[1] The presence of deeply penetrating continental roots may locally increase the magnitude of basal shear tractions by up to a factor of 4 compared to a layered viscosity structure. Here we examine how these increases in mantlelithosphere coupling influence stress patterns in the overlying elastic lithosphere. By coupling a mantle flow model to a model for the elastic lithosphere, we show that...

[1] We provide new insights into the lithosphere-mantle coupling problem through a joint modeling of lithosphere dynamics and mantle convection and through comparison of model results with the high resolution velocity gradient tensor model along the Earth’s plate boundary zones. Using a laterally variable effective viscosity lithosphere model, we compute depth integrated deviatoric stresses ass...

In this paper we propose a method to derive systolic designs with non-uniform data flow. One of the major difficulties in systematic design is in transforming the original sequential specification of a problem into a Conn suitable [0 VLSI implementation. Our approach [Q auromatically restructuring a problem is based on a subset of me data dependencies eXITacted from the original problem specifi...

Non-uniformity in data extents is a general characteristic of spatial data. Indexing such non-uniform data using conventional spatial index structures such as R -trees is inefficient for two reasons: (1) The non-uniformity increases the likelihood of overlapping index entries, and, (2) clustering of non-uniform data is likely to index more dead space than clustering of uniform data. To reduce t...

Let X be a locally finite tree, and let G = Aut(X). Then G is a locally compact group. We show that if X has more than one end, and if G contains a discrete subgroup Γ such that the quotient graph of groups Γ\\X is infinite but has finite covolume, then G contains a non-uniform lattice, that is, a discrete subgroup Λ such that Λ\G is not compact, yet has a finite G-invariant measure. 0. Notatio...

introduction: non-uniformity test is essentially the only required daily qc procedure in nuclear medicine practice. noise creates statistical variation or random error in a flood image. non-uniformity on the other hand does not have statistical nature and may be regarded as systemic error. the present methods of non-uniformity calculation do not distinguish between these two types of error. the...

Displacement finite element models of various beam theories have been developed traditionally using conventional finite element basis functions (i.e., cubic Hermite, equi-spaced Lagrange interpolation functions, or spectral/hp Legendre functions). Various finite element models of beams differ from each other in the choice of the interpolation functions used for the transverse deflection w, tota...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the boundary layer separation point in a magnetohydrodynamics diffuser. As an innovation, the Re value on the separation point is determined for the non-Newtonian fluid flow under the influence of the non-uniform magnetic field due to an electrical solenoid, in an empirical case. The governing equations include continuity and momentum are solve...

In the present study, the microstructural changes of a Nickel based superalloy Nimonic80A during a non-isothermal deformation were studied. Therefore, microstructure evolutionduring hot side pressing test was predicted with combined methods of finite element analysis andprocessing map of the material. The predicted results were validated through experimentalmicrostructural studies. The results ...

Given positive integers n, k, t, with 2 ≤ k ≤ n, and t < 2, let m(n, k, t) be the minimum size of a family F of (nonempty distinct) subsets of [n] such that every k-subset of [n] contains at least t members of F , and every (k − 1)-subset of [n] contains at most t− 1 members of F . For fixed k and t, we determine the order of magnitude of m(n, k, t). We also consider related Turán numbers T≥r(n...