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...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The measurement of carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) has been used as a marker of arterial wall disease. Manual measurements have been performed in most epidemiological studies, but, due to the introduction of new technologies, automated software has been increasingly used. This study aimed to compare manual versus automated cIMT measurements in common carotid (CC), bifur...

The age and origin of the quartz-amphibole-pyroxene (qap) gneiss from the island of Akilia, southern West Greenland, have been the subject of intense debate since the light C-isotope composition of graphite inclusions in apatite was interpreted to indicate the presence of Earth's earliest biological activity. Although this claim for biogenic relicts has been vigorously challenged, the possibili...

Avoiding the use of complicated pre-processing steps such as accurate face and body part segmentation or image normalization, this paper proposes a novel face/person image representation which can properly handle background and illumination variations. Denoted as gBiCov, this representation relies on the combination of Biologically Inspired Features (BIF) and Covariance descriptors [1]. More pr...

Zipf’s Law describes a power law between the frequency and rank of an event which is observed, most famously, in word distributions in human languages [1]; where it has been argued [2] that it represents an optimally efficient communication code. From an analogy between image coding schemes and natural language, we hypothesize that conforming to Zipf’s Law is a necessary property of a good imag...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of dental anxiety in a population of patients with Borderline Intellectual Functioning (BIF) and patients with mild and moderate intellectual disability (ID), and how dental anxiety correlated with their age and gender. METHODS The sample was made of 700 patients, 287 females and 413 males, 6-to-47 years old, either with borderline...

Banded iron formations (BIF) have a particular vegetation type and provide a good model system for testing theories related to leaf phenology, due to unique stressful environmental conditions. As a consequence of the stressful conditions of BIF environment, we hypothesize that most species would retain at least some significant canopy cover, even at the end of the dry season, independently of g...

Two types of bismuth modified electrodes, a bismuth-film modified glassy carbon (BiF-GCE) and a bismuth bulk modified carbon paste, were applied for the determination of selected nitroguanidine neonicotinoid insecticides. The method based on an ex situ prepared BiF-GCE operated in the differential pulse voltammetric (DPV) mode was applied to determine clothianidin in the concentration range fro...

Abstract Background Over the past years, it has become clear that adapted cognitive behavior therapy can be effective for adolescents with externalizing problems and mild intellectual disabilities or borderline functioning (MID–BIF). Most treatment protocols consist, however, of a combined behavioral approach, even though is actually unclear which approach most suitable these adolescents. This ...

Objectives: North Odisha Iron Ore Craton (NOIOC) is a distinguished place for iron formation with Banded Formation (BIF) as common and abundant litho type. In few localities in Bonai-Keonjhar belt (BK belt) Channel Deposits (CID) specifically detrital type of deposits occur along BIF. Chamakpur-Inganjharan sector BK located on both sides bank the River Baitarani occupied by Detrital (DID) varyi...