicas en el 58% de los casos.La mediana de internación fue de 6 días. Se presentaron complicaciones mayores en el31,7% (del 25% en coronarios al 49,36% en combinados y la mortalidad global fue del 7,7%(del 4,3% en coronarios al 13

Recent investigations in air chemistry

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Junge, C E

1956-01-01

New results of chemical analyses of natural aerosol particles in Florida and in the Boston area are presented. These data are compared with the results obtained earlier at various other locations. The continental and maritime components of NH/sub 4/, Na, Cl, SO/sub 4/, and NO/sub 3/ can be separated for two different size ranges, viz. large particles (radius 0.08 micrometers to 0.8 micrometers) and giant particles (radius 0.8 micrometers to 8 micrometers). It is found that the continental influence on aerosols extends far into the ocean. The nitrate content of the particles presents an especially interesting problem, since it appears that the major part of NO/sub 3/ stems neither from a continental nor from a maritime source, but from a certain area along the coast. A comparison is made of the total amounts of material found in the large and the giant particles of the various locations. Information gained from this comparison provides the basis for conclusions regarding the size distribution of aerosols. A pronounced difference between maritime and continental distributions becomes evident in this case. The concentration of the corresponding gas traces of NH/sub 3/, SO/sub 2/, nitrogen oxides and chlorine components were measured in Florida and at other locations simultaneously with the chemical analysis of the aerosols. For most components the concentration of these gas traces is considerably higher than that for the corresponding substances in the aerosols. The importance of these findings for air chemistry is discussed.

Hematoma epidural espinal espontâneo durante a gravidez: registro de um caso

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Ivan Hack

1984-03-01

Full Text Available Registro de caso de paciente no oitavo mês de gestação que desenvolveu hematoma epidural espinal espontâneo dorsolombar. A gravidez, determinando aumento da pressão intra-abdominal e, como consequência, aumento da pressão venosa no plexo epidural, poderia ter sido o fator desencadeante no hematoma- A paciente foi submetida a cirurgia precocemente, porém não apresentou recuperação do déficit sensitivo-motor. São discutidos aspectos clínicos, do tratamento cirúrgico, da evolução e da etiologia dos hematomas epidurals espinais espontâneos.

Primer registro de Heterocucumis godeffroyi(Semper, 1868 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea en el mar peruano

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Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Se registra por primera vez para el Perú la especie de pepino de mar Heterocucumis godeffroyi(Semper, 1868 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea. La especie fue recolectada a 19 m de profundidad en Pucusana, de-partamento de Lima. Este registro representa el límite más norteño de distribución de la especie reconocido hasta el momento. Material de referencia se encuentra depositado en la Colección de Zoología Acuática, del Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Fisiológicas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú.

Basins in ARC-continental collisions

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Draut, Amy E.; Clift, Peter D.; Busby, Cathy; Azor, Antonio

2012-01-01

Arc-continent collisions occur commonly in the plate-tectonic cycle and result in rapidly formed and rapidly collapsing orogens, often spanning just 5-15 My. Growth of continental masses through arc-continent collision is widely thought to be a major process governing the structural and geochemical evolution of the continental crust over geologic time. Collisions of intra-oceanic arcs with passive continental margins (a situation in which the arc, on the upper plate, faces the continent) involve a substantially different geometry than collisions of intra-oceanic arcs with active continental margins (a situation requiring more than one convergence zone and in which the arc, on the lower plate, backs into the continent), with variable preservation potential for basins in each case. Substantial differences also occur between trench and forearc evolution in tectonically erosive versus tectonically accreting margins, both before and after collision. We examine the evolution of trenches, trench-slope basins, forearc basins, intra-arc basins, and backarc basins during arc-continent collision. The preservation potential of trench-slope basins is low; in collision they are rapidly uplifted and eroded, and at erosive margins they are progressively destroyed by subduction erosion. Post-collisional preservation of trench sediment and trench-slope basins is biased toward margins that were tectonically accreting for a substantial length of time before collision. Forearc basins in erosive margins are usually floored by strong lithosphere and may survive collision with a passive margin, sometimes continuing sedimentation throughout collision and orogeny. The low flexural rigidity of intra-arc basins makes them deep and, if preserved, potentially long records of arc and collisional tectonism. Backarc basins, in contrast, are typically subducted and their sediment either lost or preserved only as fragments in melange sequences. A substantial proportion of the sediment derived from

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Distribución geográfica del género Pimeliaphilus Trägårdh (Acari: Prostigmata asociados a triatominos (Hemiptera: Reduviidae

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Full Text Available Se brinda un listado de especies del género Pimeliaphilus Trägårdh asociadas a diferentes especies de triatominos, con sus respectivas coordenadas geográficas de todo el continente americano. Se realizaron viajes de campo para incorporar nuevos registros a una recopilación bibliográfica. Se extiende la distribución geográfica de Pimeliaphilus triatomae Cunliffe, con dos registros para la provincia de Chaco (Argentina y se amplía el rango de hospedadores ya que se citan por primera vez asociados a Triatoma delpontei Romaña & Abalos.

Primeros registros de la tribu kingsleyini (Crustácea: decápoda: pseudothlphusidae para Colombia

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Rocha de Campos Martha Helena

1997-06-01

Full Text Available This is to report the first record for Colombia of two species of fresh-water crabs of the Kingsleyini Bolt, 1970 tribe. The species Prionothelphusa eliasi Rodríguez, 1980 and Orthothelphusa holthuisi (Rodríguez, 1967 had previously been recorded only for Venezuela.Se establece el primer registro para Colombia de la tribu Kingsleyini Bott, 1970, representado por las especies Prionothelphusa eliasi Rodríguez, 1980 y Orlhothelphusa holthuisi (Rodríguez, 1967. Estas especies solo habían sido registradas para Venezuela.

ALTERAÇÃO DO REGISTRO CIVIL DE TRANSEXUAIS: Uma análise empírica do posicionamento do TJ/RS

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Maicon Varella Flores

2017-05-01

Full Text Available A presente pesquisa propõe investigar o posicionamento do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul quanto à alteração do prenome e do gênero no registro civil de sujeitos transexuais. Para isso, utilizando-se do seguinte descritor “alteração de registro civil transexual”, realizou-se um mapeamento, através da abordagem quantitativa, das decisões julgadas e publicadas entre os anos de 1985 a 2016, que versam acerca da temática analisada. Para as problematizações das categorias identitárias (DIAS, 2015 de gêneros e das sexualidades, orienta-se a partir das teorizações propostas pelos estudos culturais, em especial, de Foucault (1999, 2010, 2014 e de Butler (2003, 2012, 2015. Também,  realizou-se uma etapa bibliográfica sobre a (reconstrução das categorizações das identidades de gêneros e das sexualidades, interpretando-as a partir da perspectiva teórica que as estabelece inseridas nas relações de poder (Foucault, 2014 e as propõe performáticas e flexíveis, atribuindo-as potencial de fluidez (Brum & Dias, 2015. Para além de denotar a importância do reconhecimento jurídico da alteração tanto do prenome, quanto do gênero no registro civil aos transexuais, defende-se que esses corpos sejam reconhecíveiscomo humanos e, assim, sujeitos de dignidade humana, contribuindo, a partir disso, para o reconhecimento de uma construção identitária transexual efetivamente inteligíveis e reconhecíveis.   

The continental lithosphere: a geochemical perspective

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Hawkesworth, C.J.; Person, G.; Turner, S.P.; Calsteren, P. Van; Gallagher, K.

1993-01-01

The lithosphere is the cool strong outler layer of the Earth that is effectively a boundary layer to the convecting interior. The evidence from mantle xenoliths and continental basalts is that the lower continental crust and uppermost mantle are different beneath Archaen and proterozoic areas. Mantle xenoliths from Archaen terrains, principally the Kaapvaal craton in southern Africa, are significantly depleted in Fe and other major elements which are concentrated in basalts. Nd and Os isotope data on inclusions in diamonds and peridoties respectively, indicate that such mantle is as old as the overlying Archaen crust. Since it appears to have been coupled to the overlying crust, and to have been isolated from the homogenising effects of convection for long periods of time, it is inferred to be within the continental lithosphere. The mantle lithosphere beneath Proterozoic and younger areas is less depleted in major elements, and so it is more fertile, less buoyant, and therefore thinner, than the Archaen mantle lithosphere. (author). 136 refs, 14 figs

Continental Influence versus marine transition in Rio de la Plata zone - internal continental shelf of the South Atlantic - a multi proxy study

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Burone, L.; Franco-Fraguas, P.; Garcia-Rodriguez, F.; Venturini, N.; Brugnoli, E.; Muniz, P.; Ortega, L.; Marin, Y.; Mahiques, M.; Nagaic, R.; Bicegoc, M.; Figueiras, R.; Salaroli, A.

2012-01-01

The terrigenous proxies contribution, the organic matter origin, the productivity, the hydrodynamic and the biological records were used to determine the imrprint of the continental influence along the Rio de la Plata and the Continental Atlantic

Atmospheric pollutants in Chiang Mai (Thailand) over a five-year period (2005-2009), their possible sources and relation to air mass movement

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Chantara, Somporn; Sillapapiromsuk, Sopittaporn; Wiriya, Wan

2012-12-01

Monitoring and analysis of the chemical composition of air pollutants were conducted over a five-year period (2005-2009) in the sub-urban area of Chiang Mai, Thailand. This study aims to determine the seasonal variation of atmospheric ion species and gases, examine their correlations, identify possible sources and assess major air-flow patterns to the receptor. The dominant gas and particulate pollutants were NH3 (43-58%) and SO42- (39-48%), respectively. The annual mean concentrations of NH3 (μg m-3) in descending order were 4.08 (2009) > 3.32 (2007) > 2.68 (2008) > 2.47 (2006) and 1.87 (2005), while those of SO42- (μg m-3) were 2.60 (2007) > 2.20 (2006) > 1.95 (2009) > 1.75 (2008) and 1.26 (2005). Concentrations of particulate ions were analyzed by principle component analysis to find out the possible sources of air pollutants in this area. The first component of each year had a high loading of SO42- and NH4+, which probably came from fuel combustion and agricultural activity, respectively. K+, a tracer of biomass burning, also contributed to the first or the second components of each year. Concentrations of NH4+ and SO42- were well correlated (r > 0.777, p Chiang Mai from 2005 to 2009 were analyzed using the hybrid single particle langrangian integrated trajectory (HYSPLIT) model and grouped by cluster analysis. The air mass data was analyzed for the dry season (n = 18; 100%). The trajectory of air mass in 2005 mainly originated locally (67%). In 2006, the recorded data showed that 56% of air mass was emitted from the western continental region of Thailand. In 2007, the percent ratios from the western and eastern continental areas were equal (39%). In 2008, 67% originated from the western continental area. In 2009, the recorded air mass mainly came from the western continental area (72%). In conclusion, the major trajectories of air mass from 2006 to 2009 originated from the southwest direction of the receptor, but in 2005, the air mass appeared to be locally

Fire activity and hydrological dynamics in the past 5700 years reconstructed from Sphagnum peatlands along the oceanic-continental climatic gradient in northern Poland

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Marcisz, Katarzyna; Gałka, Mariusz; Pietrala, Patryk; Miotk-Szpiganowicz, Grażyna; Obremska, Milena; Tobolski, Kazimierz; Lamentowicz, Mariusz

2017-12-01

Fire is a critical component of many ecosystems and, as predicted by various climate models, fire activity may increase significantly in the following years due to climate change. Therefore, knowledge about the past fire activity of various ecosystems is highly important for future nature conservation purposes. We present results of high-resolution investigation of fire activity and hydrological changes in northern Poland. We analyzed microscopic charcoal from three Sphagnum-dominated peatlands located on the south of Baltic, on the oceanic-continental (west-east) climatic gradient, and reconstructed the history of fire in the last 5700 years. We hypothesize that air circulation patterns are highly important for local fire activity, and that fire activity is more intensive in peatlands influenced by continental air masses. We have found out that forest fires have been occurring regularly since the past millennia and were linked to climatic conditions. We show that fire activity (related to climate and fuel availability) was significantly higher in sites dominated by continental climate (northeastern Poland) than in the site located under oceanic conditions (northwestern Poland)-microscopic charcoal influx was 13.3 times higher in the eastern study site of the gradient, compared to the western study site. Recorded fire activity patterns were different between the sites in a long timescale. Moreover, most of the recorded charcoal peaks occurred during high water tables. Rising human pressure has caused droughts and water table instability, and substantial increase in fire activity in the last 400 years.

Mechanisms of continental subduction and exhumation of HP and UHP rocks

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Burov, Evgene; Francois, Thomas; Yamato, Philippe; Wolf, Sylvie

We discuss possible scenarios of continental collision, and their relation to mechanisms of exhumation of HP and UHP rocks, inferred from thermo-mechanical numerical models accounting for thermo-rheological complexity of the continental lithosphere. Due to this complexity, mechanisms of continental

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

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Jensen, Mark P.; Petersen, Walt A.; Bansemer, Aaron; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Carey, Larry; Cecil, D. J.; Collis, Scott M.; Del Genio, Anthony D.; Dolan, Brenda A.; Gerlach, J.; Giangrande, Scott; Heymsfield, Andrew J.; Heymsfield, Gerald; Kollias, Pavlos; Lang, T. J.; Nesbitt, Steve W.; Neumann, Andrea; Poellot, M. R.; Rutledge, Steven A.; Schwaller, Mathew R.; Tokay, Ali; Williams, C. R.; Wolff, D. B.; Xie, Shaocheng; Zipser, Edward J.

2016-10-18

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a field program jointly led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program and the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, was conducted in south-central Oklahoma during April – May 2011. MC3E science objectives were motivated by the need to improve understanding of midlatitude continental convective cloud system lifecycles, microphysics, and GPM precipitation retrieval algorithms. To achieve these objectives a multi-scale surface- and aircraft-based in situ and remote sensing observing strategy was employed. A variety of cloud and precipitation events were sampled during the MC3E, of which results from three deep convective events are highlighted. Vertical structure, air motions, precipitation drop-size distributions and ice properties were retrieved from multi-wavelength radar, profiler, and aircraft observations for an MCS on 11 May. Aircraft observations for another MCS observed on 20 May were used to test agreement between observed radar reflectivities and those calculated with forward-modeled reflectivity and microwave brightness temperatures using in situ particle size distributions and ice water content. Multi-platform observations of a supercell that occurred on 23 May allowed for an integrated analysis of kinematic and microphysical interactions. A core updraft of 25 ms-1 supported growth of hail and large rain drops. Data collected during the MC3E campaign is being used in a number of current and ongoing research projects and is available through the DOE ARM and NASA data archives.

Padrões de ocupação do solo e microclimas urbanos na região de clima tropical continental

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Denise Duarte

2000-06-01

Full Text Available The subject of this research is the urban microclimate in cities of the brazilian continental tropical region. According to the principle that there is a correlation between urban microclimates and urban occupation, the objective is to numerically measure the correlation between air temperature and variables that are familiar to urban planning strategies, which can be controlled by municipal regulations. Qualitative and quantitative descriptions of the urban variables are made, as air temperature and humidity measurements registered along the day for the two main seasons. The results show that with variables related to the built density; the correlation was positive when referred to air temperature, and reflected the greater influence of built density at night, what is in accord with the existing theory. On the other hand, using trees and water, the correlation was negative, when related to air temperature, in all periods

Do Continental Shelves Act as an Atmospheric CO2 Sink?

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Cai, W.

2003-12-01

Recent air-to-sea CO2 flux measurements at several major continental shelves (European Atlantic Shelves, East China Sea and U.S. Middle Atlantic Bight) suggest that shelves may act as a one-way pump and absorb atmospheric CO2 into the ocean. These observations also favor the argument that continental shelves are autotrophic (i.e., net production of organic carbon, OC). The U.S. South Atlantic Bight (SAB) contrasts these findings in that it acts as a strong source of CO2 to the atmosphere while simultaneously exporting dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) to the open ocean. We report pCO2, DIC, and alkalinity data from the SAB collected in 8 cruises along a transect from the shore to the shelf break in the central SAB. The shelf-wide net heterotrophy and carbon exports in the SAB are subsidized by the export of OC from the abundant intertidal marshes, which are a sink for atmospheric CO2. It is proposed here that the SAB represents a marsh-dominated heterotrophic ocean margin as opposed to river-dominated autotrophic margins. To further investigate why margins may behave differently in term of CO2 sink/source, the physical and biological conditions of several western boundary current margins are compared. Based on this and other studies, DIC export flux from margins to the open ocean must be significant in the overall global ocean carbon budget.

La hipótesis de los tres registros - simbólico, imaginario, real - en la enseñanza de J. Lacan The three registers hypothesis - symbolic, imaginary, real - in the J. Lacan work

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Manuel Murillo

2011-12-01

Full Text Available En el presenta trabajo exploramos algunos interrogantes en torno a lo que llamamos la hipótesis de los tres registros -simbólico, imaginario, real- en la enseñanza de J. Lacan. El objetivo que nos propusimos fue identificar los momentos privilegiados en la enseñanza de Lacan para el abordaje en la temática y describir su hipótesis de los tres registros. De acuerdo a nuestra hipótesis los tres registros constituyen en la enseñanza de Lacan una tesis inédita en el campo del psicoanálisis que implica a la vez un retorno a Freud y una interrogación a Freud. Para este estudio nos hemos servido principalmente de la conferencia que Lacan dictó en 1953 sobre los tres registros, y del seminario 22 de 1974-1975, también dedicado, en gran medida, a los tres registros. Concluimos que los registros son los nombres del padre, a la par que las dimensiones del ser hablante y los fundamentos del discurso y práctica psicoanalíticos.In this paper we explore some questions about what we call the three registers hypothesis -symbolic, imaginary, real- in J. Lacan work. The objective we set was to identify the pivotal moments in the work of Lacan to approach the subject and describe his three records hypothesis. According to our hypothesis, three records are in the work of Lacan an original thesis in the psychoanalysis field, which involves both a return to Freud and an interrogation to Freud. For this study we used mainly the conference that Lacan gave in 1953 on three records, and the seminar 22, 1974-1975, also dedicated largely to the three records. We conclude that the records are the father's names, and at the same time, the speaking being dimensions and psychoanalytic discourse and practice fundaments.

Real-time bias-adjusted O 3 and PM 2.5 air quality index forecasts and their performance evaluations over the continental United States

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Kang, Daiwen; Mathur, Rohit; Trivikrama Rao, S.

2010-06-01

The National Air Quality Forecast Capacity (NAQFC) system, which links NOAA's North American Mesoscale (NAM) meteorological model with EPA's Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, provided operational ozone (O 3) and experimental fine particular matter (PM 2.5) forecasts over the continental United States (CONUS) during 2008. This paper describes the implementation of a real-time Kalman Filter (KF) bias-adjustment technique to improve the accuracy of O 3 and PM 2.5 forecasts at discrete monitoring locations. The operational surface-level O 3 and PM 2.5 forecasts from the NAQFC system were post-processed by the KF bias-adjusted technique using near real-time hourly O 3 and PM 2.5 observations obtained from EPA's AIRNow measurement network. The KF bias-adjusted forecasts were created daily, providing 24-h hourly bias-adjusted forecasts for O 3 and PM 2.5 at all AIRNow monitoring sites within the CONUS domain. The bias-adjustment post-processing implemented in this study requires minimal computational cost; requiring less than 10 min of CPU on a single processor Linux machine to generate 24-h hourly bias-adjusted forecasts over the entire CONUS domain. The results show that the real-time KF bias-adjusted forecasts for both O 3 and PM 2.5 have performed as well as or even better than the previous studies when the same technique was applied to the historical O 3 and PM 2.5 time series from archived AQF in earlier years. Compared to the raw forecasts, the KF forecasts displayed significant improvement in the daily maximum 8-h O 3 and daily mean PM 2.5 forecasts in terms of both discrete (i.e., reduced errors, increased correlation coefficients, and index of agreement) and categorical (increased hit rate and decreased false alarm ratio) evaluation metrics at almost all locations during the study period in 2008.

The Emerging Shield. The Air Force and the Evolution of Continental Air Defense 1945-1960

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1991-01-01

Vanessa D. Allen began the editing of the manuscript, and Mrs. Barbara W’attig then took over the brunt of the editing, guiding the book to completion...In July 1917, Great Britain established the London Air Defense Area (LADA), under the command of Maj. Gen. Edward B. Ashmore, an experienced artillery...Stratemeyer that the crisis had passed, and it ended the emer- gency. When the emergency operations had ceased, General Hoyt S. Van - denberg had, for

Impacts of continental arcs on global carbon cycling and climate

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Lee, C. T.; Jiang, H.; Carter, L.; Dasgupta, R.; Cao, W.; Lackey, J. S.; Lenardic, A.; Barnes, J.; McKenzie, R.

2017-12-01

On myr timescales, climatic variability is tied to variations in atmospheric CO2, which in turn is driven by geologic sources of CO2 and modulated by the efficiency of chemical weathering and carbonate precipitation (sinks). Long-term variability in CO2 has largely been attributed to changes in mid-ocean ridge inputs or the efficiency of global weathering. For example, the Cretaceous greenhouse is thought to be related to enhanced oceanic crust production, while the late Cenozoic icehouse is attributed to enhanced chemical weathering associated with the Himalayan orogeny. Here, we show that continental arcs may play a more important role in controlling climate, both in terms of sources and sinks. Continental arcs differ from island arcs and mid-ocean ridges in that the continental plate through which arc magmas pass may contain large amounts of sedimentary carbonate, accumulated over the history of the continent. Interaction of arc magmas with crustal carbonates via assimilation, reaction or heating can significantly add to the mantle-sourced CO2 flux. Detrital zircons and global mapping of basement rocks shows that the length of continental arcs in the Cretaceous was more than twice that in the mid-Cenozoic; maps also show many of these arcs intersected crustal carbonates. The increased length of continental arc magmatism coincided with increased oceanic spreading rates, placing convergent margins into compression, which favors continental arcs. Around 50 Ma, however, nearly all the continental arcs in Eurasia and North America terminated as India collided with Eurasia and the western Pacific rolled back, initiating the Marianas-Tonga-Kermadec intra-oceanic subduction complex and possibly leading to a decrease in global CO2 production. Meanwhile, extinct continental arcs continued to erode, resulting in regionally enhanced chemical weathering unsupported by magmatic fluxes of CO2. Continental arcs, during their magmatic lifetimes, are thus a source of CO2, driving

MAGSAT anomaly map and continental drift

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Lemouel, J. L. (Principal Investigator); Galdeano, A.; Ducruix, J.

1981-01-01

Anomaly maps of high quality are needed to display unambiguously the so called long wave length anomalies. The anomalies were analyzed in terms of continental drift and the nature of their sources is discussed. The map presented confirms the thinness of the oceanic magnetized layer. Continental magnetic anomalies are characterized by elongated structures generally of east-west trend. Paleomagnetic reconstruction shows that the anomalies found in India, Australia, and Antarctic exhibit a fair consistency with the African anomalies. It is also shown that anomalies are locked under the continents and have a fixed geometry.

Registro de actividad eléctrica en la retina de una rata albina empleando una matriz de microelectrodos

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Edwin Alexander Cerquera

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Las matrices de microelectrodos son dispositivos que permiten la detección de potenciales de acción o espigas en poblaciones de células excitables, ofreciendo varias aplicaciones en el campo de las neurociencias y la biología. Este trabajo muestra un protocolo para el registro de espigas en una población de células ganglionares retinales empleando una matriz de microelectrodos. La retina de una rata albina fue extraída y preparada para ser estimulada in vitro con luz led blanca, con el fin de registrar sus espigas evocadas ante estos estímulos. Cada microelectrodo puede registrar espigas de más de una célula ganglionar, razón por la cual se determinó a qué célula pertenece cada espiga aplicando un procedimiento conocido como “clasificación de espigas”. El trabajo permitió obtener el registro de un periodo de estimulación y otro de no estimulación, con el fin de representar los potenciales de acción evocados con luz y los espontáneos. Los registros fueron almacenados para visualizar las espigas de las células ganglionares y poder aplicar la herramienta de clasificación de espigas. De este modo, se almacenan los instantes de tiempo en los cuales cada célula ganglionar registrada generó potenciales de acción. Este trabajo conllevó al establecimiento de un protocolo de experimentación básico enfocado al uso de matrices MEA en el laboratorio de adquisición de potenciales extracelulares de la Universidad Antonio Nariño Sede Bogotá, no sólo para caracterizar los potenciales de acción de células ganglionares retinales, sino también para otro tipo de células que puedan ser estudiadas empleando matrices de microelectrodos.

Neogene sedimentation on the outer continental margin, southern Bering Sea

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Vallier, T.L.; Underwood, M.B.; Gardner, J.V.; Barron, J.A.

1980-01-01

Neogene sedimentary rocks and sediments from sites on the outer continental margin in the southern Bering Sea and on the Alaska Peninsula are dominated by volcanic components that probably were eroded from an emergent Aleutian Ridge. A mainland continental source is subordinate. Most sediment in the marine environment was transported to the depositional sites by longshore currents, debris flows, and turbidity currents during times when sea level was near the outermost continental shelf. Fluctuations of sea level are ascribed both to worldwide glacio-eustatic effects and to regional vertical tectonics. Large drainage systems, such as the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, had little direct influence on sedimentation along the continental slope and Unmak Plateau in the southern Bering Sea. Sediments from those drainage systems probably were transported to the floor of the Aleutian Basin, to the numerous shelf basins that underlie the outer continental shelf, and to the Arctic Ocean after passing through the Bering Strait. Environments of deposition at the sites along the outer continental margin have not changed significantly since the middle Miocene. The site on the Alaska Peninsula, however, is now emergent following shallow-marine and transitional sedimentation during the Neogene. ?? 1980.

Revisión de registros y notas de Pingüino Rey (Aptenodytes patagonicus) y el Pingüino Penacho Amarillo (Eudyptes chrysocome) en Brasil

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Barquete, Viviane; Bugoni, Leandro; Silva-Filho, Rodolfo P.; Adornes, Andrea C.

2006-01-01

En este estudio se presenta una revisión de hallazgos previos y nuevos registros del Pingüino Rey (Aptenodytes patagonicus) y del Pingüino Penacho Amarillo (Eudyptes chrysocome) en la costa de Brasil. En total se registraron seis individuos de Pingüino Rey y diez de Pingüino de Penacho Amarillo. Tanto juveniles como adultos de las dos especies fueron encontrados en las playas, especialmente en Rio Grande do Sul, sur de Brasil. Los registros de Pingüino Rey están restringidos al verano, mientr...

Olhar do cronista, registro da memória

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Angela Maria Dutra da Silva Senra

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Propomos apresentar a pesquisa “Rastros da memória literária em crônicas dos jornais marianenses dos séculos XIX e XX” (PERPÉTUA, 2015, que tem como fonte um acervo de periódicos da cidade de Mariana (MG, hoje sob a guarda do Centro de Pesquisas Linguagem, Memória e Tradução do ICHS-UFOP. Dada a evidente relação desse acervo com a memória sociocultural da cidade, nossa pesquisa, em andamento, volta-se objetivamente para identificar e selecionar crônicas literárias publicadas nos periódicos, com a subsequente análise em sua correlação com a memória da região, sob as bases de um significativo material teórico sobre esse gênero. Assim, com vistas a adentrar no passado memorial da cidade de Mariana, apresentaremos o resultado parcial da nossa investigação, que tem proporcionado o conhecimento acerca da crônica; e do registro memorial dessa cidade em razão de sua importância no cenário histórico, social e cultural de Minas Gerais.

75 FR 3423 - Outer Continental Shelf Air Regulations Consistency Update for Alaska

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2010-01-21

... response, using the definition of burden provided in 44 U.S.C. 3502(2). List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 55 Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedures, Air pollution control, Hydrocarbons...

El Registro Civil soporte del derecho a la identidad. Las personas trans y el reconocimiento de la identidad de género

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Ana Lorena Flores Salazar

2018-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo se centra en las demandas de las personas trans por el reconocimiento de su identidad y los retos que conllevan para los registros civiles, como instituciones operadoras de los cambios propuestos. En particular, se analizan las demandas de rectificación de nombre y sexo, según la identidad de género, ambas características del estado civil de las personas y elementos definitorios de la identidad. De igual manera, se analizan las propuestas de procedimientos administrativos, que tendrían como institución responsable a los registros civiles, en contraposición a la judicialización de los procesos de rectificación, según la propia voluntad y la libre determinación de la persona, siendo la cuestión de fondo el reconocimiento del componente de género del derecho a la identidad

Aerosols: connection between regional climatic change and air quality (Iupac Technical Report)

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Slanina, J.; Zhang, Y.H.

2004-01-01

yAerosols play an important role in all problems connected with air pollution, ranging from very local effects and human health problems to regional problems such as acid deposition and eutrophication up to continental and global questions such as stratospheric ozone loss and climatic change. In

Influence of mid-crustal rheology on the deformation behavior of continental crust in the continental subduction zone

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Li, Fucheng; Sun, Zhen; Zhang, Jiangyang

2018-06-01

Although the presence of low-viscosity middle crustal layer in the continental crust has been detected by both geophysical and geochemical studies, its influence on the deformation behavior of continental crust during subduction remains poorly investigated. To illustrate the crustal deformation associated with layered crust during continental subduction, we conducted a suite of 2-D thermo-mechanical numerical studies with visco-brittle/plastic rheology based on finite-differences and marker-in-cell techniques. In the experiments, we established a three-layer crustal model with a quartz-rich middle crustal layer embedded between the upper and lower continental crust. Results show that the middle crustal layer determines the amount of the accreted upper crust, maximum subduction depth, and exhumation path of the subducted upper crust. By varying the initial effective viscosity and thickness of the middle crustal layer, the further effects can be summarized as: (1) a rheologically weaker and/or thicker middle crustal layer results in a larger percentage of the upper crust detaching from the underlying slab and accreting at the trench zone, thereby leading to more serious crustal deformation. The rest of the upper crust only subducts into the depths of high pressure (HP) conditions, causing the absence of ultra-high pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks; (2) a rheologically stronger and/or thinner middle crustal layer favors the stable subduction of the continental crust, dragging the upper crust to a maximum depth of ∼100 km and forming UHP rocks; (3) the middle crustal layer flows in a ductile way and acts as an exhumation channel for the HP-UHP rocks in both situations. In addition, the higher convergence velocity decreases the amount of subducted upper crust. A detailed comparison of our modeling results with the Himalayan collisional belt are conducted. Our work suggests that the presence of low-viscosity middle crustal layer may be another possible mechanism for

ANÁLISIS DE LOS REGISTROS INDIVIDUALES DE PRESTACIÓN DE SERVICIOS DE SALUD (RIPS EN CÁNCER EN COLOMBIA

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Luz Helena Alba

2016-11-01

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Objetivos: Comparar los registros de atención a pacientes con cáncer en Colombia en el periodo 2009−2013 a través del Registro Individual de Prestación de Servicios de Salud (RIPS, con los registros consignados en la página de la Agencia Internacional Contra el Cáncer: Globocan.

Métodos: Se realizó una búsqueda de información de 27 tipos de cáncer en los RIPS y, a partir de esos datos, se estimaron las tasas de incidencia ajustadas por edad siguiendo la metodología de ajuste directo. Posteriormente, los resultados se compararon con Globocan.

Resultados: Según los RIPS, en el período comprendido entre 2009−2013, se reportaron 110.879 casos incidentes de cáncer; 68.312 en mujeres y 42.509 en hombres. Para la mayoría de los tipos de cáncer se observan tasas de incidencia menores en los registros RIPS respecto a aquellas estimadas por Globocan. De menor a mayor figuran: el cáncer de labio y cavidad oral (0.15:1; próstata (0,33:1; mama (0,74:1; cuello uterino (0,64:1; estómago (0,22:1, colorrectal (0,44:1 y tiroides (0.86:1.

Conclusión: Las diferencias podrían atribuirse a una subestimación presentada en los RIPS; una sobreestimación, en Globocan; o una combinación de las dos. Dada la trayectoria y los mecanismos de verificación de los registros de: Pasto, Cali, Manizales y Bucaramanga, base de la información de Globocan, es probable que los datos de incidencia de los RIPS no se encuentren todavía suficientemente depurados.

ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL RECORDS OF PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES (RIPS IN CANCER IN COLOMBIA

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Objectives: To compare the data for cancer patients care in Colombia during the period 2009- 2013 through the Individual Registration of Health Care Provision (RIPS with records from the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC website

Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests

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James D. Wickham; Kurt H. Riitters; Timothy G. Wade; Collin Homer

2008-01-01

Changes in forest ecosystem function and condition arise from changes in forest fragmentation. Previous studies estimated forest fragmentation for the continental United States (US). In this study, new temporal land-cover data from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) were used to estimate changes in forest fragmentation at multiple scales for the continental US....

Análisis del estado de la calidad del aire en Bogotá

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Mauricio Gaitán

2007-11-01

Full Text Available Durante la presente investigación se realizó un análisis de los registros contenidos en la Red de Monitoreo de la Calidad del Aire de Bogotá. Se construyó una base de datos que fue organizada y estructurada para facilitar la validación y el análisis de la información, la cual fue utilizada para evaluar de forma cuantitativa el estado de la calidad del aire de la ciudad. Los resultados sugieren que para contaminantes como óxidos de azufre y de nitrógeno, así como para monóxido de carbono, Bogotá no presenta en la actualidad un problema significativo de contaminación del aire. Al mismo tiempo, sin embargo, las concentraciones atmosféricas de material particulado en la ciudad tienden a encontrarse muy por encima de los niveles sugeridos por las normas de calidad del aire./ During this research project we conducted an analysis of the information registered by Bogotá's air quality monitoring network. We built a database that was designed to facilitate the processes of validating and analyzing the air quality data, which were used to quantify the city's air pollution problem. Our results suggest that air pollutants such as carbon monoxide and sulfur and nitrogen oxides do not represent a major air pollution problem. At the same time, however, the particulate matter ambient air concentrations in Bogota tend to be much higher than the levels suggested by the local air quality standards.

Coordination: southeast continental shelf studies. Progress report

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Menzel, D.W.

1981-02-01

The objectives are to identify important physical, chemical and biological processes which affect the transfer of materials on the southeast continental shelf, determine important parameters which govern observed temporal and spatial varibility on the continental shelf, determine the extent and modes of coupling between events at the shelf break and nearshore, and determine physical, chemical and biological exchange rates on the inner shelf. Progress in meeting these research objectives is presented. (ACR)

A composite study of the MJO influence on the surface air temperature and precipitation over the Continental United States

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Zhou, Shuntai [NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD (United States); Wyle, Inc., McLean, VA (United States); L' Heureux, Michelle; Weaver, Scott; Kumar, Arun [NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD (United States)

2012-04-15

The influence of the MJO on the continental United States (CONUS) surface air temperature (SAT) and precipitation is examined based on 30 years of daily data from 1979-2008. Composites are constructed for each of the eight phases of the Wheeler-Hendon MJO index over 12 overlapping three-month seasons. To ensure that the MJO signal is distinguished from other patterns of climate variability, several steps are taken: (a) only days classified as ''MJO events'' are used in the composites, (b) statistical significance of associated composites is assessed using a Monte Carlo procedure, and (c) intraseasonal frequencies are matched to the unfiltered data. Composites of other fields are also shown in order to examine how the SAT and precipitation anomalies are associated with large-scale circulations providing a link between the tropics and extratropics. The strongest and most significant MJO effects on SAT are found during the northern winter seasons. When enhanced convection is located over the equatorial Indian Ocean, below-average SAT tends to occur in New England and the Great Lakes region. As enhanced tropical convection shifts over the Maritime continent, above-average SAT appears in the eastern states of the US from Maine to Florida. The MJO influence on precipitation is also significant during northern winter seasons. When enhanced convection is located over the Maritime continent, more precipitation is observed in the central plains of the US. Enhanced precipitation also occurs over the west coast of the US when convective activity is stronger over the Indian Ocean. During the northern summer and fall, the MJO impact on precipitation is mainly significant at lower latitudes, over Mexico and southeastern US. (orig.)

First record of Histiotus laephotis Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae from Brazil Primeiro registro de Histiotus laephotis Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae no Brasil

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João M. D. Miranda

2007-12-01

Full Text Available The first record of Histiotus laephotis Thomas, 1916 from Brazil is reported here. An adult male was caught with a mist net in a barn located within an Araucaria pine forest in the municipality of Passos Maia, State of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil (26º46'48"S and 52º03'34"W. This record extends the distribution of this species in South America. Morphological and taxonomic notes of this species are described as well.O primeiro registro de Histiotus laephotis Thomas, 1916 o Brasil é aqui reportado. Um macho adulto foi coletado com rede de neblina (em abrigo artificial nos domínios da Floresta com Araucária, no Município de Passos Maia, Estado de Santa Catarina, Sul do Brasil (26º46'48"S e 52º03'34"W. Este registro amplia a distribuição da própria espécie na América do Sul. Aspectos morfológicos e taxonômicos desta espécie são também descritos.

Structure and tectonics of western continental margin of India: Implication for geologic hazards

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Chaubey, A.K.; Ajay, K.K.

characteristics of Western Continental Margin of India (WCMI) are closely related to the tectonic history of the Indian subcontinent, its break up during continental rifting, magmatic and sedimentary history, northward movement of India and finally collision... Continental Flood Basalt (DCFB) province on the western and central Indian (Duncan. 1990) as well as continental flood basalt on the Praslin Island in the Seychelles microcontinent (Devey and Stephens, 1991). The DCFB is the largest known continental flood...

Petrography and stable isotope geochemistry of Oligocene-Miocene continental carbonates in south Texas: Implications for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment near sea-level

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Godfrey, Conan; Fan, Majie; Jesmok, Greg; Upadhyay, Deepshikha; Tripati, Aradhna

2018-05-01

Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the southern Texas Gulf Coastal Plains contain abundant continental carbonates that are useful for reconstructing terrestrial paleoclimate and paleoenvironment in a region near sea-level. Our field observations and thin section characterizations of the Oligocene and Miocene continental carbonates in south Texas identified three types of pedogenic carbonates, including rhizoliths, carbonate nodules, and platy horizons, and two types of groundwater carbonates, including carbonate-cemented beds and carbonate concretions, with distinctive macromorphologic and micromorphologic features. Based on preservations of authigenic microfabrics and variations of carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions, we suggest these carbonates experienced minimal diagenesis, and their stable isotopic compositions reflect paleoclimate and paleoenvironment in south Texas. Our Oligocene and Miocene carbonate clumped isotope temperatures (T(Δ47)) are 23-28 °C, slightly less than or comparable to the range of modern mean annual and mean warm season air temperature (21-27 °C) in the study area. These T(Δ47) values do not show any dependency on carbonate-type, or trends through time suggesting that groundwater carbonates were formed at shallow depths. These data could indicate that air temperature in south Texas was relatively stable since the early Oligocene. The reconstructed paleo-surface water δ18O values are similar to modern surface water which could indicate that meteoric water δ18O values also remained stable since the early Oligocene. Mean pedogenic carbonate δ13C values increased - 4.6‰ during the late Miocene, most likely reflecting an expansion of C4 grassland in south Texas. This study provides the first mid- and late Cenozoic continental records of paleoclimate and paleoecology in a low-latitude, near sea-level region.

