Conservation decisions should be evaluated for how they meet conservation goals at multiple spatial extents. Conservation easements are land use decisions resulting from a combination of social and environmental conditions. An emerging area of research is the evaluation of spatial distribution of easements and their spatial correlates. We tested the relative influence of interacting social and ...

The Geological Survey Office (GSO) undertook a pilot study with the objective of assessing the ability of Survey data to support modern quantitative mineral potential modelling techniques. The Yarrol pilot project was designed to audit digital data sets routinely produced by the GSO, and to provide mineral assessment outputs relevant to both industry and Government decision-making processes. Th...

Fractures have crucial impact on flow in reservoirs. In naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR) the fracture network alone can be the dominant factor in fluid transport. Fractures as geological discontinuities introduce a high level of complexity into the entire reservoir modeling workflow. In current practice, the geological modeling of fractures and flow simulation are considerably disconnected,...

Three-dimensional (3D) modelling of geological body is an important issue of 3D GIS and 3D Geosciences Modelling, and one of the key technologies of digital mine. GTP model and its components are introduced in this paper. According to the relations between chronolith and rock attribute comprehensively, the modelling region, system, series, group and rock characteristics(RC) are regard as the sc...

Up to now, many studies have been done to show the origin of attitudes and their relationships with behaviors or actions. Some of those works have focused on students' attitudes and some have introduced the various contexts of language teaching and learning. These studies were enough to give a new impetus for conducting the present investigation. This paper investigated the teachers' attitudes ...

Conditions have fluctuated a good deal in the last 'leaps' but these changes, like waves on the ocean, had little effect on the working up and down of traditional medicine which is the main element of Chinese life itself. Contradictions in a socialist society are fundamentally different from those in the old societies. Traditional medicine, a faithful reflection of Chinese culture, is a first-r...

Geological mapping and establishment of stratigraphic relationships provides an overview of geological processes operating on Mars and how they have varied in time and space. Impact craters and basins shaped the crust in earliest history and as their importance declined, evidence of extensive regional volcanism emerged during the Late Noachian. Regional volcanism characterized the Early Hesperi...