Notifying Civilians in Time - Disaster Warning Systems Based on a Multilaterally Secure, Economic, and Mobile Infastructure

The spread of mobile communication equipment offers new opportunities for disaster management referring to civilians. At the same time, location based services are regarded as privacy invading, and are regulated in many countries by specific legislation. We analyze the requirements of a LBS-based disaster management scenario that enables the timely notification of civilians. In addition, we propose a solution for building a privacy-friendly, multilaterally secure disaster management infrastructure based on robust mobile phone infrastructures with high reachability of citizens. We will also point out additional features based on mobile networks. Traditionally, disaster management is a government domain. We will propose another option to implement and run disaster management. We analyze in how far an early warning system could be profitable for the insurance sector. Our comments will sketch that it is possible to reach a large number of persons, avoid insurance damage, and save costs in disaster warning systems. This work was supported by the IST PRIME project; however, it represents the view of the authors only

The magnetic fabrics of experimentally deformed artificial clay-water dispersions

The development of magnetic fabrics in artificial clay-water dispersions and natural, hematite-bearing mudstones is investigated in plane-strain pure shear laboratory experiments under strain rates of 1.6 x 10-5 and 2 x 10-4 s-1. The mixtures contain 0,15, 30 and 45% chlorite in an illite matrix, and 0, 1, 3, 6 and 8% magnetite in a kaolin matrix. Shortening up to 40% is imposed. The resulting fabrics show the following characteristics: (1) In the clay mixtures, the principal susceptibility axes (kmax >= kint >= kmin) rotate away from the well defined initial fabric orientations into the princip strain directions (e1 >= e2 >= e3) at strains > 30%. (2) Both mineralogical composition and initial magnetic fabric, but not the applied strain, influence the magnitudes of the principal susceptibility axes. (3) The illite-chlorite mixture series show an almost linear correlation between mineral concentration and susceptibility magnitudes. (4) Magnetite dominates the fabric of the magnetite-kaolin mixtures; the fabric is independent of the magnetite concentration.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28975/1/0000002.pd

Transient versus static electron spin relaxation in Mn2+ complexes relevant as MRI contrast agents

[Abstract] The zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameters of the [Mn(EDTA)(H2O)]2–·2H2O and [Mn(MeNO2A)(H2O)]·2H2O systems were estimated by using DFT and ab initio CASSCF/NEVPT2 calculations (EDTA = 2,2′,2″,2‴-(ethane-1,2-diylbis(azanetriyl))tetraacetate; MeNO2A = 2,2′-(7-methyl-1,4,7-triazonane-1,4-diyl)diacetate). Subsequent molecular dynamics calculations performed within the atom-centered density matrix propagation (ADMP) approach provided access to the transient and static ZFS parameters, as well as to the correlation time of the transient ZFS. The calculated ZFS parameters present a reasonable agreement with the experimental values obtained from the analysis of 1H relaxation data. The correlation times calculated for the two systems investigated turned out to be very short (τc ∼ 0.02–0.05 ps), which shows that the transient ZFS is modulated by molecular vibrations. On the contrary, the static ZFS is modulated by the rotation of the complexes in solution, which for the small complexes investigated here is characterized by rotational correlation times of τR ∼ 35–60 ps. As a result, electron spin relaxation in small Mn2+complexes is dominated by the static ZFS.España. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; CTQ2013-43243-PEspaña. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; CTQ2015-71211-RED

Discutindo a educação ambiental no cotidiano escolar: desenvolvimento de projetos na escola formação inicial e continuada de professores

A presente pesquisa buscou discutir como a Educação Ambiental (EA) vem sendo trabalhada, no Ensino Fundamental e como os docentes desta escola compreendem e vem inserindo a EA no cotidiano escolar., em uma escola estadual do município de Tangará da Serra/MT, Brasil. Para tanto, realizou-se entrevistas com os professores que fazem parte de um projeto interdisciplinar de EA na escola pesquisada. Verificou-se que o projeto da escola não vem conseguindo alcançar os objetivos propostos por: desconhecimento do mesmo, pelos professores; formação deficiente dos professores, não entendimento da EA como processo de ensino-aprendizagem, falta de recursos didáticos, planejamento inadequado das atividades. A partir dessa constatação, procurou-se debater a impossibilidade de tratar do tema fora do trabalho interdisciplinar, bem como, e principalmente, a importância de um estudo mais aprofundado de EA, vinculando teoria e prática, tanto na formação docente, como em projetos escolares, a fim de fugir do tradicional vínculo “EA e ecologia, lixo e horta”.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Open Identity Summit 2017: 05.-06.10.2017, Karlstad, Schweden

