scholarly journals Geology of Bajalia Anticline of the Low Folded Zone of Iraq

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wathiq Ghazi Abdulnaby ◽  
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Maher Mandeel Mahdi ◽  
Rafed Abd Al-Muhamed ◽  
Nagham Adil Darweesh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Geology ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Maximum Stress ◽  
Stress Axis ◽  
Reverse Fault ◽  
Fold Axis ◽  
Genetic Classification ◽  
Hinge Line ◽  
Late Tertiary

Bajalia Anticline is located about 60km northeast of central Amarah city in Al-Teeb area near Iraq-Iran border. Field and laboratory works were conducted to study topography, geomorphology, stratigraphy, and structural geology of Bajalia Anticline. The Anticline has a longitudinal shape with about 29km in length and 5-7km in width. Injana, Mukdadiya, and Bai Hassan formations are the three formations that were recognized in the study area. The geometrical structural analysis depicts that the Anticline is non-cylindrical, asymmetrical, close, sub-horizontal, steeply inclined, and linear fold. Most of the fractures in the Anticline are joints. These joints were classified based on the tectonics axes, which are a, b, and c, into ac, bc, and hol. A major reverse fault is located at the margin of the southwestern limb parallel to the fold axis with about 25km length. This fault is responsible on the vergence of the Anticline and overturned part of the southwestern limb. The Anticline was formed as a result of the collision between the Arabian and Iranian plates during the Late Tertiary. The maximum stress axis, which is caused by collision, is perpendicular to the hinge line. The geometrical and genetic classification indicates that the Anticline was formed by the high folding intensity and with a role of evaporites layers.

The role of Constitutional Courts in Transitional Justice: Colombia and South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiehezka Paola Palencia Tejedor
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

This work focuses on a compared analysis of the South Afri- can decision related to the “peace and reconciliation act” of this country’s Parliament, and the Colombian decision regarding the amendment of the constitution called “The juridical framework for the peace.” Turning to the structure, it is developed in three major topics: 1. It provides a brief of the historical context, political background and an overview of the two decisions.2. It gives a structural analysis of the powers that each Court has and the nature of the constitutional mechanism through which both Courts decided the constitutionality of the said norms 3. It presents a critical analysis on the similarities and differences between the two systems and judgments. It presents some con- clusions. 

Semantic And Structural Properties Of The Banking And Financial Terminology Of The Uzbek Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (08) ◽  
pp. 610-617
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Turakulovna Shirinova
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Human Factor

This article discusses information on the study of terminology in Uzbek and world linguistics. Thematic grouping of banking and financial terms, which play an important role in Uzbek language vocabulary, is considered. The author gives the criteria for the distribution of terms into thematic groups, their peculiar properties examples to substantiate the hypothesis. The paradigmatic relations between the terms of this sphere are indicated. A structural analysis of the banking and financial terms of the Uzbek language is carried out.  On the basis of the anthropocentric approach, the role of the human factor in the banking and financial terminology of the Uzbek language is studied. Cognitive metaphors that exist in the terminology are considered.

What is the role of fear and escape/avoidance in chronic pain? Models, structural analysis and future directions

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon JG Asmundson ◽  
Holly A Parkerson ◽  
Mark Petter ◽  
Melanie Noel
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Pain Models

Unipolarity

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jervis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Current System ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The United States

In analyzing the current unipolar system, it is useful to begin with structure. No other state or plausible coalition can challenge the unipole's core security, but this does not mean that all its values are safe or that it can get everything that it wants. Contrary to what is often claimed, standard balance of power arguments do not imply that a coalition will form to challenge the unipole. Realism also indicates that rather than seeking to maintain the system, the unipole may seek further expansion. To understand the current system requires combining structural analysis with an appreciation of the particular characteristics of the current era, the United States, and its leaders. Doing so shows further incentives to change the system and highlights the role of nuclear proliferation in modifying existing arrangements.