Potenciais miogênicos evocados vestibulares: metodologias de registro em homens e cobaias Vestibular evoked myogenic potential: recording methods in humans and guinea pigs

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Aline Cabral de Oliveira

2008-10-01

Full Text Available O potencial miogênico evocado vestibular (VEMP é um teste clínico que avalia a função vestibular através de um reflexo vestíbulo-cervical inibitório captado nos músculos do corpo em resposta à estimulação acústica de alta intensidade. OBJETIVO: Verificar e analisar os diversos métodos de registro dos potenciais miogênicos evocados vestibulares no homem e em cobaias. MATERIAL E MÉTODO: Realizou-se busca eletrônica nas bases de dados MEDLINE, LILACS, SCIELO e COCHRANE. RESULTADOS: Foram verificadas divergências quanto às formas de registro dos potenciais miogênicos evocados vestibulares, relacionadas com os seguintes fatores: posição do paciente no momento do registro, tipo de estímulo sonoro utilizado (clicks ou tone bursts, parâmetros para a promediação dos estímulos (intensidade, freqüência, tempo de apresentação, filtros, ganho de amplificação das respostas e janelas para captação dos estímulos, tipo de fone utilizado e forma de apresentação dos estímulos (monoaural ou binaural, ipsi ou contralateral. CONCLUSÃO: Não existe consenso na literatura quanto ao melhor método de registro dos potenciais evocados miogênicos vestibulares, havendo necessidade de pesquisas mais específicas para comparação entre estes registros e a definição de um modelo padrão para a utilização na prática clínica.The vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP is a clinical test that assess the vestibular function by means of an inhibitory vestibulo-neck reflex, recorded in body muscles in response to high intensity acoustic stimuli. AIM: To check and analyze the different methods used to record VEMPs in humans and in guinea pigs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We researched the following databases: MEDLINE, LILACS, SCIELO and COCHRANE. RESULTS: we noticed discrepancies in relation to the ways used to record the vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in relation to the following factors: patient position at the time of recording

Aerosol properties and their impacts on surface CCN at the ARM Southern Great Plains site during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment

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Logan, Timothy; Dong, Xiquan; Xi, Baike

2018-02-01

Aerosol particles are of particular importance because of their impacts on cloud development and precipitation processes over land and ocean. Aerosol properties as well as meteorological observations from the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) platform situated in the Southern Great Plains (SGP) are utilized in this study to illustrate the dependence of continental cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentration ( N CCN) on aerosol type and transport pathways. ARM-SGP observations from the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment field campaign are presented in this study and compared with our previous work during the 2009-10 Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer field campaign over the current ARM Eastern North Atlantic site. Northerly winds over the SGP reflect clean, continental conditions with aerosol scattering coefficient ( σ sp) values less than 20 Mm-1 and N CCN values less than 100 cm-3. However, southerly winds over the SGP are responsible for the observed moderate to high correlation ( R) among aerosol loading ( σ sp moisture via the Gulf of Mexico, indicating a strong dependence on air mass type. NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis aerosol and chemical data are moderately to highly correlated with surface ARM-SGP data, suggesting that this facility can represent surface aerosol conditions in the SGP, especially during strong aerosol loading events that transport via the Gulf of Mexico. Future long-term investigations will help to understand the seasonal influences of air masses on aerosol, CCN, and cloud properties over land in comparison to over ocean.

The Role of the Submarine Channel Pernambuco in the Brazilian Continental Margin East

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Torres, L.; Villena, H.

2010-01-01

The Brazilian Continental Margin, which coastline measures more than 8,500km gives to Brazil continental dimensions. This huge region is conditioned by the action of process such as, sedimentals, tectonics, geomorphological and climatical, as example, which direct or in conjunction with other ones, since of continental break up between South America and Africa are going on and may be responsible for the current morphology of the margin. In accordance with this point of view, the Oriental part of the Brazilian Continental Margin, presents characteristics of a passive margin and fisiographically ''starved'', in which the continental break occur no more than 100km from de coastline and the sedimentary coverage is mainly carbonatic. The continental slope does not present great extension if compared with other parts of the Brazilian Margin and sharp gradient. The remark presence of the continental plateaus (Rio Grande Plateau and Pernambuco Plateau), which link with the continental rise and additionally the Paraiba, Pernambuco e Bahia seamounts, are the majors features in the morphology of the region between the slope and the continental rise. This paper will concentrate its focus on Bahia Seamount, with emphasis in the mainly erosive feature which cut transversally the seamounts, named Pernambuco Submarine Channel. It will be employed bathymetric multibeam and seismic data carried out by the Brazilian Continental Shelf Project (LEPLAC) in the current year and pieces of information from bibliographic researches in order to present a discussion by the hole of the Pernambuco Submarine Channel in the Occidental region of the Brazilian Continental Margin

ETHNOPRED: a novel machine learning method for accurate continental and sub-continental ancestry identification and population stratification correction

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2013-01-01

Background Population stratification is a systematic difference in allele frequencies between subpopulations. This can lead to spurious association findings in the case–control genome wide association studies (GWASs) used to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with disease-linked phenotypes. Methods such as self-declared ancestry, ancestry informative markers, genomic control, structured association, and principal component analysis are used to assess and correct population stratification but each has limitations. We provide an alternative technique to address population stratification. Results We propose a novel machine learning method, ETHNOPRED, which uses the genotype and ethnicity data from the HapMap project to learn ensembles of disjoint decision trees, capable of accurately predicting an individual’s continental and sub-continental ancestry. To predict an individual’s continental ancestry, ETHNOPRED produced an ensemble of 3 decision trees involving a total of 10 SNPs, with 10-fold cross validation accuracy of 100% using HapMap II dataset. We extended this model to involve 29 disjoint decision trees over 149 SNPs, and showed that this ensemble has an accuracy of ≥ 99.9%, even if some of those 149 SNP values were missing. On an independent dataset, predominantly of Caucasian origin, our continental classifier showed 96.8% accuracy and improved genomic control’s λ from 1.22 to 1.11. We next used the HapMap III dataset to learn classifiers to distinguish European subpopulations (North-Western vs. Southern), East Asian subpopulations (Chinese vs. Japanese), African subpopulations (Eastern vs. Western), North American subpopulations (European vs. Chinese vs. African vs. Mexican vs. Indian), and Kenyan subpopulations (Luhya vs. Maasai). In these cases, ETHNOPRED produced ensembles of 3, 39, 21, 11, and 25 disjoint decision trees, respectively involving 31, 502, 526, 242 and 271 SNPs, with 10-fold cross validation accuracy of

Nuevos registros para la flora de Honduras y el Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque.

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Hermes Vega

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Se registran 11 novedades para la flora de Honduras a partir de ejemplares recolectados en el Parque Nacional Montaña Celaque. Los nuevos registros son: Tillandsia mateoensis (Bromeliaceae, Diastema affine (Gesneriaceae, Scutellaria costaricana (Lamiaceae, Miconia contrerasii (Melastomataceae, Acianthera violacea, Dendrophylax porrectus, Epidendrum santaclarense, Lepanthes enca-barcenae, L. fratercula, L. isabelae y Sarcoglottis schaffneri (Orchidaceae. Por otra parte, Potosia guatemalensis es sinonimizado bajo S. schaffneri. Se incluyen fotos de todas las especies, hábitats y un mapa de distribución con sus localidades en Honduras.

77 FR 3771 - Notice of Issuance of Final Outer Continental Shelf Air Permit for Shell Offshore, Inc.

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2012-01-25

... locations within Shell's DeSoto Canyon and Lloyd Ridge lease locations on the OCS in the Gulf of Mexico... INFORMATION CONTACT: Lori Shepherd, Air Permits Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics... effective on December 30, 2011. Dated: January 12, 2012. Beverly H. Banister, Director, Air, Pesticides and...

State of the soft bottoms of the continental shelf

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Guzman Alvis, Angela I; Solano, Oscar David

2002-01-01

The presented information, it is based on studies carried out on the continental shelf of the Colombian Caribbean, mainly in the Gulf of Morrosquillo and the Magdalena and Guajira departments in the last ten years. A diagnostic is done of the soft bottoms of the Colombian continental shelf

31 CFR 515.321 - United States; continental United States.

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2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false United States; continental United... General Definitions § 515.321 United States; continental United States. The term United States means the United States and all areas under the jurisdiction or authority thereof, including the Trust Territory of...

31 CFR 500.321 - United States; continental United States.

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2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false United States; continental United... General Definitions § 500.321 United States; continental United States. The term United States means the United States and all areas under the jurisdiction or authority thereof, including U.S. trust territories...

31 CFR 535.321 - United States; continental United States.

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2010-07-01

... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false United States; continental United... General Definitions § 535.321 United States; continental United States. The term United States means the United States and all areas under the jurisdiction or authority thereof including the Trust Territory of...

Relation between the continental TCZ and the TCZ over Equatorial ...

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So the relationship between the continental and oceanic TCZ is complex. On the one hand, the oceanic TCZ maintains the continental TCZ by propagations, on the other it tries to suppress it by competition.

Calidad de las notas de enfermería en los registros clínicos del servicio de hospitalización y emergencia del Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas Lima 2016

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Cucho Martínez, Liliana Luz

2016-01-01

El presente estudio titulado “calidad de las notas de enfermería en los registros clínicos del servicio de hospitalización y emergencia del hospital emergencias pediátrica, Lima 2016” tuvo como objetivo general, comparar la calidad de las notas de enfermería en los registros clínicos entre los servicio de hospitalización y emergencia del hospital emergencias pediátricas. El tipo de investigación fue cuantitativo, retrospectivo, de diseño no experimental, de corte transversal...

76 FR 77996 - Notice of Issuance of Final Air Permits for Eni US Operating Co., Inc. and Port Dolphin Energy, LLC.

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2011-12-15

... Final Air Permits for Eni US Operating Co., Inc. and Port Dolphin Energy, LLC. AGENCY: Environmental... 27, 2011, the EPA issued a final Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) air permit for Eni US Operating Inc. (Eni). This permit became effective on November 28, 2011. In addition, the EPA issued a final...

Continental United States Hurricane Strikes

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — The Continental U.S. Hurricane Strikes Poster is our most popular poster which is updated annually. The poster includes all hurricanes that affected the U.S. since...

Análisis de la calidad de servicio al cliente que se oferta en las agencias de registro civil de las ciudades de Riobamba, Ambato, Guaranda y Latacunga usando el modelo SERVQUAL.

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Haro Sosa, Giovanny Lenin

2017-01-01

La investigación tiene por objetivo analizar la calidad de servicio al cliente que se oferta en las agencias de Registro Civil de las ciudades de Riobamba, Ambato, Guaranda y Latacunga usando el modelo SERVQUAL. Registro Civil ha implementado grandes cambios en los últimos años referente a infraestructura, innovación tecnológica y talento humano, sin embargo, de ello no existe un modelo de aseguramiento de la calidad del servicio, por lo cual se hace necesario visitar a cada un...

76 FR 29156 - Outer Continental Shelf Air Regulations Consistency Update for California

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2011-05-20

... response, using the definition of burden provided in 44 U.S.C. 3502(2). The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S... procedures, Air pollution control, Hydrocarbons, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations... OCS Sources: Rule 102 Definitions (Adopted 09/20/10). Rule 103 Severability (Adopted 10/23/78). Rule...

Os ensaios clínicos e o registro de anticorpos monoclonais e biomedicamentos oncológicos no Brasil

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Cecilia Ferreira da Silva

Full Text Available RESUMO Objetivo Analisar o percurso dos ensaios clínicos com anticorpos monoclonais e biomedicamentos oncológicos realizados em instituições brasileiras de 2003 a 2012. Método Neste estudo retrospectivo e descritivo, realizou-se um levantamento junto aos repositórios ClinicalTrials.gov e ReBEC. Foram incluídos ensaios de fase II ou III com participação do Brasil e registro em pelo menos um dos repositórios. Após a seleção dos ensaios, foi investigada a trajetória dos anticorpos monoclonais e biomedicamentos desde a pesquisa até o registro sanitário junto a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa, Food and Drug Administration (FDA e European Medicines Agency (EMA. Resultado Nove ensaios foram selecionados, todos randomizados controlados. Oito eram de fase III e um de fase II. Dois ensaios utilizaram cegamento duplo e sete eram abertos. Todos apresentaram recrutamento para ambos os sexos, com idade mínima de 18 anos. A média de recrutamento foi de 985,2 pacientes. Sete ensaios estavam finalizados e dois haviam sido encerrados prematuramente. Todos os ensaios foram financiados por indústrias farmacêuticas não brasileiras e enfocaram câncer renal, colorretal, gástrico, de pulmão (não pequenas células, linfoma não-Hodgkin e melanoma, envolvendo a utilização de cetuximabe, figitumumabe, ipilimumabe, rituximabe, bevacizumabe e interferon alfa-2a. A FDA foi a primeira agência a registrar os medicamentos, seguida pela EMA, a não ser no caso do interferon alfa-2a, recusado pela EMA. Não foi possível avaliar o ano de aprovação no Brasil pela Anvisa. Conclusão A participação do Brasil nos ensaios clínicos com anticorpos monoclonais e biomedicamentos oncológicos é insuficiente. A limitação do conteúdo disponível sobre os estudos, histórico de registro e outros elementos relevantes é uma fragilidade importante das fontes consultadas.

Continental Margins of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for Law of the Sea

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Mosher, David

2016-04-01

A coastal State must define the outer edge of its continental margin in order to be entitled to extend the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 M, according to article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The article prescribes the methods with which to make this definition and includes such metrics as water depth, seafloor gradient and thickness of sediment. Note the distinction between the "outer edge of the continental margin", which is the extent of the margin after application of the formula of article 76, and the "outer limit of the continental shelf", which is the limit after constraint criteria of article 76 are applied. For a relatively small ocean basin, the Arctic Ocean reveals a plethora of continental margin types reflecting both its complex tectonic origins and its diverse sedimentation history. These factors play important roles in determining the extended continental shelves of Arctic coastal States. This study highlights the critical factors that might determine the outer edge of continental margins in the Arctic Ocean as prescribed by article 76. Norway is the only Arctic coastal State that has had recommendations rendered by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). Russia and Denmark (Greenland) have made submissions to the CLCS to support their extended continental shelves in the Arctic and are awaiting recommendations. Canada has yet to make its submission and the US has not yet ratified the Convention. The various criteria that each coastal State has utilized or potentially can utilize to determine the outer edge of the continental margin are considered. Important criteria in the Arctic include, 1) morphological continuity of undersea features, such as the various ridges and spurs, with the landmass, 2) the tectonic origins and geologic affinities with the adjacent land masses of the margins and various ridges, 3) sedimentary processes, particularly along continental slopes, and 4) thickness and

First record of Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae from Arapaima gigas cultivated in Peru Primeiro registro de Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae em Arapaima gigas cultivados no Peru

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Luis Henostroza Miranda

2012-09-01

Full Text Available This study characterized morphologically Trichodina heterodentata Duncan, 1977 from cultivated fingerlings of "pirarucu" Arapaima gigas in Peru. Body and gill smears were air-dried at room temperature, impregnated with silver nitrate and/or stained with gomori trichromic. Prevalence was 100%. Trichodina heterodentata was considered a medium-sized trichodinid with mean body diameter of 56.0+ 5.25 (47.3-76.0 μm, denticulate ring 28.21± 2.71 (20-34.7 μm, adhesive disc 45.7±3.8 (37.1-57.3 μm diameter and number of denticles of 20.7± 2.6 (12-24. The present study reports not only the first occurrence of T. heterodentata in Peru but also the first record of this trichodinid infesting A. gigas. Camparative tables of all reports of T. heterodentata are also presented.Este estudo caracterizou morfologicamente Trichodina heterodentata Duncan, 1977 de alevinos de "pirarucu" Arapaima gigas cultivados no Peru. Esfregaços do corpo e brânquias foram secos à temperatura ambiente, impregnados com nitrato de prata e/ou corados com tricrômico de gômori. A prevalência foi de 100%. Trichodina heterodentata foi considerada um tricodinídeo de tamanho médio com diâmetro médio do corpo de 56,0+ 5,25 (47,3-76,0 μm, anel denticulado 28,21± 2,71 (20,0-34,7 μm, disco adesivo 45,7±3,8 (37,1-57,3 μm de diâmetro e número de dentículos de 20,7± 2,6 (12-24. O presente estudo registra não somente a primeira ocorrência de T. heterodentata no Peru mas também o primeiro registro do tricodinídeo parasitando A. gigas. Tabelas comparativas biométricas de todos os registros de T. heterodentata também são apresentados.

Primeiro registro de Guyalna cuta em pinhão-manso no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul

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Harley Nonato de Oliveira

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Trata-se do primeiro registro de ocorrência de Guyalna cuta (Walker (Hemiptera: Cicadidae em pinhão-manso, Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. Adultos desse inseto foram observados na parte aérea da planta, durante novembro e dezembro de 2008 e de 2009. Em Mato Grosso do Sul, existem plantios comerciais e experimentais do pinhão-manso, tornando-se necessários estudos relacionados a este inseto, a fim de prevenir eventuais danos à cultura.

Levantamiento del proceso de registros contables por causación de las cuentas por cobrar a clientes

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Mayele-Rodríguez, Luz

2013-01-01

De igual forma el Proyecto de Mejora de Procesos a elaborar, desarrollar e implementar en el Área Administrativa y Financiera del Centro de Pinturas Automotriz “LMS”, es realizar el levantamiento del Proceso de Registros Contables por Causación de las cuentas por cobrar a clientes. Lo anterior se puede desarrollar a partir de un poder de negociación con proveedores que incluye entre otros los siguientes factores : El plazo alcanzado en la negociación de compras de insumos, materias primas, co...

Lista de los peces óseos conocidos de los arrecifes del Caribe colombiano, incluyendo 31 nuevos registros y descripciones Lista de los peces óseos conocidos de los arrecifes del Caribe colombiano, incluyendo 31 nuevos registros y descripciones

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Acero P. Arturo; Garzón F. Jaime; Köster Friedemann

1984-01-01

301 species of previously reported reef fishes from the north coast of Colombia are listed. In this paper we report 22 species for the first time, and 9 species that were already reported are described. With these new reports 323 species distributed in 63 families are now known from this area. Se presenta una lista de las 301 especies de peces de arrecifes de la costa Norte de Colombia que han sido registradas anteriorrnente en la literatura. Se aportan 22 nuevos registros y se describen 9 es...

Bellulicauda dialii on Dialium guianense (Leguminosae) in Brazil

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Pereira, Olinto L.; Bosquetti, Lorrayne B.; Barreto, Robert W.

2005-01-01

This is the first report of Bellulicauda dialii on Dialium guianense leaves, and the second record of this fungus, previously known only from Africa (Sierra Leone). Bellulicauda dialii é relatado pela primeira vez em folhas de Dialium guianense. Trata-se do segundo registro dessa espécie fúngica, anteriormente conhecida apenas do Continente Africano (Serra Leoa).

Sedimentologic and paleontologic study of the southeast coast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina: A late Pleistocene Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction

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Aramayo, S. A.; Téllez, B. Gutiérrez; Schillizzi, R. A.

2005-10-01

A paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the southeast coast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, is made mainly on the basis of paleontological and paleoichnological studies, supported by sedimentological analyses and radiocarbon dating. Continental late Pleistocene and continental, transitional, and marine Holocene stratigraphic units are identified. The former comprises fossil mammals and ichnites of 16000-12,000 BP. The continental early Holocene time, ca. 8100 BP, is represented by an interdune paleoenvironment in which shallow brackish ponds were colonized by diatoms, fish, rodents, and birds. A transitional paleoenvironment in the middle Holocene—6930-6570 BP—is recorded by deposits formed by estuarine crabs. During the late Holocene, between 5000 and 4800 BP, a marine transgression was recorded by a rich mollusc fauna.

Aerosol Properties and Their Impacts on Surface CCN at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment

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Timothy LOGAN; Xiquan DONG; Baike XI

2018-01-01

Aerosol particles are of particular importance because of their impacts on cloud development and precipitation processes over land and ocean.Aerosol properties as well as meteorological observations from the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) platform situated in the Southern Great Plains (SGP) are utilized in this study to illustrate the dependence of continental cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentration (NCCN) on aerosol type and transport pathways.ARM-SGP observations from the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment field campaign are presented in this study and compared with our previous work during the 2009-10 Clouds,Aerosol,and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer field campaign over the current ARM Eastern North Atlantic site.Northerly winds over the SGP reflect clean,continental conditions with aerosol scattering coefficient (σsp) values less than 20 Mm-1 and NCCN values less than 100 cm-3.However,southerly winds over the SGP are responsible for the observed moderate to high correlation (R)among aerosol loading (σsp > 60 Mm-1) and NCCN,carbonaceous chemical species (biomass burning smoke),and precipitable water vapor.This suggests a common transport mechanism for smoke aerosols and moisture via the Gulf of Mexico,indicating a strong dependence on air mass type.NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis aerosol and chemical data are moderately to highly correlated with surface ARM-SGP data,suggesting that this facility can represent surface aerosol conditions in the SGP,especially during strong aerosol loading events that transport via the Gulf of Mexico.Future long-term investigations will help to understand the seasonal influences of air masses on aerosol,CCN,and cloud properties over land in comparison to over ocean.

Registro electrónico de pacientes “DELFOS” en Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular pediátrica

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Luis E. Marcano Sanz

2015-03-01

Full Text Available Introducción: El interés por los registros electrónicos de pacientes ha crecido significativamente en los últimos años. En Cuba no existe un sistema de registro electrónico de pacientes en cardiología y cirugía cardiovascular pediátrica.Objetivo: Diseñar y aplicar una herramienta informática que permita gestionar toda la información de los pacientes atendidos en la Red Cardiopediátrica Nacional, para apoyar la toma de decisiones gerenciales, clínicas, docentes e investigativas.Método: Se utilizó el software FileMaker pro 11, se programó de forma cooperativa con los usuarios un sistema de módulos independientes conectados en tiempo real que abarca desde la admisión hasta el seguimiento y la rehabilitación. La entrada de datos es validada, los cálculos se ejecutan automáticamente y se muestran en gráficos. Se implementó un servidor para compartir el sistema en todos los departamentos del hospital y en la web, con sus correspondientes permisos de acceso y autentificación.Resultados: Se logra un nivel alto de empleo, disminuyó el tiempo de obtener informes y otras salidas con mayor confiabilidad, organización y satisfacción de los usuarios finales en relación con las historias clínicas impresas. La información puede ser exportada en PDF o EXCEL. Se facilitan los accesos a enlaces de internet. La versión final quedó registrada en el Centro Nacional de Derecho de Autor con el número 2411 de 2012.Conclusiones: El “DELFOS” es una herramienta informática multiusuario de fácil utilización, que posibilita de modo seguro, rápido, estable y eficiente, el registro, procesamiento y recuperación en tiempo real de los datos de los pacientes y su empleo en la práctica clínica.

Episodic nature of continental arc activity since 750 Ma: A global compilation

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Cao, Wenrong; Lee, Cin-Ty A.; Lackey, Jade Star

2017-03-01

Continental arcs have been recently hypothesized to outflux large amounts of CO2 compared to island arcs so that global flare-ups in continental arc magmatism might drive long-term greenhouse events. Quantitative testing of this hypothesis, however, has been limited by the lack of detailed studies on the spatial distribution of continental arcs through time. Here, we compile a worldwide database of geological maps and associated literature to delineate the surface exposure of granitoid plutons, allowing reconstruction of how the surface area addition rate of granitoids and the length of continental arcs have varied since 750 Ma. These results were integrated into an ArcGIS framework and plate reconstruction models. We find that the spatial extent of continental arcs is episodic with time and broadly matches the detrital zircon age record. Most vigorous arc magmatism occurred during the 670-480 Ma and the 250-50 Ma when major greenhouse events are recognized. Low continental arc activity characterized most of the Cryogenian, middle-late Paleozoic, and Cenozoic when climate was cold. Our results indicate that plate tectonics is not steady, with fluctuations in the nature of subduction zones possibly related in time to the assembly and dispersal of continents. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that variations in continental arc activity may play a first order role in driving long-term climate change. The dataset presented here provides a quantitative basis for upscaling continental arc processes to explore their effects on mountain building, climate, and crustal growth on a global scale.

The Impact of Elevated Temperatures on Continental Carbon Cycling in the Paleogene

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Pancost, R. D.; Handley, L.; Taylor, K. W.; Collinson, M. E.; Weijers, J.; Talbot, H. M.; Hollis, C. J.; Grogan, D. S.; Whiteside, J. H.

2010-12-01

Recent climate and biogeochemical modelling suggests that methane flux from wetlands and soils was greater during past greenhouse climates, due to a combination of higher continental temperatures, an enhanced hydrological cycle, and elevated primary production. Here, we examine continental environments in the Paleogene using a range of biomarker proxies (complemented by palaeobotanical approaches), including air temperatures derived from the distribution of soil bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (the MBT/CBT proxy), as well as evidence from wetland and lacustrine settings for enhanced methane cycling. Previously published and new MBT/CBT records parallel sea surface temperature records, suggesting elevated continental temperatures during the Eocene even at mid- to high latitudes (New Zealand, 20-28°C; the Arctic, 17°C; across the Sierra Nevada, 15-25°C; and SE England, 20-30°C). Such temperatures are broadly consistent with paleobotanical records and would have directly led to increased methane production via the metabolic impact of temperature on rates of methanogenesis. To test this, we have determined the distributions and carbon isotopic compositions of archaeal ether lipids and bacterial hopanoids in thermally immature Eocene lignites. In particular, the Cobham lignite, deposited in SE England and spanning the PETM, is characterised by markedly higher concentrations of both methanogen and methanotroph biomarkers compared to modern and Holocene temperate peats. Elevated temperatures, by fostering either stratification and/or decreased oxygen solubility, could have also led to enhanced methane production in Paleogene lakes. Both the Messel Shale (Germany) and Green River Formation, specifically the Parachute Creek oil shale horizons (Utah and Wyoming), are characterised by strongly reducing conditions (including euxinic conditions in the latter), as well as abundant methanogen and methanotroph biomarkers. Such results confirm model predictions

Registro de pacientes con accidente cerebro vascular en un hospital público del Perú, 2000-2009 Registry of patients with stroke stated in a public hospital of Peru, 2000-2009

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Ana Castañeda-Guarderas; Guillermo Beltrán-Ale; Renzo Casma-Bustamante; Paulo Ruiz-Grosso; Germán Málaga

2011-01-01

Estudio que describe las características de los registros de pacientes con accidente cerebro vascular (ACV), como diagnóstico causante de hospitalización en el Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia entre los años 2000 - 2009. Se obtuvieron 2225 registros de pacientes mayores de 18 años, con ACV. De acuerdo con la CIE-10, 1071 tenían el diagnóstico de ACV isquémico, 554 ACV hemorrágico, 183 hemorragia subaracnoidea, 49 isquémico hemorrágico, 10 crisis isquémica transitorias y en 358 no fue posibl...

Density Sorting During the Evolution of Continental Crust

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Kelemen, P. B.; Behn, M. D.; Hacker, B. R.

2015-12-01

We consider two settings - in addition to "delamination" of arc lower crust - in which dense, mafic eclogites founder into the convecting mantle while buoyant, felsic lithologies accumulate at the base of evolving continental crust. Arc processes play a central role in generating continental crust, but it remains uncertain how basaltic arc crust is transformed to andesitic continental crust. Dense, SiO2-poor products of fractionation may founder from the base of arc crust by "delamination", but lower arc crust after delamination has significantly different trace elements compared to lower continental crust (LCC). In an alternative model, buoyant magmatic rocks generated at arcs are first subducted, mainly via subduction erosion. Upon heating, these buoyant lithologies ascend through the mantle wedge or along a subduction channel, and are "relaminated" at
the base of overlying crust (e.g., Hacker et al EPSL 11, AREPS 15). Average buoyant lavas and plutons
for the Aleutians, Izu-Bonin-Marianas, Kohistan and Talkeetna arcs fall within the range of estimated LCC major and trace elements. Relamination is more efficient in generating continental crust than delamination. Himalayan cross-sections show Indian crust thrust beneath Tibetan crust, with no intervening mantle. There is a horizontal Moho at ca 80 km depth, extending from thickened Indian crust, across the region where Tibetan crust overlies Indian crust, into thickened Tibetan crust. About half the subducted Indian crust is present, whereas the other half is missing. Data (Vp/Vs; Miocene lavas formed by interaction of continental crust with mantle; xenolith thermometry) indicate 1000°C or more from ca 50 km depth to the Moho since the Miocene. We build on earlier studies (LePichon et al Tectonics 92, T'phys 97; Schulte-Pelkum et al Nature 05; Monsalve et al JGR 08) to advance the hypothesis that rapid growth of garnet occurs at 70-80 km and 1000°C within subducting Indian crust. Dense eclogites founder

Preface: Biogeochemistry–ecosystem interaction on changing continental margins in the Anthropocene

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Liu, K-K.; Emeis, K.-C.; Levin, L.A.; Naqvi, S.W.A.; Roman, M.

and hypercapnia in upwelling systems • Interactions between natural and social sciences for better steward- ship of continental margins. It has long been acknowledged (e.g., Doney, 2010; Liu et al., 2010) that marine ecosystems on continental margins, including... and possibly manage margin ecosystems in a changing world. Effective governance of social–ecological systems on continental margins is key to reducing the pervasive over- exploitation, depletion and destruction of marine resources and http://dx.doi.org/10...

Safe-record : segurança e privacidade para registros eletrônicos em saúde na nuvem

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Souza, Stefano Mozart Pontes Canedo de

2016-01-01

O mercado de computação em nuvem tornou disponível a equipes hospitalares e acadêmicas um volume virtualmente ilimitado de recursos computacionais, os quais têm sido utilizados em atividades de pesquisa e desenvolvimento. Apesar das evidentes vantagens da computação em nuvem, o armazenamento e o processamento de Registros Eletrônicos em Saúde (RES) nesses ambientes levantam preocupações genuínas com a privacidade e a segurança dos pacientes que, voluntária ou involuntariamente, têm seus dados...

New records of tepezcuincle (Cuniculus paca in Puebla, Central Mexico Nuevos registros de tepezcuincle (Cuniculus paca en Puebla, centro de México

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Osvaldo Eric Ramírez-Bravo

2012-09-01

Full Text Available The state of Puebla has little information about mammal presence and distribution. In a study to determine jaguar presence using camera traps and interviews, we obtained 16 new records of tepezcuincle (Cuniculus paca in different vegetation types such as tropical rainforest and cloud forest, as well as in coffee plantations. The records prove that the species is widely spread along the Sierra Norte of Puebla, but the distribution of populations in the Sierra Negra is uncertain.El estado de Puebla tiene poca información sobre presencia y distribución de mamíferos. En un estudio para determinar la presencia del jaguar, mediante cámaras y encuestas, logramos obtener 16 nuevos registros de tepezcuincle (Cuniculus paca en diferentes tipos de vegetación como selvas medianas y bosque mesófilo de montaña,además de cafetales. Estos registros prueban que la especie se distribuye ampliamente a lo largo de la sierra Norte de Puebla; sin embargo, se desconoce la distribución de las poblaciones en la sierra Negra.

Análisis de un registro de adenomas pituitarios Analysis of a pituitary adenoma registry

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Carolina Albiero

2010-10-01

Full Text Available Dada la complejidad que reviste el enfoque diagnóstico y terapéutico de los tumores pituitarios, el registro y análisis de la experiencia clínica acumulada es de gran ayuda en la toma de decisiones. En este trabajo se informan datos clínico-terapéuticos, extraídos de un registro computarizado, sobre 519 de un total de 670 pacientes con adenomas pituitarios. Trescientos cuarenta y cinco fueron mujeres (66% y 174 varones (34%, de 14 a 80 años de edad. El diagnóstico final fue: acromegalia en 176, enfermedad de Cushing en 153, prolactinoma en 101 y adenoma clínicamente no-funcionante (ANF en 89. La edad media al momento del diagnóstico de acromegalia fue 43.9 ± 13.5 (16-80, para enfermedad de Cushing 35.7 ± 12.9 (14-72, para prolactinomas 30.0 ± 13.4 (15-79 y para ANF 52.1 ± 15.2 (17-79 años. La creación de un registro institucional de tumores de hipófisis es un instrumento de gran utilidad para el análisis de la experiencia adquirida y constituye una herramienta valiosa para mejorar la estrategia terapéutica, optimizar la relación costo/beneficio y mejorar el cuidado del paciente. Contribuye a la docencia médica, tanto en el pre como en el posgrado y da base a la realización de trabajos de investigación clínica, aportando a la difusión y transferencia de conocimientos.Collection and analysis of data obtained during the clinical treatment of pituitary tumours are of great utility in the decision making process, when facing clinical situations. We report here data on 519 from 670 patients with pituitary adenomas obtained from a computerized registry. Three hundred and forty five were females (66% and 174 males (34%, aged 14-80. Final diagnosis was acromegaly in 176, Cushing's disease in 153, prolactinoma in 101 and clinically non-functioning adenoma in 89. Mean age at diagnosis was 43.9 ± 13.5 (16-80 for acromegalics, 35.7 ± 12.9 (14-72 for Cushing's, 30.0 ± 13.4 (15-79 for prolactinoma and 52.1 ± 15.2 (17-79, for non

Age and isotope evidence for the evolution of continental crust

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Moorbath, S.

1978-01-01

Irreversible chemical differentiation of the mantle's essentially infinite reservoir for at least the past 3800 Ma has produced new continental, sialic crust during several relatively short (ca. 100-300 Ma) episodes which were widely separated in time and may have been of global extent. During each episode (termed 'accretion-differentiation superevent'), juvenile sial underwent profound igneous, metamorphic and geochemical differentiation, resulting in thick (ca. 25-40 km), stable, compositionally gradational, largely indestructible, continental crust exhibiting close grouping of isotopic ages of rock formation, as well as mantle-type initial Sr and Pb isotopic ratios for all major constituents. Isotopic evidence suggests that within most accretion-differentiation superevents - and especially during the earlier ones - continental growth predominated over reworking of older sialic crust. Reworking of older sialic crust can occur in several types of geological environment and appears to have become more prevalent with the passage of geological time. It is usually clearly distinguishable from continental growth, by application of appropriate age and isotope data. (author)

Noteworthy reptiles records from Guanajuato, Mexico Registros notables de reptiles para Guanajuato, México

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José Ismael Campos-Rodríguez

2010-04-01

Full Text Available Five new reptile records for the Mexican state of Guanajuato are reported: Lampropeltis triangulum dixoni, Leptodeira annulata cusiliris, Oxybelis aeneus, Tropidodipsas sartorii, and Scincella silvicola caudaequinae. These records are within western versant of the Sierra Gorda at Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato. Evidence is given that supports the idea that the area supports a herpetofaunal assemblage of tropical affinities.Se presentan 5 nuevos registros de reptiles para el estado de Guanajuato; Lampropeltis triangulum dixoni, Leptodeira annulata cusiliris, Oxybelis aeneus, Tropidodipsas sartorii y Scincella silvicola caudaequinae. Todos localizados en la vertiente oeste de la sierra Madre Oriental, en la sierra Gorda de Guanajuato. Se proporciona evidencia de un ensamble herpetofaunístico de afinidad tropical a subtropical presente en la región.

Crustal volumes of the continents and of oceanic and continental submarine plateaus

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Schubert, G.; Sandwell, D.

1989-01-01

Using global topographic data and the assumption of Airy isostasy, it is estimated that the crustal volume of the continents is 7182 X 10 to the 6th cu km. The crustal volumes of the oceanic and continental submarine plateaus are calculated at 369 X 10 to the 6th cu km and 242 X 10 to the 6th cu km, respectively. The total continental crustal volume is found to be 7581 X 10 to the 6th cu km, 3.2 percent of which is comprised of continental submarine plateaus on the seafloor. An upper bound on the contintental crust addition rate by the accretion of oceanic plateaus is set at 3.7 cu km/yr. Subduction of continental submarine plateaus with the oceanic lithosphere on a 100 Myr time scale yields an upper bound to the continental crustal subtraction rate of 2.4 cu km/yr.

Sedimentation on continental margins: An integrated program for innovative studies during the 1990s

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Nittrourer, Charles A.; Coleman, James M.; Rouge, Baton; Flood, Roger D.; Ginsburg, Robert N.; Gorsline, Donn S.; Hine, Albert C.; Sternberg, Richard W.; Swift, Donald J. P.; Wright, L. Donelson

Continental margins are of great scientific interest, and they represent the focus of human interaction with the ocean. Their deep structure forms the transition from continental to oceanic crust, and their surface expression extends from coastal environments of estuaries and shorelines across the continental shelf and slope to either the base of a continental rise or a marginal trough. Modern continental margins represent natural laboratories for investigation of complex relationships between physical, chemical, and biological phenomena, which are sensitive to environmental conditions both on the land and in the ocean. The history of these conditions is preserved within the sedimentary deposits of continental margins. The deposits form repositories for much of the particulate material transported off the world's land masses and produced from dissolved components in the world ocean. Past deposits of continental margins have been uplifted to form many mountain ranges and sedimentary terrains of the world, which record details of Earth history and contain valuable natural resources, such as petroleum and natural gas. Modern deposits of continental margins record the more recent events that have influenced Earth and also contain natural resources (for instance, minerals, sand, and gravel), as well as anthropogenic pollutants (for example, heavy metals and pesticides). The fates of many materials beneficial and deleterious to humans are dependent on the pathways followed by sedimentary particles on continental margins.

Use of correlation and linear regression to increase annual stream flow records; Uso de la correlacion y la regresion lineal para ampliar registros de volumenes escurridos anuales

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Campos-Aranda, D.F. [Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (Mexico)

1999-03-01

Firstly, the estimates of standard deviation and arithmetic mean as basic statistical parameters are emphasised, which point out the variability and magnitude of annual streamflow records in the hydrological studies of planning water-resource developments inside a region. Then the equations for quantitative evaluations of statistical convenience of extending a short stream flow record are described in detail. The previous makes use of additional and common data in one or two closer hydrometric stations, with this the short observed record has a certain correlation (dependence or association). Later two numerical applications to real problems are given, the first one for the two dimensional model, which uses a closed hydrometric station in order to extend the short record, and the second application for the three dimensional model which makes use of two auxiliary hydrometric stations. Lastly, three general observations about the paper are cited. [Spanish] Inicialmente se destaca la importancia de las estimaciones de la medida y la desviacion estandar como parametros estadisticos basicos, los cuales caracterizan la magnitud y la variabilidad de los volumenes escurridos anuales en los estudios hidrologicos de planeacion del aprovechamiento de los recursos hidraulicos de una region. Enseguida, se describen con detalle las ecuaciones que permiten evaluar cuantitativamente si es conveniente o no, desde un punto de vista estadistico, ampliar el registro corto de escurrimientos, con base en datos comunes, adicionales y disponibles; esto en una o dos estaciones hidrometricas cercanas, con las cuales, el registro reducido guarda cierta correlacion (dependencia o asociacion). Lo anterior, significa evaluar si con base en el registro ampliado, las estimaciones de la medida y la variancia mejoran estadisticamente. Posteriormente, se realizan dos aplicaciones numericas a casos reales; una, para el modelo bidimensional que utiliza una estacion hidrometrica cercana para ampliar el

Nuevos registros de peces criptobentónicos en hábitats arrecifales coralinos de isla Gorgona, Colombia , Pacifico Oriental Tropical

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Alzate, Adriana; Muñoz, Carlos G.; Zapata, Fernando A.; Giraldo, Alan

2012-01-01

Se hacen cuatro nuevos registros de especies en isla Gorgona, Pacífico colombiano: dos gobios (Gobulus crescentalis y Chriolepis cuneata) y un pez pipa (Cosmocampus arctus), colectados con anestésico en pequeñas colonias de coral aisladas; y un pez globo (Canthigaster janthinoptera) observado y fotografiado. Este estudio extiende el ámbito de distribución de tres de estas especies en el Pacífico Oriental Tropical.

Il Registro della confraternità dei pellicciai di Udine. A cura di Federico Vicario. Biblioteca di Lingua e Letteratura friulana, 4. - Forum, Editrice Universitaria Udinese, Udine 2003; pp. 204

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Mitja Skubic

2004-12-01

Full Text Available L'edizione, in una veste tecnicamente impeccabile, ha come scopo principale quello di presentare i1 registro di una importante confraternita udinese del tardo Medioevo, quella dei pellicciai. In questo ambiente climatico tale mestiere deve esse­ re stato importante; e vedrei una prova nel fatto che viene menzionato, a parte gli beçars - macelatores (es. 42, l'unico, negli Esercizi di versione dal volgare friulano in latino nel sec. XIV in una scuola notarile cividalese dove si legge: L'ager gait, qual è d'estat, fas spargna lis pliçis, chosa ricrisint agl piliças. Ager calidus, qualis est in estate, facit parsimonucare renones, re cuius tedet pelixarios, (es. 40. Il curatore della pubbli­ cazione del Registro, Federico Vicario, vanta già una decina di pubblicazi.oni di testi analoghi e con l'attuale ha aggiunto un ulteriore testo prezioso per la nostra cono­ scenza del friulano antico. Il Registro è l'elenco dei censuari, però, oltre ad essere un documento della vita e dei rapporti sociali del Tre- e Quattrocento, offre un quadro linguistico del friulano in un'epoca in cui la letteratura vera e propria in friulano offre  poco.

