Recent landscape evolution at the "Barranco del Río Dulce Natural Park" (Spain). Landscape units and mapping

Landscape units based on the visual features of the relief have been distinguished in the “Barranco del Río Dulce Natural Park” (Spain). These units are geomorphic entities composed of several elementary landforms and characterized by a visual internal homogeneity, and contrast with other landscape units in their location, height, profile and gradients, reflecting their different evolution and genesis. Landscape units bear some subjectivity in their definition and in their boundary location due to the overlapping of geomorphic processes along time. Visual, compositional and conventional boundaries have been used for mapping. Neogene landscape evolution mainly occurred through thrust faulting at the Iberian Ranges-Tagus Basin boundary, driving tectonic uplift and erosion of the Ranges and correlative sedimentation in the Basin. Erosion of the Ranges occurred with the development of planation surfaces, leaving minor isolated reliefs in the upland plains landscape. The lowering of the base level, caused by the endorheic–exorheic transition of the Tagus Basin in the Pliocene, originates fluvial entrenchment and water table lowering with development of the first fluvial valleys and the capture of karstic depressions. Two subsequent phases of renewed fluvial incision (Pleistocene) lead to abandonment of some Pliocene valleys, fluvial captures, and development and reincision of tributaries

Dissertatio apologetica pro incognito per se cognito ... Michaele Ayguano de Bononia ... in dessertationem comparativam editam á ... Michaele Ximenez Barranco ... /

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Biodiversidade marinha do sublitoral entre a ponta da piedade e a praia do barranco

A sustentabilidade dos recursos marinhos da costa portuguesa tem sido de forma crescente posta em causa devido a variados factores, nomeadamente pelo aumento do esforço da pesca, com consequência na redução de alguns mananciais (e.g. pescada, lagostim), conduzindo a uma grande apreensão no que concerne à sua gestão. Por outro lado, novos desafios têm surgido na última década, sobretudo no contexto da gestão espacial (Planeamento Espacial Marítimo / Marine Spatial Planning), com particular evidência na costa algarvia. Devido ao aumento das actividades no mar, aquaculturas em mar aberto, armações de atum, áreas de reserva de areia (manchas de empréstimo) e zonas de fundeio, mas também devido às disputas entre as diferentes frotas pesqueiras, a gestão espacial tem estado cada vez mais na ordem do dia. Estes factos foram em grande medida os principais motivadores e impulsionadores para a execução do presente projecto. O presente estudo encontra-se integrado no projecto “Mapeamento de bancos de pesca algarvios PescaMap) do Programa Operacional Pesca 2007-2013 (Promar), co-financiado pelo Fundo Europeu das Pescas (FEP). O projecto contou com os apoios institucionais da Cooperativa dos Armadores de Pesca do Barlavento CRL (BarlaPescas), da Docapesca, Marina de Lagos, da Associação dos Pescadores do Portinho da Arrifana e Costa Vicentina (APPACV) e da Câmara Municipal de Aljezur.

Fotografía histórica y contemporánea herramientas para la valoración del patrimonio caso de estudio: El Barranco Cuenca-Ecuador

La fotografía histórica como herramienta visual testimonial ha sido considerada como un elemento secundario dentro de temas históricos. Los arquitectos, historiadores he investigadores entre otros la han utilizado en un plano provisional con la función de uso para ilustración o complementación de documentos literarios, que han hecho que pierdan su protagonismo. Por esta razón esta investigación pretende corroborar que las imágenes históricas son una herramienta indispensable para la reconstrucción de valores patrimoniales y de la memoria histórica de una comunidad, siendo testigos visuales de las realidades pasadas. Funciona como herramienta de valoración patrimonial pues a través de ella se pueden reconocer los distintos valores para recuperar, conservar o mantener un bien, ayuda a complementar la información histórica de manera más ágil con la que se puede construir parte de la historia, aprehender valores patrimoniales y destacar el poder testimonial que tienen las imágenes. Este documento abordará sobre el potencial de las fotografías a través teorías contemporáneas de la valoración patrimonial, la elaboración de un catálogo razonado para una re- valoración patrimonial de edificaciones y tramos urbanos del sector El Barranco en la ciudad de Cuenca.

