The Osbourn Trough is a 900 km long, east-west rending gravity low, visible in satellite altimetry data, which intersects the Tonga Trench at 25ø30'S. A recent survey collected gravity, magnetic, echo sounder, and swath bathymetry data on three adjacent, north-south trending ship tracks centered on the trough. The linear gravity low is 20-30 regal less than the regional value and is accompanied...

The problem of deciding what is implied by a written text. of “reading between the lines” is the problem of text Inference. To extract proper inferences from a text requires a great deal of generol knowledge on the port of the reader. Past approaches have often used a “strong method” tuned to process a particular kind of knowledge structure (such OS a script, or a plan). The alternative is a “w...

Autoimmune diseases are typically characterized by a persistent inflammatory self-recognition process that ultimately leads to chronic progressive disability. Over the past several years we have addressed the fundamental question of why autoimmune diseases are chronic. Our working hypothesis in these studies has been that autoimmunity involves a continuous acquisition of new self-recognition ev...

The social aspects of the group members are usually omitted in today’s group recommenders. In this paper we propose novel approach for the intergroup processes modeling, while the friendship type, user’s personality and the group context is considered in order to reflect the group member influence. Moreover, the bi-directional emotional contagion is reflected by the spreading activation over th...

The first longitudinal, controlled experiment of a video game explored the presence of cultivation effects due to play. Over the course of 1 month, participants in an online game changed their perceptions of real-world dangers. However, these dangers only corresponded to events and situations found in the game world, not other real-world crimes. This targeted finding is at odds with the broader...

A tectonic window into the upper 2,000 m of oceanic crust generated at superfast spreading (∼142 mm/yr) southern East Pacific Rise exposes a continuous layered structure basaltic lavas and sheeted dikes over gabbroic rocks. This relatively simple is in accord with expectations for crustal accretion very fast rate high magma budget where magmatic construction keeps pace plate separation. Detaile...

[1] We report highly variable mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) major element and water concentrations from a single 1050-km first-order spreading segment on the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge, consisting of two supersegments with strikingly different spreading geometry and ridge morphology. To the east, the 630 km long orthogonal supersegment (<10 obliquity) dominantly erupts normal MO...