Deep observation and sampling of the earth's continental crust (DOSECC): Continental scientific drilling workshop

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1985-01-01

Research summaries are presented of ongoing or proposed deep drilling programs to explore hydrothermal systems, buried astroblemes, continental crust, magma systems, mountain belt tectonics, subduction zones, and volcanoes. Separate abstracts have been prepared for individual papers. (ACR)

Holocene limestones of part of the western continental shelf of India

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Nair, R.R.; Hashimi, N.H.; Guptha, M.V.S.

, while those on te upper continental slope (130-180 m) are algal bryozoan limestones. The limestones have a radiocarbon age ranging between 9,000 and 11,000 years. Depositional environmental on the continental shelf during the Holocene appears...

Wintertime phytoplankton bloom in the Subarctic Pacific supported by continental margin iron

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Lam, Phoebe J.; Bishop, James K.B.; Henning, Cara C.; Marcus, Matthew A.; Waychunas, Glenn A.; Fung, Inez

2004-01-01

Heightened biological activity was observed in February 1996 in the high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) subarctic North Pacific Ocean, a region that is thought to be iron-limited. Here we provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that Ocean Station Papa (OSP) in the subarctic Pacific received a lateral supply of particulate iron from the continental margin off the Aleutian Islands in the winter, coincident with the observed biological bloom. Synchrotron X-ray analysis was used to describe the physical form, chemistry, and depth distributions of iron in size fractionated particulate matter samples. The analysis reveals that discrete micron-sized iron-rich hotspots are ubiquitous in the upper 200m at OSP, more than 900km from the closest coast. The specifics of the chemistry and depth profiles of the Fe hot spots trace them to the continental margins. We thus hypothesize that iron hotspots are a marker for the delivery of iron from the continental margin. We confirm the delivery of continental margin iron to the open ocean using an ocean general circulation model with an iron-like tracer source at the continental margin. We suggest that iron from the continental margin stimulated a wintertime phytoplankton bloom, partially relieving the HNLC condition

DISCRIMINACIÓN DE PRECIOS DE SEGUNDO GRADO: EL CASO DE TARIFAS MULTI-CLASE PARA EL REGISTRO MARCARIO EN COLOMBIA

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JUAN PABLO HERRERA SAAVEDRA

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Este documento presenta una aplicación de discriminación de segundo grado a las tarifas de pro - piedad industrial, en particular al sistema multi-clase, esto a propósito de la adhesión de Colombia al Protocolo de Madrid en 2011. La metodología consistió en la construcción de un modelo para establecer una estructura tarifaria óptima de registro de marcas con dos objetivos: (i cumplir con las obligaciones dispuestas en el TLT e incentivar la utilización del sistema multi-clase, y (ii identificar un mecanismo que minimizara los efectos negativos, que en materia de recaudo podría enfrentar la autoridad de propiedad industrial, con la entrada en vigencia de dicho acuerdo. Dentro de los prin - cipales hallazgos del estudio se identificó la no existencia inequívoca inversa entre tarifa marcaria y número de solicitudes, lo que da espacio a considerar múltiples factores que pueden incidir en la de - manda del servicio de registros marcarios distintos a su precio. Igualmente, se estableció que este sis - tema de tarifas diferenciadas amortiguó el descenso de los ingresos de la autoridad administradora de propiedad industrial en Colombia dadas las características de la demanda del servicio observado.

Registros de representación semiótica del concepto de función exponencial. Parte I

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María G. Castro Rodríguez

2017-01-01

Full Text Available El concepto de función es un objeto matemático fundamental en el proceso de abstracción, en particular, en la función exponencial, la cual es preponderante para el aprendizaje de varios procesos físicos y sociales. Esta función, es parte de los programas de matemáticas desde elinicio de la instrucción escolar hasta el nivel superior, donde la extensión de los mismos, ha limitadosu tiempo de estudio.Aunado a este problema, el sistema tradicional de enseñanza sólo incluye algunos cambios de representación, que de acuerdo con La teoría de registros de representación semiótica (Duval, 1993 no son suficientes para que el estudiante adquiera un entendimiento significativo de esta función. En este artículo se muestra el efecto de la instrucción recibida mediante el coeficiente ganancia normalizada de Hake (1998 a través de una secuencia didáctica. Esta secuencia se fundamenta en los diversos cambios de registros de representación semiótica del concepto de función. Se muestran los efectos de entendimiento de dos grupos, el experimental y el de control. Los resultados indican que el grupo experimental obtuvo una mayor ganancia, y accedió a niveles de entendimiento de Hitt (1998 más altos en comparación con el grupo de control. Además, se obtuvo una correlación de 0.5 entre estos dos índices.

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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Laruelle, G.G.; Dürr, H.H.; Lauerwald, R.; Hartmann, J.; Slomp, C.P.; Goossens, N.; Regnier, P.A.G.

2013-01-01

Past characterizations of the land–ocean continuum were constructed either from a continental perspective through an analysis of watershed river basin properties (COSCATs: COastal Segmentation and related CATchments) or from an oceanic perspective, through a regionalization of the proximal and

Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia

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Bartoluci Mato

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The goal of this paper was to analyze the current status of rural tourism in Croatia and to identify possibilities, guidelines and methods of its sustainable development. The research has shown that rural tourism in Croatia falls behind the sun-and-beach holiday tourism in coastal Croatia and that numerous and diverse natural and social resources in Continental Croatia are insufficiently employed, especially in the Continental part of the country Past research of rural tourism in continental Croatia relied on individual entrepreneurial initiative and scarce funding resources, so that consequently a heterogeneous and fragmented rural tourism offer, based on various tourism forms and special interest tourism types, has developed in an unorganized way. However, rural tourism can become a driving force for the development of rural areas, taking into account the concept of sustainable development, based on the balance of economic, ecological and social responsibility. In the future, it should encourage development projects that ensure integrated tourist offer and thereby enable long-term sustainable development of rural tourism in continental Croatia.

Aplicaciones de los registros de resonancia magnética nuclear (nmrl) en la evaluación de yacimientos

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Landi Torres, Richard Paúl

2008-01-01

La extraordinaria tecnología de adquisición de registros o perfilaje de resonancia magnética nuclear (RMN) ha estado en continua evolución durante los últimos 10 años. Las compañías petroleras utilizan las mediciones de RMN en una variedad de aplicaciones cada vez más numerosa; por ejemplo, para caracterizar los fluidos de las formaciones durante la evolución de los yacimientos y determinar la producibilidad de la formación. Hoy en día, las mediciones obtenidas con estas herramien...

Marco, registro y concepción. Notas sobre las relaciones entre tres conceptos claves en didáctica

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Balacheff, Nicolas

2005-01-01

Las palabras «marco», «registro» y «medio» designan conceptos de amplia utilización por los investigadores en didáctica de las matemáticas, con el fin de modelizar situaciones o de analizar las actividades de los alumnos. Sin embargo, y a pesar de una literatura importante, su uso plantea problemas recurrentes para distinguirlas y relacionarlas (o vincularlas). Proponemos una solución a tales problemas, analizando las relaciones que mantienen entre ellos estos tres conceptos clave de la didác...

Primer registro de larva de Acanthinodera cumingii (Hope, 1833 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae en el arbusto invasor Ulex europaeus L.

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Pablo Fuentes Olivares

2016-04-01

Full Text Available Se reporta por primera vez, un individuo en estado larval del cerambícido Acanthinodera cumingii (Hope, 1833 viviendo dentro del tocón de un arbusto exótico. Anteriormente, la larva de ésta especie se había registrado en 28 especies leñosas (14 nativos y 14 exóticos. Este registro aumenta su espectro alimenticio a un total de 29 especies leñosas. Se discute la incidencia de éste arbusto sobre la distribución de la especie.

Registro de prácticas discentes: Instrumento reflexivo para el estudiante en salud mental y geriatría

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Abades-Porcel, Mercedes; Sirvent-Angulo, Montserrat

2016-01-01

Objetivo. Analizar las reflexiones del estudiantado de enfermería recogidas en el registro de su experiencia práctica en salud mental y geriátrica en la Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP EUI). Metodología: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, transversal, basado en los informes recibidos de estudiantes de tercer año de la EUE en el curso 2012 y 2014. Los datos recogidos fueron las variables sociodemográficas (sexo, edad, nacionalidad) y las resp...

La descripción del productor y los registros de autoridades en los contextos archivísticos

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Dunia LLanes Padrón

2016-07-01

Full Text Available La representación de la información en el ámbito de los archivos enfrenta nuevos desafíos marcados por las transiciones paradigmáticas de la Archivística. Las reflexiones suscitadas por la teoría del pos-custodial mudaron las formas teóricas y prácticas de realizar el proceso de descripción, ahora dirigido a representar de forma normalizada diferentes entidades archivísticas: documentos, productores, funciones, instituciones de custodia entre otras. Este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar la representación normalizada de los productores archivísticos y la creación de registros de autoridades. El estudio que se presenta es de naturaleza exploratorio – descriptivo; se realiza un análisis teórico sobre la descripción de la entidad productor así como las sub-entidades institución, persona y familia. Se investigan, además, algunas nociones generales sobre registro de autoridad, puntos de acceso y control de autoridades. Finalmente, se presentan las normas internacionales, nacionales y regionales publicadas para la creación de registros de autoridades archivísticas. La representación de los productores y su integración en los sistemas de información es una tarea fundamental en los nuevos contextos de la archivística posmoderna, orientada a la gestión, el acceso y la veracidad de la información. The information representation in the archives framework faces new challenges characterized by the paradigmatic transitions in the Archivistics. The thinking raised by the post-custodial theory changed the theoretical and practical ways of the description process, now directed to represent in a standardized way different archival entities: documents, producers, functions, custodial institutions among others. The aim of this article is to study the standardized representation of archivistics producers and the creation of the authority registries. The present study is mostly exploratory-descriptive; it offers a theoretical

Registros notáveis de répteis de áreas abertas naturais do planalto e litoral do Estado de Santa Catarina, sul do Brasil

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Ivo Rohling Ghizoni-Junior

2009-06-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2009v22n3p129 A composição e a distribuição dos répteis em Santa Catarina são pouco conhecidas, particularmente em suas áreas abertas naturais do planalto (estepe ombrófila e do litoral (faixa litorânea de restingas com dunas. Visando contribuir com o conhecimento dos répteis nestas áreas, são apresentados registros de dezesseis espécies anteriormente desconhecidas ou com poucos registros para Santa Catarina: Acanthochelys spixii, Anops kingii, Cnemidophorus lacertoides, C. vacariensis, Leptotyphlops munoai, Mastigodryas b. bifossatus, Tantilla aff. melanocephala, Atractus reticulatus, Gomesophis brasiliensis, Lygophis flavifrenatus, Oxyrhopus r. rhombifer, Phalotris reticulatus, Philodryas agassizii, Xenodon dorbignyi, Micrurus altirostris e Bothrops pubescens. São discutidos brevemente aspectos sobre a distribuição e a conservação destas espécies.

Reconstructing Rodinia by Fitting Neoproterozoic Continental Margins

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Stewart, John H.

2009-01-01

Reconstructions of Phanerozoic tectonic plates can be closely constrained by lithologic correlations across conjugate margins by paleontologic information, by correlation of orogenic belts, by paleomagnetic location of continents, and by ocean floor magmatic stripes. In contrast, Proterozoic reconstructions are hindered by the lack of some of these tools or the lack of their precision. To overcome some of these difficulties, this report focuses on a different method of reconstruction, namely the use of the shape of continents to assemble the supercontinent of Rodinia, much like a jigsaw puzzle. Compared to the vast amount of information available for Phanerozoic systems, such a limited approach for Proterozoic rocks, may seem suspect. However, using the assembly of the southern continents (South America, Africa, India, Arabia, Antarctica, and Australia) as an example, a very tight fit of the continents is apparent and illustrates the power of the jigsaw puzzle method. This report focuses on Neoproterozoic rocks, which are shown on two new detailed geologic maps that constitute the backbone of the study. The report also describes the Neoproterozoic, but younger or older rocks are not discussed or not discussed in detail. The Neoproterozoic continents and continental margins are identified based on the distribution of continental-margin sedimentary and magmatic rocks that define the break-up margins of Rodinia. These Neoproterozoic continental exposures, as well as critical Neo- and Meso-Neoproterozoic tectonic features shown on the two new map compilations, are used to reconstruct the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent of Rodinia. This approach differs from the common approach of using fold belts to define structural features deemed important in the Rodinian reconstruction. Fold belts are difficult to date, and many are significantly younger than the time frame considered here (1,200 to 850 Ma). Identifying Neoproterozoic continental margins, which are primarily

Atmospheric air density analysis with Meteo-40S wind monitoring system

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Zahariea Dănuţ

2017-01-01

Full Text Available In order to estimate the wind potential of wind turbine sites, the wind resource maps can be used for mean annual wind speed, wind speed frequency distribution and mean annual wind power density determination. The general evaluation of the wind resource and the wind turbine ratings are based on the standard air density measured at sea level and at 15°C, ρs=1.225 kg/m3. Based on the experimental data obtained for a continental climate specific location, this study will present the relative error between the standard air density and the density of the dry and the moist air. Considering a cold day, for example on Friday 10th February 2017, on 1-second measurement rate and 10-minute measuring interval starting at 16:20, the mean relative errors obtained are 10.4145% for dry air, and 10.3634% for moist air. Based on these results, a correction for temperature, atmospheric air pressure and relative humidity should be always considered for wind resource assessment, as well as for the predicting the wind turbines performance.

Using continental land loading for routine data analysis

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Petrov, L.

2013-12-01

The availability of the hydrological models that are updated regularly made it feasible to apply for analysis of space geodesy data a reduction for 3D displacements caused by the changes in the continental water storage on a routine basis, as it is done for a long time with ocean loading and atmospheric pressure loading. The service of the continental storage water loading was launched in 2013. The service utilizes the outputs of several hydrological models and provides the 3D time series in the form of global maps with 1-3 hour time resolution, time series for the set of ~1000 space geodesy sites, and an on-demand web-based application that allows a user to compute and download the time series of displacements for user-specified sites. The design of such a service and experience of its running are summarized. The loading series were validated by processing all available VLBI data. Results of validation are presented. Impact of using continental water storage for data reduction on estimates of other parameters, such as station velocities, is discussed.

The Gulf of Mexico air quality study: An industry perspective

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Shannon, B.E.

1994-01-01

Section 328 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 required the EPA to promulgate a rule establishing air pollution control requirements for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) sources. Congress exempted Gulf of Mexico OCS sources west of 87.5 degrees longitude (near the border of Alabama and Florida) pending the results of a ''three year'' study conducted by the Department of Interior (DOI) - Minerals Management Service (MMS). The study required an examination of the impacts of emissions from OCS activities in such areas that fail to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for either ozone or nitrogen dioxide. This paper reviews the MMS Gulf of Mexico Air Quality Study's (GMAQS) emission inventory development, historical ozone episode modeling, field sampling, and preliminary photochemical modeling results. Industry has developed a standardized spreadsheet to calculate emissions and a software package to allow operators to figure out the cost to control OCS sources for NO x and VOCs under the EPA's OCS Air Regulations (40 CFR Part 55). Cost estimates are provided for various regulatory scenarios currently being reviewed by the EPA and MMS

Influence of dynamic topography on landscape evolution and passive continental margin stratigraphy

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Ding, Xuesong; Salles, Tristan; Flament, Nicolas; Rey, Patrice

2017-04-01

Quantifying the interaction between surface processes and tectonics/deep Earth processes is one important aspect of landscape evolution modelling. Both observations and results from numerical modelling indicate that dynamic topography - a surface expression of time-varying mantle convection - plays a significant role in shaping landscape through geological time. Recent research suggests that dynamic topography also has non-negligible effects on stratigraphic architecture by modifying accommodation space available for sedimentation. In addition, dynamic topography influences the sediment supply to continental margins. We use Badlands to investigate the evolution of a continental-scale landscape in response to transient dynamic uplift or subsidence, and to model the stratigraphic development on passive continental margins in response to sea-level change, thermal subsidence and dynamic topography. We consider a circularly symmetric landscape consisting of a plateau surrounded by a gently sloping continental plain and a continental margin, and a linear wave of dynamic topography. We analyze the evolution of river catchments, of longitudinal river profiles and of the χ values to evaluate the dynamic response of drainage systems to dynamic topography. We calculate the amount of cumulative erosion and deposition, and sediment flux at shoreline position, as a function of precipitation rate and erodibility coefficient. We compute the stratal stacking pattern and Wheeler diagram on vertical cross-sections at the continental margin. Our results indicate that dynamic topography 1) has a considerable influence on drainage reorganization; 2) contributes to shoreline migration and the distribution of depositional packages by modifying the accommodation space; 3) affects sediment supply to the continental margin. Transient dynamic topography contributes to the migration of drainage divides and to the migration of the mainstream in a drainage basin. The dynamic uplift

Caloplaca coeruleofrigida sp. nova, a species from continental Antarctica

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Søchting, Ulrik; Seppelt, R.

2003-01-01

Caloplaca coeruleofrigida Søchting & Seppelt is described from Southern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica. It is characterized by vertically elongated papillae and a pale orange pigmentation on shaded parts, and black thallus and apothecia on exposed parts of the thallus......Caloplaca coeruleofrigida Søchting & Seppelt is described from Southern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica. It is characterized by vertically elongated papillae and a pale orange pigmentation on shaded parts, and black thallus and apothecia on exposed parts of the thallus...

Registro Español de Hemodinámica y Cardiología Intervencionista. XIII Informe Oficial (1990–2003

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Ramón López Palop

2005-04-01

En el intervencionismo no coronario destaca un aumento del número de valvuloplastias mitrales (21,6%, un incremento de los cierres percutáneos de comunicación interauricular en pacientes adultos (86% y un ligero aumento de los procedimientos intervencionistas en pacientes en edad pediátrica (13,3%. Finalmente, destacamos el alto grado de participación de centros en el registro, lo que hace que los datos aquí presentados sean representativos de la actividad hemodinámica en nuestro país.

Optimización del registro de muerte por enfermedad renal crónica en las comunidades agrícolas de América Central

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Full Text Available RESUMEN En varios países centroamericanos se observa que el número de muertes por enfermedad renal crónica asociada a causas no tradicionales (ERCnt entre trabajadores del campo continúa creciendo y existe un subregistro. Se presenta el resultado de un proceso de consenso coordinado por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Organización Mundial de la Salud (OPS/OMS, el Centro para el Control de Enfermedades de los Estados Unidos (CDC y la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nefrología e Hipertensión Arterial (SLANH. Este consenso busca aumentar la probabilidad de detectar y registrar las muertes por estas causas. Se reconoció el impacto negativo que tiene la falta de un instrumento estandarizado y la baja capacitación que se tiene en la profesión médica para un registro adecuado de la o las causas de muerte. Como resultado del consenso, se propone el uso de un código de la Lista para Propósitos Especiales (de manera temporaria dentro de la Clasificación Internacional de Enfermedades (CIE-10, continuar con la promoción del uso del instrumento internacional estandarizado de la OMS para el registro de causas y eventos antecedentes relacionados con la muerte, aumentar el entrenamiento de los médicos responsables por el llenado del certificado de defunción, la realización de acciones para aumentar la completitud y calidad de la información de mortalidad, un algoritmo de decisión para facilitar la selección de la ERCnt como causa específica de muerte, presentando el papel que debieran tener los diferentes mecanismos regionales y subregionales en la región de las Américas para mejorar la situación del registro de mortalidad por ERC y ERCnt.

Aplicaciones legales derivadas de la incorporación del software libre en la función pública de los registros y notarías

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Mercedes Villalobos

2011-05-01

Full Text Available Desde la entrada en vigencia de la Constitución del año 2000, se persigue el alcance de la autonomía e independencia tecnológica para contribuir al desarrollo económico, social y político del país. Así, se ordenó el uso obligatorio del software libre en la Administración Pública con el fin de promover la prestación oportuna y eficiente de los servicios públicos a medida que la tecnología se vaya incluyendo como un instrumento de dicha labor. Ejemplo de ello es el Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Interiores y Justicia, que a través del Servicio Autónomo de Registros y Notarías y, la emisión de los decretos y leyes que rigen la correspondiente competencia como el caso del Decreto Presidencial N 3.390 (Presidencia de la República, 2004, se ha implementado la modernización a través de la automatización de los procesos registrales y notariales con el empleo de los medios electrónicos, en donde tiene cabida el software libre. Al respecto ha surgido el interés de trabajar con el objeto de establecer la efectiva aplicación legal de la función pública desarrollada por los Registros y Notarías con la implementación de tal migración informática. Para ello se adoptó una investigación de tipo documental con diseño bibliográfico y el método de observación documental a partir de la Ley del Registro Público y del Notariado (Asamblea Nacional, 2006 y la Ley Orgánica de Registro Civil (Asamblea Nacional, 2009, que regulan la materia registral y notarial en Venezuela, permitiendo obtener resultados a través de una hermenéutica jurídica aplicable en el método de análisis dogmático jurídico; concluyéndose en el conocimiento de los efectos legales que determinaron la esencialidad de las acciones concretas para usar este tipo de software, acordes con los preceptos aplicables a la función pública especificada.

Continental Rifts

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Rosendahl, B. R.

Continental Rifts, edited by A. M. Quennell, is a new member of the Benchmark Papers in Geology Series, edited in toto by R. W. Fairbridge. In this series the individual volume editors peruse the literature on a given topic, select a few dozen papers of ostensibly benchmark quality, and then reorder them in some sensible fashion. Some of the original papers are republished intact, but many are chopped into “McNuggets™” of information. Depending upon the volume editor, the chopping process can range from a butchering job to careful and prudent pruning. The collecting, sifting, and reorganizing tasks are, of course, equally editor-sensitive. The end product of this series is something akin to a set of Reader's Digest of Geology.

Landscape seasons and air mass dynamics in Latvia

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Krauklis, A.; Draveniece, A.

2004-01-01

Latvia is located in the middle of an area where the boreal and nemoral zones and the regions of oceanic and continental climate meet, and it was studied as a model territory of the most typical variation of boreo-nemoral ecotone. The subject of this study was seasonal dynamics of the state of landscapes and diachronous links between seasons. It was found that landscapes undergo 12 seasonal states or seasons during the annual cycle of insulation and air mass occurrence. Each season may be distinguished by a definite amount of solar radiation, distinctive state of heat and water balance, phenological state of vegetation, and a distinctive occurrence of different air mass types and their particular 'association'. During each season these variables show a particular combination of numerical values and a distinctive landscape pattern

Sub-registro de nascimento de crianças falecidas com menos de um ano de idade Birth under-register in children died with less than one year old

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Ruy Laurenti

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Full Text Available No distrito de São Paulo foi verificado que 9,5% das crianças falecidas com menos de um ano de idade não têm registro de nascimento. Em proporção apreciável dêsses casos (82,5%, os óbitos ocorreram em hospitais. Êsses dados são analisados em face da Lei dos Registros Públicos - decreto 4857 de 9 de novembro de 1939, com as alterações introduzidas pelo decreto 5318 de 29 de novembro de 1940 e, a partir daí, foram feitas algumas proposições aos administradores de hospitais. Levando-se em conta o sub registro observado, devem ser corrigidos os coeficientes e índices vitais que utilizam o número de nascidos vivos como base de referência, para o distrito de São Paulo.It was verified in the District of São Paulo, Brazil that 9.5% of all infant deaths (children less than one year old did not have birth certificates; 82.5% of them were deaths ocurred in hospitals. This data was analised considering the Law of Public Register, decree no. 4857 of November, 9, 1939 with the modifications presented in the decree no. 5318 of November, 29, 1940. From this, some propositions were made to Hospital Administrators. Considering the observed "under-register", the District of São Paulo vital rates and ratios, that utilize the number of live births in their computation, must be corrected.

Continental crust formation: Numerical modelling of chemical evolution and geological implications

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Walzer, U.; Hendel, R.

2017-05-01

Oceanic plateaus develop by decompression melting of mantle plumes and have contributed to the growth of the continental crust throughout Earth's evolution. Occasional large-scale partial melting events of parts of the asthenosphere during the Archean produced large domains of precursor crustal material. The fractionation of arc-related crust during the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic contributed to the growth of continental crust. However, it remains unclear whether the continents or their precursors formed during episodic events or whether the gaps in zircon age records are a function of varying preservation potential. This study demonstrates that the formation of the continental crust was intrinsically tied to the thermoconvective evolution of the Earth's mantle. Our numerical solutions for the full set of physical balance equations of convection in a spherical shell mantle, combined with simplified equations of chemical continent-mantle differentiation, demonstrate that the actual rate of continental growth is not uniform through time. The kinetic energy of solid-state mantle creep (Ekin) slowly decreases with superposed episodic but not periodic maxima. In addition, laterally averaged surface heat flow (qob) behaves similarly but shows peaks that lag by 15-30 Ma compared with the Ekin peaks. Peak values of continental growth are delayed by 75-100 Ma relative to the qob maxima. The calculated present-day qob and total continental mass values agree well with observed values. Each episode of continental growth is separated from the next by an interval of quiescence that is not the result of variations in mantle creep velocity but instead reflects the fact that the peridotite solidus is not only a function of pressure but also of local water abundance. A period of differentiation results in a reduction in regional water concentrations, thereby increasing the temperature of the peridotite solidus and the regional viscosity of the mantle. By plausibly varying the

Root zone of a continental rift

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Kirsch, Moritz; Svenningsen, Olaf

2016-01-01

melt are considered to account for the compositional range exhibited by the KIC igneous rocks. U/Pb SIMS geochronological data from zircon rims yield an emplacement age of 578 ± 9 Ma. The KIC is thus younger and more depleted than coeval mafic rocks found in the Seve Nappe, and is interpreted...... to represent a high-level magma plumbing system in a late-stage continental rift. The composition and volume of rift-related igneous rocks in the Seve Nappes are inconsistent with a mantle plume origin, but are thought to record progressive lithospheric thinning and increasing involvement of an asthenospheric......Mafic magmatic rocks formed between ca. 615 and 560 Ma along the Neoproterozoic margins of Baltica and Laurentia are classically attributed to continental rifting heralding the opening of the Iapetus Ocean. We report new data for the Kebnekaise Intrusive Complex (KIC) exposed in the Seve Nappes...

The hot continental division: Oak forests, fire, and ecosystem management frame fuels management questions

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Susan L. Stout; Matthew B. Dickinson; Gregory J. Nowacki

2012-01-01

The Hot Continental Division is one of the larger ecoregions within the continental United States (McNab and Avers 1994), incorporating portions of 19 States and extending from the eastern seacoast to areas west of the Mississippi River (chapter 1). The Division includes the Eastern (Oceanic) and Eastern (Continental) Broadleaf Forest Provinces and two Mountain...

Large-scale subduction of continental crust implied by India-Asia mass-balance calculation

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Ingalls, Miquela; Rowley, David B.; Currie, Brian; Colman, Albert S.

2016-11-01

Continental crust is buoyant compared with its oceanic counterpart and resists subduction into the mantle. When two continents collide, the mass balance for the continental crust is therefore assumed to be maintained. Here we use estimates of pre-collisional crustal thickness and convergence history derived from plate kinematic models to calculate the crustal mass balance in the India-Asia collisional system. Using the current best estimates for the timing of the diachronous onset of collision between India and Eurasia, we find that about 50% of the pre-collisional continental crustal mass cannot be accounted for in the crustal reservoir preserved at Earth's surface today--represented by the mass preserved in the thickened crust that makes up the Himalaya, Tibet and much of adjacent Asia, as well as southeast Asian tectonic escape and exported eroded sediments. This implies large-scale subduction of continental crust during the collision, with a mass equivalent to about 15% of the total oceanic crustal subduction flux since 56 million years ago. We suggest that similar contamination of the mantle by direct input of radiogenic continental crustal materials during past continent-continent collisions is reflected in some ocean crust and ocean island basalt geochemistry. The subduction of continental crust may therefore contribute significantly to the evolution of mantle geochemistry.

Racionalidade e métodos: registro da prática clínica em pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular Racionalidad y métodos: registro de la práctica clínica en pacientes de alto riesgo cardiovascular Rationality and methods: registry of clinical practice in high-risk cardiovascular patients

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Luiz Alberto Piva e Mattos

2011-07-01

Full Text Available FUNDAMENTO: Até o momento, nenhum registro brasileiro foi desenhado para documentar a prática clínica em relação ao atendimento de pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular em uma representativa e ampla amostra de centros investigadores, incluindo hospitais públicos e privados em âmbito nacional. Sendo assim, este estudo permitirá identificar os hiatos na incorporação de intervenções com benefício comprovado em nosso meio. OBJETIVO: Elaborar um registro dedicado à aferição da prática clínica brasileira no que se refere ao atendimento do paciente cardiovascular classificado como de alto risco. MÉTODOS: Estudo observacional do tipo registro, prospectivo, visando documentar a prática clínica atual aplicada a nível ambulatorial para pacientes de alto risco cardiovascular, classificados quando da presença de uma das variáveis: evidência de doença arterial coronariana, doença cerebrovascular, vascular periférica, em diabéticos ou não diabéticos; ou na presença de pelo menos três dos seguintes fatores de risco cardiovascular: hipertensão arterial sistêmica, tabagismo ativo, dislipidemia, idade superior a 70 anos, nefropatia crônica, história familiar de doença arterial coronariana e ou doença carotídea assintomática. Os pacientes serão coletados em 43 centros de todas as regiões brasileiras, incluindo hospitais públicos e privados, assim como em unidades básicas de atendimento a saúde, e revisados clinicamente até um ano após a inclusão. RESULTADOS: Os resultados serão apresentados um ano após o início da coleta (setembro de 2011, e consolidados, após a reunião da população e dos objetivos almejados posteriormente. CONCLUSÃO: A análise deste registro multicêntrico permitirá projetar uma perspectiva horizontal do tratamento dos pacientes acometidos da doença cardiovascular no Brasil.FUNDAMENTO: Hasta hoy, ningún registro brasileño fue proyectado para documentar la práctica clínica con relaci

32 CFR Appendix G to Part 623 - Continental US Army Boundaries

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The Myanmar continental shelf

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reveal a minimum of 18 m thick strata of modern muds (Fig. 2g). At the outer boundary of the Gulf of Myanmar Continental Shelf 8 Martaban (15oN Latitude), brown muds overlie coarse sands indicating that modern deltaic sediments... on the Myeik Bank (Rodolfo, 1969a). Modern sediments on the Ayeyarwady shelf General composition, Texture and Grain-size: The distribution and sediment texture on the Ayeyarwady shelf shows fine-grained sediments comprising silty-clay and clayey...

Registro da pomba-do-orvalho Patagioenas maculosa (Aves: Columbidae no estado de Santa Catarina, sul do Brasil

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Ivo Rohling Ghizoni-Jr

2009-08-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2009v22n2p195 Apresentamos o primeiro registro da pomba-do-orvalho Patagioenas maculosa (Aves: Columbidae para Santa Catarina, região sul do Brasil. Um indivíduo foi observado em 10 de setembro de 2006 em uma área aberta (pastagens para gado e vegetação arbustiva no município de Anita Garibaldi (centro-sul do estado. Sugerimos que este encontro pontual é resultado de uma recente expansão da distribuição desta espécie devido a modificações na paisagem nesta região.

Paleochannels related to late quaternary sea-level changes in Southern Brazil

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Jair Weschenfelder

2010-01-01

Full Text Available The geological evolution of the continental shelf and in the coastal zone of southern Brazil during the Quaternary period is addressed in this study. High-resolution seismic records obtained at the Patos Lagoon revealed the presence of channels that deeply dissected the coastal zone before the formation of the modern, low-relief, coastal plain. Two periods of channel incision are inferred, based mainly on seismic records. The paleodrainage paths mapped from the seismic records can be connected with those recognized by previous studies on the adjacent continental shelf and slope. Upstream, the drainage incised mainly into the coastal prism deposited during previous sea-level highstand events. The paleodrainage network, recognized on the coastal plain and continental shelf, represents a river-shelf system, linking the drainage basin to the depositional settings on the marginal basin, bypassing the continental shelf exposed during a forced regression event. The drainage incised into the coastal plain and continental shelf of Rio Grande do Sul played an important role in the basin-margin architecture, facies distribution and accommodation during the Quaternary sea-level fluctuations.A evolução geológica da plataforma continental e zona costeira do sul do Brasil no período Quaternário é aqui enfocada. Registros sísmicos de alta resolução da Lagoa dos Patos revelaram canais que dissecaram profundamente a região antes da formação da planície costeira atual. Dois períodos de incisão de canal são inferidos, baseados principalmente em registros sísmicos. Os cursos fluviais mapeados por sísmica podem ser conectados àqueles reconhecidos na plataforma continental adjacente por estudos anteriores. à montante, a incisão da drenagem ocorreu principalmente no prisma sedimentar costeiro depositado durante eventos pretéritos de nível do mar alto. A rede de paleodrenagem, reconhecida na planície costeira e na plataforma continental

en Buenos Aires, 1910-1940"

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Diego Armus

2005-01-01

Full Text Available En las primeras tres décadas del siglo XX, y al calor de los cambios urbanos que harían de Buenos Aires una metrópolis, la poesía, el cine, el teatro y las letras de tango trabajaron con insistencia la trayectoria protagonizada por la muchacha de barrio que, lanzándose al mundo de la noche y el cabaret del centro, apostaba a sacar ventajas de una sociedad donde el ascenso social, limitado pero real, era parte de la experiencia urbana. Las letras de tango, escritas mayoritariamente por hombres, hablan de ese viaje en clave de condena, y la tuberculosis aparece como la materialización de un castigo para esas mujeres jóvenes que han osado desafiar su lugar en el mundo doméstico y barrial. Así, el tango ofrece a su audiencia no sólo un registro fuertemente moralizante sino también la imagen de una enfermedad que parece ser exclusivo patrimonio femenino cuando, en realidad, se trataba de una enfermedad que afectaba tanto a hombres como a mujeres.

Dos registros recientes del quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno en las Montañas del Este de Chiapas

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Manuel Gustavo Palacio Peralta

2009-07-01

Full Text Available El quetzal es un símbolo de la conservación de los bosques de niebla siempreverdes de Mesoamérica. Aquí, presentamos la descripción de dos registros obtenidos en las Montañas del Este de Chiapas, durante la estación reproductiva (abril y no-reproductiva (agosto de 2008. En la zona en donde se registraron estos quetzales ocurre una intensa pérdida forestal, por lo que sus hábitats reproductivo y no-reproductivo podrían estar en peligro de desaparecer en esta región.

El registro imaginario y la estrategia seductora: análisis de las campañas de Victoria’s Secret

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2015-01-01

Mi trabajo se basa en un análisis del registro imaginario y la estrategia seductora. Para ello realizo un marco teórico en el que abro de la publicidad y el deseo en marcos generales, para después centrarme en el imaginario. La estrategia seductora se analiza desde el punto de vista teórico en el marco y desde el punto de vista práctico a través del análisis de las campañas de la marca Victoria’s Secret. Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas

Registro sanitario de bioplaguicidas microbianos en América Latina y Cuba. Caso de estudio: bionematicida cubano KlamiC®

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Ceballos Vázquez, Margarita; Montes de Oca Martínez, Nivian

2016-01-01

Este artículo realiza una revisión del proceso del Registro Sanitario de los productos bioplaguicidas microbianos. Brinda una panorámica de las legislaciones, documentos, etapas, autoridades que participan y los requisitos técnicos que se exigen en 16 países de América Latina. Se exponen las similitudes, diferencias y los desafíos por los que están obligados a transitar los centros de investigación, fabricantes y productores de alimentos que aplican estos productos. A través del KlamiC®, prod...

Primer registro de la cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus en Chihuahua, México

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Ricardo Abel Soto-Cruz

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Reportamos el primer registro de la cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus en las ciudades de Chihuahua y Delicias en Chihuahua, México. Observamos cinco individuos de esta especie de junio a diciembre de 2011 en las instalaciones de la Facultad de Zootecnia y Ecología de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua; grupos de 2 a 12 individuos en el área urbana de la ciudad de Chihuahua durante 2012, y cuatro individuos en ciudad Delicias, a 80 km al sureste de la ciudad de Chihuahua, en el 2013. Previamente, en enero de 2011, se reportó, en el portal electrónico de aVerAves, el avistamiento de un individuo en el noroeste del estado. Dada la presencia de nidos activos en las ciudades de Chihuahua y Delicias, la especie podría estar ya establecida en esta parte del país. Recomendamos dar seguimiento a las poblaciones existentes de esta especie a fin de documentar los posibles riesgos a los ecosistemas en la región.

Preliminary three-dimensional model of mantle convection with deformable, mobile continental lithosphere

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Yoshida, Masaki

2010-06-01

Characteristic tectonic structures such as young orogenic belts and suture zones in a continent are expected to be mechanically weaker than the stable part of the continental lithosphere with the cratonic root (or cratonic lithosphere) and yield lateral viscosity variations in the continental lithosphere. In the present-day Earth's lithosphere, the pre-existing, mechanically weak zones emerge as a diffuse plate boundary. However, the dynamic role of a weak (low-viscosity) continental margin (WCM) in the stability of continental lithosphere has not been understood in terms of geophysics. Here, a new numerical simulation model of mantle convection with a compositionally and rheologically heterogeneous, deformable, mobile continental lithosphere is presented for the first time by using three-dimensional regional spherical-shell geometry. A compositionally buoyant and highly viscous continental assemblage with pre-existing WCMs, analogous to the past supercontinent, is modeled and imposed on well-developed mantle convection whose vigor of convection, internal heating rate, and rheological parameters are appropriate for the Earth's mantle. The visco-plastic oceanic lithosphere and the associated subduction of oceanic plates are incorporated. The time integration of the advection of continental materials with zero chemical diffusion is performed by a tracer particle method. The time evolution of mantle convection after setting the model supercontinent is followed over 800 Myr. Earth-like continental drift is successfully reproduced, and the characteristic thermal interaction between the mantle and the continent/supercontinent is observed in my new numerical model. Results reveal that the WCM protects the cratonic lithosphere from being stretched by the convecting mantle and may play a significant role in the stability of the cratonic lithosphere during the geological timescale because it acts as a buffer that prevents the cratonic lithosphere from undergoing global

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2010-11-29

...-0153; Notice 1] Continental Tire North America, Inc., Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance Continental Tire North America, Inc., (Continental),\\1\\ has determined that certain passenger car replacement tires manufactured in 2009 do not fully comply with paragraph S5.5(b) of Federal...

