A carbonate concretion from the shale bed overlying the No. 5 coal of Pennsylvanian age in Tuscarawas County is composed of siderite and contains pyrite, barite, sphalerite and traces of calcite in its interior and in fractures. The siderite has 8 C = + 0.65%o, Sr=289 ppm and Sr/Sr=0.7110±0.0009These results indicate that the siderite was deposited from brackish water in the pore spaces of the ...

Abstract Introduction: Recent studies have shown that the use of high-density nanoparticles (NPs) in concrete composition improves its radiation shielding properties. In present study, linear attenuation coefficients and photon scattering properties newly developed Nano-concretes been calculated using MCNPX Monte Carlo code. Material methods: The containing 10%, 20%, 30% weight percentage Osmiu...

In order to fully understand the cycling of elements in hydrothermal systems it is critical to understand intra-field variations in geochemical and microbiological processes in both focused, high-temperature and diffuse, low-temperature areas. To reveal important causes and effects of this variation, we performed an extensive chemical and microbiological characterization of a low-temperature ve...

Waters’ variant of the Boneh-Boyen IBE scheme is attractive because of its efficency, applications, and security attributes, but suffers from a relatively complex proof with poor concrete security. This is due in part to the proof’s “artificial abort” step, which has then been inherited by numerous derivative works. It has often been asked whether this step is necessary. We show that it is not,...

Barium sulfate (barite) is one of the widely used weighting materials in the preparation of drilling fluid for deep oil and gas wells. Barite is not soluble in the regular solvents; such as, hydrochloric acid (HCl) and other acids. Therefore, in this study, we focused on evaluating the dissolution of the industrial barite particles in different chelating agents. Chelating agents; such as, dieth...

In this note, we describe an error in the proof for CLRW2 given by Landecker et al. in their paper at CRYPTO 2012 on the beyond-birthday-bound security for tweakable block ciphers. We are able to resolve the issue, give a new bound for the security of CLRW2, and identify a potential limitation of this proof technique when looking to extend the scheme to provide asymptotic security.

One of the world's largest concentrations of sediment-hosted stratiform zinc-lead-barite deposits is (Figure 1). The largest and most developed of these is located in the Gataga area of northern British Columbia the CirqueiSouth Cirque deposit, with estimated geological reserves of 38.5 million tonnes averaging 8.0% Zn, 2.2% Pb and 47.2 gitonne Ag at Cirque and gitonne Ag at South Cirque (M...