Non-marine Paleogene sequences, Salta Group, Northwest Argentina

Los depósitos de edad paleógena forman la culminación de la cuenca distensiva originada desde el Cretácico inferior hasta el Eoceno en el noroeste argentino. El desarrollo del rift presenta extensión regional y abarca parte de la sedimentación ocurrida en forma contemporánea en Bolivia, Paraguay y Chile. Durante el desarrollo de cuenca con subsidencia termal, se formaron tres secuencias deposicionales constituidas por las Formaciones Mealla, Maíz Gordo y Lumbrera, que integran el Subgrupo Santa Bárbara del Grupo Salta. Estas unidades presentan características sedimentológicas similares que le confieren cierta ciclicidad a este período. La distribución de los sedimentos y la asociación de facies del Subgrupo Santa Bárbara señalan una cuenca cerrada con sedimentación aluvial hacia los bordes y formación de lagos en el área central. En la Formación Mealla se han reconocido cuatro asociaciones de facies (FA) que en gran medida identifican los ambientes sedimentarios que la integran. En posiciones de bordes de cuenca, por ejemplo sobre el borde del arco Traspampeano, se han identificado las asociaciones de facies 1 y 2 (FA1 y FA2) formadas por las litofacies Gm, Gt, Gp, Sm, Sp, Sm, Se, Fm, Fl, Fsc y P. Se ha interpretado un ambiente de abanicos aluviales proximales a distales con buen desarrollo de las facies de llanura de inundación y formación de paleosuelos carbonáticos. Hacia el centro de la cuenca se reconoció la asociacion de facies FA 3, integrada por Sp, St, Sr, Fm y P que indican sistemas fluviales arenosos interpretados como ríos entrelazados arenosos y meandrosos de grano fino. La FA 4 representa la deposición en medio subácueo, integrada por las litofacies F, Sw, Cm, E y Bs e interpretada como lago salino a lago abierto de agua dulce. En la Formación Maíz Gordo el esquema es muy similar. Hacia los bordes de cuenca se reconoció la asociación de facies FA5, integrada por las litofacies Gm, Sm, St, Gh, Gp y Sp, e interpretada como abanico aluvial proximal y ríos entrelazados profundos. Lateralmente se reconoció la asociación de facies FA 6, formada por las litofacies Sp, St, Sr, Fm, Fl y P que representa la formación de ríos entrelazados arenosos. En el centro de la cuenca se identificaron las asociaciones de facies FA 7 y FA 8, integradas por las litofacies Fm, Bs, Go, Ll, F, Lwl, Sw y P que indican sedimentación subácuea de tipo lacustre con extensa formación de facies litorales carbonáticas e internas de tipo meromíctico. La Formación Lumbrera representa la culminación de la sedimentación en el Grupo Salta, caracterizada por sedimentación de tipo pelítico y frecuentes paleosuelos carbonáticos en el área con sedimentación aluvial. Está integrada por las asociaciones de facies FA 9, Sp, St, Se, Fm y P e interpretada como ríos meandrosos de arena gruesa, FA 10, Sp, St, Sr, Ss, Se, Sh, Sl, Fl y Fm cuya asociación representa ríos meandrosos finos en los que se distinguen los depósitos de sobrebanco, albardón y desborde. En el centro de la cuenca se reconocieron las FA 11 y FA 12, integradas por las litofacies St, Sr, F, Sw, Fm, Ll y Bs que representan la acumulación en un sistema lacustre clástico de tipos holomíctico y meromíctico. El contenido paleontológico tanto de palinomorfos como de vertebrados revela variaciones climáticas fluctuantes desde situaciones de aridez hasta condiciones de mayor humedad, lo que sustenta las interpretaciones sedimentológicas realizadas. En la base de cada unidad se ha interpretado condiciones de aridez que pasan gradualmente a situaciones de mayor humedad hacia el tope.Deposits of Paleogene age form the culmination of the distensive basin developed from Lower Cretaceous up to Eocene times in North west A rgentina. The rift development shows a regional extension, and includes part of the sedimentation which occurred contemporaneously in Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. During development of the sag basin, three depositional sequences were laid down. These were the Mealla, Maíz Gordo and Lumbrera Formations, which make up the Santa Bárbara Subgroup of the Salta Group. These units present similar sedimentological characteristics, which gives this period a cyclic arrangement . The sedimentary distribution and the arrangement of facies point to a closed basin, with alluvial sedimentation toward its borders, and the formation of lakes in its central area. Each unit shows a particular pattern of river systems, from perennial sand-gravel bed braided streams to fine-grained meandering streams, and pattern of the lake originated there. It is recognized that each lacustrine basin started to develop under shallow conditions in an arid climate, and then evolved to deeper lakes, which reached stratification of the water mass. The paleontologic content, especially the palinomorphs, records these fluctuating climatic changes, from arid situations to more humid conditions

