Observational manifestations of the first protogalaxies in the 21 cm line

The absorption properties of the first low-mass protogalaxies (mini-halos) forming at high redshifts in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen are considered. The absorption properties of these protogalaxies depend strongly on both their mass and evolutionary status. The optical depths in the line reach ∼0.1–0.2 for small impact parameters of the line of sight. As a protogalaxy is compressed, the influence of gas accretion can be seen, manifest as a non-monotonic frequency dependence of the optical depth. The absorption characteristics in the 21-cm line are determined by the thermal and dynamical evolution of the gas in the protogalaxies. Since the theoretical line width in the observer’s rest frame is 1–6 kHz and the expected distance between lines 8.4 kHz, then the lines from low mass protogalaxies can be resolved using low frequency interferometers that exist or are being constructed.     

硬岩隧道高压气体膨胀破岩开挖试验

为了解决传统钻爆法在隧道工程中振动大的问题,引入一种新型破岩技术--高压气体膨胀破岩技术。通过在某隧道掌子面采用该技术进行现场试验,获得该技术试验时的振动速度值和试验后的破岩效果,将获得的结果与传统钻爆法得到的相应结果进行对比分析,结果表明,高压气体膨胀破岩技术在施工时产生的振动比钻爆法小,证明了将该技术应用在隧道工程中是可行的,解决了该隧道采用钻爆法施工振动风险大的问题,为类似工程破岩提供了一种新途径。     

Evolution of the first supernovae in protogalaxies: Dynamics of mixing of heavy elements

The paper considers the evolution of the supernova envelopes produced by Population III stars with masses ofM _* ?? 25?C200M _?? located in non-rotating protogalaxies with masses of M ?? 10⁷ M _?? at redshifts z = 12, with dark-matter density profiles in the form of modified isothermal spheres. The supernova explosion occurs in the ionization zone formed by a single parent star. The properties of the distribution of heavy elements (metals) produced by the parent star are investigated, as well as the efficiency with which they are mixed with the primordial gas in the supernova envelope. In supernovae with high energies (E ? 5 × 10⁵² erg), an appreciable fraction of the gas can be ejected from the protogalaxy, but nearly all the heavy elements remain in the protogalaxy. In explosions with lower energies (E ? 3 × 10⁵² erg), essentially no gas and heavy elements are lost from the protogalaxy: during the first one to threemillion years, the gas and heavy elements are actively carried from the central region of the protogalaxy (r ?? 0.1r _v , where r _v is the virial radius of the protogalaxy), but an appreciable fraction of the mass of metals subsequently returns when the hot cavity cools and the envelope collapses. Supernovae with high energies (E ? 5 × 10⁵² erg) are characterized by a very low efficiency of mixing of metals; their heavy elements are located in the small volume occupied by the disrupted envelope (in a volume comparable with that of the entire envelope), with most of the metals remaining inside the hot, rarified cavity of the envelope. At the same time, the efficiency of mixing of heavy elements in less energetic supernovae (E ? 3 × 10⁵² erg) is appreciably higher. This comes about due to the disruption of the hot cavity during the collapse of the supernova envelope. However, even in this case, a clear spatial separation of regions enriched and not enriched in metals is visible. During the collapse of the supernova envelope, the metallicity of the gas is appreciably higher in the central region ([Z] ?? ?1 to 0) than at the periphery ([Z] ?? ?2 to ?4) of the protogalaxy; most of the enriched gas has metallicities [Z] ?? ?3.5 to ?2.5. The masses of enriched fragments of the supernova envelope remain appreciably lower than the Jeans mass, except in regions at the center of the protogalaxy upon which the surrounding enriched gas is efficiently accreted. Consequently, the birth of stars with metallicities close to those characteristic of present-day Galactic stars is very probable in the central region of the protogalaxy.     

基于煤矿\

为了识别钻孔间距对煤层瓦斯抽采的影响及如何实现高效抽采,基于流固耦合模型,建立三维几何模型,使其更接近现场实际,借助COMSOL软件模拟某煤矿钻孔不同间距的瓦斯抽采过程,利用瓦斯压力为0.74 MPa等压面三维立体图使有效抽采区域可视化,通过计算有效抽采区域体积大小,量化分析钻孔间距对抽采效果的影响。结果表明：单一钻孔抽采120 d时,有效抽采半径约为1.5 m;当布置多个钻孔且钻孔间距d为5 m,抽采120 d时,瓦斯压力为0.74 MPa的等压面围绕所有钻孔近似呈圆柱状但向内部凹陷（即出现空白带）;钻孔间距d为2.1、3、4、5、6 m时,有效抽采区域体积V的大小顺序随着时间的增长而改变,抽采120 d时,V_{d=5 m}>V_{d=4 m}>V_{d=3 m}>V_{d=2.1 m}>V_{d=6 m}。综合分析瓦斯压力等压面三维立体图和有效抽采区域体积的大小顺序,确定该矿钻孔的较优间距为4 m。研究提出的以有效抽采半径、叠加效应、三维瓦斯压力等压面的形状及有效抽采区域体积大小为指标的钻孔间距数值计算考察方法,可为煤矿井下钻孔间距优化布置提供参考。     

