Four major paired terraces and six short local terraces have been identified along the Maumee River valley between the Ohio-Indiana state line and Perrysburg in northwestern Ohio by detailed field mapping and study of gaging-station records, water-well logs, and soils data. From highest to lowest, the paired terraces have been named the Antwerp, Florida, Napoleon, and Grand Rapids terraces. The...

We generalise an extension theorem for terraces for abelian groups to apply to nonabelian groups with a central subgroup isomorphic to the Klein 4-group V . We also give terraces for three of the non-abelian groups of order a multiple of 8 that have a cyclic subgroup of index 2 that may be used in the extension theorem. These results imply the existence of terraces for many groups that were not...

We present a phase field model for the evolution of stepped surfaces with distinct material parameters across nanoscale terraces in surface diffusion. The model aims to capture the Burton-CabreraFrank (BCF)-type theory for the motion of decorated non-interacting steps separating composite terraces. Our work forms an extension of the phase field model by Hu et al. [Physica D 241, 77 (2012)]. The...

Heritage conservation is an important recurring research theme on agricultural heritage systems. Improving the income of farmers from agriculture is regarded as an effective conservation approach. This study examined how the improved rice-fish-duck coculture (IRFDC) promotes the protection of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraced System (HHRTS) by keeping farmers farming in their hometowns. A semi-stru...

this study was aimed to the examination of the effect of tillage row spacing and bush spacing on the performance and components of phaseou vulgaris var. (line: cos16). the investigation was conducted as cut terraces and in terms of complete random blocks in three replicates at brujerd agricultural research and natural resources in the agricultural year 2009-2010. here, the main terraces with th...

A key step in assembling the tree of life is the construction of species-rich phylogenies from multilocus--but often incomplete--sequence data sets. We describe previously unknown structure in the landscape of solutions to the tree reconstruction problem, comprising sometimes vast "terraces" of trees with identical quality, arranged on islands of phylogenetically similar trees. Phylogenetic amb...