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This publication is the result of over three years of field exploration and it represents the most current knowledge about the regional geology, petrology, and geochemistry of the ophiolitic belts in Guatemala which are located within the Motagua Suture Zone in Central Guatemala. While my main objective was to study the Ni-bearing laterites in the area, I also wanted to study the geological evolution of the ophiolitic belts that host these laterite deposits. This publication incorporates information previously disclosed in other field guides written by me. It also includes a more complete stratigraphic section and updated geological information. All field names of the units have been changed to proper petrographic-identified terminology, and I also included new description points for the field guide. As always, I would like to acknowledge the influence that this publication had from the field trip guidebook prepared by G. Giunta et al. (2002), as well as from The Preliminary Stratigraphic Lexicon for North and Central Guatemala compiled by S. A. Millan (1985). I combined information from these milestone works with my personal experiences in the mapping of the area and that of Oscar Pinz n, Julio Roberto P rez, and other geologists from the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines. This publication has also benefit from discussions with several geologists and consultants that have visited the area over the last three years, like Velasquez Spring, Gorden Glenn, Michael Hitch, Jim Steel, Rob Callander, John Redstone, Lineu Saboia, Petronila Ronze, Marcelo Albuquerque, Divino Fernando Fleury, and Cesar Ferreiro, just to mention a few.
Since most the superficial ore deposits have been already discovered, the job of the field geologist becomes more and more complicated with each passing day. We now need to reorient our work to interpret the geochemical, geophysical and other signals related to these blind and/or buried mineralized rocks. In our help come more sophisticated equipment, new powerful software and more rational geological theories, all which demand from us a more complete theoretical formation. On the other pan of the scale, we have graduate and post-graduate students with a solid theoretical background, but with little practical experience. Most of their text books are more concern with theory then with its practical application. Examples in these books are fictitious or at best- simplified. The reason is clear- we need to teach them a "necessary minimum" in the confidence that practice will teach them more latter. Thus, one can ask the following question: Is this an unavoidable gap? My main objective in writing this book has been to put together the theory of the magmatic processes with the practical aspect of how to study these processes. I hope it will be useful not only for the average student in the task of understanding the systematics of the magmatic processes and its relation with modern Plate Tectonics, but -chiefly- for anyone confronted with the problem of processing and studying petrological data. The text has been put together to emphasize the practical part on each chapter. Real examples are processed step-by-step and the proper programs are given to facilitate similar analysis in the future. We start with a description of the main characteristics of the igneous rocks, their modern nomenclature, and the main rock types on each of the four defined groups of Ultramafic, Mafic, Intermediate, and Felsic igneous rocks and their effusive analogues. I will also introduce here the Igneous Rock Identifier(TM), and explain how to use it. Chapter two will be dedicated to the field study of the igneous rocks. Here I will talk about the most common textures and the sequence of field studies of the igneous rocks, and some recommendations on how to name igneous rocks in the field. After a brief introduction to the systematics of the magmatic processes in Chapter 3, we will deal with the quality requirements of the analysis and the pre-elaboration of the data in Chapter 4. Of a cardinal importance is Chapter 5, where you will learn how to determine the degree of incompatibility of the trace elements, and I will introduce a model for the determination of the most probable magmatic process. The answer to this problem has not only a theoretical value, but also a very practical one, as it is discussed here. Chapters 6 to 8 are dedicated to more detailed studies of the partial melting, fractional crystallization, mixing and contamination processes. So, they maybe of more interest to researchers and students then to field geologists. However, field geologist ARE invited to test these models also. A sequence of procedures for the petrological evaluation of a suite of magmatic rocks is explained in Chapter 9, based on real case studies. This includes the use of geochemical data in the interpretation of tectonic events. Because of its practical approach, this chapter will be of more interest to field geologists... However, students and researchers ARE invited to test them also. There is an old Spanish proverb: "jack of all trades, master of none or the Polish version- he that too much embraceth, holds little". Clearly I cannot hope to cover all the problems of the systematics of the magmatic processes. Consequently, I have tended to focus on filling the gap between the theoretical knowledge and their practical application.
This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession. It tracks the significant growth and important structural changes in the financial sector during the past few decades, both of which made the economy more vulnerable to perceptions of risk in the markets. Halperin argues that conventional economic models have lost relevance by failing to take these developments into account appropriately, and also explains that because of financial globalization we can no longer understand what happens in the economies of major countries by relying on "closed-economy" thinking. The book concludes with a list of policy recommendations designed to increase the resilience of the financial markets to negative economic developments and to reduce incentives for risk taking, including a proposal to eliminate the double taxation of dividends.
