Development and Strategy of the Earthquake Prediction Program in the United States

2013 ◽  
pp. 671-680
Author(s):  
Robert L. Wesson ◽  
John R. Filson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Earthquake Prediction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prediction Program

Reporters, news sources, and scientific intervention: the New Madrid earthquake prediction

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conrad Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Earthquake Prediction ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
News Sources ◽  
New Madrid

Five major newspapers in the United States published only eight stories about a scientifically legitimate prediction of a 1989 earthquake that caused six billion dollars' damage. The same newspapers published 68 stories about an unscientific prediction of a 1990 earthquake that did not occur. This paper attempts to explain why the unscientific prediction received more scrutiny by examining the journalistic practices that determine what is newsworthy and who is interviewed. The paper also analyses the effectiveness of an organized effort by the scientific community to intervene in the journalistic process.

Earthquake prediction: What we have learned and what we should do now

1982 ◽  
Vol 72 (6B) ◽  
pp. S343-S349
Author(s):  
Jack F. Evernden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Earthquake Prediction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fault Zones ◽  
Present Program ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Direct Measurements ◽  
Strain Change ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Major Emphasis

abstract Adopting out of necessity a definition of “earthquake prediction” which stresses short-term warnings (months, weeks, day, and hours), I must conclude that either we are doing the wrong things or such predictions may be impossible. Assuming the former, I recommend major emphasis on direct or nearly direct measurements of stress/strain change in or across fault zones in the immediate vicinity of strong points or “asperities” (how do you find asperities?). This recommendation presupposes essentially total emphasis of the United States' program in California. Even if this recommendation is unpalatable, it is certain that resources now available require a total reanalysis of the present program and a consequent reallocation of funds.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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