矿石崩落块度的三维建模技术及块度预测

以金川集团Ⅲ矿区为研究对象,根据现场不连续面参数调查结果,利用Monte Carlo模拟方法,产生不连续面综合数据库。然后确定构成岩块的节理面数量、建立三维坐标系统中节理面方程、确定构成岩块的顶点和每个顶点的坐标,并计算岩块的体积、判别岩块的形状特征,从而对矿石崩落块度进行预测。矿石的崩落块度直接影响采场的底部结构设计、出矿设备的选择、二次破碎、炸药消耗的估算等。经过模拟得出的崩落块度预测结果为: 等效尺寸大于0.9 m的块体筛上累积体积百分比为38.2 %,大于1.3 m的块体筛上累积体积百分比为17.2 %。     

Multiple blast-hole stresses and measured fragmentation

A wave superposition code was developed to calculate stresses explosivley induced by long, multiple blast holes within a three dimensional rock mass. Computed stresses were found to correlate with measured fragmentation from fourteen cases in coal cyclotherm geology when actual, rather than planned, initiation times were modelled.     

Bedload abrasion and the in situ fragmentation of bivalve shells

The aim of this study was to determine how Unio bivalve shells fragment within the channel of the Sakmara River (southern Urals, Russia). The Sakmara River has an abundant bivalve population and a highly variable flow regime which, at low flow, allowed much of the channel bed to be examined. A large data set of 1013 shells (Unio sp.) was examined and these were shown to have consistent patterns of orientation, aspect, shell abrasion, perforation and fracture. The close spatial relationship between areas of shell abrasion, shell perforation and shell fracture showed that they form part of a continuum whereby areas of abrasion evolve into perforations and perforations coalesce and enlarge into fractures. The mechanism of shell damage proposed is one of abrasion in place, whereby the shell remains stationary on the surface of the point bar and is impacted by bedload. Underpinning this process are the hydrodynamic properties of the bivalve shell, with consistency in the orientation and aspect of the valve in a flowing current producing consistency in the distribution of damage on the shell surface. Valves preferentially lie in a convex‐up position and orientate in the flow such that the umbo faces upstream. The elevated, upstream‐facing umbo region is exposed to particle impact and is the first to be abraded and perforated. The vulnerability of the umbo to perforation is greatly increased by the thinness of the shell at the umbo cavity. The in situ abrasion process is enhanced by the development of an armoured gravel bed which restricts valve mobility and maintains shells within the abrasion zone at the sediment–water interface. The in situ abrasion process shows that broken shells are not a reliable indicator of long distance transport. The study also raises the issue that tumbling barrel experiments, which are generally used to simulate shell abrasion, will not replicate the type of directionally focused sand‐blasting which appears to be the principal cause of shell fragmentation in the Sakmara River.     

Independence,dependence and fragmentation in the South Pacific

Since the 1960s most island groups of the South Pacific have achieved independence and many new nations have been established; only the very smallest islands remain colonies. Most of the small nations are extremely small yet secession movements in many areas have resulted in fragmentation producing the break-up of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and the disintegration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. This has emphasized the distinctive characteristics of the Pacific nations: their small size (in population and in area) and limited natural resources, their isolation from each other and from markets and fragmentation within multiple island countries. The extension of outside interests into the Pacific has brought rapid economic changes, the emergence of cash cropping and the decline of subsistence agriculture, increased dependence on imports (especially food, resulting in some nutritional problems) and rapid urbanization, producing growing dependence and inequality which regional ties between the Pacific nations have not been able to overcome. Outmigration from the smallest nations to USA and New Zealand is likely to be maintained and the unusual characteristics of these small island nations suggest that strategies of development that appear viable elsewhere have little chance of success in the Pacific.     

Characterization of underground rock fragmentation

Summary This paper focuses on the methodology and techniques developed to characterize the rock fragments produced by blasting in an underground environment. This work formed part of an integrated approach to the optimization of blasting design at a Canadian mine. Details are given of the photographic and image analysis techniques adopted, together with data from a program of full scale, study blasts in the mine. Features of the observed fragmentation are reviewed which related to controlled variation in the blast designs, together with other factors which were observed both to influence fragmentation characteristics and to interact with loading equipment productivity.     