Prompt dipole radiation in fusion reactions

The prompt gamma ray emission was investigated in the 16A MeV energy region by means of the 36,40Ar+96,92Zr fusion reactions leading to a compound nucleus in the vicinity of 132Ce. We show that the prompt radiation, which appears to be still effective at such a high beam energy, has an angular distribution pattern consistent with a dipole oscillation along the symmetry axis of the dinuclear system. The data are compared with calculations based on a collective bremsstrahlung analysis of the reaction dynamics

Cardiopulmonary assessment of patients with systemic sclerosis for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: recommendations from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Autoimmune Diseases Working Party and collaborating partners.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare disabling autoimmune disease with a similar mortality to many cancers. Two randomized controlled trials of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) for SSc have shown significant improvement in organ function, quality of life and long-term survival compared to standard therapy. However, transplant-related mortality (TRM) ranged from 3-10% in patients undergoing HSCT. In SSc, the main cause of non-transplant and TRM is cardiac related. We therefore updated the previously published guidelines for cardiac evaluation, which should be performed in dedicated centers with expertize in HSCT for SSc. The current recommendations are based on pre-transplant cardiopulmonary evaluations combining pulmonary function tests, echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive hemodynamic testing, initiated at Northwestern University (Chicago) and subsequently discussed and endorsed within the EBMT ADWP in 2016

Estructuración espacial de la variación biológica humana en la República Argentina durante el holoceno tardío final a través de los rasgos epigenéticos craneofaciales

El problema del poblamiento del continente americano y específicamente de América del Sur ha tenido una amplia relevancia tanto como objeto de estudio para la arqueología como en la antropología biológica. Desde ambas disciplinas se ha aportado gran cantidad de elementos que permiten la elaboración de modelos explicativos para este fenómeno. En el caso de la antropología biológica se ha abordado el tema a través del análisis de las relaciones evolutivas entre las poblaciones prehistóricas que habitaron esta región, permitiendo un acercamiento para conocer el grado de afinidad entre las muestras estudiadas. Específicamente desde un enfoque morfológico, los resultados obtenidos hasta el momento revelan la existencia de dos conjuntos biológicos que podrían haber sufrido procesos microevolutivos independientes uno de otro y como consecuencia de esto, se habría generado la estructuración espacial entre tierras altas y tierras bajas. Los resultados obtenidos en este trabajo, mediante la utilización de rasgos epigenéticos craneofaciales, contribuye a sostener la existencia de un modelo dual de diferenciación morfológica a nivel craneofacial. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la distribución espacial en rasgos epigenéticos craneofaciales, usando siete muestras -agrupadas por sexoen poblaciones que habitaron el actual territorio de la Argentina durante el Holoceno tardío final. Para llevar a cabo dicho objetivo se elaboraron matrices de distancia MMD, las que se analizaron mediante el uso de escalamiento multidimensional y análisis de cluster. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la existencia de un patrón de diferenciación espacial entre tierras altas y tierras bajas.The South-American peopling has great weight in the archaeological and physical anthropology research. Both disciplines have greatly contributed to build explanatory models for this phenomenon. Physical anthropology, in particular, has studied this issue by means of analyzing evolutionary relationships among prehistoric populations that inhabited the region, this way understanding the degree of affinity present among the studied samples. From a morphological point of view, the results obtained so far show the existence of two biological groups, which could have undergone independent microevolutive processes that consequently would have generated a spatial structure dividing highlands and lowlands. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the spatial distribution of craniofacial epigenetic traits using seven samples -divided by sex- from people that inhabited the current Argentinean territory during the final late Holocene. To carry on this research, MMD distance matrices were built and then used to analyze multidimensional scaling as well as to perform cluster analyses. The results obtained show the existence of a spatial differentiation pattern between highlanders and lowlanders.Asociación de Antropología Biológica de la República Argentin

