We present results from simulations to examine how the separation between two convectively unstable layers affects their interaction. We show that two convectively ustable layers remain connected via the overshooting plumes even when they are separated by several pressure scale heights.

There are currently three major competing views on the nature of earthquake fault zones. The first is that faults are (possibly segmented and heterogeneous) Euclidean zones in a continuum solid. The second focuses on granular aspects of faults and deformation fields. The third is that faults are fundamentally rough fractal objects at all relevant scales. The existing data can not distinguish un...

Complex spike activity of floccular Purkinje cells responds to patterns of rotational optic flow about the vertical axis (rVA neurons) or a horizontal axis 45 degrees to the midline (rH45 neurons). The pigeon flocculus is organized into four parasagittal zones: two rVA zones (zones 0 and 2) interdigitated with two rH45 zones (zones 1 and 3). Climbing fiber input to the rVA and rH45 zones arises...

Remington (1968) argued that 13 suture zones exist in North America. Remington defined a suture zone as, "a band of geographic overlap between major biotic assemblages, including some pairs of species or semispecies which hybridize in the zone" (p. 322). Although initially controversial, the idea that suture zones exist has picked up momentum over the past decade, due largely to the phylogeogra...

1 Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. 4 Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics Department, State University of New York, Stony ...

Recent research suggests that, due to misconfiguration, DNS reliability and performance is not always as good as it should be. This paper therefore investigates the correct configuration of DNS zones, by checking if main configuration requirements, recommendations and bestpractices rules have been followed. Our research shows that almost one out of four zones fail to pass one or more of our tes...

Several primate taxa show evidence of natural hybridization, and recent genomic analyses of modern and archaic humans have revealed the prevalence of hybridization during the evolutionary history of our own lineage. Thus interest in understanding how natural hybridization occurs in our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates, has grown rapidly. However, studies of the process and dynamics of h...

This paper investigates how the psychological notion of comfort can be useful in the design of robotic systems. A review of the existing study of human comfort, especially regarding its presence in infants, is conducted with the goal being to determine the relevant characteristics for mapping it onto the robotics domain. Focus is placed on the identification of the salient features in the envir...