Academic literature on the topic 'Lake Preston'

The water chemistry of Lake Clifton, the adjacent lakes and the regional ground water was investigated to aid in the elucidation of the factors responsible for the restriction of living stromatolites to Lake Clifton. The ionic composition of water in the lakes is proportionally similar to sea water, but the ground water is enriched in calcium and bicarbonate and is of lower salinity (1-2 g I-1). The salinities of the lakes ranged from 7 to 369 g l-1 during 1984 but, in contrast to the other lakes, Clifton remained less saline than sea water throughout the year. Ground waters from an unconfined aquifer on the eastern shore made a large contribution to the annual lake water budget of Lake Clifton, maintaining lake water salinity at less than 35 g l-1 and modifying the chemical composition of the sediment-water interface where stromatolites form. Living, lithified stromatolites occur along the eastern shore of Lake Clifton. They are formed by a benthic microbial community rich in Scytonema. The Stromatolites co-exist with an abundant metazoan fauna, but do not appear to be limited by grazing. Clearly defined zones of ground-water intrusion were found along the eastern foreshore and areas of differential ground-water discharge were associated with morphologically distinctive stromatolites. Occurrence of stromatolites and regions of ground-water discharge in Lake Clifton are consistently associated. It is suggested that the intruding ground waters in Lake Clifton provide a chemical environment conducive to the formation of calcified stromatolites.

The Abitibi Belt is the largest continuous greenstone belt in the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. It comprises several composite komatiitic–tholeiitic–calc-alkalic and sedimentary sequences that are folded, transected by major faults, and intruded by various generations of plutonic rocks. Precise U–Pb geochronology has been carried out in the belt for the past decade to solve chronostratigraphic and metallogenetic problems. This paper presents new zircon ages and reassesses previously published ones, now refined by the addition of abraded and concordant zircon analyses.Volcanic and subvolcanic units of the Timmins area yield the following ages: 2727 ± 1.5 Ma for a tuff of the upper Deloro Formation; 2703 ± 1.5 Ma for a tuff of the upper Tisdale Formation; and 2698 ± 4 Ma for the Krist fragmental, assigned to the top of the Tisdale Formation. The age of a dunite intrusive into the upper Deloro Formation is revised at 2707 ± 3 Ma, whereas the Aquarius diorite east of Timmins yields a poorly defined age of 2705 ± 10 Ma. In the Lake Abitibi – Kirkland Lake region, the following dates were obtained: 2713 ± 2 Ma for a porphyritic unit of the Hunter Mine Group; 2714 ± 2 Ma for a rhyolite at the base of the mainly tholeiitic to komatiitic Stoughton–Roquemaure Group; 2701 ± 2 Ma for porphyritic rhyolite of the Blake River Group; 2701 ± 2 Ma for a tuff of the Skead Group; and [Formula: see text] for a pyroclastic unit at the base of the Larder Lake Group. These data are generally consistent with the earlier proposed stratigraphic subdivisions and correlations. However, there are apparent age reversals, for example between the Larder Lake and Skead groups, that could support the concept of thrusting and tectonic thickening to explain particular lithologic relationships and the considerable stratigraphic thickness of the supracrustal sequences in the Abitibi Belt.One part of the study was dedicated to the problem of gold mineralization in the Timmins area. The zircon age of 2690 ± 2 Ma for the Paymaster porphyry, a less well defined but probably identical age for the Preston porphyry, and dates of 2689 ± 1 Ma for the Pearl Lake porphyry, 2691 ± 3 Ma for the Millerton porphyry, and 2688 ± 2 Ma for the Crown porphyry show that these intrusions were formed during a well-defined, short-lived episode unrelated to volcanism; furthermore, a date of [Formula: see text] for an albitite, which predates Au mineralization, demonstrates that Au is spatially but not genetically related to the porphyries.Finally, two ages are reported for late tectonic potassic intrusions: a refined age of 2678 ± 2 Ma for the Garrison stock east of Matheson and a precise zircon (and titanite) age of 2680 ± 1 Ma for the Otto stock near Kirkland Lake.

Thermophilic bacteria live at temperatures above 450 C. Many investigations focused on their potential as sources of highly active enzymes ‘termostable enzyme’ and other products such as antibiotics and compatible solutes. Lake Linow is an active volcanic lake located in Tomohon City, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lake Linow becomes the habitat of thermophilic bacteria. A study has been conducted to obtain isolates of thermophilic bacteria and to identifikasi berdasarkan gen 16 s RNA. Bacterial DNA extraction procedure using the Presto TM Mini gDNA Bacteria Kit Geneaid protocol, with modifications. Amplification of 16s RNA gene using PCR method. Visualization of 16 s RNA amplicon genes with automatic electrophoresis capiler Qiaxel, Qiagen. Sequencing was carried out using Singapore's First BASE Sequencing service. The results showed that IL2 isolates and IL3 isolates could live up to 700C. Alignment analysis results using NCAST BLBI IL2 isolates showed 99% similarity with Bacillus thuringiensis strain H2682 (accession number CP009720.1). While isolate of IL3 thermophilic bacteria showed 94% similarity with Bacillus licheniformis strain 14DA11 (accession number CP023168.1). The results of phylogeny reconstruction with neighbor joining method, gene sequence 16S rRNA isolate IL2 showed the closest relation with Bacillus thuringiensis strain HD1011 (accession number CP009335.1). While IL3 isolate showed the closest relation with Bacillus licheniformis strain 14DA11 (accession number CP023168.1).

