The town of Teresina, in the state Piauí, Brazil, presents a history land sinking processes. Two events deserve to be highlighted, first occurred 1999 at Simplício Mendes Street and other on July 31, 2008, Francisco Street. To identify possible shallow caves associated structures, Geological Survey Brazil/CPRM developed Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) study verify occurrence reflection patterns ...

The karst aquifer of the Yucatán Peninsula (YP) in southeastern Mexico is a unique ecosystem which water-filled sinkholes, locally known as cenotes, connect subterranean waters with surface. This system home to around 20 species freshwater fishes, including several that are endemic and/or threatened. Studies on this ichthyofauna have been partially hampered by technical difficulties associated ...

Euclidean distance matrix completion problem aims at reconstructing the low dimensional geometry structure of nodes given only a few pairwise distances between nodes [1]. This problem arises in many applications including networks and machine learning where much information of points is laking. For instance, in sensor networks, due to the constraints of energy and communication radius, sensor n...

For slowly varying fields the vacuum functional of a quantum field theory may be expanded in terms of local functionals. This expansion satisfies its own form of the Schrödinger equation from which the expansion coefficents can be found. For scalar field theory in 1+1 dimensions we show that this approach correctly reproduces the short-distance properties as contained in the counter-terms. We a...

The fast-start (acceleration) performance of seven groups of rainbow trout from 9-6 to 38-7 cm total length was measured in response to d.c. electric shock stimuli. Two fast-start kinematic patterns, L- and S-start were observed. In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration. Free manoeuvre was not possible in L-starts without loss of spe...

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish space and dN is a geodesic Borel distance which makes (X, dN ) a possibly branching geodesic space. We show that under some assumptions on the transference plan we can reduce the transport problem to transport problems along family of geodesics. We introduce three assumptions on a given dN -monotone trans...

Providing quality education means to respond to the diversity in the classroom. The teacher is a key figure in responding to the various educational needs presented by students. Specifically, special education professionals are of great importance as they are the ones who lend their support to regular classroom teachers and offer specialized educational assistance to students who require it. Th...

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish space and dN is a geodesic Borel distance which makes (X, dN ) a possibly branching geodesic space. We show that under some assumptions on the transference plan we can reduce the transport problem to transport problems along family of geodesics. We introduce two assumptions on the transference plan π whic...

AIM Genetic data were used to measure the phylogeographic distribution of the limpet, Cellana toreuma along the China coast in order to acsertain impacts of historic events, ocean currents and especially freshwater discharge from the Yangtze River on the connectivity of intertidal species with limited larval dispersal capability. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Genetic variation in 15 populati...