Las trayectorias universitarias de estudiantes de Sociología de la FaHCE. Un análisis desde los registros administrativos

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Mariela Cotignola

2017-12-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo aborda el estudio de las trayectorias universitarias de los estudiantes de las carreras de Sociología desde los registros administrativos donde se almacenan los datos de la historia académica de los/as alumnos/as. Entendemos a las trayectorias estudiantiles en términos de los recorridos particulares y diversos a través de los cuales los alumnos transitan su experiencia universitaria. El concepto permite focalizar el complejo entramado de aspectos o esferas de la vida cotidiana de los sujetos que participan en la delimitación de un recorrido o itinerario posible, posibilitando así el análisis de procesos complejos, recuperando la dinámica propia de la vida social de los sujetos y considerando las temporalidades sociales externas que las enmarcan (Toscano y otros; 2015. En este trabajo, nos enfocaremos en el tramo inicial de la trayectoria de los estudiantes, ya que consideramos que es la etapa o momento donde los estudiantes construyen el lazo académico con la institución en un sentido amplio. Las facultades de la UNLP cuentan con dos registros disponibles que contienen información sobre los alumnos de las unidades académicas: el Sistema de Preinscripción a carreras de la UNLP (SIPU y el Sistema de Información Universitaria Guaraní (SIU-GUARANÍ. Ambos registros representan temporalidades diferentes. Específicamente en este trabajo se caracterizan las trayectorias de las cohortes de ingreso 2014 –2017 en términos sociodemográficos, de procedencia, el clima educativo de los hogares de pertenencia, las trayectorias educativas previas y la actividad académica desarrollada en los primeros tramos de las carreras. Ahondar en las trayectorias nos permitirá identificar recorridos habituales, los obstáculos que enfrentan los/as estudiantes y pensar en las posibles intervenciones institucionales y pedagógicas al respecto. El trabajo tiene características descriptivas con la intención de abrir interrogantes

Os registros profissionais do atendimento pré-natal e a (invisibilidade da violência doméstica contra a mulher Los Registros Profesionales de la atención prenatal y la (In Visibilidad de la violencia doméstica contra la mujer Professional records of prenatal care and the (in visibility of domestic violence against woman

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Elisiane Gomes Bonfim

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Trata-se de estudo qualitativo que utilizou pesquisa documental na coleta dos dados. Aborda a violência doméstica contra a mulher, considerando a atenção pré-natal pública. Objetiva-se identificar e analisar condutas e estratégias utilizadas por profissionais de saúde durante o pré-natal, na suspeita de casos e na violência declarada, e discutir a problemática dos atendimentos às gestantes em situação de violência, na perspectiva dos registros. Foram pesquisados 784 prontuários de gestantes cadastradas em 2006, em 12 Serviços de Atenção Básica de Porto Alegre. Identificara-se 20 registros de violência contra a mulher, 10 anteriores ao pré-natal, 7 durante o pré-natal e 3 no pós-natal. Constatou-se que a violência aparece descontextualizada, e a conduta centrou-se nas consequências sobre a saúde física e psicológica da mulher e dos filhos. A violência não é registrada como agravo à saúde da mulher, gerando omissões no atendimento, sub-registro e invisibilização; consequentemente, inviabiliza-se a elaboração de estratégias de enfrentamento.Se trata de estudio cualitativo que utilizó la pesquisa documental para la recolección de los datos. Aborda la violencia doméstica contra la mujer tomando en consideración la atención prenatal pública. El objetivo fue identificar y analizar las conductas y estrategias utilizadas por los profesionales de la salud durante el prenatal, en la sospecha de casos de violencia y en la violencia declarada, y discutir la problemática de los atendimientos a las mujeres embarazadas en situación de violencia, bajo la luz de los registros. Se analizaron 784 registros de mujeres embarazadas registrados en 2006 en 12 Centros de Servicios de Atención Básica de Porto Alegre. Se identificaron 20 registros de violencia contra la mujer, 10 anteriores al periodo prenatal, 07 durante el periodo prenatal y 03 durante el periodo posnatal. Fue constatado que la violencia aparece

Deep Crustal Melting and the Survival of Continental Crust

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Whitney, D.; Teyssier, C. P.; Rey, P. F.; Korchinski, M.

2017-12-01

Plate convergence involving continental lithosphere leads to crustal melting, which ultimately stabilizes the crust because it drives rapid upward flow of hot deep crust, followed by rapid cooling at shallow levels. Collision drives partial melting during crustal thickening (at 40-75 km) and/or continental subduction (at 75-100 km). These depths are not typically exceeded by crustal rocks that are exhumed in each setting because partial melting significantly decreases viscosity, facilitating upward flow of deep crust. Results from numerical models and nature indicate that deep crust moves laterally and then vertically, crystallizing at depths as shallow as 2 km. Deep crust flows en masse, without significant segregation of melt into magmatic bodies, over 10s of kms of vertical transport. This is a major mechanism by which deep crust is exhumed and is therefore a significant process of heat and mass transfer in continental evolution. The result of vertical flow of deep, partially molten crust is a migmatite dome. When lithosphere is under extension or transtension, the deep crust is solicited by faulting of the brittle upper crust, and the flow of deep crust in migmatite domes traverses nearly the entire thickness of orogenic crust in Recognition of the importance of migmatite (gneiss) domes as archives of orogenic deep crust is applicable to determining the chemical and physical properties of continental crust, as well as mechanisms and timescales of crustal differentiation.

Continental smokers couple mantle degassing and distinctive microbiology within continents

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Crossey, Laura J.; Karlstrom, Karl E.; Schmandt, Brandon; Crow, Ryan R.; Colman, Daniel R.; Cron, Brandi; Takacs-Vesbach, Cristina D.; Dahm, Clifford N.; Northup, Diana E.; Hilton, David R.; Ricketts, Jason W.; Lowry, Anthony R.

2016-02-01

The discovery of oceanic black (and white) smokers revolutionized our understanding of mid-ocean ridges and led to the recognition of new organisms and ecosystems. Continental smokers, defined here to include a broad range of carbonic springs, hot springs, and fumaroles that vent mantle-derived fluids in continental settings, exhibit many of the same processes of heat and mass transfer and ecosystem niche differentiation. Helium isotope (3He/4He) analyses indicate that widespread mantle degassing is taking place in the western U.S.A., and that variations in mantle helium values correlate best with low seismic-velocity domains in the mantle and lateral contrasts in mantle velocity rather than crustal parameters such as GPS, proximity to volcanoes, crustal velocity, or composition. Microbial community analyses indicate that these springs can host novel microorganisms. A targeted analysis of four springs in New Mexico yield the first published occurrence of chemolithoautotrophic Zetaproteobacteria in a continental setting. These observations lead to two linked hypotheses: that mantle-derived volatiles transit through conduits in extending continental lithosphere preferentially above and at the edges of mantle low velocity domains. High CO2 and other constituents ultimately derived from mantle volatiles drive water-rock interactions and heterogeneous fluid mixing that help structure diverse and distinctive microbial communities.

Global multi-scale segmentation of continental and coastal waters from the watersheds to the continental margins

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Laruelle, G. G.; Dü rr, H. H.; Lauerwald, R.; Hartmann, J.; Slomp, C. P.; Regnier, P. A. G.

2012-01-01

files. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the distributions of coastal and continental shelf areas and how they connect with incoming riverine fluxes. The segmentation is also used to re-evaluate the global estuarine CO2 flux at the air–water interface combining global and regional average emission rates derived from local studies.

Nuevos registros de especies del género Eretmocerus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae, parasitoides de Trialeurodes vaporariorum y el complejo Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae en Argentina New records of species of the genus Eretmocerus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae, parasitoids of Trialeurodes vaporariorum and Bemisia tabaci complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae in Argentina

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Silvia N. López

2008-06-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es dar a conocer nuevos registros y distribuciones de las especies del género Eretmocerus Haldeman, parasitoides de las dos especies de mosca blanca que tienen mayor importancia económica en cultivos hortícolas y ornamentales en Argentina. Una especie de Eretmocerus Haldeman fue hallada parasitando a Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood en Santa Fe y Buenos Aires; por sus caracteres morfológicos, se encuentra en el grupo californicus, cercana a corni Haldeman, podría tratarse de una nueva especie. Asimismo, se amplía la distribución geográfica de Eretmocerus mundus Mercet, enemigo natural del complejo Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, a las provincias de San Juan y Buenos Aires.The objective of this paper is to report new records of species of the genus Eretmocerus Haldeman, parasitoids of the most important whitefly pest species in vegetables and ornamental crops in Argentina. One species was found parasitizing Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires provinces and it is grouped into californicus group near corni Haldeman, due to its morphological characters. It could be a new species. The known distribution of Eretmocerus mundus Mercet, a parasitoid of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, is enlarged to include the provinces of San Juan and Buenos Aires of Argentina.

Mid-latitude continental temperatures through the early Eocene in western Europe

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Inglis, Gordon N.; Collinson, Margaret E.; Riegel, Walter; Wilde, Volker; Farnsworth, Alexander; Lunt, Daniel J.; Valdes, Paul; Robson, Brittany E.; Scott, Andrew C.; Lenz, Olaf K.; Naafs, B. David A.; Pancost, Richard D.

2017-02-01

Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are increasingly used to reconstruct mean annual air temperature (MAAT) during the early Paleogene. However, the application of this proxy in coal deposits is limited and brGDGTs have only been detected in immature coals (i.e. lignites). Using samples recovered from Schöningen, Germany (∼48°N palaeolatitude), we provide the first detailed study into the occurrence and distribution of brGDGTs through a sequence of early Eocene lignites and associated interbeds. BrGDGTs are abundant and present in every sample. In comparison to modern studies, changes in vegetation type do not appear to significantly impact brGDGT distributions; however, there are subtle differences between lignites - representing peat-forming environments - and siliciclastic nearshore marine interbed depositional environments. Using the most recent brGDGT temperature calibration (MATmr) developed for soils, we generate the first continental temperature record from central-western continental Europe through the early Eocene. Lignite-derived MAAT estimates range from 23 to 26 °C while those derived from the nearshore marine interbeds exceed 20 °C. These estimates are consistent with other mid-latitude environments and model simulations, indicating enhanced mid-latitude, early Eocene warmth. In the basal part of the section studied, warming is recorded in both the lignites (∼2 °C) and nearshore marine interbeds (∼2-3 °C). This culminates in a long-term temperature maximum, likely including the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO). Although this long-term warming trend is relatively well established in the marine realm, it has rarely been shown in terrestrial settings. Using a suite of model simulations we show that the magnitude of warming at Schöningen is broadly consistent with a doubling of CO2, in agreement with late Paleocene and early Eocene pCO2 estimates.

Fractional activation of accumulation-mode particles in warm continental stratiform clouds

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Gillani, N.V.; Daum, P.H.; Schwartz, S.E.; Leaitch, W.R.; Strapp, J.W.; Isaac, G.A.

1991-07-01

The degree of activation of accumulation-mode particles (AMP) in clouds has been studied using continuous (1 second average) aircraft measurements of the number concentrations of cloud droplets (N cd , 2 to 35 μm diameter) and of unactivated AMP (N amp , 0.17 to 2.07 μm diameter) in cloud interstitial air. The magnitude and spatial variation of the activated fraction (F) of all measured particles (defined as F triple-bond N cd /N tot , where N tot = N cd + N amp ) are investigated, based on measurements made during ten aircraft flights in non-precipitating warm continental stratiform clouds near Syracuse NY in the fall of 1984. Based on instantaneous observations throughout the clouds, the spatial distribution of F was found to be quite nonuniform. In general, F was low in cloud edges and where total particle loading was high and/or cloud convective activity was low. In the interior of clouds, the value of F exceeded 0.9 for 36% of the data, but was below 0.6 for 28%. Factors influencing F the most were the total particle loading (N tot ) and the thermal stability of the cloud layer. The dependence of F on N tot in cloud interior was characterized by two distinct regimes. For N tot -3 , F was generally close to unity and relatively insensitive to N tot . For N tot > 800 cm -3 , F tended to decrease with increasing N tot . This decrease was greatest in a stable stratus deck embedded in a warm moist airmass. The results suggest that, in warm continental stratiform clouds, the process of particle activation becomes nonlinear and self-limiting at high particle loading. The degree of this nonlinearity depends on cloud convective activity (thermal instability)

Characterization of key aerosol, trace gas and meteorological properties and particle formation and growth processes dependent on air mass origins in coastal Southern Spain

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Diesch, J.; Drewnick, F.; Sinha, V.; Williams, J.; Borrmann, S.

2011-12-01

The chemical composition and concentration of aerosols at a certain site can vary depending on season, the air mass source region and distance from sources. Regardless of the environment, new particle formation (NPF) events are one of the major sources for ultrafine particles which are potentially hazardous to human health. Grown particles are optically active and efficient CCN resulting in important implications for visibility and climate (Zhang et al., 2004). The study presented here is intended to provide information about various aspects of continental, urban and marine air masses reflected by wind patterns of the air arriving at the measurement site. Additionally we will be focusing on NPF events associated with different types of air masses affecting their emergence and temporal evolution. Measurements of the ambient aerosol, various trace gases and meteorological parameters were performed within the framework of the DOMINO (Diel Oxidant Mechanisms In relation to Nitrogen Oxides) project. The field campaign took place from mid-November to mid-December 2008 at the atmospheric research station "El Arenosillo" located at the interface between a natural park, industrial cities (Huelva, Seville) and the Atlantic Ocean. Number and mass as well as PAH and black carbon concentrations were measured in PM1 and size distribution instruments covered the size range 6 nm up to 32 μm. The chemical composition of the non-refractory submicron aerosol was measured by means of an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS). In order to evaluate the characteristics of different air masses linking local and regional sources as well as NPF processes, characteristic air mass types were classified dependent on backwards trajectory pathways and local meteorology. Large nuclei mode concentrations in the number size distribution were found within continental and urban influenced air mass types due to frequently occurring NPF events. Exploring individual production and sink variables, sulfuric

Continental Fog Attenuation Empirical Relationship from Measured Visibility Data

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F. Nadeem

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Free Space Optics (FSO has the great potential for future communication applications. However, weather influenced reduced availability had been the main cause for its restricted growth. Among different weather influences fog plays the major role. A new model generalized for all FSO wavelengths, has been proposed for the prediction of continental fog attenuation using visibility data. The performance of the proposed model has been compared with well known models for measured attenuation data of Continental fog. The comparison has been performed in terms of Root Mean Square Error (RMSE.

{sup 210}Pb-Excess and Sediment Accumulation Rates at the Iberian Continental Margin

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Carvalho, F. P.; Oliveira, J. M.; Soares, A. M. [Nuclear and Technological Institute, Sacavem (Portugal)

2013-07-15

Sediments from the continental shelf, slope, and rise at the continental margin of northern Portugal and the adjacent Iberian abyssal basin were analysed for 210Pb, {sup 226}Ra, {sup 137}Cs and {sup 14}C. Pb-210 derived sedimentation rates at the continental shelf off the Portuguese coast were 0.2-0.6 cm/a. In some cores from fine sediment deposits at the outer shelf, the {sup 210}Pb excess continuum was interrupted and sediment layers were missing, suggesting that events such as sediment slides could have occurred. Higher sedimentation rates were determined in locations at the rise of the continental slope, confirming enhanced deposition by sediment slides. In the deeper Iberian Abyssal Basin, using the {sup 14}C age of sediment layers the sedimentation rate was determined at 3.2 cm/ka, thus four orders of magnitude lower than at the continental shelf. The spatial distribution of sedimentation rates determined by radionuclide based chronologies, suggested that fine sediments from river discharges are deposited mainly at the outer continental shelf. These deposits may became unstable with time and, occasionally, originate sediment slides that are drained by the canyons and reach the deep sea. The Iberian abyssal basin receives some advective contribution of these sediment slides and the sedimentation rate is one order of magnitude higher than in other abyssal basins of the NE Atlantic Ocean. (author)

O REGISTRO DO BATISMO EM OPOSIÇÃO AO DA CONVERSÃO: O DISCURSO INACIANO NAS MISSÕES DO PARAGUAI NA PRIMEIRA METADE DO SÉCULO XVII

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Guilherme Galhegos Felippe

2007-12-01

Full Text Available Frente aos objetivos postos pela empresa missionária e às necessidades referentes ao trabalho evangélico – dentre eles, o registro em correspondências do cotidiano reducional –, os jesuítas agregaram ao batismo uma grande importância não apenas como ritual de passagem para o cristianismo, mas também como instrumento discursivo para confirmar a conversão dos nativos e, assim, comprovar aos superiores o bom andamento das reduções. Porém, analisando-se o discurso inaciano, percebe-se uma grande incidência de relatos que sublinham a realização do batismo, sem haver a mesma proporção de relatos que comprovem a conversão destes índios recém-batizados. Há, portanto, uma desproporção no registro jesuítico na relação entre indígenas batizados e convertidos.

Initiation of continental accretion: metamorphic conditions

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Clement, Conand; Frederic, Mouthereau; Gianreto, Manatschal; Adbeltif, Lahfid

2017-04-01

The physical processes involved at the beginning of the continental collision are largely unknown because they are transient and therefore hardly identifiable from the rock record. Despite the importance of key parameters for understanding mountain building processes, especially the formation of deep mountain roots and their impacts on earthquakes nucleation, rock/fluid transfers and oil/gas resources in the continental crust, observations from the earliest collision stages remain fragmentary. Here, we focus on the example of Taiwan, a young and active mountain belt where the transition from oceanic subduction, accretion of the first continental margin to mature collision can be followed in space and time. We present preliminary results and provide key questions regarding the reconstruction of time-pressure-temperature paths of rocks & fluids to allow discriminating between rift-related thermal/rheological inheritance and burial/heating phases during convergence. Previous studies have focused on peak temperatures analyzed by Raman Spectrometry of Carbonaceous Matter from the deeper structural layers exposed in the Central Range of Taiwan. In the pre-rift sediments, these studies reported a positive gradient from West to Est, and values from geothermal gradients (up to 60°C/km) known in the region, and higher temperature closer to the pre-rift units. Cross sections and maps with high resolution peak temperatures are in process as well as pressure estimations to determine how the sediments were metamorphosed. In addition to this work, we report a few inherited temperatures in the 390-570 °C range, indicating recycling of organic matter from metasediments that recorded HT events, likely originated from higher grade metamorphic units of mainland China, which have been eroded and deposited in the post-rift sediments.

Magmatism and deformation during continental breakup

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Keir, Derek

2013-04-01

The rifting of continents and the transition to seafloor spreading is characterised by extensional faulting and thinning of the lithosphere, and is sometimes accompanied by voluminous intrusive and extrusive magmatism. In order to understand how these processes develop over time to break continents apart, we have traditionally relied on interpreting the geological record at the numerous fully developed, ancient rifted margins around the world. In these settings, however, it is difficult to discriminate between different mechanisms of extension and magmatism because the continent-ocean transition is typically buried beneath thick layers of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, and the tectonic and volcanic activity that characterised breakup has long-since ceased. Ongoing continental breakup in the African and Arabian rift systems offers a unique opportunity to address these problems because it exposes several sectors of tectonically active rift sector development spanning the transition from embryonic continental rifting in the south to incipient seafloor spreading in the north. Here I synthesise exciting, multidisciplinary observational and modelling studies using geophysical, geodetic, petrological and numerical techniques that uniquely constrain the distribution, time-scales, and interactions between extension and magmatism during the progressive breakup of the African Plate. This new research has identified the previously unrecognised role of rapid and episodic dike emplacement in accommodating a large proportion of extension during continental rifting. We are now beginning to realise that changes in the dominant mechanism for strain over time (faulting, stretching and magma intrusion) impact dramatically on magmatism and rift morphology. The challenge now is to take what we're learned from East Africa and apply it to the rifted margins whose geological record documents breakup during entire Wilson Cycles.

Continental United States Hurricane Strikes 1950-2012

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — The Continental U.S. Hurricane Strikes Poster is our most popular poster which is updated annually. The poster includes all hurricanes that affected the U.S. since...

Seismic imaging of lithospheric discontinuities and continental evolution

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Bostock, M. G.

1999-09-01

Discontinuities in physical properties within the continental lithosphere reflect a range of processes that have contributed to craton stabilization and evolution. A survey of recent seismological studies concerning lithospheric discontinuities is made in an attempt to document their essential characteristics. Results from long-period seismology are inconsistent with the presence of continuous, laterally invariant, isotropic boundaries within the upper mantle at the global scale. At regional scales, two well-defined interfaces termed H (˜60 km depth) and L (˜200 km depth) of continental affinity are identified, with the latter boundary generally exhibiting an anisotropic character. Long-range refraction profiles are frequently characterized by subcontinental mantle that exhibits a complex stratification within the top 200 km. The shallow layering of this package can behave as an imperfect waveguide giving rise to the so-called teleseismic Pn phase, while the L-discontinuity may define its lower base as the culmination of a low velocity zone. High-resolution, seismic reflection profiling provides sufficient detail in a number of cases to document the merging of mantle interfaces into lower continental crust below former collisional sutures and magmatic arcs, thus unambiguously identifying some lithospheric discontinuities with thrust faults and subducted oceanic lithosphere. Collectively, these and other seismic observations point to a continental lithosphere whose internal structure is dominated by a laterally variable, subhorizontal layering. This stratigraphy appears to be more pronounced at shallower lithospheric levels, includes dense, anisotropic layers of order 10 km in thickness, and exhibits horizontal correlation lengths comparable to the lateral dimensions of overlying crustal blocks. A model of craton evolution which relies on shallow subduction as a principal agent of craton stabilization is shown to be broadly compatible with these characteristics.

Exploration of the continental margins of India

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Siddiquie, H.N.; Hashimi, N.H.; Vora, K.H.; Pathak, M.C.

impetus from sponsored surveys of other organizations, chiefly the oil industry, ports and harbours as well as industries disposing of their effluents in the marine environment. By now the entire western continental shelf and a large part...

Continental scale Antarctic deposition of sulphur and black carbon from anthropogenic and volcanic sources

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H.-F. Graf

2010-03-01

Full Text Available While Antarctica is often described as a pristine environment, there is an increasing awareness of the potential threats from local pollution sources including tourist ships and emissions associated with scientific activities. However, to date there has been no systematic attempt to model the impacts of such pollutants at the continental scale. Indeed, until very recently there was not even a sulphur emission budget available for Antarctica. Here we present the first comprehensive study of atmospheric pollution in Antarctica using a limited area chemistry climate model, and a monthly emissions inventory for sulphur from maintenance of research stations, ground and air traffic, shipping and the active Erebus volcano. We find that ship emissions, both sulphurous and black carbon, dominate anthropogenic pollution near the ground. Their prevalence is likely to rise dramatically if recent trends in tourism continue.

On the dynamics and the geochemical mechanism of the evolution of the continental crust. 1

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Wetzel, K.

1983-01-01

An investigation of the isotopic composition of oxygen in the continental crust, in the oceans, in the oceanic crust and in the upper mantle shows the dynamics of plate tectonics and continental growthto be more or less constant during the last three or four aeons independent on the geochemical mechanism of continental growth. (author)

La parábola como lugar geométrico : una formación continua de profesores de matemáticas basada en la Teoría de Registros de Representación Semiótica

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Lara Torres, Isabel Mercedes

2016-01-01

La presente investigación aborda la parábola como lugar geométrico en una formación continua de profesores de matemáticas por medio de una secuencia de actividades con el uso del Geogebra y que toma la Teoría de Registros de Representación Semiótica como base teórica. Por ello, nos planteamos la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿Cómo profesores de matemática movilizan la noción de parábola como lugar geométrico cuando coordinan diferentes registros de representación semióti...

Correlation Between Occurrence and Deterioration of Respiratory Diseases and Air Pollution Within the Legally Permissible Limits.

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Trnjar, Kristina; Pintarić, Sanja; Mornar Jelavić, Marko; Nesek, Višnja; Ostojić, Jelena; Pleština, Sanja; Šikić, Aljoša; Pintarić, Hrvoje

2017-06-01

The aim of the study was to investigate the unknown effect of air pollutants on the occurrence or deterioration of respiratory diseases in the area with a humid continental climate. This retrospective study included 5868 patients with respiratory symptomatology (upper respiratory tract infection (URTI), pneumonia, acute bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and asthma) admitted to emergency department (ED). The number of patients, values of meteorological parameters (mean daily values of air temperature pressure and relative humidity) and concentrations of air pollution particles (≤10 μm (PM10), ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)) were collected during a two-year ( July 2008 - June 2010) period. There were 1839 (31.3%), 1712 (29.2%), 1313 (22.4%), 614 (10.5%) and 390 (6.6%) patients with pneumonia, COPD, URTI, acute bronchitis and asthma, respectively. The mean daily concentrations of NO2 (25.9 (1.7-89.7) μg/m3), O3 (47.1 (4.7-135.4) μg/m3) and PM10 particles (25.7 (4.6-146.6) μg/m3) were below the legally defined thresholds. Among other results, the occurrence of respiratory diseases showed positive Spearman's correlation with the values of air humidity (days 0-3, r=0.15 to 0.19), PM10(days 0-3, r=0.10 to 0.13) and NO2 concentrations (day 0, r=0.11), and negative correlation with the values of air temperature (days 0-3, r=-0.36 to -0.34), pressure (day 0, r=-0.10) and O3 concentrations (days 0-3, r=-0.21 to -0.22) (prespiratory diseases showed correlation with weather conditions and air pollutants despite the legally permitted values in the region with a humid continental climate.

Uncertainty estimation and risk prediction in air quality

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Garaud, Damien

2011-01-01

This work is about uncertainty estimation and risk prediction in air quality. Firstly, we build a multi-model ensemble of air quality simulations which can take into account all uncertainty sources related to air quality modeling. Ensembles of photochemical simulations at continental and regional scales are automatically generated. Then, these ensemble are calibrated with a combinatorial optimization method. It selects a sub-ensemble which is representative of uncertainty or shows good resolution and reliability for probabilistic forecasting. This work shows that it is possible to estimate and forecast uncertainty fields related to ozone and nitrogen dioxide concentrations or to improve the reliability of threshold exceedance predictions. The approach is compared with Monte Carlo simulations, calibrated or not. The Monte Carlo approach appears to be less representative of the uncertainties than the multi-model approach. Finally, we quantify the observational error, the representativeness error and the modeling errors. The work is applied to the impact of thermal power plants, in order to quantify the uncertainty on the impact estimates. (author) [fr

Aeromagnetic and gravity investigations of the Coastal Area and Continental Shelf of Liberia, West Africa, and their relation to continental drift

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Behrendt, John C.; Wotorson, Cletus S.

1970-01-01

An aeromagnetic survey has shown the existence of several basins in which magnetic basement depths are greater than 5 km on the continental shelf off Liberia. Magnetic diabase of 176 to 192 m.y. (Jurassic) in age intruding the Paleozoic (?) rocks and overlain by younger rocks onshore requires the distinction between “magnetic basement” and “basement.” Several lines of evidence suggest that the Paleozoic(?) rocks are less than 1 km thick; this implies that the diabase does not introduce a large error in depth-to-basement estimates. The dikes or their extrusive equivalents are traceable, on the basis of the magnetic data, beneath the younger sedimentary rock in the basins to the edge of the continental slope. The magnetic data also delineate a second zone of diabase dikes 90 km inland, parallel to the coast, which cross the entire country. The intrusion of the younger dikes probably coincides with rifting at the beginning of the separation of Africa and South America, and the associated magnetic anomaly zones appear to be parallel with and continuous into the anomaly bands in the Atlantic. A major northeast-trending break in the magnetic fabric intersects the coast near 9° W. and is associated with Eburnean age rocks (about 2000 m.y.) to the southeast as contrasted with Liberian-age rocks (about 2700 m.y.) to the northwest. Change in magnetic fabric direction inland from northeast to northwest in the coastal area allows recognition of a boundary between the Liberian-age rocks inland and Pan-African-age (about 550 m.y.) rocks in the coastal area northwest of about 9° 20'W. Sets of north-northwest-and west-northwest—trending faults of 1 to 2 km vertical displacement cut the Cretaceous sedimentary rocks onshore and can be traced into the offshore basins. Vertical displacements of several kilometers in the magnetic basement underlying the continental shelf suggest a pattern of block faulting all along the coast and continental shelf. Negative Bouguer

Pretty, but dangerous! Records of non-native Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus in Mexico ¡Bonita pero peligrosa! Registros de la cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus en México

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Ian MacGregor-Fors

2011-09-01

Full Text Available The Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus is native to South America and has been introduced by the pet market to several countries around the world. In this note, we compiled records for this species in Mexico and report the first sight-recording of this species in the state of Michoacán and several nesting localities within the Metropolitan area of México City. Most records are of individuals escaped or released from captivity. Also, we review the negative effects that this species has had in invaded areas from around the world. Our analysis suggests the possible beginning of an invasion in Mexico that could have dramatic negative ecological and economic effects throughout this biodiverse country.La cotorra argentina (Myiopsitta monachus es nativa de Sudamérica y ha sido introducida a través del comercio de mascotas en diversos países del mundo. En esta nota compilamos los registros de esta especie para México, además de reportarla por primera vez para el estado de Michoacán y diversas localidades de anidación en la zona metropolitana de la ciudad de México. La mayoría de los registros son de individuos que han escapado o han sido liberados intencionalmente del cautiverio. Además, discutimos los efectos que ha tenido esta especie en otros lugares del mundo. Los registros compilados en esta nota sugieren el inicio de un proceso masivo de invasión por parte de la cotorra argentina, el cual podría tener efectos económicos y ecológicos dramáticos en un país biodiverso como México.

Avaliação da completitude, da consistência e da duplicidade de registros de violências do Sinan em Recife, Pernambuco, 2009-2012

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Marcella de Brito Abath

Full Text Available OBJETIVO:avaliar a completitude, consistência e duplicidade de registros de violências no Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (Sinan em Recife, estado de Pernambuco, Brasil, de 2009 a 2012.MÉTODOS:foi realizado estudo descritivo; a qualidade da base de dados do Sinan foi avaliada quanto à completitude e consistência de 35 variáveis e não duplicidade de registros; aplicou-se o teste do qui-quadrado para tendência linear (p<0,05 para avaliação da completitude e consistência.RESULTADOS:no período 2009-2012, houve aumento de 283,9% no número de notificações, as médias percentuais de completitude, de consistência e de duplicidade foram, respectivamente, de 70,3%, 98,5% e 0,2%; houve redução de 53,9% na completitude e aumento de 66,7% na consistência das variáveis; o percentual de duplicidade foi de 0,5% em 2012, e inexistente em 2009.CONCLUSÃO:as médias percentuais de completitude, consistência e duplicidade foram consideradas, respectivamente, regular, excelente e aceitável.

Regional magnetic anomaly constraints on continental rifting

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Vonfrese, R. R. B.; Hinze, W. J.; Olivier, R.; Bentley, C. R.

1985-01-01

Radially polarized MAGSAT anomalies of North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica demonstrate remarkably detailed correlation of regional magnetic lithospheric sources across rifted margins when plotted on a reconstruction of Pangea. These major magnetic features apparently preserve their integrity until a superimposed metamorphoric event alters the magnitude and pattern of the anomalies. The longevity of continental scale magnetic anomalies contrasts markedly with that of regional gravity anomalies which tend to reflect predominantly isostatic adjustments associated with neo-tectonism. First observed as a result of NASA's magnetic satellite programs, these anomalies provide new and fundamental constraints on the geologic evolution and dynamics of the continents and oceans. Accordingly, satellite magnetic observations provide a further tool for investigating continental drift to compliment other lines of evidence in paleoclimatology, paleontology, paleomagnetism, and studies of the radiometric ages and geometric fit of the continents.

Primer registro de anidación de Carao (Aramus guarauna en el estado de Nayarit, México

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David Molina

2017-04-01

Full Text Available De 2012 a 2016 registramos la anidación de carao (Aramus guarauna en un humedal suburbano en el Parque Ecológico de Tepic en Nayarit, México, y puede considerarse que permanece en el sitio. Éste es el primer registro de anidación de esta especie en el estado de Nayarit; además, identificamos la ampliación de su intervalo reproductivo hacia el norte del país. Es muy probable que la residencia del carao en este humedal obedezca a la presencia de una población local de caracol manzana (Pomacea y, al parecer, a la ausencia de depredadores y competidores naturales en el sitio.

Estimates of Continental Ancestry Vary Widely among Individuals with the Same mtDNA Haplogroup

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Emery, Leslie S.; Magnaye, Kevin M.; Bigham, Abigail W.; Akey, Joshua M.; Bamshad, Michael J.

2015-01-01

The association between a geographical region and an mtDNA haplogroup(s) has provided the basis for using mtDNA haplogroups to infer an individual’s place of origin and genetic ancestry. Although it is well known that ancestry inferences using mtDNA haplogroups and those using genome-wide markers are frequently discrepant, little empirical information exists on the magnitude and scope of such discrepancies between multiple mtDNA haplogroups and worldwide populations. We compared genetic-ancestry inferences made by mtDNA-haplogroup membership to those made by autosomal SNPs in ∼940 samples of the Human Genome Diversity Panel and recently admixed populations from the 1000 Genomes Project. Continental-ancestry proportions often varied widely among individuals sharing the same mtDNA haplogroup. For only half of mtDNA haplogroups did the highest average continental-ancestry proportion match the highest continental-ancestry proportion of a majority of individuals with that haplogroup. Prediction of an individual’s mtDNA haplogroup from his or her continental-ancestry proportions was often incorrect. Collectively, these results indicate that for most individuals in the worldwide populations sampled, mtDNA-haplogroup membership provides limited information about either continental ancestry or continental region of origin. PMID:25620206

Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins

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Dowdeswell, J. A; Cofaigh, C. Ó

2002-01-01

This book examines the process and patterns of glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins and the geophysical and geological signatures of the resulting sediments and landform...

japonês na cidade de Registro, São Paulo

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Rog\\u00E9rio Bessa Gon\\u00E7alves

2008-01-01

Full Text Available The present article addresses the methods of construction employed by Japanese immigrants, who settled the city of Registro, in the region of the Ribeira valley of Iguape, located in the State of Sao Paulo, in the year of 1918. This settlement received incentives from the State Government of Sao Paulo, in order to promote the colonization of the Ribeira valley of Iguape, as well as to boost local economical development, by means of expanding the agricultural production of coffee to this region. The characteristics of this group of immigrants were notably different from others, due to fact that they arrived in Brazil already as landholders, sponsored financially and logistically by a Japanese private company, which was responsible for the management of this enterprise. These immigrants could count on a complex infrastructure, which aided them in their mission to advance the development of this region. Even though the particularities of this group of immigrants gave them a certain amount of freedom to recreate their own culture in Brazilian land, the reality of this new environment, its new physical, economical and social contingencies forced them to reinterpret their cultural traditions and customs. In order to understand this adaptation process, a study of the construction methods employed by this group of immigrants in their buildings was undertaken, based on their knowledge of traditional Japanese architecture. This study rendered possible the analysis of a long process of cultural syncretism between oriental culture and the vernacular architecture of the inhabitants of the Ribeira valley of Iguape.

Modeling natural emissions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ Model–I: building an emissions data base

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S. F. Mueller

2010-05-01

Full Text Available A natural emissions inventory for the continental United States and surrounding territories is needed in order to use the US Environmental Protection Agency Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ Model for simulating natural air quality. The CMAQ air modeling system (including the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE emissions processing system currently estimates non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC emissions from biogenic sources, nitrogen oxide (NOx emissions from soils, ammonia from animals, several types of particulate and reactive gas emissions from fires, as well as sea salt emissions. However, there are several emission categories that are not commonly treated by the standard CMAQ Model system. Most notable among these are nitrogen oxide emissions from lightning, reduced sulfur emissions from oceans, geothermal features and other continental sources, windblown dust particulate, and reactive chlorine gas emissions linked with sea salt chloride. A review of past emissions modeling work and existing global emissions data bases provides information and data necessary for preparing a more complete natural emissions data base for CMAQ applications. A model-ready natural emissions data base is developed to complement the anthropogenic emissions inventory used by the VISTAS Regional Planning Organization in its work analyzing regional haze based on the year 2002. This new data base covers a modeling domain that includes the continental United States plus large portions of Canada, Mexico and surrounding oceans. Comparing July 2002 source data reveals that natural emissions account for 16% of total gaseous sulfur (sulfur dioxide, dimethylsulfide and hydrogen sulfide, 44% of total NOx, 80% of reactive carbonaceous gases (NMVOCs and carbon monoxide, 28% of ammonia, 96% of total chlorine (hydrochloric acid, nitryl chloride and sea salt chloride, and 84% of fine particles (i.e., those smaller than 2.5 μm in size released into the

Modeling natural emissions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model-I: building an emissions data base

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Smith, S. N.; Mueller, S. F.

2010-05-01

A natural emissions inventory for the continental United States and surrounding territories is needed in order to use the US Environmental Protection Agency Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model for simulating natural air quality. The CMAQ air modeling system (including the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) emissions processing system) currently estimates non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emissions from biogenic sources, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from soils, ammonia from animals, several types of particulate and reactive gas emissions from fires, as well as sea salt emissions. However, there are several emission categories that are not commonly treated by the standard CMAQ Model system. Most notable among these are nitrogen oxide emissions from lightning, reduced sulfur emissions from oceans, geothermal features and other continental sources, windblown dust particulate, and reactive chlorine gas emissions linked with sea salt chloride. A review of past emissions modeling work and existing global emissions data bases provides information and data necessary for preparing a more complete natural emissions data base for CMAQ applications. A model-ready natural emissions data base is developed to complement the anthropogenic emissions inventory used by the VISTAS Regional Planning Organization in its work analyzing regional haze based on the year 2002. This new data base covers a modeling domain that includes the continental United States plus large portions of Canada, Mexico and surrounding oceans. Comparing July 2002 source data reveals that natural emissions account for 16% of total gaseous sulfur (sulfur dioxide, dimethylsulfide and hydrogen sulfide), 44% of total NOx, 80% of reactive carbonaceous gases (NMVOCs and carbon monoxide), 28% of ammonia, 96% of total chlorine (hydrochloric acid, nitryl chloride and sea salt chloride), and 84% of fine particles (i.e., those smaller than 2.5 μm in size) released into the atmosphere

Sediment underthrusting within a continental magmatic arc: Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia

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Pearson, David M.; MacLeod, Douglas R.; Ducea, Mihai N.; Gehrels, George E.; Jonathan Patchett, P.

2017-10-01

Though continental magmatic arcs are factories for new continental crust, a significant proportion of continental arc magmas are recycled from supracrustal material. To evaluate the relative contributions of retroarc underthrusting and trench side partial sediment subduction for introducing supracrustal rocks to the middle and lower crust of continental magmatic arcs, we present results from the deeply exposed country rocks of the Coast Mountains batholith of western British Columbia. Prior work demonstrates that these rocks underwent widespread partial melting that contributed to the Coast Mountains batholith. We utilize U-Pb zircon geochronology, Sm-Nd thermochronology, and field-based studies to document the protoliths and early burial history of amphibolite and granulite-facies metasedimentary rocks in the Central Gneiss Complex. U-Pb detrital zircon data from the structurally highest sample localities yielded 190 Ma unimodal age peaks and suggest that retroarc rocks of the Stikine terrane constitute a substantial portion of the Central Gneiss Complex. These supracrustal rocks underwent thrust-related burial and metamorphism at >25 km depths prior to 80 Ma. These rocks may also be underlain at the deepest exposed structural levels by Upper Cretaceous metasedimentary rocks, which may have been emplaced as a result of trench side underplating or intraarc burial. These results further our understanding of the mechanisms of material transport within the continental lithosphere along Cordilleran subduction margins.

Cerambycidae (Coleoptera do Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões, Piauí, Brasil: novas espécies e novos registros

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Maria Helena M. Galileo

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Três novas espécies são descritas do Piauí, em Cerambycinae: Compsibidion pictum, sp. nov. (Neoibidionini; em Lamiinae: Adetus differentis sp. nov. (Apomecynini e Mimasyngenes piauiensis sp. nov. (Desmiphorini. De 75 espécies procedentes do Riacho dos Bois (Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões, 50 são novos registros para o Piauí. Três subfamílias são reconhecidas: uma espécie de Prioninae, 46 espécies de Cerambycinae e 28 espécies de Lamiinae.

Using tetraether lipids archived in North Sea Basin sediments to extract North Western European Pliocene continental air temperatures

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Dearing Crampton-Flood, Emily; Peterse, Francien; Munsterman, Dirk; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.

2018-05-01

The Pliocene is often regarded as a suitable analogue for future climate, due to an overall warmer climate (2-3 °C) coupled with atmospheric CO2 concentrations largely similar to present values (∼400 ppmv). Numerous Pliocene sea surface temperature (SST) records are available, however, little is known about climate in the terrestrial realm. Here we generated a Pliocene continental temperature record for Northwestern Europe based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) membrane lipids stored in a marine sedimentary record from the western Netherlands. The total organic carbon (TOC) content of the sediments and its stable carbon isotopic composition (δ13Corg) indicate a strong transition from primarily marine derived organic matter (OM) during the Pliocene, to predominantly terrestrially derived OM after the transition into the Pleistocene. This trend is supported by the ratio of branched and isoprenoid tetraethers (BIT index). The marine-terrestrial transition indicates a likely change in brGDGT sources in the core, which may complicate the applicability of the brGDGT paleotemperature proxy in this setting. Currently, the application of the brGDGT-based paleothermometer on coastal marine sediments has been hampered by a marine overprint. Here, we propose a method to disentangle terrestrial and marine sources based on the degree of cyclization of tetramethylated brGDGTs (#rings) using a linear mixing model based on the global soil calibration set and a newly developed coastal marine temperature transfer function. Application of this method on our brGDGT record resulted in a 'corrected' terrestrial temperature record (MATterr). This latter record indicates that continental temperatures were ∼12-14 °C during the Early Pliocene, and 10.5-12 °C during the Mid Pliocene, confirming other Pliocene pollen based terrestrial temperature estimates from Northern and Central Europe. Furthermore, two colder (Δ 5-7 °C) periods in the Pliocene MATterr

Doença oclusiva progressiva das artérias cerebrais associada a sindrome de Down: registro de um caso

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Israel Salmen Schulz

1980-06-01

Full Text Available Registro de um caso que pode ser o segundo na literatura mundial de associação de "moyamoya" com síndrome de Down, caracterizando-se pela permeabilidade das artérias carótidas internas, cerebrais médias e anteriores. O comprometimento da circulação distai poderia levantar a possibilidade de uma alteração da microcirculação capilar e, inclusive, da ação de alguma substância não determinada, fatores que poderiam explicar a localização e bilateralidade das lesões.

