The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and revised USLE (RUSLE) are often used to estimate soil erosion at regional landscape scales, however a major limitation is the difficulty in extracting the LS factor. The geographic information system-based (GIS-based) methods which have been developed for estimating the LS factor for USLE and RUSLE also have limitations. The unit contributing area-base...

Whereas streamwise effective slope ( $ES_{x}$ ) is accepted as a key topographical parameter in the context of rough-wall turbulent flows, significance its spanwise counterpart $ES_{y}$ remains largely unexplored. Here, response channel flow over irregular, three-dimensional rough walls with systematically varied values studied using direct numerical simulation. All simulations were performed a...

Neuronal membrane potentials fluctuate stochastically due to conductance changes caused by random transitions between the open and closed states of ion channels. Although it has previously been shown that channel noise can nontrivially affect neuronal dynamics, it is unknown whether ion-channel noise is strong enough to act as a noise source for hypothesized noise-enhanced information processin...

Architecture of slopeand basin-floor-fan systems in growth-faulted subbasins along the south Texas Gulf Coast developed as a result of interplay between synsedimentary tectonics and sedimentation during third-order sea-level lowstands. These subbasins, or intraslope basins, have not been adequately explored for their slope and basin-floor-fan potential, as have the intraslope basins in salt-dom...

We propose a purely phase-sampled Bragg grating for dispersion and dispersion slope compensation by introducing a chirp in the grating period and coupling coefficient. The bandwidth of all reflected channels can be equalized by chirping the sampling period at the same time. We show that a trade-off exists between the linearity of dispersion slope and the equalization of reflection channel bandw...

The capacity of ideal MIMO channels has an highSNR slope that equals the minimum of the number of transmit and receive antennas. This letter shows that physical MIMO channels behave fundamentally different, due to distortions from transceiver impairments. The capacity has a finite upper limit that holds for any channel distribution and SNR. The high-SNR slope is thus zero, but the relative capa...