Luminescence dating methods on natural minerals such as quartz and feldspars are indispensable for establishing chronologies in Quaternary Science. Commonly applied sediment optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) infrared (IRSL). In 1999, Trautmann et al. (1999a, b) proposed a new related technique called radiofluorescence (IR-RF). IR-RF denotes the signal of feldspar resulting from exposure t...

Abstract In this work we performed experimental analyses of the dose-response curves natural alexandrite, using thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). The alexandrite crystals from Bahia, Brazil, were pulverized optical absorption measurements carried out in range 200 to 800 nm, comparing a non-irradiated sample with 10 Gy beta irradiated one. OSL TL Risø equipment...

A suite of samples from an extensive aeolian sandscarp near Victoria Falls, Zambia was used to explore several different methods calculating optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages that account for the effects saturated quartz grains. Beta dose rate heterogeneity and early OSL signal saturation exacerbate impact grains have on equivalent (De) values calculated. Saturated cannot calculate D...

Most modem linear programming solvers analyze the LP problem before submitting it to optimization. Some examples are the solvers WHIZARD (Tomlin and Welch, 1983), OBI (Lustig et al., 1994), OSL (Forrest and Tomlin, 1992), Sciconic (1990) and CPLEX (Bixby, 1994). The purpose of the presolve phase is to reduce the problem size and to discover whether the problem is unbounded or infeasible. In thi...

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In this paper we study the class of differential variational inequality(DVI) in a finite-dimension Euclidean space <n, which is the following form ẋ(t) = f(t, x(t)) + B(t, x(t))u(t) , x(0) = x0 ∈ <n 0 ≤ (ũ− u(t))T [G(t, x(t)) + F (u(t))] for almost all ũ ∈ K u(t) ∈ K We study stability and perturbation of the DVI under the OSL condition. Besides, we establish a Prior Bound Theorem, which is a u...

This paper proposes a new chronology for the burial complex at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It reassesses the body of evidence from Sir Henry Wellcome's original 1911-1914 excavations in order to place the site within a firm chronological framework by: (a) applying an attribute-based approach to discern discrete pottery assemblages; and (b) applying initial OSL dates to facilitate the relia...

The photo-transferred optically stimulated luminescence (PTOSL) technique using Al2O3:C detectors has been suggested as a good option for ultraviolet (UV) radiation dosimetry. The objective of this work was to study the PTOSL response of Al2O3:C InLight detectors and the OSL microStar reader of Landauer. The parameters such as radiation pre-dose, optical treatment time and UV illumination time ...

Background: In order to manage the patient exposure dose in X-ray diagnosis, it is preferred to evaluate the entrance skin dose; although there are some evaluations about entrance skin dose, a small number of report has been published for direct measurement of patient. We think that a small-type optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimeter, named nanoDot, can achieve a direct measurement. ...