Potential of radioactive and other waste disposals on the continental margin by natural dispersal processes

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Ryan, W.B.F.; Farre, J.A.

1983-01-01

Mass wasting, an erosional process, has recently been active at deepwater waste disposal sites on the mid-Atlantic margin of the United States. On the continental slope there is a subsea drainage network consisting of canyons, gullies, and chutes, and there are meandering channels, erosional scars, and debris aprons present on the continental rise. Fresh-looking blocks of 40 to 45 million-year-old marl and chalk (from cobble to boulder size) are strewn among canisters of low-level radioactive wastes. Some of the blocks have traveled from their original place of deposition for distances in excess of 170 km. Waste containers on the continental slope and rise cannot be considered to be disposed of permanently. The drainage network of the slope provides a natural process for collecting wastes over a catchment area, and for concentrating it with interim storage in canyons. Erosion by slumping, sliding, and debris flows ultimately will transport the wastes from the continental slope and disperse it over potentially large areas on the continental rise and abyssal plain. If it is desirable that the wastes be buried in the seafloor and isolated from the environment, then the continental slope and rise are not attractive repositories. If, however, it is deemed beneficial that the wastes ultimately be dispersed over a wide area, then the continental slope could be used as a disposal site

The continental waters pollution

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Marsily, G. de

1996-01-01

This work deals with the continental water pollution. The sewage affect considerably the quality of some rivers water and of some basins. Moreover, a slow and general damage of natural waters has been established. The direct effects on men and on the natural medium (climatic change, aquatic ecosystems, water cycle) are given as well as the protection means (waste processing, the water-bearing bed and underground water protection, the aquatic ecosystems protection and planning) used and future to abate the water pollution. (O.L.). 17 refs., 6 tabs

Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean.

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Fichot, Cédric G; Kaiser, Karl; Hooker, Stanford B; Amon, Rainer M W; Babin, Marcel; Bélanger, Simon; Walker, Sally A; Benner, Ronald

2013-01-01

Continental runoff is a major source of freshwater, nutrients and terrigenous material to the Arctic Ocean. As such, it influences water column stratification, light attenuation, surface heating, gas exchange, biological productivity and carbon sequestration. Increasing river discharge and thawing permafrost suggest that the impacts of continental runoff on these processes are changing. Here, a new optical proxy was developed and implemented with remote sensing to determine the first pan-Arctic distribution of terrigenous dissolved organic matter (tDOM) and continental runoff in the surface Arctic Ocean. Retrospective analyses revealed connections between the routing of North American runoff and the recent freshening of the Canada Basin, and indicated a correspondence between climate-driven changes in river discharge and tDOM inventories in the Kara Sea. By facilitating the real-time, synoptic monitoring of tDOM and freshwater runoff in surface polar waters, this novel approach will help understand the manifestations of climate change in this remote region.

Continental temperatures through the early Eocene in western central Europe

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Inglis, G. N.; Collinson, M. E.; Riegel, W.; Wilde, V.; Farnsworth, A.; Lunt, D. J.; Robson, B.; Scott, A. C.; Lenz, O.; Pancost, R.

2016-12-01

In contrast to the marine realm, our understanding of terrestrial temperature change during greenhouse climates is poorly constrained. Recently, branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) have been used to successfully reconstruct mean annual air temperature (MAAT) during the early Paleogene. However, despite the potential to provide new insights into terrestrial climate, the application of this proxy in lignite and coal deposits is still limited. Using samples recovered from Schöningen, Germany ( 48°N), we provide the first detailed study into the occurrence and distribution of brGDGTs through a sequence of Early Eocene lignites and associated marine interbeds. Branched GDGTs are abundant and present in every sample. In comparison to modern studies, changes in vegetation type do not appear to significantly impact brGDGT distributions; however, there are subtle differences in these distributions between lignites and siliciclastic nearshore marine interbed sediments. Using the most recent brGDGT temperature calibration, we generate the first continental temperature record from central-western continental Europe through the Early Eocene. Lignite-derived MAAT estimates range from 23 to 26°C and those derived from the nearshore marine interbeds always exceed 20°C. These estimates are consistent with other mid-latitude palaeoclimate proxy records which indicate enhanced early Eocene warmth. In the basal part of the section, warming is recorded in both the lignites ( 2°C) and nearshore marine interbeds ( 2-3°C). This culminates in a long-term temperature maximum, likely including the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO). Although this trend is relatively well established in marginal marine sediments within the SW Pacific, it has rarely been shown in other regions or terrestrial settings. Using a suite of new climate model simulations, our warming trend is consistent with a doubling of CO2 (from 560ppmv to 1120ppmv) which broadly agrees with proxy

Variability of Atmospheric Radon-222 and Secondary Aerosol Components in Accordance with Air Mass Transport Pathways at Jeju Island, Korea, during 2011-2014

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Bu, Jun-Oh; Song, Jung-Min; Kim, Won-Hyung; Kang, Chang-Hee; Chambers, Scott D.; Williams, Alastair G.; Lee, Chulkyu

2016-01-01

Real-time monitoring of hourly atmospheric Radon-222 concentration and three daily monitoring of the secondary aerosol components of PM_1_0 were performed throughout 2011-2014 at Gosan station, Jeju Island, in order to characterize their background levels and temporal variation. The annual mean radon and PM_1_0 mass concentrations were 2326 ± 1198 mBq/m"3 and 37.1 ± 19.5 μg/m"3, respectively. Based on cluster analyses of air mass back trajectories, the frequencies of air masses originating from continental China, the Korean Peninsula, and North Pacific Ocean routes were 53, 28, and 19%, respectively. When the air masses were transported to Jeju Island from continental China, the concentrations of radon and secondary aerosol components (nss-SO_4"2"-, NO_3"-, NH_4"+) were relatively high: 2577 mBq/m"3 and 14.4 μg/m"3, respectively. In cases when the air masses have moved from the Korean Peninsula, the corresponding concentrations were 2247 mBq/m"3 and 11.4 μg/m"3, respectively. On the other hand, when the air masses came from the North Pacific Ocean, their radon and secondary aerosol concentrations decreased much further, 1372 mBq/m"3 and 10.5 μg/m"3, respectively. Consequently, the variability of atmospheric radon concentrations at Gosan station might be characterized by synoptic changes in air mass fetch as well as diurnal changes in atmospheric mixing depth.

Continental growth and mantle hydration as intertwined feedback cycles in the thermal evolution of Earth

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Höning, Dennis; Spohn, Tilman

2016-06-01

A model of Earth's continental coverage and mantle water budget is discussed along with its thermal evolution. The model links a thermal evolution model based on parameterized mantle convection with a model of a generic subduction zone that includes the oceanic crust and a sedimentary layer as carriers of water. Part of the subducted water is used to produce continental crust while the remainder is subducted into the mantle. The total length of the subduction zones is calculated from the total surface area of continental crust assuming randomly distributed continents. The mantle viscosity is dependent of temperature and the water concentration. Sediments are generated by continental crust erosion, and water outgassing at mid-oceanic ridges closes the water cycle. We discuss the strongly coupled, non-linear model using a phase plane defined by the continental coverage and mantle water concentration. Fixed points are found in the phase plane at which the rates of change of both variables are zero. These fixed points evolve with time, but in many cases, three fixed points emerge of which two are stable and an intermediate point is unstable with respect to continental coverage. With initial conditions from a Monte-Carlo scheme we calculate evolution paths in the phase plane and find a large spread of final states that all have a mostly balanced water budget. The present day observed 40% continental surface coverage is found near the unstable fixed point. Our evolution model suggests that Earth's continental coverage formed early and has been stable for at least 1.5 Gyr. The effect of mantle water regassing (and mantle viscosity depending on water concentration) is found to lower the present day mantle temperature by about 120 K, but the present day mantle viscosity is affected little. The water cycle thus complements the well-known thermostat effect of viscosity and mantle temperature. Our results further suggest that the biosphere could impact the feedback cycles by

Estimating the formation age distribution of continental crust by unmixing zircon ages

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Korenaga, Jun

2018-01-01

Continental crust provides first-order control on Earth's surface environment, enabling the presence of stable dry landmasses surrounded by deep oceans. The evolution of continental crust is important for atmospheric evolution, because continental crust is an essential component of deep carbon cycle and is likely to have played a critical role in the oxygenation of the atmosphere. Geochemical information stored in the mineral zircon, known for its resilience to diagenesis and metamorphism, has been central to ongoing debates on the genesis and evolution of continental crust. However, correction for crustal reworking, which is the most critical step when estimating original formation ages, has been incorrectly formulated, undermining the significance of previous estimates. Here I suggest a simple yet promising approach for reworking correction using the global compilation of zircon data. The present-day distribution of crustal formation age estimated by the new "unmixing" method serves as the lower bound to the true crustal growth, and large deviations from growth models based on mantle depletion imply the important role of crustal recycling through the Earth history.

NUEVOS HOSPEDEROS Y REGISTROS DE ÁCAROS FITÓFAGOS PARA COSTA RICA: PERÍODO 2008-2012

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Hugo Aguilar

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Se actualizan las e especies de á caros fitó - fagos identificadas para Costa Rica entre 2008 y 2012. Se procesó el material vegetal provisto por productores, técnicos, estudiantes e interesados en general, así como el recolectado por personal del Laboratorio de Acarología de la Universidad de Costa Rica, y s e identificó. Se mencionan 63 nuevas especies e n 29 familias de plantas hos - pedantes, p ara 5 familias de ácaros fitófagos. Tetranychus urticae , familia Tetranychidae, fue la segunda especie en cuanto a número de h os - pederos, encontrándose e n 1 2 nuevas p antas. También s e hallaron o tras especies de la familia, como Eutetranychus banksi , Mononychellus planki , Oligonychus peronis , O. pratensis , O. punicae , O. ununguis , O. yothersi , Paraponychus corderoi , Tetranychus cinnabarinus , T. ludeni , T. mexicanus y 3 especies de este género que no fueron identificadas. S e registran 4 especies de la f amilia Tenuipalpidae: Brevipalpus californi - cus , B. gliricidiae , B. obovatus y B. phoenicis . Dentro de la familia Tarsonemidae, se informa de Phytonemus pallidus , Polyphagotarsonemus latus , con 15 nuevos registros, especie con mayor aporte en asociación con plantas para este nuevo período; s e informa también de Steneotarsone - musananas , asociada conpiña. De la familia Eriophyidae, se indica de Abacarus doctus, descrita recientemente como nueva especie p ara la ciencia y asociada con caña de azúcar en el país y de Calepitrimerus muesebecki , relaciona - da con aguacate; además 2 especies de eriófidos expuestos, no descritas aún. Retracrus johnstoni , familia Phytoptidae, recolectado de Heliconia latispatha , de la familia Heliconiaceae y primer registro de un ácaro de este género asociado con una planta ajena a la familia Arecaceae. Por último, se expone la descripción del reconocimiento de campo para algunas especies escogidas dentro de las 5 familias estudiadas.

Formación, registro y la práctica autorizada de la medicina tradicional, alternativa y complementaria-OMS-Macao/China 2014

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Valenzuela Oré, Félix; Salaverry García, Oswaldo; Reyes Mandujano, Ivonne F.

2014-01-01

La información expuesta y analizada en este contexto, permitirá destacar la importancia de la MT/MAC como una opción a considerar para fortalecer la capacidad de atención de la medicina convencional, establecer estrategias o iniciativas para garantizar la calidad de la práctica y proveedores de la MT/MAC, mediante el establecimiento de un sistema de registro nacional de proveedores calificados con licencia en medicina tradicional china; un sistema nacional de cualificación/licenciamiento d...

Avaliação da realização e do registro da Sistematização da Assistência de enfermagem (SAE em um hospital universitário Evalución de la realización y registro de las etapas de la sistematizacion de la atención de enfermeria en un hospital universitário Evaluation of nursing care systematization through the phases of nursing process performance and registration in a teaching hospital

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Maria Ângela Reppetto

2005-06-01

Full Text Available Estudo descritivo que teve por objetivo identificar a realização e o registro das etapas da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem SAE- pelo processo de enfermagem e também os diagnósticos de enfermagem mais freqüentes. Os dados foram obtidos pela análise retrospectiva do total de 135 prontuários de pacientes internados no período de janeiro a julho de 2002 nas unidades de Cardiologia, Doenças Infecto-Parasitárias no Adulto e Neurocirurgia de um Hospital Universitário da cidade de São Paulo. As fases: histórico, diagnóstico, prescrição, evolução e anotações de enfermagem foram realizadas e registradas nas três unidades, porém, constatou-se falhas na sistematização relativas ao registro de diagnósticos de enfermagem sem constar o histórico, e o registro de prescrições sem evoluções. O diagnóstico de enfermagem mais freqüente nas três unidades foi risco de infecção.Este estudio descriptivo tuvo como objetivo identificar la realización y registro de las etapas del processo de enfermeria mas frequentemente presentados por pacientes internados en tres enfermerias de um Hospital Universitário de la ciudad de São Paulo. Fueron analisados 135 prontuáros de pacientes internados de enero a julho de 2002 en las enfermarias de Cardiologia, Molestias Infecciosas y Parasitárias de Adulto y Neurocirugia. Las fases: histórico, diagnóstico, prescripción, evolución y anotación de enfermeira fueron realizadas y registradas en las tres unidades. Entretanto, se constato que existen fallas del processo de enfermería, representadas por el registro de diagnósticos de enfermeria sin constar el histórico o el registro de prescripción sin la evolución. El diagnóstico de enfermeria mas frequente en las tres unidades fue risco para infección.This descriptive study was carried out in a teaching hospital at São Paulo city and had as objective to identify the phases performance and registration of nursing care

Benthic oxygen consumption on continental shelves off eastern Canada

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Grant, Jonathan; Emerson, Craig W.; Hargrave, Barry T.; Shortle, Jeannette L.

1991-08-01

The consumption of phytoplankton production by the benthos is an important component of organic carbon budgets for continental shelves. Sediment texture is a major factor regulating benthic processes because fine sediment areas are sites of enhanced deposition from the water column, resulting in increased organic content, bacterial biomass and community metabolism. Although continental shelves at mid- to high latitudes consist primarily of coarse relict sediments ( PIPER, Continental Shelf Research, 11, 1013-1035), shelf regions of boreal and subarctic eastern Canada contain large areas of silt and clay sediments ( FADER, Continental Shelf Research, 11, 1123-1153). We collated estimates of benthic oxygen consumption in coarse (<20% silt-clay, <0.5% organic matter) and fine sediments (20% silt-clay, 0.5% organic matter) for northwest Atlantic continental shelves including new data for Georges Bank, the Scotian Shelf, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf. Estimates were applied to the areal distribution of sediment type on these shelves to obtain a general relationship between sediment texture and benthic carbon consumption. Mean benthic oxygen demand was 2.7 times greater in fine sediment than in coarse sediment, when normalized to mean annual temperature. In terms of carbon equivalents, shelf regions with minimal fine sediment (Georges Bank, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland-northeast Newfoundland) consumed only 5-8% of annual primary production. Benthos of the Gulf of Maine (100% fine sediment) and the Scotian Shelf (35% fine sediment) utilized 16-19% of primary production. Although 32% of the Labrador Shelf area contained fine sediments, benthic consumption of pelagic production (8%) was apparently limited by low mean annual temperature (2°C). These results indicate that incorporation of sediment-specific oxygen uptake into shelf carbon budgets may increase estimates of benthic consumption by 50%. Furthermore, respiration and production by large

Registros sobre dor pós-operatória em crianças: uma análise retrospectiva de hospitais de Londrina, PR, Brasil Registros sobre el dolor post operatorio en niños: un análisis retrospectivo en hospitales de Londrina, PR, Brasil Notes of post-operative pain in children: a retrospective analyses of hospitals from Londrina, PR, Brazil

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Mauren Teresa Grubisich Mendes Tacla

2008-06-01

Full Text Available Toda cirurgia implica em lesão de tecidos, manipulação de estruturas e órgãos, sendo a dor uma conseqüência desse processo, que pode ser minimizada. Este estudo tem como objetivo caracterizar, retrospectivamente, o processo de manejo da dor pós-operatória a partir dos registros contidos em 300 prontuários de 280 crianças de 0 a 14 anos submetidas à cirurgia no ano de 2004 em três hospitais de Londrina, PR. O estudo indicou a existência de poucos registros sobre dor pós-operatória realizados por enfermeiras, sendo a maioria realizada por auxiliares ou técnicos de enfermagem. Esses achados evidenciam a necessidade de realização de pesquisas sobre manejo da dor pediátrica e os fatores que o influenciam.Toda cirugía implica en lesión de tejidos, manipulación de estructuras y órganos, siendo el dolor una consecuencia de ese proceso, que puede ser minimizada. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo caracterizar, retrospectivamente, el proceso del manejo del dolor pos operatorio a partir de los registros contenidos en 300 prontuarios de 280 niños de 0 a 14 años sometidos a cirugía el año 2004 en tres hospitales de Londrina, PR, Brasil. El estudio indicó la existencia de pocos registros realizado por enfermeras, y la mayoría fue realizada por auxiliares o técnicos de enfermería. Los resultados evidencian la necesidad de la realización de pesquisas sobre el manejo del dolor pediátrico y los factores que lo influencian.All surgical procedures involve tissue lesions, manipulation of structures and organs, causing pain which can be minimized during the process. The objective of this study is to characterize, retrospectively, the process of managing post-operative pain based on 300 medical records of 280 childre, who underwent surgery in 2004, in 3 hospitals located in Londrina, PR, Brazil. The study revealed that only a few nurses document post-operative pain, and that the majority of the records were made by nursing aides

Radiological effluents released from US continental tests, 1961 through 1992. Revision 1

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Schoengold, C.R.; DeMarre, M.E.; Kirkwood, E.M.

1996-08-01

This report documents all continental tests from September 15, 1961, through September 23, 1992, from which radioactive effluents were released. The report includes both updated information previously published in the publicly available May, 1990 report, DOE/NV-317, ''Radiological Effluents Released from Announced US Continental Tests 1961 through 1988'', and effluent release information on formerly unannounced tests. General information provided for each test includes the date, time, location, type of test, sponsoring laboratory and/or agency or other sponsor, depth of burial, purpose, yield or yield range, extent of release (onsite only or offsite), and category of release (detonation-time versus post-test operations). Where a test with simultaneous detonations is listed, location, depth of burial and yield information are given for each detonation if applicable, as well as the specific source of the release. A summary of each release incident by type of release is included. For a detonation-time release, the effluent curies are expressed at R+12 hours. For a controlled releases from tunnel-tests, the effluent curies are expressed at both time of release and at R+12 hours. All other types are listed at the time of the release. In addition, a qualitative statement of the isotopes in the effluent is included for detonation-time and controlled releases and a quantitative listing is included for all other types. Offsite release information includes the cloud direction, the maximum activity detected in the air offsite, the maximum gamma exposure rate detected offsite, the maximum iodine level detected offsite, and the maximum distance radiation was detected offsite. A release summary incudes whatever other pertinent information is available for each release incident. This document includes effluent release information for 433 tests, some of which have simultaneous detonations. However, only 52 of these are designated as having offsite releases

Radiological effluents released from US continental tests, 1961 through 1992. Revision 1

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Schoengold, C.R.; DeMarre, M.E.; Kirkwood, E.M.

1996-08-01

This report documents all continental tests from September 15, 1961, through September 23, 1992, from which radioactive effluents were released. The report includes both updated information previously published in the publicly available May, 1990 report, DOE/NV-317, ``Radiological Effluents Released from Announced US Continental Tests 1961 through 1988``, and effluent release information on formerly unannounced tests. General information provided for each test includes the date, time, location, type of test, sponsoring laboratory and/or agency or other sponsor, depth of burial, purpose, yield or yield range, extent of release (onsite only or offsite), and category of release (detonation-time versus post-test operations). Where a test with simultaneous detonations is listed, location, depth of burial and yield information are given for each detonation if applicable, as well as the specific source of the release. A summary of each release incident by type of release is included. For a detonation-time release, the effluent curies are expressed at R+12 hours. For a controlled releases from tunnel-tests, the effluent curies are expressed at both time of release and at R+12 hours. All other types are listed at the time of the release. In addition, a qualitative statement of the isotopes in the effluent is included for detonation-time and controlled releases and a quantitative listing is included for all other types. Offsite release information includes the cloud direction, the maximum activity detected in the air offsite, the maximum gamma exposure rate detected offsite, the maximum iodine level detected offsite, and the maximum distance radiation was detected offsite. A release summary incudes whatever other pertinent information is available for each release incident. This document includes effluent release information for 433 tests, some of which have simultaneous detonations. However, only 52 of these are designated as having offsite releases.

Modeling natural emissions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model - Part 1: Building an emissions data base

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Smith, S. N.; Mueller, S. F.

2010-01-01

A natural emissions inventory for the continental United States and surrounding territories is needed in order to use the US Environmental Protection Agency Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model for simulating natural air quality. The CMAQ air modeling system (including the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) emissions processing system) currently estimates volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from biogenic sources, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from soils, ammonia from animals, several types of particulate and reactive gas emissions from fires, as well as windblown dust and sea salt emissions. However, there are several emission categories that are not commonly treated by the standard CMAQ Model system. Most notable among these are nitrogen oxide emissions from lightning, reduced sulfur emissions from oceans, geothermal features and other continental sources, and reactive chlorine gas emissions linked with sea salt chloride. A review of past emissions modeling work and existing global emissions data bases provides information and data necessary for preparing a more complete natural emissions data base for CMAQ applications. A model-ready natural emissions data base is developed to complement the anthropogenic emissions inventory used by the VISTAS Regional Planning Organization in its work analyzing regional haze based on the year 2002. This new data base covers a modeling domain that includes the continental United States plus large portions of Canada, Mexico and surrounding oceans. Comparing July 2002 source data reveals that natural emissions account for 16% of total gaseous sulfur (sulfur dioxide, dimethylsulfide and hydrogen sulfide), 44% of total NOx, 80% of reactive carbonaceous gases (VOCs and carbon monoxide), 28% of ammonia, 96% of total chlorine (hydrochloric acid, nitryl chloride and sea salt chloride), and 84% of fine particles (i.e., those smaller than 2.5 μm in size) released into the atmosphere. The seasonality and

Growth of the continental crust: constraints from radiogenic isotope geochemistry

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Taylor, P.N.

1988-01-01

Most models for evolution of continental crust are expressed in the form of a diagram illustrating the cumulative crustal mass (normalized relative to the present crustal mass) as a function of time. Thus, geochronological data inevitably play a major role in either constructing or testing crustal growth models. For all models, determining the start-time for effective crustal accretion is of vital importance. To this end, the continuing search for, and reliable characterization of, the most ancient crustal rock-units remains a worthy enterprise. Another important role for geochronology and radiogenic isotope geochemistry is to assess the status of major geological events as period either of new crust generation or of reworking of earlier formed continental crust. For age characterization of major geological provinces, using the critieria outined, the mass (or volume) of crust surviving to the present day should be determinable as a function of crust formation age. More recent developments, however, appear to set severe limitations on recycling of crust, at least by the process of sediment subduction. In modeling crustal growth without recycling, valuable constaints on growth rate variations through time can be provided if variations in the average age of the continental crust can be monitored through geological history. The question of the average age of the exposed continental crust was addressed by determining Sm-Nd crustal residence model ages (T-CR) for fine-grained sediment loads of many of the world's major rivers

Topographic features over the continental shelf off Visakhapatnam

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Rao, T.C.S.; Machado, T.; Murthy, K.S.R.

water depth and the continental shelfedge several interesting topographic features such as Terraces, Karstic structures associated with pinnacles and troughs and smooth dome shaped reef structures are recorded. The nature of these features...

Terrigenous sediment supply along the Chilean continental margin: modern regional patterns of texture and composition

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Lamy, F.; Hebbeln, D.; Wefer, G.

The regional patterns of texture and composition of modern continental slope and pelagic sediments off Chile between 25°S and 43°S reflect the latitudinal segmentation of geological, morphological, and climatic features of the continental hinterland. Grain-size characteristics are controlled by the grain-size of source rocks, the weathering regime, and mode of sediment input (eolian off northern Chile vs fluvial further south). Bulk-mineral assemblages reveal a low grade of maturity. Regional variations are governed by the source-rock composition of the different geological terranes and the relative source-rock contribution of the Coastal Range and Andes, as controlled by the continental hydrology. The relative abundance of clay minerals is also predominantly influenced by the source-rock composition and partly by continental smectite neoformation. Latitudinal variations of illite crystallinities along the Chilean continental slope (and west of the Peru-Chile trench) clearly reflect modifications of the weathering regime which correspond to the strong climatic zonation of Chile.

Gestión de la propiedad: coordinación-registro de la propiedad y catastro

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Berné Valero, José Luis

2003-12-01

Full Text Available One of the expected objectives in the development of this article is to reflect the state of the Coordination between the Register of Survey of Lands and the Cadastre, with a review of the most recent history (from the beginning of the XXth century, taking into account the legislation during this period and the one that exists actually. Pointing out the last legislative intends, referring to a common identification between the cadastral areas and the registrable estates: the cadastral reference; and the imminent implantation of the cadastral cartography in the Register of Survey of Lands with the project GEOBASE.

[es] Uno de los objetivos buscados en el desarrollo de este artículo, es reflejar el estado de la Coordinación entre el Registro de la Propiedad y el Catastro a través de un breve repaso por la historia más reciente (a partir de principios del siglo XX con la exposición de la legislación durante ese periodo y la legislación que actualmente rige. Destacando los últimos intentos legislativos, referentes a un identificador común entre las parcelas catastrales y las fincas regístrales: la referencia catastral; y la inminente implantación de la cartografía catastral en los Registros de la Propiedad mediante el Proyecto GEOBASE. [fr] Un des objectifs cherchés avec le développement de cet article est refléter l'état de la coordination entre l'Enregistrement de la Propriété et le Cadastre, en révisant l'histoire plus récent (à partir du début du siècle XX, avec l'exposition de la législation pendant ce période là et la législation actuelle. En remancant les dernières tentatives législatives, en accord à un indicateur commun qui existe entre les terrains cadastraux et les états enregistrables: la référence cadastrale; et l'imminent implantation de la cartographie cadastrale aux Enregistrements de la Propriété avec le projet GEOBASE.

Precambrian continental crustal evolution of Southeastern Sao Paulo state - Brazil: based on isotopic evidences

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Tassinari, C.C.G.

1988-01-01

The isotopic studies on granitic intrusions, orthogneissic rocks and migmatitic terranes in the Southeastern Sao Paulo are presented, indicating the age and the geochemical nature of the continental crust of this area. Approximately 300 Ar, Sr and Pb isotopic age determinations are included in this paper, categorized as to their reliability and significance. Looking for the continental crust growth related to the geological time, at the end of the lower Proterozoic, at least 85% of the continental crust has already accreted and differentiated. (C.G.C.)

Considering bioactivity in modelling continental growth and the Earth's evolution

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Höning, D.; Spohn, T.

2013-09-01

The complexity of planetary evolution increases with the number of interacting reservoirs. On Earth, even the biosphere is speculated to interact with the interior. It has been argued (e.g., Rosing et al. 2006; Sleep et al, 2012) that the formation of continents could be a consequence of bioactivity harvesting solar energy through photosynthesis to help build the continents and that the mantle should carry a chemical biosignature. Through plate tectonics, the surface biosphere can impact deep subduction zone processes and the interior of the Earth. Subducted sediments are particularly important, because they influence the Earth's interior in several ways, and in turn are strongly influenced by the Earth's biosphere. In our model, we use the assumption that a thick sedimentary layer of low permeability on top of the subducting oceanic crust, caused by a biologically enhanced weathering rate, can suppress shallow dewatering. This in turn leads to greater vailability of water in the source region of andesitic partial melt, resulting in an enhanced rate of continental production and regassing rate into the mantle. Our model includes (i) mantle convection, (ii) continental erosion and production, and (iii) mantle water degassing at mid-ocean ridges and regassing at subduction zones. The mantle viscosity of our model depends on (i) the mantle water concentration and (ii) the mantle temperature, whose time dependency is given by radioactive decay of isotopes in the Earth's mantle. Boundary layer theory yields the speed of convection and the water outgassing rate of the Earth's mantle. Our results indicate that present day values of continental surface area and water content of the Earth's mantle represent an attractor in a phase plane spanned by both parameters. We show that the biologic enhancement of the continental erosion rate is important for the system to reach this fixed point. An abiotic Earth tends to reach an alternative stable fixed point with a smaller

Identificação morfológica e molecular de Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae e ampliação de seu registro de ocorrência no Brasil

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Alexandre Specht

2013-06-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever métodos para a caracterização morfológica e molecular de Helicoverpa armigera e ampliar o registro de ocorrência da praga no Brasil. As mariposas foram obtidas de lagartas coletadas nas culturas de algodão, milho e soja, com uso de armadilhas luminosas. As coletas foram realizadas na Bahia, no Distrito Federal, no Mato Grosso e no Paraná. A identificação foi baseada na genitália masculina e nas análises das sequências dos genes mitocondriais do citocromo B e da região cox1-tRNALeu-cox2. A genitália masculina foi comparada com as descrições morfológicas na literatura, e as sequências de genes, com as depositadas no GenBank. Ambas as análises confirmaram a presença de H. armigera nos locais de coleta. Ampliou-se o registro de ocorrência da praga para a região Sul do país.

and three-dimensional gravity modeling along western continental ...

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weaknesses (lineaments) along the path of Indian plate motion over the Réunion hotspot. .... Tectonic map of western and central parts of peninsular India showing the western continental ... basaltic layers and their theoretical gravitational.

A relatively reduced Hadean continental crust

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Yang, Xiaozhi; Gaillard, Fabrice; Scaillet, Bruno

2014-05-01

Among the physical and chemical parameters used to characterize the Earth, oxidation state, as reflected by its prevailing oxygen fugacity (fO2), is a particularly important one. It controls many physicochemical properties and geological processes of the Earth's different reservoirs, and affects the partitioning of elements between coexisting phases and the speciation of degassed volatiles in melts. In the past decades, numerous studies have been conducted to document the evolution of mantle and atmospheric oxidation state with time and in particular the possible transition from an early reduced state to the present oxidized conditions. So far, it has been established that the oxidation state of the uppermost mantle is within ±2 log units of the quartz-fayalite-magnetite (QFM) buffer, probably back to ~4.4 billion years ago (Ga) based on trace-elements studies of mantle-derived komatiites, kimberlites, basalts, volcanics and zircons, and that the O2 levels of atmosphere were initially low and rose markedly ~2.3 Ga known as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), progressively reaching its present oxidation state of ~10 log units above QFM. In contrast, the secular evolution of oxidation state of the continental crust, an important boundary separating the underlying upper mantle from the surrounding atmosphere and buffering the exchanges and interactions between the Earth's interior and exterior, has rarely been addressed, although the presence of evolved crustal materials on the Earth can be traced back to ~4.4 Ga, e.g. by detrital zircons. Zircon is a common accessory mineral in nature, occurring in a wide variety of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, and is almost ubiquitous in crustal rocks. The physical and chemical durability of zircons makes them widely used in geochemical studies in terms of trace-elements, isotopes, ages and melt/mineral inclusions; in particular, zircons are persistent under most crustal conditions and can survive many secondary

New localities and altitudinal records for the snakes Oxyrhopus petolarius, Spilotes pullatus, and Urotheca fulviceps in Talamanca, Costa Rica Nuevas localidades y registros de elevación de las serpientes Oxyrhopus petolarius, Spilotes pullatus y Urotheca fulviceps en Talamanca, Costa Rica

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José F. González-Maya

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Distribution records are the basis for conservation planning and species conservation assessments. New locality and elevation records are reported for 2 dipsadid snakes (Oxyrhopus petolarius and Urotheca fulviceps and 1 colubrid (Spilotes pullatus from the Talamanca mountain range of Costa Rica as established by direct sightings. These new records represent important additions to the knowledge of the species and more generally for the Talamanca ecoregion.Los registros de distribución de especies son la base para la planificación y evaluación del estado de conservación de éstas y los ecosistemas en que habitan. Se presentan 3 nuevas localidades y registros de elevación de 2 especies de dipsádidos (Oxyrhopus petolarius y Urotheca fulviceps y 1 especie de colúbrido (Spilotes pullatus en la cordillera de Talamanca, con base en observaciones directas. Estos registros representan importantes adiciones tanto para la ecoregión de Talamanca, como para el aumento significativo en el conocimiento de estas especies.

New Insight Into The Crustal Structure of The Continental Margin Off NW Sabah/borneo

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Barckhausen, U.; Franke, D.; Behain, D.; Meyer, H.

The continental margin offshore NW Sabah/Borneo (Malaysia) has been investigated with reflection and refraction seismics, magnetics, and gravity during the recent cruise BGR01-POPSCOMS. A total of 4000 km of geophysical profiles has been acquired, thereof 2900 km with reflection seismics. Like in major parts of the South China Sea, the area seaward of the Sabah Trough consists of extended continental lithosphere. We found evidence that the continental crust also underlies the continental slope land- ward of the Trough, a fact that raises many questions about the tectonic history and development of this margin. The characteristic pattern of rotated fault blocks and half grabens and the carbon- ates which are observed all over the Dangerous Grounds can be traced a long way landward of the Sabah Trough beneath the sedimentary succession of the upper plate. The magnetic anomalies which are dominated by the magnetic signatures of relatively young volcanic features also continue under the continental slope. The sedimentary rocks of the upper plate, in contrast, seem to generate hardly any magnetic anoma- lies. We suspect that the volcanic activity coincided with the collision of Borneo and the Dangerous Grounds in middle or late Miocene time. The emplacement of an al- lochtonous terrane on top of the extended continental lithosphere could be explained by overthrusting as a result of the collision or it could be related to gravity sliding following a broad uplift of NW Borneo at the same time.

The CHRONOS mission: capability for sub-hourly synoptic observations of carbon monoxide and methane to quantify emissions and transport of air pollution

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Edwards, David P.; Worden, Helen M.; Neil, Doreen; Francis, Gene; Valle, Tim; Arellano, Avelino F., Jr.

2018-02-01

The CHRONOS space mission concept provides time-resolved abundance for emissions and transport studies of the highly variable and highly uncertain air pollutants carbon monoxide and methane, with sub-hourly revisit rate at fine (˜ 4 km) horizontal spatial resolution across a North American domain. CHRONOS can provide complete synoptic air pollution maps (snapshots) of the continental domain with less than 10 min of observations. This rapid mapping enables visualization of air pollution transport simultaneously across the entire continent and enables a sentinel-like capability for monitoring evolving, or unanticipated, air pollution sources in multiple locations at the same time with high temporal resolution. CHRONOS uses a compact imaging gas filter correlation radiometer for these observations, with heritage from more than 17 years of scientific data and algorithm advances by the science teams for the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft in low Earth orbit. To achieve continental-scale sub-hourly sampling, the CHRONOS mission would be conducted from geostationary orbit, with the instrument hosted on a communications or meteorological platform. CHRONOS observations would contribute to an integrated observing system for atmospheric composition using surface, suborbital and satellite data with atmospheric chemistry models, as defined by the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites. Addressing the U.S. National Academy's 2007 decadal survey direction to characterize diurnal changes in tropospheric composition, CHRONOS observations would find direct societal applications for air quality management and forecasting to protect public health.

Submerged reef systems on the central western continental shelf of India

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Vora, K.H.; Almeida, F.

-262 255 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam -- Printed in the Netherlands Letter Section Submerged Reef Systems on the Central Western Continental Shelf of India K.H. VORA and F. ALMEIDA National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa 403... 004 (India) (Revision accepted October 26, 1989) Abstract Vora, K.H. and Almeida, F., 1990. Submerged reef systems on the central western continental shelf of India. Mar. Geol., 91: 255-262. Echosounding and sidescan sonar data from the western...

Geology of the continental margin beneath Santa Monica Bay, Southern California, from seismic-reflection data

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Fisher, M.A.; Normark, W.R.; Bohannon, R.G.; Sliter, R.W.; Calvert, A.J.

2003-01-01

We interpret seismic-reflection data, which were collected in Santa Monica Bay using a 70-in3 generator-injector air gun, to show the geologic structure of the continental shelf and slope and of the deep-water, Santa Monica and San Pedro Basins. The goal of this research is to investigate the earthquake hazard posed to urban areas by offshore faults. These data reveal that northwest of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the Palos Verdes Fault neither offsets the seafloor nor cuts through an undeformed sediment apron that postdates the last sea level rise. Other evidence indicates that this fault extends northwest beneath the shelf in the deep subsurface. However, other major faults in the study area, such as the Dume and San Pedro Basin Faults, were active recently, as indicated by an arched seafloor and offset shallow sediment. Rocks under the lower continental slope are deformed to differing degrees on opposite sides of Santa Monica Canyon. Northwest of this canyon, the continental slope is underlain by a little-deformed sediment apron; the main structures that deform this apron are two lower-slope anticlines that extend toward Point Dume and are cored by faults showing reverse or thrust separation. Southeast of Santa Monica Canyon, lower-slope rocks are deformed by a complex arrangement of strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults. The San Pedro Escarpment rises abruptly along the southeast side of Santa Monica Canyon. Reverse faults and folds underpinning this escarpment steepen progressively southeastward. Locally they form flower structures and cut downward into basement rocks. These faults merge downward with the San Pedro Basin fault zone, which is nearly vertical and strike slip. The escarpment and its attendant structures diverge from this strike-slip fault zone and extend for 60 km along the margin, separating the continental shelf from the deep-water basins. The deep-water Santa Monica Basin has large extent but is filled with only a thin (less than 1.5-km

Linking agricultural crop management and air quality models for regional to national-scale nitrogen assessments

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Cooter, E. J.; Bash, J. O.; Benson, V.; Ran, L.

2012-10-01

While nitrogen (N) is an essential element for life, human population growth and demands for energy, transportation and food can lead to excess nitrogen in the environment. A modeling framework is described and implemented to promote a more integrated, process-based and system-level approach to the estimation of ammonia (NH3) emissions which result from the application of inorganic nitrogen fertilizers to agricultural soils in the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model is used to simulate plant demand-driven fertilizer applications to commercial cropland throughout the continental US. This information is coupled with a process-based air quality model to produce continental-scale NH3 emission estimates. Regional cropland NH3 emissions are driven by the timing and amount of inorganic NH3 fertilizer applied, soil processes, local meteorology, and ambient air concentrations. Initial fertilizer application often occurs when crops are planted. A state-level evaluation of EPIC-simulated, cumulative planted area compares well with similar USDA reported estimates. EPIC-annual, inorganic fertilizer application amounts also agree well with reported spatial patterns produced by others, but domain-wide the EPIC values are biased about 6% low. Preliminary application of the integrated fertilizer application and air quality modeling system produces a modified geospatial pattern of seasonal NH3 emissions that improves current simulations of observed atmospheric particle nitrate concentrations. This modeling framework provides a more dynamic, flexible, and spatially and temporally resolved estimate of NH3 emissions than previous factor-based NH3 inventories, and will facilitate evaluation of alternative nitrogen and air quality policy and adaptation strategies associated with future climate and land use changes.

Registros de zopilote rey (Sarcoramphus papa en el área de Laguna de Términos, Campeche, México

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Mircea Hidalgo-Mihart

2012-07-01

Full Text Available Reportamos la presencia de dos individuos juveniles de zopilote rey, Sarcoramphus papa, en la Selva La Montaña localizada al suroeste del Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Silvestre Laguna de Términos, Campeche, México. Realizamos el registro por medio de fotografías utilizando cámaras trampa. La presencia de esta especie protegida en el área evidencia la importancia que tiene la región de la Selva La Montaña para la conservación de la biodiversidad, especialmente para especies en peligro de extinción.

