Treasure Map Research Articles

Exploration targeting for orogenic gold deposits in the Granites-Tanami Orogen: Mineral system analysis, targeting model and prospectivity analysis

A major challenge for mineral exploration geologists is the development of a transparent and reproducible approach to targeting exploration efforts, particularly at the regional to camp scales, in terranes under difficult cover where exploration and opportunity costs are high. In this study, a three-pronged approach is used for identifying the most prospective ground for orogenic gold deposits in the Paleoproterozoic Granite-Tanami Orogen (GTO) in Western Australia.A key input to the analyses is the recent development of a 4D model of the GTO architectural evolution that provides new insights on the spatio-temporal controls over orogenic gold occurrences in the area; in particular, on the role of pre-mineralization (pre-1795Ma) DGTOE–DGTO1–DGTO2 architecture in localization of gold deposits and the spatial distribution of rock types in 3D. This information is used to build up a model of orogenic gold minerals system in the area, which is then integrated into the three mutually independent but complementary mineral prospectivity maps namely, a concept-driven “manual” and “fuzzy” analysis; and a data-driven “automated” analysis.The manual analysis involved: (1) generation of a process-based gold mineral systems template to aid target selection; (2) manual delineation of targets; (3) manual estimation of the probability of occurrence of each critical mineralization process based on the available information; and (4) combining the above probabilities to derive the relative probability of occurrence of orogenic gold deposits in each of the targets. The knowledge-based Geological Information System (GIS) analysis attempts to replicate the expert knowledge used in the manual approach, but queried in a more systematic format to eliminate human heuristic bias. This involves representing the critical mineralization processes in the form of spatial predictor maps and systematically querying them through the use of a fuzzy logic model to integrate the predictor maps and to derive the western GTO orogenic gold prospectivity map. The data-driven ‘empirical’ GIS analysis uses no expert knowledge. Instead it employs statistical measures to evaluate the spatial associations between known deposits and predictor maps to establish weights for each predictor layer then combines these layers into a predictive map using a Weights of Evidence (WofE) approach.Application of a mineral systems approach in the manual analysis and the fuzzy analysis is critical: potential high value targets identified by these approaches in the western GTO lie largely under cover, whereas traditional manual targeting is biased to areas of outcrop or sub-crop amenable to direct detection technology such as exploration geochemistry, and therefore towards areas that are data rich.The results show the power of combining the three approaches to prioritize areas for exploration. While the manual analysis identifies and employs human intuition and can see through incomplete datasets, it is difficult to filter out human bias and to systematically apply to a large region. The fuzzy method is more systematic, and highlights areas that the manual analysis has undervalued, but lacks the intuitive power of the human mind that refines the target by seeing through incomplete datasets. The empirical WoE method highlights correlations with favorable host stratigraphy and highlights the control of an early set of structures potentially undervalued in the knowledge driven approaches, yet is biased due to the incomplete nature of exploration datasets and lack of abundant gold deposits due to the extensive cover.The results indicate that the most prospective areas for orogenic gold in western GTO are located in the central part of the study area, largely in areas blind to previous exploration efforts. According to our study, the procedure to follow should be to undertake the analyses in the following order: manual prospectivity analysis, followed by the conceptual fuzzy approach, followed by the empirical GIS-based method. Undertaking the manual analysis first is important to prevent explorationists from being biased by the automated GIS-based outputs. It is however emphasized that all of the prospectivity outputs from these three methods are possible, and they should not be treated as ‘treasure maps’, but instead, as decision-support aids. Therefore, a final manual prospectivity analysis redefined by the mutual consideration of output from all of the methods is required.The strategy employed in this study constitutes a new template for best-practice in terrane- to camp-scale exploration targeting that can be applied to different terranes and deposit types, particularly in terranes under cover, and provides a step forward in managing uncertainty in the exploration targeting process.

Fair Shares, Matey, or Walk the Plank

Teaching young children to create equal-size groups is your treasure map for building students' flexible, connected understanding of and reasoning about ratios, fractions, and multiplicative operations.

Zeolites: Hierarchical Y and USY Zeolites Designed by Post‐Synthetic Strategies (Adv. Funct. Mater. 5/2012)

On page 916 Javier Pérez-Ramírez and co-workers establish different routes to prepare mesoporous Y and USY zeolites. Strategic combinations of optimized acid and base treatments, designed to steer clear of obstacles such as amorphization, pore blockage, and rea-lumination, form a treasure map leading to modified zeolites with a high potential in adsorption and catalytic applications. Marcel Reich is gratefully acknowledged for the cover illustration.

