Deformation driven by deep and distant structures : Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, southeastern United States

Heron is grateful for funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 749664 and a DIFeREns2 COFUND Junior Research Fellowship. We thank the editor, D. Harry, E. Hopper, R. Keller, and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Pysklywec acknowledges support from a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant and and SciNet HPC Consortium (Loken et al., 2010). We thank the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation under awards EAR-0949446 and EAR-1550901 for supporting the development of ASPECT. Figure 1A was generated using Generic Mapping Tools (Wessel et al., 2013).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Tuberculose in Nederland 2012

Op de gedrukte exemplaren van het rapport is het nummer 15000204. Het rapportnummer heeft een 0 te weinig; na versturing van de rapporten is dit pas opgemerktIn 2012 werden 958 patiënten met tuberculose gemeld aan het Nederlands Tuberculose Register (NTR). Dit komt overeen met een incidentie van tuberculose van 5,7 per 100.000 inwoners. Ten opzichte van 2011 en 2010 is de incidentie met respectievelijk vier procent en tien procent afgenomen. Sinds 2002 is het aantal tbc-patiënten in Nederland met 32% gedaald. In 2012 werd bij 53 procent van de gemelde patiënten longtuberculose geconstateerd. Het aantal patiënten met longtuberculose (pulmonale tbc) daalt sneller dan het aantal met extrapulmonale tbc (tuberculose buiten de longen). Het percentage extrapulmonale gevallen was het hoogste onder tbc-patiënten die in het buitenland zijn geboren. De meest voorkomende vorm van extrapulmonale tuberculose was tuberculose van de perifere lymfklieren. Achttien procent (177) van de tbc-patiënten in 2012 had sputumpositieve longtuberculose, de meest besmettelijke vorm van tuberculose. De incidentie van sputumpositieve longtuberculose in 2012 was 1,1 per 100.000 inwoners. Tuberculose komt in Nederland vaker voor bij personen geboren in het buitenland (eerstegeneratieallochtonen) en tweedegeneratieallochtonen. Bijna drie kwart van het aantal tbc-patiënten in 2012 was geboren in het buitenland (73%). Van de groep eerstegeneratieallochtonen met tuberculose in Nederland was de groep Somaliërs net als voorgaande jaren het grootste (170). Het percentage tbc-patiënten afkomstig uit Somalië was daarmee even groot als het percentage autochtone Nederlanders met tuberculose (18 procent), maar de incidentie onder Somaliërs in Nederland is bijna 500 maal hoger dan onder autochtone Nederlanders (respectievelijk 1,3 en 691 per 100.000 inwoners). Multiresistente tuberculose Het aantal patiënten met multiresistente tuberculose (MDR-tbc) in Nederland schommelt de laatste vijf jaar tussen tien en twintig patiënten; dat is 1-2% van het totaal aantal patiënten. In 2012 werden elf patiënten met multiresistente tuberculose gediagnosticeerd. Eén van de elf patiënten met mulitresistente tuberculose was afkomstig uit Nederland, de tien andere patiënten uit het buitenland. Resultaat van de behandeling Van alle in 2011 geregistreerde tbc-patiënten voltooide 87% de tbc-behandeling met succes. Bij nieuwe patiënten met longtuberculose was dit percentage iets lager (85%). Patiënten met multiresistente tuberculose voltooiden minder vaak de behandeling. Van de elf MDR-tbc-patiënten gediagnosticeerd in 2010 voltooiden zeven (64%) de behandeling met succes, één patiënt (9%) brak de behandeling voortijdig af, één patiënt zette de behandeling in het buitenland voort, één patiënt is overleden aan een andere oorzaak dan tuberculose en van één patiënt is het behandelresultaat (nog) niet bekend. Sterfte aan tuberculose Van de tbc-patiënten geregistreerd in het NTR in 2011 en 2012 overleden respectievelijk achttien (1,8%) en zes personen (0,6%) aan tuberculose. Patiënten met ernstige comorbiditeit hebben grotere kans op sterfte aan tuberculose. In 2012 overleed één persoon met diabetes, twee personen met een maligniteit en één persoon met nierinsufficiëntie aan tuberculose. Latente tbc-infectie (LTBI) In 2012 zijn 1.293 nieuwe gevallen van LTBI geregistreerd. Bij 855 personen werd de diagnose bij bron- en contactonderzoek vastgesteld. In 2011 startten in totaal 1.027 van de 1.297 personen (79%) een preventieve behandeling. Van hen voltooide 84% de LTBI-behandeling met succes. Delay Op grond van de gegevens in het NTR is de gemiddelde duur van het diagnostisch delay in de periode 2005-2012 niet toegenomen, hoewel bij illegalen, dak- en thuislozen, en drugs- en alcoholverslaafden wel aanwijzingen zijn voor een langer patient delay. Bij ruim een kwart van de patiënten die passief worden gevonden is wel sprake van een 'te lang' of 'ongunstig delay'. Voor doctor delay geldt hetzelfde: er is bij ruim een kwart van de patiënten die passief worden gevonden sprake van een 'te lang' of 'ongunstig delay'. Case finding In totaal 15% van alle tbc-patiënten werd in 2012 gevonden door actieve opsporing door de afdeling tbc-bestrijding van de GGD. Het percentage tbc-patiënten dat gevonden wordt door screening van risicogroepen zoals nieuwe immigranten, asielzoekers, drugsverslaafden en dak- en thuislozen neemt al langere tijd af. In de jaren 1993-1998 werd 14% van de tbc-patiënten gevonden door screening, maar in 2012 was dit nog maar 8%. Het percentage patiënten gevonden via bron- en contactonderzoek was in 2012 hetzelfde als in voorgaande jaren (7%). Tbc-patiënten met verminderde weerstand Het percentage