For centuries, elephant locomotion has been a contentious and confusing challenge for locomotion scientists to understand, not only because of technical difficulties but also because elephant locomotion is in some ways atypical of more familiar quadrupedal gaits. We analyzed the locomotor kinematics of over 2400 strides from 14 African and 48 Asian elephant individuals (body mass 116-4632 kg) f...

Community convergence across biogeographically distinct regions suggests the existence of key, repeated, evolutionary mechanisms relating community characteristics to the environment. However, convergence studies at the community level often involve only qualitative comparisons of the environment and may fail to identify which environmental variables drive community structure. We tested the hyp...

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Aerators are applied to provide air entrainment and cavitation erosion protections for high-speed flows. By traditional chute aerators in high-head bottom tunnels, it is difficult maintain effective aeration protection low-Froude-number small-slope conditions. The present study explores a wedge aerator design at the outlet, detailed experimental data on cavity entrained diffusion were obtained ...

The Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) was conducted over the European Alps in September-November 1999. During autumn, heavy rains and floods can occur when baroclinic troughs move over the region, and moist air flows from the Mediterranean Sea toward the southern Alps. Dual-polarimetric Doppler and vertically pointing radar data collected during MAP on the Mediterranean side of the Alps provided...

Gravity waves arise in gravitationally stratified compressible flows at low Mach and Froude numbers, and these waves impose a sharp restriction on the time step. This paper presents a filtering strategy for the fully compressible equations based on normal-mode analysis that is used throughout the simulation to compute the fast dynamics and is able to damp only chosen modes. This method is based...