中元古代昆阳群Fe-Cu-REE矿床地球化学研究-以武定迤纳厂矿床为例

稀土元素成矿与地壳的构造运动密切相关，稀土在中元古代具有大规模暴发性成矿特征。云南武定迤纳厂稀土铁铜矿床为昆阳群因民组出现稀土富集成矿的典型代表。本论文选择迤纳厂矿床为主要研究对象，系统研究矿床不同类型岩（矿）石和矿物的稀土元素地球化学特征，探讨富稀土的成矿流体、成矿物质来源和稀土元素成矿时代，揭示昆阳裂谷初期因民组稀土元素富集的地球化学机制。主要认识如下：1、迤纳厂矿床产于昆阳裂谷初期形成的禄丰一武定火山断陷盆地中。早中元古界昆阳群分布于绿汁江岩石圈断裂和小江一易门断裂的夹持地带，呈狭长状展布。迤纳厂矿床赋矿地层为昆阳群因民组上段的硅质白云岩和碱性火山岩（粗面安山岩）。矿体产出形态和矿石的结构构造等均显示矿体与赋矿地层同沉积特征；出现独立矿物氟碳饰矿、独居石及褐帘石，磷灰石、萤石、菱铁矿等矿物中也含有一定量的稀土，沿矿体走向和垂向稀土元素变化不大。2、矿体顶、底板围岩（石榴石黑云母片岩、钠长黑云母片岩等）的原岩为碱性火山岩（粗面安山岩），相对富集大离子亲石元素Ba、Cs、Rb、K、LRE日及贫Zr、Sr、Ti、Hf、HEE，为早元古代末期一中元古代早期交代富集地慢低程度部分熔融所形成的碱性火山岩。矿石稀土总量高（645-4443）×10-6，强烈富集轻稀土（（La/Tb）N＝17.3-81.1），稀土元素分布特征明显不同于矿区正常沉积的硅质白云岩和后期侵入的钠长石英斑岩及火山角砾岩，而与矿体顶、底板碱性火山岩中稀土元素配分特征基本一致，暗示稀土成矿物质来源与碱性火山岩有密切的关系；3、矿石中微量元素组合及变化特征与现代海底正在喷出的热液和热液沉积物中元素组合有较大的可比性，明显不同与火成碳酸岩型稀土矿床中的特征元素组合；在微量元素判别图解（Al-Fe-Mn、Fe／Ti-Al／（Al+Fe＋Mn）、U-Th、Y-P2O5等）中，逸纳厂矿石均投影在热水沉积区，矿石的Y／Ho值与黑烟囱值接近，表明成矿流体为高温、还原性质，稀土成矿可能以热水沉积作用方式为主；4、对矿石中主要矿物萤石、菱铁矿、磁铁矿、石英、方解石的稀土元素特征研究表明，矿石沉积时不同矿物中稀土元素分布特征基本相同，主要受成矿流体中稀土分布特征制约。而后期变质作用形成的矿物，其稀土元素分布主要受矿物晶体结构控制。同期成矿流体从早期到晚期（块状矿石→条带状矿石），轻重稀土分异变小，稀土总量增加，条带状矿石中稀土含量最高；矿石黄铜矿6345值变化在一任3％0到2g％。范围，显示慢源硫特征；菱铁矿6r3C（8％-9.1%）、δ18O（-11.17%-15.37）‰指示成矿流体具岩浆来源和有机质的脱梭酸分解作用参与；成矿流体中稀土元素可能主要以（RE（CO3）3F）4-、（既（CO3）3F2）、（RE（F，Cl万等形式迁移，当温度降低时沉淀出氟碳饰矿等稀土矿物；5、矿石和萤石单矿物 Sm-Nd等时线年龄分别为1621士110Ma和15：38士43Ma，与矿区碱性火山岩错石的U-Pb年龄1676Ma、因民组顶部石英正长斑岩的错石U-P1。年龄1685Ma基本一致，也与因民组地层年龄1765M。较为接近，反映成矿时代为早元古代晚期和中元古代早期：这一时间也与一早元古代晚期一中元古代早期昆阳裂谷初始裂陷阶段，大量来自于地幔的碱性火山岩喷发事件相吻合。矿石。Nd（t）:-2.87-3.60，萤石单矿物εNd（t）：-3.93-5.90，变化范围较窄并全为负值，接近0，指示源区为富集地幔。同时结合矿床形成的构造一地质环境及矿体产出的地质形态，认为逛纳厂稀土铁铜矿床可能是在昆阳裂谷初期，在碱性火山岩浆喷发的间歇期，来自地幔富稀土、挥发份的成矿流体由火山喷流一同生沉积方式形成的矿床。6、昆阳群因民组地层中出现的稀土富集、成矿与我国的白云鄂博稀土REE-Fe-Nb超大型矿一床和澳大利亚的olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag-REE超大型矿床，在成矿时代、产出大地构造背景、成矿物质来源等方面具有较大的相似性，均体现成矿受控于中元古代1.5Ga超大陆聚合前或随后裂解初始阶段伴随的非造山型碱性岩浆或热液作用，稀土来源于超大陆拼合前因板块俯冲交代而形成的富集地幔。

