Técnicas de microscopia aplicadas a las Geociencias

Uno de los problemas con los que se enfrentan los alumnos a la hora de estudiar las geociencias es la falta de imágenes de alta calidad, especialmente en muestras microscópicas. En este trabajo se examinan distintas técnicas de microscopía óptica para la obtención de fotografías digitales de alta resolución. Las técnicas se han aplicado y desarrollado en el marco de las geociencias, en particular en ámbito de la sedimentología y micropaleontología siendo los objetos geológicos fotografiados fundamentalmente arenas y microfósiles. Las técnicas abarcan las distintas opciones de microscopia óptica (utilización de microscopía simple y compuesta) que incluyen básicamente distintos tipos de luz reflejada, utilización de diferentes tipos de cámara fotográfica, elección de los aumentos y de los grados de luminosidad óptimos para cada tipo muestra. Los resultados obtenidos han permitido establecer las mejores condiciones e instrumental para la implementación de esta técnica como recurso de investigación aplicado a la didáctica de las geociencias marinas, en particular en las asignaturas de “planctología aplicada y micropaleontología marina” y “sedimentología” del grado de ciencias del mar de la universidad de Alicante.

Documents: concerning North American Atlantic coastal areas : manuscript, [17--]

Acts, reports, petitions, court opinions, and other documents, spanning 1680-1725, concerning Antigua, Barbados, the Carolinas, St. Christopher [Saint Kitts], Jamaica, New York, Virginia, and other areas on the Atlantic coast.

Solar radiation over and under sea ice during the POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XXVI/3 (TransArc) in summer 2011

Arctic sea ice has declined and become thinner and younger (more seasonal) during the last decade. One consequence of this is that the surface energy budget of the Arctic Ocean is changing. While the role of surface albedo has been studied intensively, it is still widely unknown how much light penetrates through sea ice into the upper ocean, affecting sea-ice mass balance, ecosystems, and geochemical processes. Here we present the first large-scale under-ice light measurements, operating spectral radiometers on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) under Arctic sea ice in summer. This data set is used to produce an Arctic-wide map of light distribution under summer sea ice. Our results show that transmittance through first-year ice (FYI, 0.11) was almost three times larger than through multi-year ice (MYI, 0.04), and that this is mostly caused by the larger melt-pond coverage of FYI (42 vs. 23%). Also energy absorption was 50% larger in FYI than in MYI. Thus, a continuation of the observed sea-ice changes will increase the amount of light penetrating into the Arctic Ocean, enhancing sea-ice melt and affecting sea-ice and upper-ocean ecosystems.

Radionuclides measured on water bottle samples

Actinium is one of the rarest naturally occurring elements on earth. We measured its longest-lived isotope 227Ac (half-life 21.77 yr) for the first time in the water column of the Southeast Pacific, the Central Arctic, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Weddell Gyre (WG). Besides the profile in the Southeast Pacific, which confirms earlier findings about the role of diapycnal mixing for 227Ac distribution, we found three other different types of vertical profiles. These profiles point to a prominent role of advection for 227Ac distribution, especially in the Southern Ocean. Depending on the type of profile found, 227Ac is proposed as a tracer for different oceanographic questions. In the Southern Ocean, up to 4.93±0.32 dpm/m**3 227Ac is found close to the sea floor, which is the highest concentration ever observed in the ocean. Close to the sea surface in the WG, 0.46±0.05 dpm/m**3 227Acex (227Ac in excess of its progenitor 231Pa) is detected. We use 227Acex there to determine the upwelling velocity in the Eastern WG to be about 55 m/yr. In the ACC, Upper and Lower Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW and LCDW) are found to differ clearly in their 227Acex activity. High 227Acex activities are therefore a promising tracer for recent inputs of LCDW to the sea surface, which may help to understand the role of deep upwelling for iron inputs into Antarctic surface waters. The expected release of 227Ac is compared with 228Ra to make sure that the large near-surface excess in the water column of the Southern Ocean is not due to lateral inputs by isopycnal mixing. Data from the Central Arctic and from a transect across the ACC confirm that 228Ra and 227Acex differ strongly in their sources. The first measurements of 227Ac on suspended matter (less than 1.7% of total 227Ac close to the sea floor) indicate that the particle reactivity of 227Ac is negligible in the open ocean, in agreement with earlier findings [Y. Nozaki, Nature 310 (1984) 486-488]. Despite the extremely low concentrations of 227Ac, new measurement techniques [W.S. Moore, R. Arnold, J. Geophys. Res. 101 (1996) 1321-1329] point to a comfortable and comparably simple determination of 227Ac in the future. Finally, 227Acex may become a widely used deep-sea specific tracer.

Guidance manual for leather tanning and finishing pretreatment standards /

"September 1986."

Historia de las grandezas de la muy antigua e insigne ciudad y Iglesia de Leo[n] y de su Obispo y Patron Sant Froylan, con las del glorioso S. Atilano ... /

CCBE s. XVI,

Deliciae divini amoris : hoc est de occultis dei beneficiis dei amori excitando ac fouendo : opus quod suâ novitate eò sapidiores fructus producet, quò minùs expositae arbores ex quibus illi collecti fuere, edidit omnium profectui utilitati gustuique /

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Seminar in North America on the efforts by the International Community to end South Africa's Illegal Occupation of Namibia, Montreal, Canada, 23-27 July 1984.

"PI/836."

A treatise on materia medica, (including therapeutics and toxicology)

Microfilmed for preservation

Age-Related Olfactory Decline is Associated with the BDNF Val66met Polymorphism : Evidence from a Population-Based Study

The present study investigates the effect of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) val66met polymorphism on change in olfactory function in a large scale, longitudinal population-based sample (n = 836). The subjects were tested on a 13 item force-choice odor identification test on two test occasions over a 5-year-interval. Sex, education, health-related factors, and semantic ability were controlled for in the statistical analyses. Results showed an interaction effect of age and BDNF val66met on olfactory change, such that the magnitude of olfactory decline in the older age cohort (70–90years old at baseline) was larger for the val homozygote carriers than for the met carriers. The older met carriers did not display larger age-related decline in olfactory function compared to the younger group. The BDNF val66met polymorphism did not affect the rate of decline in the younger age cohort (45–65years). The findings are discussed in the light of the proposed roles of BDNF in neural development and maintenance.