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The Unusual 3d Interplay Of Basement Fault Reactivation And Fault-Propagation-Fold Development: A Case Study Of The Laramide-Age Stillwell Anticline, West Texas (Usa), Benjamin E. Surpless, Nicola Hill, Cara Beasley

Geosciences Faculty Research

Subsurface fault geometries have a systematic influence on folds formed above those faults. We use the extraordinarily well-exposed fold geometries of the Laramide-age Stillwell anticline in west Texas (USA) to develop a strain-predictive model of fault-propagation fold formation. The anticline is a 10-km long, NW-trending, NE-vergent, asymmetric fold system with an axis that displays a map-view left-stepping, en echelon pattern. We integrated field observations, geologic and structural data, cross-sections, and 2D kinematic modeling to establish an unusual 3D two-stage model of contractional fold formation, including: 1) reverse reactivation of a pre-existing, NW-striking, SW-dipping, left-stepping, en echelon normal fault system in …

Regional Review: Reaching New Heights In The Region Fall 2015, Heather Garcia , Editor

Regional Campuses Publications

No abstract provided.

A New Class Of Generalized Modified Weibull Distribution With Applications, Broderick O. Oluyede, Shujiao Huang, Tiantian Yang

Department of Mathematical Sciences Faculty Publications

A new five parameter gamma-generalized modified Weibull (GGMW) distribution which includes exponential, Rayleigh, modified Weibull, Weibull, gamma-modified Weibull, gamma-modified Rayleigh, gamma-modified exponential, gamma-Weibull, gamma-Rayleigh, and gamma-exponential distributions as special cases is proposed and studied. Some mathematical properties of the new class of distributions including moments, distribution of the order statistics, and Renyi entropy are presented. Maximum likelihood estimation technique is used to estimate the model parameters and applications to a real datasets to illustrates the usefulness of the proposed class of models are presented.

Small Molecule Inhibitor Design For Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Inhibition, Theodore D. Hansel, David J. Grabovsky

Interface Compendium of Student Work

The Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) gene has been linked to tumorigenesis in a number of human cancers, including anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) and neuroblastoma. While ALK mutations in ALCL and many other cancers occur as a result of gene fusions with wild type kinase domains, those in neuroblastoma stem from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the kinase domain. These lead to autophosphorylation and constitutive signaling by ALK for cell growth and division, ultimately causing cancer. Crizotinib, an ATP-competitive ALK inhibitor, has proven to be an effective inhibitor of both ALKWT and ALKMutant kinase domains, and is in the middle …

Chemistry Department Newsletter 2015, Ken Overway

Chemistry Department Newsletters

This document contains a summary of news and events from the chemistry department from the 2014-2015 academic year.

Spatial Variability Of Subsurface Soil Conditions Causing Roadway Settlements, Ömer Bilgin, Kevin Arens, Mark Salveter, Alexander Dettloff

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

Settlement of problematic soils constituting the roadway subgrade may result in pavement distress and structural failure, requiring periodic pavement patching and resurfacing. Many of these problems occur as a result of the settlement of soft cohesive and organic soils. Due to the extent of roadway projects and the limited frequency of boring locations, spatial variability of subsurface soil conditions, and sometimes due to an inadequate extent of exploration, these problematic soils may not be identified suitably during subsurface explorations. An extensive subsurface exploration program was implemented for detailed characterization of subsurface conditions for a relatively short section of an existing …

Translation Of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ode To Africa', Monish Ranjan Chatterjee

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

During his illustrious lifetime, Rabindranath Tagore travelled extensively around the world, spreading inspiration and gaining veneration in most destinations as the emissary of the East and of a deeply futuristic Universalist philosophy. An assessment of the intellectuals and cultural icons of the world whom Tagore encountered, interacted with, and influenced, is both astonishing and indeed still waiting to be adequately evaluated. His exchanges with Einstein, Wells, Rolland, Gide, Freud, Durant, Yeats, Rothenstein, Andrews, Noguchi, Gandhi, Radhakrishnan, Nehru, Bose and numerous others are well-documented. Tagore's literary works and public life centered on rejoicing in and celebrating everything unique and artistic in …

2015 (Fall), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Colloquia

Abstracts of the talks given at the 2015 Fall Colloquium.

