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Multi-Scale Neotectonic Study of the Clear Lake Fault Zone in the Sevier Desert Basin (Central Utah)

Multi-Scale Neotectonic Study of the Clear Lake Fault Zone in the Sevier Desert Basin (Central Utah) Brandon D. Heiner Department of Geological Sciences, BYU Masters of Science A multi-scale high-resolution geophysical and geological study was conducted in the Sevier Desert, central Utah, found within the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range Transition Zone. The region is marked by with Quaternary volcanics and faulting as young as 660 yr B.P., with many fault scarps thought to have the potential for 7+ magnitude earthquakes. Three locations within the Sevier Desert which represent three different tectonic expressions of possible faulting at the surface were selected. These include a location found within surface sedimentation, a location with surface sedimentation and sub-surface basalts and a location with basalts, at the surface with very limited sedimentation. A suite of geophysical data were obtained including the use of P-wave, SH-wave, ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Auger holes, microprobe glass analysis, and mapping information were also completed in order to constrain and gain a more complete understanding of the sub-surface structure. These data were used to determine if there are sub-surface expressions of the possible surface scarps and if all the faults within the fault zone have the same structural style. The possible surface fault expressions were found to be connected to sub-surface fault expressions but with differing results within both sediments and basalts. Our data show that a multi-scale approach is needed to obtain a complete view of tectonic activity. The area faulting in the Sevier Desert penetrates at depth involving multiple complex styles that include some faulting that cuts recent lava flows and some that do not. The evidence also indicates that in at least some area faulting was episodic and others may be single events having implications on level of activity and hazard.
Employability Feedback for Engineering Students

A mock placement application process was devised for engineering and computing students incorporating various feedback techniques towards preparing students for success in being selected for placement interview. The simulated application process was intended to be a highly formative experience for students; one that would allow them to reflect upon and develop their individual approaches to writing placement applications in a safe and supportive situation before making real applications. The paper describes how students responded to the mock application process, which was supported by various modes of feedback, and how this has impacted on them personally with respect to their confidence and ability in making applications for placement. Research findings, based upon data from two questionnaires and student focus groups, were positive. The simulation improved student confidence. Peer review of the mock applications was more beneficial to the reviewers than those receiving the feedback. However, students valued the audio and written feedback they received from tutors, noting the formative impact of this in writing successful applications.
Voltage Sources in 2D Fourier-Based Analytical Models of Electric Machines

The importance of extensive optimizations during the design of electric machines entails a need for fast and accurate simulation tools. For that reason, Fourier-based analytical models have gained a lot of popularity. The problem, however, is that these models typically require a current density as input. This is in contrast with the fact that the great majority of modern drive trains are powered with the help of a pulse-width modulated voltage-source inverter. To overcome that mismatch, this paper presents a coupling of classical Fourier-based models with the equation for the terminal voltage of an electric machine, a technique that is well known in finite-element modeling but has not yet been translated to Fourier-based analytical models. Both a very general discussion of the technique and a specific example are discussed. The presented work is validated with the help of a finite-element model. A very good accuracy is obtained.
Association of Lower Serum Bilirubin With Loss of Residual Kidney Function in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Bilirubin is recognized as an endogenous antioxidant, and low serum bilirubin is reported to be associated with the progression of kidney disease. However, it is unclear whether serum bilirubin levels are associated with the loss of residual kidney function (RKF) in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. This study investigated the relationship between serum total bilirubin and loss of RKF. We prospectively followed 94 PD patients who started PD in our hospital between June 2006 and May 2016. Ten patients who had chronic liver disease or cirrhosis were excluded. Patients were divided into three groups based on serum total bilirubin concentration tertiles: tertile 1 (T1) < 0.3, T2 = 0.3, and T3 ≥ 0.4 mg/dL. We estimated the relationship between serum bilirubin and loss of RKF, defined as daily urine volume (<100 mL) within 3 years after starting PD, using a Cox proportional hazards model. During the 3‐year observation period, 22 patients lost RKF. The incidence rate of loss of RKF increased linearly with the decrease in serum total bilirubin levels (P for trend < 0.05). After adjusting for confounding factors, low serum total bilirubin level was shown to be an independent predictor of loss of RKF (hazard ratio [HR] for every 0.1 mg/dL decrease, 1.50; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01–2.51; HR [95%CI] for T2 and T1 [vs. T3] 2.03 [0.65–7.88] and 3.70 [1.00–15.9]). This study suggests that low serum total bilirubin levels are associated with the loss of RKF in PD patients.
Development of a telemanipulator for dexterity enhanced microsurgery

