Landslides are one of the critical natural hazards that cause human, infrastructure, and economic losses. Risk of catastrophic losses due to landslides is significant given sprawled urban development near steep slopes and the increasing proximity of large populations to hilly areas. For reducing these losses, a high-resolution digital terrain model (DTM) is an essential piece of data for a qual...

Phylogenetic analysis of proteins using multiple sequence alignment (MSA) assumes an underlying evolutionary relationship in these proteins which occasionally remains undetected due to considerable sequence divergence. Structural alignment programs have been developed to unravel such fuzzy relationships. However, none of these structure based methods have used electrostatic properties to discri...

The use of atomic media to produce optical delay has predominantly exploited the steep dispersion associated with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) [1]. While this can lead to very low group velocities it has a severe bandwidth limitation owing to the narrow spectral range over which the transparency and steep dispersion occur, making delays longer than the pulse width difficult to...

[1] Current models of long-term river incision into bedrock suggest that the local rate of differential rock uplift should exert a primary control on the gradient of channel longitudinal profiles. However, discrimination of this effect from the influence of variations in substrate erodibility, sediment flux, precipitation, and transient changes in profile shape has proved difficult in practice....

Recent aircraft measurements, primarily in the extratropics, of the horizontal variance of nitrous oxide (N90] and ozone (O• in the middle stratosnho, ro, indicate that horizontal spectra of the tracer variance scale nearly as k -2, where k is the spatial wavenumber along the aircraft flight track [$trahan and Mahlman, 1994; Bacmeister et al., 1996]. This spectral scaling has been regarded as i...

sciencemag.org SCIENCE Paleoindian, and fishtail points previously provided a roadmap that archaeologists used to trace the spread of Paleoindians throughout the Americas. Such a roadmap is lacking for pre-Clovis sites. Assemblages with distinctive stemmed (“tanged”) chipped-stone projectile points, crescents (lunate-shaped), and leaf-shaped bifaces found in Japan, northeast Asia, western North...

[1] Steep, rough channels occupy a large fraction of the total channel length in mountainous regions. Most sediment mobilized on hillslopes must pass through these streams before reaching lower-gradient channels. Steep channels have wide grain size distributions that are composed of finer, more mobile sediment and large, rarely mobile grains. The large grains can bear a significant portion of t...