This paper illustrates how archaeomagnetic dating can be used for palaeochannel fills within floodplain sequences. The sites investigated are palaeochannels associated with the mediaeval braided/anastomosing channels of an unstable reach of the River Trent at Hemington, north-west Leicestershire. This reach has revealed abundant archaeological remains including fish weirs, anchor stones, a Norm...

Braided Hopf algebras have attracted much attention in both mathematics and mathematical physics (see e.g. [2][4][14][16][17][18][20][23]). The classification of finite dimensional Hopf algebras is interesting and important for their applications (see [1] [24]). Braided Hopf algebras play an important role in the classification of finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras (e.g. [1][2] [21]). The...

A differential calculus of the first order over multi-braided quantum groups is developed. In analogy with the standard theory, left/rightcovariant and bicovariant differential structures are introduced and investigated. Furthermore, antipodally covariant calculi are studied. The concept of the *-structure on a multi-braided quantum group is formulated, and in particular the structure of left-c...

Cottonwoods (Populus spp.) are adapted to riparian or floodplain zones throughout the Northern Hemisphere; they are also used as parents for fast-growing hybrid poplars. We review recent ecophysiological studies of the native cottonwoods Populus angustifolia James, P. balsamifera L., P. deltoides Marsh., P. fremontii S. Watson and P. trichocarpa T. & G. in North America, and P. nigra L. in Euro...

Floodplains have been intensively altered in industrialized countries, but are now increasingly being restored. It is therefore important to assess the effect of these restoration projects on the aquatic and terrestrial components of ecosystems. However, despite being functionally crucial components of terrestrial ecosystems, soils are generally overlooked in floodplain restoration assessments....

the sarghaye-sarnish watershed, with elongated shape and about 70.654 km2 area, is located in south of mashhad. sarghaye and sarnish rivers are the main ones in this watershed. the purpose of this study is to investigate grain size varietions based in sedimentary links and its relation to textural parameters such as sorting, skewness and kurtosis, as well as identification of sedimentary lithof...

This paper presents the development and properties assessment of braided reinforced composite rods (BCR) able to both reinforce and monitor the stress state of concrete infrastructures. The research study aims at understanding the tensile behaviour and self-monitoring ability of composite rods reinforced by a textile structure braided structure with core reinforcement for civil engineering appl...

This paper describes a new measuring algorithm for three-dimensional (3-D) braided composite material .Braided angle is an important parameter of braided composites. The objective of this paper is to present an automatic measuring system. In the paper, the algorithm is performed by using vc++6.0 language on PC. An advanced filtered algorithm for image of 3-D braided composites material performs...

In the last lecture we have learned that the category of modules over a braided Hopf algebra H is a braided monoidal category. A braided Hopf algebra is a rather sophisticated algebraic object, it is not easy to give interesting nontrivial examples. In this text we develop a theory that will lead to a concrete recipe which produces a nontrivial braided Hopf algebra D(A) (called Drinfeld’s quant...

We continue the study of freely braided elements of simply laced Coxeter groups, which we introduced in a previous work. A known upper bound for the number of commutation classes of reduced expressions for an element of a simply laced Coxeter group is shown to be achieved only when the element is freely braided; this establishes the converse direction of a previous result. It is also shown that...