The precision and stability of motion achievable with the human hand limits current microsurgical practice. Were. it possible to overcome these natural limits, better procedures of the eye, ear, hancl, brain, and spine would result. Such issues of dexterity cnhanccmet// lie not only with scaling down surgical skills of the most gifted, but also addressing widely variable skills of the entire surgical community. To this end, we are developing a new system for mbof assi.rfcd micro.wrgeCY (RAMS]. The concept at large for this development, guided by reviews of a NASA-convened Medical Advisory Board, is a position-scaling 6-d. o.f. micro-teJemanipulator that incorporates bi-iateral master-slave forcereflcction and tremor compensating controls. At this point in time, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has completed design, fabrication, and initial bcnchtop engineering tests of a RAMS slave with several significant features. This robot and its task-space controls enable relative tip positioning to better than 25 micror)s over a continuous workspace greater than 400 cubic centimeters. Robot actualion is basecl on a new revolute joint and cable-drive rnechanisrn that achieves near z,cro backlash, crms~ant cable Icrlgtb excursions, rninirniz.e. d joint coupling, and car) sustain full extent loads of over three pounds. We report on this robot clcsign, the preliminary cxperirntmtation, and ongoing development of a related rnicm-master. (lgyvc! td~. r<holic Illfltrijllllciiov.s, telcsu rg c ry, co)]rputct ctrlralrccd ,silt:qi(al dextefity prwisim sutgc,ric’,s)
Efficient Estimation of Models with Conditional Moment Restrictions Containing Unknown Functions

We propose an estimation method for models of conditional moment restrictions, which contain finite dimensional unknown parameters (theta) and infinite dimensional unknown functions (h). Our proposal is to approximate h with a sieve and to estimate theta and the sieve parameters jointly by applying the method of minimum distance. We show that: (i) the sieve estimator of h is consistent with a rate faster than n-super--1/4 under certain metric; (ii) the estimator of theta is root-n consistent and asymptotically normally distributed; (iii) the estimator for the asymptotic covariance of the theta estimator is consistent and easy to compute; and (iv) the optimally weighted minimum distance estimator of theta attains the semiparametric efficiency bound. We illustrate our results with two examples: a partially linear regression with an endogenous nonparametric part, and a partially additive IV regression with a link function. Copyright The Econometric Society 2003.
Sexual Dysfunction in HIV-Positive Women Attending a Tertiary Health Facility in North Central Nigeria

Introduction: Sexual dysfunction in HIV positive women is highly prevalent and it is often associated with psychosocial distress. Not much scientific attention has been dedicated to this important aspect of the life of the HIVpositive woman especially in Nigeria and in the West African sub region at large, where issues pertaining to sexuality are hardly ever discussed even in routine clinic visits due to cultural restrictions. Objectives: To determine the prevalence, psychological status, and socio demographic/clinical factors associated with sexual dysfunction in HIV-positive women. Methods: This was a hospital based cross-sectional study conducted over six months. Data were collected from 370 respondents using a structured questionnaire. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12) was used to assess their psychological status while the modified Female Sexual Function Index Questionnaire (FSFI) was used to assess female sexual dysfunction. Questionnaire was interviewer administered by and the data was analysed using Epi-info 2011 package. Results: It showed that the prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in HIV positive women was sixty one (61%). Thirty five (35%) of the respondents had significant psychological distress. The presence of psychological distress was significantly associated with Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). There was no association between FSD and religion, ethnicity, duration of marriage or presence of other chronic diseases. Increasing age, multiple sex partners, non-disclosure of HIV status, stigma, on-going stressful event, being underweight or obese were significantly associated with FSD. High level of education, being married, monogamy, WHO clinical stage I disease and higher CD4 count were associated with better sexual functioning. Conclusion: This study brings to the fore the need for physicians and healthcare workers who render comprehensive care as frontline doctors to acquire skills that is needed to attend to and alleviate the sexual problems of women in an African setting.
Modelling the evolution of vein microstructure with phase‐field techniques – a first look

Vein microstructures in the Earth's crust contain a wealth of information on the physical conditions of crystal growth, but correct interpretation requires an improved understanding of the processes involved. In this paper the processes involved in the formation of veins are briefly reviewed, and the possibilities of modelling these processes using the phase‐field method are discussed. This technique, which is established in the computational materials science community to investigate crystallization processes, is shown to be a powerful tool to describe processes during vein formation and other geological processes involving crystal growth.
Comparing Theory of Mind in Monolingual and Bilingual Children and its Relationship with Language and Communication skills

