A 5,000-m-long, 15-in (38-cm) outer-diameter, full-scale pipe was deployed from the large Moon Pool of the Hughes Glomar Explorer (Fig. 1) while a deep-ocean mining system operated from the ship in the North Pacific Ocean in 1976 and 1979. From the standpoint of design as well as operation, one of the most critical parameters in deep-ocean mining and deep-ocean drilling is the behavior of the p...

The present study aimed to characterize the mechanism by which working memory is enhanced for items that capture attention because of their novelty or saliency-that is, via bottom-up attention. The first experiment replicated previous research by corroborating that bottom-up attention directed to an item is sufficient for enhancing working memory and, moreover, generalized the effect to the dom...

Mountain landscapes respond to transient tectonic and climate forcing through a bottom-up response of enhanced bedrock river incision that undermines adjoining hillslopes, thus propagating the signal from valley bottom ridges. As result, understanding mechanisms set pace pattern is critical first step for predicting wider landscape evolution. Typically, focus has been on impact channel bed lowe...

enhanced oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus may contribute to the pathogenesis of diaetic complications. in this article, the stress oxidative generation has been studied in experimental diabetes by ferric reducing ability of plasma assay, a sensitive and simple method, and by other oxidative damage markers. the ferric reducing ability of plasma values as a total antioxidant capacity were si...

We propose a simple model for arch formation in silos. We show that small pertubations (such as the thermal expansion of the beads) may lead to giant stress fluctuations on the bottom plate of the silo. The relative amplitude ∆ of these fluctuations are found to be power-law distributed, as ∆−τ , τ ≃ 1.0. These fluctuations are related to large scale ‘static avalanches’, which correspond to lon...