The planned facility for antiproton and ion research FAIR at GSI will accelerate high intensity beams from protons to Uranium ions in the energy range of 100 MeV/u to 30 GeV/u. In the transport lines between the synchrotrons and in front of production targets precise alignment is required. Conventional intercepting diagnostics will melt due to the beam energy deposition. For transverse profile ...

The Sijiaying iron deposit is located in the Eastern Hebei area of southern section northern margin North China Craton (NCC) and largest single China. contains many banded formations (BIFs) was proven to have more than 3 million tons high-grade ore resources. This study carried out geochemistry zircon U–Pb analysis normal-grade ore, wall rock (biotite–leptynite, chlorite–sericite schist) discus...

In the last five years, biologically inspired features (BIF) always held the state-of-the-art results for human age estimation from face images. Recently, researchers mainly put their focuses on the regression step after feature extraction, such as support vector regression (SVR), partial least squares (PLS), canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and so on. In this paper, we apply convolutional ...

Figure 1. Wavelength-dependent light intensity at different water depths (indicated by numbers assigned to contour lines). Light intensity is given in percent of surface light intensity, where 100% equals ~30,000 lux (~600 mmol quanta m22 s21), estimated to be 24 h average expected for light intensity on horizontal surface on clear summer day (Thimijan and Heins, 1983). Contour lines were deriv...

The effects of synthetic goethite (α-FeOOH) used as the catalyst in catalytic ozonation for the degradation of disinfection by-product (DBP) precursors are investigated. A biofiltration column applied following the catalytic ozonation process is used to evaluate the efficiency of removing DBP precursors via biotreatment. Ozone can rapidly react with aromatic compounds and oxidize organic compou...

Precambrian Banded Iron Formation (BIF) deposition was conventionally attributed to the precipitation of iron-oxides resulting from the abiotic reaction of ferrous iron (Fe(II)) with photosynthetically produced oxygen. Earliest traces of oxygen date from 2.7 Ga, thus raising questions as to what may have caused BIF precipitation before oxygenic photosynthesis evolved. The discovery of anoxygeni...

Abstract Stable isotope data from hypogene (i.e., below the line of weathering) iron oxides and gangue minerals BIF-hosted ore deposits in Australia, South Africa, Brazil have significantly assisted constraining different hydrothermal fluid sources flow models during upgrade BIF to ore. The δ 18 O values on paragenetic stages enrichment display a consistent decrease unenriched (4–9‰) as low −10...

This study examined the interaction between speech perception and lexical information among a group of 7-year-old children, of which 26 were poor readers and 36 were good readers. The children’s performance was examined on tasks assessing reading skill, phonological awareness, pseudoword repetition, and phoneme identification. Although good readers showed clearly defined categorical perception ...

AIMS The purpose of this study was to investigate the heat-shock response at molecular level in Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and their heat-tolerant derivatives and to characterize the changes that make the derivatives more robust in terms of heat stress. METHODS AND RESULTS The study strains were exposed for 2 h to a heat-shock treatment, Bif. anim...

Samples of Banded Iron Formation (BIF) with different quartz and hematite contents were deformed in axial compression experiments in a Griggs-type apparatus, at T = 900oC, P =1.5 GPa and strain rates of 10-5 and 10-6 s-1. The aim is to investigate the mineral phase that controls the rheology of multi-phase rocks and to determine the processes that control the observed rock strength. BIF samples...