Registros de zopilote rey (Sarcoramphus papa) en el área de Laguna de Términos, Campeche, México

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Mircea Hidalgo-Mihart; Fernando M. Contreras-Moreno; Luz A. Pérez-Solano

2012-01-01

Reportamos la presencia de dos individuos juveniles de zopilote rey, Sarcoramphus papa, en la Selva La Montaña localizada al suroeste del Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Silvestre Laguna de Términos, Campeche, México. Realizamos el registro por medio de fotografías utilizando cámaras trampa. La presencia de esta especie protegida en el área evidencia la importancia que tiene la región de la Selva La Montaña para la conservación de la biodiversidad, especialmente para especies en peligro d...

Double subduction of continental lithosphere, a key to form wide plateau

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Replumaz, Anne; Funiciello, Francesca; Reitano, Riccardo; Faccenna, Claudio; Balon, Marie

2016-04-01

The mechanisms involved in the creation of the high and wide topography, like the Tibetan Plateau, are still controversial. In particular, the behaviour of the indian and asian lower continental lithosphere during the collision is a matter of debate, either thickening, densifying and delaminating, or keeping its rigidity and subducting. But since several decades seismicity, seismic profiles and global tomography highlight the lithospheric structure of the Tibetan Plateau, and make the hypotheses sustaining the models more precise. In particular, in the western syntaxis, it is now clear that the indian lithosphere subducts northward beneath the Hindu Kush down to the transition zone, while the asian one subducts southward beneath Pamir (e.g. Negredo et al., 2007; Kufner et al., 2015). Such double subduction of continental lithospheres with opposite vergence has also been inferred in the early collision time. Cenozoic volcanic rocks between 50 and 30 Ma in the Qiangtang block have been interpreted as related to an asian subduction beneath Qiangtang at that time (De Celles et al., 2011; Guillot and Replumaz, 2013). We present here analogue experiments silicone/honey to explore the subduction of continental lithosphere, using a piston as analogue of far field forces. We explore the parameters that control the subductions dynamics of the 2 continental lithospheres and the thickening of the plates at the surface, and compare with the Tibetan Plateau evolution. We show that a continental lithosphere is able to subduct in a collision context, even lighter than the mantle, if the plate is rigid enough. In that case the horizontal force due to the collision context, modelled by the piston push transmitted by the indenter, is the driving force, not the slab pull which is negative. It is not a subduction driving by the weight of the slab, but a subduction induced by the collision, that we could call "collisional subduction".

Dynamics of tidal and non-tidal currents along the southwest continental shelf of India

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Aruna, C.; Ravichandran, C.; Srinivas, K.; Rasheed, P.A.A.; Lekshmi, S.

are predominantly mixed, semidiurnal in nature. Motion over any continental shelf is governed by the tide-driven oscillatory flow. In this paper, tidal and non-tidal characteristics of the waters of Southwest continental shelf of India are assessed using...

Variability in measured current structure on the southwest continental shelf of India

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DineshKumar, P.K.; Srinivas, K.

-1 Variability in Measured Current Structure on the Southwest Continental Shelf of India P.K. Dinesh Kumar and K. Srinivas National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre P.O.Box 1913, Cochin - 682018,India Email: dineshku@niokochi.org ABSTRACT... WORDS: Direct current measurements, tidal currents, southwest coast of India. INTRODUCTION The circulation pattern of the eastern Arabian Sea over the southwest continental shelf of India (inferred...

Climate change, air pollution and human health in Sydney, Australia: A review of the literature

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Dean, Annika; Green, Donna

2018-05-01

Sydney is Australia’s largest city and is growing rapidly. Although Sydney’s air quality is relatively good compared to the major cities in many industrialised countries, particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O3) occasionally exceed the national health standards and are the cause of premature mortalities and hospital admissions. Numerous studies from overseas (e.g. North America and continental Europe) suggest that climate change may impact air quality to the detriment of human health. There is limited knowledge about how climate change may impact air quality in Sydney. This study reviews the available literature on the impacts of climate change on air quality related health impacts in Sydney to identify knowledge and research gaps. Where no studies are available for Sydney, it draws on relevant studies from other Australian cities and overseas. Our findings summarise what is known about how climate change may impact air quality in Sydney and where research gaps exist. This approach can facilitate research agendas, policies and planning strategies that mitigate public health impacts and tackle climate change and air pollution in a coordinated way.

Seaweed culture and continental shelf protection

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Przhemenetskaya, V F

1985-07-01

The initial impression that the resources of the oceans were limitless has been replaced by a more rational appreciation that everything has its limits, including the seemingly infinite resources of marine plant life. In addition, experience in California, Australia, China, Japan and Korea has demonstrated that depletion of seaweed resources for commercial utilization has a deleterious effect on the biocenotic status of the continental shelf. In view of this, many countries, such as Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines and the USSR, have embarked on aquaculture programs, in which seaweeds are cultivated on marine plantations. Successful developments in this direction should go a long way to preserving the natural ecologic balance on the continental shelf, and yet provide mankind with the resources of the deep. Many difficulties remain to be resolved before aquaculture programs become fully cost effective, one of which deals with the susceptibility of a monoculture to a given predator or disease. To that end, such programs necessitate the creation of well balanced systems that would support a variety of marine plant and animal life without an adverse effect on the desired crop. 4 references, 6 figures.

Fractal behavior in continental crustal heat production

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Vedanti, N.; Srivastava, R. P.; Pandey, O. P.; Dimri, V. P.

2011-02-01

The distribution of crustal heat production, which is the most important component in the elucidation of continental thermal structure, still remains a theoretical assumption. In general the heat production values must decrease with depth, but the form of decrease of heat production in the crust is not well understood. The commonly used heat production models are: "block model", in which heat production is constant from the surface to a given depth and the "exponential model", in which heat production diminishes as an exponential function of depth. The exponential model is more widely used wherein sources of the errors are heterogeneity of rock and long wavelength changes due to changes in lithology and tectonic elements, and as such exponential distribution does not work satisfactorily for the entire crust. In the present study, we analyze for the first time, deep crustal heat production data of six global areas namely Dharwar craton (India), Kaapvaal craton (South Africa), Baltic shield (Kola, Russia), Hidaka metamorphic belt (Japan), Nissho pluton (Japan) and Continental Deep Drilling site (KTB, Germany). The power spectrum of all the studied data sets exhibits power law behaviour. This would mean slower decay of heat production with depth, which conforms to the known geologic composition of the crust. Minimum value of the scaling exponent has been found for the KTB borehole, which is apparently related to higher heat production of gneisses, however for other study areas, scaling exponent is almost similar. We also found that the lower values of scaling exponents are related to higher heat production in the crust as is the case in KTB. Present finding has a direct relevance in computation of temperature-depth profiles in continental regions.

Validating a continental-scale groundwater diffuse pollution model using regional datasets.

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Ouedraogo, Issoufou; Defourny, Pierre; Vanclooster, Marnik

2017-12-11

In this study, we assess the validity of an African-scale groundwater pollution model for nitrates. In a previous study, we identified a statistical continental-scale groundwater pollution model for nitrate. The model was identified using a pan-African meta-analysis of available nitrate groundwater pollution studies. The model was implemented in both Random Forest (RF) and multiple regression formats. For both approaches, we collected as predictors a comprehensive GIS database of 13 spatial attributes, related to land use, soil type, hydrogeology, topography, climatology, region typology, nitrogen fertiliser application rate, and population density. In this paper, we validate the continental-scale model of groundwater contamination by using a nitrate measurement dataset from three African countries. We discuss the issue of data availability, and quality and scale issues, as challenges in validation. Notwithstanding that the modelling procedure exhibited very good success using a continental-scale dataset (e.g. R 2  = 0.97 in the RF format using a cross-validation approach), the continental-scale model could not be used without recalibration to predict nitrate pollution at the country scale using regional data. In addition, when recalibrating the model using country-scale datasets, the order of model exploratory factors changes. This suggests that the structure and the parameters of a statistical spatially distributed groundwater degradation model for the African continent are strongly scale dependent.

USArray Imaging of Continental Crust in the Conterminous United States

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Ma, Xiaofei; Lowry, Anthony R.

2017-12-01

The thickness and bulk composition of continental crust provide important constraints on the evolution and dynamics of continents. Crustal mineralogy and thickness both may influence gravity anomalies, topographic elevation, and lithospheric strength, but prior to the inception of EarthScope's USArray, seismic measurements of crustal thickness and properties useful for inferring lithology are sparse. Here we improve upon a previously published methodology for joint inversion of Bouguer gravity anomalies and seismic receiver functions by using parameter space stacking of cross correlations of modeled synthetic and observed receiver functions instead of standard H-κ amplitude stacking. The new method is applied to estimation of thickness and bulk seismic velocity ratio, vP/vS, of continental crust in the conterminous United States using USArray and other broadband network data. Crustal thickness variations are reasonably consistent with those found in other studies and show interesting relationships to the history of North American continental formation. Seismic velocity ratios derived in this study are more robust than in other analyses and hint at large-scale variations in composition of continental crust. To interpret the results, we model the pressure-/temperature-dependent thermodynamics of mineral formation for various crustal chemistries, with and without volatile constituents. Our results suggest that hydration lowers bulk crustal vP/vS and density and releases heat in the shallow crust but absorbs heat in the lowermost crust (where plagioclase breaks down to pyroxene and garnet resulting in higher seismic velocity). Hence, vP/vS variations may provide a useful proxy for hydration state in the crust.

Quaternary development of resilient reefs on the subsiding kimberley continental margin, Northwest Australia

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Lindsay B. Collins

2010-01-01

Full Text Available The Kimberley region in remote northwest Australia has poorly known reef systems of two types; coastal fringing reefs and atoll-like shelf-edge reefs. As a major geomorphic feature (from 12ºS to 18ºS situated along a subsiding continental margin, the shelf edge reefs are in a tropical realm with warm temperatures, relatively low salinity, clear low nutrient waters lacking sediment input, and Indo-West Pacific corals of moderate diversity. Seismic architecture of the Rowley Shoals reveals that differential pre-Holocene subsidence and relative elevation of the pre-Holocene substrate have controlled lagoon sediment infill and reef morphology, forming an evolutionary series reflecting differential accommodation in three otherwise similar reef systems. The Holocene core described for North Scott Reef confirms previous seismic interpretations, and provides a rare ocean-facing reef record. It demonstrates that the Indo-Pacific reef growth phase (RG111 developed during moderate rates of sea level rise of 10 mm/year from 11 to about 7-6.5 ka BP until sea level stabilization, filling the available 27 m of pre-Holocene accommodation. Despite the medium to high hydrodynamic energy imposed by the 4m tides, swell waves and cyclones the reef-building communities represent relatively low-wave energy settings due to their southeast facing and protection afforded by the proximity of the South Reef platform. This study demonstrates the resilience of reefs on the subsiding margin whilst linking Holocene reef morphology to the relative amount of pre-Holocene subsidence.Kimberly é uma região remota e pouco conhecida, localizada no noroeste da Austrália, ali são encontrados dois sistemas recifais: recifes costeiros de franja e os tipo-atois localizados na margem da plataforma continental. Esses recifes formam a feição geomórfica mais importante entre 12ºS a 18ºS estando localizados ao longo de uma margem continental em subsidência. Esses recifes encontram

Debris Flows and Water Tracks in Continental Antarctica: Water as a geomorphic agent in a hyperarid polar desert

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Hauber, E.; Sassenroth, C.; De Vera, J.-P.; Schmitz, N.; Reiss, D.; Hiesinger, H.; Johnsson, A.

2017-09-01

Most studies using Antarctica as a Mars analogue have focused on the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which are among the coldest and driest places on Earth. However, other ice-free areas in continental Antarctica also display landforms that can inform the study of the possible geomorphic impact of water in a polar desert. Here we present a new analogue site in the interior of the Transantarctic Mountains in Northern Victoria Land. Gullies show unambiguous evidence for debris flows, and water tracks act as shallow subsurface pathways of water on top of the permafrost tale. Both processes are driven by meltwater from glacier ice and snow in an environ-ment which never experiences rainfall and in which the air temperatures probably never exceed 0°C.

Global Air Quality and Climate

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Fiore, Arlene M.; Naik, Vaishali; Steiner, Allison; Unger, Nadine; Bergmann, Dan; Prather, Michael; Righi, Mattia; Rumbold, Steven T.; Shindell, Drew T.; Skeie, Ragnhild B.;

Tortugas del Cretácico Inferior de la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica: el registro Hauteriviense-Barremiense de Vega de Pas (Cantabria)

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Pérez García, Adán; Murelaga, Xabier

2013-01-01

El registro de tortugas del Cretácico Inferior de España es muy abundante y diverso. Hasta ahora todos los hallazgos provenían de la Cordillera Ibérica. Se presenta aquí material de tortugas hallado en la Cuenca Vasco- Cantábrica. Estos ejemplares, provenientes del Hauteriviense-Barremiense de la Formación Vega de Pas (Cantabria), corresponden a placas tanto del espaldar como del plastrón. Se reconoce la presencia de un representante indeterminado de Eucryptodira, que difier...

New Insight Into the Crustal Structure of the Continental Margin offshore NW Sabah/Borneo

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Barckhausen, U.; Franke, D.; Behain, D.; Meyer, H.

2002-12-01

The continental margin offshore NW Sabah/Borneo (Malaysia) has been investigated with reflection and refraction seismics, magnetics, and gravity during the recent cruise BGR01-POPSCOMS. A total of 4000 km of geophysical profiles has been acquired, thereof 2900 km with reflection seismics. The focus of investigations was on the deep water areas. The margin looks like a typical accretionary margin and was presumably formed during the subduction of a proto South China Sea. Presently, no horizontal movements between the two plates are being observed. Like in major parts of the South China Sea, the area seaward of the Sabah Trough consists of extended continental lithosphere which is characterised by a pattern of rotated fault blocks and half grabens and a carbonate platform of Early Oligocene to Early Miocene age. We found evidence that the continental crust also underlies the Sabah Trough and the adjacent continental slope, a fact that raises many questions about the tectonic history and development of this margin. The tectonic pattern of the Dangerous Grounds' extended continental crust can be traced a long way landward of the Sabah Trough beneath the sedimentary succession of the upper plate. The magnetic anomalies which are dominated by the magnetic signatures of relatively young volcanic features also continue under the continental slope. The sedimentary rocks of the upper plate, in contrast, seem to generate hardly any magnetic anomalies. Based on the new data we propose the following scenario for the development of the NW Sabah continental margin: Seafloor spreading in the present South China Sea started at about 30 Ma in the Late Oligocene. The spreading process separated the Dangerous Grounds area from the SE Asian continent and ceased in late Early Miocene when the oceanic crust of the proto South China Sea was fully subducted in eastward direction along the Borneo-Palawan Trough. During Lower and/or Middle Miocene, Borneo rotated counterclockwise and was

Registro brasileiro de biológicos: processo de implementação e resultados preliminares do BiobadaBrasil Brazilian biologic registry: BiobadaBrasil implementation process and preliminary results

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2011-04-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVOS: O presente estudo teve por objetivo descrever o processo de implementação de um registro nacional em um país em desenvolvimento (Brasil e relatar os principais resultados preliminares do registro BiobadaBrasil. MATERAL E MÉTODOS: Através de um acordo com a PANLAR, o protocolo Biobadaser foi utilizado como modelo para a implementação de um novo registro no nosso país. Durante os dois primeiros anos desse esforço, o protocolo original foi adaptado, traduzido e apresentado a todos os reumatologistas brasileiros. Durante dez meses, dados de 1.037 pacientes (750 tratados com biológicos e 287 controles de 15 centros foram coletados. RESULTADOS: A maioria dos pacientes tinha artrite reumatoide (AR (n = 723. Infliximabe foi o agente anti-TNF mais usado, e a exposição total a biológicos foi 2.101 pacientes-ano. A razão mais comum para suspensão da droga foi ineficiência ou perda de efetividade (50%, e 30% dos pacientes interromperam o tratamento devido a eventos adversos. Três casos de tuberculose foram observados no grupo biológico, representando maior incidência do que aquela da população brasileira geral. Infecções foram observadas em 23% dos pacientes do grupo biológico, sendo o trato respiratório superior o local mais comumente afetado. Apenas um caso de hanseníase tuberculoide foi observado. Nenhuma morte nem malignidade atribuível ao efeito dos medicamentos foi observada até fevereiro de 2010. CONCLUSÕES: A implementação do registro foi bem sucedida. Embora recente, o registro BiobadaBrasil já forneceu importantes dados.OBJECTIVES: The present study aimed at describing the implementation process of a national registry in a developing country (Brazil and at reporting the main preliminary results of the BiobadaBrasil registry. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Through a PANLAR agreement, the Biobadaser protocol was used as a model for implementing the new registry in our country. During the first two years of this

Chlorine-36 dating of continental evaporites

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Huang Qi

1990-01-01

Teh chloring-36 production, principle and experimental method of 36 Cl dating are briefly described. The ages calculated from the 36 Cl/Cl ratios are generally concordant with those obtained by using 14 C, 230 Th and magnetostratigraphic techniques. It confirms the constancy of the chlorine input ratio over the last million years and implys that 36 Cl can provide accurate dates on continental saline sediments

Coordination: Southeast Continental Shelf studies. Progress report

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Menzel, D.W.

1981-02-01

An overview of the Oceanograhic Program of Skidaway Institute of Oceanograhy is presented. Included are the current five year plan for studies of the Southeast Continental Shelf, a summary of research accomplishments, proposed research for 1981-1982, current status of the Savannah Navigational Light Tower, and a list of publications. (ACR)

Nuevos registros, áreas de extensión y ocupación para los lagartos altoandinos endémicos de la Región de O’Higgins, Chile: Liolaemus curis, Liolaemus ubaghsi y Phymaturus damasense

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Diego Ramírez-Álvarez

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Se presentan los mapas de distribución actualizados, áreas de extensión y ocupación para tres especies de lagartos altoandinos (Squamata: Liolaemidae endémicos de la Región de O’Higgins, Chile: Liolaemus curis, Liolaemus ubaghsi y Phymaturus damasense, en base a la confirmación de los registros históricos para estas especies, y a nuevos registros obtenidos en actividades de prospección de fauna nativa de la Unidad de Vida Silvestre del SAG de la región de O’Higgins. Considerando las amenazas particulares que enfrentan sus poblaciones, y estos nuevos datos de distribución territorial, se sugiere actualizar sus estados de conservación.

Proceedings of the 10th world clean air congress. Emissions and control

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Tolvanen, M.; Anttila, P.; Kaemaeri, J.

1995-01-01

Rapid economical growth and expansion of human population have produced a number of environmental problems with varying geographic dimensions. While local problems remain near the pollution sources, the focus of the scientific community is more and more shifted towards regional, continental and global consequences of air pollutants. The theme of the 10th Clean Air Congress 'Growing Challenges from Local to Global' reflects the growing demand from the scientific and professional community working in air pollution prevention and environmental protection - more and more complex mechanisms should be understood on a growing spatial scale. The 10th World Clean Air Congress addresses in its more than 400 presentations, documented in three Volumes of Proceedings, the history, the present and the potential futures of the air pollution problems. Air has during different times always represented something valuable to people: the logo of the Congress, the octahedron sign, sympolizes the element of air in acient Greek philosophy. Today air quality is not only valued as important, it is a death serious matter. This Volume includes the presentations of the path A 'Emissions and Control' of the Congress. This path deals with issues related to measurement, monitoring and inventories of air pollutants from mobile and stationary sources, and the various ways to control the emissions of acidifying pollutants, air toxics and aerosols, volatile organic compounds, and odours. Integrated approaches to pollution prevention and non-waste technologies in various industrial sectors, have recently obtained special attention

Variability of Atmospheric Radon-222 and Secondary Aerosol Components in Accordance with Air Mass Transport Pathways at Jeju Island, Korea, during 2011-2014

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Bu, Jun-Oh; Song, Jung-Min; Kim, Won-Hyung; Kang, Chang-Hee [Jeju National University, Jeju (Korea, Republic of); Chambers, Scott D.; Williams, Alastair G. [Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Kirrawee DC (Australia); Lee, Chulkyu [Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)

2016-06-15

Real-time monitoring of hourly atmospheric Radon-222 concentration and three daily monitoring of the secondary aerosol components of PM{sub 10} were performed throughout 2011-2014 at Gosan station, Jeju Island, in order to characterize their background levels and temporal variation. The annual mean radon and PM{sub 10} mass concentrations were 2326 ± 1198 mBq/m{sup 3} and 37.1 ± 19.5 μg/m{sup 3}, respectively. Based on cluster analyses of air mass back trajectories, the frequencies of air masses originating from continental China, the Korean Peninsula, and North Pacific Ocean routes were 53, 28, and 19%, respectively. When the air masses were transported to Jeju Island from continental China, the concentrations of radon and secondary aerosol components (nss-SO{sub 4}{sup 2-}, NO{sub 3}{sup -}, NH{sub 4}{sup +}) were relatively high: 2577 mBq/m{sup 3} and 14.4 μg/m{sup 3}, respectively. In cases when the air masses have moved from the Korean Peninsula, the corresponding concentrations were 2247 mBq/m{sup 3} and 11.4 μg/m{sup 3}, respectively. On the other hand, when the air masses came from the North Pacific Ocean, their radon and secondary aerosol concentrations decreased much further, 1372 mBq/m{sup 3} and 10.5 μg/m{sup 3}, respectively. Consequently, the variability of atmospheric radon concentrations at Gosan station might be characterized by synoptic changes in air mass fetch as well as diurnal changes in atmospheric mixing depth.

The continental lithosphere

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Artemieva, Irina

2009-01-01

The goal of the present study is to extract non-thermal signal from seismic tomography models in order to distinguish compositional variations in the continental lithosphere and to examine if geochemical and petrologic constraints on global-scale compositional variations in the mantle...... are consistent with modern geophysical data. In the lithospheric mantle of the continents, seismic velocity variations of a non-thermal origin (calculated from global Vs seismic tomography data [Grand S.P., 2002. Mantle shear-wave tomography and the fate of subducted slabs. Philosophical Transactions...... and evolution of Precambrian lithosphere: A global study. Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 16387–16414.] show strong correlation with tectono-thermal ages and with regional variations in lithospheric thickness constrained by surface heat flow data and seismic velocities. In agreement with xenolith data...

Continental Arcs as Both Carbon Source and Sink in Regulating Long Term Climate

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Jiang, H.; Lee, C. T.

2017-12-01

The long-term variability of atmospheric pCO2 is determined by the balance between the rate of geologic inputs of CO­­2 (e.g., magmatic/metamorphic degassing, carbonate weathering) and the rate of carbonate precipitation driven by silicate weathering. The Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic was characterized by elevated atmospheric pCO2 and greenhouse climate, likely due to increased magmatic flux from mid-ocean ridges and, in particular, continental arcs. However, it has been suggested that continental arc magmatism is accompanied by rapid uplift and erosion due to magmatic/tectonic thickening of the crust, thus continental arcs likely enhance the chemical weathering flux, in turn increasing the carbon sink. To assess the contribution of continental arcs to global carbon inputs and sinks, we conducted a case study in the Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith (PRB) and associated forearc basin in southern California, USA, representing one segment of the Cretaceous Cordillera arc-forearc system. Arc magmatism occurred between 170-85 Ma, peaking at 100 Ma, but erosion of the arc continues into the early Eocene, with forearc sediments representing this protracted arc unroofing. During magmatism, we estimate the CO2 degassing flux from the PRB was at least 5-25*105 mol·km-2·yr-1. By calculating the depletion of Ca and Mg in the forearc sediments relative to their arc protoliths, we estimate the silicate weathering/carbonate precipitation flux to be 106 mol·km-2·yr-1 during Late Cretaceous magmatism, decreasing to 105 mol·km-2·yr-1 by the Early Eocene. We show that during active continental arc magmatism, the CO2 degassing flux is comparable to CO2 consumption driven by silicate weathering in the arc. However, after magmatism ends, a regional imbalance arises in which the arc no longer contributes to CO2 inputs but continued silicate weathering of the arc drives carbonate precipitation such that the arc indirectly becomes CO2 sink. We propose that the development of

Spatial analysis of toxic emissions in LCA: a sub-continental nested USEtox model with freshwater archetypes.

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Kounina, Anna; Margni, Manuele; Shaked, Shanna; Bulle, Cécile; Jolliet, Olivier

2014-08-01

This paper develops continent-specific factors for the USEtox model and analyses the accuracy of different model architectures, spatial scales and archetypes in evaluating toxic impacts, with a focus on freshwater pathways. Inter-continental variation is analysed by comparing chemical fate and intake fractions between sub-continental zones of two life cycle impact assessment models: (1) the nested USEtox model parameterized with sub-continental zones and (2) the spatially differentiated IMPACTWorld model with 17 interconnected sub-continental regions. Substance residence time in water varies by up to two orders of magnitude among the 17 zones assessed with IMPACTWorld and USEtox, and intake fraction varies by up to three orders of magnitude. Despite this variation, the nested USEtox model succeeds in mimicking the results of the spatially differentiated model, with the exception of very persistent volatile pollutants that can be transported to polar regions. Intra-continental variation is analysed by comparing fate and intake fractions modelled with the a-spatial (one box) IMPACT Europe continental model vs. the spatially differentiated version of the same model. Results show that the one box model might overestimate chemical fate and characterisation factors for freshwater eco-toxicity of persistent pollutants by up to three orders of magnitude for point source emissions. Subdividing Europe into three archetypes, based on freshwater residence time (how long it takes water to reach the sea), improves the prediction of fate and intake fractions for point source emissions, bringing them within a factor five compared to the spatial model. We demonstrated that a sub-continental nested model such as USEtox, with continent-specific parameterization complemented with freshwater archetypes, can thus represent inter- and intra-continental spatial variations, whilst minimizing model complexity. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Whither the UK Continental Shelf?

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Kemp, A.G.

1999-01-01

The development of the oil and gas fields on the United Kingdom continental shelf has been carried out with remarkable success. However, low oil prices now threaten fresh investment and make it likely that both oil and gas output will start to fall in about 2001. The impact of a number of different price scenarios on further development is assessed. It is concluded that continuing technological improvements and the provision of adequate incentives by government should ensure a long productive future for the province. (UK)

ISLSCP II Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Consumption by Continental Erosion

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration — ABSTRACT: The Continental Atmospheric CO2 Consumption data set represents gridded estimates for the riverine export of carbon and of sediments based on empirical...

Human Water Use Impacts on the Strength of the Continental Sink for Atmospheric Water

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Keune, Jessica; Sulis, Mauro; Kollet, Stefan; Siebert, Stefan; Wada, Yoshihide

2018-05-01

In the hydrologic cycle, continental landmasses constitute a sink for atmospheric moisture as annual terrestrial precipitation commonly exceeds evapotranspiration. Simultaneously, humans intervene in the hydrologic cycle and pump groundwater to sustain, for example, drinking water and food production. Here we use a coupled groundwater-to-atmosphere modeling platform, set up over the European continent, to study the influence of groundwater pumping and irrigation on the net atmospheric moisture import of the continental landmasses, which defines the strength of the continental sink. Water use scenarios are constructed to account for uncertainties of atmospheric feedback during the heatwave year 2003. We find that human water use induces groundwater-to-atmosphere feedback, which potentially weaken the continental sink over arid watersheds in southern Europe. This feedback is linked to groundwater storage, which suggests that atmospheric feedbacks to human water use may contribute to drying of watersheds, thereby raising water resources and socio-economic concerns beyond local sustainability considerations.

Identification of aerosol types over an urban site based on air-mass trajectory classification

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Pawar, G. V.; Devara, P. C. S.; Aher, G. R.

2015-10-01

Columnar aerosol properties retrieved from MICROTOPS II Sun Photometer measurements during 2010-2013 over Pune (18°32‧N; 73°49‧E, 559 m amsl), a tropical urban station in India, are analyzed to identify aerosol types in the atmospheric column. Identification/classification is carried out on the basis of dominant airflow patterns, and the method of discrimination of aerosol types on the basis of relation between aerosol optical depth (AOD500 nm) and Ångström exponent (AE, α). Five potential advection pathways viz., NW/N, SW/S, N, SE/E and L have been identified over the observing site by employing the NOAA-HYSPLIT air mass back trajectory analysis. Based on AE against AOD500 nm scatter plot and advection pathways followed five major aerosol types viz., continental average (CA), marine continental average (MCA), urban/industrial and biomass burning (UB), desert dust (DD) and indeterminate or mixed type (MT) have been identified. In winter, sector SE/E, a representative of air masses traversed over Bay of Bengal and Eastern continental Indian region has relatively small AOD (τpλ = 0.43 ± 0.13) and high AE (α = 1.19 ± 0.15). These values imply the presence of accumulation/sub-micron size anthropogenic aerosols. During pre-monsoon, aerosols from the NW/N sector have high AOD (τpλ = 0.61 ± 0.21), and low AE (α = 0.54 ± 0.14) indicating an increase in the loading of coarse-mode particles over Pune. Dominance of UB type in winter season for all the years (i.e. 2010-2013) may be attributed to both local/transported aerosols. During pre-monsoon seasons, MT is the dominant aerosol type followed by UB and DD, while the background aerosols are insignificant.

Continental Growth and Recycling in Convergent Orogens with Large Turbidite Fans on Oceanic Crust

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Ben D. Goscombe

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Convergent plate margins where large turbidite fans with slivers of oceanic basement are accreted to continents represent important sites of continental crustal growth and recycling. Crust accreted in these settings is dominated by an upper layer of recycled crustal and arc detritus (turbidites underlain by a layer of tectonically imbricated upper oceanic crust and/or thinned continental crust. When oceanic crust is converted to lower continental crust it represents a juvenile addition to the continental growth budget. This two-tiered accreted crust is often the same thickness as average continental crustal and is isostatically balanced near sea level. The Paleozoic Lachlan Orogen of eastern Australia is the archetypical example of a tubidite-dominated accretionary orogeny. The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Damaran Orogen of SW Africa is similar to the Lachlan Orogen except that it was incorporated into Gondwana via a continent-continent collision. The Mesozoic Rangitatan Orogen of New Zealand illustrates the transition of convergent margin from a Lachlan-type to more typical accretionary wedge type orogen. The spatial and temporal variations in deformation, metamorphism, and magmatism across these orogens illustrate how large volumes of turbidite and their relict oceanic basement eventually become stable continental crust. The timing of deformation and metamorphism recorded in these rocks reflects the crustal thickening phase, whereas post-tectonic magmatism constrains the timing of chemical maturation and cratonization. Cratonization of continental crust is fostered because turbidites represent fertile sources for felsic magmatism. Recognition of similar orogens in the Proterozoic and Archean is important for the evaluation of crustal growth models, particularly for those based on detrital zircon age patterns, because crustal growth by accretion of upper oceanic crust or mafic underplating does not readily result in the addition of voluminous zircon

Utilização de registros de dispensação de medicamentos na mensuração da adesão: revisão crítica da literatura

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Elisangela da Costa Lima-Dellamora

Full Text Available Resumo: O marco atual sobre a adesão à farmacoterapia compreende um conjunto de comportamentos experimentados pelo usuário em que se observa a trajetória detalhada e contínua do uso de cada dose do medicamento. Indicadores provenientes de registros de dispensação de medicamentos têm sido utilizados para a mensuração da adesão. A presente revisão visou a identificar e a caracterizar indicadores provenientes de registros de dispensação e a discutir sua adequação e limitações para mensuração da adesão. Foi realizada uma busca bibliográfica exploratória em três bases de dados a partir dos termos "adesão", "registros de farmácia/dados administrativos" e "medida" na composição dos descritores para a seleção de 81 artigos e elaboração de um quadro com a denominação, fontes, método de cálculo, descrição e interpretação do significado operacional e referencial de 14 indicadores. Tendo em vista a mais recente taxonomia da adesão proposta na literatura, concluiu-se que os indicadores encontrados podem ser úteis na identificação de pacientes com problemas relacionados ao comportamento de busca de medicamentos e na análise da persistência. A distância entre os eventos relacionados ao fornecimento e as dificuldades no seguimento da terapêutica podem influenciar a análise baseada exclusivamente no uso desses indicadores.

Registro bibliográfico y referencia bibliográfica: una revisión conceptual

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Catalina Naumis Peña

2008-01-01

Full Text Available En el presente trabajo se analiza la confusión entre registro bibliográfico y referencia bibliográfica,fruto quizás del uso del término bibliografía en el lenguaje natural. Este análisis se realiza a partir delreordenamiento en la nueva normatividad en curso y el significado en la teoría bibliográfica. En elmodelo conceptual internacional expresado en los Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records"(FRBR se explicita el uso de la misma normatividad tanto para descripciones catalográficas comobibliográficas. Organismos internacionales como la IFLA responden al vertiginoso crecimiento deinformación en diferentes soportes unificando la descripción de los mismos para orientar a losbibliógrafos del siglo XXI. La antigua dicotomía entre normas bibliográficas y reglas catalográficasdesaparece y permanecen los estilos de citas y referencias bibliográficas con datos mínimos paraacompañar los textos científicos, pero son insuficientes en un trabajo concebido desde una metodologíabibliográfica.

A noção de estrutura e os registros de informação dos sistemas documentários

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Cristina Dotta Ortega

Full Text Available Partindo da constatação de que os princípios e os métodos para construção e gestão dos sistemas documentários são dispersos e carecem de sistematização, este artigo levanta a hipótese de que a noção de estrutura, ao pressupor relações mútuas entre os seus elementos, confere maior organicidade aos sistemas e garante maior qualidade e consistência na recuperação da informação frente às questões dos usuários. Desse modo, objetiva explorar fundamentos, a partir da noção de estrutura, dos registros de informação e dos sistemas documentários. Para tanto, são apresentados conceitos básicos e questões relativas aos sistemas documentários e aos registros de informação. Posteriormente, elenca aportes teóricos sobre a noção de estrutura, tratados por Benveniste, Ferrater Mora, Hjelmslev, Lévi-Strauss, Lopes, Peñalver Simó, Saussure, além de Ducrot, Fávero e Koch, para então tratar das apropriações já realizadas pela Documentação por Paul Otlet, García Gutiérrez e Moreiro González. Conclui-se que a noção de estrutura adotada para tornar explícita uma hipótese de sistematização do real, a partir de um modelo, assegura maior organicidade aos sistemas, bem como confere referência pedagógica ao fazer documentário.

Fractal behavior in continental crustal heat production

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N. Vedanti

2011-02-01

Full Text Available The distribution of crustal heat production, which is the most important component in the elucidation of continental thermal structure, still remains a theoretical assumption. In general the heat production values must decrease with depth, but the form of decrease of heat production in the crust is not well understood. The commonly used heat production models are: "block model", in which heat production is constant from the surface to a given depth and the "exponential model", in which heat production diminishes as an exponential function of depth. The exponential model is more widely used wherein sources of the errors are heterogeneity of rock and long wavelength changes due to changes in lithology and tectonic elements, and as such exponential distribution does not work satisfactorily for the entire crust. In the present study, we analyze for the first time, deep crustal heat production data of six global areas namely Dharwar craton (India, Kaapvaal craton (South Africa, Baltic shield (Kola, Russia, Hidaka metamorphic belt (Japan, Nissho pluton (Japan and Continental Deep Drilling site (KTB, Germany. The power spectrum of all the studied data sets exhibits power law behaviour. This would mean slower decay of heat production with depth, which conforms to the known geologic composition of the crust. Minimum value of the scaling exponent has been found for the KTB borehole, which is apparently related to higher heat production of gneisses, however for other study areas, scaling exponent is almost similar. We also found that the lower values of scaling exponents are related to higher heat production in the crust as is the case in KTB. Present finding has a direct relevance in computation of temperature-depth profiles in continental regions.

Continental Ice Sheets and the Planetary Radiation Budget

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Oerlemans, J.

1980-01-01

The interaction between continental ice sheets and the planetary radiation budget is potentially important in climate-sensitivity studies. A simple ice-sheet model incorporated in an energybalance climate model provides a tool for studying this interaction in a quantitative way. Experiments in which

Insights into Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and biostratigraphy in southern Buenos Aires province (Argentina) from continental deposits

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Beilinson, E.; Gasparini, G. M.; Soibelzon, L. H.; Soibelzon, E.

2015-07-01

The coastal cliffs of the Buenos Aires province (Argentina) have been the subject of intense paleontological studies since the XIX century. Therefore, many of the type localities in which is based the late Cenozoic Pampean biostratigraphic/chronostratigraphic scheme are located in this area. In this context, the sedimentites that crop out near the mouth of the Chocorí Creek contain a set of palaeontological sites that, because of their richness and well-preserved fossil content, hold high national and international importance. The aims of the present contribution are: 1) to make a stratigraphic and sedimentological characterization of the study area; 2) to list the fauna outcropped at these palaeontological sites and establish a biostratigraphic framework; 3) to elaborate a palaeoenvironmental model for the area. The study interval was informally subdivided into a lower, middle and upper interval. Interpretation was based on the presence of a number of key features such as architectural elements; channel:overbank ratio and palaeosol occurrence. The first two intervals were interpreted as continental deposits of a fluvio-alluvial nature and are the focus of this paper. The upper interval was related to foreshore marine deposits and will be studied in a future contribution. The lower interval is characterized mainly by overbank architectural elements in which calcisols and argillic protosols were identified. Channel-fill deposits are isolated and surrounded by fine-grained overbank successions and sedimentary structures are suggestive of mixed-load transport. The contact between the lower and middle intervals is an irregular, highly erosive surface characterized by a significant vertical change in the facies. This surface defines the base of multistorey sandbodies which's internal arrangement alongside with the low participation of overbank deposits suggests deposition by a braided fluvial system. Palaeosols and vertebrate fossils were used as palaeoclimatic

Avaliação dos registros de enfermeiros em prontuários de pacientes internados em unidade de clínica médica Evaluación de los registros de enfermeros en historias clínicas de pacientes internados en una unidad de clínica médica Evaluation of the nursing records in the medical records of patients hospitalized in an internal medicine unit

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Maria Teresa Gomes Franco

2012-01-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Analisar os registros de enfermagem (RE realizados por enfermeiros em prontuários de pacientes da Clínica Médica (CM de um hospital público. MÉTODOS: A amostra do estudo foi composta de 240 (100% prontuários de pacientes que tiveram alta ou óbito, de fevereiro a abril de 2008. Os critérios de classificação para o preenchimento, basearam-se nos estabelecidos pela instituição pesquisada. RESULTADOS: Os registros foram preenchidos de forma completa na maioria dos itens: histórico de enfermagem (99,9%; evolução multidisciplinar (80,0% e avaliação de risco (99,6%. Quanto à conformidade do preenchimento, destacaram-se: 88,4% de prescrições de enfermagem classificadas como conforme, diagnóstico e evolução de enfermagem 58,7% e 64,6% como não conformes, respectivamente. Quanto à identificação do enfermeiro: 98,3% completa no histórico de enfermagem, 87,9% na evolução e 75,4% no diagnóstico e prescrição de enfermagem. CONCLUSÃO: As não conformidades encontradas confrontam a importância dada pela instituição para realização dos registros, treinamentos e a vigilância da comissão de auditoria de enfermagem.OBJETIVO: Analizar los registros de enfermería (RE realizados por enfermeros en historias clínicas de pacientes de la Clínica Médica (CM de un hospital público. MÉTODOS: La muestra del estudio estuvo compuesta de 240 (100% historias clínicas de pacientes que tuvieron alta u óbito, de febrero a abril del 2008. Los criterios de clasificación para el llenado, se basaron en los establecidos por la institución de la investigación. RESULTADOS: Los registros fueron llenados de forma completa en la mayoría de los items: historia de enfermería (99,9%; evolución multidisciplinaria (80,0% y evolución de riesgo (99,6%. En cuanto a la conformidad del llenado, se destacaron: 88,4% de prescripciones de enfermería clasificadas como conforme, diagnóstico y evolución de enfermería 58,7% y 64,6% como no

Registro actual del jaguar Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) en el Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

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Carrera-Treviño, Rogelio; Cavazos, Juan J.; Briones-Salas, Miguel; Lira-Torres, Iván

2016-01-01

Presentamos los primeros registros de jaguar Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) para el Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. Entre los años 2013 a 2015 se colocaron cámaras trampa en los bosques templados del parque. Se obtuvieron 15 fotografías y 7 vídeos de varios individuos de la especie, que evidencian la presencia de una población dentro del parque nacional y que representa la población residente de jaguares más al norte de su área de distribución, por la vertiente d...

