This paper discusses the outcome of a research that examines the relationships between vulnerability and adaptation of urban dwellers to the slope failure threat in the Klang Valley Region. Intense urban landuse expansions in the Klang Valley Region have increased urban dwellers vulnerability to slope failures in recent years. The Klang Valley Region was chosen as the study area due to the incr...

The diurnal variation of regional wind patterns in the complex terrain of the Grand Canyon area was investigated for wintertime fair weather days using a network of wind sensors on 10-m towers. Thermally driven alongslope and along-valley circulations were present at all sites within the region, but wind characteristics varied from site to site depending on nearby topography and exposure. Along...

We show that, because of the inevitable twist and lattice mismatch in heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, interlayer excitons have sixfold degenerate light cones anomalously located at finite velocities on the parabolic energy dispersion. The photon emissions at each light cone are elliptically polarized, with the major axis locked to the direction of exciton velocity, and helic...

Valleytronics rooted in the valley degree of freedom is of both theoretical and technological importance as it offers additional opportunities for information storage, as well as electronic, magnetic and optical switches. In analogy to ferroelectric materials with spontaneous charge polarization, or ferromagnetic materials with spontaneous spin polarization, here we introduce a new member of fe...

According to the sounding rocket experiment conducted at Hainan ionospheric observatory (19.5 N, 109.1 E), a valley between the E layer and F layer in the ionospheric electron density profile is observed and presented. The sounding rocket was launched in the morning (06:15 LT) on 7 May 2011, and the observed electron density profile outside the valley agrees with the simultaneous observation by...

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A numerical model has been used to characterize the development of a region of 6 enhanced cooling, in an alpine valley with a width of order 10 km, under decoupled stable 7 conditions. The region of enhanced cooling develops largely as a region of relatively dry 8 air that partitions the valley atmosphere dynamics into two volumes, with air flows partially 9 trapped within the valley by a devel...

In this Letter, a tunable valley polarization is investigated for honeycomb systems with broken inversion symmetry such as transition-metal dichalcogenide MX2 (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) monolayers through elliptical pumping. Compared to circular pumping, elliptical pumping is a more universal and effective method to create coherent valley polarization. When two valleys of MX2 monolayers are doped o...

We sampled stream salamanders in southern West Virginia during 2001 in streams below head-of-hollow valley fills and in reference streams to determine if there were differing trends in relative abundance between these treatments. Head-of-hollow valley fill construction can cover headwaters, firstorder, second-order, and higher order reaches with excess spoil materials; valley fills in southern ...