The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrological/water quality model divides a watershed into hydrological response units (HRUs) based on unique land cover, soil type, and slope. HRUs are a set of discontinuous land masses that are spatially located in the watershed but their responses are not tied to any particular field. Field_SWAT, a simple graphical user interface (GUI)-driven tool, w...

a State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China b Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Remote Sensing and Digital City, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China c Department of Earth System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota, Clifford Hall, 4149 University Avenue, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA d Scho...

In today's lecture, we will present a randomized algorithm that embeds any arbitrary metric into a dominating tree metric such that each edge is distorted, in expectation, in the worst case by a factor of O(log n) and such that each edge is not contracted. Recall that a metric on graph G = (V, E) is a function d : E → R. One can define a metric M = (X, d) on an arbitrary set of vertices X with ...

Recent models of dyslexia emphasise the difficulties for these children in processing rapid,complex auditory stimuli. We investigated concurrent sound segregation in dyslexic and non-dyslexic children, using behavioural and event-related potential (ERP) methods. Twenty-twochildren (8-12yrs) were studied; half of the participants had phonological dyslexia. Five loudness-matched c...

Gross Pathology: Suppurative osteomyelitis and periostitis with osteolysis and necrosis of bone and cartilage of the left rear cannon bone, with extension into the fetlock joint (suppurative arthritis), were observed. A patent urachus with chronic fibrinopurulent and necrotizing omphalitis with fibrosis was also present. The right rear cannon bone had a well-demarcated focus of thickened distal...

We determined the centroid moment tensor (CMT) solutions of earthquakes that occurred along the North Anatolian fault (NAF) beneath the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, using data obtained from Turkey’s broadband seismograph network. The CMT solution of the 2014 Aegean Sea earthquake (Mw 6.9) represents a strike-slip fault, consistent with the geometry of the NAF, and the source-time function...

Physical properties (density in kg m-3, viscosity, sinking rates and dispersion rate) of the gametes and associated spawned materials were measured for three species of sea urchin, Tripneustes gratilla, Echinometra mathaei and Colobocentrotus atratus, from habitats that differ in wave exposure. The gametes of all three species are negatively buoyant, highly viscous and exhibit shear-thinning (a...

Limno-terrestrial tardigrades are small invertebrates that are subjected to periodic drought of their micro-environment. They have evolved to cope with these unfavorable conditions by anhydrobiosis, an ametabolic state of low cellular water. During drying and rehydration, tardigrades go through drastic changes in cellular water content. By our transcriptome sequencing effort of the limno-terres...