Local knowledge on plants and domestic remedies in the mountain villages of Peshkopia (Eastern Albania)     

Andrea Pieroni  Anely Nedelcheva  Avni Hajdari  Behxhet Mustafa  Bruno Scaltriti  Kevin Cianfaglione  Cassandra L. Quave 《山地科学学报》2014,11(1):180-193

Ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans are crucial for fostering sustainable rural development in the region and also for investigating the dynamics of change of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which has broad-sweeping implications for future biodiversity conservation efforts. A survey of local botanical and medical knowledge and practices was conducted in four mountainous villages of the Peshkopia region in northeast Albania, near the Macedonian border. Snowball sampling techniques were employed to recruit 32 informants for participation in semi-structured interviews regarding the use of the local flora for food, medicinal, veterinary and ritual purposes. The uses of 84 botanical taxa were recorded as well as a number of other folk remedies for the treatment of both humans and livestock. Comparison of the collected data with another ethnobotanical field study recently conducted among Albanians living on the Macedonian side of Mount Korab shows a remarkable divergence in medicinal plant uses, thus confirming the crucial role played by the history of the last century in transforming TEK. Most noteworthy, as a legacy of the Communist period, a relevant number of wild medicinal taxa are still gathered only for trade rather than personal/familial use. This may lead to unsustainable exploitation of certain taxa (i.e. Orchis and Gentiana spp.) and presents some important conservation challenges. Appropriate development and environmental educational frameworks should aim to reconnect local people to the perception of limitation and renewability of botanical resources.  相似文献   

Fractures system within Dammam Dome and its relationship to the doming process,Eastern Saudi Arabia     

Mustafa M. Hariri 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(11):4943-4956

Dammam Dome is an oval-shaped structure that covers an area of about 500 km² and encompasses Al Khobar, Al Dhahran and part of Ad Dammam cities, east of Saudi Arabia. The dome characterizes by the presence of well developed fractures system that exposes at its apex and extends to its peripheries. Based on their size, trend and extent, fractures within Dammam Dome are divided into three types: regional (major) fractures, local (minor) fractures and very small size-localized fractures. This study discusses the criteria used in classifying those fractures, and the relationship of the regional (major) ones to the doming process. A model for the trends pattern of fracture is suggested for those fractures, and examined with the concentric and radial fracture pattern associated normally with dome structures. The suggested model is compatible and concordant with the dome model, which proves that the major fractures in the area are related to the dome emplacement and process. Outcomes and findings of this study are crucial for understanding the behavior and distribution of fractures associated with domes. Additionally, the suggested model of fractures and their trend pattern is important model in similar setting for hydrocarbon exploration and for any urban development and major constructions within the Dome vicinities.  相似文献   

Discovering a pull-apart basin using InSAR in Bursa,Turkey     

Hakan S. Kutoglu  Huseyin Kemaldere  Tomonori Deguchı  Mustafa Berber 《Natural Hazards》2014,71(1):871-880

The city of Bursa in Turkey is surrounded by major and secondary fault branches which splay from the North Anatolian Fault. Nonetheless, as their traces were not exactly known in the alluvial land of the Bursa basin, until this study, they were not plotted in the official active fault map of Turkey. In this study, the Bursa basin was observed by InSAR technology, and the subsidence which is consistent with the pull-apart basin geometry was detected in the basin. This finding was discussed in the local platforms in Turkey. Then, the city of Bursa was included into the priority provinces for the urban reconstruction under the risk of an earthquake, and the official active fault map of the region was revised by General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey.  相似文献   

Energy of a Stringy Charged Black Hole in the Teleparallel Gravity     

Mustafa Saltı 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,306(4):201-204

We use the teleparallel geometry analog of the Møller energy-momentum complex to calculate the energy distribution (due to matter plus field including gravity) of a charged black hole solution in heterotic string theory. We find the same energy distribution as obtained by Gad who investigated the same problem by using the Møller energy-momentum complex in general relativity. The total energy depends on the black hole mass M and charge Q. The energy obtained is also independent of the teleparallel dimensionless coupling constant, which means that it is valid not only in the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, but also in any teleparallel model. Furthermore, our results also sustains (a) the importance of the energy-momentum definitions in the evaluation of the energy distribution of a given spacetime and (b) the viewpoint of Lessner that the Møller energy-momentum complex is a powerful concept of energy and momentum.  相似文献   

A Comparative Study of Soil Liquefaction Assessment Using Machine Learning Models     

Hanandeh  Shadi M.  Al-Bodour  Wassel A.  Hajij  Mustafa M. 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2022,40(9):4721-4734

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Liquefaction of saturated granular soils is marked by the total loss of shear strength of soil under dynamic cyclic or transient loading conditions due to...  相似文献   

Petrogenesis of the Az Zabirah south zone bauxite ore deposits,central northern Saudi Arabia     

Al-Mutairi  Abdulaziz N.  Galmed  Mahmoud A.  Aldamegh  Khaled S. 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2015,8(4):2327-2339

Arabian Journal of Geosciences - The bauxite ore deposits are mainly found around the Az Zabirah area in the central northern part of Saudi Arabia. The age of the Az Zabirah bauxites was suggested...  相似文献   

Carbonate inclusions in Lower Cretaceous picrites from the Hončova hůrka Hill (Czech Republic,Outer Western Carpathians): Evidence for primary magmatic carbonates?     

Kamil Kropáč  Zdeněk Dolníček  David Buriánek  Tomáš Urubek  Vlastimil Mašek 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2015,104(5):1299-1315

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The Momentum 4-Vector Imparted by Gravitational Waves in Bianchi-Type Metrics     

Ali Havare  Murat Korunur  Mustafa Salti 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,301(1-4):43-46

Considering the Møller, Weinberg and Qadir-Sharif's definitions in general relativity, we find the momentum 4-vector of the closed universe based on the Bianchi-type metrics. The momentum 4-vector (due to matter plus fields) is found to be zero. This result supports the viewpoints of Albrow and Tryon and extends the previous works by Cooperstock–Israelit, Rosen, Johri et al., Banerjee–Sen and Vargas who investigated the problem of the energy in Friedmann–Robertson–Walker universe and Salt?-Havare who studied the problem of the energy-momentum of the viscous Kasner-type space-times.  相似文献   

Geoelectrical and Hydrogeochemical Studies for Delineating Ground-Water Contamination Due to Salt-Water Intrusion in the Northern Part of the Nile Delta, Egypt   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Abdel-Azim M. Ebraheem  Mahmoud M. Senosy  Kamal A. Dahab 《Ground water》1997,35(2):216-222

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Temperature variations of one well-known UV ceti type flare star     

Farouk M. Mahmoud 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1995,234(1):107-123

Temperature variations of the flare star, EV Lac, at its quiet-state luminosity were computed from its colour indices,B - V, which were measured in Johnson's system, these daily temperature changes are the essential reason of the short-term behaviour appearance in the flare star which is due to the presence of active region(s) causing a temperature difference of a few hundred degrees from the photosphere. A correlation between the annual mean of temperature variations of the flare star at its quiet-state and the annual rate of some physical parameters of the flare star at its active-state was detected. This correlation can interpret the occurrence of the long-term behaviour of the flare star at its quiescent-state as found by Mavridiset al. (1982).  相似文献