Unbundled security services and urban fragmentation in post-apartheid Johannesburg

The paper questions the pluralization of policing devices and security agents across the Johannesburg metropolitan area, which has been accelerated and actually encouraged by public policies in the post-apartheid period. Are the various security initiatives and networks coordinated in a metropolitan security “system” – the regulation of which would need to be analysed – or does their development lead to urban fragmentation? Based on an analysis of an extensive documentation of security services, as well as a series of interviews with involved (street level) actors, different dimensions of potential urban fragmentation linked to security are examined: spatial fragmentation, with the development of road closures and their contestation; financial fragmentation, emblematised by business improvement districts encouraged by the municipality; and political fragmentation, as reflected by the analysis of the broader security policy framework. The paper argues that although the integrated vision of Johannesburg’s policing creates the basis for redistribution of resources and forms of policing regulation at a metropolitan level (in contrast with the apartheid period), the choice of neo-liberal urban policies, of which security strategies form a part, tends to encourage policing fragmentation, or in other words, the differential and unequal provision of security services according to place, income and race.     

Contribution to mechanism of pyroclastic fragmentation

The argument that Verhoogan's water vapor pressure mechanism is the cause of all explosive reactions is rejected. It is demonstrated that the explosive type of eruption is probably consequent upon the release of energy by chain reactions involving hydrogen, the gaseous halogens, carbon monoxide, etc. It is also suggested that the upper limits for the liberated energy is of the order of 4,500 kg/cm². Explosions occur where the concentration of the gaseous phase of a magma-lava system is greatest; such concentrations, apparently, occur at depths considerably less than 1 km below the volcanic cone. — M.E. Burgunker     

Strength,fragmentation and fractal properties of mixed flaws

Experiments on Portland cement samples containing mixed flaws are conducted to investigate the strength, fragmentation and fractal properties. Flaw geometry is a new combination of two edge-notched flaws and an imbedded flaw, which is different from those in the previous studies, where parallel or coplanar flaws are used. The physical implications of the shear-box test applied to result to rock slopes are studied. The physical and analytical fragmentation characteristics of preflawed samples are analyzed through the sieve test and fractal theory, respectively. Three different patterns of tensile cracks and shear cracks are observed. A sliding crack model is presented to elucidate the brittle failure flaws. In all of the cases of the shear-box tests, the coalescence is produced by the linkage of shear cracks, and two types of coalescence (Type C1 and Type C2) have been classified, which tend to confirm the observations from the numerical model and field of jointed rock slopes. The shear strength is a function of the flaw geometry and the shear–normal stress ratio. The result of sieve tests indicates that the fragment size distribution of fragments has the fractal property, providing a physical understanding of the fragmentation mechanism. The fragments under the shear-box test have fractal dimensions between 2.2 and 2.6, which are larger than those under the compression test but similar to those in the fault cores. The fragmentation in the case of Type C2 has a smaller fractal dimension, corresponding to a larger shear strength.     

Calibration of optical digital fragmentation measuring systems

Optical granulometry systems like WipFrag are required to measure fragments in situ. That is to say, the fragments are in piles where sorting takes place, where fragments are partially overlapped, and where fines may not be seen because they fall in and behind the coarser fragments, or where the fines are simply too small to be seen. As a result, optical systems tend typically to overestimate the size of the distribution, and underestimate the variability of the distribution. The wider the size distribution being measured, the more severe the problem is. This paper presents the results of a study that suggests that these systematic errors can be significantly reduced by calibration.     

Finite element simulation of time dependent fracture and fragmentation processes in rock blasting

Two constitutive models for the simulation of fracture and fragmentation processes in rapidly loaded rocks are studied. The models were included in a wave propagation finite element code. The results obtained from the two models were compared by a study of the intensity and extent of fracturing obtained from two different configurations of explosive charge and reflecting surfaces in a plane strain problem. The evolution of the time dependent fracture pattern and fragmentation process is also presented.     

