Just as oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges, it is destroyedin subduction zones. Subduction is the important geologic process in which a tectonic plate made of dense lithospheric material melts or falls below a plate made of less-dense lithosphere at a convergent plate boundary. Why doe...
Adulthood is characterized by an increased stability and uniformity of the gut microbiome due to continuous adaptation to stress, infection, diet, and antibiotic exposition (Spor et al., 2011). The concomitant development of the gut microbiota with the maturation of the immune and nervous system ...
Northwestern Bangladesh is an area of this nature, consisting of two administrative divisions: Rajshahi and Rangpur, with significant impacts of thunderstorms, floods, cold and heatwaves, drought, heat stress, erosion of the river banks, water shortage and decreased river flow in the dry season, ...
Endless yellowish landscape, with no trace of human presence, like on an alien planet. And a strong burning sun in a cloudless sky. This is the world of the large deserts. And one of them is Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert of dunes in Asia. Let’s make a journey to this ...
The result maybe an inferior feeling which hardly helps the sense of identity which is so important to regional culture. The poverty of a locality can look even worse when contrasted with the comfortable hotel environment where the average life expectancy is 75 years, may well generate resentment...
The sinkhole and subsidence area is located northwest of the town and occupies a substantial portion of the fertile alluvial terrain. Regardless of the distance to the town center, the drastic morphological changes impact the community directly and indirectly. The town is an example of a community...
There is an entire industry, with an arsenal of technologies, devoted to DDoS defense. But largely it’s a matter of bandwidth. If the attacker has a bigger fire hose of data than the defender has, the attacker wins. Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic ...
59.Viewshed– Scoping out a site by determining what is within eyesight considering all prehistoric conditions associated with that viewshed. 60.Archaeological Site Prediction– Connecting favorable slope, aspect, geology, hydrology, and distance to water using the Multiple Criteria Evaluation (MCE) to ...
Geography A map is a useful tool to show the scope and scale of the play area. Concentrate detail to one area of the map rather than spreading it out, you should give the GM somewhere well described to start their campaign and yet allow plenty of area for them to expand. ...
It is really easy. For example Ala Archa Valley Trail is only on a 30-45 mins drive from the center of Bishkek. . For the Kazakh part of Tianshan- go to Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. From there, the nearest mountain range rises directly south of the city. And for the...