introduction alluvial fans are depositional landforms developed on a confined channel emerged from a drainage basin, i.e. between a mountain range and a plain. an alluvial fan is a fan- or cone-shaped deposit of sediments crossed and built up by streams. if a fan is built up by debris flows, it is properly called a debris cone or colluvial fan. these flows come from a single point source at the...

The search for receptors for abscisic acid (ABA), a phytohormone central to the response of plants to biotic and abiotic stress, has been controversial. In this issue, Pandey et al. (2009) report the identification of two membrane proteins from Arabidopsis, GTG1 and GTG2, that bind ABA in vitro and mediate ABA responses in vivo.

Alluvial fans in southern Monglia occur along a group of narrow discontinuous mountain ranges which formed as transpressional uplifts along a series of strike-slip faults. They provide information on the nature of neotectonic activity in the eastern Gobi Altai range and on palaeoclimate change. Alluvial fan formation was dominated by various geomorphological processes largely controlled by clim...

In a formally real field, a fan is a certain special intersection of positive cones of orderings. Fans are very important to the study of quadratic forms over the field. The current status of the theory for commutative fields is well summarized in [9]. Our interest here will be in a *-field (D, *); that is, a skew field D with an involution *. The concept of *-ordering is due to Holland [8], th...

This study evaluated the potential of trees planted around commercial poultry farms to trap ammonia (NH(3)) and dust or particulate matter (PM). Norway spruce, Spike hybrid poplar, hybrid willow, and Streamco purpleosier willow were planted on five commercial farms from 2003 to 2004. Plant foliage was sampled in front of the exhaust fans and at a control distance away from the fans on one turke...

Welcome to the exciting world of marketing. In this chapter, to start you off, we will first introduce you to the basic concepts. We’ll start with a simple question: What is marketing? Simply put, marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The aim of marketing is to create value for customers and to capture value in return. Chapter 1 is organized around five steps in the marketing...

Once upon a time there was a struggling young California band. Its music was too loud and its image too unpolished for MTV. Its social and political messages were a little too disturbing for radio. But it built a passionate following among underground-rock fans by touring relentlessly, staying true to its message and encouraging fans to record its live shows and distribute bootlegged tapes as w...

“Otaku is a Japanese word coined during the eighties, it is used to describe fanatics that have an obsessive interest or hobby... The Japanese think of otaku the same way most people think of nerds sad and socially inept. Western Anime fans often use the word to describe anime and manga fans, except with more enthusiastic tones than the Japanese.” (http://www.thip.co.uk/work/Competition2/what.h...