Registros Fotográficos Matrimoniais: evidências das distinções de gênero em diferentes épocas

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Fabiana Aparecida Prenhaca Giacometti

2018-04-01

  Photographic Records of Marriage: evidence of gender distinctions in different times ABSTRACT The objective of the present study is to compare history oriented and reflect through the optics of the photographic records the changes that marriage culture suffered throughout the ages, as well as highlighting through the aesthetics and the facial expressions/body treatments of grooms and brides changes captured by cameras and analyze the behavioral changes among generations of women and men considering the educational influence. With this intent we got several photographs of different couples from two cities in the State of São Paulo who got married from 1949 to 1981, as well as recent pictures of couples who got married between the years of 2009 to 2013. The research is of a qualitative nature and it is an interpretative analysis. It was used for the realization of the study a structured interview with open-ended questions, as well as photographic records provided by couples and the families of the deceased couples. It was possible to understand through these records that the changes of habits and customs vis-à-vis the institution of marriage demonstrate the transformations of man and woman. Thus, evidence that the photo serves as an index of what was and what is to be betrothed at different dates. The inequalities between the records in black and white and colored confirm that society today are in constant transformation in their habits and values and that too with regard to expressions of affection. Front of the exposed, is mister deep reflection about the importance of equitable relations between men and women, given that many changes are required in order to have a fair suit society and even-handedly in the sexism and misogyny are actually extinct. Keywords: Female Culture. Marriage and gender ratio   Registros Fotográficos Matrimoniales: evidencias de las distinciones de género en diferentes épocas. RESUMEN El objetivo del presente estudio de car

Short term solar radiation forecasting: Island versus continental sites

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Boland, John; David, Mathieu; Lauret, Philippe

2016-01-01

Due its intermittency, the large-scale integration of solar energy into electricity grids is an issue and more specifically in an insular context. Thus, forecasting the output of solar energy is a key feature to efficiently manage the supply-demand balance. In this paper, three short term forecasting procedures are applied to island locations in order to see how they perform in situations that are potentially more volatile than continental locations. Two continental locations, one coastal and one inland are chosen for comparison. At the two time scales studied, ten minute and hourly, the island locations prove to be more difficult to forecast, as shown by larger forecast errors. It is found that the three methods, one purely statistical combining Fourier series plus linear ARMA models, one combining clear sky index models plus neural net models, and a third using a clear sky index plus ARMA, give similar forecasting results. It is also suggested that there is great potential of merging modelling approaches on different horizons. - Highlights: • Solar energy forecasting is more difficult for insular than continental sites. • Fourier series plus linear ARMA models are one forecasting method tested. • Clear sky index models plus neural net models are also tested. • Clear sky index models plus linear ARMA is also an option. • All three approaches have similar skill.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in the equatorial Indian Ocean: temporal trend, continental outflow and air-water exchange.

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Huang, Yumei; Li, Jun; Xu, Yue; Xu, Weihai; Cheng, Zhineng; Liu, Junwen; Wang, Yan; Tian, Chongguo; Luo, Chunling; Zhang, Gan

2014-03-15

Nineteen pairs of air and seawater samples collected from the equatorial Indian Ocean onboard the Shiyan I from 4/2011 to 5/2011 were analyzed for PCBs and HCB. Gaseous concentrations of ∑(ICES)PCBs (ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Seas) and HCB were lower than previous data over the study area. Air samples collected near the coast had higher levels of PCBs relative to those collected in the open ocean, which may be influenced by proximity to source regions and air mass origins. Dissolved concentrations of ∑(ICES)PCBs and HCB were 1.4-14 pg L⁻¹ and 0.94-13 pg L⁻¹, with the highest concentrations in the sample collected from Strait of Malacca. Fugacity fractions suggest volatilization of PCBs and HCB from the seawater to air during the cruise, with fluxes of 0.45-34 ng m⁻² d⁻¹ and 0.36-18 ng m⁻² d⁻¹, respectively. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Structural lineaments from the magnetic anomaly maps of the eastern continental margin of India (ECMI) and NW Bengal Fan

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Murthy, K.S.R.; Rao, T.C.S.; Subrahmanyam, A; Rao, M.M.M.; Lakshminarayana, S.

extension of 85 degrees E ridge, abutting the continental shelf off Chilka Lake and (3) trend 3, locted over the continental shelf/slope between Visakhapatnm and Paradip represents a folded (ridges and depressions) nature of the continental basement...

Nuevos registros de Eleutherodactylus nitidus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae en Tlaxcala y centro de Puebla, México New records of Eleutherodactylus nitidus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae from Tlaxcala and central Puebla, México

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Uri Omar García-Vázquez

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Se muestran los primeros registros de Eleutherodactylus nitidus para el estado de Tlaxcala y se confirma su presencia en la región central del estado de Puebla.We report the first records of Eleutherodactylus nitidus from the state of Tlaxcala and confirm its presence in the central region of Puebla.

The CHRONOS mission: capability for sub-hourly synoptic observations of carbon monoxide and methane to quantify emissions and transport of air pollution

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D. P. Edwards

2018-02-01

Full Text Available The CHRONOS space mission concept provides time-resolved abundance for emissions and transport studies of the highly variable and highly uncertain air pollutants carbon monoxide and methane, with sub-hourly revisit rate at fine (∼ 4 km horizontal spatial resolution across a North American domain. CHRONOS can provide complete synoptic air pollution maps (snapshots of the continental domain with less than 10 min of observations. This rapid mapping enables visualization of air pollution transport simultaneously across the entire continent and enables a sentinel-like capability for monitoring evolving, or unanticipated, air pollution sources in multiple locations at the same time with high temporal resolution. CHRONOS uses a compact imaging gas filter correlation radiometer for these observations, with heritage from more than 17 years of scientific data and algorithm advances by the science teams for the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft in low Earth orbit. To achieve continental-scale sub-hourly sampling, the CHRONOS mission would be conducted from geostationary orbit, with the instrument hosted on a communications or meteorological platform. CHRONOS observations would contribute to an integrated observing system for atmospheric composition using surface, suborbital and satellite data with atmospheric chemistry models, as defined by the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites. Addressing the U.S. National Academy's 2007 decadal survey direction to characterize diurnal changes in tropospheric composition, CHRONOS observations would find direct societal applications for air quality management and forecasting to protect public health.

Barrier displacement on a neutral landscape: Towards a theory of continental biogeography

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Albert, James S.; Schoolmaster, Donald; Tagliacollo, Victor; Duke-Sylvester, Scott M.

2017-01-01

Macroevolutionary theory posits three processes leading to lineage diversification and the formation of regional biotas: dispersal (species geographic range expansion), speciation (species lineage splitting), and extinction (species lineage termination). The Theory of Island Biogeography (TIB) predicts species richness values using just two of these processes; dispersal and extinction. Yet most species on Earth live on continents or continental shelves, and the dynamics of evolutionary diversification at regional and continental scales are qualitatively different from those that govern the formation of species richness on biogeographic islands. Certain geomorphological processes operating perennially on continental platforms displace barriers to gene flow and organismal dispersal, and affect all three terms of macroevolutionary diversification. For example, uplift of a dissected landscape and river capture both merge and separate portions of adjacent areas, allowing dispersal and larger geographic ranges, vicariant speciation and smaller geographic ranges, and extinction when range sizes are subdivided below a minimum persistence threshold.

Self-Consistent Generation of Primordial Continental Crust in Global Mantle Convection Models

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Jain, C.; Rozel, A.; Tackley, P. J.

2017-12-01

We present the generation of primordial continental crust (TTG rocks) using self-consistent and evolutionary thermochemical mantle convection models (Tackley, PEPI 2008). Numerical modelling commonly shows that mantle convection and continents have strong feedbacks on each other. However in most studies, continents are inserted a priori while basaltic (oceanic) crust is generated self-consistently in some models (Lourenco et al., EPSL 2016). Formation of primordial continental crust happened by fractional melting and crystallisation in episodes of relatively rapid growth from late Archean to late Proterozoic eras (3-1 Ga) (Hawkesworth & Kemp, Nature 2006) and it has also been linked to the onset of plate tectonics around 3 Ga. It takes several stages of differentiation to generate Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) rocks or proto-continents. First, the basaltic magma is extracted from the pyrolitic mantle which is both erupted at the surface and intruded at the base of the crust. Second, it goes through eclogitic transformation and then partially melts to form TTGs (Rudnick, Nature 1995; Herzberg & Rudnick, Lithos 2012). TTGs account for the majority of the Archean continental crust. Based on the melting conditions proposed by Moyen (Lithos 2011), the feasibility of generating TTG rocks in numerical simulations has already been demonstrated by Rozel et al. (Nature, 2017). Here, we have developed the code further by parameterising TTG formation. We vary the ratio of intrusive (plutonic) and extrusive (volcanic) magmatism (Crisp, Volcanol. Geotherm. 1984) to study the relative volumes of three petrological TTG compositions as reported from field data (Moyen, Lithos 2011). Furthermore, we systematically vary parameters such as friction coefficient, initial core temperature and composition-dependent viscosity to investigate the global tectonic regime of early Earth. Continental crust can also be destroyed by subduction or delamination. We will investigate

The development of continental crust through geological time: the South African case

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Dia, A.; Allegre, C.J.; Erlank, A.J.

1990-01-01

Nd isotopic compositions and 147 Sm/ 144 Nd ratios were measured in fifty-eight South African shales and greywackes with depositional ages ranging from 0.2 to 3.3 b.y. Elements such as the rare earths, which are poorly soluble in water and not fractionated during exogeneous processes, preserve the signature of the original crustal source. The 147 Sm/ 144 Nd ratios appear to be approximately constant throughout the time interval sampled. We calculated Nd model ages of crustal differentiation. Knowing that the shales represent a true blend of different continental areas we consider these model ages representative of the mean ages of their primitive continental sources. Then, using the inverse technique developed by Allegre and Rousseau in 1984, we computed a growth curve for the continental crust in South Africa. Two periods of important crustal genesis (Archaean and around 1.5 b.y.) can be compared with the observed geology and with other continental crust growth curves obtained in previous studies in southern Africa and in Australia. The observation of large variations in the MgO content and Ni, Cr, U and Th concentrations between Archaean South African shales and post-Archaean samples compared to the constancy of the 147 Sm/ 144 Nd ratios leads us to propose that the Archaean crust was composed of both granite (70.5%) and a mafic component (29.5%) which could have been komatiite. The small dispersion of 147 Sm/ 144 Nd ratios suggests that erosion and sedimentation processes yielded homogeneous Archaean shales. The present-day continental crust is much more heterogeneous, because it has undergone several episodes of recycling. Thus recent shales are characterized by more variable 147 Sm/ 144 Nd ratios. (orig.)

Considerações acerca do processo de alimentação de repositórios através da importação de registros de bases de dados internacionaisConsiderations around of process of uploading repositories via import records of international data bases

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Renan Carvalho Ramos

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Considerando que há um interesse global e crescente na implementação de repositórios institucionais e que as discussões em âmbito nacional sobre esse tema tem sido modestas, e que poucas são as iniciativas consolidadas no desenvolvimento desses sistemas nas universidades brasileiras, este trabalho toma como tema a questão da carga automática de registros comentada pelas diretrizes do programa intercontinental Alfa Biblioteca Babel. Para demonstrar as possibilidades e limitações da carga automática de registros referenciais a partir de bases de dados internacionais foi feito um estudo que se dividiu em quatro etapas, que se resumem em: escolha de um software para simular um repositório; análise de formatos de exportação dos metadados de algumas bases de dados disponíveis no Portal de Periódicos Capes; prospecção de registros e conversões de formato dos metadados; e alimentação do repositório através da importação dos registros coletados, indicando os efeitos desta prática. Como resultados são apontados um conjunto de ponderações a respeito do método que deve ser empregado para um melhor uso da carga automática de registros. Acredita-se que a carga automática de registros referenciais tem muito a colaborar com o início do desenvolvimento dos repositórios, à medida que oferece visibilidade à produção cientifica, favorecendo as instituições na elaboração dos índices de produção científica extraídos a partir dos emergentes estudos webmétricos, sem desrepeitar os principios de direitos do autor ou das editoras. Palavras-chave: Bases de dados internacionais. Carga automática de registros. Importação de registros. Repositórios institucionais. Software GreenStone Abstract Whereas there is a growing global interest in the implementation of institutional repositories and discussions in the national sphere about this issue have been modest, and there are few consolidated initiatives to develop these

Circum-Pacific accretion of oceanic terranes to continental blocks: accretion of the Early Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite to the E Gondwana continental margin, South Island, New Zealand

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Robertson, Alastair

2016-04-01

Accretionary orogens, in part, grow as a result of the accretion of oceanic terranes to pre-existing continental blocks, as in the circum-Pacific and central Asian regions. However, the accretionary processes involved remain poorly understood. Here, we consider settings in which oceanic crust formed in a supra-subduction zone setting and later accreted to continental terranes (some, themselves of accretionary origin). Good examples include some Late Cretaceous ophiolites in SE Turkey, the Jurassic Coast Range ophiolite, W USA and the Early Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite of South Island, New Zealand. In the last two cases, the ophiolites are depositionally overlain by coarse clastic sedimentary rocks (e.g. Permian Upukerora Formation of South Island, NZ) that then pass upwards into very thick continental margin fore-arc basin sequences (Great Valley sequence, California; Matai sequence, South Island, NZ). Field observations, together with petrographical and geochemical studies in South Island, NZ, summarised here, provide evidence of terrane accretion processes. In a proposed tectonic model, the Early Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite was created by supra-subduction zone spreading above a W-dipping subduction zone (comparable to the present-day Izu-Bonin arc and fore arc, W Pacific). The SSZ oceanic crust in the New Zealand example is inferred to have included an intra-oceanic magmatic arc, which is no longer exposed (other than within a melange unit in Southland), but which is documented by petrographic and geochemical evidence. An additional subduction zone is likely to have dipped westwards beneath the E Gondwana margin during the Permian. As a result, relatively buoyant Early Permian supra-subduction zone oceanic crust was able to dock with the E Gondwana continental margin, terminating intra-oceanic subduction (although the exact timing is debatable). The amalgamation ('soft collision') was accompanied by crustal extension of the newly accreted oceanic slab, and

Late Devonian and Triassic basalts from the southern continental ...

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continental margin of the East European Platform, tracers of a single heterogeneous ... Areas of Precambrian consolidation within the Late Paleozoic orogen; 3. Areas of ...... and hydrocarbon accumulations; J. Petroleum Geology. 16 183–196.

Radon-222 in boundary layer and free tropospheric continental outflow events at three ACE-Asia sites

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Zahorowski, Wlodek; Chambers, Scott; Wang Tao

2005-01-01

A 1-year record of hourly atmospheric radon-222 concentration observations at three ACE-Asia network sites Hok Tsui (Hong Kong), Gosan (Jeju Island) and Mauna Loa Observatory (Hawaii) is presented and discussed. The observations include the spring 2001 ACE-Asia intensive operation period. Site locations were chosen for the experimental characterization of both boundary layer (Hok Tsui, Gosan) and free tropospheric (Mauna Loa) continental outflow to the Pacific. A significant seasonal variability in background radon concentration is quantified at each site with the ratios of winter maximum to summer minimum background of 96, 15 and 3 for Hok Tsui, Gosan and Mauna Loa, respectively. Only during summer were background radon concentrations directly comparable with unperturbed marine values (20 mBq/m 3 ). The variability in radon signal was characterized at each site on diurnal to seasonal timescales. The seasonal variability in fetch regions for air masses experiencing the greatest and smallest terrestrial influence was characterized using 10-day back trajectories of air masses corresponding to radon concentrations higher (lower) than the 90th (10th) percentile value. The trajectory analyses for Hok Tsui and Gosan, as well as a direct analysis of the experimental results, further supports the previously postulated existence of a strong spatial heterogeneity in the radon source strength in East Asia. Back trajectories of free tropospheric air masses reaching Mauna Loa indicated source regions deep within the Asian continent primarily between 20 and 40 deg N. This fetch region is different from that influencing the Hok Tsui and Gosan sites. The radon concentration of air masses reaching Mauna Loa was shown to vary seasonally as well as with latitude of the predominant fetch region. Possible mechanisms of this phenomenon have been identified and include (a) seasonal variation in the radon source, (b) seasonal variation in the strength, frequency and/or efficiency of

Slumping on the western continental margin of India

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continental margin is believed to have set in motion during the beginning of Holocene. Besides, it infers that after 6 k.y. B.P. the magnitude of slumping is minimal. The slumping may be attributed to the evolution of methane gas as one of the important causes...

Compact and air-transportable ultrasonic turbine disc bore inspection system

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Larsen, R.E.; Leon-Salamanca, T.

1990-01-01

A compact, lightweight, air-transportable ultrasonic inspection system for bore and keyway regions of shrunk-on turbine discs has been developed. The system utilizes a proprietary ultrasound liquid coupling technique in conjunction with a single pair of gimballed search units to achieve rapid and thorough coverage of bores and keyways in both heavy nuclear and standard fossil discs of nearly any size and having any conceivable web surface contour. Search unit positioning and angulation parameter settings are established in near real-time through a computation algorithm based on a compact vector ray tracing protocol. Modular construction and the use of lightweight, stiff materials throughout facilitates air shipment of the system and its rapid deployment at continental and overseas field sites. Mechanical and ultrasonic features of the system are described. Development and application of the computation algorithm to the ultrasonic inspection of heavy discs at an overseas power station is discussed

Integrative taxonomy for continental-scale terrestrial insect observations.

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Cara M Gibson

Full Text Available Although 21(st century ecology uses unprecedented technology at the largest spatio-temporal scales in history, the data remain reliant on sound taxonomic practices that derive from 18(th century science. The importance of accurate species identifications has been assessed repeatedly and in instances where inappropriate assignments have been made there have been costly consequences. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON will use a standardized system based upon an integrative taxonomic foundation to conduct observations of the focal terrestrial insect taxa, ground beetles and mosquitoes, at the continental scale for a 30 year monitoring program. The use of molecular data for continental-scale, multi-decadal research conducted by a geographically widely distributed set of researchers has not been evaluated until this point. The current paper addresses the development of a reference library for verifying species identifications at NEON and the key ways in which this resource will enhance a variety of user communities.

Integrative Taxonomy for Continental-Scale Terrestrial Insect Observations

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Gibson, Cara M.; Kao, Rebecca H.; Blevins, Kali K.; Travers, Patrick D.

2012-01-01

Although 21st century ecology uses unprecedented technology at the largest spatio-temporal scales in history, the data remain reliant on sound taxonomic practices that derive from 18th century science. The importance of accurate species identifications has been assessed repeatedly and in instances where inappropriate assignments have been made there have been costly consequences. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will use a standardized system based upon an integrative taxonomic foundation to conduct observations of the focal terrestrial insect taxa, ground beetles and mosquitoes, at the continental scale for a 30 year monitoring program. The use of molecular data for continental-scale, multi-decadal research conducted by a geographically widely distributed set of researchers has not been evaluated until this point. The current paper addresses the development of a reference library for verifying species identifications at NEON and the key ways in which this resource will enhance a variety of user communities. PMID:22666362

Can sea level rise cause large submarine landslides on continental slopes?

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Urlaub, Morelia

2014-05-01

Submarine landslides are one of the volumetrically most important sediment transport processes at continental margins. Moreover, these landslides are a major geohazard as they can cause damaging tsunamis and destroy seabed infrastructure. Due to their inaccessibility our understanding of what causes these landslides is limited and based on hypotheses that are difficult to test. Some of the largest submarine landslides, such as the Storegga Slide off Norway, occurred during times of eustatic sea level rise. It has been suggested that this global sea level rise was implicated in triggering of the landslides by causing an increase in excess pore pressure in the subseafloor. However, in a homogeneous slope a change in the thickness of the overlying water mass is not expected to affect its stability, as only the hydrostatic pressure component will change, whereas pore pressures in excess of hydrostatic will remain unaltered. Whether sufficiently rapid sea level rise, aided by rather impermeable sediment and complex layering, could cause excess pore pressures that may destabilise a continental slope is more difficult to answer and has not yet been tested. I use Finite Element Modelling to explore and quantify the direct effect of changes in the thickness of the overlying water mass on the stability of a generic sediment column with different stratigraphic conditions and hydro-mechanical properties. The results show that the direct effect of sea level rise on continental slope stability is minimal. Nevertheless, sea level rise may foster other processes, such as lithospheric stress changes resulting in increased seismicity, that could potentially cause large submarine landslides on continental slopes.

U.S. East Coast Continental Margin (CONMAR) Sediment Data

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — The USGS/WHOI Continental Margin (CONMAR) Data set was compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a joint program of...

From Plate Tectonic to Continental Dynamics

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Molnar, P. H.

2017-12-01

By the early 1970s, the basics of plate tectonics were known. Although much understanding remained to be gained, as a topic of research, plate tectonics no longer defined the forefront of earth science. Not only had it become a foundation on which to build, but also the methods used to reveal it became tools to take in new directions. For me as a seismologist studying earthquakes and active processes, the deformation of continents offered an obvious topic to pursue. Obviously examining the deformation of continents and ignoring the widespread geologic evidence of both ongoing and finite deformation of crust would be stupid. I was blessed with the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with two of the best, Paul Tapponnier and Clark Burchfiel. Continental deformation differed from plate tectonics both because deformation was widespread but more importantly because crust shortens (extends) horizontally and thickens (thins), processes that can be ignored where plate tectonics - the relative motion of rigid plates - occurs. Where a plate boundary passes into a continent, not only must the forces that move plates do work against friction or other dissipative processes, but where high terrain is created, they must also do work against gravity, to create gravitational potential energy in high terrain. Peter Bird and Kenneth Piper and Philip England and Dan McKenzie showed that a two-dimensional thin viscous sheet with vertically averaged properties enabled both sources of resistance to be included without introducing excessive complexity and to be scaled by one dimensionless number, what the latter pair called the Argand number. Increasingly over the past thirty years, emphasis has shifted toward the role played by the mantle lithosphere, because of both its likely strength and its negative buoyancy, which makes it gravitationally unstable. Despite progress since realizing that rigid plates (the essence of plate tectonics) provides a poor description of continental

P-wave velocity models of continental shelf of East Siberian Sea using the Laplace-domain full waveform inversion

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Kang, S. G.; Hong, J. K.; Jin, Y. K.; Jang, U.; Niessen, F.; Baranov, B.

2017-12-01

2016 IBRV ARAON Arctic Cruise Leg-2, Expedition ARA07C was a multidisciplinary undertaking carried out in the East Siberian Sea (ESS) from August 25 to September 10, 2016. The program was conducted as a collaboration between the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IORAS), and Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). During this expedition, the multi-channel seismic (MCS) data were acquired on the continental shelf and the upper slope of the ESS, totaling 3 lines with 660 line-kilometers. The continental shelf of ESS is one of the widest shelf seas in the world and it is believed to cover the largest area of sub-sea permafrost in the Arctic. According to the present knowledge of the glacial history of the western Arctic Ocean, it is likely that during the LGM with a sea level approximately 120 m below present, the entire shelf area of the ESS was exposed to very cold air temperatures so that thick permafrost should have formed. Indeed, in water depths shallower than 80 m, sub-bottom profiles in the ESS recorded from the shelf edge to a latitude of 74°30' N in 60 m water depth exhibited acoustic facies, suggesting that at least relicts of submarine permafrost are present. In order to identify the existence and/or non-existence of subsea permafrost in our study area, we analyze the MCS data using the Laplace domain full waveform inversion (FWI). In case of the Canadian continental shelf of the Beaufort Sea, subsea permafrost has high seismic velocity values (over 2.6 km/sec) and strong refraction events were found in the MCS shotgathers. However, in the EES our proposed P-wave velocity models derived from FWI have neither found high velocity structures (over 2.6 km/sec) nor indicate strong refraction events by subsea permafrost. Instead, in 300 m depth below sea floor higher P-wave velocity structures (1.8 2.2 km/s) than normal subsea sediment layers were found, which are interpreted as cemented strata by glaciation activities.

A Spatial Model of Erosion and Sedimentation on Continental Margins

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Pratson, Lincoln

1999-01-01

.... A computer model that simulates the evolution of continental slope morphology under the interaction of sedimentation, slope failure, and sediment flow erosion has been constructed and validated...

Las configuraciones sociales de la crianza en barrios populares del Gran Buenos Aires

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Laura Santillán

2010-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo propongo una exploración antropológica sobre la crianza y la educación infantil en contextos de desigualdad social. El interés es discutir una serie de supuestos que suelen limitar las prácticas educativas de los sectores subalternos a "pautas tradicionales" y "privativas del mundo familiar". Sin embargo, en las iniciativas domésticas sobre la crianza y el cuidado infantil que analizo, intervienen actores esperables para ello y también un conjunto de sujetos e instituciones no formalizadas pero que se tornan relevantes en la cotidianeidad de los territorios de pertenencia de los niños y niñas. Para el análisis me basaré en las entrevistas y en los registros de tipo etnográfico que llevé a cabo en asentamientos ubicados en la zona norte del Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Modern sedimentary processes along the Doce river adjacent continental shelf

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Valéria da Silva Quaresma

Full Text Available In areas of the continental shelf where sediment supply is greater than the sediment dispersion capacity, an extensive terrigenous deposits and consequently submerged deltas can be formed. The Eastern Brazilian shelf is characterized by the occurrence of river feed deltas in between starving coasts. Herein, modern sedimentary processes acting along the Doce river adjacent continental shelf are investigated. The main objective was to understand the shelf sediment distribution, recognizing distinct sedimentary patterns and the major influence of river sediment discharge in the formation of shelf deposits. The study used 98 surficial samples that were analyzed for grain size, composition and bulk density. Results revealed 3 distinct sectors: south - dominated by mud fraction with a recent deposition from riverine input until 30 m deep and from this depth bioclastic sands dominate; central north - sand mud dominated, been recognized as a bypass zone of resuspended sediment during high energy events; and north - relict sands with high carbonate content. The modern sedimentation processes along the Doce river continental shelf is dominated by distinct sedimentary regimes, showing a strong fluvial influence associated with wave/wind induced sediment dispersion and a carbonate regime along the outer shelf. These regimes seem to be controlled by the distance from the river mouth and bathymetric gradients.

75 FR 43564 - TA-W-71,483, Continental Airlines, Inc., Reservations Division, Houston, TX; TA-W-71,483A...

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... DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employment and Training Administration TA-W-71,483, Continental Airlines, Inc., Reservations Division, Houston, TX; TA-W-71,483A, Continental Airlines, Inc., Reservations Division, Tampa, FL; TA-W-71,483B, Continental Airlines, Inc., Reservations Division, Salt Lake City, UT; Notice of...

Nuevo registro del tiburón narizón, Apristurus nasutus de Buen, 1959, (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) en el Golfo de California, México

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2009-01-01

Se recolectaron 143 ejemplares de tiburón narizón Apristurus nasutus (de Buen, 1959), durante un crucero de prospección en junio de 2007. Las muestras provinieron de tres lances realizados con una red de arrastre entre los 250 y los 460 m de profundidad, en la parte media y alta del Golfo de California. El hallazgo representa el primer registro de la especie en aguas mexicanas y por consiguiente la ampliación de su ámbito de distribución. Los organismos capturados se encontraron agrupados en ...

New and noteworthy waterfowl records at artificial wetlands from Baja California Sur, Mexico Registros nuevos y sobresalientes de anátidos en humedales artificiales de Baja California Sur, México

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Roberto Carmona

2011-06-01

Full Text Available We present 9 recent records of rare waterfowls in Baja California Sur, all of them in artificial wetlands: 3 freshwater sites and 1 concentration area for a saltworks. We present the first records of the Ross's Goose in the state. The remaining 8 species are: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (breeding, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, Cackling Goose, Tundra Swan, Mallard and Hooded Merganser. To this list we added an historical compilation of the records of these species in artificial sites of the state. The artificial wetlands are no replacement for their natural counterparts, they are nevertheless an important part of the region's landscape mosaic. As the records of the present work exemplify, this man-made habitat increases the regional species richness, and should be considered as important areas that need to be protected.Presentamos registros recientes de 9 especies de anátidos raros en Baja California Sur, todos ellos realizados en humedales creados por el hombre: 3 sitios dulceacuícolas y 1 área de concentración para la producción de sal. Se incluyen los primeros registros del ganso de Ross (Chen rossii para el estado. Las 8 especies restantes son: Dendrocygna autumnalis (anidación, D. bicolor, Anser albifrons, Chen caerulesens, Branta hutchinsii, Cygnus columbianus, Anas platyrhynchos y Lophodytes cucullatus. A la lista, agregamos una recopilación histórica de los registros de estas especies en humedales artificiales del estado. Aunque estos sitios no deben sustituir a sus contrapartes naturales, actualmente forman parte del mosaico paisajístico que ofrece la región; adicionalmente, incrementan la riqueza de especies de la región, por lo que es necesario brindarles protección.

Individualized teaching programming for a virtual learning environment: development of content concerning nursing records Programación de enseñanza individualizada para ambiente virtual de aprendizaje: elaboración del contenido registro de enfermería Programação de ensino individualizado para ambiente virtual de aprendizagem: elaboração do conteúdo registro de enfermagem

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Patrícia de Carvalho Nagliate

2013-02-01

Full Text Available OBJECTIVE: Describe the planning of contents on nursing records for use in a virtual learning environment, based on Individualized Teaching Programming, a didactic resource that uses basic principles of behavioral analysis. METHOD: Final objectives were specified, after defining the intermediary components to achieve each final objective, as well as the preliminary requirements for each intermediary component. At the end of this process, teaching activities were planned and organized in steps the students need to develop. RESULTS: By breaking up the contents into behaviors, seven action categories emerged: impartiality, organization, honesty, objectiveness, coherence, readability and discernment. CONCLUSION: the use of Individualized Teaching Programming as a didactic resource to plan contents on nursing records is feasible to identify the units and modules for the development of a course in a virtual learning environment for nursing professionals.OBJETIVO: Describir la planificación de contenido sobre registro de enfermería, para utilización en ambiente virtual de aprendizaje, con base en la Programación de Enseñanza Individualizada, un recurso didáctico que utiliza principios básicos del análisis del comportamiento. MÉTODO: fueron especificados objetivos finales, definidos los componentes intermediarios para alcanzar cada objetivo terminal, así como requisitos antecedentes para cada componente intermediario. Al final de ese proceso, fueron planeadas y organizadas las actividades de enseñanza en pasos que serán desarrollados por los aprendices. RESULTADOS: Al desmembrar el contenido en comportamientos, siete categorías de acciones emergieron: imparcialidad, organización, honestidad, objetividad, coherencia, legibilidad y discernimiento. CONCLUSIÓN: la utilización de la Programación de Enseñanza Individualizada como recurso didáctico para la planificación de contenido sobre registro de enfermería se mostró viable para el

The northern naked-tailed armadillo in the Lacandona rainforest, Mexico: new records and potential threats Armadillo de cola desnuda en la selva lacandona, México: nuevos registros y amenazas potenciales

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Arturo González-Zamora

2012-06-01

Full Text Available We review historic occurrences in Mexico of one of the least known Xenarthra of Mesoamerica - the northern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899. We document 6 new records in the Lacandona rainforest, southern Mexico, and through interviews with local people, we assess potential threats for this species in the region. In addition to being locally rare, our results show that hunting and death by road-kill may be major threats to this species in the region.Se revisaron los registros históricos en México de uno de los xenartros menos conocidos de Mesoamérica - el armadillo de cola desnuda (Cabassous centralis Miller, 1899. Se documentan 6 nuevos registros en la selva lacandona, sur de México. A través de entrevistas con pobladores locales, se evaluaron las amenazas potenciales para esta especie en la región. Además de ser localmente rara, nuestros resultados muestran que la cacería y las muertes por atropellamiento pueden ser las principales amenazas para esta especie en la región.

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... Wind Lease Sale 2 (ATLW2) Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore...), Interior. ACTION: Proposed Sale Notice for commercial leasing for wind power on the Outer Continental Shelf... sale of commercial wind energy leases on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Rhode Island and...

Flux of energy and essential elements through the continental shelf ecosystem. Progress report

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Pomeroy, L.R.

1981-11-30

There are three distinct but not mutually exclusive areas of research in this contract, studies of intrusions of the west wall of the Gulf Stream onto the outer continental shelf, studies of the flux of materials across nearshore density fronts, and advances in understanding of the planktonic food web of the continental shelf. Studies of frontal events on the outer and inner continental shelf involve distinctive physical and chemical regimes and have proven to require distinctive biological approaches. The studies of the food web run through our work on both of the frontal regimes, but certain aspects have become subjects in their own right. We have developed a simulation model of the flux of energy through the continental shelf food web which we believe to be more realistic than previous ones of its type. We have examined several of the many roles of dissolved organic compounds in sea water which originate either from release by phytoplankton, digestive processes or metabolites of zooplankton, or extracellular digestion of microorganisms. Methods have been developed under this contract to measure both the chelating capacity of naturally occurring organic materials and the copper concentration in the water. It has been possible to characterize the effects, both toxic and stimulatory, of copper on photosynthesis of naturally occurring phytoplankton populations. It is possible to characterize in considerable detail the course of biological events associated with meanders of the Gulf Stream. We are now in a position to explain the limits to biological productivity of the outer continental shelf of the southeastern US and the reasons why that biological production moves through the food web in the characteristic way that it does.

A numerical model of mantle convection with deformable, mobile continental lithosphere within three-dimensional spherical geometry

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Yoshida, M.

2010-12-01

A new numerical simulation model of mantle convection with a compositionally and rheologically heterogeneous, deformable, mobile continental lithosphere is presented for the first time by using three-dimensional regional spherical-shell geometry (Yoshida, 2010, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.). The numerical results revealed that one of major factor that realizes the supercontinental breakup and subsequent continental drift is a pre-existing, weak (low-viscosity) continental margin (WCM) in the supercontinent. Characteristic tectonic structures such as young orogenic belts and suture zones in a continent are expected to be mechanically weaker than the stable part of the continental lithosphere with the cratonic root (or cratonic lithosphere) and yield lateral viscosity variations in the continental lithosphere. In the present-day Earth's lithosphere, the pre-existing, mechanically weak zones emerge as a diffuse plate boundary. However, the dynamic role of the WCM in the stability of continental lithosphere has not been understood in terms of geophysics. In my numerical model, a compositionally buoyant and highly viscous continental assemblage with pre-existing WCMs, analogous to the past supercontinent, is modeled and imposed on well-developed mantle convection whose vigor of convection, internal heating rate, and rheological parameters are appropriate for the Earth's mantle. The visco-plastic oceanic lithosphere and the associated subduction of oceanic plates are incorporated. The time integration of the advection of continental materials with zero chemical diffusion is performed by a tracer particle method. The time evolution of mantle convection after setting the model supercontinent is followed over 800 Myr. Earth-like continental drift is successfully reproduced, and the characteristic thermal interaction between the mantle and the continent/supercontinent is observed in my new numerical model. Results reveal that the WCM protects the cratonic lithosphere from being

La posibilidad de inscribir en el Registro civil español a los nacidos en el extranjero, de una madre de alquiler

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2009-01-01

Ya es posible inscribir en el Registro Civil español a los hijos “naturales” de un matrimonio homosexual, nacidos en el extranjero mediante gestación por sustitución. Y ello a pesar de que el artículo 10.1 de la vigente ley española sobre técnicas de reproducción humana asistida declara la nulidad de pleno derecho de los contratos de renuncia a la filiación materna, y ordena con carácter imperativo que en estos supuestos la filiación de los nacidos se determine por el parto. El...

Proceedings of the 10th world clean air congress. Impacts and management

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Kaemaeri, J.; Tolvanen, M.; Anttila, P.; Salonen, R.O. [eds.

1995-12-31

Rapid economical growth and expansion of human population have produced a number of environmental problems with varying geographic dimensions. While local problems remain near the pollution sources, the focus of the scientific community is more and more shifted towards regional, continental and global consequences of air pollutants. The theme of the 10th Clean Air Congress `Growing Challenges from Local to Global` reflects the growing demand from the scientific and professional community working in air pollution prevention and environmental protection - more and more complex mechanisms should be understood on a growing spatial scale. The 10th World Clean Air Congress addresses in its more than 400 presentations, documented in three Volumes of Proceedings, the history, the present and the potential futures of the air pollution problems. This volume includes all papers of paths C `Pollutant Impacts`, D `Pollution Management`, and E `Health Effects`. Path C includes numerous highly relevant papers dealing with climate change and greenhouse gases, as well as with environmental effects of air pollutants mostly on materials and vegetation. The most critical issues on air pollutant management throw light on national and regional abatement strategies and on the applicability of various tools for pollution management. The path on effects on human health includes a session on `Air pollution epidemiology` sponsored by the Economic Commission for Europe and a session on `Health effect control strategies` sponsored by the UN World Health Organization. In these sessions invited speakers describe the current understanding of human responses to air pollution exposure

Proceedings of the 10th world clean air congress. Impacts and management

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Kaemaeri, J; Tolvanen, M; Anttila, P; Salonen, R O [eds.

1996-12-31

Rapid economical growth and expansion of human population have produced a number of environmental problems with varying geographic dimensions. While local problems remain near the pollution sources, the focus of the scientific community is more and more shifted towards regional, continental and global consequences of air pollutants. The theme of the 10th Clean Air Congress `Growing Challenges from Local to Global` reflects the growing demand from the scientific and professional community working in air pollution prevention and environmental protection - more and more complex mechanisms should be understood on a growing spatial scale. The 10th World Clean Air Congress addresses in its more than 400 presentations, documented in three Volumes of Proceedings, the history, the present and the potential futures of the air pollution problems. This volume includes all papers of paths C `Pollutant Impacts`, D `Pollution Management`, and E `Health Effects`. Path C includes numerous highly relevant papers dealing with climate change and greenhouse gases, as well as with environmental effects of air pollutants mostly on materials and vegetation. The most critical issues on air pollutant management throw light on national and regional abatement strategies and on the applicability of various tools for pollution management. The path on effects on human health includes a session on `Air pollution epidemiology` sponsored by the Economic Commission for Europe and a session on `Health effect control strategies` sponsored by the UN World Health Organization. In these sessions invited speakers describe the current understanding of human responses to air pollution exposure

COBBOOM: The Continental Breakup and Birth of Oceans Mission

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Joann M. Stock

2007-09-01

Full Text Available The rupture of continents and creation of new oceans is a　fundamental yet primitively understood aspect of the plate　tectonic cycle. Building upon past achievements by ocean　drilling and geophysical and geologic studies, we propose　“The Continental Breakup and Birth of Oceans Mission　(COBBOOM” as the next major phase of discovery, for　which sampling by drilling will be essential.In September 2006, fifty-one scientists from six continents　gathered in Pontresina, Switzerland to discuss current　knowledge of continental breakup and sedimentary basin　formation and how the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program　(IODP can deepen that knowledge Coffin et al., 2006.　Workshop participants discussed a global array of rifted　margins (Fig. 1, formulated the critical problems to beaddressed by future drilling and related investigations, and　identified key rift systems poised for IODP investigations.　

Growth of the continental crust: a planetary-mantle perspective

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Warren, P.H.

1988-01-01

The lack of earth rocks older than about 3.8 Ga is frequently interpreted as evidence that the earth formed little or no subduction-resistant continental crust during the first 700 My of its history. Such models obviously imply that the pre-3.8 Ga earth was covered entirely or almost entirely by smoothly subducting oceanic crust. On the other hand, the thermal regime of the early earth probably tended to cause the oceanic crust at this time to be comparatively thin and comparatively mafic. The present earth is covered by about 50 percent oceanic crust, averaging about 7 km in thickness, and 41 percent continental crust, averaging roughly 40 km in thickness. Thus continentless-early-earth models would seem to imply a total mass of crust less than 1/3 that of the present day earth. Possible explanations are examined

Organic carbon-sulfur relationships in sediment cores from the western and eastern continental margins of India

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Rao, P.S.; Mascarenhas, A.; Paropkari, A.L.; Rao, Ch.M.

Two sediment cores from the western continental margin (WMI, WM2) and one core from the eastern continental margin (EM) of India have been analysed to determine the relativ importance of factors such as oxidizing/reducing environment, mass...

Nutrient Distributions, Transports, and Budgets on the Inner Margin of a River-Dominated Continental Shelf

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2013-10-02

Nutrient distributions, transports, and budgets on the inner margin of a river-dominated continental shelf John C. Lehrter,1 Dong S. Ko,2 Michael C...and D. C. Biggs (1993), The influence of advec- tion on the spatial variability of nutrient concentrations on the Texas- Louisiana continental shelf

Early diagenesis of phosphorus in continental margin sediments

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Slomp, C.P.

