Perhaps the most influential understanding of how reference to kinds varies across languages is that of Chierchia (1998). In this framework, determiners can in principle apply to kinds and NPs can in principle denote them. English, like other Germanic languages, is taken to realize the latter possibility. One might reasonably expect, then, that it would also realize the former—that is, that it ...

Boulders mixed with debris flows roll downstream under interactions flow slurry, which poses a great threat to the people, houses, bridges, and other infrastructure encountered during their movement. The catastrophic in Zhouqu County, occurred on 7 August 2010, was used as an example study motion accumulation characteristics of boulders flows. In this study, fluid–solid coupling model utilizing...

Introduction. The NASA Phoenix lander has provided a unique first-look at permafrost processes operating on the surface of the martian northern plains [1]. Critical results from the mission include the detection of an icy surface present beneath thin, overlying, dry sediments [1-3]; complex soil chemistry comparable to that observed in terrestrial cold and arid terrains [4, 5]; and weather/clim...

This paper aims to test, in a quantitative way, the different approaches that can be applied improve contact resistance problem debris environment for acquisition of electrical resistivity tomography. We collected various datasets on same investigation line blocky ground surface landslide deposit, using coupling systems: single electrodes placed between boulders, adding extra parallel and drill...

The studied dataset from the Southern Carpathians permitted quantification of a considerable amount inherited 10Be in glacial boulders and bedrock samples cirque area. phases largest extension display no signs significant inheritance, enabled establishment deglaciation chronology southern valleys Retezat Mts. timing maximum glacier extent (20.6+0.8/−1.3 ka) coincided with Last Glacial Maximum, ...

Phyllite and quartzite, probably Precambrian, trend meridionally and dip steeply in the New River Gorge above the junction with the Salisbury River in southern Tasmania. Further upstream an association of silty dolomite and conglomerate is less deformed and may be younger. Siliceous conglomerate boulders occur in the New River below the gorge. Late Ordovician carbonates of the Gordon Group are ...

High-resolution imaging of potential targets in advance of any spacecraft mission is important for reducing mission cost and risk and improving science returns. In particular, ground-based radar imaging provides highly-accurate ephemerides and shape and spin state information for objects that pass near the Earth. At higher resolution, radar images show surface features such as boulders and pote...

Alternated gravel mounts are expected to be a simpler and more cost-efficient alternative traditional river restauration strategies. To improve their stability, two layers of assembled boulders placed like fallen dominoes facing downstream around the triangular shape each mount. Further along both sides channel. The ecological improvements quantified by definition refuge, i.e. anywhere inside f...