...distribution of earthquakes across the continental United States? The west coast of the US consists of the highest levels of risk by a wide margin, particularly in the south-west (on the pacific tectonic plate fault line). Central Eastern regions bear areas of moderate risk. Northern and South/south-easterly regions bear no significant risk. 2) Locate your home on this map and make a note of the relative risk to you by indicating the color where you live. The USGS also reports on earthquakes around the world. Visit this interactive map to find the latest global earthquake data from the past seven days: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/ Bridgeport Connecticut - very low probability of occurrence here. This region bears no significant risk to such an event over the next 50 years. 3) What patterns do you see in the distribution of earthquakes around the world? The majority of earthquakes occur on the left hand side of the pacific plate (the fault line between the pacific/Eurasian and pacific/Australasian plates) the right hand side of this plate relates to the fault line where the majority of earthquakes in the US occur. The westerly coast of the South America also has an abundance of earthquakes on the right hand side of the Nazca tectonic plate. There are other fault lines where a number occur, but the majority is in those areas described above. Mainland Europe, Eurasia (Russia etc.) and Africa are areas of low occurrence. 4) Click on one of the earthquakes on the map...
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...concentration of infrastructure makes it vulnerable to earthquakes, but at the same time it also gives it the resources it needs to respond to earthquakes or any other hazards. L.A. has had a few large scale earthquakes in the last decades and some geological experts predict it will suffer a major quake in the near future. How it has responded to those disasters in the past is what has laid the foundation as to how the city will deal with future earthquakes or other hazards and attempt to minimize their impact on the city. Los Angeles lies around 60 miles from the San Andreas Fault. This fault line is one the most active fault lines in the world and as such is capable of producing severe earthquakes. And even though Los Angeles doesn’t lie directly underneath it like the city of San Francisco, the fault line does pose a great danger to the city. But even more of a threat to the city is the many unknown smaller fault lines that run beneath it. With a population of over 4 million people, a large size earth quake would cause substantial damage and injure or kill a large number of people. L.A. has had around six major earthquakes that were 6.0 or stronger in the last hundred years. It does also have thousands of small ones throughout the year that people don’t even feel. The last major earthquake that struck the city was in 1994. This earthquake which has been dubbed the Northridge quake was one of the worst the city ever experienced. It caused the deaths of over 60 its citizens and caused...
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...purchasing a short-term policy that does. * Pack enough medication for your entire trip and you may need a note from your doctor to carry your medication on the plane. * Never eat uncooked meat, eggs or drink water that is not bottled, including ice cubes. * Safety and Security * Keep ID and vital documents on you at all times. * Monitor via the State Department about any unrest in the country. [Event Description Heading][To replace any tip text with your own, just click it and start typing. To replace the photo or logo with your own, right-click it and then click Change Picture. To try out different looks for this flyer, on the Design tab, check out the Themes, Colors, and Fonts galleries.] | | | | Due to earthquake fault lines and active volcano’s in Italy:It is wise to prepare with an emergency preparation plan through FEMA. For security, be mindful of your surroundings. Learn about laws and customs.Illness’s more common in Italy:Travelers' diarrheaCholeraEscherichia coli diarrheaHepatitis ATyphoid feverInsect borne diseasesParasitic diseasesHepatitis BLyme diseaseBrucellosis | | Healthy Packing list:http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/italy/traveler/packing-listEmbassy in Italy:http://www.ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/ambasciata_washington- J -...
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...Name: Natasha Porter 1. What is the orientation of a rock layer labeled with this strike and dip symbol? (a) N43°E; 38°NW (b) N43°W; 38°SE c) N43°W; 38°NE (d) N43°E; 38°SW 2. Which of the following is an impossible strike and dip combination? (a) N44E, 12SE (b) N56E, 8NW (c) N31W, 31NE (d) N45W, 76SE (e) N5E, 62SE 3. What type of structure underlies the valley as seen in this cross-section? (a) symmetrical anticline (b) symmetrical syncline (c) overturned anticline (d) asymmetrical anticline (e) recumbent syncline 4. The map below shows 5. The map below shows (a) an anticline plunging east. (a) an anticline plunging east. (b) an anticline plunging west. (b) an anticline plunging west. (c) a syncline plunging east. (c) a syncline plunging east. (d) a syncline plunging west. (d) a syncline plunging west. A B C A B C 6. The block diagram at right shows an overturned anticline-syncline pair. Which letter or letters indicate overturned bedding? B & C 7. What type of fold is seen here? (a) symmetrical anticline (b) symmetrical syncline (c) asymmetrical syncline (d) recumbent syncline 8. Structurally, what type of feature is seen here? (a) anticline (b) dome (c) syncline (d) basin (e) graben 9. Which map symbol would be used to describe the geometry of the rocks seen here? ...