EXAMINING STATE-BUILDING OF THE SYRIAN REPUBLIC AND THE LEGACY OF ITS COLONIAL PAST

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Ani MATEVOSYAN
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
State Building ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Political Consolidation ◽  
Historical Past

Abstract: This research tackles essential elements of Syrian state-building processes through a structural analysis incorporating several theories and concepts including but not limited to colonialism, nationalism, military interventions, institutional development, minority rule, and eventually neocolonialism. The article reveals how minority rule and different implications of military interventions shaped today’s Syria, as well as addresses some of the current issues such as the absence of domestic political consolidation. The primary aim of this research is to contextualize the role of France—as a former colonizer, within the state-building process of Syria by examining different phases of Syria’s historical past. An examination of Syria’s political developments proved that having inherited a colonial past, the current state of Syria has also inherited an unavoidable legacy of political instability from its colonial past. Keywords: Syria, Middle East, State-Building, Colonialism, Military Interventions.

scholarly journals Avaliação da estabilidade de agregados e a vulnerabilidade à erosão ao longo de uma vertente no município de Araruna, região noroeste do Paraná-Brasil / Evaluation of aggregates stability and vulnerability to erosion along a shed in the municipality of Araruna, northwest region of Paraná-Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (55) ◽  
pp. 845-862
Author(s):  
Fabiana Barros Medeiros ◽  
Francieli Sant'ana Marcatto ◽  
Hélio Silveira ◽  
MariaTeresa De Nóbrega
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Soil Cover ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Soil Horizons ◽  
Water Flows ◽  
Sandstone Formation ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Northwest Region

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo estudar a vulnerabilidade à erosão dos solos da zona de contato do arenito da Formação Caiuá com o basalto da Formação Serra Geral, no município de Araruna, Mesorregião Noroeste Paranaense, dando enfoque ao papel da estabilidade da estrutura atual dos solos, considerando-se as alterações produzidas pelas formas de uso e ocupação da área. A análise realizada também considerou as variações das características morfológicas dos solos em perfil e ao longo da litossequência (sistema pedológico), assim como os seus reflexos na geração de setores mais ou menos suscetíveis à erosão na vertente. Para o levantamento dos solos ao longo da vertente foram utilizados os procediments propostos pela Análise Estrutural da Cobertura Pedológica e a coleta de amostras para a determinação da granulometria e estabilidade de agregados. Os resultados indicaram a ação dos fluxos de água laterais e verticais, atuando na transformação dos horizontes dos solos ao longo da vertente e uma variação da estabilidade estrutural associada as características morfológicas dos solos e ao tipo de uso e manejo empregado. Os Argissolos apresentaram agregados pequenos e um gradiente textural entre o horizonte superficial e subsuperficial, lhe conferindo uma forte suscetibilidade a erosão. O Nitossolo não apresentou grande diferenciação no tamanho dos agregados, exceto no horizonte Bw, onde a redução no tamanho dos agregados se associaram a mudança morfológica da estrutura do solo.AbstractThis research aims to study the vulnerability to soil erosion of the contact zone of the sandstone Formation Caiuá with basalt of the Serra Geral Formation, in the municipality of Araruna, Paraná Northwest Region, giving focus to the role of the stability of the current structure of soils, considering the changes produced by the forms of use and occupation of the area. The analysis also considered variations of morphological characteristics of soils in profile and along the lithosactivity (pedological system), as well as your reflexes in the generation of sectors more or less susceptible to erosion in the shed. For the survey of the soils along the strand, the procedures proposed by the Structural Analysis of the Pedological Coverage and the collection of samples for the determination of the granulometry and stability of aggregates were used. The results indicated the action of the lateral and vertical water flows, acting on the transformation of the soil horizons along the slope and a variation of the structural stability associated with the morphological characteristics of the soils and the type of use and management used. The Argisols presented small aggregates and a textural gradient between the surface and subsurface horizon, giving it a strong susceptibility to erosion. The Nitossolo did not show great differentiation in the size of the aggregates, except in the Bw horizon, where the reduction in the size of the aggregates was associated to the morphological change of the soil structure.Keywords: structural analysis of the soil cover, stability of aggregates, susceptibility to erosion, pedological systems.

scholarly journals The Presidential Grants Fund as an Instrument of the Policy of Remembrance for the Great Patriotic War

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Sergey I. Belov
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Single System ◽  
Great Patriotic War

The presented research is devoted to the study of the role of the Presidential Grants Fund in the implementation of the memorial policy in relation to the events of the Great Patriotic War. The methodological base of the study is formed through a combination of comparative and structural analysis. The author concludes that the activity of the Presidential Grants Fund on the field of memorial policy is built outside the context of a clear strategy for implementing the policy of memory. Currently, the Fund allocates funds primarily to support local and regional initiatives that are not linked to each other in a single system. There is a clear imbalance in the territorial distribution of grants in terms of their number and size in favor of projects of participants from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Part of the grants is allocated for the solution of tasks assigned by law to the sphere of responsibility of local self-government bodies (for example, this concerns projects for the improvement of military graves).