Se presenta el análisis espectral para las principales características hidrometeorológicas en la región del lago de Chapala: temperatura del aire, precipitación, evaporación, presión atmosférica, viento, nivel del lago y volumen del flujo de los ríos. Las series de tiempo se agruparon con una igual discretización y duración. Usando métodos lineales y no lineales del análisis espectral (máxima entropía y máxima verosimilitud) se identificaron los principales periodos en el rango de días a décadas, obteniendo estimaciones de las amplitudes medias cuadráticas. Se discuten las causas físicas de las oscilaciones, así como las relaciones internas entre las fluctuaciones de diferentes parámetros hidrometeorológicos. Se discuten las causas de las grandes variaciones en el nivel del lago y en los brotes periódicos del lirio acuático.

Este artículo es una contribución a la protección y aprovechamiento sostenible de la fauna silvestre, mediante una caracterización de la presión de caza de las especies en la zona de Bosawas. Esto facilitará la formulación de futuros estudios ambientales conducentes a proyectos de conservación. El estudio contiene información de zonas preferenciales donde los comunitarios realizan esta actividad, también sobre el uso y destino de los productos de caza, así como las técnicas, selectividad y presión de caza ejercida por cada comunidad objeto de esta investigación.Wani Vol.71 2016 pp. 59-68Bosawas tasbaya piska ra antin daiura wail nani wahbi saki alkanka tanka ba Naha ulbanka piska na unta daiura nani kan kahbi yus muni kau ban bri kaia tanka ra ta baikanka kum sa Bosawas tasbaya piskara antin dimaia daiura nani bar aba laki kaikanka dauki ninkara.Naha ba sip kabia kaina pyuara stadi munanka kau yamni kum daukaia sip kabia mata. Naha stadi munanka ra bri sa tawan uplika nani antin dimaia warkka kau dauki pliska nani ba ,baku sim nahki yus munisa bara anira brih tanka nani ba ,baku sim warkka daukaia natka nani ba tawanka bani antinka daiura wahbi sakanka tanka bara naha tanka turbanka daukanka na dukiara.BOSAWAS sauni daklana pisni tangâ balna pasyak asangpas tingnilau sangnika niningh balna kidi laihwi talwi dawi îna lâni nining yaktaihna wi yamna as ki Rawasna bin adika laih Bosawas sauni daklana pasyak asangpas tingnilau sangnika tanit daknin yak, îwa lâni niningkauh taihwi yamna as yamna ki tannika laihwi talna as munah nininglaunin kulnin lâni as ki. Adika munah laih tanit mâni balna yak sangnika apakwi yus yamnin lâni kulnin lâni as yamnin sip karang. Walwi talna adika tawan muihni balna angkat dî dahwi yakwa pâni balna dawak dî înin pâni balna yak, kaput bik înin dîni yus yayamwa balna kidi amanglanin walwi talwi.

Pugliese, S., Jones, T., Preston, M. D., Hazlett, P., Tran, H. and Basiliko, N. 2014. Wood ash as a forest soil amendment: The role of boiler and soil type on soil property response. Can. J. Soil Sci. 94: 621–634. Wood ash is produced in large quantities in Canada as a by-product of the pulp and paper, sawmill, and bioenergy industries and it is anticipated that its disposal in landfills will not be a viable option. An alternative option may be to use it to amend forest soils. Wood ash is a complex mixture and its composition depends on several variables, including the combustion parameters of the boiler in which it is generated. We present an analysis of the amendment of two Canadian forest soils (a Brunisol from the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence and a Luvisol from the Carolinian forest regions of Ontario) with six different wood ashes collected from different biomass boilers through short-term controlled incubations. We show that following an 8-wk incubation period, amendment of the soils with wood ash led to small to moderate increases in soil pH, but had little effect on soil microbial activity and biomass. The concentration of important base cations such as calcium, magnesium and potassium as well as phosphorus generally increased in both soil types following amendment with different ash. This practice can return nutrients lost from forest ecosystems during harvesting; however, effects were found to be boiler-specific. Lastly, we show that four ash types led to small increases in cadmium in either soil; the concentration of all other measured heavy metals was not significantly increased following amendment, and in certain cases decreased, particularly with lead. The only potentially negative aspect encountered was elevated sodium, particularly with ash from one boiler, but unacceptable Na-absorptivity ratios were not exceeded. These results demonstrate that with proper characterization and selection of wood ash type and application rates, amendment of Canadian forest soils with wood ash may benefit forest ecosystems and is unlikely to disrupt the chemical and biological processes in soil environments.

Este artículo pretende mostrar cómo se da la “acumulación por desposesión” que define la actualidad en América Latina a través del caso de la comunidad indígena de Mezcala de la Asunción. Ubicada en la ribera del lago de Chapala, en Jalisco, está sufriendo la presión de inversores y autoridades sobre su territorio comunitario debido al mercado generado por el turismo residencial. Para ello pasan por encima de la legalidad agraria y de la voluntad de los mezcalenses, utilizan la violencia e intervienen en las dinámicas comunitarias. Toda esta dinámica está reforzando los lazos comunitarios y transformando la identidad étnica en Mezcala.palabras-clave: Mezcala de La Asunción, neoliberal, globalización.---A micro-política da desapropriação: Mezcala de La Asunción na globalização neoliberalEste artigo objetiva mostrar como se dá a "acumulação por espoliação" atualmente na América Latina, através do caso da comunidade indígena de Mezcala de La Asunción. Localizada às margens do Lago de Chapala, Jalisco, a comunidade está sob pressão dos investidores e das autoridades acerca de sua terra comunal, devido ao mercado gerado pelo turismo residencial. Para tal, passam por cima da lei de terras e da vontade dos mezcalenses, se utilizam da violência e interferem nas relações da comunidade. Toda esta dinâmica está fortalecendo os laços comunitários e transformando a identidade étnica em Mezcala. Palavras-chave: Mezcala de La Asunción, neoliberal, globalização.---The micro-politics of dispossession: Mezcala de La Asunción in neoliberal globalizationThis article intends to show “accumulation by dispossession”, that defines Latin American economy today, as it is practice through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala de la Asunción, located on the shore of Lake Chapala, Jalisco. Investors and authorities are pressing this small community to sell its communal lands for residential tourism, transgressing the agrarian law and the will of the mezcalenses. They go as far as to use violence and intervene in community dynamics. This whole dynamic is strengthening community ties and transforming the ethnic identity at Mezcala. Keywords: Mescala de La Asunción, neoliberal, globalization.