Resposta de sabiá Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth. a inoculações com rizóbio e micorriza em diferentes níveis de fósforo em solo de restinga degradado.

Para avaliar os efeitos da inoculação com Bradyrhizobium, fungos micorrízicos arbusculares (FMA) e níveis de fósforo em mudas de sabiá Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth, plantadas em um solo espodossolo humilúvico de restinga degradada, adubado com cinco níveis de fósforo e duas fontes fosfatadas, no crescimento, nodulação, colonização micorrízica e teores e acúmulos de macro e micronutrientes, foi realizado um experimento em vasos plásticos, utilizando um delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, em esquema fatorial completo 2 X 4 X 5 com 4 repetições.

Transitions

Transitions represents a selection of works presented by 3rd year QUT design students undertaken as part of their coursework entitled "Environments in Transitions". The work focuses upon the migration of ideas and aesthetics from East to West, with particular consideration for the influence of Japanese woodblock prints, Wabi-Sabi themes and decorative motifs upon European design during the turn of the 19th century. The works exhibited included design artifacts of various themes, and associated print work which informed the design process. A small exhibition publication accompanied the exhibition and talk.

The "Shackleton Site" (IODP Site U1385) on the Iberian Margin

Nick Shackleton’s research on piston cores from the Iberian margin highlighted the importance of this region for providing high-fidelity records of millennial-scale climate variability, and for correlating climate events from the marine environment to polar ice cores and European terrestrial sequences. During the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339, we sought to extend the Iberian margin sediment record by drilling with the D/V JOIDES Resolution. Five holes were cored at Site U1385 using the advanced piston corer (APC) system to a maximum depth of ∼ 155.9 m below sea floor (m b.s.f.). Immediately after the expedition, cores from all holes were analyzed by core scanning X-ray fluorescence (XRF) at 1 cm spatial resolution. Ca/Ti data were used to accurately correlate from hole-to-hole and construct a composite spliced section, containing no gaps or disturbed intervals to 166.5 m composite depth (mcd). A low-resolution (20 cm sample spacing) oxygen isotope record confirms that Site U1385 contains a continuous record of hemipelagic sedimentation from the Holocene to 1.43 Ma (Marine Isotope Stage 46). The sediment profile at Site U1385 extends across the middle Pleistocene transition (MPT) with sedimentation rates averaging ∼ 10 cm kyr−1. Strongprecession cycles in colour and elemental XRF signals provide a powerful tool for developing an orbitally tuned reference timescale. Site U1385 is likely to become an important type section for marine–ice–terrestrial core correlations and the study of orbital- and millennial-scale climate variability.

Can competition with pasture be used to manipulate bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia L.) population biology?

Bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia L.) is an invasive weed that poses economic and environmental problems in northern Australia. Competition between pasture and bellyache bush was examined in North Queensland using combinations of five pasture treatments (uncut (control); cut as low, medium, and high pasture; and no pasture) and four bellyache bush densities (0, 2, 6 and 12plantsm(-2)) in a buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) dominated pasture. The pasture treatments were applied approximately once per year but no treatments were applied directly to the bellyache bush plants. Measurements of bellyache bush flowering, seed formation, and mortality were undertaken over a 9-year period, along with monitoring the pasture basal cover and plant species diversity. Maximum flowering rates of bellyache bush occurred after 9 years (97%) in plots containing no pasture, with the lowest rates of 9% in uncut control plots. Earliest flowering (322 days after planting) and seed formation (411 days) also occurred in plots with no pasture compared with all other pasture treatments (range 1314-1393 days for seed formation to occur). No seeds were produced in uncut plots. At the end of 9 years, mortality rates of bellyache bush plants initially planted averaged 73% for treatments with some pasture compared with 55% under the no-pasture treatment. The percentage of herbaceous plant basal cover in uncut plots was increased 5-fold after 9 years, much greater than the average 2% increase recorded across the low, medium, and high pasture treatments. The number of herbaceous species in uncut plots remained largely unchanged, whereas there was an average reduction of 46% in the cut pasture treatments. Buffel grass remained the species with the greatest basal cover across all cut pasture treatments, followed by sabi grass (Urochloa mosambicensis (Hack.) Dandy) and then red Natal grass (Melinis repens (Willd.) Ziska). These results suggest that grazing strategies that maintain a healthy and competitive pasture layer may contribute to reducing the rate of spread of bellyache bush and complement traditional control techniques such as the use of herbicides.

