The Gonghe Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a cold, arid climate and suffered severe land degradation. Climate change as well anthropogenic activities including overgrazing have resulted in widespread blowout development formation of some Earth’s largest blowouts. blowouts are part an aeolian dominated landscape that passes from deflation zone to grass covered plain, then through increasi...

The unprecedented engagement of scientists from government, academia, and industry enabled multiple unanticipated and unique problems to be addressed during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. During the months between the initial blowout on April 20, 2010, and the final well kill on September 19, 2010, researchers prepared options, analyses of tradeoffs, assessments, and calculations of uncertain...

This research supported by the U.S. Army Research Office examines a myriad of facets of lifted hydrocarbon jet flames in the presence of air co-flow. At a certain jet exit velocity, a flame will lift from the fuel nozzle and stabilize at some downstream position. The partially-premixed flame front of the lifted flame oscillates, with the oscillations becoming greater in flames stabilized furthe...

One-third of orbital blowout fractures are sustained during sport. Soccer is most commonly involved. Though visual acuity recovery is usually complete, permanent loss of binocular visual field is almost universal. Typically high-energy blows by opponent's finger, fist, elbow, knee or boot are responsible. Injuries to the eye itself may also be sustained and should be looked for. Ocular protecti...

It is natural for a game designer to assume that games that give each player an equal chance of winning will often have tie games and changes in the lead, but this is incorrect. An argument is made for viewing fair games between players of equal skill as unbiased random walks, the result of which is that fair games naturally tend to have few or no tie games and lead reversals, unless they posse...

The Cygnus Loop is one of the largest and nearest supernova remnants. It was observed by the PSPC detector of the Röntgen-Satellite ROSAT during the survey phase of the ROSAT mission. This has resulted in the highest–sensitivity complete x-ray image of the Cygnus Loop. It also has the high spatial resolution of one arcmin and contains spectral information. It is thus the best map of the Cygnus ...