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Characterize formal informatics methods and approaches for enabling reproducible translational research. Education of reproducible methods to translational researchers and informaticians. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We performed a scoping review [1] of selected informatics literature (e.g. [2,3]) from PubMed and Scopus. In addition we reviewed literature and documentation of translational research informatics projects [4–21] at the University of Utah. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The example informatics projects we identified in our literature covered a broad spectrum of translational research. These include research recruitment, research data requisition, study design and statistical analysis, biomedical vocabularies and metadata for data integration, data provenance and quality, and uncertainty. Elements impacting reproducibility of research include (1) Research Data: its semantics, quality, metadata and provenance; and (2) Research Processes: study conduct including activities and interventions undertaken, collections of biospecimens and data, and data integration. The informatics methods and approaches we identified as enablers of reproducibility include the use of templates, management of workflows and processes, scalable methods for managing data, metadata and semantics, appropriate software architectures and containerization, convergence methods and uncertainty quantification. In addition these methods need to be open and shareable and should be quantifiable to measure their ability to achieve reproducibility. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The ability to collect large volumes of data collection has ballooned in nearly every area of science, while the ability to capturing research processes hasn’t kept with this pace. Potential for problematic research practices and irreproducible results are concerns.Reproducibility is a core essentially of translational research. Translational research informatics provides methods and means for enabling reproducibility and FAIRness [22] in translational research. In addition there is a need for translational informatics itself to be reproducible to make research reproducible so that methods developed for one study or biomedical domain can be applied elsewhere. Such informatics research and development requires a mindset for meta-research [23].The informatics methods we identified covers the spectrum of reproducibility (computational, empirical and statistical) and across different levels of reproducibility (reviewable, replicable, confirmable, auditable, and open or complete) [24–29]. While there are existing and ongoing efforts in developing informatics methods for translational research reproducibility in Utah and elsewhere, there is a need to further develop formal informatics methods and approaches: the Informatics of Research Reproducibility.In this presentation, we summarize the studies and literature we identified and discuss our key findings and gaps in informatics methods for research reproducibility. We conclude by discussing how we are covering these topics in a translational research informatics course.1.Pham MT, Rajić A, Greig JD, Sargeant JM, Papadopoulos A, McEwen SA. A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency. Res Synth Methods. 2014 Dec;5(4):371–85.2.McIntosh LD, Juehne A, Vitale CRH, Liu X, Alcoser R, Lukas JC, Evanoff B. Repeat: a framework to assess empirical reproducibility in biomedical research. BMC Med Res Methodol [Internet]. 2017 Sep 18 [cited 2018 Nov 30];17. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5604503/3.Denaxas S, Direk K, Gonzalez-Izquierdo A, Pikoula M, Cakiroglu A, Moore J, Hemingway H, Smeeth L. Methods for enhancing the reproducibility of biomedical research findings using electronic health records. BioData Min. 2017;10:31.4.Burnett N, Gouripeddi R, Wen J, Mo P, Madsen R, Butcher R, Sward K, Facelli JC. Harmonization of Sensor Metadata and Measurements to Support Exposomic Research. In: 2016 International Society of Exposure Science [Internet]. Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; 2017 [cited 2017 Jun 17]. Available from: http://www.intlexposurescience.org/ISES20175.Butcher R, Gouripeddi RK, Madsen R, Mo P, LaSalle B. CCTS Biomedical Informatics Core Research Data Service. In Salt Lake City; 2016.6.Cummins M, Gouripeddi R, Facelli J. A low-cost, low-barrier clinical trials registry to support effective recruitment. In Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2016 [cited 2018 Nov 30]. Available from: //campusguides.lib.utah.edu/UtahRR16/abstracts7.Gouripeddi R, Warner P, Madsen R, Mo P, Burnett N, Wen J, Lund A, Butcher R, Cummins MR, Facelli J, Sward K. An Infrastructure for Reproducibile Exposomic Research. In: Research Reproducibility 2016 [Internet]. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2016 [cited 2018 Nov 30]. Available from: //campusguides.lib.utah.edu/UtahRR16/abstracts8.Eilbeck K, Lewis SE, Mungall CJ, Yandell M, Stein L, Durbin R, Ashburner M. The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations. Genome Biol. 2005;6:R44.9.Gouripeddi R, Cummins M, Madsen R, LaSalle B, Redd AM, Presson AP, Ye X, Facelli JC, Green T, Harper S. Streamlining study design and statistical analysis for quality improvement and research reproducibility. J Clin Transl Sci. 2017 Sep;1(S1):18–9.10.Gouripeddi R, Eilbeck K, Cummins M, Sward K, LaSalle B, Peterson K, Madsen R, Warner P, Dere W, Facelli JC. A Conceptual Architecture for Reproducible On-demand Data Integration for Complex Diseases. In: Research Reproducibility 2016 (UtahRR16) [Internet]. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2016 [cited 2017 Apr 25]. Available from: https://zenodo.org/record/16806711.Gouripeddi R, Lane E, Madsen R, Butcher R, LaSalle B, Sward K, Fritz J, Facelli JC, Cummins M, Shao J, Singleton R. Towards a scalable informatics platform for enhancing accrual into clinical research studies. J Clin Transl Sci. 2017 Sep;1(S1):20–20.12.Gouripeddi R, Deka R, Reese T, Butcher R, Martin B, Talbert J, LaSalle B, Facelli J, Brixner D. Reproducibility of Electronic Health Record Research Data Requests. In Washington, DC, USA; 2018 [cited 2018 Apr 21]. Available from: https://zenodo.org/record/1226602#.WtvvyZch27013.Gouripeddi R, Mo P, Madsen R, Warner P, Butcher R, Wen J, Shao J, Burnett N, Rajan NS, LaSalle B, Facelli JC. A Framework for Metadata Management and Automated Discovery for Heterogeneous Data Integration. 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The goal of the project was to study the evolution of the microbial communities during the Holocene in the lakes at the Yalgorup National Park, with focus on the thrombolite reef located at Lake Clifton. The project provided useful insights, information and a better understanding of the genesis, internal textures/fabrics and external morphologies controls over the microbialites, beyond to analyze actual hydrochemistry of lakes in area and the environmental human influence over it.