Wilno-Vilnius. Polskie i litewskie reprezentacje miasta po roku 1990

Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej: Instytut Filologii Polskiej

Aferição de competências em Endodontia percepcionadas pelos finalistas em Medicina Dentária e pelos Médicos Dentistas licenciados na Faculdade de Ciências de Saúde da Universidade Fernando Pessoa

Monografia apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciada em Medicina Dentária

Towards Eco-Dharma: The Contribution of Gandhian Thought to Ecological Ethics in India

Ecological concern prompts poor and indigenous people of India to consider how a society can ensure both protection of nature and their rightful claim for a just and sustainable future. Previous discussions defended the environment while ignoring the struggles of the poor for sustenance and their religious traditions and ethical values. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi addressed similar socio-ecological concerns by adopting and adapting traditional religious and ethical notions to develop strategies for constructive, engaged resistance. The dissertation research and analysis verifies the continued relevance of the Gandhian understanding of dharma (ethics) in contemporary India as a basis for developing eco-dharma (eco-ethics) to link closely development, ecology, and religious values. The method of this study is interpretive, analytical, and critical. Françoise Houtart’s social analytical method is used to make visible and to suggest how to overcome social tensions from the perspective of marginalized and exploited peoples in India. The Indian government's development initiatives create a nexus between the eco-crisis and economic injustice, and communities’ responses. The Chipko movement seeks to protect the Himalayan forests from commercial logging. The Narmada Bachao Andolan strives to preserve the Narmada River and its forests and communities, where dam construction causes displacement. The use of Gandhian approaches by these movements provides a framework for integrating ecological concerns with people's struggles for survival. For Gandhi, dharma is a harmony of satya (truth), ahimsa (nonviolence), and sarvodaya (welfare of all). Eco-dharma is an integral, communitarian, and ecologically sensitive ethical paradigm. The study demonstrates that the Gandhian notion of dharma, implemented through nonviolent satyagraha (firmness in promoting truth), can direct community action that promotes responsible economic structures and the well-being of the biotic community and the environment. Eco-dharma calls for solidarity, constructive resistance, and ecologically and economically viable communities. The dissertation recommends that for a sustainable future, India must combine indigenous, appropriate, and small- or medium-scale industries as an alternative model of development in order to help reduce systemic poverty while enhancing ecological well-being.

A river of memory: landscape, narrative and identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork, Ireland

In moments of rapid social changes, as has been witnessed in Ireland in the last decade, the conditions through which people engage with their localities though memory, individually and collectively, remains an important cultural issue with key implications for questions of heritage, preservation and civic identity. In recent decades, cultural geographers have argued that landscape is more than just a view or a static text of something symbolic. The emphasis seems to be on landscape as a dynamic cultural process – an ever-evolving process being constructed and re-constructed. Hence, landscape seems to be a highly complex term that carries many different meanings. Material, form, relationships or actions have different meanings in different settings. Drawing upon recent and continuing scholarly debates in cultural landscapes and collective memory, this thesis sets out to examine the generation of collective memory and how it is employed as a cultural tool in the production of memory in the landscape. More specifically, the research considers the relationships between landscape and memory, investigating the ways in which places are produced, appropriated, experienced, sensed, acknowledged, imagined, yearned for, appropriated, re-appropriated, contested and identified with. A polyvocal-bricoleur approach aims to get below the surface of a cultural landscape, inject historical research and temporal depth into cultural landscape studies and instil a genuine sense of inclusivity of a wide variety of voices (role of monuments and rituals and voices of people) from the past and present. The polyvocal-bricoleur approach inspires a mixed method methodology approach to fieldsites through archival research, fieldwork and filmed interviews. Using a mixture of mini-vignettes of place narratives in the River Lee valley in the south of Ireland, the thesis explores a number of questions on the fluid nature of narrative in representing the story and role of the landscape in memory-making. The case studies in the Lee Valley are harnessed to investigate the role of the above questions/ themes/ debates in the act of memory making at sites ranging from an Irish War of Independence memorial to the River Lee’s hydroelectric scheme to the valley’s key religious pilgrimage site. The thesis investigates the idea that that the process of landscape extends not only across space but also across time – that the concept of historical continuity and the individual and collective human engagement and experience of this continuity are central to the processes of remembering on the landscape. In addition the thesis debates the idea that the production of landscape is conditioned by several social frames of memory – that individuals remember according to several social frames that give emphasis to different aspects of the reality of human experience. The thesis also reflects on how the process of landscape is represented by those who re-produce its narratives in various media.

