The extent to which the leaves of woody dicots encode in their physiognomy the climatic conditions that exist during dormancy was tested by sampling 20 sites along an approximately west-east transect across European Russia, the Crimean Peninsula, Western Siberia, and central Eastern Siberia. This transect encompassed the most extreme mean annual temperature range recorded in the modern world wh...

* Variation in the size and shape (physiognomy) of leaves has long been correlated to climate, and paleobotanists have used these correlations to reconstruct paleo-climate. Most studies focus on site-level means of largely nonoverlapping species sets. The sensitivity of leaf shape to climate within species is poorly known, which limits our general understanding of leaf-climate relationships and...

In this paper, an IP (Internet Protocol) -based Remote Combat Robot is conversed, namely VECTOR (Vigorous Efficient Combatant Tactical Operative Robot). The name VECTOR is chosen to depict the concrete physiognomies of the Robot which is assembled. This project is designed and developed to operate remote combat. IP communication is enforced to control every single state of VECTOR. Advantage ove...

In the village of Sobe on Okinawa six of us established a hospital for civilians injured during the bombardment and assault of the Ryukyus. The tiny village lay between the invasion beaches and the large Yontan air field. It was very badly battered by the combined sea and air attacks of our invasion fleet before April 1st, and by Japanese strafing and bombing after we had landed. Near where we ...

The Atlantic Rainforest does not have a uniform physiognomy, its relief determines different environmental conditions that define the composition of its flora and fauna. Within this ecosystem, bromeliads that form tanks with their leaves hold water reservoirs throughout the year, maintaining complex food chains, based mainly on autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria. Some works concluded that t...

The utility of multivariate foliar physiognomy, specifically the Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program (CLAMP), to yield reliable estimates of enthalpy and hence paleoelevation has been demonstrated by comparison with other proxies, yet concerns have arisen regarding uncertainties arising from 1) apparent ambiguities in the scoring regime and 2) the way leaf size is scored. Regarding 1) sc...

Our understanding regarding the onset and development of modern South Asia monsoon (SAM) is still incomplete due to its complex nature differing views about relationship with major orographic features such as Himalaya Tibetan Plateau. Climate data derived from some terrestrial marine sediments Neogene suggests intensification SAM a near-modern state occurred during Miocene, while modelling othe...