Ridges and valleys are earth’s relief structures. They can have an imaging counterpart provided we model a digital image as a landscape by considering grey level values as height. These two dual entities have received comparatively little attention from the computer vision community with regard to others like edges or corners. In this paper we first propose a taxonomy or classification of the s...

It has long been known that there is a certain link between geographic locality and its name. The paper attempts to the history, geography, culture of Scotland with names cities, homesteads, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, other localities are either man-made creations or natural phenomena. Despite covering mere 80,000 km 2 , unique region. almost completely washed by sea, although most terr...

Under the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona toil those who would rob humankind o f its humanity. These gray, soulless monsters methodically tear away at our meaning, our subjectivity, our essence as transcendent beings. With each advance, they steal our freedom and dignity. Who are these denizens of darkness, these usurpers of all that is good and holy? None other than humanity’s arch-f...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge and use of wild food plants in two mountain valleys separated by Mount Taibai--the highest peak of northern China and one of its biodiversity hotspots, each adjacent to species-rich temperate forest vegetation. METHODS Seventy two free lists were collected among the inhabitants of two mountain valleys (36 in each). All the studied h...

Abstract The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions Archaeological Museum Alicante. cavity, located one valleys that connect coast with inland mountains, presents a wide sequence occupations begins Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout different phases Neolithic. results multidisciplinary study, car...

Zapadnyy Bulganak, Alma, Kacha, Belbek, Chernaya rivers belong to the of north-western slope Crimean Mountains. The sources are located on slopes Main Ridge Mountains, then flow from east west almost parallel each other. Up about middle their course, they have a character typical mountain streams (except for Bulganak River). river valleys in upper reaches V-shaped, narrow, dissected by numerous...