tbc-patiënten met een co-infectie met hiv was 3% in 2012. Het percentage tbc-patiënten die op co-infectie met hiv werden getest nam toe van 28% in 2008 naar 49% in 2011, maar is in 2012gestagneerd (47%). Van patiënten uit risicogebieden zoals sub-Sahara Afrika was in 59% van de gevallen de hiv-status bekend. Het aantal tbc-patiënten die behandeld worden met TNF-alfaremmers neemt toe. In 2012 betrof het achttien (1,9%) patiënten. Transmissie en clustersurveillance Van de patiënten met kweekpositieve tuberculose clusterde de helft met een voorgaande patiënt. Bij een derde van de clusterende patiënten was sprake van recente clustering, een mogelijk gevolg van recente transmissie in Nederland. In 2012 vertoonden vier van de clusters een groei van meer dan vijf patiënten. De laatste jaren zijn er minder snelgroeiende clusters, een teken dat transmissie van M. tuberculosis in Nederland afneemt of dat de bestrijdingsmaatregelen effectief zijn.In 2012 958 cases of tuberculosis (TB) were reported to the Netherlands Tuberculosis Register (NTR). The incidence rate was 5.7 per 100,000 population. Since 2002 the number of TB patients in the Netherlands declined with 32%. In 2012 53% of the notified cases was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. Over the years the number of patients with extrapulmonary TB declined less than the number with pulmonary TB. The percentage extrapulmonary cases is highest among foreign-born TB patients. Tuberculosis of the extra thoracic lymph nodes is the most common site of disease in extrapulmonary cases. 18% (177) of all TB cases in 2012 was sputum-smear positive. The incidence rate of smear-positive pulmonary TB was 1.1 per 100,000 population. The majority of TB patients in the Netherlands was foreign-born (73%). As in previous years the largest population group with TB in 2012 was Somalian (170). The percentage of TB patients born in Somalia is in 2012 the same as the percentage native Dutch TB patients (18%). The incidence rate among people coming from Somalia is almost 500 times higher than the incidence rate of the native Dutch population (respectively 691 and 1.3 per 100,000 population). Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis In the last five years the number of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the Netherlands varies between ten and twenty patients, 1-2% of the total number of TB patients. In 2012 eleven patients with MDR-TB were registered; ten were foreign-born. Treatment Outcome In 2011 87% of all TB patients completed treatment successfully. Of new cases with pulmonary TB 85% completed treatment successfully. Patients with MDR-TB completed treatment less often. Seven (64%) out of eleven MDR-TB-patients diagnosed in 2010 completed treatment successfully, one patient (9%) interrupted treatment, one patient continued treatment abroad, one patient died due to another cause than tuberculosis and of one patient treatment outcome is (still) unknown. TB-patients with co-morbidity or immune disorders The percentage of hiv-infected TB patients was 3% in 2012. The percentage TB patients tested for hiv increased from 28% in 2008 to 49% in 2011, but did not increase in 2012 (47%). Hiv-status was known in 59% of TB patients coming from sub-Saharan Africa, a hiv endemic area. The number of TB patients associated with TNF-alfa inhibitors treatment increases. In 2012 18 patients were registered (1.9%). Tuberculosis deaths Respectively 18 (1.8%) and 6 (0.6%) TB patients in 2011 and 2012 died due to tuberculosis. TB patients with serious co-morbidity have a higher risk of dying. In 2012 one person with diabetes, two persons with cancer and one person with renal insufficiency died due to tuberculosis. Respectively 20 (2.0%) and 20 (2.1%) TB patients in 2011 and 2012 died of other causes. Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) In 2012 1,293 new cases of LTBI were reported. 855 of these cases were detected through contact investigation. In 2011 1,027 of 1,297 cases (79%) started preventive treatment. Eighty-four percent of all persons with LTBI who received preventive treatment completed treatment successfully. Delay The mean length of the diagnostic delay over the years 2005-2012 did not increase, although undocumented TB patients, homeless TB patients, and drug and alcohol addicts with TB are associated with a longer patient delay. In more than a quarter of the passively detected cases a too long or 'unfavorable' patient delay was registered. This also applies to doctor delay; in more than a quarter of the passively detected cases a too long or 'unfavorable' delay was registered. Case finding Fifteen percent of all TB patients was detected by active case finding by the TB department of the Municipal Health Services. The percentage TB patients detected through screening of risk groups such as new immigrants, asylum seekers, drug addicts and homeless people has been decreasing for some time; in the years 1993-1998 14% of all TB patients was detected through screening, in 2012 only 8%. The number and percentage of cases found through contact investigation stayed more or less the same (7%). Transmission and cluster surveillance In 2012 50% of the cases with a positive culture belonged to a cluster. In one third of these cases recent clustering was registered, possibly as a result of recent transmission in the Netherlands. In 2012 four existing clusters showed growth of more than five patients. In the last few years there were no large outbreaks registered in the Netherlands

