Ovoo-cairns and ancient funerary mounds in the Mongolian landscape. Piling up a monumental tradition?

The Cairns memorial lecture: the Cairns tradition.

The aims embedded in the activities of the Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Trust-to stimulate original work, to enable young people to travel and be exposed to work going on in centres overseas, and to prevent the isolation of neurosurgery from the wider aspects ofmedicine, reflect many of Sir Hugh Cairns' own precepts. It is therefore suitable to review some aspects of his personality and life-work, ...

Piling Up, or Floating Away

Pre-Muslim Architectural Tradition in Ancient Pakistan

For thousands of years man had been taking refuge in the caves or under the trees to safe himself from the devastating effects of natural forces. For a long time the idea of making shelters like huts or rooms never struck his mind. Although building material like clay, stone boulder, or river pebbles, were lying all round him but, he even, accidentally, did not attempt to erect any kind of shel...

Pollinators are attracted to mounds created by burrowing animals (marmots) in a Mongolian grassland

Burrowing by semi-fossorial rodents modifies soil properties and plant communities. The effects of this burrowing on plants, however, are typically evaluated only by assessing changes in photosynthetic or production traits, not pollination traits. Therefore little is known about the indirect effects of burrowing on pollinators through its effects on the emergence of insect-pollinated plants. We...

Piling-up Lemma for Markov Chains