Perennial pastures for marginal farming country in southern Queensland. 2. Potential new grass cultivar evaluation

Trials in the Condamine-Balonne basin, Australia, compared 11 promising perennial pasture grass accessions (4 Bothriochloa, 2 Cenchrus, 2 Urochloa and 1 each of Digitaria, Eragrostis and Panicum species) against the best similar commercial cultivars on the basis of ease of establishment from seed, persistence once established, forage yield and ease of seed production. Accessions sown at a site were determined by prior experience with them on a range of soils. High quality seed was relatively easy to produce for both Urochloa species and for Eragrostis curvula CPI 30374 but problematic for the Bothriochloa spp. Once established, all accessions persisted for 3–5 years and most were well grazed, but adequate establishment was sometimes a problem with Panicum stapfianum and Bothriochloa ewartiana. The dry matter yield ratings of the non-commercial lines were similar to those of the commercial equivalents of the same species. While agronomically valuable, none of the promising new grasses was considered worthy of commercialization at this point because their strengths did not warrant the setting up of a seed-production business in competition with current commercial enterprises. Long-standing cultivars such as Gayndah buffel and Nixon sabi grass continued to exhibit their superior pasture qualities.

Relatório apresentado a S. Ex. o Sr. Ministro da Industria, Viação e Obras Públicas =Rapport présenté a Son Ex. M. le Ministre de l'Industrie, de la Voirie et des Travaux Publics /por L. Cruls. --Relatório da Comissão Exploradora do Planalto Central do Brazil = Rapport de la Commission d'Exploration du Plateau Central du Brésil

Documento com duas páginas-de-rosto, em português e francês. Título em francês : Rapport présenté a Son Ex. M. le Ministre de l'Industrie, de la Voirie et des Travaux Publics

Relatório apresentado a S. Ex. o Sr. Ministro da Industria, Viação e Obras Públicas = Rapport présenté a Son Ex. M. le Ministre de l'Industrie, de la Voirie et des Travaux Publics por L. Cruls

Trata-se do "Relatório Cruls", referente à 1ª Missão Cruls (1892-1893), durante o governo Floriano Peixoto

Prognostic Role of Host Cyclooxygenase and Cytokine Genotypes in a Caucasian Cohort of Patients with Gastric Adenocarcinoma

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Analysis on a new type magneto-optical disk for blue lasers

The conventional TbFeCo magneto-optical (MO) medium has a relatively smaller Kerr rotation angle in the blue region than in the red. With the recording wavelength gradually moving to the short wavelength, if TbFeCo is still used as recording medium, the conventional MO disk structure must be optimized to get a larger carrier to noise ratio (CNR). Sabi et al. have found that adding a metal layer attached to the TbFeCo film as thermal control layer is a useful way to get a high CNR. In this paper, we proved this through calculation, and carried out optimization of the new type of disk. Calculation results showed that the new structure is useful in preventing an excessive temperature increase, and has a better thermal response. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Paralelización mediante OpenMP de segmentación de imágenes para el análisis de materiales bidimensionales

A lo largo de este Proyecto de Fin de Carrera se ha implementado una versión paralela mediante OpenMP de una aproximación al algoritmo de seg- mentación de imágenes level set. El fin de esta segmentación es la extracción de ciertas características de las imágenes necesarias para el cliente con el que se trabaja a lo largo de este proyecto. Además, se ha realizado un estudio previo de los tipos de técnicas de segmentación existentes y se han realizado pruebas experimentales con la paralelización realizada, con el fin de analizar la mejora realizada frente al algoritmo en serie.