Validation of cone-beam computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the porcine spine: a comparative study with multidetector computed tomography and anatomical specimens

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Microbialitos da formação Codó (Aptiano Superior) às margens do rio Tocantins em São Miguel do Tocantins (TO)

The southwestern region of the São Luís-Grajaú Basin has a rare outcrop of the Codó Formation (upper Aptian) with seven outstanding microbialite bioherms along the left margin of the Tocantins river, near Imperatriz (MA). Resting on sandstones of the Grajaú Formation, the Codó Formation presents: 1) a 20 cm thick basal calcilutite with gypsite pseudomorphs and some fossil tree stems; 2) metric dark shales with carbonate nodules and thin intercalated carbonate layers, enclosing some microbial laminites; 3) a 2 cm thick upper breccia composed of microbialite fragments and other carbonate clasts, with halite hoppers on the top; 4) the carbonate bioherms, which partially overlie the extensive shales and interrupt them laterally, as well as the breccia. The bioherms in the northern part of the outcrop are thicker (<2 m) and have interbedded dark shales, whereas the southern are thinner and continuous in the vertical direction. In general, they are composed of irregular gently to strongly wavy microbial laminites, sometimes with pseudocolumnar to conical lamination. All microbialites with highest synoptic relief (<20 cm) look like columnar stromatolites on weathered lateral expositions. In plan view, the horizontal sections of these microbialites are circular to slightly elliptic, sometimes forming very small channels (N60W) filled with fine breccia. The highest bed of the northern bioherm has mixed microbial laminites and columnar stromatolites, where intercolumnar spaces were filled with microbialite clasts, fish bones, plant fragments and very small probable crustacean coprolites. Several fractures and deformation in this upper bed indicate an initial brecciation process probably caused by subaerial exposure. In microscopic scale, the lamination is smooth, diffuse, defined by subtle granulation differences of very fine granular calcite crystals within micrite, but oxide levels, dissolution surfaces or thin precipitated calcite veneers...

Underlying Event measurements in pp collisions at root s=0.9 and 7 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC

We present measurements of Underlying Event observables in pp collisions at root s = 0 : 9 and 7 TeV. The analysis is performed as a function of the highest charged-particle transverse momentum p(T),L-T in the event. Different regions are defined with respect to the azimuthal direction of the leading (highest transverse momentum) track: Toward, Transverse and Away. The Toward and Away regions collect the fragmentation products of the hardest partonic interaction. The Transverse region is expected to be most sensitive to the Underlying Event activity. The study is performed with charged particles above three different p(T) thresholds: 0.15, 0.5 and 1.0 GeV/c. In the Transverse region we observe an increase in the multiplicity of a factor 2-3 between the lower and higher collision energies, depending on the track p(T) threshold considered. Data are compared to PYTHIA 6.4, PYTHIA 8.1 and PHOJET. On average, all models considered underestimate the multiplicity and summed p(T) in the Transverse region by about 10-30%.

Measurement of prompt J/psi and beauty hadron production cross sections at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

The ALICE experiment at the LHC has studied J/psi production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV through its electron pair decay on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity L-int = 5.6 nb(-1). The fraction of J/psi from the decay of long-lived beauty hadrons was determined for J/psi candidates with transverse momentum p(t) > 1,3 GeV/c and rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9. The cross section for prompt J/psi mesons, i.e. directly produced J/psi and prompt decays of heavier charmonium states such as the psi(2S) and chi(c) resonances, is sigma(prompt J/psi) (p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c, vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9) = 8.3 +/- 0.8(stat.) +/- 1.1 (syst.)(-1.4)(+1.5) (syst. pol.) mu b. The cross section for the production of b-hadrons decaying to J/psi with p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c and vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9 is a sigma(J/psi <- hB) (p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c, vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9) = 1.46 +/- 0.38 (stat.)(-0.32)(+0.26) (syst.) mu b. The results are compared to QCD model predictions. The shape of the p(t) and y distributions of b-quarks predicted by perturbative QCD model calculations are used to extrapolate the measured cross section to derive the b (b) over bar pair total cross section and d sigma/dy at mid-rapidity.

Hacia la cristalización de un signo cultural canario: Miguel de Unamuno (relato de una palinodia)

Programa de Doctorado: Literatura y Teoría de la Literatura

MIXTIFICACIONES: Transformación de La Vega de San José

[ES] Rehabilitación del polígono de viviendas situado en La Vega de San José

Mixtificaciones. Reciclajes Urbanos

[ES] El siguiente trabajo se centra en el extremo norte del Polígono de Viviendas de la Vega de San Jose, en las Palmas de Gran canaria, un área residencial que representa bien el estado comun de deterioro y problemática social de estos barrios construidos en nuestras ciudades durante los años 60/70. En muchos casos los desfases entre las necesidades de aquellos años y las condiciones actuales ha dejado a esa importante población habitante de los polígonos en condiciones de habitabilidad y desarrollo social inadecuados".La propuesta nace de la necesidad de "liberar" espacio en el lugar,optar por un consumo mínimo del suelo, actualmente es un lugar donde no existen espacios libres o areas verdes como tal, el uso excesivo del coche en el sitio conlleva a la falta de implicación del usuario con los mismos, para ello se limita el uso del coche a un anillo perimetral en el que se plantean "bolsas de aparcamientos" que estarán conectadas directamente con la zona de actuación. Para un menor consumo del suelo, nace la idea de crear una CIUDAD ESPACIAL, estructuras tridimensionales que se apoyan en las edificaciones existentes para su desarrollo; liberando de esta forma la planta baja y dotando el lugar de un gran espacio verde de realaciones-actividades, crear un "pulmon" en el lugar. Planteo por tanto rehabilitar lo existente, reconstruir y mejorar las edificaciones que han quedado obsoletas con el paso del tiempo y aportarle las distintas necesidades que han ido surgiendo y que surgiran; pensar en un sistema de crecimiento mas que en una solución inmediata, si planteamos esas estructuras flotantes la ciudad podra seguir avanzando y generando espacios nuevos en la misma, sin tener que optar por un mayor consumo del suelo. Este tipo de intervención es adaptable a cualquier soporte urbano, ya que parte de dos principios fundamentales, pensar en las necesidades de los habitantes y mejorar la calidad espacial de las ciudades existentes.