nanoelectromechanical oscillator as an open quantum system
Science as an open enterprise potx
... this openness to scrutiny and challenge Drivers of change: making intelligent openness standard Rapid and pervasive technological change has created new ways of acquiring, storing, manipulating and ... prevention of vascular disease: meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials Lancet, 373, 1849-1860 Chapter Science as an open enterprise: The Purpose and Practice ... maintained? And open data and open science conflict with the interests of privacy, safety and security? Open science is defined here as open data (available, intelligible, assessable and useable...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 1 ppt
... continents and arcs from which detrital sediments are supplied Volcanic Islands Volcanic islands occur in ocean basins (such as the Hawaiian Islands) or on or near ocean ridges (e.g., St Paul Rocks and ... Inland-sea basins contain thick successions (10–20 km) of clastic sediments, and both mud and salt diapirs are common Some, such as the Caspian and Black Seas, are the remnants of large oceans ... AFRICAN PLATE ▲ M id East African Rift System ▲ ▲ India Izu-Bonin Arc ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Japan Arc ▲ ▲ ▲ Arabian Plate ▲ Himalayas ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Japan Sea ▲ ▲ Aleutian Arc ▲ ▲ EURASIAN...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 2 potx
... terrigenous clastic sediments and bimodal volcanics (Wilson, 1993) Bimodal volcanics are basalts (tholeiites) and felsic volcanics, as found in the Rio Grande rift, or alkali basalts and phonolites, as ... shale, and chert Some oceanic plateaus (like Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean) emerge above sea level and are capped with subaerial basalt flows and associated pyroclastic volcanics Oceanic-plateau ... rates of flood basalts and oceanic-plateau basalts range from about 0.5 to less than km3/year, considerably greater than rates typical of ocean ridges or volcanic islands such as Hawaii (with...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 3 pot
... zones are sutures and which are not Foreland and Hinterland Basins Peripheral foreland and hinterland basins are like retroarc foreland basins in terms of sediment provenance and tectonic evolution ... foreland basins The Himalayas As an example of a young collisional mountain range, none can surpass the High Himalayas The Himalayan story began some 80 Ma when India fragmented from Gondwana and ... a decrease in the amount of komatiite, (2) an increase in the ratio of volcaniclastics to flows, and (3) an increase in the relative abundance of andesitic and felsic volcanics These changes reflect...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 4 ppsx
... oceanic and continental areas (Fig 4.18) Some occur on or near ocean ridges, such as Iceland, St Helena, and Tristan in the Atlantic basin, and others occur near the centers of plates (such as ... Exothermic phase changes As previously explained, all of the phase changes recognized in the upper mantle, except the 660-km perovskite phase change, are exothermic, and exothermic phase changes enhance ... whereas midocean-ridge basalts (MORB) generally has R/RA values of to (Hanan and Graham, 1996) In some Pacific MORB, R/RA values increase with increasing 206Pb/204Pb ratios, whereas in the Atlantic,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 5 ppt
... Sea Level CRETACEOUS JURASSIC 200 Present Sea Level TRIASSIC PERMIAN 300 PENNSYLVANIAN MISSISSIPPIAN DEVONIAN 400 SILURIAN ORDOVICIAN 500 CAMBRIAN PRECAMBRIAN Long-term changes in sea level are ... was 25 to 30% less luminous than it is today and that its luminosity has increased with time in an approximately linear manner (Kasting, 1987) The paradox associated with this luminosity change ... radiation and the latter increases the greenhouse effect Clearly, the distribution of continents and ocean basins is an important aspect of paleoclimatology, and reconstructions of past continental...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 6 ppt
... plants 210 Ma, and man about Ma (Australopithecus Ma and Homo Ma) Mass Extinctions Another important and controversial topic dealing with living systems is that of mass extinctions, when many ... eurypterids, fusulines, and many corals and bryozoa becoming extinct Insects appeared in the late Devonian Fish greatly increased in abundance during the Devonian and Mississippian, amphibians appeared ... American and Eurasian invertebrate groups from an originally homogeneous Tethyan group Similar ammonite populations from East Africa, Madagascar, and India indicate that only shallow seas existed...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 7 pptx
... separate terranes with unique stratigraphy and deformational histories (Van Kranendonk et al., 2002): an eastern terrane (3.72–2.85 Ga), a western terrane (3.27–2.92 Ga), and the Kuranna terrane (≤3.29 ... Whereas most of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and the Americas formed in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic, much of Eurasia formed in the Meso- and Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic Secular Changes ... basalts have not yet been analyzed from Archean greenstones Archean oceanic crust was almost entirely recycled into the mantle, and none is preserved (or at least recognized as yet) in Archean...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 8 ppt
... Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean, appears to be related to plume volcanism Except for the Siberian and Emeishan Traps in eastern Asia, all major flood basalt provinces in the last 200 My are associated ... planets, and the outer giant planets The giant planets can further be divided into the gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune In this respect, the planets reflect the ... Pan-African collisions leading to the formation of Gondwana As collisions occurred, land areas were elevated and a greater proportion of continental Sr was transported into the oceans Gondwana...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 9 ppsx
... Most extrasolar planets have masses of 0.75 to Jovian masses, but masses less than 0.5 of a Jovian mass are difficult to detect Unlike planets in the solar system, most extrasolar planets are ... past, that the inclination of the lunar orbit has decreased with time, and that the eccentricity of the lunar orbit has increased as the Earth–Moon distance has increased (Lambeck, 1980) It has ... core and icy inner mantle composed chiefly of water, CH4, and NH3 and a gaseous and icy outer mantle composed chiefly of H2 and He Neptune must have an even greater proportion of silicate and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
