985 resultados para Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655


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We describe a new species of Bothrops from Vitoria Island, off the coast of Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil. The new species differs from the mainland coastal populations of B. jararaca mostly in its smaller and stouter body, number and form of scales, and hemipenial morphology. From B. insularis and B. alcatraz, both related species endemic to islands in southeastern Brazil, B. otavioi sp. nov. differs mainly in its body form and number of scales. The new species has the twist common mitochondrial haplotype for mainland populations of B. jararaca, which is also found in B. alcatraz. A mitochondrial genealogy (gene tree) shows the new species nested within the northern clade of B. jararaca. This genealogical pattern can be explained by a recent speciation event for B. otavioi sp. nov. The isolation of insular species of Bothrops from continental ancestor populations are probably related to the same vicariant process, the oscillations of sea level during the Pleistocene. The new species feeds on small hylid frogs, and attains sexual maturity at 388 mm snout-vent length (SVL; males) and 692 mm SVL (females). Bothrops facial sp. nov. is endemic to Vitoria Island, and should be listed as critically endangered because it is known from only a single area (an island), its geographic range covers less than 100 km(2), and there is a projected continuing decline in the quality of its habitat because of increasing human settlement.

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Brood desertion is a life history strategy that allows parents to minimize costs related to parental care and increase their future fecundity. The harvestman Neosadocus maximus is an interesting model organism to study costs and benefits of temporary brood desertion because females abandon their clutches periodically and keep adding eggs to their clutches for some weeks. In this study, we tested if temporary brood desertion (a) imposes a cost to caring females by increasing the risk of egg predation and (b) offers a benefit to caring females by increasing fecundity as a result of increased foraging opportunities. With intensive field observations followed by a model selection approach, we showed that the proportion of consumed eggs was very low during the day and it was not influenced by the frequency of brood desertion. The proportion of consumed eggs was higher at night and it was negatively related to the frequency of brood desertion. However, frequent brood desertion did not result in higher fecundity, measured both as the number of eggs added to the current clutch and the probability of laying a second clutch over the course of the reproductive season. Considering that harvestmen are sensitive to dehydration, brood desertion during the day may attenuate the physiological stress of remaining exposed on the vegetation. Moreover, since brood desertion is higher during the day, when egg predation pressure is lower, caring females could be adjusting their maternal effort to the temporal variation in predation risk, which is regarded as the main cost of brood desertion in ectotherms.

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Models are becoming increasingly important in the software development process. As a consequence, the number of models being used is increasing, and so is the need for efficient mechanisms to search them. Various existing search engines could be used for this purpose, but they lack features to properly search models, mainly because they are strongly focused on text-based search. This paper presents Moogle, a model search engine that uses metamodeling information to create richer search indexes and to allow more complex queries to be performed. The paper also presents the results of an evaluation of Moogle, which showed that the metamodel information improves the accuracy of the search.

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In multi-label classification, examples can be associated with multiple labels simultaneously. The task of learning from multi-label data can be addressed by methods that transform the multi-label classification problem into several single-label classification problems. The binary relevance approach is one of these methods, where the multi-label learning task is decomposed into several independent binary classification problems, one for each label in the set of labels, and the final labels for each example are determined by aggregating the predictions from all binary classifiers. However, this approach fails to consider any dependency among the labels. Aiming to accurately predict label combinations, in this paper we propose a simple approach that enables the binary classifiers to discover existing label dependency by themselves. An experimental study using decision trees, a kernel method as well as Naive Bayes as base-learning techniques shows the potential of the proposed approach to improve the multi-label classification performance.

