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Exploration for volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation at Benglog, north Wales
Exploration for volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation
around Benglog is one of three investigations
designed to assess the metallogenic potential
of the Ordovician Aran Volcanic Group.
Detailed geological mapping in the Benglog
area enabled an interpretation of the volcanic
environment, critical to such an assessment, to be
made. The eruptive rocks are acid and basic in
composition; the acid rocks are mostly ash-flow
tuffs derived from outside the area, whereas the
basic rocks have a local derivation. They are all
interbedded with dark grey or black silty mudstone
and were probably erupted in a submarine
environment. Contemporaneous dolerite sills were
intruded into wet sediment.
This environment was suitable for volcanogenic
exhalative sulphide deposits to form and indications
of a metallogenic horizon were found at the top
of the Y Fron Formation in the form of abundant
pyrite, minor pyrrhotite and minor base metal
enrichment.
Soil samples, analysed for copper, lead and
zinc, were collected and geophysical surveys were
carried out along eleven east-west trending traverse
lines 300 m apart across the volcanic succession.
Indications were found of minor vein mineralisation
at dolerite intrusion margins and locally along
faults. Very high chargeability and low resistivity
anomalies over mudstones did not spatially
coincide with geochemical anomalies in soil, but
the secondary redistribution of metals in soils and
variable thickness of overburden precluded
confident interpretation of the source of many
soil anomalies. Geochemical drainage data, in
conjunction with rock analyses, show strong
barium enrichment in mudstones which could be
volcanogenic in origin but related to two separate
eruptive episodes.
The findings of the survey were inconclusive.
An environment suitable for the formation of
volcanogenic exhalative sulphide deposits was
established, but the geochemical and geophysical
surveys located only minor vein mineralisation and
tenuous indications of other styles of mineralisation.
Recommendations are made for further work
Identification of a mutation in the para-sodium channel gene of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus associated with resistance to synthetic pyrethroid acaricides
Resistance against synthetic pyrethroid (SP) products for the control of cattle ticks in Australia was detected in the field in 1984, within a very short time of commercial introduction. We have identified a mutation in the domain II S4-5 linker of the para-sodium channel that is associated with resistance to SPs in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus from Australia. The cytosine to adenine mutation at position 190 in the R. microplus sequence AF134216, results in an amino acid substitution from leucine in the susceptible strain to isoleucine in the resistant strain. A similar mutation has been shown to confer SP resistance in the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, but has not been described previously in ticks. A diagnostic quantitative PCR assay has been developed using allele-specific Taqman® minor groove-binding (MGB) probes. Using the assay to screen field and laboratory populations of ticks showed that homozygote allelic frequencies correlated highly with the survival percentage at the discriminating concentration of cypermethrin
On the dispersion of fundamental particles in QCD and N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory
We study thermal corrections to the dispersion relations of massive
fundamental particles immersed in weakly coupled non-Abelian plasmas. The cases
covered include quarks in the QCD (quark-gluon) plasma, as well as N=2 quarks
and scalars in an N=4 Super Yang-Mills plasma. We perform the calculations to
leading order in a weak coupling expansion, and consider all mass scales of the
fundamental fields, ranging from massless particles all the way to bare masses
parametrically larger than the temperature.Comment: 41 pages, 8 figures; v2 to be published in JHEP, with one table added
to summarize result
Second Harmonic Generation for a Dilute Suspension of Coated Particles
We derive an expression for the effective second-harmonic coefficient of a
dilute suspension of coated spherical particles. It is assumed that the coating
material, but not the core or the host, has a nonlinear susceptibility for
second-harmonic generation (SHG). The resulting compact expression shows the
various factors affecting the effective SHG coefficient. The effective SHG per
unit volume of nonlinear coating material is found to be greatly enhanced at
certain frequencies, corresponding to the surface plasmon resonance of the
coated particles. Similar expression is also derived for a dilute suspension of
coated discs. For coating materials with third-harmonic (THG) coefficient,
results for the effective THG coefficients are given for the cases of coated
particles and coated discs.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Peer support for people living with rare or young onset dementia: An integrative review
Objectives: The aim of this integrative review was to identify and synthesize the literature on peer
support interventions for people living with or caring for someone with a rare or young onset dementia.
