One of the most important undeciphered scripts of the ancient world is the Indus script. Earlier studies had focused on the correlations between signs in the Indus texts using various statistical and computational techniques such as N-grams or Markov chains. In the present study, K-means clustering, an unsupervised machine learning technique is used to identify clusters of similar texts without...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2014/212634.].

Over the last several decades new sets of information have provided a more detailed understanding of the rise and character of the Indus Civilization as well as its decline and decentralization. This article begins with a summary of the major historical developments in the archaeology of the Indus Valley Tradition and a definition of terms found in the literature. A general discussion of the en...

Levee breaches are some of the most common hazards in world and cause loss lives, livelihoods, property destruction. During 2010 flood Pakistan, devastating breach occurred at Tori on right bank Indus River, downstream Guddu Barrage, which caused residual floods northern Sindh adjoining regions Balochistan province. In this study, 2D unsteady flow modeling performed for computed inundation by c...

fatalities in the 1970s and 80s were due to fishing equipment. It is not that these threats went unrecognised. Aside from a brief spell during Mao’s Great Leap Forward — when Nature was declared an ‘enemy of the people’ and the Baiji was actively prosecuted — the urgent need for its conservation was gradually realised inside and outside of China. But, while some attempts were made to establish ...