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Introduction 1.1 Occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the environment Worldwide industrial and agricultural developments have released a large number of natural and synthetic hazardous compounds into the environment due to careless waste disposal, illegal waste dumping and accidental spills. As a result, there are numerous sites in the world that require cleanup of soils and groundwater. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are one of the major groups of these contaminants (Da Silva et al., 2003). PAHs constitute a diverse class of organic compounds consisting of two or more aromatic rings with various structural configurations (Prabhu and Phale, 2003). Being a derivative of benzene, PAHs are thermodynamically stable. In addition, these chemicals tend to adhere to particle surfaces, such as soils, because of their low water solubility and strong hydrophobicity, and this results in greater persistence under natural conditions. This persistence coupled with their potential carcinogenicity makes PAHs problematic environmental contaminants (Cerniglia, 1992; Sutherland, 1992). PAHs are widely found in high concentrations at many industrial sites, particularly those associated with petroleum, gas production and wood preserving industries (Wilson and Jones, 1993). 1.2 Remediation technologies Conventional techniques used for the remediation of soil polluted with organic contaminants include excavation of the contaminated soil and disposal to a landfill or capping - containment - of the contaminated areas of a site. These methods have some drawbacks. The first method simply moves the contamination elsewhere and may create significant risks in the excavation, handling and transport of hazardous material. Additionally, it is very difficult and increasingly expensive to find new landfill sites for the final disposal of the material. The cap and containment method is only an interim solution since the contamination remains on site, requiring monitoring and maintenance of the isolation barriers long into the future, with all the associated costs and potential liability. A better approach than these traditional methods is to completely destroy the pollutants, if possible, or transform them into harmless substances. Some technologies that have been used are high-temperature incineration and various types of chemical decomposition (for example, base-catalyzed dechlorination, UV oxidation). However, these methods have significant disadvantages, principally their technological complexity, high cost , and the lack of public acceptance. Bioremediation, on the contrast, is a promising option for the complete removal and destruction of contaminants. 1.3 Bioremediation of PAH contaminated soil & groundwater Bioremediation is the use of living organisms, primarily microorganisms, to degrade or detoxify hazardous wastes into harmless substances such as carbon dioxide, water and cell biomass Most PAHs are biodegradable unter natural conditions (Da Silva et al., 2003; Meysami and Baheri, 2003) and bioremediation for cleanup of PAH wastes has been extensively studied at both laboratory and commercial levels- It has been implemented at a number of contaminated sites, including the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989, the Mega Borg spill off the Texas coast in 1990 and the Burgan Oil Field, Kuwait in 1994 (Purwaningsih, 2002). Different strategies for PAH bioremediation, such as in situ , ex situ or on site bioremediation were developed in recent years. In situ bioremediation is a technique that is applied to soil and groundwater at the site without removing the contaminated soil or groundwater, based on the provision of optimum conditions for microbiological contaminant breakdown.. Ex situ bioremediation of PAHs, on the other hand, is a technique applied to soil and groundwater which has been removed from the site via excavation (soil) or pumping (water). Hazardous contaminants are converted in controlled bioreactors into harmless compounds in an efficient manner. 1.4 Bioavailability of PAH in the subsurface Frequently, PAH contamination in the environment is occurs as contaminants that are sorbed onto soilparticles rather than in phase (NAPL, non aqueous phase liquids). It is known that the biodegradation rate of most PAHs sorbed onto soil is far lower than rates measured in solution cultures of microorganisms with pure solid pollutants (Alexander and Scow, 1989; Hamaker, 1972). It is generally believed that only that fraction of PAHs dissolved in the solution can be metabolized by microorganisms in soil. The amount of contaminant that can be readily taken up and degraded by microorganisms is defined as bioavailability (Bosma et al., 1997; Maier, 2000). Two phenomena have been suggested to cause the low bioavailability of PAHs in soil (Danielsson, 2000). The first one is strong adsorption of the contaminants to the soil constituents which then leads to very slow release rates of contaminants to the aqueous phase. Sorption is often well correlated with soil organic matter content (Means, 1980) and significantly reduces biodegradation (Manilal and Alexander, 1991). The second phenomenon is slow mass transfer of pollutants, such as pore diffusion in the soil aggregates or diffusion in the organic matter in the soil. The complex set of these physical, chemical and biological processes is schematically illustrated in Figure 1. As shown in Figure 1, biodegradation processes are taking place in the soil solution while diffusion processes occur in the narrow pores in and between soil aggregates (Danielsson, 2000). Seemingly contradictory studies can be found in the literature that indicate the rate and final extent of metabolism may be either lower or higher for sorbed PAHs by soil than those for pure PAHs (Van Loosdrecht et al., 1990). These contrasting results demonstrate that the bioavailability of organic contaminants sorbed onto soil is far from being well understood. Besides bioavailability, there are several other factors influencing the rate and extent of biodegradation of PAHs in soil including microbial population characteristics, physical and chemical properties of PAHs and environmental factors (temperature, moisture, pH, degree of contamination). Figure 1: Schematic diagram showing possible rate-limiting processes during bioremediation of hydrophobic organic contaminants in a contaminated soil-water system (not to scale) (Danielsson, 2000). 1.5 Increasing the bioavailability of PAH in soil Attempts to improve the biodegradation of PAHs in soil by increasing their bioavailability include the use of surfactants , solvents or solubility enhancers.. However, introduction of synthetic surfactant may result in the addition of one more pollutant. (Wang and Brusseau, 1993).A study conducted by Mulder et al. showed that the introduction of hydropropyl-ß-cyclodextrin (HPCD), a well-known PAH solubility enhancer, significantly increased the solubilization of PAHs although it did not improve the biodegradation rate of PAHs (Mulder et al., 1998), indicating that further research is required in order to develop a feasible and efficient remediation method. Enhancing the extent of PAHs mass transfer from the soil phase to the liquid might prove an efficient and environmentally low-risk alternative way of addressing the problem of slow PAH biodegradation in soil.

