Phenology is an indicator of the impact of climate on vegetation. As the representation of human activities, urbanization affects vegetation phenology by changing the local climate such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc. Recent studies starts to focus on the impacts of urbanization intensity on phenology. In order to understand the relationship between urbanization intensity and phenolo...

Abstract. Drought is understood as both a lack of water (i.e., deficit compared to demand) and temporal anomaly in one or more components the hydrological cycle. Most drought indices, however, only consider aspect, i.e., how unusual condition is. In this paper, we present two hazard indices that reflect aspects. The soil moisture index, SMDAI, based on severity DSI (Cammalleri et al., 2016), bu...

A remarkable feature of a lattice Dirac operator is discussed. Unlike the Dirac operator for massless fermions in the continuum, this Ginsparg-Wilson lattice Dirac operator does not possess topological zero modes for any topologically-nontrivial background gauge fields, even though it is exponentially-local, doublers-free, and reproduces correct axial anomaly for topologically-trivial gauge con...

Drought is an environmental disaster related to the extremes (on a drier side) in hydrometeorology. The precipitation amount modulates drought Nepalese river basins. It vital for efficient water resources management quantify and understand drought. This paper aims characterize droughts Nepal based on standard index (SPI) rainfall anomaly (RAI) using daily data assess their impacts annual crop y...

Quantum anomalies both in the Riemannian and in the Riemann-Cartan spacetimes were calculated previously using different methods, see e.g. [11,25]. However, recently [3] the completeness of these earlier calculations have been questioned which all demonstrated that the Nieh–Yan four-form [18] is irrelevant to the axial anomaly. For the axial anomaly, we have a couple of distinguished features. ...

In this research, using technique for order-preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) index, drought phenomenon is determined and ranked. For this purpose, using 5 atmospheric elements including temperature, wind, precipitation days, annual precipitation, precipitation concentration index (PCI), droughts occurred in Shiraz station for 20-year statistical period (1983-2003) have been d...

The condition for a lattice Dirac operator D to reproduce correct chiral anomaly at each site of a finite lattice for smooth background gauge fields is that D possesses exact zero modes satisfying the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. This is also the necessary condition for D to have correct fermion determinant ( ratio ) which plays the important role of incorporating dynamical fermions in the func...

The Waldrop anomaly score was used to assess the incidence of minor physical anomalies among 40 adult male Caucasian schizophrenics. This sample had a higher group mean anomaly score than that reported for the normal population (p less than .001). Those with higher anomaly scores evidenced poorer premorbid adjustment (p less than .05). A significant relationship also existed between anomaly sco...

The overlap hypercube fermion is constructed by inserting a lattice fermion with hypercubic couplings into the overlap formula. One obtains an exact Ginsparg-Wilson fermion, which is more complicated than the standard overlap fermion, but which has improved practical properties and is of current interest for use in numerical simulations. Here we deal with conceptual aspects of the overlap hyper...