La science de l'hydrologie est à la base de la prise de décision en matière de ressources en eau et de l'évaluation des risques connexes tels que les inondations, les sécheresses et la pollution. Malgré l'importance vitale de cette science pour la société, ce domaine scientifique est confronté à un grave manque de données dans les domaines spatiaux et temporels. Les pays du tiers monde et les pays à faible revenu sont confrontés à un manque de données ...

V rabote izuchayutsya levoinvariantnye pochti kompleksnye struktury i assotsiirovannye s nimi metriki na gruppakh Li razmernosti 4. Vvodyatsya i izuchayutsya dva novykh klassa pochti kompleksnykh struktur, kotorye opredelyayutsya paroy zadannykh na gruppe Li dvumernykh raspredeleniy kasatel'nykh podprostranstv. Struktury, kotorye sokhranyayut eti raspredeleniya, nazyvayutsya privodimymi, a struktury, perestavlyayushchie eti raspredeleniya, nazyvayutsya antiprivodimymi. Poluchena polnaya klassifikatsiya levoinvariantnykh ortogonal'nykh, privodimykh i antiprivodimykh ...

1853. A fateful game of poker changed the fortunes of two families forever. A home was lost. But what was left behind?  2018. The wedding of Christie Ryan and Martin Blake is only weeks away and River’s End is buzzing with excitement.  But when a stranger arrives at Palmerston House, a new mystery arises. How does he know so much about the Ryan family, and what do a nineteenth century diary, a grandfather clock, and an old key have in common? As a dangerous plot unfolds, long hidden secrets threaten to change everything held dear ...

Working from microfilm copies of "The Sun" newspaper, Mr. Hollowak has succeeded in unearthing a rich store of genealogical data, which, but for his efforts, likely would have remained buried, well out of reach of the average researcher. In total, something like 15,000 marriages are recorded. With the frequent mention of other names, mainly fathers of brides, we find that altogether approximately 35,000 persons are cited in the text. The entries are arranged alphabetically by bridegrooms' surnames. Following is the Family Index, an index to brides and all ...

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find ...

One of the most literary annals of life in the North American West in the 19th century, The Western Avernus (1887) recounts the treks and toils of a Victorian gentleman abroad in a rough and dangerous land. Singing with a frontier authenticity of hard work, rugged adventure, and restless travel, the book has been likened to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. But it is perhaps best known as a major inspiration for Robert Service, the great Scottish poet of the Yukon, with its exhilarating depictions of work on railroad crews and mountaineering in British Columbia. ...

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several naval battles until the Massachusetts brig Tyrannicide led them to Massachusetts. Over the next four years, the slaves became the center of a legal dispute between the two states. The case affected slave law and highlighted the profound differences between ...

Cultural contents that represent typical cultural practices of the home society are rarely found in EFL textbooks. As a consequence, the teachers' practices of teaching the language using local cultural contents were limited. Likewise, the learners' engagement in learning the target language through cultural contents that typically represent their home society are lacking. It adheres the data gathered through textbook analysis. The textbooks included local cultural contents in attempts to give local cultural flavor when the target language or global cultural ...

Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather’s secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident.  After putting the move on her grandma, her grandfather’s BFF took an elevator ride straight to the Heavenly Gates. And the second time Raina ends up flat on her back without a man in sight, she suspects the Year of the Monkey would leave her skulking in cold damp places where family secrets ...