For a Europe of flexible regions and not of region-states divided by ethnicity     

Fabrizio Eva 《GeoJournal》2000,52(2):295-301

Discussion of the future of Europe continues to be a marginal political issue, partly because of the resistance of states, on both the practical (bureaucratic) and conceptual levels, created by the government leaders and heads of state. In turn, the nation-states are challenged from within by independent and separatist movements that have laid bare the fundamental hypocrisy of rhetorical discussions of the principle regarding the self-determination of peoples; interfering with states (and their borders) has proven to be a taboo for Europe. The growing flexibility of the globalised economy should be paralleled by a growing flexibility in the conception of the division and political organisation of territory, but this is not the case. Further inflexibility stems from the socio-economic inequity that we accept in our daily lives as normal, in particular as regards inequality in the use and division of territory. Equality, or better egaliberté (equality and liberty), is a sufficiently dynamic and flexible concept to be taken as a point of reference in envisaging the society, Europe, and world of tomorrow. It is only through the concept of egaliberté that we can imagine a Europe based on relations between regions that are conceived and organised on multiple scales and not as region-nations conceived on the basis of ethnicity or in the name of supposed cultural homogeneity.  相似文献   

Macrofaunal communities of threatened subtidal maërl seabeds on Tenerife (Canary Islands, north-east Atlantic Ocean) in summer     

Rodrigo Rier  Juan Domingo Delgado  Myriam Rodr&#;guez  &#;scar Monterroso  Eva Ramos 《海洋学报(英文版)》2012,31(1):98-105

This study contributes with the first data on physical and taxonomical structure of macrofaunal assemblages of ma¨erl beds from the Canary Islands. Ma¨erl beds and Cymodocea nodosa meadows of the Canary Islands are considered biodiversity hot-spots in terms of taxonomic and functional biodiversity with a broad geographical and depth ranges. The authors have studied the structure of the macrofaunal assemblages on different habitat types (Cymodocea, Caulerpa, sabellid field, garden eel and ma¨erl beds). Samples were taken at a range of depths between 14 and 46 m. Correlations were performed among abiotic variables (granulometry, organic matter, nitrogen and phosphates) and the most abundant taxa. Similarity analysis was performed to explore the patchiness of seabeds at a local scale. Significant differences were found in macrofaunal assemblages among seabed types, with highest abundances and lowest biodiversity in sabellid fields, where the sabellid Bispira viola dominated. The polychaetes Aponuphis bilineata and Chone filicauda and the mollusc Turritella brochii were the most abundant taxa on ma¨erl beds. The mosaic of granulometric conditions would explain the associated macroinfaunal community structure and contribute to the creation of diversity on these relatively well preserved seabeds at a local scale.  相似文献   

Effects of water temperature on summer periphyton biomass in shallow lakes: a pan-European mesocosm experiment     

Aldoushy Mahdy  Sabine Hilt  Nur Filiz  Meryem Beklioğlu  Josef Hejzlar  Deniz Özkundakci  Eva Papastergiadou  Ulrike Scharfenberger  Michal Šorf  Kostas Stefanidis  Lea Tuvikene  Priit Zingel  Martin Søndergaard  Erik Jeppesen  Rita Adrian 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2015,77(3):499-510

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“Assessment of Ground Water Quality Improvements and Mass Discharge Reductions at Five In Situ Electrical Resistance Heating Remediation Sites,”     

Eva L. Davis 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》2014,34(1):27-28

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Analysis of uncertainties in regional climate model outputs over the Czech Republic     

Eva Holtanová  Jaroslava Kalvová  Jiří Mikšovský  Petr Pišoft  Martin Motl 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2010,54(3):513-528

In this study we present results of uncertainty analysis in eight regional climate model (RCM) outputs over the area of the Czech Republic. The RCM simulations come from the EU 5th Framework program project PRUDENCE (Prediction of Regional scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining EuropeaN Climate change risks and Effects). Using the analysis of variance we have found that the main source of uncertainty in projected changes of mean seasonal air temperature is the driving global climate model. In case of precipitation changes, the RCM is the largest source of uncertainty in all seasons except for the spring. With the second method, the Reliability Averaging method, we have focused on the uncertainty coming from the RCM itself. The results of both methods showed that the relative contribution of the regional climate model to the uncertainty of simulated mean seasonal air temperature and precipitation changes is largest in summer and smallest in winter.  相似文献   