The Entrepreneurial Facets as Precursor to Vietnam’s Economic Renovation in 1986

In this research, we aim to develop a conceptual framework to assess the entrepreneurial properties of the Vietnamese reform, known as Doi Moi, even before the kickoff of Doi Moi policy itself. We argued that unlike many other scholars’ assertion, economic crisis and harsh realities were neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for the reform to take place, but the entrepreurial elements and undertaking were, at least for case of Vietnam’s reform. Entrepreneurial process on the one hand sought for structural changes, kicked off innovation, and on the other its induced outcome further invited changes and associated opportunities. The paper also concludes that an assessment of possibility for the next stage of Doi Moi in should take into account the entrepreneurial factors of the economy, and by predicting the emergence of new entrepreneurial facets in the next phase of economic development.

Natural streamflow regime alterations: Damming of the Piave river basin (Italy)

A novel approach is proposed to estimate the natural streamflow regime of a river and to assess the extent of the alterations induced by dam operation related to anthropogenic (e.g., agricultural, hydropower) water uses in engineered river basins. The method consists in the comparison between the seasonal probability density function (pdf) of observed streamflows and the purportedly natural streamflow pdf obtained by a recently proposed and validated probabilistic model. The model employs a minimum of landscape and climate parameters and unequivocally separates the effects of anthropogenic regulations from those produced by hydroclimatic fluctuations. The approach is applied to evaluate the extent of the alterations of intra-annual streamflow variability in a highly engineered alpine catchment of north-eastern Italy, the Piave river. Streamflows observed downstream of the regulation devices in the Piave catchment are found to exhibit smaller means/modes, larger coefficients of variation, and more pronounced peaks than the flows that would be observed in the absence of anthropogenic regulation, suggesting that the anthropogenic disturbance leads to remarkable reductions of river flows, with an increase of the streamflow variability and of the frequency of preferential states far from the mean. Some structural limitations of management approaches based on minimum streamflow requirements (widely used to guide water policies) as opposed to criteria based on whole distributions are also discussed. Copyright © 2010 by the American Geophysical Union.

Morphing low-affinity ligands into high-avidity nanoparticles by thermally triggered self-assembly of a genetically encoded polymer.

Multivalency is the increase in avidity resulting from the simultaneous interaction of multiple ligands with multiple receptors. This phenomenon, seen in antibody-antigen and virus-cell membrane interactions, is useful in designing bioinspired materials for targeted delivery of drugs or imaging agents. While increased avidity offered by multivalent targeting is attractive, it can also promote nonspecific receptor interaction in nontarget tissues, reducing the effectiveness of multivalent targeting. Here, we present a thermal targeting strategy--dynamic affinity modulation (DAM)--using elastin-like polypeptide diblock copolymers (ELP(BC)s) that self-assemble from a low-affinity to high-avidity state by a tunable thermal "switch", thereby restricting activity to the desired site of action. We used an in vitro cell binding assay to investigate the effect of the thermally triggered self-assembly of these ELP(BC)s on their receptor-mediated binding and cellular uptake. The data presented herein show that (1) ligand presentation does not disrupt ELP(BC) self-assembly; (2) both multivalent ligand presentation and upregulated receptor expression are needed for receptor-mediated interaction; (3) increased size of the hydrophobic segment of the block copolymer promotes multivalent interaction with membrane receptors, potentially due to changes in the nanoscale architecture of the micelle; and (4) nanoscale presentation of the ligand is important, as presentation of the ligand by micrometer-sized aggregates of an ELP showed a low level of binding/uptake by receptor-positive cells compared to its presentation on the corona of a micelle. These data validate the concept of thermally triggered DAM and provide rational design parameters for future applications of this technology for targeted drug delivery.

