OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of dental erosion and associated factors in preschool children in Guangxi and Hubei provinces of China. METHODS Dental examinations were carried out on 1949 children aged 3-5 years. Measurement of erosion was confined to primary maxillary incisors. The erosion index used was based upon the 1993 UK National Survey of Children's Dental Health. The children's...

Abstract The lateral migration of a river meander is driven by erosion on the outer bank and deposition inner bank, both which are affected shear stress (and therefore channel slope) through complex morphodynamic feedbacks. To test sensitivity to slope, we quantify slope change induced glacial isostatic adjustment along Red River (North Dakota, USA Manitoba, Canada) two its tributaries over pas...

The energetic cost of replacing shell loss due to erosion has been overlooked in previous research on molluscan energy budgets, although several studies have shown that shell breakage incurs a significant short-term cost and may reduce growth. We measured the rate of shell erosion for two species of patellid limpets: Patella granatina, which has a shell predominated by calcite, and P. argenvill...

The slurry erosion behaviour of laser clad Fe–Cr–B–Si alloy coatings was investigated at impact angles from 30u to 90u with an increment of 15u, and compared with the slurry erosion behaviour of two laser clad carbide coatings and a non-coated substrate made of AISI 4140 steel. The Fe–Cr–B–Si alloy coatings had slurry erosion resistance. Their overall slurry erosion resistance at impact angles ...

*Manzul Kumar Hazarika, Institute of Industrial Science, Block-C, Ce-509, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 1538505, Japan; Kiyoshi Honda, Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, STAR Program, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 4, Khlong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 , Thailand. *Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT Soil erosion is a serious environmental p...

Introduction: Deciphering the stratigraphy of the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD) may provide critical insight into climatic processes on Mars. Detailed layering is exposed within NPLD troughs, the stratigraphy of which can either simply appear straightlying or manifest in a more complex offset pattern (Fig. 1). Here we examine small-scale variations in the stratigraphy of offset tr...

Danjiangkou reservoir area is the main water source and the submerged area of the Middle Route South-to-North Water Transfer Project of China. Soil erosion is a factor that significantly influences the quality and transfer of water from the Danjiangkou reservoir. The objective of this study is to assess the water erosion (rill and sheet erosion) risk and dynamic change trend of spatial distribu...

The effects of water erosion (including long-term historical erosion and single erosion event) on soil properties and productivity in different farming systems were investigated. A typical sloping cropland with homogeneous soil properties was designed in 2009 and then protected from other external disturbances except natural water erosion. In 2012, this cropland was divided in three equally siz...

The internal erosion of soil results from seepage flow. It appears to be the main cause of severe hydraulic failure for dams and dikes. All around the world, 46% of dams present a risk of internal erosion. In France, 70 critical cases have already been detected. When internal erosion is suspected, the delay to failure is hardly predictable. Then, authorities should be able to develop effective ...

Acidic soft drinks, including sports drinks, have been implicated in dental erosion with limited supporting data in scarce erosion studies worldwide. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of dental erosion in a sample of athletes at a large Midwestern state university in the USA, and to evaluate whether regular consumption of sports drinks was associated with dental erosion....