We evaluated the recent earthquake and tsunami responsible for considerable damage and 663 deaths due to a 7.8Mw movement on the 16th of April 2016.The seismic event filled tens of thousands in refugee camps and affected some two million persons directly.The potential of high losses and damage with a total of 29,672 properties, including family hou
Editorial. Iron Age Settlement in Wales
In 2004, the four Welsh archaeological trusts began an assessment of the Iron Age hillforts, promontory forts and defended enclosures and enclosed farmsteads, grant-aided by Cadw, as Activity Toys part of a continuing programme of threat-related assessments.Following completion of the assessment in 2008, it was considered that the accumulated infor
Tempo rubato : animacy speeds up time in the brain.
BackgroundHow do we estimate time Gifts when watching an action? The idea that events are timed by a centralized clock has recently been called into question in favour of distributed, specialized mechanisms.Here we provide evidence for a critical specialization: animate and inanimate events are separately timed by humans.Methodology/principal findi
Comparative study on appropriate drought and flood index selection in a tropical farming island in China
The traditional drought and flood analysis method had not fully considered the proportion analysis of different drought and flood grades in the historical years of each rainfall station.This made results unconvincing and made it difficult to deeply understand the characteristics and applicability of various methods.Based on the daily rainfall data