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Observations obtained in the last years challenged the widespread notion that rotation-powered neutron stars are steady X-ray emitters. Besides a few allegedly rotation-powered neutron stars that showed ‘magnetar-like’ variability, a particularly interesting case is that of PSR B0943+10. Recent observations have shown that this pulsar, well studied in the radio band where it alternates between a bright and a quiescent mode, displays significant X-ray variations, anticorrelated in flux with the radio emission. The study of such synchronous radio/X-ray mode switching opens a new window to investigate the processes responsible for the pulsar radio and high-energy emission. Here we review the main X-ray properties of PSR B0943+10 derived from recent coordinated X-ray and radio observations. 相似文献
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Michela Izzo Pietro Patrizio Ciro Aucelli Yudith Javier Caridad Pérez Carmen Maria Rosskopf 《Natural Hazards》2010,53(1):139-158
In the period between the end of October and the beginning of November 2007, the Dominican Republic was hit by the tropical
storm Noel, then turned into hurricane in its movement toward the Californian coasts. The passage of Noel was accompanied
by huge precipitation especially in the south-western part of the country. In some areas, the rainfall registered in 6 days
exceeded 700 mm, i.e., more than two-thirds of the mean annual precipitation. The return periods calculated for this rainfall
event vary greatly from region to region: while they locally reach 200 years, such as in San José de Ocoa (50 km west of Santo
Domingo), in other areas, as for instance in the territory of the capital Santo Domingo, return periods do not exceed 20 years.
The tropical storm caused huge damage both in terms of human victims and economic losses, related to diffused inundations
and landslide phenomena, which may be attributed only partially to the exceptionality of the event. As a matter of fact, in
many regions, the inadequate answer of the territory—widely characterized by serious problems of land degradation and an almost
complete lack of territorial planning—appears to be the major responsible for the occurred negative effects. The impact assessment,
based on the calculation of an Impact Index, confirms this statement. 相似文献
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Distribution and population structure of deep‐dwelling red coral in the Northwest Mediterranean 下载免费PDF全文
Michela Angiolillo Andrea Gori Simonepietro Canese Marzia Bo Cristina Priori Giorgio Bavestrello Eva Salvati Fabrizio Erra Michael Greenacre Giovanni Santangelo 《Marine Ecology》2016,37(2):294-310
Commercially harvested since ancient times, the highly valuable red coral Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758) is an octocoral endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent Eastern Atlantic Ocean, where it occurs on rocky bottoms over a wide bathymetric range. Current knowledge is restricted to its shallow populations (15–50 m depth), with comparably little attention given to the deeper populations (50–200 m) that are nowadays the main target of exploitation. In this study, red coral distribution and population structure were assessed in three historically exploited areas (Amalfi, Ischia Island and Elba Island) in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea) between 50 and 130 m depth by means of ROV during a cruise carried out in the summer of 2010. Red coral populations showed a maximum patch frequency of 0.20 ± 0.04 SD patches·m?1 and a density ranging between 28 and 204 colonies·m?2, with a fairly continuous bathymetric distribution. The highest red coral densities in the investigated areas were found on cliffs and boulders mainly exposed to the east, at the greatest depth, and characterized by medium percentage sediment cover. The study populations contained a high percentage (46% on average) of harvestable colonies (>7 mm basal diameter). Moreover, some colonies with fifth‐order branches were also observed, highlighting the probable older age of some components of these populations. The Ischia population showed the highest colony occupancy, density and size, suggesting a better conservation status than the populations at the other study locations. These results indicate that deep dwelling red coral populations in non‐stressed or less‐harvested areas may diverge from the inverse size‐density relationship previously observed in red coral populations with increasing depth. 相似文献
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Emphasis has been given to a number of aspects which characterise technological development in today's economic systems and
which have an impact on the working environment and on gender differences. Technological change is leading to a strong divide
between knowledge “producers” and “users”. The possibility of access to one or both knowledge systems indicates the extent
of women's participation in the economic and spatial transformations brought about by the new technologies. This research
aims to analyse the development of new technologies and the presence of the female workforce in the field of new knowledge
generation, and also to verify gender-related conditions in learning and using new technologies. In particular, an analysis
has been carried out of the empirical case study of Pisa, a point of reference for comparisons with other Italian and European
cases. The research focuses on: the examination of women's capabilities in the field of new technologies through the analysis
of University training courses; the analysis of women's presence and status among the university staff, especially in science
and technology; a detailed survey of female employment in innovative sectors. The results of the research emphasise the gender
perspectives of inclusion — as regards the application of technologies — and exclusion — as regards the generation of knowledge
— of women in or from new technologies. At the same time, the research stresses the growth of women's roles in this sector
during recent years and, by reconstructing life histories, underlines the conditions and difficulties that have been met by
women entering these new types of employment.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Joaquín?Martínez-MinayaEmail authorView authors OrcID profile Michela?Cameletti David?Conesa Maria?Grazia?Pennino 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2018,32(11):3227-3244
The use of complex statistical models has recently increased substantially in the context of species distribution behavior. This complexity has made the inferential and predictive processes challenging to perform. The Bayesian approach has become a good option to deal with these models due to the ease with which prior information can be incorporated along with the fact that it provides a more realistic and accurate estimation of uncertainty. In this paper, we first review the sources of information and different approaches (frequentist and Bayesian) to model the distribution of a species. We also discuss the Integrated Nested Laplace approximation as a tool with which to obtain marginal posterior distributions of the parameters involved in these models. We finally discuss some important statistical issues that arise when researchers use species data: the presence of a temporal effect (presenting different spatial and spatio-temporal structures), preferential sampling, spatial misalignment, non-stationarity, imperfect detection, and the excess of zeros. 相似文献
