Shear wave splitting of SK(K)S phases is often used to examine upper mantle anisotropy. In specific cases, however, splitting of these phases may reflect anisotropy in the lowermost mantle. Here we present SKS and SKKS splitting measurements for 233 event-station pairs at 34 seismic stations that sample D′′ beneath Africa. Of these, 36 pairs show significantly different splitting between the tw...

rugae), rat (8) and golden hamster (7). We showed that palatal growth rate, spacing and addition rate in mouse/rat were remarkably similar (with respect to the embryo size difference), and that increase to 9 rugae in mouse is achieved by postponing the end of the addition process (hypermorphosis). Such a heterochronic shift may be typical of 1 variations observed among muroid rodents. In contra...

[1] We present three‐dimensional laboratory modeling of the evolution of finite strain and compare these to shear wave splitting observations in the Northwest U.S. under the High Lava Plains (HLP). We show that relationships between mantle flow and anisotropy are complicated in subduction zones and factors such as initial orientation of the olivine fast‐axis, style of subduction, and time evolv...

To explore information hidden in the electromyographic (EMG) signals of the urethral sphincter that may be of prognostic significance for patients with primary bladder neck obstruction (PBNO), 41 patients with voiding difficulty were divided into four groups: 1) patients with primary bladder neck obstruction (PBNO) with successful (Group 1, n = 14) and 2) unsuccessful (Group 2, n = 8) surgical ...

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We consider the roles of two widely invoked mechanisms for the metallicity-luminosity correlation among late-type galaxies: higher astration level and decreasing efficiency of heavy-element loss with increasing luminosity. We find that both mechanisms contribute about equally to the range in oxygen abundance between low (logLB ∼ 8) and high (logLB ∼ 10.5) luminosity galaxies. We also consider t...

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In the paper, we present a new class of orthogonal bipolar spreading sequences designed based on Goethals-Seidel construction with negacyclic matrices. The sequences can be designed for any length equal to 4 (mod 8), and possess good correlation properties. In particular, their aperiodic autocorrelation characteristics are very good. That can be traded off for improvement in the crosscorrelatio...

The analysis of chessboard pebbling by Andrew Odlyzko is strengthened and generalized, rst to higher dimension and then to arbitrary posets. 1 The pebbling game The pebbling game of Kontsevich is played on the grid points of the rst quadrant. One starts with a single pebble on the origin and a move consists of replacing any pebble with two pebbles, one above and one to the right of the vanishin...