The internal thermal and magnetic evolution of rocky exoplanets is critical to their habitability. We focus on the thermal-orbital evolution of Earth-mass planets around low-mass M stars whose radiative habitable zone overlaps with the "tidal zone," where tidal dissipation is expected to be a significant heat source in the interior. We develop a thermal-orbital evolution model calibrated to Ear...

Background Two popular methods for determining the threshold values for the infarct core and gray zone on delayed enhancement MR images (DE-MRI) have been proposed previously: full width and half maximum (FWHM) and standard deviation (SD) methods [1]. Major limitations of these methods are:1) three manually drawn contours are needed for endocardial, epicardial and remote myocardium boundaries, ...

Plastic zone evolution in Al–2 wt% Si metal films on silicon and sapphire substrates was studied using nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM was used to measure the extent of plastic pileup, which is a measure of the plastic zone radius in the film. It was found that the plastic zone size develops in a self-similar fashion with increasing indenter penetration when normalized by...

Many protected areas or parks in developing countries have buffer zones at their boundaries to achieve the dual goals of protecting park resources and providing resource benefits to neighbouring people. Despite the prevalence of these zoning policies, few behavioural models of people’s buffer zone use inform the sizing and management of those zones. This paper uses a spatially explicit resource...

The determination of permeability in heterogeneous and anisotropic reservoirs is a complex problem, because core samples and well test data are usually only available for limited number of wells. This paper presents hydraulic flow units and flow zone indicator for predicting permeability of rock mass from core and well log-data. The concept is applied to some uncored wells/intervals to predict ...

this article present the result from a study of two sediment cores collected from theenvironmentally distinct zones of ces. accumulation status of five toxic metals: cadmium (cd), chromium(cr), cobalt (co), copper (cu) and lead (pb) were analyzed. besides texture and chns were determined tounderstand the composition of the sediment. enrichment factor (ef) and anthropogenic factor (af) wereused ...