Frictional measurements were made on natural fault gouge at seismic slip rates using a high-speed rotary-shear apparatus to study effects of slip velocity, acceleration, displacement, normal stress, and water content. ...

The Pezizomycotina, commonly known as the filamentous fungi, are a diverse group of organisms that have a major impact on human life. The filamentous fungi diverged from a common ancestor approximately 200 – 700 million ...

Rivers are thought to form fluvial terraces. The geneses of terraces depend on climatic changes because of the variations of riverbed slopes and sediment fluxes. Particularly, generating erosional-strath terraces requires ...

The purpose of this research is to understand how societal ideas surrounding sport have evolved from the time of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in the fifteenth century to more modern adaptations of his work by T.H. ...

The oniscidean genus Ligia has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring mainly in rocky supralittoral habitats, although a few species are found in tropical mountain freshwater habitats. The long-distance dispersal potential ...

In the neuronal circuits of natural and artificial agents, memory is usually implemented with recurrent connections, since recurrence allows past agent state to affect the present, on-going behavior. Here, an interesting ...

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted tremendous attention over the past decade due to their exciting mechanical, electronic and frictional properties. Heterostructures of semiconductors and metals are the fundamental ...

Various aspects of the catalytic synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on transition metal nanoparticles were studied by combining atomistic simulations: reactive molecular dynamics (RMD), density functional ...

One of the primary concerns with space travel is the protection of astronauts from potentially lethal radiation. A major source of potentially lethal radiation is our own sun. During Solar Cycle 23 there were 97 detected ...