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The graphical presentation of lead isotope data for environmental source apportionment
No full textLead isotope ratios are widely used to identify original sources of Pb in the environment. Such source apportionment depends on the ability to distinguish potential sources on the basis of their isotopic composition. However, almost all terrestrial Pb is co-linear in some of the plots i.e. <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>208</sup>Pb versus <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>207</sup>Pb and <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb versus <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>207</sup>Pb commonly presented in the literature. These diagrams are unable to distinguish more than two sources of environmental Pb. Linear trends in such plots are an inevitable consequence of the co-linearity of terrestrial leads and should not be taken necessarily to indicate simple binary mixing of sources. A more reliable test for multiple source mixing can be obtained from plots involving <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb, <sup>207</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb and <sup>208</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb and therefore requires measurements of the minor <sup>204</sup>Pb isotope
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Picrite-basalt associated to Ethiopian-Yemeni CFB and their relevance to mantle plume processes
No full textThe Oligocene Northern Ethiopian-Yemeni LIP, represented by a CFB plateau extending ca. 700 km in diameter, is characterized by a well-defined zonal arrangement with increasing plume-related physico-chemical features of erupted magmas, such as thermal regime, incompatible element enrichment and specific Sr-Nd-Pb-He isotopic fingerprint, from the periphery to the central plateau area [1]. Two CFB volcanic piles in the Lalibela district (Northern Ethiopia, ca. 2 km thick) and in the Manakhah section (Northern Yemeni plateau, ca. 1 km thick) which erupted close to the Oligocene Afar plume axis, are similarly characterized by very high-Titransitional basalts and picrites (HT2, [1] [2]) that account for ca. 13% (40,000 km3) of the total Ethiopian-Yemeni CFB lavas. These magmas are characterized, in addition to the extremely high TiO2content (3-6 wt%) by a high MgO content (mostly between 8 and 18 wt%), and show striking compositional analogies with those from the Karoo province and the Siberian meimechites [3] [4]. Petrological modelling based on whole rock FeO-MgO and Ol composition [5] indicates that some of picrites (MgO 16-17 wt%) are near-primary magmas with olivine phenoscrysts up to Fo 90.4. Calculation shows that the primary melts have picrite composition MgO 19.8-20.7 wt% and were generated by polybaric melting in the pressure range 3-4 GPa at a potential temperature of 1570°C. Together with high-MgO lavas from Hawaii and Gorgona, these are the highest temperatures of any OIB and LIP lavas. The available data suggest that HT2 magma sources necessarily require the involvement of specific high-Ti (and Fe) deep-seated sublithospheric components which were entrained and remobilized by the rising plume. References: [1] Beccaluva et al. (2009), J. Petrol. 50, 1377-1403. [2] Beccaluva et al. (2011), GSA Sp. Paper 478, 77-104. [3] Ellam & Cox (1991), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 105, 330-342. [4] Heinonen et al.(2014), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.394, 229-241. [5] Herzberg et al. (2007), Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 8, doi:10.1029GC001390
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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