Of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium BC, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. Archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. The study of the techniques ...

Response analysis of the buried pipeline subjected to reverse fault displacement is very important for design, detection and protection of buried pipelines. This paper looks at the buckling behavior of a buried pipeline subjected to reverse fault displacement in the rock stratum. Effects of internal pressure, wall thickness, fault displacement and burial depth on the buckling mode and the axial...

Abstract. Being the most common human-created landforms, terrace construction has resulted in an extensive perturbation of land surface. However, our mechanistic understanding soil organic carbon (SOC) (de-)stabilization mechanisms and persistence SOC stored terraced soils is far from complete. Here we explored factors controlling stability temperature sensitivity (Q10) abandoned prehistoric ag...

New Zealand bracken (Pteridium esculentum) belongs to a group of closely related fern species of near global extent. Pteridium species worldwide are aggressive, highly productive, seral plants, functionally more akin to shrubs than ferns. Their deeply buried starch-rich rhizomes allow them to survive repeated fire and their efficient nutrient uptake permits exploitation of a wide range of soils...

Mountains of Norway. Its Little Ice Age maximum occurred about 1750 when it deposited a well-defined end moraine. Since then it has retreated leaving a series of recessional moraines. All of these moraines have been dated lichenometrically by Matthews (see Matthews, 1992 for a comprehensive summary). We used this series of dated moraines to investigate the early stages of pedogenesis, the early...

Occurrence and accommodation of charged amino acid residues in proteins that are structurally equivalent to buried non-polar residues in homologues have been investigated. Using a dataset of 1,852 homologous pairs of crystal structures of proteins available at 2A or better resolution, 14,024 examples of apolar residues in the structurally conserved regions replaced by charged residues in homolo...