Central stages in the evolution of rocky, potentially habitable planets may play out under atmospheric conditions with a large inventory non-dilute condensable components. Variations condensate retention and accompanying changes local lapse rate substantially affect planetary climate surface conditions, but there is currently no general theory to effectively describe such atmospheres. In this a...

This research intends to develop a method based on the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to predict permanent earthquake-induced deformation of the earth dams and embankments. For this purpose, data sets of observations from 152 published case histories on the performance of the earth dams and embankments, during the past earthquakes, was used. In order to predict earthquake-induced deformation o...

 Integral bridges are gaining increased popularity because of both economic and fast construction associated with the omission of bearing supports and expansion joints. In the present study the cyclic earth pressure behind integral bridge abutments under traffic surcharges are investigated and compared with that induced behind the abutment of  conventional bridges (with isolated deck and abutme...

The military is emerging as an important actor in climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly when it comes to responding extremes. While not generally considered a “governance actor” scholarship on governance, militaries increasingly participate climate-related knowledge production, resource provision, decision-making. However, the nature degree of involvement these issues vary from...

Geomatics is the discipline of electronically gathering, storing, processing, and delivering spatially related digital information; it continues to be one fastest expanding global markets, driven by technology. The British Geological Survey (BGS) geomatics capabilities have been utilized in a variety scientific studies such as monitoring actively growing volcanic lava domes rapidly retreating g...

Spacecraft in low-Earth orbit are exposed to environmental threats which can lead material degradation and component failures. The presence of atomic oxygen collisions from orbital debris have detrimental effects on the structures, thus affecting their performance. Cranfield University has developed a family drag augmentation systems (DAS), for end-of-life de-orbit satellites, addressing space ...

Digital Earth is a massive, distributed framework for managing and visualising georeferenced information over the Internet. Imagine being able to walk down the streets of Paris, seeing the sights and hearing the sounds around you, without leaving your home. You are able to converse with a friend who is also online, and the two of you decide to fly to Tahiti together. As you travel around the gl...

FRANCIS HITCHING, Earth magic, London, Cassell, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 196, illus., £4.50. For centuries the stone circles, barrows, dolmens and hill "forts" that are found in Northern Europe and Britain have attracted continual attention and bitter controversy. They mostly date from the fifth to second centuries B.C. and many of them have been shown to have acted as calendars and prognosticators ...