103 research outputs found
Bioklasten-onderzoek van bovenkrijt en Dano-Montiaan afzettingen uit Boringen in de Belgische kempen
Stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic along the southern border of the North Sea Basin in Belgium
The Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary record in the Campine Basin along the southern border of the North Sea Basin is analysed in terms of sequence stratigraphy. All available biostratigraphic, and in some cases, magnetostratigraphic data are used to constrain the sequence chronostratigraphy. The relative geographic extent of the strata is used as an indication of the relative sea level.Tectonic and eustatic components could be distinguished in several cases using regional geological information. Generally, sequences consist of transgressive and highstand systems tracts only and have flat, abrasiontype lower boundaries. Lowstand deposits are only identified as infill of erosional space, which generally implies marked tectonic uplift. Several eustatic and tectonic events can be correlated with similar events known elsewhere in the North Sea Basin. The time intervals spanned by the different sequences vary considerably, pointing out different control mechanisms
Repeated Tethyan influences in the Early Campanian to Middle Late Maastrichtian successions of Folx-Les-Caves and Orp-Le-Petit
A preliminary study of the macrofossils (belemnites in particular), benthic forams and ostracodes in the Late Cretaceous chalk deposits at Folx-les-Caves and Orp-le-Petit (eastern Brabant Massif, Belgium) suggests that the sequence at Folx-les-Caves is of early Campanian (post lingua/quadrata Zone) age. The «craie blanche» and the «tuffeau jaunâtre» at Orp-le-Petit were deposited during the late Campanian and middle late Maastrichtian, respectively.The sedimentation of these chalks under shallow to very shallow subtidal conditions was temporarily interrupted by periods of emergence (conglomerate at Folx-les-Caves; hardground at Orp-le-Petit).The fossil assemblages of the early Campanian and middle late Maastrichtian comprise several distinctive Tethyan elements amongst macrofauna, forams and ostracodes which are rare in or absent from the late Campanian to early late Maastrichtian in Belgium and the SE Netherlands. Possible causes of these repeated Tethyan incursions are discussed
Braneworld dynamics with the BraneCode
We give a full nonlinear numerical treatment of time-dependent 5d braneworld
geometry, which is determined self-consistently by potentials for the scalar
field in the bulk and at two orbifold branes, supplemented by boundary
conditions at the branes. We describe the BraneCode, an algorithm which we
designed to solve the dynamical equations numerically. We applied the BraneCode
to braneworld models and found several novel phenomena of the brane dynamics.
Starting with static warped geometry with de Sitter branes, we found
numerically that this configuration is often unstable due to a tachyonic mass
of the radion during inflation. If the model admits other static configurations
with lower values of de Sitter curvature, this effect causes a violent
re-structuring towards them, flattening the branes, which appears as a lowering
of the 4d effective cosmological constant. Braneworld dynamics can often lead
to brane collisions. We found that in the presence of the bulk scalar field,
the 5d geometry between colliding branes approaches a universal, homogeneous,
anisotropic strong gravity Kasner-like asymptotic, irrespective of the
bulk/brane potentials. The Kasner indices of the brane directions are equal to
each other but different from that of the extra dimension.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figure
Towards the Prediction of User Actions on Exercises with Hints Based on Survey Results
Proceedings of: 6th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011.The actions a user performs on exercises depending on the different hinting techniques applied, can be used to adapt future exercises. In this paper, we propose a survey for users in order to know their different actions depending on different conditions. The analysis of preliminary results for some questions of the model shows that there is a correlation between some survey questions and the real student actions, but there is a case in which there is not such correlation. For the cases where that correlation exists, this correlation leads to think that some prediction of users actions based on survey results is possible.Work partially funded by the Learn3 project TIN2008-05163/TSI
within the Spanish “Plan Nacional de I+D+I”, and the Madrid regional community
project eMadrid S2009/TIC-1650
Relativistic D-brane Scattering is Extremely Inelastic
We study the effects of quantum production of open strings on the
relativistic scattering of D-branes. We find strong corrections to the brane
trajectory from copious production of highly-excited open strings, whose
typical oscillator level is proportional to the square of the rapidity. In the
corrected trajectory, the branes rapidly coincide and remain trapped in a
configuration with enhanced symmetry. This is a purely stringy effect which
makes relativistic brane collisions exceptionally inelastic. We trace this
effect to velocity-dependent corrections to the open-string mass, which render
open strings between relativistic D-branes surprisingly light. We observe that
pair-creation of open strings could play an important role in cosmological
scenarios in which branes approach each other at very high speeds.Comment: 30 pages; added references and a comment about velocity-dependent
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Applications of scalar attractor solutions to Cosmology
We develop a framework to study the phase space of a system consisting of a
scalar field rolling down an arbitrary potential with varying slope and a
background fluid, in a cosmological setting. We give analytical approximate
solutions of the field evolution and discuss applications of its features to
the issues of quintessence, moduli stabilisation and quintessential inflation.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in PR
Challenges and Obstacles for a Bouncing Universe in Brane Models
A Brane evolving in the background of a charged AdS black-hole displays in
general a bouncing behaviour with a smooth transition from a contracting to an
expanding phase. We examine in detail the conditions and consequences of this
behaviour in various cases. For a cosmological-constant-dominated Brane, we
obtain a singularity-free, inflationary era which is shown to be compatible
only with an intermediate-scale fundamental Planck mass. For a
radiation-dominated Brane, the bouncing behaviour can occur only for
background-charge values exceeding those allowed for non-extremal black holes.
For a matter-dominated Brane, the black-hole mass affects the proper volume or
the expansion rate of the Brane. We also consider the Brane evolving in an
asymmetric background of two distinct charged AdS black hole spacetimes being
bounded by the Brane and find that, in the case of an empty critical Brane,
bouncing behaviour occurs only if the black-hole mass difference is smaller
than a certain value. The effects of a Brane curvature term on the bounce at
early and late times are also investigated.Comment: 23 pages, Latex file, comments and references added, version to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Phantom with Born-Infield type Lagrangian
Recent analysis of the observation data indicates that the equation of state
of the dark energy might be smaller than -1, which leads to the introduction of
phantom models featured by its negative kinetic energy to account for the
regime of equation of state . In this paper, we generalize the idea to
the Born-Infield type Lagrangian with negative kinetic energy term and give the
condition for the potential, under which the late time attractor solution
exists and also analyze a viable cosmological model in such a scheme.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, Reference updated, the final version will be
published in Phys. Rev.
Hierarchical Spherical Model from a Geometric Point of View
A continuous version of the hierarchical spherical model at dimension d=4 is
investigated. Two limit distribution of the block spin variable X^{\gamma},
normalized with exponents \gamma =d+2 and \gamma =d at and above the critical
temperature, are established. These results are proven by solving certain
evolution equations corresponding to the renormalization group (RG)
transformation of the O(N) hierarchical spin model of block size L^{d} in the
limit L to 1 and N to \infty . Starting far away from the stationary Gaussian
fixed point the trajectories of these dynamical system pass through two
different regimes with distinguishable crossover behavior. An interpretation of
this trajectories is given by the geometric theory of functions which describe
precisely the motion of the Lee--Yang zeroes. The large-- limit of RG
transformation with L^{d} fixed equal to 2, at the criticality, has recently
been investigated in both weak and strong (coupling) regimes by Watanabe
\cite{W}. Although our analysis deals only with N=\infty case, it complements
various aspects of that work.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Journ. Stat. Phy
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