1997-01-01

Most of the organic material in the oceans that reaches the sea floor is deposited on continental margins and not in the deep sea. This organic matter is the principal carrier of phosphorus (P) to sediments. A part of the organic material is buried definitely. The other part decomposes,

Plant speciation in continental island floras as exemplified by Nigella in the Aegean Archipelago

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Comes, Hans Peter; Tribsch, Andreas; Bittkau, Christiane

2008-01-01

Continental shelf island systems, created by rising sea levels, provide a premier setting for studying the effects of geographical isolation on non-adaptive radiation and allopatric speciation brought about by genetic drift. The Aegean Archipelago forms a highly fragmented complex of mostly continental shelf islands that have become disconnected from each other and the mainland in relatively recent geological times (ca

AUDITORIA DOS REGISTROS NA CONSULTA DE ENFERMAGEM ACOMPANHANDO O CRESCIMENTO E DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL

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Jessica Bentes Abdon

2009-01-01

Full Text Available La auditoría viabiliza el desarrollo de indicadores de asistencia, criterios de evaluación y consecuente creación de nuevos conocimientos. El objetivo fue evaluar la calidad de los registros del examen físico en la consulta de Enfermería, durante el acompañamiento del crecimiento y desarrollo infantil, mediante la aplicación de la auditoría en los historiales médicos. Investigación retrospectiva, de proceso y documental, con planteo cuantitativo, hecha en el Centro de Desarrollo Familiar (CEDEFAM, en noviembre del 2007. Muestra compuesta por 146 historiales iniciados en el año 2006, seleccionados de modo casual y simple. Se analizaron datos referentes a la identificación del cliente y del profesional, estructura del domicilio, presencia de tachaduras y examen físico. Los datos antropométricos, 80% fueron completados de forma correcta, 15% de una manera incompleta, 5% no fueron completados y 0% incorrectos; todos los otros datos estaban abajo de este porcentaje. Se concluye que es necesario explicar a los profesionales y académicos la importancia de rellenar de modo adecuado el historial, ofreciendo alternativas para mejorar la calidad de las anotaciones.

Neotectonism - An offshore evidence from eastern continental shelf off Visakhapatnam

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Subrahmanyam, A.S.; Venkateswarlu, K.; Murthy, K.S.R.; Rao, M.M.M.; Rao, K.M.; Raju, Y.S.N.

tremor provide evidence of Neo-tectonic activity in this regio. The epicentral region falls in a shallow marine environment ideal for generating a geophysical database for stable continental region earthquakes....

Modelling the Impact of Life on Continental Growth - Mechanisms and Results

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Höning, D.; Spohn, T.

2013-12-01

The complexity of planetary evolution increases with the number of interacting reservoirs. On Earth, even the biosphere is speculated to interact with the interior. It has been argued (e.g., Rosing et al. 2006; Sleep et al, 2012) that the formation of continents could be a consequence of bioactivity harvesting solar energy through photosynthesis to help build the continents and that the mantle should carry a chemical biosignature. Through plate tectonics, the surface biosphere can impact deep subduction zone processes and the interior of the Earth. Subducted sediments are particularly important, because they influence the Earth's interior in several ways, and in turn are strongly influenced by the Earth's biosphere. In our model, we use the assumption that a thick sedimentary layer of low permeability on top of the subducting oceanic crust, caused by a biologically enhanced weathering rate, can suppress shallow dewatering. This in turn leads to greater availability of water in the source region of andesitic partial melt, resulting in an enhanced rate of continental production and regassing rate into the mantle. Our model includes (i) mantle convection, (ii) continental erosion and production, and (iii) mantle water degassing at mid-ocean ridges and regassing at subduction zones. The mantle viscosity of our model depends on (i) the mantle water concentration and (ii) the mantle temperature, whose time dependency is given by radioactive decay of isotopes in the Earth's mantle. Boundary layer theory yields the speed of convection and the water outgassing rate of the Earth's mantle. Our results indicate that present day values of continental surface area and water content of the Earth's mantle represent an attractor in a phase plane spanned by both parameters. We show that the biologic enhancement of the continental erosion rate is important for the system to reach this fixed point. An abiotic Earth tends to reach an alternative stable fixed point with a smaller

Statistical analysis of planktic foraminifera of the surface Continental ...

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Planktic foraminiferal assemblage recorded from selected samples obtained from shallow continental shelf sediments off southwestern Nigeria were subjected to statistical analysis. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to determine variants of planktic parameters. Values obtained for these parameters were ...

Continental transform margins : state of art and future milestones

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Basile, Christophe

2010-05-01

Transform faults were defined 45 years ago as ‘a new class of fault' (Wilson, 1965), and transform margins were consequently individualized as a new class of continental margins. While transform margins represent 20 to 25 % of the total length of continent-ocean transitions, they were poorly studied, especially when compared with the amount of data, interpretations, models and conceptual progress accumulated on divergent or convergent continental margins. The best studied examples of transform margins are located in the northern part of Norway, south of South Africa, in the gulf of California and on both sides of the Equatorial Atlantic. Here is located the Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana margin, where the more complete data set was acquired, based on numerous geological and geophysical cruises, including ODP Leg 159. The first models that encompassed the structure and evolution of transform margins were mainly driven by plate kinematic reconstructions, and evidenced the diachronic end of tectonic activity and the non-cylindrical character of these margins, with a decreasing strike-slip deformation from the convex to the concave divergent-transform intersections. Further thermo-mechanical models were more specifically designed to explain the vertical displacements along transform margins, and especially the occurrence of high-standing marginal ridges. These thermo-mechanical models involved either heat transfer from oceanic to continental lithospheres across the transform faults or tectonically- or gravity-driven mass transfer in the upper crust. These models were far from fully fit observations, and were frequently dedicated to specific example, and not easily generalizable. Future work on transform continental margins may be expected to fill some scientific gaps, and the definition of working directions can benefit from the studies dedicated to other types of margins. At regional scale the structural and sedimentological variability of transform continental margins has

Wintertime pytoplankton bloom in the Subarctic Pacific supportedby continental margin iron

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Lam, Phoebe J.; Bishop, James K.B.; Henning, Cara C.; Marcus,Matthew A.; Waychunas, Glenn A.; Fung, Inez

2004-06-08

Heightened biological activity was observed in February 1996in the high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) subarctic North PacificOcean, a region that is thought to beiron-limited. Here we provideevidence supporting the hypothesis that Ocean Station Papa (OSP) in thesubarctic Pacific received a lateral supply of particulate iron from thecontinental margin off the Aleutian Islands in the winter, coincidentwith the observed biological bloom. Synchrotron X-ray analysis was usedto describe the physical form, chemistry, and depth distributions of ironin size fractionated particulate matter samples. The analysis revealsthat discrete micron-sized iron-rich hotspots are ubiquitous in the upper200m at OSP, more than 900km from the closest coast. The specifics of thechemistry and depth profiles of the Fe hot spots trace them to thecontinental margins. We thus hypothesize that iron hotspots are a markerfor the delivery of iron from the continental margin. We confirm thedelivery of continental margin iron to the open ocean using an oceangeneral circulation model with an iron-like tracer source at thecontinental margin. We suggest that iron from the continental marginstimulated a wintertime phytoplankton bloom, partially relieving the HNLCcondition.

Radon derived air mass fetch regions during the ACE-Asia campaign

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Chambers, S.; Zahorowski, W.; Werczynski, S.; Wang, T.; Poon, S.; Kim, J.; Oh, S.-N.; Knag, H.; Uematsu, M.; Matsumoto, K.

2003-01-01

Seasonal variations in fetch regions for air masses exhibiting the greatest and least terrestrial influence at three sites in East Asia are discussed. Results are based on the first year of hourly atmospheric radon concentration observations made as part of the Asian Aerosol Characterisation Experiment (ACE-Asia). Fetch regions for Asian continental outflow to the Pacific Basin within the boundary layer are shown to be distinct from corresponding tropospheric outflow events. Analysis of the hourly radon time series in conjunction with back trajectory analysis indicates the presence of a large localised radon source in south eastern China

El impacto de los procesos fluviales en la formación de los yacimientos arqueológicos al aire libre : pautas de análisis experimental

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Ignacio de la Torre Sáinz

2001-01-01

Full Text Available El análisis de los procesos de formación del registro es un requisito básico para la interpretación correcta de los yacimientos arqueológicos. Un agente fundamental en la configuración de los conjuntos ai aire libre es la acción hidráulica, que condiciona la preservación de muchos yacimientos, especialmente los correspondientes a los momentos más antiguos del Paleolítico. Asumiendo los principios del uniformitarismo geológico, podemos proponer que el análisis de fenómenos actuales permite generar marcos referenciales que después sean aplicados como instrumentos analíticos para la interpretación de los conjuntos arqueológicos. En el presente trabajo son revisados los estudios experimentales existentes sobre la problemática del arrastre fluvial, y la relevancia de los resultados a la hora de establecer modelos actualistas que sirvan como referencia para el análisis del registro arqueológico.The analysis of formation processes of the record is a basic issue for the correct interpretation of archaeological sites. A Key agent in the configuration of open air sites is the action of water, which affects the site's preservation, especially those sites corresponding to the most ancient paleolithic times. Assuming the principes ofgeological uniformitarism, it is possible to propose that analysis of modern phenomena allows US to créate referential frameworks which can be applied as means of analysis for tfie interpretation of archaeological sites. In this paper, available experimental studies relating the problems of fluvial disturbance are revised. Furthermore, the relevance of the results to build actualistic models which work as a reference for the analysis of the archaeological record is considered.

Effects of continental anthropogenic sources on organic aerosols in the coastal atmosphere of East China.

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Shang, Dongjie; Hu, Min; Guo, Qingfeng; Zou, Qi; Zheng, Jing; Guo, Song

2017-10-01

Although organic compounds in marine atmospheric aerosols have significant effects on climate and marine ecosystems, they have rarely been studied, especially in the coastal regions of East China. To assess the origins of the organic aerosols in the East China coastal atmosphere, PM 2.5 samples were collected from the atmospheres of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and Changdao Island during the CAPTAIN (Campaign of Air PolluTion At INshore Areas of Eastern China) field campaign in the spring of 2011. The marine atmospheric aerosol samples that were collected were grouped based on the backward trajectories of their air masses. The organic carbon concentrations in the PM 2.5 samples from the marine and Changdao Island atmospheres were 5.5 ± 3.1 μgC/m 3 and 6.9 ± 2.4 μgC/m 3 , respectively, which is higher than in other coastal water atmospheres. The concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the marine atmospheric PM 2.5 samples was 17.0 ± 20.2 ng/m 3 , indicating significant continental anthropogenic influences. The influences of fossil fuels and biomass burning on the composition of organic aerosols in the coastal atmosphere of East China were found to be highly dependent on the origins of the air masses. Diesel combustion had a strong impact on air masses from the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), and gasoline emissions had a more significant impact on the "North China" marine atmospheric samples. The "Northeast China" marine atmospheric samples were most impacted by biomass burning. Coal combustion contributed significantly to the compositions of all of the atmospheric samples. The proportions of secondary compounds increased as samples aged in the marine atmosphere indicating that photochemical oxidation occured during transport. Our results quantified ecosystem effects on marine atmospheric aerosols and highlighted the uncertainties that arise when modeling marine atmospheric PM 2.5 without considering high spatial resolution source

The initial superposition of oceanic and continental units in the southern Western Alps: constraints on geometrical restoration and kinematics of the continental subduction wedge

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Dumont, Thierry; Schwartz, Stéphane; Matthews, Steve; Malusa, Marco; Jouvent, Marine

2017-04-01

The tectonic contact separating continental and oceanic units is preserved at outcrop in many locations within the Western Alps. The contact has experienced prolonged and progressive deformation during Oligocene collision and subsequent 'extrusive' contraction which is approximately westerly-directed (Dumont et al., 2012). Despite variable metamorphic grade, this tectonic contact displays a relative consistency of tectonostratigraphic and structural characteristics. Removal of the Oligocene and younger deformation is a critical requirement to allow assessment of the kinematic evolution during the Eocene continental subduction phase. The best preserved relationships are observed near the base of the Helminthoid Flysch nappes, in the footwall of the Penninic thrust, or in the external part of the Briançonnais zone. Here, the oceanic units are composed of detached Cretaceous sediments, but they are underlain locally by an olistostrome containing basaltic clasts. Further to the east, the internal boundary of the Briançonnais zone s.l. (including the 'Prepiedmont units'), is frequently marked by breccia or megabreccia, but is strongly affected by blueschist-facies metamorphism and by approximately easterly directed backfolding and backthrusting. At one locality, there is compelling evidence that the oceanic and continental units were already tectonically stacked and metamorphosed (together) 32Ma ago. Some megabreccias of mixed continental/oceanic provenance can be interpreted as a metamorphic equivalent of the external olistostrome, products of the initial pulses of tectonic stacking. The overlying units are composed dominantly of metasediments, containing distributed ophiolitic megaboudins (Tricart & Schwartz, 2006). Further east again, the tectonic contact separates the Dora-Maira continental basement from the Mt. Viso units which are predominantly composed of oceanic lithosphere. Both the Dora-Maira and Mt. Viso units are eclogitic, but the HP peak is apparently

Adición a los registros de tapir centroamericano (Tapirus bairdii en Oaxaca, México Addition to the records of Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Christian Alejandro Delfín-Alfonso

2008-12-01

Full Text Available En el mes de febrero de 2007, en el municipio de Santo Domingo Ingenio, distrito de Juchitán, Oaxaca, obtuvimos el registro de un ejemplar de tapir centroamericano (Tapirus bairdii mediante una fotografía proporcionada por los habitantes del sitio. La foto que fue tomada en el 2005, durante la época de lluvias, muestra un tapir adulto cazado a 1.5 km al norte de Santo Domingo. Es el registro más reciente de tapir en Oaxaca y sugiere que éste probablemente se desplazó de la zona montañosa de Los Chimalapas hacia el istmo de Tehuantepec.In February 2007, in the municipality of Santo Domingo Ingenio, Juchián District, Oaxaca state, we obtained the record of an individual of Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii from a photograph provided by the inhabitants of the site. The photograph was taken in 2005 during the rainy season, showing a dead adult tapir which was hunted at only 1.5 km north from Santo Domingo town. This is the most recent record of Baird-Tapir in the state of Oaxaca and suggests that this individual probably moved from the mountainous zone of Los Chimalapas towards the Itsmus of Tehuantepec.

Registro histórico de Gastrotheca ovifera (Anura: Hemiphractidae: evidencias de disminución en selvas nubladas de la Cordillera de la Costa venezolana

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Javier Valera-Leal

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Gastrotheca ovifera es una rana marsupial que habita en el dosel arbóreo de bosques nublados y ribereños del Tramo Occidental y Ramal Litoral de La Cordillera de la Costa venezolana (CCV entre 820-2 000m de altitud. De acuerdo con la Lista Roja de la UCN se encuentra En Peligro (EN y su evaluación fue realizada de acuerdo a apreciaciones anecdóticas, por lo que su situación de amenaza no ha sido comprobada por muestreos sistemáticos. Con el objetivo de estudiar el estado de las poblaciones de la especie en el Parque Nacional Henri Pittier (PNHP en el Ramal Litoral de la CCV, realizamos una revisión histórica en museos nacionales y extranjeros y encontramos que la especie fue registrada en 1996 por última vez en el PNHP. Acumulamos 646 horas/persona de muestreo sistemático en localidades históricas y adicionales de la especie en el parque durante los años 2006 y 2007 y no obtuvimos registro de la especie. Adicionalmente, realizamos asociaciones entre datos promedios de precipitación anual y el registro histórico de la especie durante el periodo 1941-1997 (r s=- 0.054, p=0.820, n=19. Discutimos sobre su estado de conservación con base a la distribución, fluctuación y cambios poblacionales de la especie

Clay sediment accumulation rates on the monsoon-dominated western continental shelf and slope region of India

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Borole, D.V.

Clay accumulation rates shown in sediment cores from the nearshore to outer continental shelf and slope regions in water depths of 10-1246 m on the western continental margins of India were determined by the 210Pb dating technique. The 210Pb excess...

Storm-driven delivery of sediment to the continental slope: Numerical modeling for the northern Gulf of Mexico

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Harris, C. K.; Kniskern, T. A.; Arango, H.

2016-02-01

The supply of sediment from the continental shelf to deeper waters is of critical importance for building continental margin repositories of sediment, and may also factor into episodic events on the continental slope such as turbidity currents and slope failures. While numerical sediment transport models have been developed for coastal and continental shelf areas, they have not often been used to infer sediment delivery to deeper waters. A three-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic - suspended sediment transport model for the northern Gulf of Mexico has been developed and run to evaluate the types of conditions that are associated with delivery of suspended sediment to the continental slope. Accounting for sediment delivery by riverine plumes and for sediment resuspension by energetic waves and currents, the sediment transport calculations were implemented within the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The model domain represents the northern Gulf of Mexico shelf and slope including the Mississippi birdfoot delta and the Mississippi and DeSoto Canyons. To investigate the role of storms in driving down-slope sediment fluxes, model runs that encompassed fall, 2007 through late summer, 2008 the summer and fall of 2008 were analyzed. This time period included several winter storms, and the passage of two hurricanes (Ike and Gustav) over the study area. Preliminary results indicated that sediment delivery to the continental slope was triggered by the passage of these storm events, and focused at certain locations, such as submarine canyons. Additionally, a climatological analysis indicates that storm track influences both the wind-driven currents and wave energy on the shelf, and as such plays an important role in determining which storms trigger delivery of suspended continental shelf sediment to the adjacent slope.

Level III and IV Ecoregions of the Continental United States

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Information and downloadable maps and datasets for Level III and IV ecoregions of the continental United States. Ecoregions are areas of general similarity in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources.

BLM/OCS Southern California Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Baseline Studies

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — Data in this file were produced by Science Applications, Inc., prime contractor on the Bureau of Land Management/Outer Continental Shelf - Southern California...

Magma-poor vs. magma-rich continental rifting and breakup in the Labrador Sea

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Gouiza, M.; Paton, D.

2017-12-01

Magma-poor and magma-rich rifted margins show distinct structural and stratigraphic geometries during the rift to breakup period. In magma-poor margins, crustal stretching is accommodated mainly by brittle faulting and the formation of wide rift basins shaped by numerous graben and half-graben structures. Continental breakup and oceanic crust accretion are often preceded by a localised phase of (hyper-) extension where the upper mantle is embrittled, serpentinized, and exhumed to the surface. In magma-rich margins, the rift basin is narrow and extension is accompanied by a large magmatic supply. Continental breakup and oceanic crust accretion is preceded by the emplacement of a thick volcanic crust juxtaposing and underplating a moderately thinned continental crust. Both magma-poor and magma-rich rifting occur in response to lithospheric extension but the driving forces and processes are believed to be different. In the former extension is assumed to be driven by plate boundary forces, while in the latter extension is supposed to be controlled by sublithospheric mantle dynamics. However, this view fails in explaining observations from many Atlantic conjugate margins where magma-poor and magma-rich segments alternate in a relatively abrupt fashion. This is the case of the Labrador margin where the northern segment shows major magmatic supply during most of the syn-rift phase which culminate in the emplacement of a thick volcanic crust in the transitional domain along with high density bodies underplating the thinned continental crust; while the southern segment is characterized mainly by brittle extension, mantle seprentinization and exhumation prior to continental breakup. In this work, we use seismic and potential field data to describe the crustal and structural architectures of the Labrador margin, and investigate the tectonic and mechanical processes of rifting that may have controlled the magmatic supply in the different segments of the margin.

Rifting-to-drifting transition of the South China Sea: Moho reflection characteristics in continental-ocean transition zone

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Wen, Y.; Li, C.

2017-12-01

Dispute remains on the process of continental rifting to subsequent seafloor spreading in the South China Sea (SCS). Several crust-scale multi-channel seismic reflection profiles acquired in the continent-ocean transition zone (COT) of the SCS provide a detailed overview of Moho and deep crustal reflectors and give key information on rifting-to-drifting transition of the area. Moho has strong but discontinuous seismic reflection in COT. These discontinuities are mainly located in the landward side of continent-ocean boundary (COB), and may own to upwelling of lower crustal materials during initial continental extension, leading to numerous volcanic edifices and volcanic ridges. The continental crust in COT shows discontinuous Moho reflections at 11-8.5 s in two-way travel time (twtt), and thins from 18-20.5 km under the uppermost slope to 6-7 km under the lower slope, assuming an average crustal velocity of 6.0 km/s. The oceanic crust has Moho reflections of moderate to high continuity mostly at 1.8-2.2 s twtt below the top of the igneous basement, which means that the crustal thickness excluding sediment layer in COT is 5.4-6.6 km. Subhorizontal Moho reflections are often abruptly interrupted by large seaward dipping normal faults in southern COT but are more continuous compared with the fluctuant and very discontinuous Moho reflections in northern COT. The thickness of thinned continental crust (4.2-4.8 km) is smaller than that of oceanic crust (5.4-6.0 km) near southern COB, indicating that the continental crust has experienced a long period of rifting before seafloor spreading started. The smaller width of northern COT (0-40 km) than in southern COT (0-60 km), and thinner continental crust in southern COT, all indicate that the continental margin rifting and extension was asymmetric. The COT width in the SCS is narrower than that found in other magma-poor continental margins, indicating a swift transition from the final stage of rifting to the inception of

Notas, novos registros e novas espécies da coleção de Cerambycidae (Coleoptera do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus

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Maria Helena M. Galileo

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Espécies novas descritas da Amazônia brasileira em Ibidionini: Compsibidion uniforme sp. nov. (Amazonas; Heterachthes rafaeli sp. nov. (Amazonas; em Apomecynini: Amphicnaeia lineolata sp. nov. (Pará; em Desmiphorini: Cotycicuiara magnifica sp. nov. (Amazonas. Novos registros e notas são apresentados para: Gnomidolon insulicola Bates, 1885 e G. lansbergei (Thomson, 1867 (Hexoplonini; Desmiphora (D. uniformis Galileo & Martins, 2003 (Desmiphorini; Omosarotes paradoxum (Tippmann, 1955 (Cyrtinini e Ozotroctes ogeri Tavakilian & Néouze, 2007 (Acanthoderini.

Registro y control de factores de riesgo en prevención secundaria del ictus en Atención Primaria de la Región de Murcia

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Rubio Gil, Esther

2013-01-01

REGISTRO Y CONTROL DE FACTORES DE RIESGO EN PREVENCIÓN SECUNDARIA DEL ICTUS EN ATENCIÓN PRIMARIA DE LA REGIÓN DE MURCIA 1. ENFERMEDAD CARDIOVASCULAR Las enfermedades cardiovasculares, fundamentalmente la enfermedad isquémica cardíaca y la enfermedad cerebrovascular, han tomado relevancia en el ámbito sanitario y social debido a su alta incidencia y elevado coste sanitario. Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV) generalmente se deben a una etiología multifactorial, por la frecue...

Legalidad y práctica del Registro Civil a mediados del siglo XIX: incidencias entre autoridades e individuos de la Ciudad de México

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MÓNICA SAVAGE CARMONA

2015-01-01

El presente artículo es el resultado de una investigación de la apertura del Registro Civil de la Ciudad de México en 1861, fruto de las leyes seculares que se implementaron durant e el periodo conocido como la Reforma. En él se analiza la complejidad de su apertura en medio de una guerra civil, la Intervención francesa y la imposición del imperio de Maximiliano de Habsburgo. A pesar de los confl ictos políticos y militares, la institución funcionó y otorgó ...

Rollback of an intraoceanic subduction system and termination against a continental margin

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Campbell, S. M.; Simmons, N. A.; Moucha, R.

2017-12-01

The Southeast Indian Slab (SEIS) seismic anomaly has been suggested to represent a Tethyan intraoceanic subduction system which operated during the Jurassic until its termination at or near the margin of East Gondwana (Simmons et al., 2015). As plate reconstructions suggest the downgoing plate remained coupled to the continental margin, this long-lived system likely experienced a significant amount of slab rollback and trench migration (up to 6000 km). Using a 2D thermomechanical numerical code that includes the effects of phase transitions, we test this interpretation by modeling the long-term subduction, transition zone stagnation, and rollback of an intraoceanic subduction system in which the downgoing plate remains coupled to a continental margin. In addition, we also investigate the termination style of such a system, with a particular focus on the potential for some continental subduction beneath an overriding oceanic plate. This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. LLNL-ABS-735738

USGS Geospatial Fabric and Geo Data Portal for Continental Scale Hydrology Simulations

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Sampson, K. M.; Newman, A. J.; Blodgett, D. L.; Viger, R.; Hay, L.; Clark, M. P.

2013-12-01

This presentation describes use of United States Geological Survey (USGS) data products and server-based resources for continental-scale hydrologic simulations. The USGS Modeling of Watershed Systems (MoWS) group provides a consistent national geospatial fabric built on NHDPlus. They have defined more than 100,000 hydrologic response units (HRUs) over the continental United States based on points of interest (POIs) and split into left and right bank based on the corresponding stream segment. Geophysical attributes are calculated for each HRU that can be used to define parameters in hydrologic and land-surface models. The Geo Data Portal (GDP) project at the USGS Center for Integrated Data Analytics (CIDA) provides access to downscaled climate datasets and processing services via web-interface and python modules for creating forcing datasets for any polygon (such as an HRU). These resources greatly reduce the labor required for creating model-ready data in-house, contributing to efficient and effective modeling applications. We will present an application of this USGS cyber-infrastructure for assessments of impacts of climate change on hydrology over the continental United States.

Effect of thicker oceanic crust in the Archaean on the growth of continental crust through time

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Wilks, M.E.

1988-01-01

Present crustal evolution models fail to account for the generation of the large volume of continental crust in the required time intervals. All Archaean plate tectonic models, whether invoking faster spreading rates, similar to today's spreading rates, or longer ridge lengths, essentially propose that continental crust has grown by island arc accretion due to the subduction of oceanic crust. The petrological differences that characterize the Archaean from later terrains result from the subduction of hotter oceanic crust into a hotter mantle. If the oceanic crust was appreciably thicker in the Archaean, as geothermal models would indicate, this thicker crust is surely going to have an effect on tectonic processes. A more valid approach is to compare the possible styles of convergence of thick oceanic crust with modern convergence zones. The best modern analog occurs where thick continental crust is colliding with thick continental crust. Oceanic crustal collision on the scale of the present-day Himalayan continental collision zone may have been a frequent occurrence in the Archaean, resulting in extensive partial melting of the hydrous underthrust oceanic crust to produce voluminous tonalite melts, leaving a depleted stabilized basic residuum. Present-day island arc accretion may not have been the dominant mechanism for the growth of the early Archaean crust

Aerosol concentration measurements and correlations with air mass trajectories at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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Micheletti, M. I.; Louedec, K.; Freire, M.; Vitale, P.; Piacentini, R. D.

2017-06-01

Aerosols play an important role in radiative transfer processes involved in different fields of study. In particular, their influence is crucial in the attenuation of light at astronomical and astrophysical observatories, and has to be taken into account in light transfer models employed to reconstruct the signals. The Andean Argentinean region is increasingly being considered as a good candidate to host such facilities, as well as the ones for solar-energy resources, and an adequate knowledge of aerosols characteristics there is needed, but it is not always possible due to the vast area involved and the scarce atmospheric data at ground. The aim of this work is to find correlations between aerosol data and particle trajectories that can give an insight into the origin and behaviour of aerosols in this zone and can be employed in situations in which one does not have local aerosol measurements. For this purpose, an aerosol spectrometer and dust monitor (Grimm 1.109) was installed at the Pierre Auger Observatory of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, to record aerosol concentrations in different size intervals, at surface level. These measurements are analysed and correlated with air mass trajectories obtained from HYSPLIT (NOAA) model calculations. High aerosol concentrations are registered predominantly when air masses have travelled mostly over continental areas, mainly from the NE direction, while low aerosol concentrations are found in correspondence with air masses coming from the Pacific Ocean, from the NW direction. Different size distribution patterns were found for the aerosols depending on their origin: marine or continental. This work shows for the first time the size distribution of aerosols registered at the Pierre Auger Observatory. The correlations found between mass and particle concentrations (total and for different size ranges) and HYSPLIT air mass trajectories, confirm that the latter can be employed as a useful tool to infer the sources, evolution

First records of the ticks Amblyomma calcaratum and A. pacae (Acari: Ixodidae parasitizing mammals of Mexico Primeros registros de las garrapatas Amblyomma calcaratum y A. pacae (Acari: Ixodidae parasitando mamíferos de México

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Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo

2006-06-01

Full Text Available Based on study of ticks deposited in the Colección Nacional de Ácaros, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, we report the first records in Mexico for two species of Amblyomma: Amblyomma calcaratum ex Tamandua mexicana, and Amblyomma pacae ex Tapirus bairdii. These new records increase the number of species recorded for the genus Amblyomma in Mexico to 26.Basado en la revisión de garrapatas depositadas en la Colección Nacional de Ácaros, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, establecemos los primeros registros en México para 2 especies del género Amblyomma: Amblyomma calcaratum ex Tamandua mexicana y Amblyomma pacae ex Tapirus bairdii. Estos nuevos registros incrementan a 26 el número de especies del género Amblyomma distribuidas en México.

Influence of air mass source sector on variations in CO2 mixing ratio at a boreal site in northern Finland

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Aalto, T.; Hatakka, J.; Viisanen, Y.

2003-01-01

CO 2 mixing ratio in air masses coming from different source sectors was studied at Pallas measurement station in Lapland. Source sectors were defined using back trajectories and wind direction measurements. Air masses from the North and West sectors showed an annual variation of 17 ppm, possibly affected by a long range transported marine air. A larger variation of 20 ppm was observed in air masses from the more continental South and East sectors. During late autumn mixing ratios in air masses from the South sector were high in comparison with the other sectors. Different methods for a source sector definition were considered for the site, located in a contoured terrain. 52%-73% of wind direction-based source sector definitions agreed with trajectory- based definitions. However, the number of cases with reliable sector definitions may remain low when considering all observations. Different definition methods can cause differences of the order of 1 ppm in sectorially selected monthly mean CO 2 mixing ratios. (orig.)

Atmospheric water vapor transport: Estimation of continental precipitation recycling and parameterization of a simple climate model. M.S. Thesis

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Brubaker, Kaye L.; Entekhabi, Dara; Eagleson, Peter S.

1991-01-01

The advective transport of atmospheric water vapor and its role in global hydrology and the water balance of continental regions are discussed and explored. The data set consists of ten years of global wind and humidity observations interpolated onto a regular grid by objective analysis. Atmospheric water vapor fluxes across the boundaries of selected continental regions are displayed graphically. The water vapor flux data are used to investigate the sources of continental precipitation. The total amount of water that precipitates on large continental regions is supplied by two mechanisms: (1) advection from surrounding areas external to the region; and (2) evaporation and transpiration from the land surface recycling of precipitation over the continental area. The degree to which regional precipitation is supplied by recycled moisture is a potentially significant climate feedback mechanism and land surface-atmosphere interaction, which may contribute to the persistence and intensification of droughts. A simplified model of the atmospheric moisture over continents and simultaneous estimates of regional precipitation are employed to estimate, for several large continental regions, the fraction of precipitation that is locally derived. In a separate, but related, study estimates of ocean to land water vapor transport are used to parameterize an existing simple climate model, containing both land and ocean surfaces, that is intended to mimic the dynamics of continental climates.

Assessment of the uncertainties in air mass and pollutants transboundary exchange over the continental part of the EANET region

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Gromov, Sergey S.; Trifonova-Yakovleva, Alisa; Gromov, Sergey A.

2017-04-01

In this study, we attempt to quantify the uncertainties in air mass exchange in the lower troposphere across two regions of the Russian border in Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East in 2000-2015. We use meteorological data from long-term air sound data (ASD) on mean layer winds [1] and from the ERA INTERIM re-analysis (EIR) project [2]. Using a transboundary exchange model, we estimate the total and net amounts of air crossing the boundary segments around Irkutsk (IR) and Vladivostok (VL) aerological stations. We compare transport terms derived (i) from the long-term wind statistics based on both ASD and EIR data, and (ii) from integrating 6h meteorological winds from EIR directly over the border segments cells. We find similar wind direction statistics in both meteorological datasets, however EIR favours stronger westerly winds at VL in summer, which results in more often air export from China to Russia in the Far East. There is less agreement on the wind strengths than wind directions between the datasets, with EIR often providing slower wind speeds. The resulting climatic (ASD) and directly (from EIR 6h terms) calculated non-equilibrium (net) transport terms are comparable in orders (tens of million km3/month), however may differ substantially in temporal evolution or/and magnitude. Thus, EIR net transport over the IR segment has similar annual dynamics but is higher by a factor of ˜ 4 (maxima of 3.6 vs. 12 of 106 km3/month in December, respectively). An opposite ratio is derived for the VL segment (average ˜ 6 vs. 13 of 106 km3/month), with a distinct seasonality in the ASD but not in the EIR data. We attribute this discrepancy to the variations in wind direction with altitude, which cannot be resolved in the model fed with the ASD data. Calculated transport in the boundary layer (BL, provided by the EIR) supports this inference. Thus, the BL net transport temporal dynamics differ substantially from that within the 3 km layer, owing to the BL diurnal

Marea diurna y semidiurna en los registros de tiempo de presión atmosférica superficial en Guatapé y Girardota, Antioquia.

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Vieira Agudelo, Sara Cristina; Poveda Jaramillo, Germán

2002-01-01

Se estudian las mareas atmosféricas en los registros horarios de presión atmosférica superficial de los municipios de Guatapé y Girardota (Antioquia). Se utiliza la transformada de onditas, la transformada de Fourie y un análisis armónico sencillo. Los resultados muestran que la marea (oscilación) semidiurna de la presión atmosférica predomina sobre la oscilación diurna. Los análisis de Fourier y de armónicos confirman que se encuentran mayores valores de la amplitud para la oscilación semid...

Avaliação radiografica de duas tecnicas, para o registro da relação centrica em pacientes classe I de Angle

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Guilherme da Gama Ramos

2007-01-01

Resumo: Este estudo teve como objetivo comparar, por meio de radiografias transcranianas (técnica Accurad), duas técnicas descritas na literatura para a obtenção da relação cêntrica e posição das cabeças da mandíbula nas fossas mandibulares. Uma delas, a manipulação bilateral descrita por DAWSON em 1974. A outra, um traçado gráfico dos movimentos mandibulares no plano horizontal, denominado por GYSI, em 1910, de arco gótico, obtido por meio de um dispositivo, chamado de registro intra-oral. F...

Seguimiento microbiológico: estrategia para el mejoramiento del registro de la información en los procesos microbiológicos.

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Jaime Alberto López

2004-09-01

Full Text Available El conocimiento sobre el qué, el quién, el cuándo, el dónde, el cómo y el porqué de cada proceso, la aplicación de un sistema de control de calidad y la retroalimentación de la evaluación permiten que la información sea analizada y empleada eficientemente en el mejoramiento continuo. Los objetivos del trabajo fueron: mejorar el registro de la información en los procesos microbiológicos, evaluar los resultados obtenidos con las estrategias empleadas, establecer una base de datos para proyectos de investigación y proponer un modelo de evaluación para estudios comparativos. Para esto, se realizó un estudio descriptivo prospectivo, y se utilizaron los datos de los cultivos microbiológicos solicitados a pacientes hospitalizados entre junio de 1997 y junio de 2003. Se diseñó un formato con las variables por analizar. Las fuentes de información fueron las solicitudes de laboratorio, los registros del laboratorio de microbiología y las historias clínicas. Se utilizó el programa EpiInfo 6 para analizar la información de 46.072 cultivos. La primera cifra corresponde al porcentaje en junio de 1997 y la segunda, a la de junio de 2003: persona que solicitó el cultivo (11%-99%, hora de la solicitud (9%-85%, solicitud completamente diligenciada (10%-68%, persona que recolectó la muestra (0%-83%, hora de recolección de la muestra (0%-77% y, finalmente, hoja de trabajo microbiológica completa (78%-96%. El primer paso para el mejoramiento de cualquier proceso consiste en obtener y registrar la información pertinente y, para ello, la evaluación constante y la retroalimentación son fundamentales para el logro de este objetivo.

Enfermedad de Gaucher en Latinoamérica: Un informe del Registro Internacional y del Grupo Latinoamericano para la Enfermedad de Gaucher

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Guillermo Drelichman

2012-08-01

Full Text Available La enfermedad de Gaucher, por su escasa frecuencia, está incluida dentro de las llamadas enfermedades huérfanas. En 1991 se creó el Registro Internacional de Gaucher y en 1992 se incorporaron los primeros pacientes de Latinoamérica. En el año 2008 se creó el Grupo Latinoamericano para la Enfermedad de Gaucher (GLAEG cuyos principales objetivos son fomentar la realización de consensos regionales, difundir el ingreso de pacientes al registro internacional y aumentar el conocimiento sobre la enfermedad para lograr mejorar la atención y la calidad de vida de los pacientes. Hasta abril del 2010 ingresaron 5828 pacientes de todo el mundo, 911 (15.6% son de Latinoamérica. Este es el primer informe global de la enfermedad en la Región: hay un predominio del sexo femenino, la forma clínica más frecuente es el tipo I (95%; al diagnóstico la mayoría son <20 años (68%. Las manifestaciones clínicas más frecuentes al diagnóstico son esplenomegalia (96% y anemia (49%, el 80% presentó hallazgos radiológicos de compromiso óseo. En nuestra Región, la gran mayoría de los pacientes (89% ha recibido alguna vez terapia de reemplazo enzimática con imiglucerasa logrando, con un seguimiento prolongado (hasta10 años, las metas terapéuticas que muestran la gran eficacia de la terapia. Si bien el porcentaje de pacientes con terapia es alto, las suspensiones de tratamiento son frecuentes. Las principales deficiencias en nuestra Región son: la carencia de evaluaciones viscerales volumétricas, de densitometría y de estudios moleculares en algunos pacientes. El principal problema es el subdiagnóstico.

Sediments of the western continental shelf of India - Environmental significance

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Guptha, M.V.S.

The degree of fragmentation and colour of the skeletal fragments, colouration in benthic foraminifers have been studied in surficial sediment samples collected from forty stations from the continental shelf region between Ratnagiri in the south...

Role of magmatism in continental lithosphere extension: an introduction to tectnophysics special issue

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Van Wijk, Jolante W [Los Alamos National Laboratory

2008-01-01

The dynamics and evolution of rifts and continental rifted margins have been the subject of intense study and debate for many years and still remain the focus of active investigation. The 2006 AGU Fall Meeting session 'Extensional Processes Leading to the Formation of Basins and Rifted Margins, From Volcanic to Magma-Limited' included several contributions that illustrated recent advances in our understanding of rifting processes, from the early stages of extension to breakup and incipient seafloor spreading. Following this session, we aimed to assemble a multi-disciplinary collection of papers focussing on the architecture, formation and evolution of continental rift zones and rifted margins. This Tectonophysics Special Issue 'Role of magmatism in continental lithosphere extension' comprises 14 papers that present some of the recent insights on rift and rifted margins dynamics, emphasising the role of magmatism in extensional processes. The purpose of this contribution is to introduce these papers.

The Athabasca Granulite Terrane and Evidence for Dynamic Behavior of Lower Continental Crust

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Dumond, Gregory; Williams, Michael L.; Regan, Sean P.

2018-05-01

Deeply exhumed granulite terranes have long been considered nonrepresentative of lower continental crust largely because their bulk compositions do not match the lower crustal xenolith record. A paradigm shift in our understanding of deep crust has since occurred with new evidence for a more felsic and compositionally heterogeneous lower crust than previously recognized. The >20,000-km2 Athabasca granulite terrane locally provides a >700-Myr-old window into this type of lower crust, prior to being exhumed and uplifted to the surface between 1.9 and 1.7 Ga. We review over 20 years of research on this terrane with an emphasis on what these findings may tell us about the origin and behavior of lower continental crust, in general, in addition to placing constraints on the tectonic evolution of the western Canadian Shield between 2.6 and 1.7 Ga. The results reveal a dynamic lower continental crust that evolved compositionally and rheologically with time.