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L’analisi condotta sulle condizioni geo-morfologiche dell’intera regione abruzzese e in particolare della città de L’Aquila ha evidenziato l’importanza del contesto paesaggistico territoriale che non può che essere assunto come riferimento progettuale per rinnovare il rapporto tra uomo e natura, soprattutto in una realtà come quella aquilana dove sono il paesaggio naturale e la struttura morfologica che permangono come fattori costanti nel tempo, nonostante le trasformazioni attuate dalla società o dagli eventi sismici che da sempre caratterizzano la storia della città e che rappresentano quindi due elementi in grado di restituire l’identità stessa della popolazione. Questa caratteristica rappresenta il pretesto per un approfondimento sul paesaggio dal punto di vista percettivo: è infatti l’uomo che nel corso dei secoli modifica fortemente il proprio territorio e la percezione che ha di esso. L’obiettivo di tale studio è quello di riuscire a cogliere, in fase progettuale, l’essenza del luogo, il carattere peculiare delle diverse suggestioni che i cittadini aquilani potranno riaffermare come parte della propria identità. Considerate tali premesse, il progetto propone il disegno di un nuovo parco urbano collocato entro le mura lungo l’intera lunghezza dell’area oggetto di studio; l’obiettivo è quello di collegare i poli verdi preesistenti del Parco del Castello e del Parco del Sole e contemporaneamente di ridefinire il lacerato rapporto tra centro storico e prima periferia eleggendo il verde ad elemento capace di una relazione attiva con il contesto urbano, con la possibilità di contribuire alla coesione sociale, alla sensibilizzazione ai temi ambientali e al miglioramento dell’offerta dei luoghi di ritrovo. Il nuovo parco ospiterà architetture legate alla musica e al teatro, temi da sempre di notevole importanza per la città, come testimoniano le numerose strutture che prima dell’evento tellurico arricchivano il patrimonio culturale della città. Per evitare che funzioni di così notevole importanza per la città corrano il rischio di essere progressivamente relegate verso la periferia ed i centri minori, il progetto propone di integrare all’interno del nuovo parco una serie di attività quali laboratori teatrali e foresterie per attori, centro ricreativo, biblioteca e sala espositiva, conservatorio, attività commerciali e residenze, disposti secondo una successione lineare da nord a sud. Tale intervento sarà integrato dalla realizzazione di un complesso di residenze,costituito da tre corpi lineari disposti secondo il naturale declivio del terreno, lungo l’asse est-ovest, in corrispondenza del prolungamento dei tracciati storici secondari. Si viene a creare, quindi una sorta di struttura a pettine, nella quale le aree verdi adibite ad orti e gli spazi costruiti si compenetrano definendo un vero e proprio filtro tra città storica e quella suburbana. La disposizione dei diversi edifici e la presenza in ognuno di essi di uno spazio pubblico esterno, sono pensati in modo tale da creare una successione di spazi collettivi, suggerita in risposta all’assenza di attrezzature pubbliche all’interno del quartiere preesistente. Il progetto prevede, infatti di dare maggiore spazio alle attività pubbliche, investendo sulla realizzazione di luoghi e di spazi per l’incontro e la collettività, che rappresentano un necessità primaria per ogni città ed in particolare per L’Aquila post sisma. Contestualmente al parco che costituisce una sorta di asse verde sviluppato in direzione nord-sud, il progetto si estende anche in direzione perpendicolare, lungo la direttrice est-ovest, attraverso la riqualificazione dell’asse storico di via San Bernardino, cercando di restituire ad esso ed alla monumentale scalinata omonima la valenza storica progressivamente perduta nel corso degli anni. Pertanto, il progetto prevede la ridefinizione di entrambi i lati della scalinata oggi abbandonati al verde incolto ed in particolare la realizzazione, lungo il lato orientale, di un nuovo polo culturale, costituito da una biblioteca ed una sala espositiva. Il nuovo edificio, assume un ruolo cardine all’interno del progetto, rappresentando uno dei punti di collegamento tra città storica e verde pubblico. Il complesso nasce dall’incontro di cinque elementi lineari disposti in modo tale da assecondare il naturale dislivello del terreno e da consentire la realizzazione di due ampi spazi pubblici: uno verde, pensato come prolungamento del parco, sul quale si affaccia l’ampia sala di lettura della biblioteca ed uno pavimentato, ai piedi della scalinata, delimitato da un portico a doppia altezza. Il nuovo edificio, consente inoltre di creare un belvedere dal parco verso la città storica, evocando una suggestione cara agli abitanti della città.