This study aimed to compare theory of mind in monolingual and bilingual children and its relationship with language and communication skills. Current study was performed by correlationdescriptive method. Testees in this research included 200 monolingual and bilingual student (109 girls and 91 boys) with age range 7-9, and they were selected by random cluster sampling method from four primary schools in harsin city in 2014-15 academic year and assessed by theory of mind test, language development test (told-p:3) and Illinois test of Psycholinguistic (ITPA). Independent ttest and Spearman’s correlation coefficient were used to analyze data. Result showed that there was a significant difference between monolingual and bilingual children in theory of mind, and bilingual children's performance in mind theory ability was better than monolingual children. In addition, there was a positive and significant relationship between theory of mind and linguistic and communicative skills, such that, average scores in bilingual children was higher than monolingual children.
Search and Discovery on the Web

In this paper we report on a series of tests we have done over three generations of search engines and comment on the completeness of their coverage. The existing and new search systems, while becoming more focused, tend nonetheless to generate misses and false hits; this is due to the fact that they attempt to match the specified search terms without context in the target information resource. Our tests, repeated over three generation of search engines, over the last few years show that while the recall for a simple search has increased, the precision has actually ecreased. We give some reasons for this decrease and suggest the need for increasing the intelligence of the search process by adding semantics information to the indexing scheme.
Achieving Availability and Efficient Audit Services in Cloud Computing

— Cloud computing is the long dreamed version of computing as a utility in IT industry. By data outsourcing, users can be relieved from the burden of local data storage and maintenance. As cloud provides many advantages, it also brings certain challenges. Here, as the clients no longer have the physical possession of the data, they can face formidable risk for missing data without clients knowledge, cloud providers can modify or delete data which are either not used by client from long-time which occupies large space. Hence, audit services are important for ensuring the integrity and availability of outsourced data in order to reduce the security risks and to achieve credibility on cloud computing. Many schemes have been proposed to achieve audit services, such as PDP protocol, which is used to prevent dishonest of prover and the leakage of verified data. In this audit service, the third party auditor (TPA), known as the agent of the data owners, can issues a periodic verification to monitor the change of outsourced data by providing an optimized scheduled. Even though they have addressed various aspects such as Public verifiability, Dynamics, Scalability and Privacy preservation, they still lack in providing assurance of data when they experience data leakage attack and tag forgery attacks and also existing schemes are designed for public cloud. The existing schemes are not applicable for hybrid clouds. Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which organization provides and manages some internal resources and external. This new enviormnet cloud brings irretrievable losses to the clients due to a lack of data integrity and verification mechanism for distributed data outsourcing. Hence, we propose a collaborative provable data possession (CPDP) method for providing data integrity in hybrid cloud and provides dynamic scalability and data migration in hybrid cloud.
Comprehension and Thinking of Complex Network Construction and Clustering Based on Neural Network Algorithm

With the development of computer technology and the enhancement of people's cognition of the world, more and more scholars have been focusing on the research of complex networks. At the same time, the emerging machine learning neural network algorithm has become a powerful tool for various researchers. This paper mainly discusses the construction and clustering of complex networks based on neural network algorithm. Firstly, the development history and main application fields of neural network are introduced. Then, several common methods of complex network clustering are summarized, and then the limitations of these clustering methods are discussed. At last, it proposes to improve the construction of neural network through the concept of small world in complex network and enhance the effect of complex network clustering by the characteristics of neural network algorithm, including the accuracy, reliability, stability, speed, etc.
Corporate Governance Reporting in Indian Banking Companies

Corporate Governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many players involved (the stakeholders) and the goals for which the corporation is governed. The principal players are the shareholders, management and the board of directors. Other stakeholders include employees, suppliers, customers, banks and other lenders, regulators, the environment and the community at large.
RESOLVING THE AERO ELECTROMAGNETIC (AEM) AND AEROMAGNETIC SIGNATURE OF THE BRUNSWICK NO 12 SULPHIDE DEPOSIT FROM ADJACENT FORMATIONAL ANOMALIES

The Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC), Canada, hosts 46 volcanogenic-sedimentary massive sulphide deposits (VHMS), including the world-class Brunswick No. 12 deposit. The magnetic signature of this deposit is masked by the magnetic response of a nearby basaltic formation. A reliable 3D model may contribute significantly to a better understanding of the nature of the Brunswick No. 12 deposit at depth and provide an important vector for exploration. Locally abundant pyrrhotite in the deposit generates a strong magnetic anomaly. 3D modeling of the magnetic data using the geological and drill hole data available in the literature as constraints produced a model that could be compared with previously established geological models. This comparison pointed to a very good correlation of the vertical behavior of the 3D model with a previously derived geological section. Although continuous at depth, the model displays differences between the northern and southern portions of the upper region of the body. This “bifurcate” aspect is consistent with the presence of two magnetic anomalies associated with the deposit. Independent geological interpretations of the sulphide body indicate a greater discontinuity of the body in the E-W direction compared to N-S discontinuities in the magnetic model. The magnetic model was then compared with the deposit aero electromagnetic (AEM) signature, which also indicated a bifurcation between the northern and southern portions. The correlation of the interpretation of two geophysical methods based on very different physical properties helps to confirm the reliability of the 3D model obtained. The results of this study contribute to a better characterization of the geophysical signatures associated with the Brunswick No. 12 deposit and help understanding its petrophysical composition. The geophysical characteristics provide a benchmark for comparison with other (partially) masked anomalies in BMC area or elsewhere.
Neuroprotective Effect of Rice and Corn Extracts Against H 2 O 2-Induced Neurotoxicity in HT 22 Murine Hippocampal Neuronal Cells

Oxidative stress-induced neuronal damage, mediated by the cellular accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), was reported to be involved in neurodegenerative diseases. Rice and corn may serve as sources of antioxidants with the presence of phytochemicals such as melatonin and tryptophan, for fighting against reactive oxygen species (ROS). Melatonin are known to upregulate the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene for enhancement of the nerve cell function and mediation of the anti-aging effect of the brain cells. The present study aimed at determining the effect of white rice, brown rice, black glutinous rice, sweet corn and baby corn extracts against H2O2-induced neurotoxicity and their underlying mechanisms in the mouse hippocampal HT22 cells. Following pretreatment of the HT22 cells with individual extract for 24 hrs and subsequent challenge with H2O2 for 24 hrs, cell viability, apoptosis, intracellular ROS and BDNF gene expression were measured. Rice and corn extracts were evaluated for their antioxidant activities and the levels of tryptophan and melatonin. Characteristics of H2O2-induced neurotoxicity included decreased cell viability, increased cellular ROS and decreased BDNF expression. Pretreatment with rice and corn extracts significantly attenuated H2O2-induced neurotoxicity, and also significantly decreased ROS production. Pretreatment with these extracts could also upregulate the expression of BDNF mRNA and protein, which may be contributed by their melatonin and tryptophan contents. Therefore, rice and corn extracts may protect HT22 cells against H2O2-induced neurotoxicity by inhibition of ROS production and modulation of BDNF expression.
Discovery of a bipolar X-ray jet from the T Tauri star DG Tauri

Aims. We have obtained and analyzed Chandra ACIS-S observations of the strongly accreting classical T Tauri star DG Tau. Our principal goals are to map the immediate environment of the star to characterize possible extended X-rays formed in the jet, and to re-visit the anomalous, doubly absorbed X-ray spectrum of DG Tau itself. Methods. We combine our new ACIS-S data with a data set obtained previously. The data are superimposed to obtain flux and hardness images. Separate X-ray spectra are extracted for DG Tau and areas outside its point spread function. Results. We detect a prominent X-ray jet at a position angle of PA ≈ 225 deg (tentatively suggested by Gudel et al. 2005, ApJ, 626, L53), coincident with the optical jet axis. We also identify a counter jet at PA = 45 deg. The X-ray jets are detected out to a distance of ≈5 �� from the star, their sources being extended at the ACIS-S resolution. The jet spectra are soft, with a best-fit electron temperature of 3.4 MK. We find evidence for excess absorption of the counter jet. The spectrum of the DG Tau point source shows two components with largely different temperatures and absorption column densities. Conclusions. The similar temperatures and small absorbing gas columns of the jet sources and the soft component of the “stellar” source suggest that these sources are related, produced either by shocks or by magnetic heating in the jets. Cooling estimates suggest that the pressure in the hot gas contributes to jet expansion. The hard “stellar” component, on the other hand, is associated with a stellar corona or magnetosphere. The excessive photoelectric absorption of this component suggests the presence of dust-depleted accretion streams above coronal magnetic fields.