During pregnancy, the basal activity is increased in both of our major stress response systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. At the same time, the reactivity towards stressors is reduced. These alterations sustain maternal and fetal homeostasis, and are involved in the regulation of gestational length. Although the feto-placental hormone synthesis produces the main endocrinological changes, also the central nervous system undergoes adaptation. Together, these profound adjustments have been suggested to make women’s mental health more vulnerable during pregnancy and postpartum period. The aim of this thesis was to examine factors connected to physiological stress responses during the late pregnancy in relation to pain, labour onset, emotional reactivity, and mental health. The first study examined the pain and sympathetic response during cold stress, in relation to time to delivery. Women with fewer days to spontaneous delivery had lower sympathetic reactivity, while no pain measure was associated with time to delivery. In the second study, acoustic startle response modulation was employed to study emotional reactivity during late gestation, and at four to six weeks postpartum. The startle response was measured by eye-blink electromyography, while the participants watched pleasant and unpleasant pictures, and positive and negative anticipation stimuli. A significant reduction in startle modulation by anticipation was found during the postpartum assessment. However, no startle modulation by pleasant, or unpleasant, pictures was detected at either time-point. The serum level of allopregnanolone, a neurosteroid implied in pregnancy-induced hyporeactivity, was analysed in relation to self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression. Although the participants reported low levels of depression, the women with the highest depression scores had significantly lower levels of serum allopregnanolone. There was no correlation between allopregnanolone and anxiety scores. In the fourth study, the cortisol awakening response was compared between women with depression during pregnancy, women with depression prior to pregnancy, and women who had never suffered from depression. No group differences in cortisol awakening response during late pregnancy were found. The results are in line with the previously described pregnancy-induced hyporesponsiveness, and add to the knowledge on maternal stress hyporeactivity, gestational length, and maternal mental health.

Nella cosiddetta “era dei Big Data” le aziende sono sempre più guidate dai dati nel prendere decisioni strategiche, tanto che è stato coniato il termine data-drive companies per descrivere questo fenomeno. Tra le numerose tipologie di dati, l’acquisizione di quelli telemetrici, ovvero ottenuti a partire da sensori posizionati sulle macchine, si sta sempre più affermando grazie al paradigma dell’Industria 4.0. Il vantaggio principale consiste nella possibilità di utilizzare le informazioni ricavabili per aumentare la produttività degli impianti, in particolare grazie alla manutenzione predittiva. La trasformazione da dato in informazione ed infine in conoscenza non può però prescindere dalla presenza di metadati in grado di fornire alcune informazioni preliminari e riassuntive relative alla distribuzione dei dati e dalla qualità di questi ultimi. Il progetto realizzato presso l’ufficio IT di Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A. ha proprio l’obiettivo di creare tabelle e dashboard in grado di raccogliere e presentare grandezze, tra cui media, deviazione standard, massimo e minimo, calcolate per le variabili telemetriche di coppia, corrente e potenza raccolte dall’azienda dalle proprie macchine e progettare un “engine” volto a verificare l’eventuale presenza di valori anomali, frutto di un possibile problema di mapping delle variabili. Gli output prodotti andranno a supportare l’implementazione della manutenzione predittiva sulle macchine presenti negli stabilimenti produttivi dell’azienda.

