The North Kitakami Belt in Northeast Japan mainly comprises accretionary complexes formed during the Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous. complex of is less studied compared age-equivalent Southwest Japan. Here, we provide additional data on formerly classified as Otori Unit, distributed northeastern part upper reaches Akka River Iwate Prefecture. Based detailed field mapping, clarified that Unit c...

The approach demonstrated in this paper uses Evolutionary Computation (EC) to enhance and modify structural form based on biological micro structures.The forms are modified to conform to new boundary conditions associated with architectural structures.The process is based on a Genetic Algorithm (GA) which visually exposes for the designer a range of good performing solutions within the design s...

Marine diatoms are silica-precipitating microalgae that account for over half of organic carbon burial in marine sediments and thus they play a key role in the global carbon cycle. Their evolutionary expansion during the Cenozoic era (66 Ma to present) has been associated with a superior competitive ability for silicic acid relative to other siliceous plankton such as radiolarians, which evolve...