scholarly journals TWINNING between Institutions in developed and less developed countries: an ideal way to set-up an astrophysics program

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 542-542
Author(s):  
Claude Carignan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Astronomical Instrumentation ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Moment ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
North Eastern Part

AbstractIt is very difficult to start from scratch a new Astrophysics program in a country with very little or no researchers in the field. In 2007, we began to set-up an Astrophysics program by TWINNING the Université de Ouagadougou with the Université de Montréal in Canada, the Université de Provence in France and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Already, courses are given at the undergraduate and Master levels and a teaching Observatory has been built. A 1m research telescope was also moved from the La Silla Observatory in Chile to Burkina Faso and the infrastructure is being built at the moment on mount Djaogari in the north-eastern part of the country. In the meantime, 6 students are doing their PhD in Astrophysics overseas (Canada, France and South Africa) and will become the core of the research group at the Université de Ouagadougou. An engineer is also doing his PhD in Astronomical Instrumentation to help with the maintenance of the equipment on the Research Telescope.

scholarly journals Robin Ralph Jamison, 12 July 1912 - 18 March 1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World War I ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

Robin Ralph Jamison (RRJ) was born in Horsham, Sussex, on 12 July 1912. He was the third of four brothers born to Reginald Jamison and Eanswythe Elstreth Heyworth. Two large family portraits of RRJ’s maternal grandparents have always adorned the hall of RRJ’s residence in Bristol, and two senior test pilots from the same Heyworth family served Rolls- Royce at Hucknall for many years. Both RRJ’s father and his grandfather were medical practitioners and, at one time, it was thought that RRJ too would follow them into the profession. During World War I RRJ’s father, Reginald, served in White Russia, where he developed asthma from which he subsequently suffered badly. In consequence, on his return to the UK he was advised to move to a warmer, drier climate. Thus in 1921 the whole Jamison family moved to South Africa, where Reginald set up practice in Cape Town. For the most part the family took to their new life happily enough, although RRJ’s mother found herself homesick for the country of her birth. This manifested itself in a desire to see all her boys educated in the UK. In the event, the two elder brothers, Peter and Antony, went to Dartmouth and subsequently joined the Navy, and the youngest, Ivor, also went to school in Britain. He was later taken prisoner when Tobruk surrendered to Rommel. RRJ turned out to be the only one of the four to be educated entirely in South Africa. This was mostly because, from an early age, he suffered from very poor eyesight. From the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape, he moved to the South African College in Cape Town and, finally, to the University of Cape Town in 1929. He was a bright child academically and was only 16 when he was accepted for university.

An anorthite-epidote-garnet-hornfels from Namaqualand, South Africa

1941 ◽  
Vol 26 (175) ◽  
pp. 134-139
Author(s):  
C. B. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Host Rock ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Northern Boundary ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
North Eastern Part

The present communication deals with a calc-silicate hornfels of uncommon mineralogical and chemical composition. It may be tentatively referred to the deep-seated metamorphism of a marl, and on account of the shortage of analytical data pertaining to metamorphosed sediments of the calcareo-argillaceous type, a detailed investigation of a variety of this group seems justified.Intercalated bands of anorthite-epidote-garnet-hornfels bordered bilaterally by pyroxene-bearing gneisses occur on the farms Zandfontein, Pella, and Klein Pella in the north-eastern part of the division of Namaqualand, South Africa (cf. geological map), On Klein Pella small exposures also extend intermittingly for approximately 1·5 miles due WNW.-ESE. of the amphibolite koppie situated on the northern boundary of the farm area. The bands exhibit a gentle pinch and swell structure with maximum widths of 15 to 41 inches, and the contact with the host rock is commonly marked by an epidotic fringe ¾ inch in thickness. In some cases the anorthite-epidote-garnet-rock is penetrated by parallel lenticles of pure quartz which may attain maximum breadths of 0·8 inch.

scholarly journals Soundscape in North-Eastern Part of Iasi City (Sararie – Ticau District)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Level Meter ◽  
The University ◽  
North Eastern Part

This paper presents a complex study of noise levels from road trafficsource and the variation during the seasons in an old residential arealocated in the north-eastern part of Iasi city, an important educationaland cultural centre of the country. The study reveal the correlationbetween noise levels and social activities developed in the area: lownumber of inhabitants because of the holidays time in August and theresumption of the educational activity in autumn,including school start in September and of the university activity inOctober.After direct observations, the measurements were made with digital sound–level meter Quest Technologies, 1400 model in five hour intervals 7:00 -8:00; 10:00 - 11:00; 13:30 - 14:30; 18:00 - 19:00; 19:00 - 20:00. Themonitoring of Equivalent Continuous Noise Level (Leq) were made in 30points located along the different type of roads in the second part ofAugust – October 2009, with different admissible levels, showing theexceeding of the limit in 5 points in September and 8 points in October. Itcan be observed an important difference during the week in the monitoringperiod, between Monday to Friday and the week-end with lower values 59.64 -6.5 dB (A) in August, 61.98 - 5.14 dB (A) in September, 63.9 - 5.3dB (A) inOctober and among the four street categories with major differences betweenfirst category: 66.89 dB (A) and fourth category 47.69 dB (A), so thaturban noise can be stratified according to a prior classification of atown’sstreets due to their use and functional characteristics. Sound levelsmonitoring and statistical data processing (Pearson correlationcoefficient, Tukey range test)sustain the fact that road traffic is main source of noise in the area,differentiated in correlation with street category,a decrease in noise withincreasing street category, with insignificant differences between firstand second streetcategory thank to the best management and traffic control.

