Geodetic studies have produced different interpretations of the relative vertical thickening versus escape tectonics occurring within the Los Angeles basin based on calculated horizontal strain rates ranging from 56 10 /yr contraction at N36 E to 85 10 /yr north–south contraction and 60 10 /yr east–west extension. Three-dimensional forward mechanical models of faults in the Los Angeles basin ar...

Bayesian networks are weighted directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). Layout of DAGs has been studied for many years, with variants of the horizontal layering algorithm of Sugiyama et al. (Sugiyama, Tagawa & Toda 1981) the preferred approach for medium size graphs. Following Gansner et al. (Gansner, Koutsofios, North & Vo 1993) we extend the classic horizontal layering algorithm with an additional ver...

Two tragic tsunamis that devastated the west coast of Sumatra Island, Indonesia in 2004 and North East Japan in 2011 had damaged bridges to various extents. Tsunamis have resulted in the catastrophic deterioration of infrastructures i.e. coastal structures, utilities and transportation facilities. A bridge structure performs vital roles to enable people to perform activities related to their da...

We try to understand the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in low-mass neutron-star and black-hole X-ray binaries by a resonance model in warped disks with precession. Our main concern is high-frequency QPOs, hectohertz QPOs, and horizontal-branch QPOs in the z sources and the atoll sources, and the correponding QPOs in black-hole X-ray binaries. Our resonance model can qualitatively, but syst...

When non-dimensionalized by length and velocity scales L, V , the explicit parameter is the Peclet number Pe = V L/κ. Other important parameters controlling the distribution are implicit in the characteristics of the advecting flow. Here we illustrate with z identified with the vertical direction which is most relevant to creating the deep columns of tracer. Application to a region of horizonta...

We show that solutions for the masses and mixings of the quarks and leptons based on a U (1)×Z 2 horizontal symmetry are possible. The seesaw mechanism is shown to work consistently in the presence of the discrete symmetry. The discrete symmetry results in the phenomenologically useful suppressions of elements of the Yukawa matrices. The quark and lepton masses, the CKM mixing angles, and the n...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the simple random walk on oriented versions of Z. The considered lattices are not directed on the vertical axis but unidirectional on the horizontal one, with symmetric random orientations which are positively correlated. We prove that the simple random walk is transient and also prove a functional limit theorem in the space D([0,∞[, R) of càdlàg functions, w...

Recently, several authors have considered lattice paths with various steps, including vertical steps permitted. In this paper, we consider a kind of generalized Motzkin paths, called G-Motzkin for short, that is from (0, 0) to (n, in the first quadrant XY-plane consist up $${\textbf{u}}=(1, 1)$$ , down $${\textbf{d}}=(1, -1)$$ horizontal $${\textbf{h}}=(1, 0)$$ and $${\textbf{v}}=(0, . The main...

Pursuit of equity in health and health care has been the key feature of health policy in India. Despite the policy significance, the volume of literature on this important topic is very inadequate in the Indian context. This paper, for the first time seeks to provide evidence on horizontal inequity in health care utilization in 16 major states and north-eastern region of India. The number of ou...

We have conducted an Hα survey of 38 0.77 z 1 galaxies over ∼100 arcmin2 of the Hubble Deep Field-North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs), with the near-IR multi-object spectrograph Cambridge Infrared Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). This represents the first successful application of this technique to observing high-re...