Underdiagnosis of foodborne hepatitis a, the Netherlands, 2008-2010

Outbreaks of foodborne hepatitis A are rarely recognized as such. Detection of these infections is challenging because of the infection's long incubation period and patients' recall bias. Nevertheless, the complex food market might lead to reemergence of hepatitis A virus outside of disease-endemic areas. To assess the role of food as a source of infection, we combined routine surveillance with real-time strain sequencing in the Netherlands during 2008-2010. Virus RNA from serum of 248 (59%) of 421 reported case-patients could be sequenced. Without typing, foodborne transmission was suspected for only 4% of reported case-patients. With typing, foodborne transmission increased to being the most probable source of infection for 16%. We recommend routine implementation of an enhanced surveillance system that includes prompt forwarding and typing of hepatitis A virus RNA isolated from serum, standard use of questionnaires, data sharing, and centralized interpretation of data

Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

International audienceStresses acting on cold, thick and negatively buoyant oceanic litho- sphere are thought to be crucial to the initiation of subduction and the operation of plate tectonics, which characterizes the present- day geodynamics of the Earth. Because the Earth’s interior was hotter in the Archaean eon, the oceanic crust may have been thicker, thereby making the oceanic lithosphere more buoyant than at present, and whether subduction and plate tectonics occurred during this time is ambiguous, both in the geological record and in geodynamic models. Here we show that because the oceanic crust was thick and buoyant5, early continents may have produced intra-lithospheric gravitational stresses large enough to drive their gravitational spreading, to initiate subduction at their margins and to trigger episodes of subduction. Our model predicts the co-occurrence of deep to progressively shallower mafic volcanics and arc magmatism within continents in a self-consistent geodynamic framework, explaining the enigmatic multimodal volcanism and tectonic record of Archaean cratons. Moreover, our model predicts a petrological stratification and tectonic structure of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle, two predictions that are consistent with xenolith and seismic studies, respectively, and consistent with the existence of a mid-lithospheric seismic discontinuity. The slow gravitational collapse of early continents could have kick-started transient episodes of plate tectonics until, as the Earth’s interior cooled and oceanic lithosphere became heavier, plate tectonics became self-sustaining

Strange particle production in 158 and 40 AA GeV/cc Pb-Pb and p-Be collisions

Results on strange particle production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 and 40 $A$ GeV/$c$ beam momentum from the NA57 experiment at CERN SPS are presented. Particle yields and ratios are compared with those measured at RHIC. Strangeness enhancements with respect to p-Be reactions at the same beam momenta have been also measured: results about their dependence on centrality and collision energy are reported and discussed.Comment: Contribution to the proceedings of the "Hot Quarks 2004" Conference, July 18-24 2004, New Mexico, USA, submitted to Journal of Physics G 7 pages, 5 figure

Study of the transverse mass spectra of strange particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c

The NA57 experiment has collected high statistics, high purity samples of \PKzS and \PgL, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ hyperons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 $A$ GeV/$c$. In this paper we present a study of the transverse mass spectra of these particles for a sample of events corresponding to the most central 53% of the inelastic Pb-Pb cross-section. We analyse the transverse mass distributions in the framework of the blast-wave model for the full sample and, for the first time at the SPS, as a function of the event centrality.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures, submitted to J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phy

Irradiation and SPS Beam Tests of the Alice1LHCb Pixel Chip

The Alice1LHCb front-end chip has been designed for the ALICE pixel and the LHCb RICH detectors. It is fabricated in a commercial 0.25 µm CMOS technology, with special design techniques to obtain radiation tolerance. The chip has been irradiated with low energy protons and heavy ions, to determine the cross-section for Single Event Upsets (SEU), and with X-rays to evaluate the sensitivity to total ionising dose. We report the results of those measurements. We also report preliminary results of measurements done with 150 GeV pions at the CERN SPS