The Himalaya-Tibetan orogen has become the paradigm for continental collision and is central to deciphering continental tectonics. Neogene extension in the orogen is not predicted by plate tectonic theory, and its significance is widely debated. In the Himalaya, north-south extension is restricted to the Southern Tibetan Detachment System (STDS), which juxtaposes the High Himalayan Crystalline ...

The analysis of large datasets of music audio and other representations entails the need for techniques that support musicologists and other users in interpreting extracted data. We explore and develop visualisation techniques of chord sequence patterns mined from a corpus of over one million tracks. The visualisations use different representations of root movements and chord qualities with geo...

Risk management stakeholders in high-populated volcanic islands should be provided with the latest high-quality volcanic information. We present here the first volcanic susceptibility map of Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands and their submarine flanks based on updated chronostratigraphical and volcano structural data, as well as on the geomorphological analysis of the bathymetric data of the submar...

This paper shows that a domain-wall description of a two-brane world can be approximated by a non-commutative two-sheeted spacetime under certain assumptions. This link implies a completely model-independent phenomenology which is presently studied. Matter swapping between the two branes (or sheets) is predicted through fermionic oscillations induced by magnetic vector potentials. This phenomen...

Let Ω be a domain in C. We prove the following theorem. If the envelope of holomorphy of Ω is schlicht over Ω, then the envelope is in fact schlicht. We provide examples showing that the conclusion of the theorem does not hold in Cn, n > 2. Additionally, we show that the theorem cannot be generalized to provide information about domains in C whose envelopes are multiply sheeted.

If a class of finitely generated groups G is closed under isometric amalgamations along free subgroups, then every G ∈ G can be quasi-isometrically embedded in a group Ĝ ∈ G that has no proper subgroups of finite index. Every compact, connected, non-positively curved space X admits an isometric embedding into a compact, connected, non-positively curved space X such that X has no non-trivial fin...

This article is a collaborative project by six members of an Internet community of lesbian mothers called MOMS. MOMS is a diverse community of lesbian mothers that is inclusive of bisexual and transgender women, as well those planning to become parents. The article outlines the history of the group and how the moderators have created an environment that encourages diversity. Members of the MOMS...

Every closed orientable manifold can be represented topologically by a generalized Riemann surface consisting of a number of spaces, each with a single point at infinity, which are considered superimposed and which are joined with each other along certain branch cuts of dimensionality one less than that of the manifold. This has been proved by Professor J. W. Alexander, f who also pointed out t...