Inclusive search for same-sign dilepton signatures in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

An inclusive search is presented for new physics in events with two isolated leptons (e or mu) having the same electric charge. The data are selected from events collected from p p collisions at root s = 7 TeV by the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb(-1). The spectra in dilepton invariant mass, missing transverse momentum and jet multiplicity are presented and compared to Standard Model predictions. In this event sample, no evidence is found for contributions beyond those of the Standard Model. Limits are set on the cross-section in a fiducial region for new sources of same-sign high-mass dilepton events in the ee, e mu and mu mu channels. Four models predicting same-sign dilepton signals are constrained: two descriptions of Majorana neutrinos, a cascade topology similar to supersymmetry or universal extra dimensions, and fourth generation d-type quarks. Assuming a new physics scale of 1 TeV, Majorana neutrinos produced by an effective operator V with masses below 460 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. A lower limit of 290 GeV is set at 95% confidence level on the mass of fourth generation d-type quarks

Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7\TeV

A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs(\ttbar) in $pp$ collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 \TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in two different topologies: single lepton (electron $e$ or muon $\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least four jets, and dilepton ($ee$, $\mu\mu$ or $e\mu$) with large missing transverse energy and at least two jets. In a data sample of 2.9 pb-1, 37 candidate events are observed in the single-lepton topology and 9 events in the dilepton topology. The corresponding expected backgrounds from non-\ttbar Standard Model processes are estimated using data-driven methods and determined to be $12.2 \pm 3.9$ events and $2.5 \pm 0.6$ events, respectively. The kinematic properties of the selected events are consistent with SM \ttbar production. The inclusive top quark pair production cross-section is measured to be \sigmattbar=145 \pm 31 ^{+42}_{-27} pb where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The measurement agrees with perturbative QCD calculations.Comment: 30 pages plus author list (50 pages total), 9 figures, 11 tables, CERN-PH number and final journal adde

Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

We summarize the sensitivity achieved by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors for compact binary coalescence (CBC) searches during LIGO's fifth science run and Virgo's first science run. We present noise spectral density curves for each of the four detectors that operated during these science runs which are representative of the typical performance achieved by the detectors for CBC searches. These spectra are intended for release to the public as a summary of detector performance for CBC searches during these science runs.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure

Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts

Aims. A transient astrophysical event observed in both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) channels would yield rich scientific rewards. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transient GW events has been developed and exercised by the LIGO and Virgo community in association with several partners. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the methods used to promptly identify and localize GW event candidates and to request images of targeted sky locations. Methods. During two observing periods (Dec 17 2009 to Jan 8 2010 and Sep 2 to Oct 20 2010), a low-latency analysis pipeline was used to identify GW event candidates and to reconstruct maps of possible sky locations. A catalog of nearby galaxies and Milky Way globular clusters was used to select the most promising sky positions to be imaged, and this directional information was delivered to EM observatories with time lags of about thirty minutes. A Monte Carlo simulation has been used to evaluate the low-latency GW pipeline's ability to reconstruct source positions correctly. Results. For signals near the detection threshold, our low-latency algorithms often localized simulated GW burst signals to tens of square degrees, while neutron star/neutron star inspirals and neutron star/black hole inspirals were localized to a few hundred square degrees. Localization precision improves for moderately stronger signals. The correct sky location of signals well above threshold and originating from nearby galaxies may be observed with ~50% or better probability with a few pointings of wide-field telescopes.Comment: 17 pages. This version (v2) includes two tables and 1 section not included in v1. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic

Search for gravitational waves associated with the InterPlanetary Network short gamma ray bursts

We outline the scientific motivation behind a search for gravitational waves associated with short gamma ray bursts detected by the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) during LIGO's fifth science run and Virgo's first science run. The IPN localisation of short gamma ray bursts is limited to extended error boxes of different shapes and sizes and a search on these error boxes poses a series of challenges for data analysis. We will discuss these challenges and outline the methods to optimise the search over these error boxes.Comment: Methods paper; Proceedings for Eduardo Amaldi 9 Conference on Gravitational Waves, July 2011, Cardiff, U