Toxic phytoplankton response to warming in two Mediterranean bays of the Ebro Delta

The analysis of the phytoplankton and environmental parameters of the time series in Alfacs and Fangar bays (north western Mediterranean) from 1990 to 2009 shows some trends. There is an increase in the average water column temperature, 0.11, 0.01, 0.80 and 0.23 ºC for spring, summer, fall and winter respectively in Alfacs Bay and 1.76, 0.71, 1.33, 0.89 ºC for spring, summer, fall and winter in Fangar Bay. The trends in phytoplankton populations show a shift in the timing of occurrence of Karlodinium spp. blooms and an increase of the Pseudo-nitzschia spp. abundances. There is a lack of correlation between the average seasonal temperatures and the toxic phytoplankton abundances.

La transformació del paisatge del delta de la Tordera en els darrers cent cinquanta anys : una anàlisi per mitjà dels canvis en els usos i les cobertes del sòl

This article compares the mid-nineteenth century landscape of the River Tordera delta with the present day landscape, based, above all, on the changes that have occurred in land use and land cover. The mid 19th century landscape was reconstructed using data obtained from the amillaraments (land inventories) and other historical documents. Present-day land use and cover was established through photo interpretation and field work. The most important changes detected concern the almost complete disappearance of certain crops, such as vineyards, which were very important in the 19th century; the expansion of forest in place of abandoned tilled land and the increase in built up areas, which, taken together, produce a highly fragmented landscape pattern

Omnidirectional Depth Computation from a Single Image

Omnidirectional cameras offer a much wider field of view than the perspective ones and alleviate the problems due to occlusions. However, both types of cameras suffer from the lack of depth perception. A practical method for obtaining depth in computer vision is to project a known structured light pattern on the scene avoiding the problems and costs involved by stereo vision. This paper is focused on the idea of combining omnidirectional vision and structured light with the aim to provide 3D information about the scene. The resulting sensor is formed by a single catadioptric camera and an omnidirectional light projector. It is also discussed how this sensor can be used in robot navigation applications

Identificació de subjectes a partir de l'anàlisi de dades multimodals RGB-Depth

En aquest treball s'explora el camp de la identificació facial de subjectes utilitzant tècniques d'anàlisi multimodal. Això és utilitzant imatges RGB i imatges de profunditat (3D) amb l'objecte de validar les diverses tècniques emprades en el reconeixement facial i aprofundir en sistemes que incorporen informació tridimensional als algorismes de detecció i identificació facial.

Gaviota de Audouin. Treinta años de nidificación en el Delta del Ebro

La punta de la banya, situada en el extremo meridional del delta del Ebro, acoge a una gran colonia nidificante de gaviota de Adouin, a la que recientemente se ha sumado un segundo núcleo reproductor asentado en el espigón portuario de la vecina localidad de SAnt Carles de la Ràpita. Al margen de las oscilaciones naturales de la colonia, la presencia de la especie en el delta del Ebro se remonta al año 1981, con un máximo histórico de 15.329 parejas censadas durante la temporada de cria del año 2006.

Absence of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol dysphoric effects in dynorphin-deficient mice

The involvement of dynorphin on Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and morphine responses has been investigated by using mice with a targeted inactivation of the prodynorphin (Pdyn) gene. Dynorphin-deficient mice show specific changes in the behavioral effects of THC, including a reduction of spinal THC analgesia and the absence of THC-induced conditioned place aversion. In contrast, acute and chronic opioid effects were normal. The lack of negative motivational effects of THC in the absence of dynorphin demonstrates that this endogenous opioid peptide mediates the dysphoric effects of marijuana.

