The objective of this study was to investigate experimentally solitary waves run-up on sloping beaches. Conducted in the Super wave flume(5m×5.2m×300m) and the Large wave flume(2m×2m×200m)at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory (THL), solitary waves were generated by moving the wave board forward in the manner of ramp-trajectory and solitary-wave-trajectory separately to simulate the various of wave he...

User sanctions influence the legal risk for consumers who engage in illegal drug markets. If a reduction in user sanctions leads to an increase in consumption, drug prices will rise unless supply is perfectly elastic. In equilibrium, a change in consumption associated with decreasing user sanctions could be relatively small if supply is upward sloping. Using a novel dataset with rich transactio...

A neural network mechanism is proposed to modify the gait of a biped robot that walks on sloping surfaces using sensory inputs. The robot climbs a sloping surface from a level surface with no priori knowledge of the inclination of the surface. By training the neural network while the robot is walking, the robot adjusts its gait and finally forms a gait that is as stable as when it walks on the ...

Using observations of basal topography, ice thickness and modern accumulation rates, we use theory and a dynamic flowline model to examine the sensitivity of Antarctica’s Foundation Ice Stream to changes in sea level, accumulation and buttressing at the grounding line. Our sensitivity studies demonstrate that the steep, upward-sloping basal topography inland from the grounding line serves to st...

Abstract We show that housing markets provide information about the appropriate discount rates for valuing investments in climate change abatement. Real estate is exposed to both consumption and risk its term structure of downward sloping, reaching 2.6% payoffs beyond 100 years. use a tractable asset pricing model incorporates features climate-hedging thus upward sloping but bounded above by ri...