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Compte-rendu de l'excursion faite aux environs de Ciply par la société malacologique de Belgique
Sur le synchronisme du système hervier de la province de Liège et de la craie blanche moyenne du Hainaut
Combined use of the GGSFT data base and on Board Marine Collected Data to Model the Moho Beneath the Powell Basin, Antarctica
The Powell Basin is a small oceanic basin located at the NE end of the Antarctic Peninsula developed during the Early Miocene and mostly surrounded by the continental crusts of the South Orkney Microcontinent, South Scotia Ridge and Antarctic Peninsula margins. Gravity data from the SCAN 97 cruise obtained with the R/V Hespérides and data from the Global Gravity Grid and Sea Floor Topography (GGSFT) database (Sandwell and Smith, 1997) are used to determine the 3D geometry of the crustal-mantle interface (CMI) by numerical inversion methods. Water layer contribution and sedimentary effects were eliminated from the Free Air anomaly to obtain the total anomaly. Sedimentary effects were obtained from the analysis of existing and new SCAN 97 multichannel seismic profiles (MCS). The regional anomaly was obtained after spectral and filtering processes. The smooth 3D geometry of the crustal mantle interface obtained after inversion of the regional anomaly shows an increase in the thickness of the crust towards the continental margins and a NW-SE oriented axis of symmetry coinciding with the position of an older oceanic spreading axis. This interface shows a moderate uplift towards the western part and depicts two main uplifts to the northern and eastern sectors
Looking Back From the Future: Perspective Taking in Virtual Reality Increases Future Self-Continuity
In the current study, we tested a novel perspective-taking exercise aimed at increasing the connection participants felt toward their future self, i.e., future self-continuity. Participants role-played as their successful future self and answered questions about what it feels like to become their future and the path to get there. The exercise was also conducted in a virtual reality environment and in vivo to investigate the possible added value of the virtual environment with respect to improved focus, perspective-taking, and effectiveness for participants with less imagination. Results show that the perspective taking exercise in virtual reality substantially increased all four domains of future self-continuity, i.e., connectedness, similarity, vividness, and liking, while the in vivo equivalent increased only liking and vividness. Although connectedness and similarity were directionally, but not significantly different between the virtual and in vivo environments, neither the focus, perspective taking, or individual differences in imagination could explain this difference—which suggests a small, but non-significant, placebo effect of the virtual reality environment. However, lower baseline vividness in the in vivo group may explain this difference and suggests preliminary evidence for the dependency of connectedness and similarity domains upon baseline vividness. These findings show that the perspective taking exercise in a VR environment can reliably increase the future self-continuity domains
Determination of III-V/Si absolute interface energies: impact on wetting properties
Here, we quantitatively determine the impact of III-V/Si interface atomic
configuration on the wetting properties of the system. Based on a description
at the atomic scale using density functional theory, we first show that it is
possible to determine the absolute interface energies in heterogeneous
materials systems. A large variety of absolute GaP surface energies and GaP/Si
interface energies are then computed, confirming the large stability of charge
compensated III-V/Si interfaces with an energy as low as 23 meV/\r{A}.
While stable compensated III-V/Si interfaces are expected to promote complete
wetting conditions, it is found that this can be easily counterbalanced by the
substrate initial passivation, which favors partial wetting conditions.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figure
Hydrologisch jaarboek 2007: VMM meetstations: bekkens van de IJzer, Brugse polders, Leie, Gentse Kanalen, Bovenschelde, Dender, Benedenschelde, Dijle & Zenne, Nete, Demer, Maas
How Image-Based Social Media Websites Support Social Movements
The Internet has disrupted the traditional progression of social movements. We explore common characteristics of image-based activism on Instagram by qualitatively analyzing 300 Instagram posts from three social movements: Black Lives Matter, the battle against defunding Planned Parenthood, and the backlash against the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We found that common types of images emerged among the three social movements, indicating a possible underlying pattern in social movement content posted on Instagram. Users also engage in workarounds to leverage Instagram toward a collective goal, going beyond the features offered by the platform to communicate their message. These findings have implications for future work studying social movement theories online
Development of a National Core Dataset for Preoperative Assessment
Objective:To define a core dataset for preoperative assessment to leverage uniform data
collection in this domain. This uniformity is a
prerequisite for data exchange between care
providers and semantic interoperability between health record systems.
Methods: To design this core dataset a combination of literature review and expert consensus meetings were used. In the first meeting a working definition for “core dataset” was
specified. Subgroups were formed to address
major headings of the core dataset. In the following eight meetings data items for each
subheading were discussed. The items in the
resulting draft of the dataset were compared
to those retrieved from an earlier literature review study. In the last two expert meetings modifications of the dataset were performed
based on the result of this literature study.
Results: Based on expert consensus a draft
dataset including 82 data items was designed. Seventy-six percent of data items in
the draft dataset were covered by the literature study. Nine data items were modified in
the draft and 14 data items were added to the
dataset based on input from the literature review. The final dataset of 93 data items covers
patient history, physical examination, supplementary examination and consultation, and
final judgment.
Conclusions: This preoperative-assessment
dataset was defined based on expert con -
sensus and literature review. Both methods
proved to be valuable and complementary.
This dataset opens the door for creating standardized approaches in data collection in the
preoperative assessment field which will
facilitate interoperability between different
electronic health records and different users
Description des fossiles du calcaire grossier de Mons. Quatrième partie. Gastéropodes. Ordre I. Prosobranches, section B. Holostomes (suite et fin); Ordre II. Pulmonés; Ordre III. Opisthobranches
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