Ce travail de thèse a permis de reconstituer la dynamique à long terme de deux écosystèmes lacustres alpins dans les Alpes du sud grâce à l’étude (1) de la variabilité tardi-holocène des paramètres physico-chimiques de l’eau, des niveaux lacustres et des dynamiques de communautés aquatiques, et (2) des types de réponse de ces environnements à des perturbations externes en lien avec les changements du bassin versant et du climat. Les deux séquences sédimentaires prélevées par carottage au lac d’Allos et au lac Petit (Massif du Mercantour, 2200 m) ont permis de reconstituer en détail l’évolution des écosystèmes lacustres depuis les derniers 13,500 cal. BP grâce à trois grands volets : (1) l’étude de fossiles d’espèces aquatiques indicatrices des conditions de vie dans le milieu lacustre (les diatomées et les ostracodes) ; (2) l’analyse des isotopes de l’oxygène contenus dans ces mêmes fossiles afin de reconstituer un signal paléohydrologique ; (3) une comparaison multi-proxy permettant de mettre en lien les changements de l’écosystème lacustre avec les dynamiques du bassin versant. Les résultats obtenus et leur confrontation à un cadre multidisciplinaire très documenté ont permis d’évaluer l’importance première des processus érosifs et des modifications du couvert végétal sur la dynamique lacustre, au travers de changements majeurs dans les communautés aquatiques et les niveaux trophiques. Enfin, les données isotopiques mesurées sur les fossiles de diatomées et d’ostracodes ont mis en évidence des variations paléohydrologiques inédites pour la région : cette approche, novatrice ouvre la perspective d’une reconstitution paléoclimatique de référence pour les Alpes du sud<br>The thesis is devoted to the reconstruction of long-term changes in two lacustrine ecosystems in the Southern Alps. This study aims at assessing (1) the lateglacial-holocene variability of water physico-chemistry, lake levels and aquatic species dynamics; and (2) the environmental responses of the lacustrine ecosystem to external forcing (watershed and climate changes), with the study of Lake Allos and the Lake Petit (Mercantour National Park, 2200 m a.s.l). The two sedimentary cored profiles provided a detailed record of the past lacustrine dynamics since 13.500 cal. BP. An integrative approach was carried out including (1) the study of fossils of aquatic bioindicators species (diatoms and ostracods) informing about changes in lacustrine living conditions ; (2) the analysis of oxygen isotopes recorded by these aquatic fossils tracing a palaeohydrological signal ; (3) a multiproxy comparison linking the aquatic environment with changes in watershed dynamics. These results integrated into a rich multidisciplinary framework evidenced the major role of erosion processes and changes in vegetation cover as factors triggering lake responses to disturbance, with concomitant changes in aquatic communities and trophic levels at several timescales. The different geological settings and lake morphologies have also played a significant role, modulating changes in benthic and planktonic aquatic communities over long time periods. Finally, oxygen isotopes records allow to trace for the first time palaeohydrological changes in the region: this innovative approach represents an original outcome for reconstructing a reference past climate for the Southern Alps

Les écosystèmes sahéliens, et tout particulièrement ceux qui se développent sur des sols sableux, réagissent très vite et très intensément aux moindres changements climatiques. Dans cette zone semi-aride, l'érosion éolienne qui affecte essentiellement les surfaces cultivées met en péril l'exploitation durable des ressources en terre. Par ailleurs, l'explosion démographique de ces dernières décennies et les grandes crises climatiques à l'origine des sécheresses du vingtième siècle ont eu d'importantes répercussions sur le milieu. Pour gérer au mieux ce milieu fragile, il importe d'abord de bien comprendre son fonctionnement. Ce travail de thèse s'est donc inscrit dans le programme de recherche AMMA (Analyse Multidisciplinaire de la Mousson africaine) et se situe au coeur du programme CORUS2 (Coopération pour la Recherche Universitaire et Scientifique) concernant essentiellement l'étude de la dynamique éolienne des sols sableux cultivés de la région de Niamey. La stratégie suivie au cours de cette étude a été de s'appuyer sur un important dispositif de mesures expérimentales pour comprendre au mieux et quantifier le fonctionnement actuel du milieu essentiellement vis-à-vis de l'érosion éolienne. Ces mesures expérimentales ont permis d'interpréter les changements que nous avons pu mettre en évidence sur un ensemble de terroirs proches de Niamey qui constituent les bassins versants de deux lacs permanents récents : Bangou Bi et Bangou Kirey (13,51° N - 2,21° E). Les enregistrements sédimentaires recueillis dans ces lacs ont ensuite été analysés en regard de l'évolution de leur bassin versant. Au cours de cette étude nous avons mis en évidence le rôle majeur des résidus de culture dans les champs traditionnels et montré que même à des taux de recouvrement extrêmement bas, ils constituent une protection pour les sols. Cependant leur efficacité chute en deçà d'un seuil de 2% et l'érosion éolienne déplace alors des quantités considérables de terres (130 t/an en moyenne) et participe activement à l'encroûtement des sols. Il est probable qu'à la faveur combinée de la mise en culture de l'ensemble des versant avant 1975 et de la sécheresse de 1985, un tel processus d'érosion et d'encroûtement s'est mis en place expliquant ainsi la dégradation considérable du milieu que nous avons mise en évidence entre 1975 et 2009 à partir d'enquêtes auprès des population et par la cartographie diachronique des petits bassins versant étudiés. A partir de l'étude des sédiments collectés dans les lacs, nous avons pu proposer un modèle de mise en place de ces sédiments qui suggère une intensification de l'érosion à partir du milieu des années 80.

