Forest roads are often subject to intense runoff and erosion, the rates can be increased by other disturbance factors, such as wildfires. Since scarce literature exists on effects of wildfires rill erosion forest roads, this study presents first results a wider research, evaluating in four different types Hellìn (Castilla-La Mancha, Central-Eastern Spain): unpaved made native materials (soil fo...

Rundschau 85(1): 65{70. Abstract Erosion is a complex process consisting of many components, like surface runoo, impact of raindrops, wind forces, soil, and rock mechanics, etc. Trying to integrate all these processes into a physical model seems to be hopeless. In order to understand the variety of natural shapes and patterns produced by erosion we present an integrated statistical approach. Ou...

The erosion of The Loess Plateau could be regarded as one kind of representations of the huge complex system, which is the landform of topography. The complexity of the process is well reflected in an idealized nonlinear system called Cellular Automaton (CA) which is quite sensitive of the initialization and it may lead to an inestimable result just because of tiny differences of the initial se...

Language comprehension in humans is very robust. With apparent ease, language users can grasp the meaning of utterances made in very bad acoustic conditions or containing grammatical errors. A key mechanism in achieving this robustness is the ability of the listener to predict what the speaker is likely to say. According to recent work in psycholinguistics, these predictions are made by covertl...

This paper reports further progress into a computational implementation of a new formalism for construction grammar, known as Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). We focus in particular on how hierarchy can be implemented. The paper analyses the requirements for a proper treatment of hierarchy in grammar and then proposes a particular solution based on a new operator, known as the J-operator. The ...