The aim of this paper is to construc an image from Moho discontinuity in South America. This result can be obtained through global modeling of Rayleigh waves phase and group velocity (ROSA (1986) and SANTA ROSA (1996)). The initial 2-D inversion model was defined according to the geographic position of each block, sized 10 x 10 degrees by ROSA (1986), in the continent and in the ocean. As a res...

RNA editing in chloroplasts alters the RNA sequence by converting C-to-U or U-to-C at a specific site. During the study of the complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome from the hornwort Anthoceros formosae, RNA editing events have been systematically investigated. A total of 509 C-to-U and 433 U-to-C conversions are identified in the transcripts of 68 genes and eight ORFs. No RNA ...

Ionic liquids with anions of strong hydrogen-bond basicity have been broadly reported in the literature as effective solvents for the dissolution of the components of lignocellulosic biomass. The key attributes of various ionic liquids are reviewed with a focus on their structural and functional properties related to biomass dissolution capacity. A number of the most studied ionic liquids with ...

Environmental philosophers spend considerable time drawing the divide between humans and the rest of nature. Some argue that humans and our actions are unnatural. Others allow that humans are natural, but maintain that humans are nevertheless distinct. The motivation for distinguishing humans from the rest of nature is the desire to determine what aspects of the environment should be preserved....

Crustal rejuvenation is a key process that has shaped the characteristics of current continental structures and components in tectonic active continental regions. Geological and geochemical observations have provided insights into crustal rejuvenation, although the crustal structural fabrics have not been well constrained. Here, we present a seismic image across the North China Craton (NCC) and...

[1] Broadband data from the Meso-America Subduction Experiment (MASE) line in central Mexico were used to image the subducted Cocos plate and the overriding continental lithosphere beneath central Mexico using a generalized radon transform based migration. Our images provide insight into the process of subducting relatively young oceanic lithosphere and its complex geometry beneath continental ...

Ultrafast hierarchical OTDM/WDM network is proposed for the future core-network. We review its enabling technologies: Cand L-wavelength-band generation, OTDM-WDM mutual multiplexing format conversions, and ultrafast OTDM wavelengthband conversions.

Mehdi Eshagh 1, Matloob Hussain 1,2, Robert Tenzer 3,4,* and Mohsen Romeshkani 5 1 Department of Engineering Science, University West, Trollhättan 46186, Sweden; [email protected] (M.E.); [email protected] (M.H.) 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan 3 The Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China ...