Systematic ethnography of school‐age children with bleeding disorders and other chronic illnesses: exploring children's perceptions of partnership roles in family‐centred care of their chronic illness

In this qualitative study, school-age children between 7 and 11 years, living with a bleeding disorder or other chronic illness, defined how they understand their partnership role in family-centred care (FCC), and recommended FCC strategies. This systematic ethnography had three phases: unstructured interviews explored how children understood FCC partnership roles (phase I); document review provided FCC institutional context (phase II); and validation interviews generated FCC partnership recommendations (phase III). This study took place within the area served by a Western Canadian children's hospital. Interviews were held at the hospital or children's home. In phase I, purposive sampling was used to recruit children receiving outpatient care for a bleeding disorder (n = 4) or another chronic illness (n = 4). In phase II, policies and legislation were compared with how children understand their FCC partnership role. In phase III, validation interviews were conducted with children (n = 3) to confirm domains and generate FCC supporting strategies. Data collection and analysis were based on domain analysis and qualitative ethnographic content analysis. Phase I outcomes included seven domains regarding how children understood their role as partners in FCC: my best interests, virtues, talking and listening, being involved, knowing, making decisions and being connected. Phase II outcomes revealed how these domains were represented in institutional contexts. Phase III outcomes confirmed domains and generated key strategies to support children's role as FCC partners through graphic representation of FCC as a treasure map, interactive workshop and online game. School-age children, living with a bleeding disorder or other chronic illness, similarly want to learn how to be FCC partners by developing competence as healthcare team members, identifying their own best interests, learning how to communicate with 'grown-ups', clarifying roles and goals, and guided opportunities for decision making. Facilitating school-age children's FCC partnership roles is worthy to explore in youth transition programmes.

Toy Presses and Treasure Maps: Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne as Collaborators

Stevenson wrote of authorship as a social act between writers, publishers, and readers, and he felt particularly indebted to Osbourne, his stepson. This article explores Stevenson and Osbourne as collaborators, examining first their partnership over toy press printing. While toy presses were designed to encourage traditional adult-child relationships, Stevenson and Osbourne constructed a nuanced negotiation between adult and child as author and publisher. This collaboration shaped Stevenson's Treasure Island , a novel imagined in cooperation with Osbourne that articulates the possibilities and pitfalls of intergenerational partnerships. Stevenson and Osbourne's collaborations reveal how nineteenth-century ideas about the child's imagination transformed adultchild dynamics.

Secret Message Decryption: Group Consulting Projects Using Matrices and Linear Programming

ABSTRACT We describe two short group projects for finite mathematics students that incorporate matrices and linear programming into fictional consulting requests presented as a letter to the students. The students are required to use mathematics to decrypt secret messages in one project involving matrix multiplication and inversion. The second project involves a linear programming treasure map. After a discussion and solution session, the students are asked to present the group solution in a business letter. We present a grading checklist and discuss the classroom experience.

A map for phase-change materials

Phase-change materials are characterized by a unique property portfolio well suited for data storage applications. Here, a first treasure map for phase-change materials is presented on the basis of a fundamental understanding of the bonding characteristics. This map is spanned by two coordinates that can be calculated just from the composition, and represent the degree of ionicity and the tendency towards hybridization ('covalency') of the bonding. A small magnitude of both quantities is an inherent characteristic of phase-change materials. This coordinate scheme enables a prediction of trends for the physical properties on changing stoichiometry.

The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688 (review)

