The tectono-volcanic ensemble of the Chaîne des Puys and Limagne fault, which is part West European rift, was inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage list in 2018 as Puys–Limagne fault tectonic arena. This site includes (1) western normal border graben (the fault), (2) shoulder granitic Plateau Dômes) lies a Quaternary volcanic alignment Puys), (3) an inverted relief resulting from erosive action ar...

The Passive Range Exclusion (PRE) Hypothesis provides a mechanism whereby species that rest or breed in communal residences, but forage independently on dispersed food items, may avoid entering the core home ranges of neighbouring groups. A stochastic simulation shows that as the occupants of a communal residence travel outwards to feed, their activities create a gradient in food availability. ...

This paper is concerned with the fault detection filter design problem for linear time-invariant systems subject to disturbance and possible faults. To make a tradeoff between fault sensitivity and disturbance sensitivity, frameworks such as H−/H∞, H2/H∞, and H∞/H∞ are considered. It is shown that for H−/H∞ and H∞/H∞ frameworks, all optimal fault detection filters can be characterized by an env...

We present a practical and economical method for physical fault insertion in analog circuits using Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs) for use in the development and evaluation of manufacturing and system-level tests for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems. The method involves the manipulation of configuration bits used to program the FPAA to emulate catastrophic faults...

The distance between the orbits and their individual dimensions are important in the diagnosis of craniofacial anomalies. Most observers rely on standard radiographs for measuring the bony interorbital distance. Tomography of the skull base and orbital computed tomography (CT) can also be used. This article describes the normal range of the bony interorbital distance and other useful orbital li...

2014 Work hardening of fcc metals and diamond structure crystals is considered in a cell model. Depending on stacking fault energy and temperature dynamic recovery can occur by cross slip or climb. The remaining dislocations cause a rehardening stage IV of two different origins and in two temperature ranges before the other dynamic recovery mechanism terminates work hardening. J. Phys. France 5...

We experimentally analyze the general applicability of genetic algorithms (GA) and simulated annealing algorithms (SA) for mapping data to multicomputers. The results show that the GA and SA are insensitive to user parameters in wide ranges, completely fault tolerant, and unbiased towards particular multicomputer topologies. These properties of flexibility and general applicability, which are l...

Dissolution pressure and nozzle temperature effects on particle size and distribution were investigated for RESS (Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solution) process. Supercritical CO2 was used as solvent and Ibuprofen was applied as the model component in all runs. The resulting Ibuprofen nano-particles (about 50 nm in optimized runs) were analyzed by SEM and laser diffraction pa...

OBJECTIVES To define and discuss reference ranges for commonly determined laboratory parameters in healthy adults from southern Tanzania. METHODS A population-based sample of adult volunteers from Mbeya, Tanzania, who were not HIV positive or showing signs and symptoms of other diseases, participated in this study. We enrolled 145 women and 156 men between 19 and 48 years of age to determine ...

The 2008 Wells earthquake occurred on a northeast-striking, southeast-dipping fault that is clearly delineated by the aftershock swarm to a depth of 10-12 km below sea level. However, Cenozoic rocks and structures around Wells primarily record east-west extension along northto north-northeast-striking, west-dipping normal faults that formed during the middle Miocene. These faults are responsibl...