On October 23, 2004, a series of powerful earthquakes with a maximum M <Subscript>w</Subscript> = 6.6 located near the western coast of northern Honshu struck parts of northern Japan, particularly Niigata Prefecture; these earthquakes were known as the Chuetsu event. Thousands of landslides, as a secondary...</subscript>

This paper is devoted to stability analysis of the Zheng-Gang landslide in the Gu-Shui hydropower station in China. Based on the geological field investigations, the formation processes, the deformation mechanism related to rainfalls and the instability mode are first analyzed. Large scale...

Water extraction in many of the world's rivers is reaching unsustainable levels and continued supply of water of adequate quality for human and productive needs is threatened. In response, authorities in many river basins have stopped issuing new water entitlements and there are increased calls...

We investigated the shot noise properties in the diluted-magnetic-semiconductor/semiconductor heterostructures, where the sp-d exchange interaction gives rise to a giant spin splitting when an external magnetic field is applied along the growth direction of the heterostructures. It is found that...