{"title":"The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, Part I: Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopic Study of the Gemstones","authors":"","doi":"10.15506/jog.2023.38.5.448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2023.38.5.448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67239287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting","authors":"R. Shor","doi":"10.15506/jog.2023.38.5.533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2023.38.5.533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67239998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colour-Change Garnet Showing Blue Colouration from Kamtonga, Kenya","authors":"C. Schwarzinger","doi":"10.15506/jog.2023.38.6.545a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2023.38.6.545a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67240272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiangtao Wang, Longlong Qian, Songwei Wang, Li Shi, Zhizhong Wang
{"title":"Directional Preference in Avian Midbrain Saliency Computing Nucleus Reflects a Well-Designed Receptive Field Structure.","authors":"Jiangtao Wang, Longlong Qian, Songwei Wang, Li Shi, Zhizhong Wang","doi":"10.3390/ani12091143","DOIUrl":"10.3390/ani12091143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neurons responding sensitively to motions in several rather than all directions have been identified in many sensory systems. Although this directional preference has been demonstrated by previous studies to exist in the isthmi pars magnocellularis (Imc) of pigeon (<i>Columba livia</i>), which plays a key role in the midbrain saliency computing network, the dynamic response characteristics and the physiological basis underlying this phenomenon are unclear. Herein, dots moving in 16 directions and a biologically plausible computational model were used. We found that pigeon Imc's significant responses for objects moving in preferred directions benefit the long response duration and high instantaneous firing rate. Furthermore, the receptive field structures predicted by a computational model, which captures the actual directional tuning curves, agree with the real data collected from population Imc units. These results suggested that directional preference in Imc may be internally prebuilt by elongating the vertical axis of the receptive field, making predators attack from the dorsal-ventral direction and conspecifics flying away in the ventral-dorsal direction, more salient for avians, which is of great ecological and physiological significance for survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9105111/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89330377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JNA’s Pearl Report 2022–2023","authors":"Carol M. Stockton","doi":"10.15506/jog.2022.38.4.308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2022.38.4.308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67236858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paraíba or Not? Cu-bearing Tourmaline with a Distinct Fe Concentration","authors":"M. Krzemnicki, Hao A. O. Wang","doi":"10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Webinars and Other Online Gemmological Education","authors":"Carol M. Stockton","doi":"10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.3b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.3b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demantoid Garnet from Antetezambato, Northern Madagascar—Internal Characteristics and Their Use in Deciphering Geographic Origin","authors":"J. Zwaan","doi":"10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2021.38.1.64","url":null,"abstract":": Demantoid garnets from Antetezambato, northern Madagascar, contain a characteristic inclusion suite typical of a skarn occurrence. Unlike demantoid from the classic deposits in the Ural Mountains, Russia, and from other serpentinite-related occurrences, the stones from Madagascar do not contain ‘horsetail’ inclusions, but instead host groups of small, rounded diopside grains, fluorapatite, dolomite, calcite, quartz, pyrite and wollastonite, as well as rare native bismuth. Partially healed fissures contain two-phase fluid inclusions (with H 2 O and a gas bubble) of varying salinity. Negative crystals, commonly large and empty, sometimes also contain H 2 O. Pronounced growth features and parallel hollow tubes are also present. Demantoid from Namibia likewise has a skarn origin and shows some similar internal features, as well as some that are different, such as the common presence of fluorapatite and small multiphase fluid inclusions, along with the absence of large negative crystals and native bismuth. A review of previously advocated methods for geographic origin determination of demantoid based on chemical fingerprinting alone shows that this technique is applicable only to stones with a nearly pure andradite composition when differentiating Malagasy and Namibian localities. In such cases, elevated traces of Mn are indicative of a Namibian origin.","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67235004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World Silver Survey 2022","authors":"Carol M. Stockton","doi":"10.15506/jog.2022.38.3.214d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2022.38.3.214d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67235296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assure Program Developments","authors":"Carol M. Stockton","doi":"10.15506/jog.2022.38.4.308b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15506/jog.2022.38.4.308b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gemmology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67236998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}