Change The Game, John S. Farnsworth

Environmental Studies and Sciences

Not only was it a wild idea, it was someone else’s wild idea.

Having spent the three previous summers working feverishly on a book, I’d decided that I was due for a more restful interlude between spring and fall quarters. My summer was to be heavy on contemplation as I scratched together a prospectus for a new book. There was to be ample time for grant writing. In my spare time I would work on a sabbatical proposal. There was the pile of books I was eager to get to, heavy on obscure nature writers.

Then came an email from …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 57 Number 1, Fall 2015, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

24 - ART HAPPENING HERE Inside the Edward M. Dowd Art & Art History Building. Illustration by Harry Campbell. Words by Steven Boyd Saum.

28 - CALL HER A WORLD CHAMPION And call them America’s Team. Julie Johnston ’14 and the Women’s World Cup. By Ann Killion.

34 - A WILD GENEROSITY The energy and genius of Steve Nash ’96 on the court. By Brian Doyle.

37 - BELIEVE IN US An oral history of a 1993 NCAA playoff game that became an upset for the ages. By Jeff Gire and Harold Gutmann.

40 - CHANGE THE GAME Pope Francis …

Social Health Signals, Ashutosh Sopan Jadhav, Swapnil Soni, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Recently Twitter, has emerged as one of the primary medium for sharing and seeking of the latest information related to variety of the topics including health information. Recently, Twitter has emerged as one of the primary mediums for sharing and seeking the latest information related to a variety of topics, including health information. Although Twitter is an excellent information source, identification of useful information from the deluge of tweets is one of the major challenge. Twitter search is limited to keyword based techniques to retrieve information for a given query and sometimes the results do not contain real-time information. Moreover, …

Can The Wave Function In Configuration Space Be Replaced By Single-Particle Wave Functions In Physical Space?, Travis Norsen, Damiano Marian, Xavier Oriols

Physics: Faculty Publications

The ontology of Bohmian mechanics includes both the universal wave function (living in 3N-dimensional configuration space) and particles (living in ordinary 3-dimensional physical space). Proposals for understanding the physical significance of the wave function in this theory have included the idea of regarding it as a physically-real field in its 3N-dimensional space, as well as the idea of regarding it as a law of nature. Here we introduce and explore a third possibility in which the configuration space wave function is simply eliminated – replaced by a set of single-particle pilot-wave fields living in ordinary physical space. Such a re-formulation …

Long-Term Manure Amendments Reduced Soil Aggregate Stability Via Redistribution Of The Glomalin-Related Soil Protein In Macroaggregates, Hongtu Xie, Jianwei Li, Bin Zhang, Lianfeng Wang, Jingkuan Wang, Hongbo He, Xudong Zhang

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) contributes to the formation and maintenance of soil aggregates, it is however remains unclear whether long-term intensive manure amendments alter soil aggregates stability and whether GRSP regulates these changes. Based on a three-decade long fertilization experiment in northeast China, this study examined the impact of long-term manure input on soil organic carbon (SOC), total and easily extractable GRSP (GRSPt and GRSPe) and their respective allocations in four soil aggregates (>2000 μm; 2000–250 μm; 250–53 μm; and <53 μm). The treatments include no fertilization (CK), low and high manure amendment (M1, M2), chemical nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers (NPK) and combined manure and chemical fertilizers (NPKM1, NPKM2). Though SOC, GRSPe and GRSPt in soil and SOC in each aggregate generally increased with increasing manure input, GRSPt and GRSPe in each aggregate showed varying changes with manure input. Both GRSP in macroaggregates (2000–250 μm) were significantly higher under low manure input, a pattern consistent with changes in soil aggregate stability. Constituting 38~49% of soil mass, macroaggregates likely contributed to the nonlinear changes of aggregate stability under manure amendments. The regulatory process of GRSP allocations in soil aggregates has important implications for manure management under intensive agriculture.