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Curved mountain belts have always fascinated geologists and geophysicists because of their peculiar structural setting and geodynamic mechanisms of formation. The need of studying orogenic bends arises from the numerous questions to which geologists and geophysicists have tried to answer to during the last two decades, such as: what are the mechanisms governing orogenic bends formation? Why do they form? Do they develop in particular geological conditions? And if so, what are the most favorable conditions? What are their relationships with the deformational history of the belt? Why is the shape of arcuate orogens in many parts of the Earth so different? What are the factors controlling the shape of orogenic bends? Paleomagnetism demonstrated to be one of the most effective techniques in order to document the deformation of a curved belt through the determination of vertical axis rotations. In fact, the pattern of rotations within a curved belt can reveal the occurrence of a bending, and its timing. Nevertheless, paleomagnetic data alone are not sufficient to constrain the tectonic evolution of a curved belt. Usually, structural analysis integrates paleomagnetic data, in defining the kinematics of a belt through kinematic indicators on brittle fault planes (i.e., slickensides, mineral fibers growth, SC-structures). My research program has been focused on the study of curved mountain belts through paleomagnetism, in order to define their kinematics, timing, and mechanisms of formation. Structural analysis, performed only in some regions, supported and integrated paleomagnetic data. In particular, three arcuate orogenic systems have been investigated: the Western Alpine Arc (NW Italy), the Bolivian Orocline (Central Andes, NW Argentina), and the Patagonian Orocline (Tierra del Fuego, southern Argentina). The bending of the Western Alpine Arc has been investigated so far using different approaches, though few based on reliable paleomagnetic data. Results from our paleomagnetic study carried out in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, located on top of Alpine nappes, indicate that the Western Alpine Arc is a primary bend that has been subsequently tightened by further ~50° during Aquitanian-Serravallian times (23-12 Ma). This mid-Miocene oroclinal bending, superimposing onto a pre-existing Eocene nonrotational arc, is the result of a composite geodynamic mechanism, where slab rollback, mantle flows, and rotating thrust emplacement are intimately linked. Relying on our paleomagnetic and structural evidence, the Bolivian Orocline can be considered as a progressive bend, whose formation has been driven by the along-strike gradient of crustal shortening. The documented clockwise rotations up to 45° are compatible with a secondary-bending type mechanism occurring after Eocene-Oligocene times (30-40 Ma), and their nature is probably related to the widespread shearing taking place between zones of differential shortening. Since ~15 Ma ago, the activity of N-S left-lateral strike-slip faults in the Eastern Cordillera at the border with the Altiplano-Puna plateau induced up to ~40° counterclockwise rotations along the fault zone, locally annulling the regional clockwise rotation. We proposed that mid-Miocene strike-slip activity developed in response of a compressive stress (related to body forces) at the plateau margins, caused by the progressive lateral (southward) growth of the Altiplano-Puna plateau, laterally spreading from the overthickened crustal region of the salient apex. The growth of plateaux by lateral spreading seems to be a mechanism common to other major plateaux in the Earth (i.e., Tibetan plateau). Results from the Patagonian Orocline represent the first reliable constraint to the timing of bending in the southern tip of South America. They indicate that the Patagonian Orocline did not undergo any significant rotation since early Eocene times (~50 Ma), implying that it may be considered either a primary bend, or an orocline formed during the late Cretaceous-early Eocene deformation phase. This result has important implications on the opening of the Drake Passage at ~32 Ma, since it is definitely not related to the formation of the Patagonian orocline, but the sole consequence of the Scotia plate spreading. Finally, relying on the results and implications from the study of the Western Alpine Arc, the Bolivian Orocline, and the Patagonian Orocline, general conclusions on curved mountain belt formation have been inferred.

