The south-west coast of the Isle of Wight (see Figure 4.1 for general location) is geomorphologically rich in features of interest. It contains examples of most of the cliff types undergoing active erosion described from other GCR sites. The site demonstrates well how coastal processes have produced different cliff forms related not only to variations of lithology and geological structure, but ...

Between Ridge Cliff, to the east of Seatown, to Lyme Regis, there are four main cliffed areas, Ridge Cliff, Golden Cap, Cain's Folly and Black Ven, separated by valleys at Seatown, St Gabriel's Water and Charmouth (see Figure 4.1 for general location, and Figure 4.11). There are two pocket-type beaches, the larger between Golden Cap and Lyme Regis, the smaller to the east of Golden Cap at Seato...

■ FA01 Marriott Chicago A Approximation Algorithms III Cluster: Approximation Algorithms Invited Session Chair: Cliff Stein, Columbia University, 326 S W Mudd Building, 500 W. 120th Street, New York, NY, 10027, [email protected] 1 Differentially Private Approximation Algorithms Kunal Talwar, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Campus, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United State...

Cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) and cave swallows (P. fulva) were sampled during the breeding season at several locations in the Rio Grande, Texas, to evaluate the potential effects of environmental contaminants on P450 aromatase activity in brain and gonads and DNA damage in blood cells. The tritiated water-release aromatase assay was used to measure aromatase activity and flow cytom...

Recently, especially after the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, the need for treating residual risks and cliff-edge effects in safety-critical facilities has been widely recognized as an extremely important issue. In this article, the sophistication of seismic designs in safety-critical facilities is discussed from the viewp...

Abstract: The retreat of chalk cliffs fringing the eastern English Channel contributes shingle to the beaches which helps to protect the cliffs and slow down erosion. Conversely, cliff retreat endangers settlements and infrastructure on the clifftop. Rates of retreat have been calculated by a variety of methods over the past century, but no attempt has been made to provide a complete coverage t...

Previously, we measured perceptuo-motor learning rates across the lifespan and found a sudden drop in learning rates between ages 50 and 60, called the "50s cliff." The task was a unimanual visual rhythmic coordination task in which participants used a joystick to oscillate one dot in a display in coordination with another dot oscillated by a computer. Participants learned to produce a coordina...

One of the most often told anecdotes in psychology concerns a man called S. B. (initials used to protect his privacy). S. B. had been blind his entire life until the age of 52, when a newly developed operation (the now-common corneal transplant) was performed on him and his sight was restored. However, S. B.'s new ability to see did not mean that he automatically perceived what he saw the way t...

Though an abundance of research has focused on direct interactions between birds and plants, relatively few studies have reported on indirect interactions. Of those reports, all have focused on positive indirect effects of birds on plants through predation of plant natural enemies. We conducted an observational study along the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico to determine if avian aerial insecti...