This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession. It tracks the significant growth and important structural changes in the financial sector during the past few decades, both of which made the economy more vulnerable to perceptions of risk in the markets. Halperin argues that conventional economic models have lost relevance by failing to take these developments into account appropriately, and also explains that because of financial globalization we can no longer understand what happens in the economies of major countries by relying on "closed-economy" thinking. The book concludes with a list of policy recommendations designed to increase the resilience of the financial markets to negative economic developments and to reduce incentives for risk taking, including a proposal to eliminate the double taxation of dividends.
Towards a Sociology of Nursing offers fresh insights from recent research into the nursing profession. Nurses represent an important part of the professionally trained female workforce and, being a middle-class profession, changes in nursing reflect changes of many working women worldwide. Scholarship addressing these changes, however, often consists of narratives of nurses talking about themselves, which can be enriched by a sociological background that foregrounds hypotheses.?In this book, Ricardo A. Ayala problematises the realities which inform, affect and shape nursing, offering new perspectives on the consequences of those social realities for the nursing profession and society more broadly. He draws on extensive field research with nurses in the workplace, spending time with them, interviewing key actors and reading and analysing documents critically through a distinctive sociological lens.
Towards a Sociology of Nursing offers fresh insights from recent research into the nursing profession. Nurses represent an important part of the professionally trained female workforce and, being a middle-class profession, changes in nursing reflect changes of many working women worldwide. Scholarship addressing these changes, however, often consists of narratives of nurses talking about themselves, which can be enriched by a sociological background that foregrounds hypotheses.?In this book, Ricardo A. Ayala problematises the realities which inform, affect and shape nursing, offering new perspectives on the consequences of those social realities for the nursing profession and society more broadly. He draws on extensive field research with nurses in the workplace, spending time with them, interviewing key actors and reading and analysing documents critically through a distinctive sociological lens.
Pedro Ponce-Cruz; Arturo Molina Gutiérrez; Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza; Efraín Méndez Flores; Alexandro Antonio Ortiz Espinoza; David Christopher Balderas Silva
Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and experimental problems in a friendly manner so this book presents a novel structure that includes a complete description of the most important metaheuristic optimization algorithms as well as a new proposal of a new metaheuristic optimization named earthquake optimization. This book also has several practical exercises and a toolbox for MATLAB® and a toolkit for LabVIEW are integrated as complementary material for this book. These toolkits allow readers to move from a simulation environment to an experimentation one very fast. This book is suitable for researchers, students, and professionals in several areas, such as economics, architecture, computer science, electrical engineering, and control systems.The unique features of this book are as follows: Developed for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners A friendly description of the main metaheuristic optimization algorithms Theoretical and practical optimization examples A new earthquake optimization algorithm Updated state-of-the-art and research optimization projects The authors are multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary lecturers and researchers who have written a structure-friendly learning methodology to understand each metaheuristic optimization algorithm presented in this book.
Pedro Ponce-Cruz; Arturo Molina Gutiérrez; Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza; Efraín Méndez Flores; Alexandro Antonio Ortiz Espinoza; David Christopher Balderas Silva
Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and experimental problems in a friendly manner so this book presents a novel structure that includes a complete description of the most important metaheuristic optimization algorithms as well as a new proposal of a new metaheuristic optimization named earthquake optimization. This book also has several practical exercises and a toolbox for MATLAB® and a toolkit for LabVIEW are integrated as complementary material for this book. These toolkits allow readers to move from a simulation environment to an experimentation one very fast. This book is suitable for researchers, students, and professionals in several areas, such as economics, architecture, computer science, electrical engineering, and control systems.The unique features of this book are as follows: Developed for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners A friendly description of the main metaheuristic optimization algorithms Theoretical and practical optimization examples A new earthquake optimization algorithm Updated state-of-the-art and research optimization projects The authors are multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary lecturers and researchers who have written a structure-friendly learning methodology to understand each metaheuristic optimization algorithm presented in this book.
Este livro apresenta o desenvolvimento de um nova proposta de projeto de um reator qu mico para ser usado na produ o de pol meros em suspens o. Atualmente, este tipo de pol mero produzido pelas ind strias em reatores tipo tanque agitado operando em regime batelda. Neste trabalho, avalia es experimentais e por meio de simula es computacionais empregando t cnicas de CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) foram realizadas e, apesar de se tratar de um estudo preliminar do projeto de um reator tubular agitado instalado verticalmente, operando em regime descont nuo, os resultados mostraram que o equipamento desenvolvido apresenta grande potencial para a aplica o na produ o cont nua de pol meros em suspens o. Uma vez que este objetivo seja atingido, as ind strias do setor poder o se beneficiar com o aumento das suas capacidades produtivas e, desta forma, atender crescente demanda por materiais polim ricos produzidos pela t cnica de polimeriza o em suspens o.