Proyecto Delta : interrelación entre intérprete, obra y público en la música contemporánea

Proyecto Delta es una iniciativa escenográfica de un programa de concierto específico constituido con obras de música contemporánea. La propuesta se lleva a cabo gracias a un fundamento teórico que incluye reflexiones en torno a las figuras comprometidas en el acto musical escénico: intérprete, obra y público. En esta digresión sus funciones son objeto de un desfiguramiento, fomentando la capacidad creativa del intérprete como director artístico. El concierto se convierte, de este modo, en un producto acabado. En particular, el Proyecto Delta se construye sobre el diálogo entre lo sonoro y lo visual, lo audible y lo visible: la música y el espacio.

On the depth of blowup algebras of ideals with analytic deviation one

Let I be an ideal in a local Cohen-Macaulay ring (A, m). Assume I to be generically a complete intersection of positive height. We compute the depth of the Rees algebra and the form ring of I when the analytic deviation of I equals one and its reduction number is also at most one. The formu- las we obtain coincide with the already known formulas for almost complete intersection ideals.

Vacancy and interstitial depth profiles in ion-implanted silicon

An experimental method of studying shifts between concentration-versus-depth profiles of vacancy- and interstitial-type defects in ion-implanted silicon is demonstrated. The concept is based on deep level transient spectroscopy measurements utilizing the filling pulse variation technique. The vacancy profile, represented by the vacancy¿oxygen center, and the interstitial profile, represented by the interstitial carbon¿substitutional carbon pair, are obtained at the same sample temperature by varying the duration of the filling pulse. The effect of the capture in the Debye tail has been extensively studied and taken into account. Thus, the two profiles can be recorded with a high relative depth resolution. Using low doses, point defects have been introduced in lightly doped float zone n-type silicon by implantation with 6.8 MeV boron ions and 680 keV and 1.3 MeV protons at room temperature. The effect of the angle of ion incidence has also been investigated. For all implantation conditions the peak of the interstitial profile is displaced towards larger depths compared to that of the vacancy profile. The amplitude of this displacement increases as the width of the initial point defect distribution increases. This behavior is explained by a simple model where the preferential forward momentum of recoiling silicon atoms and the highly efficient direct recombination of primary point defects are taken into account.

Algunos Briozos del Cuaternario del Delta del río Llobregat (Barcelona)

Se estudian algunas formas de Briozoos del Cuaternario del delta del Llobregat (tocando a la ciudad de Barcelona). Se reconocen dos especies del gnero Cellaria, una Discoporella, una Cupztladria y una Porclla. Adems de una discusin sistemtica sobre el gnero Cellaria y Porclla se dan datos micromtricos abundantes y se establecen comparaciones con los dados por otros autores insinundose algunas conclusiones.

Análisis litosísmico y estructura sedimentaria de la plataforma interna al Norte del delta del Ebro (sector de Vandellós)

El análisis sísmico de perfiles de alta resolución del tipo ((uniboom)), realizados en la plataforma interna al N del Delta del Ebro, permite definir las unidades sísmicas y establecer la estructura sedimentaria del Ambos aspectos reflejan la influencia diferencial de los procesos recubrimiento cuaternario medio/superior. Ambos aspectos reflejan la influencia diferencial de los procesos dinámicos y de las oscilaciones eustáticas.

Sedimentos prodeltaicos en el Delta emergido del Llobregat

La unidad de limos intermedios del delta del Llobregat corresponde a un ambiente prodeltaico en el que se han identificado, por comparación al modelo actual, subambientes de prodelta proximal, medio y medio-distal. Su agua intersticial es sinsedimentaria, hallándose en la actualidad parcialmente diluida.

Delta(1232) isobar excitations in nuclear many-body systems from varios NN interactions.

Delta isobar components in the nuclear many-body wave function are investigated for the deuteron, light nuclei (16O), and infinite nuclear matter within the framework of the coupled-cluster theory. The predictions derived for various realistic models of the baryon-baryon interaction are compared to each other. These include local (V28) and nonlocal meson exchange potentials (Bonn2000) but also a model recently derived by the Salamanca group accounting for quark degrees of freedom. The characteristic differences which are obtained for the NDelta and Delta Delta correlation functions are related to the approximation made in deriving the matrix elements for the baryon-baryon interaction.