Reviewed by: The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688 Robert H. Berlin The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688. By Benerson Little. Washington: Potomac Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59797-101-0. Maps. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xv, 342. $29.95. The Peace Treaty of 1674 ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War, brought peace between Spain and England, and turned privateers, legalized pirates operating with a letter of marque, into buccaneers. The name buccaneer has its origins with the boucaniers, originally cattle and pig hunters on the island of Hispaniola, former soldiers who survived the failed English attempt in 1655 to conquer Hispaniola. The name boucanier refers to the boucan, the grate on which meat was cured over a fire. The first boucaniers were essentially men who hunted pigs and cattle to barbecue the meat for immediate consumption or for drying in the sun to make jerky. Should you wish to prepare an authentic Boucanier barbecue, Appendix E in this book gives a detailed account, including the recipe for the rum punch required to accompany the barbecue. Indeed, there is little about the buccaneer’s life that is not covered in this detailed and informative book. The buccaneer’s activities, diet, dress, sex life, health, wealth, and society on the Spanish Main are explained with enthusiasm and excitement. The author reveals the buccaneer’s world through numerous first-person accounts and explains the buccaneer’s social life both on land and sea. The Buccaneer’s Realm is also a naval history, recreating numerous small sea battles between the buccaneers and the primarily Spanish ships, from treasure galleons to sloops, they attacked. Piracy proved far more rewarding than making and selling jerky! The author concurs with the debunkers of pirate myths such as buried treasure and treasure maps (buccaneers had neither time to nor interest in saving any wealth they stole). Little understands and explains the realities of life aboard a buccaneer sailing vessel where crews battled odors, vermin, poor rations, as well as the tempests of the sea and enemy men of war. [End Page 937] The buccaneers sailed the Spanish Main, referred to simply as the Main, which in 1674 ranged from Florida southward along the Central and South American coast until it was interrupted by the bulge of the Portuguese colony of Brazil. In a modern sense, the Main, Benerson points out, refers to the Caribbean, both sea and islands. The book’s geography encompasses both and readers are assisted by eight useful maps. Little claims that the return of war between the great powers in 1688 postponed the rise of unrestrained piracy. When the so-called “Golden Age of Piracy” did take place in the early 1700s the infamous Anglo American pirates like Blackbeard “preyed almost entirely on weak merchantmen at sea” and, unlike the buccaneers of the 1670s and 1680s, avoided attacking cities and men-of-war (p. 220). Benerson Little’s earlier book, The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730, displayed his masterful knowledge of the subject and he brings that perspective to the sea actions of the buccaneers. As a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer and an analyst for the Naval Special Warfare Center Strategy and Tactics Group, he understands maritime life and effectively recreates buccaneer chases and captures. Little relies on published sources, particularly Alexandre Exquemelin’s History of the Bouccaneers of America, first published in Amsterdam in 1678 and still the standard work, and the English buccaneer William Dampier’s three accounts of voyages published in 1697 and 1729, for much of his material. He does not cite in text or bibliography the most readable and authoritative book on pirates, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. Though the writing and organization could be more reader friendly, The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688 is a valuable source for understanding the buccaneer’s life on land and at sea. Robert H. Berlin Prescott, Arizona Copyright © 2008 The Society for Military History

An authentication and validation mechanism for analyzing syslogs forensically

This research proposes a novel technique for authenticating and validating syslogs for forensic analysis. This technique uses a modification of the Needham Schroeder protocol, which uses nonces (numbers used only once) and public keys. Syslogs, which were developed from an event-logging perspective and not from an evidence-sustaining one, are system treasure maps that chart out and pinpoint attacks and attack attempts. Over the past few years, research on securing syslogs has yielded enhanced syslog protocols that focus on tamper prevention and detection. However, many of these protocols, though efficient from a security perspective, are inadequate when forensics comes into play. From a legal perspective, any kind of evidence found at a crime scene needs to be validated. In addition, any digital forensic evidence when presented in court needs to be admissible, authentic, believable, and reliable [4]. Currently, a patchy log on the server side and client side cannot be considered as formal authentication of a wrong doer [5]. This paper presents a method that ties together, authenticates, and validates all the entities involved in the crime scene---the user using the application, the system that is being used, and the application being used on the system by a user. This means that instead of merely transmitting the header and the message, which is the standard syslog protocol format, the syslog entry along with the user fingerprint, application fingerprint, and system fingerprint are transmitted to the logging server. The assignment of digital fingerprints and the addition of a challenge response mechanism to the underlying syslogging mechanism aim to validate generated syslogs forensically.

"Books for the Use of the Learned and Studious": William London's Catalogue of Most Vendible Books

Newcastle-upon-Tyne bookseller William London produced his pioneering bibliographical text, A Catalogue of the Most Vendible Books in England, between 1657 and 1660.2 London's work was one of the earliest attempts to catalog all English-language books, at a time when booksellers and readers alike were scrambling to keep up with the output of printed matter. In his extended preface, London explained that he was offering his audience a new means of harnessing this typographic flood, a treasure map that would ensure that books did not end up buried in obscurity. To date scholars have largely limited their discussion of this catalog to these bibliographic contributions.3 However, as London makes clear in his introduction, he considered books to be far more than repositories of intangible learning; rather, they offered access to an important new kind of functional knowledge. London intended his catalog not only to convey information about the latest printed material to a broad audience-one that he would play a role in creating-but also to promote the very idea of knowledge as a practical tool.