Climate change, water resources, and the politics of adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa

Through an examination of global climate change models combined with hydrological data on deteriorating water quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), we elucidate the ways in which the MENA countries are vulnerable to climate-induced impacts on water resources. Adaptive governance strategies, however, remain a low priority for political leaderships in the MENA region. To date, most MENA governments have concentrated the bulk of their resources on large-scale supply side projects such as desalination, dam construction, inter-basin water transfers, tapping fossil groundwater aquifers, and importing virtual water. Because managing water demand, improving the efficiency of water use, and promoting conservation will be key ingredients in responding to climate-induced impacts on the water sector, we analyze the political, economic, and institutional drivers that have shaped governance responses. While the scholarly literature emphasizes the importance of social capital to adaptive governance, we find that many political leaders and water experts in the MENA rarely engage societal actors in considering water risks. We conclude that the key capacities for adaptive governance to water scarcity in MENA are underdeveloped. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Spin three gauge theory revisited

We study the problem of consistent interactions for spin-3 gauge fields in flat spacetime of arbitrary dimension 3$">n>3. Under the sole assumptions of Poincaré and parity invariance, local and perturbative deformation of the free theory, we determine all nontrivial consistent deformations of the abelian gauge algebra and classify the corresponding deformations of the quadratic action, at first order in the deformation parameter. We prove that all such vertices are cubic, contain a total of either three or five derivatives and are uniquely characterized by a rank-three constant tensor (an internal algebra structure constant). The covariant cubic vertex containing three derivatives is the vertex discovered by Berends, Burgers and van Dam, which however leads to inconsistencies at second order in the deformation parameter. In dimensions 4$">n>4 and for a completely antisymmetric structure constant tensor, another covariant cubic vertex exists, which contains five derivatives and passes the consistency test where the previous vertex failed. © SISSA 2006.

The influence of gender in the direction of Spanish cooperative societies on profitability and indebtedness: an empirical analysis

In this paper the claim for the market for a new business management to ensure the presence of women in decision -making to respond to new social needs addressed. Thus, this paper analyzes the influence of gender diversity of the directors on the profitability and the level of debt for a sample of 5,199 Spanish cooperatives. Unlike capitalist societies, these organizations have a number of peculiarities in their government, and that the partners are themselves major time, agents and customers. The study focuses on the Spanish context, where there is an open debate on the importance of women's business management, as in other countries, driven by the proliferation of legislation on gender equality, being, in addition, Spain, the pioneer in having specific legislation on Social Economy. The results show that cooperatives with greater female representation in theirs Boards have higher profitability. On the other hand, those Boards with a higher percentage of women show a lower level of indebtedness.

Saturated-unsaturated flow through leaky dams

This research investigated seepage flow through leaky dams using the well known finite-element method. Different areas, locations, and hydraulic conductivities of leaks were examined. An area of leak, equal to 4.4% of the core area, increased the seepage flow through the dam to be about 9.5 times the seepage flow through tight (nonleaky) core. This happened for a dam having a downstream horizontal drainage filter. When the drainage filter did not exist, the increase of flow because of the same area of leak was about seven times the flow through a tight core. When the leak existed at the centerline of the core in the out-of-plane direction, its impact was slightly greater than when it existed at the edge of the core. Moreover, as the location of the leak moved up vertically, its impact was observed to be less. It was also observed that when the leak existed in curtain wall driven into underneath the dam, its impact was not significant compared with the case when it existed in the core.

Stochastic analysis of free surface flow through earth dams

This research investigated the unconfined flow through dams. The hydraulic conductivity was modeled as spatially random field following lognormal distribution. Results showed that the seepage flow produced from the stochastic solution was smaller than its deterministic value. In addition, the free surface was observed to exit at a point lower than that obtained from the deterministic solution. When the hydraulic conductivity was strongly correlated in the horizontal direction than the vertical direction, the flow through the dam has markedly increased. It is suggested that it may not be necessary to construct a core in dams made from soils that exhibit high degree of variability.