This work re-examines samples of modern microbialites collected in the 1980s from Lakes Clifton and Preston, two of the Yalgorup Lakes in southwest Western Australia. Lake Clifton contains the first convincing modern examples of thrombolites to have been recognized. It was known that aragonite mineralisation took place in these structures within near-surface biofilms. New research reveals that stevensite, a Mg-rich trioctahedral smectite, is the principal primary phase that establishes the initial structural rigidity of Lake Clifton thrombolites. Aragonite microcrystals then grow within the stevensite matrix. In adjacent Lake Preston, lithified, centimetre-scale, coniform structures occur that are similar to pinnacle-like microbial mats that grow intermittently in a small pond adjacent to the lake. Microstructures within the lithified cones confirm their microbial origin, but they have undergone four phases of mineralization; an amorphous Mg silicate phase (of smectite-like composition); some areas of Mg silicate were then partially transformed into authigenic serpentine (chrysotile and/or lizardite); aggregates of aragonite microcrystals then overprinted much of the fabric; and finally high-magnesium calcite grew as void fills and rims, as well as overprinting some of the remaining areas of the Mg silicate phase. It is concluded that syngenetic and early diagenetic carbonate mineralisation of microbialites may effectively obscure all traces of the original microbial communities, leaving only faint evidence for their organo-sedimentary origin. Secondary carbonate mineralisation of microbialites may thus eliminate the evidence of primary organomineralisation. Many published examples of apparently abiogenic but microbialite-like carbonates should be re-examined for traces of early silicate mineralisation. The discovery of microbial permineralisation of modern microbialites by Mg silicates in Lakes Clifton and Preston raises the possibility that phyllosilicates could have contributed to the early structural rigidity of some Proterozoic Stromatolites such as Conophyton. Reexamination of the literature on Conophyton tends supports this hypothesis. Finally, the significance of this research is considered in relation to ; clarifying the role of Mg silicates in microbialite organomineralisation; examining the evidence that apparently abiotic crystalline carbonate may be of secondary origin; understanding the nature of the supposed “microbialites” in Cretaceous pre-salt sequences of the proto-Atlantic rift; assessing the continuing relevance of the “microbialite” concept; and clarifying evidence for the recognition of the earliest signs of life on Earth.

This chapter discusses the dance pieces created in Germany in the 1920s by Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), one of the leaders of Ausdruckstanz, as “recreated” by Valerie Preston-Dunlop from the late 1980s to 2014. Until Preston-Dunlop’s recreations, Laban’s most important legacy was considered his conceptual thinking on dance and movement, rather than the dance repertoire he created between 1912 and 1936, which has left only a few traces. Preston-Dunlop, who was a pioneer in combining archival research and public dissemination of Laban’s work through numerous publications, made her recreations a central tool to introduce this repertoire to new generations of students and a large audience, but simultaneously applied to them a very specific interpretation of their political and ideological substance. This chapter explores the articulation of bodily memories and historical narratives in both Preston-Dunlop’s recreations and in Laban’s historiography that has troubled our understanding of his thought and ideology.

During the nineteenth century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. In 1857 Manchester hosted the international Art Treasures Exhibition at Old Trafford, arguably the single most important art exhibition every held. By the end of the century almost every major Lancashire town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised nationally and internationally. This book examines the reasons for the remarkable rise of visual art in Lancashire and its relationship to the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it. Lancashire is rarely seen by outsiders as a major cultural centre but the creation of a network of art institutions facilitated a vibrant cultural life and shaped the civic identity of its people. The modern industrial towns of Lancashire often looked to the cultural history of other great civilisations to understand the rapidly changing world around them. Roscoe’s Liverpool of the late eighteenth century emulated Medici’s Florence, Fairbairn’s Manchester looked to Rome, while a century later Preston built an art gallery as a tribute to Periclean Athens. Yet the art institutions and movements of the county were also distinctively modern. Many embraced the British fashions of the time, while some looked to new art movements abroad. Art institutions also became a cultural battleground for alternative visions of the future, from those that embraced modern mass production technologies and ‘commercial art’ to those that feared technology and capitalism would destroy artistic creativity and corrode standards of excellence.

This chapter conducts a reading of Preston Sturges’s 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels that focuses on its discourses about film authorship. While the auteurism that drives much film criticism today routinely approaches directors as authors, in 1941 the case for directors had yet to be made in unequivocal terms. Drawing on archival materials housed at UCLA, including unproduced scripts and correspondence, the chapter argues that Sturges used the vehicle of Sullivan’s Travels to argue that neither producers nor stars like Veronica Lake can be taken seriously as authors. However, the film remains ambivalent about the rival claims to authorship mounted by screenwriters and directors. The reasons that lay behind this ambivalence arose from Sturges’s belief that, while screenwriters were the most important authors, directors were the ones who held the power in Hollywood.

This chapter reviews key elements in the screwball cycle (1934-1942) of Hollywood romantic comedy, positioning The Lady Eve (1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) as late examples of screwball. The essay argues for a dark current of vengeance in The Lady Eve and emphasizes cartoon sexuality in The Palm Beach Story. Finally the essay notes the influence of Sturges on contemporary romantic comedy cinema.

This chapter analyzes three Norwegian radio and TV series that feature clergy members as main characters: Rolv Wesenlund’s portrait of bishop Fjertnes from the late 1960s, the three comedians Kirkvaag, Lystad and Mjøen (KLM) and their slapstick sketches of the clergy from the 1980s and 90s, and the series Presten (The Vicar) from 2017. Three main types of character are identified. In some scenes, especially in KLM, the clergy make fun of religious symbols. Two other types are more common, however. One is the strict, solemn clergyman or clergywoman who nevertheless turns out to widen their role, sometimes in happy self-expression, sometimes revealing double standards. The other is the cool and dogmatically open priest, eager to include everybody. The last type becomes predominant over time, but the development is not quite linear. The new series Presten presents the most nuanced and kind picture, maybe because the clergy has less influence in society, so the need for harsh satire is diminishing. The chapter also includes analyses of how the series have been received by church leaders and by the general public.