The influence of submesoscale eddies on hydrochemical parameters and structural and functional characteristics of phytoplankton in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Sergey B. Kuklev ◽  
Vladimir A. Silkin ◽  
Valeriy K. Chasovnikov ◽  
Andrey G. Zatsepin ◽  
Larisa A. Pautova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anticyclonic Eddy ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Hydrochemical Parameters ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Seasonal Thermocline ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City ◽  
North Eastern Part

On June 7, 2018, a sub-mesoscale anticyclonic eddy induced by the wind (north-east) was registered on the shelf in the area of the city of Gelendzhik. With the help of field multidisciplinary expedition ship surveys, it was shown that this eddy exists in the layer above the seasonal thermocline. At the periphery of the eddy weak variability of hydrochemical parameters and quantitative indicators of phytoplankton were recorded. The result of the formation of such eddy structure was a shift in the structure of phytoplankton – the annual observed coccolithophores bloom was not registered.

Ketilidian structure and the rapakivi suite between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel, South-East Greenland

2000 ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Brian Chadwick ◽  
Adam A. Garde ◽  
John Grocott ◽  
Ken J.W. McCaffrey ◽  
Mike A. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Region ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Natural Environment Research Council ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
North Eastern Part

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Chadwick, B., Garde, A. A., Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K. J., & Hamilton, M. A. (2000). Ketilidian structure and the rapakivi suite between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel, South-East Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 186, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v186.5215 _______________ The southern tip of Greenland is underlain by the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen (e.g. Chadwick & Garde 1996; Garde et al. 1998a). Field investigations in the summer of 1999 were focused on the structure of migmatites (metatexites) and garnetiferous granites (diatexites) of the Pelite Zone in the coastal region of South-East Greenland between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel (Figs 1, 2). Here, we first address the tectonic evolution in the Pelite Zone in that region and its correlation with that in the Psammite Zone further north. Then, the structure and intrusive relationships of the rapakivi suite in the Pelite Zone are discussed, including particular reference to the interpretation of the controversial outcrop on Qernertoq (Figs 2, 8). Studies of the structure of the north-eastern part of the Julianehåb batholith around Qulleq were continued briefly from 1998 but are not addressed here (Fig. 1; Garde et al. 1999). The field study was keyed to an interpretation of the Ketilidian orogen as a whole, including controls of rates of thermal and tectonic processes in convergent settings. Earlier Survey field work (project SUPRASYD, 1992–1996) had as its principal target an evaluation of the economic potential of the orogen (Nielsen et al. 1993). Ensuing plate-tectonic studies were mainly funded in 1997–1998 by Danish research foundations and in 1999 by the Natural Environment Research Council, UK. The five-week programme in 1999 was seriously disrupted by bad weather, common in this part of Greenland, and our objectives were only just achieved. Telestation Prins Christian Sund was the base for our operations (Fig. 2), which were flown with a small helicopter (Hughes MD-500).

New insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland

1999 ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam A. Garde ◽  
John Grocott ◽  
Ken J.W. McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
Original Series ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
North Eastern Part ◽  
Geological Research

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Garde, A. A., Grocott, J., & McCaffrey, K. J. (1999). New insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 183, 23-33. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v183.5201 _______________ During a five week period in August–September 1998 the poorly known north-eastern part of the Palaeoproterozoic (c. 1800 Ma) Ketilidian orogen between Kangerluluk and Mogens Heinesen Fjord in South-East Greenland (Fig. 1) was investigated in continuation of recent geological research in other parts of the orogen. The north-eastern part of the orogen is remote from inhabited areas. It is mountainous and comprises a wide nunatak zone which can only be reached easily by helicopter. Furthermore, access to coastal areas by boat is difficult because many parts of the coast are prone to be ice-bound even during the summer months, due to wind- and current-driven movements of the sea ice.

Colchicum autumnale (Colchicaceae) w okolicach Krakowa – dawne i obecne rozmieszczenie

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Magdalena Zarzyka-Ryszka
Keyword(s):  
Adjacent Area ◽  
Colchicum Autumnale ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Present Distribution ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
North Eastern Part

The paper describes the past and present distribution of Colchicum autumnale in the vicinity of Cracow, highlights the role of Stanisław Dembosz (who published the first locality of C. autumnale near Igołomia in 1841). Gives information about the occurrence of C. autumnale in Krzeszowice in the 19th century (reported by Bronisław Gustawicz), presents new localities noted in 2012–2014 in meadows in the north-eastern part of the Puszcza Niepołomicka forest and adjacent area (between the Vistula and Raba rivers), and gives a locality found in Cracow in 2005 (no longer extant).

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