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Anthony Stefanidis Peggy Agouris Charalambos Georgiadis Michela Bertolotto James D. Carswell 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(8):749-772
In this paper we extend our previous work on shape-based queries to support queries on configurations of image objects. Here we consider spatial reasoning, especially directional and metric object relationships. Existing models for spatial reasoning tend to rely on pre-identified cardinal directions and minimal scale variations, assumptions that cannot be considered as given in our image applications, where orientations and scale may vary substantially, and are often unknown. Accordingly, we have developed the method of varying baselines to identify similarities in direction and distance relations. Our method allows us to evaluate directional similarities without a priori knowledge of cardinal directions, and to compare distance relations even when query scene and database content differ in scale by unknown amounts. We use our method to evaluate similarity between a user-defined query scene and object configurations. Here we present this new method, and discuss its role within a broader image retrieval framework. 相似文献
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Acidification in European mountain lake districts: A regional assessment of critical load exceedance 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Michela Garau Maria Grazia Badas Simone Ferrari Alessandro Seoni Giorgio Querzoli 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2018,167(1):123-143
We experimentally investigate the effect of a typical building covering: the gable roof, on the flow and air exchange in urban canyons. In general, the morphology of the urban canopy is very varied and complex, depending on a large number of factors, such as building arrangement, or the morphology of the terrain. Therefore we focus on a simple, prototypal shape, the two-dimensional canyon, with the aim of elucidating some fundamental phenomena driving the street-canyon ventilation. Experiments are performed in a water channel, over an array of identical prismatic obstacles representing an idealized urban canopy. The aspect ratio, i.e. canyon-width to building-height ratio, ranges from 1 to 6. Gable roof buildings with 1:1 pitch are compared with flat roofed buildings. Velocity is measured using a particle-image-velocimetry technique with flow dynamics discussed in terms of mean flow and second- and third-order statistical moments of the velocity. The ventilation is interpreted by means of a simple well-mixed box model and the outflow rate and mean residence time are computed. Results show that gable roofs tend to delay the transition from the skimming-flow to the wake-interference regime and promote the development of a deeper and more turbulent roughness layer. The presence of a gable roof significantly increases the momentum flux, especially for high packing density. The air exchange is improved compared to the flat roof buildings, and the beneficial effect is more significant for narrow canyons. Accordingly, for unit aspect ratio gable roofs reduce the mean residence time by a factor of 0.37 compared to flat roofs, whereas the decrease is only by a factor of 0.9 at the largest aspect ratio. Data analysis indicates that, for flat roof buildings, the mean residence time increases by 30% when the aspect ratio is decreased from 6 to 2, whereas this parameter is only weakly dependent on aspect ratio in the case of gable roofs. 相似文献
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Biochemical markers and ovarian histology were investigated in prespawning females of grass goby (Zosterisessor ophiocephalus) and grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) collected, respectively, in late spring and summer 2000 in four sites of a highly eutrophic brackish ecosystem of central Italy, the Orbetello Lagoon. Exposure to chlorinated and aromatic hydrocarbons was evaluated in fish livers by the somatic liver index (SLI) and by measuring 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) and benzo(a)pyrene monooxygenase (BaPMO) activities. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity was measured in brain and gills to evaluate exposure to organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates (CBs). The gonad somatic index (GSI) was used to confirm ovarian maturation and ovarian histology was investigated as a potential biomarker for environmental effects. Samples from the Western Basin, near a sewage treatment plant (STP) off the town of Orbetello, showed higher SLI values and higher EROD and BaPMO activities than those collected from the Ansedonia Canal (AC) in the Eastern Basin (p<0.05) and respect to those from reference sites: the Albegna River (AR) Delta for grass goby and the Nassa Canal (NC), connected with the sea, for grey mullet both located in the Western Basin as well. Low brain AChE activity was observed in both species from the reference sites (AR and NC) in association with the presence of anomalies in developing oocytes: unexpectedly small in grass goby and irregular disintegrated cytoplasm in grey mullet. The results indicate that the Western Basin is more polluted than the Eastern Basin particularly in the Orbetello where the sewage treatment plant may be a source of aromatic and chlorinated compounds while the Albegna River and the Nassa Canal may be sources of OPs and CBs. 相似文献
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Hindcast of oil-spill pollution during the Lebanon crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean, July-August 2006 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Coppini G De Dominicis M Zodiatis G Lardner R Pinardi N Santoleri R Colella S Bignami F Hayes DR Soloviev D Georgiou G Kallos G 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(1):140-153
MOON (Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network http://www.moon-oceanforecasting.eu) provides near-real-time information on oil-spill detection (ocean color and SAR) and predictions [ocean forecasts (MFS and CYCOFOS) and oil-spill predictions (MEDSLIK)]. We employ this system to study the Lebanese oil-pollution crisis in summer 2006 and thus to assist regional and local decision makers in Europe, regionally and locally. The MEDSLIK oil-spill predictions obtained using CYCOFOS high-resolution ocean fields are compared with those obtained using lower-resolution MFS hydrodynamics, and both are validated against satellite observations. The predicted beached oil distributions along the Lebanese and Syrian coasts are compared with in situ observations.The oil-spill predictions are able to simulate the northward movement of the oil spill, with the CYCOFOS predictions being in better agreement with satellite observations. Among the free MEDSLIK parameters tested in the sensitivity experiments, the drift factor appears to be the most relevant to improve the quality of the results. 相似文献