This chapter examines the evolution of the league from one centered in small and medium sized cities, to one made up of larger population centers with the exception being Green Bay. This change was the result of a strategy and was aided by the economic impact of the Great Depression. The Chicago Bears led by Bronco Nagurski was one of the powerhouse franchises of the NFL in the 1930s along with the Packers, Giants and Redskins. The decade saw the segregation of the NFL as the league succumbed to the wishes of the owner of the Washington Redskins, Preston Marshall. There was a steady growth in the interest in the league and media coverage moved beyond local coverage. By the end of the decade the league was on the brink of major status among American sports. World War II disrupted these developments and some franchises such as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (Steagles) were combined. NFL Players and coaches joined the war effort as the league displayed its patriotism. Paul Brown became the coach of the football team at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center a powerhouse of wartime football. By wars end, there were predictions that professional football was the game of the future.

Fiber spinning is one of the oldest polymer processing operations that have contributed significantly to our society, especially after the commercialization of polyamide (nylon) synthetic fibers in the 1940s by DuPont Company. Subsequent commercialization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and polyacrylonitrile fibers in the 1950s made the synthetic fiber industry very prosperous. For a given fiber-forming polymer, different spinning techniques can produce fibers possessing markedly different physical and/or mechanical properties. Thus, the fiber industry made continuous efforts through the 1960s and 1970s to modify existing processes and develop new ones. One very important breakthrough from such efforts emerged in the late 1970s, enabling one to melt spin at exceedingly high take-up speeds, widely known today as “high-speed melt spinning.” While the fiber manufacturers carefully guarded their spinning techniques, the commercial developments were documented in numerous patents. Beginning in the early 1960s, some fundamental studies on fiber spinning were reported in the open literature, and they are summarized in the three-volume monograph edited by Mark et al. (1967). An understanding of fiber spinning requires knowledge of momentum, energy, and/or mass transport. In addition, knowledge of macromolecular behavior under deformation (i.e., stretching) is also necessary for understanding such complicated problems as molecular orientation under stretching, crystallization kinetics under cooling, and fiber morphology as affected by spinning conditions. In the late 1950s, and the early 1960s, Ziabicki and coworkers (Ziabicki 1959, 1961; Ziabicki and Kedzierska 1959, 1960a, 1960b, 1962a, 1962b) made seminal contributions to a fundamental understanding of fiber-spinning processes, and their efforts were summarized in Ziabicki’s monograph (1976a). In the 1970s, a new class of synthetic fibers, known as “high-modulus wholly aromatic fibers,” was developed (Bair and Morgan 1972; Daniels et al. 1971; Frazer 1972; Kwolek 1971; Logullo 1971; Morgan et al. 1974) and subsequently commercialized with the trade name of Kevlar by DuPont (Kwolek 1971). The chemical structure of such synthetic fibers consists of rigid rodlike molecules that orient easily along the stretching direction during spinning, giving rise to high modulus in the spun fibers. The chemical structure and mechanical properties of the wholly aromatic fibers are well documented in the monograph edited by Black and Preston (1973).

&lt;em&gt;Abstract&lt;/em&gt;.—Two of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, made initial landfall on the Louisiana coast in late summer 2005. In the wake of these storms, the U.S. Department of Commerce declared a formal fishing failure and fishing resource disaster and requested Congressional funding for damage assessment and recovery efforts. Initial estimates commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration place the total economic losses to coastal fisheries infrastructure at nearly US$1 billion ($988 million) for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Accounting for nearly 60% of those losses, Louisiana sustained an estimated $582 million in damages to seafood dealers, processors, and commercial and recreational vessels. In the 2 years following the storms, more than $200 million in federal disaster aid has been provided for regional fisheries recovery. The extent to which these funds will mitigate storm impacts depends largely on how “fisheries failure” is defined. Clearly, the storms tremendous impact has resulted in the unplanned departure of an unprecedented number of commercial fishing ventures; however, many of those businesses were already on the brink of commercial failure because of economic factors. In contrast, the fish stocks themselves have proven resilient, with harvests for certain species as high, or higher than prestorm levels. This paper provides an historical review of the physical and economic conditions facing Louisiana’s commercial and recreational fisheries before and after the 2005 hurricane season. Particular emphasis is placed on Louisiana’s hurricane recovery efforts and the economic issues facing the commercial shrimp fishing fleet in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Già da alcuni decenni le discipline che si occupano di storia urbana possono avvalersi delle&#x0D; potenzialità legate allo sviluppo delle tecnologie informatiche. L’impiego dei GIS sviluppati su&#x0D; cartografia storica, in grado di archiviare grandi quantità di dati e riferirli alle rispettive coordinate&#x0D; spaziali, permette oggi di riconsiderare alcuni fenomeni nella loro distribuzione territoriale. In&#x0D; questa direzione all’interno del DICATeA dell’Università degli Studi di Parma sul finire del 2012&#x0D; ha preso avvio un progetto multidisciplinare che prevede la realizzazione di un HGIS sui catasti&#x0D; storici figurativi della città. La presenza di ben quattro catasti geometrici storici, realizzati a&#x0D; partire dalla seconda metà del Settecento e basati sulla stessa matrice territoriale, permette di&#x0D; impostare un sistema a più soglie e di effettuare una lettura regressiva della storia urbana dalla&#x0D; fine del XVIII secolo ad oggi.&#x0D; La scelta di lavorare su fonti di tipo catastale, oltre a essere legata alla quantità e alla qualità dei&#x0D; dati presenti, è altresì favorita dalla duplice struttura dei catasti moderni che, abbinando&#x0D; descrizioni di carattere cartografico a descrizioni di carattere testuale, ben si prestano ad essere&#x0D; analizzati sfruttando appieno le potenzialità offerte dalle strumentazioni GIS. La&#x0D; rappresentazione zenitale dei catasti geometrici-particellari consente di ottenere, grazie a&#x0D; operazioni di georeferenziazione, la sovrapposizione tra diverse mappe (anche realizzate in&#x0D; diversi periodi storici) e una lettura geometricamente e dimensionalmente corretta. Con la&#x0D; realizzazione del GIS sarà quindi possibile studiare alcuni fenomeni storici da un punto di vista&#x0D; spaziale e operare letture sincroniche e diacroniche sulla storia della città. Already for several decades disciplines that are involved in urban history can take advantage of&#x0D; the potential offered by the development of information technology. Nowadays the use of GIS&#x0D; developed on historical maps, able to store large amounts of data and relate them to their&#x0D; spatial coordinates, allows to reconsider some phenomena in their spatial distribution. In this&#x0D; direction within the DICATeA of the University of Parma at the end of 2012 started a&#x0D; multidisciplinary project that provides for the construction of a HGIS on historic figurative&#x0D; cadastres of the city. The presence of four historical geometric cadastres, made from the&#x0D; second half of the eighteenth century and based on the same territorial matrix, allows to realize&#x0D; a multi-thresholds system and a regressive reading of urban history from the late eighteenth&#x0D; century to today. The choice to work on this type of sources, in addition to be linked to the quantity and quality of&#x0D; data present, is also encouraged by dual structure of modern registers that, combining&#x0D; cartographic descriptions with textual descriptions of characters, lend themeselves to be&#x0D; analyzed by exploiting the full potential offered by GIS. The zenithal representation of the&#x0D; detailed-geometric maps allows to obtain, thanks to georeferencing operations, the overlap&#x0D; between different maps (also made in different historical periods) and a geometrically and&#x0D; dimensionally correct reading. With the implementation of GIS will be possible to study some&#x0D; historical phenomena from a spatial point of view and operate synchronic and diachronic&#x0D; readings on the history of the city.

