Although notoriously difficult to delineate from the wider family of carbonate rocks and sediments, non-marine carbonates represent an important subset, forming in a large variety depositional settings such as lakes, rivers, hydrothermal vents, caves, soils sites affected by alkaline pollution (Pentecost, 2005; Alonso Zarza & Tanner 2010; Capezzuoli et al., 2014; Della Porta, 2015) (Figure 1). ...

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In this paper, the design of a real-time image acquisition system for tracking the movement of Drosophila in three-dimensional space is presented. The system uses three calibrated and synchronized cameras to detect multiple flies and integrates the detected fly silhouettes to construct the three-dimensional visual hull models of each fly. We used an extended Kalman filter to estimate the state ...

lHE story of great achievement in any community is, in general, the story of those men and women, who, by patient industry and prodigious labours, have in their day and generation made notable contributions to its life and work. Therefore, in this inaugural address-subsequent to the honour I have received in being called to the Chair of Midwifery and Gynaecology in this University-I take the ea...

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