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Electrical resistivity tomography applied in the investigation of leachate flow in a fractured environment in a dump in the city of Lavras do Sul (RS)
No full textA área de estudo está localizada na cidade de Lavras do Sul – RS, que é uma antiga pedreira que foi reaproveitada para a deposição dos resíduos oriundo do município. O objetivo principal é realizar o detalhamento geofísico e estrutural da contaminação do antigo lixão e correlacionar a percolação do lixiviado com as zonas fraturadas, com o uso de dois métodos de investigação (Eletrorresistividade e Polarização Induzida) e os dois arranjos (Dipolo-Dipolo e Schlumberger). Foram realizados 12 perfis de resistividade e cargabilidade na direção 45ºN, processados em 2D e 3D, e foi determinado uma possível presença de zonas de contaminação e percolação de lixiviado para fora da área do lixão. Também foi possível determinar onde estavam dispostos os resíduos sólidos e os limites do lixão, zonas fraturadas com a presença de lixiviado e zonas fraturadas com a presença de sulfetos que aprofundam até 36 m. Desde o início da operação do lixão a contaminação atingiu diversos metros de profundidade, porém com o tempo e a atenuação natural, essas zonas de fratura fecharam devido a cristalização de sulfeto. Os dois arranjos apresentaram resultados satisfatórios para os valores de resistividade. Com relação aos valores de cargabilidade, o arranjo Schlumberger apresentou melhores resultados do que o Dipolo-Dipolo. A geofísica demonstrou ser uma ferramenta importante no estudo de contaminações em rochas cristalinas, principalmente pela sua capacidade de detecção de fraturas e sua profundidade atingida.The study area is located in the city of Lavras do Sul - RS, which is an old quarry that was reused for the deposition of waste from the municipality. The main objective is to perform the geophysical and structural detailing of the contamination of the old dump and to correlate the percolation of the leachate with the fractured zones, using the two research methods (DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization) and the two arrangements (Dipole-dipole and Schlumberger). By performing 12 profiles of resistivity and chargeability in the 45ºN direction, processed in 2D and 3D, a possible presence of contamination zones and percolation of leachate outside the dump area was determined. It was also possible to determine where the solid wastes and the boundaries of the dump were located, fractured zones with the presence of leachate and fracture zones with the presence of sulfides that deepen up to 36 m. From the beginning of the operation of the dump the contamination reached several meters deep, but with time and the natural attenuation, these zones of fracture closed due to mineral neoformation of sulfide. Both arrangements presented satisfactory results for the resistivity values, in relation to the chargeability values, the Schlumberger arrangement presented better results than the Dipole-Dipole. Geophysics has been shown to be an important tool in the study of contaminations in crystalline rocks, mainly due to its ability to detect fractures and its depth.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES
Diagnóstico de vulnerabilidade à contaminação das águas subterrâneas por necrópole em Frederico Westphalen – RS
Get PDFGroundwater is widely used for human supply and is susceptible to contamination from various anthropogenic activities. Therefore, this study assessed the vulnerability to groundwater contamination by a cemetery necropolis in the vicinity of the Municipal Cemetery and region in the city of Frederico Westphalen - RS, through the application of the GOD method (G: hydraulic confinement degree; O: strata occurrence; and D: water table level). The survey and processing of information on the wells registered in SIAGAS have classified the vulnerability of the municipal area at 52.67% in the insignificant class, 40.42% with low significance and 6.91% with medium significance. It was found that the Municipal Cemetery belongs to an area with a potential risk of contamination. This study has provided subsidies that can be used for managing land use and occupation in the municipality and for implementing groundwater protection measures.As águas subterrâneas são amplamente utilizadas para o abastecimento humano e são suscetíveis à contaminação por diversas atividades antrópicas. Sendo assim, este trabalho avaliou a vulnerabilidade à contaminação das águas subterrâneas por necrópole no entorno do Cemitério Municipal e da região de Frederico Westphalen - RS, por meio da aplicação do método GOD (G: grau de confinamento hidráulico; O: ocorrência de estratos; e D: nível freático). O levantamento e tratamento das informações dos poços cadastrados no SIAGAS classificou a vulnerabilidade da área municipal com 52,67% na classe insignificante, 40,42% com baixa significância e 6,91% com significância média. Foi constatado que o Cemitério Municipal pertence a área com risco potencial à contaminação. Este trabalho forneceu subsídios que podem ser utilizados para o gerenciamento do uso e ocupação do solo municipal e para a implementação de medidas de proteção das águas subterrâneas
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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