23 October 2011 Van (Turkey) earthquake

An earthquake of Mw7.2 on 23 October 2011 occurred in the Van region of Eastern Turkey. The main shock and long series aftershocks caused significant damage and claimed 644 lives. The particular features and the lessons learned are covered.     

Modal selection in oscillator model equations with two-mode nonresonant coupling

We present a revised criterion for the double-mode pulsation in oscillator model equations with two-mode nonresonant coupling. By applying the criterion, we demonstrate that there are four cases, namely, mode 0-only, mode 1-only, either-or, and double-mode ones on limiting amplitude space. We also show that models with evolutionary masses are preferable for double-mode pulsations. Moreover, we study numerically modal selection properties of the oscillator model equations corresponding to various limiting amplitudes. The results show the suggested criterion to be useful for prediction of modal selection properties. Some examples of the phase-locking behaviour are also shown.     

A model oscillator of irregular stellar variability

We have studied a set of equations with nonlinear and nonadiabatic terms which describes a simple oscillator. The equations have only one fixed point located at the origin. It is found that the oscillator shows the sequence of the period-doubling for the change of a parameter and results in chaotic oscillation. We illustrated the behaviour of the oscillator for several set of parameters and showed that the equations of the oscillator can be reduced to the one-zone model of stellar pulsation with simple nonlinear terms. It is suggested that the stellar irregular variability is resulted from the chaotic motion due to the nonlinear effect.     

地勘单位承办企业工作的几点经验

为提高市场竞争力,根据自身的特点,认真研究市场信息,抓准项目,是地勘单位承办 企业的基础。工作中重视人力资源的开发和合理配置,建立切实可行的管理制度,在管理工作中 综合运用多种激励机制,就可使企业在激烈的市场竞争中立于不败之地。     

Probabilistic long-term reservoir operation employing copulas and implicit stochastic optimization

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment - This paper explores and combines implicit stochastic optimization (ISO) with copula functions to simulate long-term operating policies for a...     

Spatial distribution of climatic conditions from the Middle Eocene to Late Miocene based on palynoflora in Central,Eastern and Western Anatolia

The continental climatic evolution of Anatolia has been reconstructed quantitatively for the last 45 million years using the coexistence approach. Although there were some regional effects, the Anatolian Cenozoic continental climate record correlated with the European climatic condition and the global oxygen isotope record from marine environments. From middle Eocene to late Miocene, continental warming in Anatolia was pronounced for inferred winter temperature and mean annual temperature as in Europe. Generally, the palaeoclimatic property of Anatolia resembles the European climatic changing and marine temperature changing based on the oxygen isotope record; however, climatic values of the terrestrial area in Anatolia are higher from Lutetian to Aquitanian and these values are lower than European values from Aquitanian to Tortonian. Correspondingly, Cenozoic climatic cooling in Anatolia is directly associated with an increase of seasonality, palaeogeographic position and terrestrial condition. Furthermore, mean annual precipitation values of Anatolia remained relatively stable during the Eocene–Oligocene; however, these values indicated changing throughout middle–late Miocene. Moreover, in this study, decline of abundance and variables for the mangrove and back mangrove palaeocommunities during the last 45 million years is recorded because of the decreasing of humidity, temperature and increasing of terrestrial condition.     

A Quartz-Carbonate Gold Deposit in North Margin of Sino-Korean Archean Craton

1. IntroductionThe gold deposits in Archean greenstone belts are the most important gold resources in the world, and their wall rocks are low-grade metamorphic greenstones (greenschist facies or sub-greenschist facies metamorphism). The ore bodies always appear very large in scale. The Sino-Korean Archean craton was not so stable as in Canada, South Africa, Australia and Russia, and its Archean greenstone belts are much smaller and with high grade metamorphism, where the gold deposits are …