Additive Factors Model (AFM) and Performance Factors Analysis (PFA) are two popular models of student learning that employ logistic regression to estimate parameters and predict performance. This is in contrast to Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) which uses a Hidden Markov Model formalism. While all three models tend to make similar predictions, they differ in their parameterization of student ...

The 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Mw 7.9) ruptured the active Longmen Shan thrust belt bounding the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau against the Sichuan basin (Fig. 1) (Burchfiel et al., 2008). Initial observations of this devastating earthquake were reported in several short papers focusing on coseismic slip and earthquake-fault geometry (e.g., Wang et al., 2008; Xu et al., 2009; Lin e...

[1] Dynamic pore pressure changes in the overriding wedge above a shallow-dipping plate interface significantly affect the rupture dynamics of shallow subduction zone earthquakes and their tsunamigenesis. For a wedge on the verge of Coulomb failure everywhere including the basal fault, the dynamic pore pressure increase due to up-dip rupture propagation leads to widespread yielding within the w...

We develop a new scalar migration technique that is highly accurate for imaging steep dips in heterogeneous media. This method is based on arbitrarily wideangle wave equations (AWWEs) that are highly accurate space-domain one-way wave equations and have a form similar to the 15◦ equation. The accuracy of the proposed method is increased by introducing auxiliary variables, as well as adjusting t...

The influence of temperature on interfacial fluid slip, as measured by molecular-dynamics simulations a Couette flow comprising Lennard-Jones and rigid crystalline walls, is examined function the fluid-solid interaction strength. Two different types thermal behavior are observed, namely, slippery sticky cases. first characterized steep unlimited increase slip length at low temperatures, while s...

[1] The 25 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia earthquake (Mw 7.8) ruptured the shallow portion of the subduction zone seaward of the Mentawai islands, off‐shore of Sumatra, generating 3 to 9 m tsunami run‐up along southwestern coasts of the Pagai Islands that took at least 431 lives. Analyses of teleseismic P, SH and Rayleigh waves for finite‐fault source rupture characteristics indicate ∼90 s ru...

We describe the morphology of a large and complex graben structure in the western Thauma-sia region (the " Thaumasia graben " [1] or TG). We consider possible fault geometries, determine extension , and discuss shortly possible models for its origin. Background: Situated at the western border of the Thaumasia plateau, the TG is one of the most prominent fault-bounded structures on Mars. It is ~...

Anodized-aluminum pressure-sensitive paint (AA-PSP) uses the dipping deposition method to apply a luminophore on a porous anodized-aluminum surface. We study the dipping duration, one of the parameters of the dipping deposition related to the characterization of AA-PSP. The dipping duration was varied from 1 to 100,000 s. The properties characterized are the pressure sensitivity, temperature de...

S U M M A R Y The arrival pattern (AP) method and teleseismic data have been used to relocate aftershocks following three major (M w >= 7.8) interplate earthquakes that occurred in eastern Papua New Guinea in 2000 November. The first event was an M w = 8.0 strike-slip earthquake that ruptured the Weitin fault over a length of ∼100 km. No aftershocks were located in the upper 15 km, suggesting t...