Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, then transport it away to another location. The particulate breakdown of rock or soil into clastic sediment is referred to as physical or mechanical erosion; this contrasts with chemical erosion, where soil or rock material is removed from an area by its dissolving into a solvent (typically water), followed by the flow away of that solution. Eroded sediment or solutes may be transported just a few millimetres, or for thousands of kilometres.

Natural rates of erosion are controlled by the action of geomorphic drivers, such as rainfall; bedrock wear in rivers; coastal erosion by the sea and waves; glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes; and mass movement processes in steep landscapes like landslides and debris flows. The rates at which such processes act control how fast a surface is eroded. Typically, physical erosion proceeds fastest on steeply sloping surfaces, and rates may also be sensitive to some climatically-controlled properties including amounts of water supplied (e.g., by rain), storminess, wind speed, wave fetch, or atmospheric temperature (especially for some ice-related processes). Feedbacks are also possible between rates of erosion and the amount of eroded material that is already carried by, for example, a river or glacier. Processes of erosion that produce sediment or solutes from a place contrast with those of deposition, which control the arrival and emplacement of material at a new location.

Cutaneous condition

A cutaneous condition is any medical condition that affects the integumentary system—the organ system that encloses the body and includes skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands. The major function of this system is as a barrier against the external environment.

Conditions of the human integumentary system constitute a broad spectrum of diseases, also known as dermatoses, as well as many nonpathologic states (like, in certain circumstances, melanonychia and racquet nails). While only a small number of skin diseases account for most visits to the physician, thousands of skin conditions have been described. Classification of these conditions often presents many nosological challenges, since underlying etiologies and pathogenetics are often not known. Therefore, most current textbooks present a classification based on location (for example, conditions of the mucous membrane), morphology (chronic blistering conditions), etiology (skin conditions resulting from physical factors), and so on.

Erosion (morphology)

Erosion is one of two fundamental operations (the other being dilation) in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are based. It was originally defined for binary images, later being extended to grayscale images, and subsequently to complete lattices.

Binary erosion

In binary morphology, an image is viewed as a subset of a Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^d or the integer grid \mathbb{Z}^d, for some dimension d.

The basic idea in binary morphology is to probe an image with a simple, pre-defined shape, drawing conclusions on how this shape fits or misses the shapes in the image. This simple "probe" is called structuring element, and is itself a binary image (i.e., a subset of the space or grid).

Let E be a Euclidean space or an integer grid, and A a binary image in E. The erosion of the binary image A by the structuring element B is defined by:

where Bz is the translation of B by the vector z, i.e., B_z = \{b+z|b\in B\}, \forall z\in E.

When the structuring element B has a center (e.g., a disk or a square), and this center is located on the origin of E, then the erosion of A by B can be understood as the locus of points reached by the center of B when B moves inside A. For example, the erosion of a square of side 10, centered at the origin, by a disc of radius 2, also centered at the origin, is a square of side 6 centered at the origin.

Traum

Traum (German "Dream") may refer to:

Persons

  • Artie Traum (1943–2008), American New Age guitarist, producer and songwriter
  • Dick Traum, founder of the Achilles Track Club for disabled athletes
  • Happy Traum (born 1938), American folk musician
  • Music

  • Traum Schallplatten, Cologne-based German minimal techno record label
  • "DJ Traum", 1999 single by the German synthpop band Melotron, taken from album Mörderwerk
  • Classical compositions

  • Der Traum, musical pantomime in two acts, MH 84, Michael Haydn and Florian Reichssiegel
  • "Traum", song by Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
  • "Traum", song by Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
  • "Der Traum", D213 (Holty) by Schubert
  • "Nacht und Träume", D827 by Schubert
  • "Der Traum", Op. 29 No. 2 by Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871)
  • "Der Traum", Op. 21 by János Fusz (1777-1819)
  • "Ein Traum", song by Mathilde von Kralik
  • "Ein Traum", song by Edvard Grieg
  • Popular songs

  • "Traum" (Cro song), 2014 single by German rapper Cro

  • Traum (Cro song)

    "Traum is a 2014 single by German rapper, singer, producer Cro. Released on 9 May 2014, it is his seventh single and is the first release from his 2014 album Melodie. It was also released as a remix CD containing 6 tracks including the radio single, remixes and instrumentals of the song. On February 17, 2015, Cro released an English version of the song titled "Dream" on iTunes.

    Tracklist

  • "Traum" (3:17)
  • "Traum" (Instrumental) (3:15)
  • "Traum (3:14)
  • "Traum" (Instrumental) (3:14)
  • "Traum" (MRLN Remix) (4:17)
  • "Traum" (Cro Remix) (4:01)
  • "Traum" (MRLN Remix) [Instrumental] (4:17)
  • "Traum" (Cro Remix) [Instrumental] (4:00)
  • Charts

    Year-end charts

    Certifications

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