Self-assembly of conformationally flexible molecules under 2D confinement: structural analysis from computer simulations

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (63) ◽  
pp. 8749-8752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Nieckarz ◽  
Paweł Szabelski
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulations ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Flexible Molecules

Monte Carlo simulations reveal the role of surface conformers in self-assembly on crystalline supports.

Pre-folding fracturing in a foredeep environment: insights from the Carseolani Mountains (central Apennines, Italy)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Marco Mercuri ◽  
Luca Smeraglia ◽  
Manuel Curzi ◽  
Stefano Tavani ◽  
Roberta Maffucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Fracture Pattern ◽  
Pressure Solution ◽  
Fold Axis ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Central Apennines ◽  
Structural Position ◽  
Deformation Structures ◽  
Thrust Belts ◽  
Belt System

Abstract Bedding-perpendicular joints striking parallel (longitudinal) and perpendicular (transverse) to both the axis of the hosting anticline and the trend of the foredeep-belt system are widely recognized in fold-and-thrust belts. Their occurrence has been commonly attributed to folding-related processes, such as syn-folding outer-arc extension, although they can also be consistent with a pre-folding foredeep-related fracturing stage. Here we report the pre-folding fracture pattern affecting the Pietrasecca Anticline, in the central Apennines (Italy), resolved by a detailed field structural analysis. Field observations, scan-lines and interpretation of virtual outcrops were used to study the intensity, distribution and the orientations of fracture pattern along the anticline. The fracture pattern of the Pietrasecca Anticline consists of longitudinal and transverse joints, oriented approximately perpendicular to bedding, and of a pre-folding longitudinal pressure-solution cleavage set, which is oblique to bedding regardless of the bedding dip. Cross-cutting relationships show that joints predated the development of the pressure-solution cleavage. Furthermore, joint intensity does not relate to the structural position along the anticline. Taken together, these observations suggest that jointing occurred in a foredeep environment before the Pietrasecca Anticline growth. Our work further demonstrates that joints striking parallel and orthogonal to the main fold axis do not necessarily represent syn-folding deformation structures.

scholarly journals Molecular evolutionary and structural analysis of human UCHL1 gene demonstrates the relevant role of intragenic epistasis in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saqib Nawaz ◽  
Razia Asghar ◽  
Nashaiman Pervaiz ◽  
Shahid Ali ◽  
Irfan Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Neurodegenerative Disorder ◽  
Soluble Form ◽  
Evolutionary Pattern ◽  
Protein Segment ◽  
Interaction Sites ◽  
Relevant Role

Abstract Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. PD associated human UCHL1 (Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1) gene belongs to the family of deubiquitinases and is known to be highly expressed in neurons (1–2% in soluble form). Several functions of UCHL1 have been proposed including ubiquitin hydrolyze activity, ubiquitin ligase activity and stabilization of the mono-ubiquitin. Mutations in human UCHL1 gene have been associated with PD and other neurodegenerative disorders. The present study aims to decipher the sequence evolutionary pattern and structural dynamics of UCHL1. Furthermore, structural and interactional analysis of UCHL1 was performed to help elucidate the pathogenesis of PD. Results The phylogenetic tree topology suggests that the UCHL1 gene had originated in early gnathostome evolutionary history. Evolutionary rate analysis of orthologous sequences reveals strong purifying selection on UCHL1. Comparative structural analysis of UCHL1 pinpoints an important protein segment spanning amino acid residues 32 to 39 within secretion site with crucial implications in evolution and PD pathogenesis through a well known phenomenon called intragenic epistasis. Identified critical protein segment appears to play an indispensable role in protein stability, proper protein conformation as well as harboring critical interaction sites. Conclusions Conclusively, the critical protein segment of UCHL1 identified in the present study not only demonstrates the relevant role of intraprotein conformational epistasis in the pathophysiology of PD but also offers a novel therapeutic target for the disease.

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