In general, ray paths in anisotropic media can be found by solving the sixth-order kinematic ray equations. In this paper it is shown that in media where the density-normalized elastic parameters depend quadratically on one coordinate, i.e. the velocities vary linearly, the projection of the ray path on to the slowness vector plane, which is fixed, is the same shape as the cross-section of the ...

Abstract The Hawaiian Islands are a prominent place to conduct seismicity research. Geologically, occurring earthquakes in this region unique since it is caused by the presence of hot spot rather than common fault activity. research was conducted using tomography method called Surface Wave Tomography. goals study produce tomographic images and test accuracy Automated Surface-Wave Phase-Velocity...

accurate permeability estimation has always been a concern in determining flow units, assigning appropriate capillary pressure andrelative permeability curves to reservoir rock types, geological modeling, and dynamic simulation.acoustic method can be used as analternative and effective tool for permeability determination. in this study, a four-step approach is proposed for permeability estimati...

Children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) are impaired in Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) tasks, where subjects are asked to name arrays of high frequency items as quickly as possible. However the reasons why RAN speed discriminates DD from typical readers are not yet fully understood. Our study was aimed to identify some of the cognitive mechanisms underlying RAN-reading relationship by compari...

Our nervous system can efficiently recognize objects in spite of changes in contextual variables such as perspective or lighting conditions. Several lines of research have proposed that this ability for invariant recognition is learned by exploiting the fact that object identities typically vary more slowly in time than contextual variables or noise. Here, we study the question of how this "tem...