EARTH AS AN EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEM Part 10 doc
... R L., and Natland, J H., 1992 Southwestern limits of Indian Ocean ridge mantle and the origin of low-206Pb/204Pb midoceanridge basalt: Isotope systematics of the central–southwest Indian ridge ... Black, M T., and Basu, A R., 1995 Synchrony and causal relations between Permian–Triassic boundary crises and Siberian volcanism Science, 269: 1413–1416 Reymer, A., and Schubert, G., 1984 Phanerozoic ... multicellular organisms, 241–243 ocean ridges, 60–66 passive, 155–156 oceanic crust, 14–16 oceanic plateaus and aseismic ridges, 66 oceans, 198–210 Archean carbonates, 207–208 changes in composition...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
... decoherence becomes an important issue at hand For instance, many quantum applications such as quantum computing and quantum crytography rely heavily on the coherence of quantum states, and such destruction ... of Quantum Systems 1.2.2 Decoherence in Adiabatic Transport 1.2.3 Non-Markovianity in Open Quantum Systems 1.2.4 Aspects of Open Quantum Systems ... [74–77] 1.2.4 Aspects of Open Quantum Systems in Biological Systems The union between quantum mechanics and biological systems is indeed one that is intriguing For a long time, the warm and wet environment...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of sodium salicylate as an hsp inducer using a simple screening system for stress response modulators in mammalian cells pptx
... with 45 and 60 mM SA, followed by transcription and translation of the gene products When the effects of other known Hsp-inducing compounds such as geldanamycin, curcumin and geranylgeranylacetone ... nitrocellulose membranes, and immunostained using antiHsp105 or anti-Hsp70 Ig (upper panels) Bands were quantified by densitometry, and relative levels of Hsp105a or Hsp70 are shown as ratios to that ... or mouse anti-Hsp70 Ig (Sigma) at room temperature for h After a wash with TTBS, the membrane was further incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated antirabbit or anti-mouse IgG (Santa Cruz...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "Cost-effectiveness analysis of clinical specialist outreach as compared to referral system in Ethiopia: an economic evaluation" pot
... patients and care takers/companions, indirect cost on patients and care takers/companions, indirect cost on voluntary clinical specialists, and Project cost to organize outreach activities The gain and ... specialty areas (urologic, gynecologic, and orthopedic and plastic surgeries); and patient coming referred from a hospital outside of Addis Ababa Kifle and Nigatu Cost Effectiveness and Resource ... standards of the evaluation Informed consent was obtained from all participant patients in the data collection process prior to any attempt to collect data Data analysis Analysis of the cleaned...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
C++ - I/O Streams as an Introduction to Objects and Classes
... Chapter I/O Streams as an Introduction to Objects and Classes Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Overview 6.1 Streams and Basic File I/O 6.2 Tools ... data permanently! Data output to a file lasts after the program ends An input file can be used over and over No typing of data again and again for testing Create a data file or read an output ... Initializing a stream means connecting it to a file The value of the stream variable can be thought of as the file it is connected to Can have its value changed Changing a stream value means disconnecting...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 22:49
USING BRAND AS AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON TO COMPETE IN THE MARKET: A CASE STUDY OF NHAT LINH COMPANY
... the brand -as- product, brand -as- organization, brand -as- person, and brand -as- symbol • Brand identity structure includes a core, extended and proposition identity A brand identity is to brand strategy ... offer quality assurance and reduce risks • Brands help self-expression • Brands offer friendship and pleasure 2.3.2 A brand is more than a product Brand is more than a product Branding is about ... Company with the assistance of his young brother, the Company’s Vice Director When asking about the soul and other attributes of LiOA brand name such as brand identity, brand personality and brand...
Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:29
THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SUSTAINABILITY EFFECTS OF FORMALISATION CONSIDERING HO CHI MINH CITY – VIETNAM AS AN EXAMPLE
... by the value of the waste, and in the second place by their ease of extraction, handling and transport Paper, metals and plastics, sorted out as early as possible in the waste chain, therefore ... households Transport to transfer station Transport to landfill : revenue HCMC PC : expenditure Waste treatment at landfill Figure 10: Financing of the Solid Waste Management system in HCMC (cp MASAUDA ... I.1 Background Human activity has always created and will always create waste In big cities around the world Solid Waste Management (SWM) is an especially important and complex task for the municipalities...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48
Sustainability of an energy conversion system in Canada involving large-scale integrated hydrogen production using solid fuels
... machines The ranking assigned for human resources may be higher during manufacturing, installation and maintenance for the on-site fuel handling system Except for the human resources and human convenience ... Hydrogen Systems: The Canadian Opportunity for Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Economic Growth through the Deployment of Hydrogen Technologies and Infrastructures Canadian Hydrogen Association, 2005 Evans ... air separation unit (ASU) is assigned a higher value (0.8) than the ash handling system (0.4) because the ASU is crucial to a high-efficiency solid-to-gas conversion as well as effective downstream...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning
... than installing an only system In 1986, Anderson tested an air conditioning system using a direct and an indirect evaporative cooler combined with an expansion battery, and compared it to a system ... large devices, and heat-exchange between gas mediums require great areas of transference, so they are not used Another system, more cheap and compact, was designed by Dr Pernot and later by Dr ... material, another device mainly made of wet textile band has been designed, manufactured and characterised It is basically a cotton band of 25 cm width and 1600 cm length, disposed in a plasticized...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10