On Friday, 14 April 2017, a heavy flash flood occurred in North-West of Iran that affected 12 cities; the most severely affected and damaged ones were Ajabshir and Azarshahr in East Azerbaijan Province. These Flash floods claimed the lives of 42 people. Major casualties occurred when the victims were trapped inside their cars. According to preliminary analyses, flood damages in East Azerbaijan ...

[1] We use geodetic velocities obtained with the Global Positioning System (GPS) to quantify tectonic deformation of the northwest Basin and Range province of the western United States. The results are based on GPS data collected in 1999 and 2003 across five new quasi-linear networks in northern Nevada, northeast California, and southeast Oregon. The velocities show 3 mm/yr westward movement of...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Ongoing and previous range expansions have a strong influence on population genetic structure of plants. In turn, genetic variation in the new range may affect the population dynamics and the expansion process. The annual Ceratocapnos claviculata (Papaveraceae) has expanded its Atlantic European range in recent decades towards the north and east. Patterns of genetic diversit...

Consider an r × (n − r) plane lattice rectangle, and walks that begin at the origin (south-west corner), proceed with unit steps in either of the directions east or north, and terminate at the north-east corner of the rectangle. For each integer k we ask for N k , the number of ordered pairs of these walks that intersect in exactly k points. The number of points in the intersection of two such ...

The weaponry technology associated with Clovis and related Early Paleoindians represents the earliest well-defined evidence of humans in Pleistocene North America. We assess the technological diversity of these fluted stone points found at archaeological sites in the western and eastern halves of North America by employing statistical tools used in the quantification of ecological biodiversity....

This study aimed to investigate the orientation dependence effect and the role of visuospatial abilities in mental representations derived from spatial descriptions. The analysis focused on how the orientation effect and the involvement of visuospatial abilities change when survey and route descriptions are used, and the initial and main orientation of an imaginary tour. In Experiment 1, 48 par...

Among plants with proven medicinal properties, jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf.) is ascribed priority in conservation programs (Vieira 1999). It is a Rutaceae shrubby tree that occurs in penumbra areas and, according to Skorupa (2000), is found in parts of the Amazon region, mainly in the East of the state of Pará, West and North of Maranhão and North of Piauí. Its leaves contain the i...

Because of past limitations in samples and genotyping technologies, important questions about the history of the present-day Greenlandic population remain unanswered. In an effort to answer these questions and in general investigate the genetic history of the Greenlandic population, we analyzed ∼200,000 SNPs from more than 10% of the adult Greenlandic population (n = 4,674). We found that recen...