Open standards and interfaces as well as open source technologies play a central role in the current identity management landscape as well as in emerging future scenarios in the area of electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions according to the eIDAS regulation (2014/910/EU), innovative payment services according to the second payment services directive (PSD2) (2015/2366/EU), trustworthy and privacy enhancing solutions according to the general data protection regulation (2016/679/EU) and other innovative applications in the area of e-health, e-government, cloud computing and the internet of things for example

Structure and kinematic history of the Acatlán Complex in the Nuevos Horizontes - San Bernardo region, Puebla

Las rocas metamórficas e ígneas del Paleozoico, que forman el basamento de la parte norte del terreno Mixteca en el sur de México, se han agrupado como el Complejo Acatlán. Seis fases de deformaciones distintas se han diferenciado por di' tintas facies metamórficas, grados de ductilidad y correlación temporal. La primera deformación (D) está caracterizada por metamorfismo de alta temperatura (M1), que se sobreimpuso a eclogitas y culminó en anatexis y la intrusión de granitos. Durante esta deformación crecieron grandes micas claras y megablastos de feldespato potásico en las rocas metasedimentarias. La segunda deformación (D2) causó retrometamorfismo (diaftóresis) llegando hasta un metamorfismo de bajo grado (esquisto ·Verde). Las micas de la M1 están conservadas como porfidoclastos dentro de la foliación S1• Durante esta defor- mación se han fracturado con una temperatura menor, mientras que en la foliación S2 están sustituidas por sericita. La defor- mación (D2) causó recristalización dinámica de cuarzo. La tercera deformación (D3) plegó el área en estructuras isoclinales y estrechas con vergencia hacia el poniente. Los sedimentos, depositados entre D2 y D3, sufrieron un metamorfismo de muy bajo grado, y tienen al igual que los granitos, intrusados durante la D3 a un nivel de la corteza superior, una foliación S3. La cuarta deformación (D4) está caracterizada por pliegues tipo “kink”, una zona empinada de cizalla cataclástica y planos de estrías. Los cálculos de tensores de paleoesfuerzo dan ejes subhorizontales con una dirección de NE-SW. La mayor parte de las poblaciones de fallas frágiles está relacionada con la quinta deformación (D5), con ejes y también subhorizontales, con una dirección de ENE-WSW. Fallas normales definen la sexta deformación (D6) con ejes subverticales y ejes subhorizontales con direcciones alrededor de N-S

The Pieniny Klippen Belt in the Western Carpathians of northeastern Slovakia : structural evidence for transpression

Abstract The Pieniny Klippen Belt represents a 600-km-long but only a few kilometers wide suture zone in the Carpathian orogenic belt. Based on a quantitative analysis along a part of its NW-trending segment in northeastern Slovakia, we present structural data supporting transpression, the continuous interaction of strike-slip shearing, horizontal shortening, and vertical lengthening, as a major deformation style in its polyphase deformation history. Dextral transpression is expressed in the map scale and outcrop fault pattern, the oblique orientation of fold axes to the faults bounding the Klippen Belt, and extension parallel to the fold axes. The transpression-related strain field is described and quantified by the analysis of: (1) orientation of rotated fold axes (displaying an acute angle to the margins of the Klippen Belt); (2) orientation and geometry of paleostress derived from mesoscale fault-striae analysis (E-trend of σ3-trajectories and flattening geometry); and (3) the deformation history indicated by extension veins (non-coaxial regime). Different techniques using fault-striae data quantify paleostress and subdivide heterogeneous data sets mathematically into homogeneous subsets. The observed deformation history is modelled as a homogeneous transpression deformation. The best-fitting model requires a NW-trending (present-day orientation) external contraction direction (e.g., plate-slip vector), and predicts 16% fold axes parallel extension and 23% axial plane normal shortening