the rate of soil erosion and sediment yield estimation in the catchment areas is considered as an important factor for soil and water conservation practices. due to difficulties and restrictions in common soil erosion methods, applying a high accuracy method with lowest cost and time consuming would be necessary. assessment of soil loss in hilly areas with capacity of rang land that has changed...

[1] Erosion by bedrock river channels is commonly modeled with the stream power equation. We present a two-part approach to solving this nonlinear equation analytically and explore the implications for evolving river profiles. First, a method for non-dimensionalizing the stream power equation transforms river profiles in steady state with respect to uniform uplift into a straight line in dimens...

dx. The construction of the schemes involves an appropriate extension of Eyre’s idea of convex-concave decomposition of the energy functional. As an application, we derive unconditionally stable and convergent schemes for epitaxial film growth models with slope selection (F (y) = 1 4 (|y| − 1)) and without slope selection (F (y) = − 1 2 ln(1 + |y|)). We conclude the paper with some preliminary ...

Loess shoulder-lines are significant structural lines which divide the complicated loess landform into loess interfluves and gully-slope lands. Existing extraction algorithms for shoulder-lines mainly are based on local maximum of terrain features. These algorithms are sensitive to noise for complicated loess surface and the extraction parameters are difficult to be determined, making the extra...

The convex–concave rule is considered an important theory during treatment decision-making (Kirby et al., 2007). According to this rule (Fig. 1) the therapist moves a bone with a convex joint surface opposite to the direction of restricted movement of the distal aspect of the bone (e.g. the head of humerus inferiorly for restricted shoulder abduction). However, a concave joint surface is mobili...

Introduction: MRI provides an essential tool for musculoskeletal radiology. The highest quality images are obtained with anatomically specific RF coil designs, customized to the anatomy of interest. The shoulder presents a difficult target, however, because of wide variations in body habitus and the difficulty of arranging coil elements around the shoulder to optimize sensitivity. The most comm...

Soil genesis, physico-chemical properties and tea yield were investigated along different hillslope positions in the major tea cultivation area of Iran, i.e. Lahijan, Gilan Province. Land suitability was also determined for the tea production in this hilly region. Four different slope positions i.e., summit, shoulder, backslope and toeslope were sampled on three slope aspects following the prof...

Using slope enclosures may provide sharper bounds for the range of a function than using enclosures of the derivative. Hence, slope enclosures may be useful in verifying the assumptions for existence tests or in algorithms for global optimization. Previous papers by Kolev and Ratz show how to compute slope enclosures for convex and concave functions. In this paper, we generalize these formulas ...