The rapid expansion of deserts in recent decades as a result of human actions combined with climatic disasters has highlighted the necessity to understand biological processes in arid environments. Whereas physical processes and the biology of flora and fauna have been relatively well studied in marginally used arid areas, knowledge of desert soil micro-organisms remains fragmentary. This chapt...

The reconstruction of femoral length (FL) from fragmentary femora is an essential step in estimating stature from fragmentary skeletal remains in forensic investigations. While regression formulae for doing this have been suggested for several populations, such formulae have not been established for Ghanaian skeletal remains. This study, therefore, seeks to derive regression formulae for recons...

Fragmentary river segments have to be joined appropriately before becoming useful to addressing transportation problems like route planning and pollutant tracking. We suggest the induced terrain approach to complete the job with high accuracy and efficiency. By first approximating a terrain compatible with the partial river segment and height information, and then deriving a river network from ...