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Experimental studies of the differentiation process and pre-eruptive conditions in the magmatic system of Phlegreans Fields (Naples, Italy)
No full textPhase relations of two samples of the Breccia Museo Eruption (BME), BME is an explosive event that took place (about 20 ky ago) during the caldera-forming phase of the Ignimbrite Campana eruption, have been determined experimentally as a function of temperature (700 to 885 °C), pressure (50 to 200 MPa) and water content of the melt. The crystallization experiments were carried out at fO2 = NNO + 1 log unit. Melt water content ranged from 3.4 to 8 wt.% (H2O saturation). The synthetic products are compared to the natural phases to constrain the pre-eruptive conditions of trachytic magma in the presence of an H2O-rich fluid. The major phases occurring in the BME have been reproduced. The stability of biotite is favoured at pressures higher than 135 MPa. Phase equilibria at 200 MPa reproduce the phase assemblage of the magma only at temperatures below 775 °C. Phase abundances and melt fractions indicate that the eruption tapped a magma body that was at a temperature of 780 °C and a pressure in the range 200-140 MPa. The observed major element variations are fully consistent with a fractional crystallization of a sanidine-dominated assemblage starting from the least differentiated trachytes. The compositions of the experimental products are compatible with the progressive tapping of a shallow magma chamber that was chemically zoned. These results suggest that after an early eruptive phase during which the upper, most differentiated level of the magma chamber was tapped, the sudden collapse of the roof of the reservoir triggered drainage of the less evolved remaining magma. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Effect of fO2 on Eu partitioning between clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and basaltic melt: Development of a Eu3+/Eu2+ oxybarometer
No full textWe present partition coefficients for Cs, Li, Sr, Ba, Zn, Mn, Co, Ni, Sc, Ga, Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Yb, Lu, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ta, Nb and P for synthetic clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene crystallized from a Fe-free basalt at 1.5 GPa and four different oxygen fugacities (fO2) ranging from 6 log units above the quartz-fayalite-magnetite oxygen buffer (QFM + 6) to QFM-5 at temperatures of 1275–1300 °C. Partition coefficients for the rare earth elements (REE) vary as a function of their ionic radii, in agreement with lattice strain theory. We use the lattice strain model to evaluate partition coefficients for Eu2+ and Eu3+. Our results suggest that fO2 exerts a primary and important control on Eu, Ni and Co partitioning in clinopyroxene whereas fO2 seemingly has no recognizable effect on the partitioning behavior of these elements in orthopyroxene. However Eu anomalies in orthopyroxene, orthopyroxene Onuma diagrams and calculated proportions of Eu2+ in melts all show evidence that fO2 influence Eu partitioning also in orthopyroxene. We combined our results, available experimental data and predictive models for divalent and trivalent Eu clinopyroxene-melt and orthopyroxene-melt partitioning to parameterize fO2-dependent Eu partitioning models. The reported models reproduce measured Eu partition coefficients within a factor of two. Our model can be applied as clinopyroxene-melt and orthopyroxene-melt oxybarometers if Eu equilibrium partitioning between melt and pyroxene can be demonstrated
INTERNET OF MEDICAL THINGS (IOMT) AND INTEGRATED HOME ASSISTANCE
No full textThis article furnishes an overview of the actual IoT technology used in integrated home assistance. It delineates how the IoMT devices are improving the implementation of integrated home assistance services, and how the IoT technology can influence the global healthcare assistance in upcoming years aiding healthcare systems by supplying secure and effective cures in a complementary or alternative way, even during periods of crisis or health epidemics, like that of "COVID-19." Healthcare assistance based on IoT and the use of deep machine learning can in fact help healthcare workers by giving them new and improved diagnostic capabilities. The combination of machines and clinical experience improves the reliability of the services of integrated home assistance. Artificial intelligence and deep learning can also optimize disease management, provide large amounts of data, and generate analytics from IoMT devices. Transforming the delivery of integrated home assistance healthcare services in this way, thanks to IoT, is essential for improving self-management for people with chronic illnesses and providing specialized care for people located far away or at home
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Experimental cannibalization of plagioclase by alkaline basalt magmas
Full text linkTime-series crystallization/dissolution experiments were conducted on a natural potassic basalt seeded with bytownitic plagioclases (Plg) at atmospheric pressure, in air, at 1180- 1240 °C and isothermal dwell time up to 20 hours. Plg-seed presence promotes the early formation of new-Plg, dampening the clinopyroxene (Cpx) crystallization. New-Plgs grow at a rate from 10-6 up to 10-8 cm·s-1 as the dwell time increases. Seeds overgrow at similar rate. Cpx crystallizes with a delay of at least 3 hours; this has a significant impact on the composition of both residual melt and new-Plgs. For undercooling >35 °C the Cpx delay causes a strong supersaturation of this phase in the melt resulting in a decrease in the new-Plg nucleation rate by 2 orders of magnitude in the 3 h-experiment. In the 15h-run, Cpx coarsening and the decrease of crystallinity suggest the achievement of a near-equilibrium conditions. Cpx growth rate is in the order of 10-7 cm·s-1 showing very limited variation. Finally, for the investigated superheating (5-15 °C) only the long lasting experiments allows an estimation of Plg dissolution rate (10-9 cm·s-1) although changes in the melt composition are already detectable in the 3h-runs.
As a whole our results suggest that in natural systems, the takeover of antecrysts/ xenocrysts by a magma can induce on a short time scales, changes in its initial nucleation behavior with remarkable petrological implications for the solidification paths and eruptive dynamics of potassic magmatic systems
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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