Extensive vegetation restoration projects have been widely implemented on the Loess Plateau, China, since 1998. In addition, increasing attention has been paid to the influence of revegetation on soil water. However, the response of the soil water content (SWC) to vegetation construction and management has not been adequately studied. In this study, three types of typical artificial vegetation ...

Comparing and ranking information is an important topic in social and information sciences, and in particular on the web. Its objective is to measure the difference of the preferences of voters on a set of candidates and to compute a consensus ranking. Commonly, each voter provides a total order of all candidates. In this work we consider the generalization of total orders and bucket orders to ...

Invented in the 1960’s, permutation codes have reemerged in recent years as a topic of great interest because of properties making them attractive for certain modern technological applications. In 2011 a decoding method called LP (linear programming) decoding was introduced for a class of permutation codes with a Euclidean distance induced metric. In this paper we comparatively analyze the Eucl...

In the revised manuscript we present improved examinations of the eventual link between air pressure variation and radon signals at the site. This was done by analysis in: a) the time domain by presenting statistical tests (Kendall rank test) of the relation between pressure and radon and the gradient of pressure and radon. b) the frequency domain – by presenting spectra of pressure and radon c...

BACKGROUND The aims of our study were to evaluate the validation of measurement of weight-bearing lateral radiographs. Two hypotheses were tested: the measurements on the lateral radiographs are reliable, and a theoretical limit could be identified when a surgeon can "eyeball" an incongruous ankle joint on lateral radiographs. METHODS To test the first hypothesis, 3 experienced ankle surgeons...