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A cautionary tail: Cyrtura temnospondyla Jaekel, 1904, an enigmatic vertebrate specimen from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone
publisher: Elsevier articletitle: A cautionary tail: Cyrtura temnospondyla Jaekel, 1904, an enigmatic vertebrate specimen from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone journaltitle: Comptes Rendus Palevol articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2014.10.007 content_type: article copyright: Copyright Š 2014 AcadÊmie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS All rights reserved.This document is the authors' final accepted version of the journal article. You are advised to consult the publishers' version if you wish to cite from it
Testing the use of viscous remanent magnetisation to date flood events
Š 2015 Muxworthy, Williams and Heslop. Using erratics associated with large flood events, this paper assesses whether their viscous remanent magnetisation (VRM) can be used to date the flood events. We tested this method using flood erratics from three large events: (1) the Late Pleistocene Bonneville mega-flood in Idaho, USA, (~14â18 ka), (2) the 1918 A.D. Mt. Katla, Iceland, eruption and associated jĂśkulhaup (meltwater flood) at MĂ˝rdalssandur, and (3) the MarkarfljĂłt jĂśkulhaup due to an earlier eruption of Mt. Katla (~2.5 ka). We measured 236 specimens, 66 of which yielded clear identifiable and measurable viscous magnetisation signals from erratics with clustered VRM directions. From the VRM unblocking temperatures, age estimates were made. The age estimate for the most recent event (MĂ˝rdalssandur) worked well, with a median estimated age of 80 years (with individual erratic estimates distributed between 61â105 years) compared to the known age of 91 years. The ages of the other two events were over-estimated. The estimates for MarkarfljĂłt [15 ka (7â33 ka)] were based on the results of just one erratic. For the Bonneville flood the estimates were too old, however, this locality had the largest uncertainty in the ambient temperature used in the age determination; the VRM acquired is strongly dependent on the ambient temperature, the older the event the greater the uncertainty. Southern Idaho currently has hot summers, with average summer maximum temperatures of ~31°C, but a mean annual temperature of only ~ 9°C. It is suggested that the VRM dating method works best for recent events (<2â3 ka) where the ambient temperature history can be constrained
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Phreatic seepage flow through an earth dam with an impeding strip
New mathematical models are developed and corresponding boundary value problems are analytically and numerically solved for Darcian flows in earth (rock)âfilled dams, which have a vertical impermeable barrier on the downstream slope. For saturated flow, a 2-D potential model considers a free boundary problem to Laplaceâs equation with a traveling-wave phreatic line generated by a linear drawup of a water level in the dam reservoir. The barrier re-directs seepage from purely horizontal (a seepage face outlet) to purely vertical (a no-flow boundary). An alternative model is also used for a hydraulic approximation of a 3-D steady flow when the barrier is only a partial obstruction to seepage. The Poisson equation is solved with respect to Strackâs potential, which predicts the position of the phreatic surface and hydraulic gradient in the dam body. Simulations with HYDRUS, a FEM-code for solving Richardsâ PDE, i.e., saturated-unsaturated flows without free boundaries, are carried out for both 2-D and 3-D regimes in rectangular and hexagonal domains. The Barenblatt and Kalashnikov closed-form analytical solutions in non-capillarity soils are compared with the HYDRUS results. Analytical and numerical solutions match well when soil capillarity is minor. The found distributions of the Darcian velocity, the pore pressure, and total hydraulic heads in the vicinity of the barrier corroborate serious concerns about a high risk to the structural stability of the dam due to seepage. The modeling results are related to a âforensicâ review of the recent collapse of the spillway of the Oroville Dam, CA, USA
Travelling solitary waves in the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with saturable nonlinearity: existence, stability and dynamics
Are Intervention-Design Characteristics More Predictive than Baseline Participant Characteristics on Participant Attendance to a Paediatric, Community Weight Management Programme?
BACKGROUND: Approximately 50% of participants complete a paediatric weight management programme, yet the predictors of attendance and dropout are inconsistent. This study investigates subject and intervention-design characteristics associated with attendance at a group based, family weight management programme.
SETTING AND SUBJECTS: Secondary data analysis of 2948 subjects (Age 10.4Âą2.8 years, BMI 26.0Âą5.7kg/m2, Standardised BMI (BMI SDS) 2.48Âą0.87, White 70.3%) from 244 MoreLife (UK) programmes. Subjects attend weekly for 10-12 weeks, sessions last 2-3 hours. Sessions include lifestyle guidance and physical activity.
METHOD: Subject characteristics (demographics, psychological (body satisfaction & self-esteem) and sedentary behaviour) were gathered at first contact and BMI SDS was noted weekly. Intervention-design characteristics were recorded (year, length (weeks), group size, age segregation and day of session). Attendance was calculated as total number of sessions attended (%). Multivariate linear regression examined predictors of attendance and multiple imputation countered missing data. RESULTS: Average attendance was 59.4%Âą29.3%. Baseline subject characteristics were âpoorâ predictors of attendance. Intervention year, group size and day of session significantly predicted attendance (Tables 1 & 2). Yet, the most predictive marker of attendance was a change in BMI SDS during the programme (B = -0.38, 95% CI = -0.43 - -0.33).
CONCLUSION: A reduction in BMI was seen to predict greater attendance. However, baseline subject characteristics were weakly associated with attendance, refuting past findings. Dominant intervention characteristics (large groups, weekend sessions and recent delivery) predicted lower attendance. Future programmes may be better informed
The spin resonance and high frequency optical properties of the cuprates
We argue that recently observed superconductivity-induced blue shift of the
plasma frequency in is
related to the change in the integrated dynamical structure factor associated
with the development of the spin resonance below . We show that the
magnitude of is consistent with the small integrated
spectral weight of the resonance, and its temperature dependences closely
follow that of the spin resonance peak.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Travelling solitary waves in the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with saturable nonlinearity: existence, stability and dynamics
Bifunctional dithiocarbamates: a bridge between coordination chemistry and nanoscale materials
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