Three devastating earthquakes of MW ≥ 5.9 activated a complex system high-angle normal, antithetic, and sub-horizontal detachment faults during the 2016–2017 central Italy seismic sequence. Waveform cross-correlation based double-difference location nearly 400,000 aftershocks illuminate complex, fine-scale structures interacting fault zones. The Mt. Vettore–Mt. Bove (VB) normal exhibits wide da...

The "reverse dipping" blood pressure (BP) pattern has been studied among the general population and in individuals suffering from hypertension. However, the prognosis of this pattern in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients is not known. We monitored BP throughout the day and followed health outcomes in 588 CKD patients admitted to our hospital. Time to all-cause mortality, cardiovascular morta...

The effectiveness of calcium hypochlorite on inactivation of Escherichia coli inoculated on fresh produce was investigated. Different exposure times and concentrations of chlorine were studied. Dipping was not effective at eliminating E. coli populations although it significantly reduced the E. coli counts compared with inoculated, undipped lettuce. Dipping inoculated cos lettuce leaves into hy...

BACKGROUND In healthy individuals, blood pressure (BP) decreases, or "dips", during sleep. Ethnicity and high daytime blood pressure level are known markers of nondipping status. The literature on psychological markers of nondipping is scant but suggests that anger/hostility and chronic stress may be contributors to nondipping. PURPOSE We have investigated this phenomenon in drug-free hyperte...

Nocturnal blood pressure (BP) decline or "dipping" is an active, central, nervously governed process, which is important for BP regulation during daytime. It is, however, not known whether the sleep process itself or, more specifically, slow-wave sleep (SWS) is important for normal dipping. Therefore, in the present study, healthy subjects (6 females, 5 males) were selectively deprived of SWS b...

Abstract. The present study of field, petrological, exploration well, and seismic data describes backward-dipping duplexes comprised phyllitic coal bedding-parallel décollements thrusts localized along lithological transitions in tectonically thickened Lower Devonian to lowermost Upper Devonian; uppermost Devonian–Mississippian; Pennsylvanian–lowermost Permian sedimentary strata the Wood Bay an...

[1] We derive a finite slip model for the 2013Mw 8.3 Sea of Okhotsk Earthquake (Z= 610 km) by inverting calibrated teleseismic P waveforms. The inversion shows that the earthquake ruptured on a 10° dipping rectangular fault zone (140 km× 50 km) and evolved into a sequence of four large sub-events (E1–E4) with an average rupture speed of 4.0 km/s. The rupture process can be divided into two main...