28 29 Colonies of Pheidole ambigua ants excavate soil and drop it outside the nest entrance. 30 The deposition of thousands of loads leads to the formation of regular ring-shaped piles. 31 How is this pattern generated? This study investigated soil pile formation on level and 32 sloping surfaces, both empirically and using an agent-based model. We found that ants 33 drop soil preferentially in ...

At present, the longitudinal slope, cross slope control, thickness and elevation control of subgrade pavement depend on manual experience, results are not uniform, there process problems with defects such as over compaction, insufficient omission compaction unqualified vibration frequency amplitude in RCC construction process, quality can be obtained real time, resulting remedial difficulties. ...

In artificial gravity, conformance to the hypothetical comfort zone does not guarantee an earth-normal environment, nor does it sanction design based on terrestrial norms. This paper begins by examining the range of gravity environments encompassed by the comfort zone. It compares Coriolis slope distortions with typical slopes in terrestrial architecture. It then offers a detailed analysis of t...

In [1], Berger and Colmez introduced a theory of families of étale (φ,Γ)-modules associated to families of p-adic Galois representations. Inspired by their works, we consider families of φ-modules over a reduced affinoid algebra where the base is fixed by Frobenius actions. We prove some results in this framework including the semicontinuity of variation of HN-polygons. These results will be ap...

Relationships between composition of secondary vegetation and environment were studied in central North Island, New Zealand. A classification procedure was used to identify broad compositional groups which included forest, broadleaved scrub, shrub-fernland, sclerophyllous scrub and shrubland, and tussock-shrubland. Generalised additive models (GAMs) were used to examine relationships between sp...

Let X be a p-divisible group over a regular scheme S such that the Newton polygon in each geometric point of S is the same. Then there is a p-divisible group isogenous to X which has a slope filtration.

For years, the scientific and medical communities have pondered the role of triglycerides in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality risk. Although several studies have shown a relationship between elevated triglyceride levels and CVD, the degree to which triglycerides are independently associated and whether triglycerides directly cause CVD has been hotly debated. This is in contradistincti...