The debate between secularists and Islamic groups, a conspicuous feature of Turkish politics for decades, changed in the late 1990s when the political discourse of mainstream Islamic groups embraced secularism. The establishment elite advocate the existing French model of an ‘assertive secularism’, meaning that, in the public domain, the state supports only the ex- pression of a secular worldview, and formally excludes religion and religious symbols from that domain. The pro-Islamic conservatives, on the other hand, favour the American model of ‘passive secularism’, in which the state permits the expression of religion in the public do- main. In short, what Turkey has witnessed over the last decade is no longer a tussle between secularism and Islamism, but between two brands of secularism. Two actors have played crucial roles in this transformation: the Gülen movement and the Justice and Development (AK) Party. Recently the Gülen movement became an international actor and a defendant of passive secularism. Similarly, although the AK Party was originated from an Islamist Milli Görüş (National Outlook) movement, it is now a keen supporter of Turkey’s membership to the European Union and defends (passive) secularist, democratic regime. This paper analyses the transformation of these important social and political actors with regard to certain structural conditions, as well as the interactions between them.In April 2007, the international media covered Turkey for the protest meetings of more than a million people in three major cities, the military intervention to politics, and the abortive presidential election. According to several journalists and columnists, Turkey was experienc- ing another phase of the ongoing tension between the secularists and Islamists. Some major Turkish newspapers, such as Hürriyet, were asserting that the secularists finally achieved to bring together millions of opponents of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma (Justice and Development) (AK) Party. In addition to their dominance in military and judicial bureauc- racy, the secularists appeared to be maintaining the support of the majority of the people. The parliamentary elections that took place few months later, in July, revealed that the main- stream Turkish media’s presentation was misleading and the so-called secularists’ aspira- tions were unrealistic. The AK Party received 47 percent of the national votes, an unusual ratio for a multiparty system where there were 14 contesting parties. The main opposition, Cumhuriyet Halk (Republican People’s) Party (CHP), only received 21 percent of the votes, despite its alliance with the other leftist party. Both the national and international media’s misleading presentation of Turkish politics was not confined by the preferences of the vot- ers. Moreover, the media was primarily misleading with its use of the terms “Islamists” and “secularists.” What Turkey has witnessed for the last decade has not been a struggle between secularism and Islamism; but it has been a conflict between two types of secularism. As I elaborated else- where, the AK Party is not an Islamist party. It defends a particular understanding of secular- ism that differs from that of the CHP. Although several leaders of the AK Party historically belonged to an Islamist -Milli Görüş (National Outlook)- movement, they later experienced an ideational transformation and embraced a certain type of secularism that tolerates public visibility of religion. This transformation was not an isolated event, but part of a larger expe- rience that several other Islamic groups took part in. I argue that the AKP leaders’ interaction with the Gülen movement, in this regard, played an important role in the formation of the party’s new perspective toward secularism. In another article, I analyzed the transformation of the AK Party and Gülen movement with certain external (globalization process) and internal (the February 28 coup) conditions. In this essay, I will focus on the interaction between these two entities to explore their changing perspectives. I will first discuss the two different types of secularism that the Kemalists and conservatives defend in Turkey. Then, I will briefly summarize diverse discourses of the Milli Görüş and Gülen movements. Finally, I will examine the exchanges between the Gülen movement and the AK Party with regard to their rethinking of Islamism and secularism.