To Bury a Treasure Map at the U-turn

To Bury a Treasure Map at the U-turn Yoon Sung-Hee (bio) Translated by Ji-Eun Lee (bio) 1 Father said he smoked his way through a whole pack of cigarettes outside the delivery room. The TV was showing a street scene as the year neared its end. Snowflakes were scattering in the wind. Mother was in labor for eight hours. Father mumbled, "Wait, wait a little," looking at his watch. He wanted his child to be the first newborn of the year. He thought all the luck in the world would rush toward him if that happened. His store had been in the red for several months. Winter was far from over, but there were only a few charcoal briquettes left. The hospital announced that they would offer free pediatric care to the country's first newborn if it were born in their obstetric clinic. My sister was born on December 31st at 11:34 P.M. "Would've been great if she'd been born thirty minutes later . . . ," father told the nurse. "Don't worry. There's one more to come," she replied. Upon hearing this, father shouted "A little quicker!" checking his watch. I was born on January 1st at 0:31 A.M. "Would've been great if it had been born thirty minutes earlier, wouldn't it?" This time it was the nurse who said this to father. Mother was transferred to the intensive care unit immediately. Father sat beside her while she was wearing an oxygen mask and told her about his childhood. Grandfather was the owner of a rather [End Page 81] popular nightclub in the city of D. He pushed only one virtue in raising his children: mental fortitude! He was also once a judo athlete who had made city D proud. Father learned judo, taekwondo, and kendo, according to his father's wishes. For father, who was born premature at eight months and grew up sickly, sports were really beyond his ability. As they became more intense, father's stammering got worse. "It's strange. I can't talk when I see my father's face. But I said these last words just fine: 'I'm leaving home. I won't come back.' I didn't stutter at all." Father continued stroking mother's hair. Mother was never able to hold in her arms the two daughters she delivered. After the funeral, father returned to his hometown with my sister on his back and me on his chest. Ten years had passed since he left. Grandfather still owned the nightclub. "I will work hard," father said without stammering. Grandfather held his young granddaughters, one on each knee. My sister and I immediately pooped and started crying at the same time. Grandfather, who especially hated the sound of babies crying, handed over the keys to an apartment he had bought for a bar owner he was dating, and said, "Go live on your own with your babies." Grandfather never could tell my sister and me apart until the day he died. Father was always busy. He had to report the previous day's profits to grandfather, and every time, his father railed at him: "Bastard!" His half-brothers each had their cut and so business at the nightclub did not fare well. Father had seven half-brothers, each from a different mother. One of them manufactured fake foreign booze and sold it at the club. Another cooked up cheap snacks and sold them there for a fivefold profit. Yet another got commissions for recruiting singers for the nightclub. Whenever someone said anything bad about his brothers, father would never forget that he was the responsible one, the eldest of all the sons. But his brothers didn't care. Each was the eldest son of his mother. It was Nurungji Granny who raised us. She had lived next [End Page 82] door and she loved the scorched and dried rice from the bottom of the pot-nurungji-so my sister named her Nurungji Granny. Nurungji Granny's eldest son ran off in the middle of the night to avoid paying a debt of several billion won ($1 million). Granny was away seeing...

Learning Objects and Gerontology

Virtual AGE (vAGE) is an asynchronous educational environment that utilizes learning objects focused on gerontology and a learning anytime/anywhere philosophy. This paper discusses the benefits of asynchronous instruction and the process of creating learning objects. Learning objects are “small, reusable chunks of instructional media” Wiley (2000). They are stand-alone instructional devices that are limited only by the creativity of the person designing them but are not to be construed with a way to present lecture notes. Using examples of learning objects from the vAGE library, the motivation behind constructing learning objects and the variety of purposes to which they can be put is presented. Creating a learning object is like developing a treasure map for your students to explore.

Research Findings

Unveiling the Treasure Maps in Stem Cells.

Imperial Cartography and Victorian Literature: Charting the Wishes and Anguish of an Island-Empire

This essay is inspired by Benedict Anderson's theorisation that communities are products of collective imagination. Literature and cartography, as Anderson points out, exert considerable influence in marking the imaginary contour of a specific community. To Anderson's theorisation, this essay will add a few notes, suggesting that literary mapping and cartographic writing convey dialectic messages and thereby chart contending communities. Through an examination of Victorian adventure stories (The Coral Island, King Solomon's Mines and Kim), domestic novels (Wuthering Heights, The Way We Live Now and The Sign of Four), an imperial map and a fictional treasure map, this essay will unfold the ideological underpinnings of writing and charting, analyse the rhetoric of wish and anguish in both acts, and interrogate Britain's conflicting doctrines of global imperialism and insular nationalism. The ultimate aim is to argue that literary mapping, analogous to cartographic writing, captures a Britain that is at once an invincible empire flexing its muscle worldwide and a vulnerable island besieged by the Atlantic Ocean, Irish Sea, English Channel, and North Sea. Between Britain's wishes and anguish, Victorian writers sketch in their contemporaries' imagination a contour of the British Empire in which the centre itself is decentred.

TEACHING NOTES

TEACHING NOTES

Treasure Map with No Spot Marked "X"

Treasure Map with No Spot Marked "X"

Invited Essay Review : DSM-IV and the Hunt for Gold: A Review of the Treasure Map

A Review of Task Force on DSM-IV. (1991). DSM-IV Options Book: Work in progress. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. (Pages unnumbered, $10.00 paperback, no ISBN).

On the Outskirts of Babel

I admit to a fondness for book lists that began on Wednesdays in the eighth grade, when feet perched imperiously on the table in the corner I would review with inordinate glee the list of recommended reading. What seemed to others an onerous and pedantic exercise was to me a treasure map that dissolved the walls of the school around me.