Extensional processes can lead to complex crustal configuration depending on the mechanisms of lithospheric thinning and impact magmatic additions during rifting breakup. In this context, we studied Vøring volcanic passive margin offshore Norway. The evolution inner Margin is well explained by standard models lithosphere extension. However, these fail reproduce key observations at outer (volcan...

The surface sculpture of the inoceramid bivalve Magadiceramus? rangatira rangatira consists of commarginal ribs and curious, transverse wrinkles. The wrinkles typically are at a high angle or orthogonal to the shell margin (‘antimarginal’) and thus differ from purely radial structures. They show features of distribution and morphology that reveal them to be products of margin-parallel compressi...

In the last few lectures we have seen how to obtain high confidence bounds on the generalization error of functions learned from function classes of limited capacity, measured in terms of the growth function and VC-dimension for binary-valued function classes in the case of binary classification, and in terms of the covering numbers, pseudo-dimension, and fat-shattering dimension for real-value...

The use of discriminative models for structured classification tasks, such as automatic speech recognition is becoming increasingly popular. The major contribution of this first-year work is we proposed a large margin structured log-linear model for noise robust continuous ASR. An important aspect of log-linear models is the form of the features. The features used in our structured log linear m...

The occurrence of plate tectonic processes on Earth during the Paleoproterozoic is supported by ca. 2.2–1.8 Ga subduction-collision orogens associated with assembly Columbia-Nuna supercontinent. Subsequent supercontinent breakup evidence global 1.8–1.6 large igneous provinces. North China craton notable for containing along its margins, herein named Northern Margin orogen, yet nature and timing...

ARCH processes and their extensions known as GARCH processes are widely accepted for modelling financial time series, in particular stochastic volatility processes. The offline estimation of ARCH and GARCH processes have been analyzed under a variety of conditions in the literature. The main contribution of this paper is a rigorous convergence analysis of a recursive estimation method for GARCH...

This article introduces a novel transition system for discontinuous lexicalized constituent parsing called SR-GAP. It is an extension of the shift-reduce algorithm with an additional gap transition. Evaluation on two German treebanks shows that SR-GAP outperforms the previous best transitionbased discontinuous parser (Maier, 2015) by a large margin (it is notably twice as accurate on the predic...

the study examines production efficiency of farmers under national fadama-ii project in oyo state nigeria. primary data were collected from two hundred and sixty-four farmers using multistage sampling technique. the analytical framework used for the study include: descriptive, infrastructure index, gross margin and stochastic frontier production function. average infrastructural index in the ar...