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter, Department Of Chemistry & Biochemistry, South Dakota State University

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter: 2002-2015

Inside:

Page 2 Avera Health and Science’s 5th Year Celebration
Page 3 Harvest Table Food Drive — Round Two
Page 4 New Graduates Students
Page 5 Department to Host CHEM Ed 2017
Page 6 ACS Student Affiliate Chapter Activities
Page 7 Faculty and Staff News
Page 8 Publications & Grants

Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy Imaging Of Microtubule Arrays In Intact Arabidopsis Thaliana Seedling Roots, Bin Dong, Xiaochen Yang, Shaobin Zhu, Diane C. Bassham, Ning Fang

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy has generated tremendous success in revealing detailed subcellular structures in animal cells. However, its application to plant cell biology remains extremely limited due to numerous technical challenges, including the generally high fluorescence background of plant cells and the presence of the cell wall. In the current study, stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) imaging of intact Arabidopsis thaliana seedling roots with a spatial resolution of 20–40 nm was demonstrated. Using the super-resolution images, the spatial organization of cortical microtubules in different parts of a whole Arabidopsis root tip was analyzed quantitatively, and the results show the dramatic differences …

Why Education In The Law And Policy Of Cybersecurity Is A Must, Markus Rauschecker

Homeland Security Publications

No abstract provided.

The Planet, 2015, Fall, Yvonne Worden, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Research And Development Of A Smart Module Integrated Converter For The Future Of Renewable Energy, Phong Tran

University Grant Program Reports

This research focused on developing of a Smart Module Integrated Converter for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system. This technology enhances the commercial micro-inverters with novel network-supported, grid-adapted functionalities. The micro-inverter utilizes open source and reference design from Microchip to keep design and production at low cost.

Functional Linear Models Extensions Uncover Pleiotropic Effects Of Chronic Pain Phenotypes, Dmitri V. Zaykin, L. Qing, G. D. Slade, R. Dubner, R. B. Fillingim, J. D. Greenspan, R. Ohrbach, W. Maixner, L. B. Diatchenko, Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya

Biostatistics Presentations

Growing scientific evidence suggests that intricate interactions of genetic risk factors with environmental exposures play a major role in the development of chronic pain conditions. In studies of relative contribution of an individual’s genetic composition to the perception of pain, the general characteristics of pain sensitivity are typically measured by a wide range of different, yet possibly etiologically related pain phenotypes. Testing each of these pain-perception traits individually is subject to problems of multiple testing and low statistical power. Furthermore, pain-related traits may share common etiology and comprise binary, categorical, and quantitative measurements. In the current study, we propose a …

Directional Recurrence For Infinite Measure Preserving Zᵈ Actions, Aimee S.A. Johnson, A. A. Şahin

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

We define directional recurrence for infinite measure preserving Zd actions both intrinsically and via the unit suspension flow and prove that the two definitions are equivalent. We study the structure of the set of recurrent directions and show it is always a Gδ set. We construct an example of a recurrent action with no recurrent directions, answering a question posed in a 2007 paper of Daniel J. Rudolph. We also show by example that it is possible for a recurrent action to not be recurrent in an irrational direction even if all its sub-actions are recurrent.

Smart Inventory Management System, Ajay Akarapu, Chandrakanth Reddy Dasari, Nagaraju Deshini, Sushmita Mamidi

All Capstone Projects

Smart Inventory Management System is an online software application which fulfills the requirement of a typical Stock Analysis in various godowns. It provides the interface to users in a graphical way to manage the daily transactions as well as historical data. Also provides the management reports like monthly inwards, monthly deliveries and monthly returns. This application maintains the centralized database so that any changes done at a location reflects immediately. This is an online tool so more than one user can login into system and use the tool simultaneously. The aim of this application is to reduce the manual effort …

Graph Database, George Dovgin

All Capstone Projects

This project will review the new technology of graph databases. Graph databases, which model data using nodes and relationships, utilize a different paradigm than the rows and columns of relational databases.

