11 Earthquakes can rupture geometrically complex fault systems by breaching fault step-overs. 12 Quantifying the likelihood of rupture jump across step-overs is important to evaluate earth13 quake hazard and to understand the interactions between dynamic rupture and fault growth 14 processes. Here we investigate the role of seismogenic depth and background stress on phys15 ical limits of earthq...

We consider the Nordic electricity spot market from mid 1992 to the end of year 2000. This market is found to be well approximated by an anti-persistent self-affine (mean-reverting) walk. It is characterized by a Hurst exponent of H ≃ 0.41 over three orders of magnitude in time ranging from days to years. We argue that in order to see such a good scaling behavior, and to locate cross-overs, it ...

A method is described for setting revised target scores for the team batting second when a limited-overs cricket match has been forcibly shortened after it has commenced. It is designed so that neither team bene®ts or suffers from the shortening of the game and so is totally fair to both. It is easy to apply, requring nothing more than a single table of numbers and a pocket calculator, and is c...

This paper analyses declaration and the follow-on decisions in test cricket. We model the match outcome given the end of first, second and third innings positions; data on 391 test matches, from the period 1997 to 2007, are used to fit the models. We then investigate how declaration strategy should vary from innings to innings, and how the nature and strength of the covariate effects vary. As t...

In the research literature on UK take-overs there seems to be an apparent conundrum. First, it appears that, in general, the market anticipates overall equity cash flow gains from a take-over in the sense that the share price of the acquiree firm typically increases relative to some appropriately market-adjusted benchmark over the period of time from the announcement of the take-over to the dat...

Some practical issues in planning cross-over trials will be considered. A general approach to sample size determination for any arbitrary cross-over will be described. This also permits sample size determination when it is intended to recover inter-block information for incomplete block cross-overs. Consideration will also be given to planning to mimimize the effect of carry-over. Some aspects ...

Although the intentional production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has totally been banned, these pollutants are still released into atmosphere by industrial and domestic burning processes volatilization from soils locally contaminated PCB spill-overs. The present work aims at identifying sources in a mixed land use area northeastern Italy around cement plant co-powered with recovered deri...

this study attempts to find if better performance in power play leads a team to victory in a twenty20 match. based on the methodology devised to do so, the study tries to measure the performance of both the teams during power play overs in terms of batting and bowling. the developed measure is called ‘prod’ which is a product of the difference of batting and bowling performance of the teams dur...

This study attempts to find if better performance in power play leads a team to victory in a Twenty20 match. Based on the methodology devised to do so, the study tries to measure the performance of both the teams during power play overs in terms of batting and bowling. The developed measure is called ‘Prod’ which is a product of the difference of batting and bowling performance of t...