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...HENRY TAM AND THE MGI TEAM PROF LEENA CHATTERJEE STRENGTHS OF MGI TEAM • • • • • Diverse areas of expertise and skill High creativity and idea generation A good product Good connections Passion and initiative EVALUATION OF THE TEAMS PROCESS • Ineffective decision making processes Focused more on generating alternative solutions rather than identifying and defining the problem Disagreement on who has the expertise about identifying relevant criteria • Unhealthy conflict Creative abrasion versus personal clashes Difference in conflict between Sasha and Dana and Henry and Igor Conflict avoidance by some members eg. Dav CAUSE OF PROCESS PROBLEMS • Team Composition: multiple differences among members combine to cause a fault line Functional diversity: different styles of thinking, methods of time management, approaches to problem solving and gender Demographic diversity: differences in age, nationality Personality Differences in prior relationships CAUSE OF PROCESS PROBLEMS • Unclear goals, roles and leadership Winning the business plan competition versus launching the business successfully Interns or business partners Who was the leader UNDERLYING ROOT CAUSE • Impression formation processes • Threats to identity • Lack of interpersonal congruence LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Launching a team Importance of kick-off meeting Establishing shared goals, clear roles, agreed on decision making procedures, ground rules, leadership etc •...
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...such technique is the parallax method which involves triangulation. By looking at a star and record its location and then looking at it again six months later, astronomers can measure the distance of the angle of viewing. Combining this information with the orbital diameter of Earth to the sun and a little bit of geometry, astronomers can see that the different angles produce different distances (How are astronomers, 2000). Objects in space aren’t the only challenges scientists face when trying to obtain measurement data. Earthquakes are a dangerous phenomenon caused by the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates along its fault lines. Fault lines are many kilometers below the surface of the earth making any direct measurement methods extremely difficult. When the tectonic plates shift to cause an earthquake, energy is released and radiates out from the fault line similar to ripples in a pond. These energy...
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...My quest is to understand a few of the issues that plague Haiti, how to examine carefully how architecture can help with the devastation of Haiti and prevent the next disaster from being so costly in history, property and lives. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas. It has a per capita income of $790. To give an idea of what that is in relation to other countries are considered poor: Mexico, $10,212; Jamaica, $8,737; Dominica, $5,082; and Cuba, a country that still has a commercial embargo against it, $4,819. So, even to countries in the Americas that we commonly consider to be poor are much better off than Haiti. It is estimated that 80% of the population lives in poverty. Most Haitians are living on $2 a day or less. Illiteracy in Haiti is at a staggering 50%, and 80% of the college graduates of Haiti have emigrated to the United States, fostering a society that if you have a chance to make a life for yourself, you leave Haiti. The picture is easy to paint, and the problem is just as easy to understand. A condition of extreme poverty and a natural disaster strikes, the ability to be able to overcome such a disaster is not as easy as it could be if a disaster strikes the developed world. Why the outpouring of support? When you look at the lifespan of a natural disaster, you look at a few of the components that make it an unpredicted disaster. But, when you look at the recovery efforts and support given, you look at how it most directly affects Americans. ...
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...Brittle or plastic failure. • Creates joints, folds, faults, foliation. Fractures can be offset or not. • How deformation affects rocks – by translation, rotation, distortion Strain • Change in shape • elastic strain (reversible change) • Permanent strain – brittle & ductile deformation (non-reversible) • Cause of deformation – stress – force acting on a rock – often a large scale tectonic origin. Stress is force per unit area. Think of the non-metric measure PSI – (pounds per square inch) Stress • Compression – squeezing, shortening or contraction, or pushing together. Think continental collision – Himalayas formation. • Extension – tension, stretching, pulling apart. Tends to thin the crust – think the Taupo Volcanic zone which is extending at 7 mm a year. The lithosphere is thin allowing magma to reach the surface. • Shear – sliding past, strike-slip. Blocks of rock slide past each other – the surface is neither thickened or thinned. Think the Alpine Fault. Deformation structures (brittle) – for these, need to be able to draw a diagram. • Normal fault. Due to extension. • Reverse fault (> 35 degrees) – due to compression • Thrust fault (< 35 degrees) – compression on a shallow-dipping fault plane. • Strike-slip fault (Waiarapa fault) – recognising left lateral, right lateral. The ages and displacements (horizontal nad vertical) indicate the amount of movement on the fault plane, during one...