Design: A literature search of articles was performed using the Nipissing University Primo search system, a central index that enables simultaneous searches across databases which included MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Sociological Abstracts, Cochrane Library.
Results: The eleven papers that met the inclusion criteria spanned eighteen years and from five countries. Studies reported on peer support programs that were either hospital-based (n = 6) or community-based (n = 4), and were predominantly led by disciplines in the health sciences. Only one study did not involve delivering services. There was a range of methodological quality within the studies included in the review. Further analysis and synthesis led to the identification of three overarching peer support themes. These included: (1) peers as necessarily part of social support interventions; (2) a theoretical portmanteau; and (3) dementia spaces and relationality.
Conclusion: Consistent with a much larger body of work examining peer involvement in social interventions, this review reinforced the valuable contribution of peers. A full understanding of the mechanisms of change was not achieved. Notwithstanding, the issue of studies neglecting to sufficiently conceptualize and describe interventions is an important one – drawing attention to the need to continue to explore varied delivery, including co-produced models, and more effective evaluation strategies to inform the dementia care sector
Understanding pattern scaling errors across a range of emissions pathways
The regional climate impacts of hypothetical future emissions scenarios can be estimated by combining Earth system model simulations with a linear pattern scaling model such as MESMER (Modular Earth System Model Emulator with spatially Resolved output), which uses estimated patterns of the local response per degree of global temperature change. Here we use the mean trend component of MESMER to emulate the regional pattern of the surface temperature response based on historical single-forcer and future Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6) simulations. Errors in the emulations for selected target scenarios (SSP1–1.9, SSP1–2.6, SSP2–4.5, SSP3–7.0, and SSP5–8.5) are decomposed into two components, namely (1) the differences in scaling patterns between scenarios as a consequence of varying combinations of external forcings and (2) the intrinsic time series differences between the local and global responses in the target scenario. The time series error is relatively small for high-emissions scenarios, contributing around 20 % of the total error, but is similar in magnitude to the pattern error for lower-emissions scenarios. This irreducible time series error limits the efficacy of linear pattern scaling for emulating strong mitigation pathways and reduces the dependence on the predictor pattern used. The results help guide the choice of predictor scenarios for simple climate models and where to target for the introduction of other dependent variables beyond global surface temperature into pattern scaling models
Energy dissipation in wave propagation in general relativistic plasma
Based on a recent communication by the present authors the question of energy
dissipation in magneto hydrodynamical waves in an inflating background in
general relativity is examined. It is found that the expanding background
introduces a sort of dragging force on the propagating wave such that unlike
the Newtonnian case energy gets dissipated as it progresses. This loss in
energy having no special relativistic analogue is, however, not mechanical in
nature as in elastic wave. It is also found that the energy loss is model
dependent and also depends on the number of dimensions.Comment: 12 page
A General Backwards Calculus of Variations via Duality
We prove Euler-Lagrange and natural boundary necessary optimality conditions
for problems of the calculus of variations which are given by a composition of
nabla integrals on an arbitrary time scale. As an application, we get
optimality conditions for the product and the quotient of nabla variational
functionals.Comment: Submitted to Optimization Letters 03-June-2010; revised 01-July-2010;
accepted for publication 08-July-201
On the evolution of cosmic-superstring networks
We model the behaviour of a network of interacting (p,q) strings from IIB
string theory by considering a field theory containing multiple species of
string, allowing us to study the effect of non-intercommuting events due to two
different species crossing each other. This then has the potential for a string
dominated Universe with the network becoming so tangled that it freezes. We
give numerical evidence, explained by a one-scale model, that such freezing
does not take place, with the network reaching a scaling limit where its
density relative to the background increases with N, the number of string
types.Comment: Extra references added showing constraints on cosmic superstrings, 7
pages, 7 figure
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