The main goals of this project are to provide the basic background information on graph database technology and then use this knowledge to convert an RDBMS into a GDBMS. The RDBMS used will be the sample Accounts Payable (AP) relational database used in the Murach SQL 2012 book. The following will be accomplished:

• Explore graph database versus relational for querying and updating the Accounts Payable database. Review Cypher (Neo4j …

Big Data Insights Using Analytics, Naga Krishna Reddy Muppidi, Sai Kiran Merugu, Khambhampati Pramod

All Capstone Projects

The main objective of this project is to find the data insights from the huge amount of data that is evolving around us day by day. In order to analyze the data we need an architecture that is suitable for all kinds of data that we see in 21st century. We are using SPLUNK architecture for analyzing the data and getting the insights that we need for taking better decisions. SPLUNK is google for datacenters. By using SPLUNK we can generate all kinds of DASHBOARDS, ALERTS, SCHEDULING, PIVOTS and a lot more important things that is very usable for managers …

Secured Client Portal, Krishnakar Mogili, Rajitha Thippireddy, Shobhan Tula

All Capstone Projects

This project is aimed at developing an online search Portal for the Placement Department of the college. The system is an online application that can be accessed throughout the organization and outside as well with proper login provided. This system can be used as an Online Job Portal for the Placement Department of the college to manage the student information with regards to placement. Students logging should be able to upload their information in the form of a CV. Visitors/Company representatives logging in may also access/search any information put up by Students.

Online Learning Center For Java, Sravankumar Reddy Mukkonda, Gopichand Pallepati, Sandhya Vani Pasam, Kartheek Punna

All Capstone Projects

In our project, we want to develop an online-tutorial which helps students to learn and practice basic program functions in Java. It includes learning the major features in Java language and practicing developing programs by online quizzes, code generating, debugging, executing, and verifying the result. In short our projects show a Java tutorial which includes learning materials and online Java compiler and interpreter to execute Java programs.

Android Attack Protection Application, Jahnavi Keerthipati, Vikas Reddy Tammanagari, Harinath Reddy Vangeti

All Capstone Projects

Developed an android attack protection application. It is designed for people who are under attack. They would press a button on their phone and it will gather their current location and start recording a 5 second video with audio. This application will then automatically send the location and video straight to the person selected.

Attendance Tracker, Mounika Bandaru, Anil Gangishetti, Sudharshan Reddy Putha

All Capstone Projects

Attendance Tracker is an android app, which is designed especially for students and lecturers. In the system, lecturers can easily track attendance without calling the name of the students. When the students attend class, the lecturer can give time sensitive information, and then the attendance will be calculated automatically. The students can receive an automated email when their attendance drops down. When the students register for the next semester, the system automatically reset. Time can be saved and accuracy can be improved in tracking attendance especially for a very large class.

Gsu Alumni Portal, Vemuri Vinusha Chowdary, Sairam Dasu, Siva Machineni

All Capstone Projects

The main objective of GSU alumni portal web application is to allow old and new students of a university to communicate with each other. The application allows students to register and then search the data based on different criteria. Also it has the benefit of having a centralized database and up to date information. A user can easily obtain information about other registered users. This application is deployed using Cloud computing (Microsoft Azure) and nothing is managed locally. The administrator is responsible for maintaining information of students. When a student submits the registration form, administrator will complete the verification process …

Real-Time Detection System For Suspicious Urls, Krishna Prasad Chouty, Anup Chandra Thogiti, Kranthi Sudha Vudatha

All Capstone Projects

Twitter is prone to malicious tweets containing URLs for spam, phishing, and malware distribution. Conventional Twitter spam detection schemes utilize account features such as the ratio of tweets containing URLs and the account creation date, or relation features in the Twitter graph. These detection schemes are ineffective against feature fabrications or consume much time and resources. Conventional suspicious URL detection schemes utilize several features including lexical features of URLs, URL redirection, HTML content, and dynamic behavior. However, evading techniques such as time-based evasion and crawler evasion exist. In this paper, we propose WARNINGBIRD, a suspicious Real-Time URL detection system for …

Online Enquiry System For Transportation, Bhuvana Chandra Katterasila, Sushrutha Kumari Kanuganti, Sruthi Gaddam

All Capstone Projects

Our project named ONLINE ENQUIRY SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTATION deals with the enquiry about transportation for buses, trains, flights. Generally we search for buses or trains or flights in different individual sites. Our system can search buses, trains, flights in single application. Users can search the details from departure to the destination in particular date. It displays the information such as cost, number of seats, journey time, class, distance, transportation number and transportation name and also it displays the routes between the departure and destination.