Mapping Curie temperature depth in the western United States with a fractal model for crustal magnetization

Using a Genetic Algorithm to Model Broadband Regional Waveforms for Crustal Structure in the Western United States

In this study, we analyze regional seismograms to obtain the crustal structure in the eastern Great Basin and western Colorado plateau. Adopting a forward-modeling approach, we develop a genetic algorithm (GA) based parameter search technique to constrain the one-dimensional crustal structure in these regions. The data are broadband three-component seismograms recorded at the 1994-95 IRIS PASSC...

A temperature forecasting model for the continental United States

Two major entities that play a major role in understanding Global Warming is temperature and Carbon Dioxide. The purpose of the present study is to utilize historical temperature in the Continental United States from 1895 to 2007 to develop a forecasting process to estimate future average monthly temperatures. In addition, we shall study through our modeling if there is a difference in the two ...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Temperature-dependent magnetization in a ferromagnetic bilayer consisting of two materials with different Curie temperatures

A structure-dependent self-consistent mean-field model has been used to calculate the temperaturedependent magnetization in ferromagnetic bilayers that consist of two materials with different Curie temperatures. The magnetization versus temperature curves fSsTdg are found to be structure sensitive among the bilayer systems with simple cubic, face-centered-cubic, and body-centered-cubic structur...

A MODIS direct broadcast algorithm for mapping wildfire burned area in the western United States