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Supermarkets and hypermarkets still represent a relatively new retailing format in Italy and in its Southern area in particular, where they were introduced decades later than in other Western countries, such as France and the UK in Europe, and the US in America. Nowadays, these retailers have become large organisations potentially capable of influencing local development from an economic, social and urban perspective. The literature concerned with their effects on the local economy, in particular, has focused on labour markets, price dynamics, inter-type competition, instead the impact on macroeconomic factors such as GDP, value added and investments in specific sectors, as agriculture, industry and services. This study tries to fill this gap by empirically investigating associations between key characteristics of these retailers and specific macroeconomic factors.

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Today the design of hydraulic and lubrication circuits is becoming more and more important. The aim of this study is to develop a methodology for the design of the lubrication circuit of an agricultural tractor. In this paper the lubrication circuit of a continuously variable transmission is analysed. Several lines of the circuit are considered and in particular the lubrication of gears is discussed. The worst possible working condition which corresponds to the highest power dissipation for each part of the transmission is determined. The model of the lubrication circuit is developed with two different software simulations (Automation Studio & Amesim). In order to check the reliability of the simulation models and to characterise the lubrication circuit, experimental tests are performed. The comparison between the values of pressure drops obtained by the models and by the experimental test, demonstrates that it is possible to use these programs for the set up of a simple model of the lubrication circuit. The calculation of oil flows necessary for a force-fed lubrication of the gears, the simulation of the circuit by commercial software, and the validation of the circuit design allow to set up a preliminary equilibrium among the pipes and a proper flow rate distribution. Optimising the circuit design in the initial phase of the project is very important. The experimental adjustment of the circuit, which is often difficult, can be simplified; time and cost production can be reduced.