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...Pacific costal region. Looking at the earthquakes patterns around the world is much different than the United States. All the yellow and blue boxes are on top of one another or crossing over in some way, this is why I say that the earthquakes are only in certain areas. I clicked on an earthquake that occurred in New Britain Region of Papua, New Guinea with a magnitude of 5.5 which is not a weak earthquake. No, I would not like to live in one of the red areas on the map, because the red areas are where the strongest earthquakes occur. There will continue to be more and more earthquakes in those areas because they are on top of the tectonic plates and some lie within fault lines. A tectonic plate is a large irregular shape slab of solid rock. A fault line is a line of intersection between the fault plane and the Earth's surface. If I...
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...fd(X) = f(X) = fsd( X) 所以當X為任意值，都可證得fsd(X) = f’sd( X’)，故其是self-dual 3. 有四種情形是failure，分別是(0,0)->1，(0,1)->0，(1,0)->0，(1,1)->0 a. (0,0)->1 代表兩個輸入中有發生stuck-at-1的情形 我們知道兩個input都無stuck-at-1的機率是(1-P1)^2 又輸入為(0,0)之機率為0.25 故此狀況發生機率為0.25(1-(1-P1)^2) b. (0,1)->0 代表後面那個input發生stuck-at-0，而且前面的input無stuck-at-1。 機率為 0.25(P0*(1-P1)) c. (1,0)->0 機率同b d. (1,1)->0 代表兩者皆stuck-at-0，機率為 0.25(P0^2) 總體機率為四者相加，整理後得機率為 0.25 (P1^2 + P0^2 – 2P1P0 + 2P1 + 2P0) 4. a. Fault- is a physical defect, imperfection or flaw within the hardware or software component. Error- is the manifestation of a fault. Specifically, it is a deviation from accuracy or correctness. Failure- is the deviation from expected actions or services. Fault -> Error -> Failure It is failure that really annoying users. b. permanent fault是永久錯誤，一但出現就不會因重複而消失。例如RAM燒壞，重開機是沒用的。 intermittent fault 是偶發性錯誤，有時正常有時會發生錯誤。例如接觸不良。 transient fault 是暫態錯誤，不需理會就會回復穩定與正常狀態，是相對短暫的錯誤。例如剛按下電風扇時轉速過慢。 c. Reliability is the probability to get the right outcome, availability is the probability the service/function can be accessed, and performability is the probability the service do the right thing due to the user’s thought....
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...to work effectively, those systems must cooperate, and must do so without lots of manual intervention by people. This is usually done by splitting problems into smaller pieces, each of which can be tackled more simply than the whole problem. The results of doing each piece are then reassembled into the full solution. As handy as a distributed system can be there are a there are four main issues you could face: Operating system failures, Hardware Failures, Omission Failures and Byzantine Failures. Crash failures are caused across the server of a typical distributed system and if these failures are occurred operations of the server are halt for some time. Operating system failures are the best examples for this case and the corresponding fault tolerant systems are developed with respect to these affects. Hardware failures used to be more common, but with all of the recent innovations in hardware design and manufacturing they tend to be fewer and far between with most of these physical failures tending to be network or drive related. With more hardware the probability goes up that there will be a failure somewhere. Add more software and the complex interactions between different programs creates greater chance for more bugs, including the unusual ones. As a result, any distributed design will carefully consider failure and diagnostic scenarios. With Omission failure a component that does not respond to an input from another component, and thereby fails by not producing the...