The magnesiowüstite: iron equilibrium and its implications for the activity-composition relations of (Mg,Fe)<Subscript>2</Subscript>SiO<Subscript>4</Subscript> olivine solid solutions     

Hugh?St. C.?O'NeillEmail author  Mark?I.?Pownceby  Catherine?A.?McCammon 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2003,146(3):308-325

The chemical potential of oxygen (µO₂) in equilibrium with magnesiowüstite solid solution (Mg, Fe)O and metallic Fe has been determined by gas-mixing experiments at 1,473 K supplemented by solid-cell EMF experiments at lower temperatures. The results give:where IW refers to the Fe-"FeO" equilibrium. The previous work of Srecec et al. (1987) and Wiser and Wood (1991) agree well with this equation, as does that of Hahn and Muan (1962) when their reported compositions are corrected to a new calibration curve for lattice parameter vs. composition. The amount of Fe³⁺ in the magnesiowüstite solid solution in equilibrium with Fe metal was determined by Mössbauer spectroscopy on selected samples. These data were combined with literature data from gravimetric studies and fitted to a semi-empirical equation:These results were then used to reassess the activity-composition relations in (Mg, Fe)₂SiO₄ olivine solid solutions at 1,400 K, from the partitioning of Mg and Fe²⁺ between olivine and magnesiowüstite in equilibrium with metallic Fe experimentally determined by Wiser and Wood (1991). The olivine solid solution is constrained to be nearly symmetric with , with a probable uncertainty of less than ±0.5 kJ/mol (one standard deviation). The results also provide a useful constraint on the free energy of formation of Mg₂SiO₄.Editorial responsibility: B. Collins  相似文献   

Searching for the earliest record of life on Earth     

Hugh Rollinson 《Geology Today》2001,17(5):180-185

Are the remains of the Earth's earliest life now to be found in the hostile wilderness of Greenland?  相似文献   

A Farey story: the pioneer geologist John Farey (1766–1826)     

Trevor D. Ford  Hugh S. Torrens† 《Geology Today》2001,17(2):59-68

John Farey was a pioneer British geologist whose work has been too long overlooked. His only major geological publication was concealed in what appears to be a local report on the agriculture and minerals of Derbyshire, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture and published in three volumes between 1811 and 1817. Farey also published an extraordinary amount in periodicals and prepared a remarkable series of geological maps and cross-sections which were never published, although a number of hand-drawn copies circulated and undoubtedly influenced the rise of stratigraphical geology.  相似文献   

Quartz silt in mudrocks as a key to sequence stratigraphy (Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Late Jurassic, Wessex Basin, UK)     

Carolyn J. Williams  Stephen P. Hesselbo  Hugh C. Jenkyns  & Helen S. Morgans-Bell 《地学学报》2001,13(6):449-455

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Carbon monoxide in low-mass dwarf stars     

Hugh R. A. Jones  Yakiv Pavlenko  Serena Viti  R. J. Barber  Larisa A. Yakovina  David Pinfield  Jonathan Tennyson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,358(1):105-112

We compare high-resolution infrared observations of the CO 2–0 bands in the 2.297–2.310 μm region of M dwarfs and one L dwarf with theoretical expectations. We find a good match between the observational and synthetic spectra throughout the 2000–3500 K temperature regime investigated. None the less, for the 2500–3500 K temperature range, the temperatures that we derive from synthetic spectral fits are higher than expected from more empirical methods by several hundred kelvin. In order to reconcile our findings with the empirical temperature scale, it is necessary to invoke warming of the model atmosphere used to construct the synthetic spectra. We consider that the most likely reason for the back-warming is missing high-temperature opacity due to water vapour. We compare the water vapour opacity of the Partridge–Schwenke line list used for the model atmosphere with the output from a preliminary calculation by Barber & Tennyson. While the Partridge–Schwenke line list is a reasonable spectroscopic match for the new line list at 2000 K, by 4000 K it is missing around 25 per cent of the water vapour opacity. We thus consider that the offset between empirical and synthetic temperature scales is explained by the lack of hot water vapour used for computation of the synthetic spectra. For our coolest objects with temperatures below 2500 K, we find best fits when using synthetic spectra which include dust emission. Our spectra also allow us to constrain the rotational velocities of our sources, and these velocities are consistent with the broad trend of rotational velocities increasing from M to L.  相似文献