Stone Tidal Weirs Rising from the Ruins

Ancient Stone Tidal Weirs in Penghu Archipelago: Distribution, Category, Structure and Function, a Googleearth and Gis Approach

The aim of this study was to give a comprehensive archaeological investigation for Penghu’s stone tidal weirs (STWs) based on both Google Earth and GIS. Firstly, this study uses GoogleEarth Pro tools to clip a GeoEye-1 image (acquisition date: 22/07/2013) and a WorldView-2 image (acquisition date: 25/01/2014) for Chipei Island and Husi Island, respectively, and save them at a “premium resolutio...

[And new life blossoms from the ruins].

Reconstructing pathogen evolution from the ruins.

Advances in high-throughput sequencing have made genomic comparison an increasingly powerful tool for understanding pathogen evolution. From these analyses, elevated genome degradation has surfaced as a common trait among pathogens with a specialized lifestyle. Prime examples of this trend can be found within the species Salmonella enterica, wherein genomes of host-adapted serovars associated w...

Governance in the Ruins

Song Among the Ruins

American distress at the horrors produced by the atomic bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 generated a laudable desire to salvage something positive from the damage. Immediately after the war, the American government sent survey teams to the bombed cities to evaluate the extent and nature of the damage. An account of those early days has appeared in The Yale Journal [ 1,2]. The re...