In the architecture of Iranian traditional houses, the ornamentations available in the inscriptions of houses entrance portal express the identity of architects and personality of houses owners and are rooted in their religious and national beliefs and faiths. The main hypothesis of this research is changing the physique and application of religious contents in compliance with the thoughts and ...

A house-to-house survey was carried out in early 1983 among military dependents at an army residential complex in Kuching, Sarawak All houses including flats within the complex were numbered consecutively from one onwards With the use of a table of random numbers 200 residentiai units were seiected and the houses were visited by two nurses. In the houses where pre-school children were residing,...

New, high-precision U-series ages of solitary corals (Balanophyllia elegans) coupled with molluscan faunal data from marine terraces on the Pacific Coast of North America yield information about the timing and warmth of the last interglacial sea-level highstand. Balanophyllia elegans takes up U in isotopic equilibrium with seawater during growth and shortly after death. Corals from the second t...

A suite of fluvial terraces (T1–T6, from top to bottom of the staircase) occur along a 70 km stretch of the Tejo River in central Portugal, between the small towns of Gavião and Chamusca. Terrace correlation was based upon the following: (a) aerial photograph analysis, geomorphological mapping and field topographic survey; (b) sedimentology of the terrace deposits, namely the maximum particle s...

As part of a study of species important in automotive exhaust chemistry, the reactivity of atomic N and NO on Pt~335! at low temperature has been studied. The atomic N was produced by dissociating adsorbed NO with a 76 eV electron beam. Cross sections for electron-stimulated desorption and dissociation are estimated for NO on terrace and step sites. Terrace NO is at least five times more likely...

Combining high resolution optical microscopy and spectroscopy, we propose a novel, generally applicable and highly sensitive method for determining the local morphology in organic semiconductor thin films (e.g. perfluoropentacene (PFP)). An azimuthally or radially polarized doughnut mode (APDM or RPDM) laser beam is focused by a high numerical aperture parabolic-mirror to excite a diffraction l...

[1] The landscape response to climate change is frequently investigated with models because natural experiments on geologic timescales are rare. In Quebrada Veladera, in the western Andes Mountains, the formation of alluvial terraces during periods of high precipitation presents opportunities for such an experiment. We compare drainage-average erosion rates during Pleistocene terrace deposition...

In the hilly regions of China, developing sustainable agriculture requires implementing conservation management practices that prevent soil erosion and conserve soil and water resources. In the semiarid northwest Loess Plateau, the primary conservation management practice is terracing. Numerical simulation of soil water dynamics in terraces is potentially an efficient means of investigating the...