Early Cambrian volcanic rocks of the Posht-e Badam tectonic block in Central Iran which is hydrothermally altered to green color rocks, hosts the Kiruna-type Iron Oxide-Apatite (IOA) mineralization in Anomaly 10 of Sechahun deposit. Geochemically, these volcanic rocks are classified as high-potassium calc-alkaline and mainly consist of rhyolite and trachyandesite. These rocks are important for ...

Albitite-type uranium deposits are widely distributed, usually of low grade (<1% U3O8), but are often large and collectively contain over 1 million tonnes of U3O8. Uranium is hosted in a wide range of metamorphic lithologies, whose only common characteristic is that they have been extensively mylonitised. Ore minerals are disseminated and rarely in megascopic veins, within and adjacent to albit...

P mparison with Brazilian populations. The genotypes RHCE*Ee, K ore prevalent in the population from the state of Santa Catarina i *Cc, RHCE*cc, RHCE*ee, FY*01/FY*02, FY*01/FY*02.N01, FY*02/FY*02, F ypes were more common in the population from the state of S erved in the comparison with Brazilian populations. The genot JK*02/02 were more prevalent in the population from the state of S ddition, ...

In the search for opportunities to decrease operational costs in iron ore mining, waste disposal by conveyor belt has been considered as an alternative. In this work, this form of waste dump is investigated by means of the construction of a test pile and the assessment of geotechnical characteristics such as shear strength and in situ densities. Results were compared with two other dumps built ...

● 1-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 78%. ● 5-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 33%. ● 10-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 9%. ● Survival comparable or worse than patients with many types of cancer. ● Increasing number of incident patients with worse survival (median age, 64.5 years for incident patients in US Renal Data System [USRDS] Annual Data Report 2003). ● Younger pat...

The practice of manganese ferroalloy smelting has traditionally been based on utilising oxide ores which typically contain a high level of manganese. This preference for oxides has even been extended to the modification of natural carbonates into nodulized oxides. However smelting practices developed over the past 30 years have created a market for natural manganese carbonate ores, driven in pa...

We study practical order-revealing encryption (ORE) with a well-defined leakage profile (the information revealed about the plaintexts from their ciphertexts), a direction recently initiated by Chenette, Lewi, Weis, and Wu (CLWW). ORE, which allows public comparison of plaintext order via their ciphertexts, is a useful tool in the design of secure outsourced database systems. We first show a ge...

MCP1 is upregulated by various stimuli, including LPS, high glucose, and hyperosmolality. However, the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of the MCP1 gene under hyperosmolar conditions are poorly understood. Treatment of NRK52E cells with NaCl or mannitol resulted in significant elevation of MCP1 mRNA and protein in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Treatment with a p38MAPK inh...

The process of developing an iron ore mine from exploration data through to informed mining decisions provides an example of a Complex Adaptive System. The detailed composition of an ore body (expressed as a “block model” of regularly spaced rectangular blocks) has to be estimated from initially sparse exploration data, based upon a limited number of drill holes. As planning proceeds, the data ...