Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains reports on three research projects.U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-3980

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains research objectives and reports on four research projects.U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-3980)U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (GK-2581

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains reports on five research projects.U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-3980

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains reports on eleven research projects split into three section.U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-3980

Territoriality and the organization of technology during the Last Glacial Maximum in southwestern Europe

Climate changes that occurred during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) had significant consequences in human eco-dynamics across Europe. Among the most striking impacts are the demographic contraction of modern humans into southern refugia and the potential formation of a population bottleneck. In Iberia and southern France transformations also included the occurrence of significant technological changes, mostly marked by the emergence of a diverse set of bifacially-shaped stone projectiles. The rapid dissemination of bifacial technologies and the geographical circumscription of specific projectile morphologies within these regions have been regarded as evidence for: (1) the existence of a system of long-distance exchange and social alliance networks; (2) the organization of human groups into cultural facies with well-defined stylistic territorial boundaries. However, the degree and modes in which cultural transmission have occurred within these territories, and how it may have influenced other domains of the adaptive systems, remains largely unknown. Using southern Iberia as a case-study, this paper presents the first quantitative approach to the organization of lithic technology and its relationship to hunter-gatherers' territorial organization during the LGM. Similarities and dissimilarities in the presence of morphological and metric data describing lithic technologies are used as a proxy to explore modes and degrees of cultural transmission. Statistical results show that similarities in technological options are dependent on the chronology and geographical distance between sites and corroborate previous arguments for the organization of LGM settlement in Southern Iberia into discrete eco-cultural facies.STSM COST action (ref. COST-STSM-TD0902-10855); FCT, contract ref. DL 57/2016/CP1361/ CT0026. Work at Vale Boi is funded by the project ALG-01-0145-FEDER-27833 - PTDC/HAR-ARQ/27833/2017.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Generalização de modelos digitais de terreno com base em transformada wavelet

Os sistemas de laser scanner permitem a obtenção de modelos digitais de terreno de alta resolução e exatidão. Porém, quando se necessita trabalhar em aplicações com uma resolução menor que a originalmente gerada, a grande quantidade de dados acarreta a necessidade de generalização. Este trabalho tem por objetivo verificar o comportamento da transformada wavelet na generalização de modelos digitais do terreno sob a forma de grades regulares, obtidas a partir de dados do laser scanner. As transformadas wavelets foram implementadas em programas na linguagem Matlab. Foram utilizadas as wavelets de Haar, Daubechies e Symlet. A generalização por krigagem foi utilizada para a comparação dos resultados. Os resultados obtidos nos experimentos realizados permitem afirmar que a transformada wavelet pode ser utilizada como alternativa para a generalização de MDT em razão da facilidade de programação, baixo custo computacional, alta velocidade de processamento e exatidão compatível com a resolução obtida no MDT generalizado, além de ser um método natural de análise multirresolução