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Coupled-Cluster-Berechnungen von Parametern derKernspin-Resonanz-Spektroskopie Dissertationsschrift von Alexander A.Auer, Mainz 2002 Im Rahmen einer Studie der Berechnung von 13C-Verschiebungenwerdendie Einfluesse von Elektronenkorrelation, Basissatz,Gleichgewichtsgeometrie sowie Schwingungs- und Rotationseffekten separat betrachtet.Dabei zeigt sich, dass dieCoupled-Cluster-Singles-Doubles-Methode mitstoerungstheoretischer Behandlung der Dreifachanregungen(CCSD(T)) mit entsprechend grossen Basissaetzen bei Beruecksichtigung derNullpunktsschwingungseffekte Ergebnisse mit ca. 1 ppm Abweichung zum Experiment liefert. Eine Analyse der Elektronenkorrelationseffekte beiCoupled-Cluster- (CC-) Berechnungen von indirekten Spin-Spin-Kopplungskonstanten zeigt, dassCC-Methoden mit Hartree-Fock-Orbitalrelaxation zur Berechnung derKopplungskonstanten ungeeignet sind. Eine Loesung ist die Verwendung unrelaxierter CC-Methoden,in denendie HF-Orbitalrelaxation aus der Berechnung der gestoertenWellenfunktion ausgeschlossen wird. Full-Configuration-Interaction-Berechnungen fuer Borhydridzeigen,dass auf CC-Singles-Doubles-Niveau (CCSD) 94% und aufCC-Singles-Doubles-Triples-Niveau (CCSDT) 99% der Korrelationseffekte beschrieben werden. Weiterhin istdie Beruecksichtigung der Nullpunktsschwingung sowie die Wahl eines ausreichend grossen Basissatzes wichtig. Auf Grundlage der vorangegangenen Studien werden im letztenTeil zwei Beispiele zur Anwendung hochgenauer Berechnungen vonNMR-Parametern vorgestellt.Im Rahmen einer Studie der Spin-Spin-Kopplungskonstanten vonCyclopentan wird eine Karplus-Beziehungzwischen den Kopplungskonstanten und der Konformation desMolekuels aufgestellt, desweiteren werden die NMR-Parameter von Methylidinphosphanuntersucht.

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La tesi affronta un tema di importanza crescente nell’organizzazione economico-produttiva nel quale assume forte rilevo pure la dimensione giuslavoristica. Nei fenomeni di integrazione delle attività d’impresa, infatti, si verifica in modo sempre più ampio una utilizzazione «indiretta» di forza lavoro, per cui diventa cruciale la questione del trattamento da applicare ai rapporti di lavoro «decentrati» Con un approccio che tiene conto dei risultati delle scienze organizzative, si analizzano anzitutto le modalità tipiche delle esternalizzazioni succedutesi nell’evoluzione economico-organizzativa negli ultimi decenni. Vi è una modalità “primaria” o “perfetta”, nella quale è dedotto ad oggetto un opus, giusta lo schema dell’art. 1655 cod. civ., per cui la dinamica del rapporto obbligatorio è integralmente governata dal contratto; vi è altresì una modalità “secondaria” o “relazionale”, che si manifesta nella forma di organizzazioni integrate allargate alla partecipazione di più imprese. In queste, la lunga durata del vincolo obbligatorio impedisce che il contratto sia ex se capace di prevedere, già nel momento genetico, ogni evenienza che investirà lo svolgimento concreto del rapporto. Per questo le esternalizzazioni “relazionali” sono le più interessanti per il diritto del lavoro: i soggetti economici (decentrante e decentrato) articolano relazioni strutturate e di lungo periodo, in cui si determina una stabile interconnessione tra le varie componenti organizzative, nonché un prolungato utilizzo, ad opera del committente, delle prestazioni rese dai dipendenti del fornitore. Dall’indefinitezza circa l’oggetto delle obbligazioni incombenti a carico del debitore dell’opus o servizio – conseguente alla lunga durata della relazione col committente – si delineano però due diversi scenari del rapporto negoziale: esso può essere retto da solidarietà, partnership collaborativa e condivisione di obiettivi comuni (contractual integration “orizzontale”); oppure può essere informato a dinamiche di potere e di condizionamento verso le imprese decentrate ed i loro prestatori di opere impegnati nell’esecuzione del segmento di attività esternalizzato (contractual integration “gerarchica” o “verticale”).