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...1 BLIND TASTE TEST ANALYSIS 2 BLIND TASTE TEST ANALYSIS Prepared for: Ma’am Maliha Sameeni University of Education Bank Road Campus, Lahore. Prepared by: Minal Gull Aneeqa Noor Ayesha Siddiqui Aqsa Liaqat Sadia Javaid Rimsha Sarwar 3 Letter of Acknowledgement 18th December 2014 Dear Ma’am Maliha Sameeni We have completed the report on Blind Taste Analysis that you assigned us. This report contains details on the comparison and the brand recognition and recall value of Knorr noodles, Maggi and Shan Shoop. The report consists on findings, data analysis and full discussion about Blind Taste test. We are so thankful to you for providing us the opportunity to work on this wonderful project and we came to know about so many new things. We are also thankful to you for guiding us at every single step of the project, which is a basic factor in success of this project. Sincerely, Minal Gull Aneeqa Noor Ayesha Siddiqui Aqsa Liaqat Sadia Javaid Rimsha Sarwar 4 Executive Summary: A blind taste test was performed by MBA department of University of Education Bank Road campus Lahore on 18th December 2014. The purpose was to find brand recall as well as brand recognition of various brands. Teaser ads campaign was carried out for 3 days. Campaign was successful in generating the tease about something new in department. Our group choose noodles to carry out test. The brands were Knorr, Maggi and Shan Shoop. The results was as follows: Respondents showed...
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...8.4) given series 7,0,1,2,0,3,0,4,2,3,0,3,2 a) FIFO: First in first out 7 | | | Step: 1 first we are entering the digit 7 Step: 2 2nd digits (0) in the 2nd value 7 | 0 | | Step: 3 7 | 0 | 1 | Step: 4 Since all the blocks are filled. As we know that FIFO is first in first out .According to our problem the “in “is “7” so we are replacing “7” with “2” 2 | 0 | 1 | Replacing 7 with 2 Step: 5 According to our series the next number is “0”as frame (Blocks) in the step4 already consists of “0”so it remains the same that is step4 repeats 2 | 0 | 1 | No change already exists Step: 6 Since in step5 there was no change now second block in the frame will be effected (i.e: replaced with 3) as the first block was already replaced 2 | 3 | 1 | Replaced Step: 7 Block “3”that is “1” will be replaced with the next number in the series” 0” 2 | 3 | 0 | Replaced Step: 8 Now we are replacing “2”with “4” 4 | 3 | 0 | Step: 9 4 | 2 | 0 | Replaced (follow series) Step: 10 4 | 2 | 3 | Replaced Step: 11 “4” is replaced with “0” 0 | 2 | 3 | Step: 12 Next number in the series is 3 since 3 already exist in the frame in 3 blocks so there will be no change 0 | 2 | 3 | ...
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...and the memory that can achieve those tasks when processing information. The distributed system has features to help achieve in in solving problems and issues with software and programs, when being useful with the distributed system is not very easy; its capabilities are the components, than just the stand alone systems that are sometimes not as reliable. Because of the complexities of interactions between running the distributed systems, it must have special characteristics like the fault tolerant; this can recover from component failures without performing incorrect actions. Recoverable is where failed components can restart and then rejoin the system after the cause failure has been repaired. The failure on a distributed system can result in anything from easily repairable errors to a catastrophic meltdown. Fault tolerance deals with making the system function in the presence of defaults. Faults can occur in any one of components. In this paper we will look at the different faults in a system and the solutions that can help. Network Failures Network failures keep the processors from communicating with each other. Two problems could arise from this; one way is the links and the networks partitions. The links cause problems similar to processor slowdown. Example, a processor 1 can send messages from processor 2. Then processor 3 can talk to both...
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...Erik Benjamin Student ID 5255640 MGT 240 Marketing and Sales Assignment 1: Market Research 1. Let’s say you have developed a new, all natural granola style cereal. You want to see the reaction of a range of people to the product, so you decide to set up focus groups to sample the cereal. In one to two pages, describe how you would carry out a focus group review of the cereal. a. How many people would be included in the focus group? A focus group is used to gain feedback and opinions from potential customers. My focus group will consist of a small group no less than six and no more than twelve participants to conduct a taste testing of the natural granola style cereal. By selecting less than six participants could lead to limited conversation and reactions to the product. Selecting twelve participants for the focus group will have more diversity within the group. Also, by selecting twelve participants account for any participants who decide not to show for the focus group. By having a small focus group, it minimizes the chance of losing important thoughts, ideas and reactions to the cereal of the participants. b. How would they be selected? There are many of methods to select participants for sampling. Participants shouldn’t be randomly selected in this focus group because the group should consist of participants that will provide the best information for the sampling of the cereal. Selecting the participants will be based on the purpose of the focus group...
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