钻井泥浆冷却技术发展现状与新型泥浆冷却系统的研究

在中高温地热钻井、深部油气钻井、冻土带钻井及天然气水合物钻井中,钻井泥浆冷却技术是钻井工艺中的关键技术之一。适当的井内循环泥浆温度是钻井作业安全快速进行的保证,根据泥浆冷却冷源获得方式的不同,将钻井泥浆冷却技术分为高温泥浆冷却技术和低温泥浆冷却技术。分别论述了在中高温地热钻井和深部油气钻井中采用的高温泥浆冷却技术,以及在冻土带和天然气水合物钻井中采用的低温泥浆冷却技术,并针对我国在低温泥浆冷却技术领域的现状,介绍了一种新型钻井泥浆冷却系统。     

Cooling rates of seven hexahedrites

Cooling rates for seven hexahedrites, (Uwet, Coahuila, Walker County, Lombard, Quillagua, Hex River Mountains and Tocopilla) have been determined using a ternary diffusion controlled phase growth analysis developed by the authors. The model is applied to the exsolution and growth of plate phosphides in the kamacite phase of hexahedrites during cooling of the meteorite in its parent body. The effects of cooling rate, bulk composition, nucleation temperature and diffusion field length are considered. A unique cooling rate was determined by comparing the Ni content and width of several phosphides in a given hexahedrite to computer-generated curves of Ni content vs phosphide width. Six hexahedrites have cooling rates of approximately 2°C/10⁶yr. One hexahedrite, Coahuila, has a somewhat higher cooling rate of 10°C/10⁶ yr. These cooling rates fall within the range calculated by an independent method for octahedrites. The cooling rate analysis indicates that the hexahedrites, except for one possible exception, were formed in or close to the core of a parent body ~ 150 km in radius.     

Gated communities and urban fragmentation in Latin America: the Brazilian experience

Since the mid-1970s, gated housing areas of the privileged have been spreading in Latin American cities. They have to be seen as a visible consequence of the deepening social disparities within Latin American societies and the resulting fragmentation of urban space. Condomínios fechados (Brazil) or barrios cerrados (Argentina) can be typified following different criteria, such as formation, location, size, fittings, construction typology, as well as social structure. Three groups of actors influence the process of their expansion: the real estate companies, for which the new form of living offers an attractive market segment, the target groups, whose increasing expectations regarding security and living comfort need to be met, and the public authorities, who have to find adequate responses concerning the further orientation of urban development. Based on case studies from Brazil, the paper will discuss the different phases of gated community expansion and the reasons why this is happening. Their internal structure and differentiation, as well as consequences for socio-spatial development and urban planning will also be dealt with.     

高速远程崩滑动力学的研究现状及发展趋势

高速远程滑坡具有体积大、速度高、运动距离远等特点,严重威胁着山区居民生命安全和重大工程建设。滑坡的碎屑化作用是滑坡高速运动过程中非常普遍且十分重要的现象,是滑体运动与堆积过程中特殊内部结构形成的前提条件,也被认为是可能促进高速远程滑坡超强流动性的物理力学机理。尽管滑坡碎屑化机制已经成为滑坡动力学机理研究的热点科学问题,然而对于滑坡碎屑化过程是促进滑坡运动还是阻碍滑坡运动,目前仍存在极大的争议,争议的焦点在于岩石破碎本身是耗能过程,如何能促进滑坡整体的远程运动？本文首先详细总结高速远程滑坡碎屑化作用的沉积学特征,包括反粒序、拼贴构造和局部剪切带等碎屑化堆积结构特征方面的研究,论述这些碎屑化沉积结构对于滑坡动力学的指示;其次,讨论与分析了滑坡碎屑化过程的影响因素、碎屑化过程的减阻机制研究进展;最后,归纳并阐述了高速远程滑坡动力破碎耗能和滑坡减阻这一争议性问题,提出今后高速远程滑坡碎屑化运动机理研究所面临的关键科学问题。     

Wetland conservation: Change and fragmentation in Trinidad’s protected areas

Conservation efforts often neglect the importance of monitoring of protected areas, which is key to adaptively managing dynamic landscapes. In many developing countries, like Trinidad, protected areas are set aside as a result of an agreement with an international conservation organization, often resulting in inadequate planning and monitoring of the protected area. Monitoring of protected areas allows for an examination of the conservation scheme implemented and enables improved conservation decisions to be made. The research presented provides an example of the use of technology in monitoring conservation strategies in two protected wetlands, Caroni and Nariva, in Trinidad. Remote sensing and fragmentation analyses are used to quantify land cover change within these two protected wetlands. Results show that the classification of Caroni immediately identifies a shift towards anthropogenic land cover types, suggesting an increase in human activity within the park. This finding is further supported by the continuous measures used, such as decreases in mean NDVI and greenness values suggesting a decrease in the amount or health of the vegetation. While the classification of Nariva suggests a return to natural land covers, the continuous measures of land cover change indicate the opposite. Land cover change analyses are limited in Trinidad and in the Caribbean in general, partly due to satellite data availability, thus this research presents remote sensing and landscape fragmentation analyses as new tools for monitoring land cover change and conservation effectiveness in Trinidad.