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Albert Phelps
If the maps are outdated, your navigation system may frequently provide you with improper instructions. Updated navigation helps safe driving by preparing for unexpected situations arising from changes in the road network. Anyone can encounter annoying mistakes in route planning that are often thought to be the fault of the navigation system. Actually, the most common reason for errors in route calculation is due to the outdated maps.
We study the geometrical characteristic of quasistatic fractures in brittle media, using iterated conformal maps to determine the evolution of the fracture pattern. This method allows an efficient and accurate solution of the Lamé equations without resorting to lattice models. Typical fracture patterns exhibit increased ramification due to the increase of the stress at the tips. We find the roughness exponent of the experimentally relevant backbone of the fracture pattern, it crosses over from about 0.5 for small scales to about 0.75 for large scales. We propose that this crossover reflects the increased ramification of the fracture pattern.
The maps listed on this page are available for public access and viewing by clicking the link. Current and historical fire perimeter maps can be found on Wildland Fire Open Data site. Real-time wildland fire situational information including fire perimeters, weather, and fire detections can be found on the Enterprise GeoSpatial Portal (EGP) map.
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of "inflation" produced a burst of exponential growth in the universe. (Size is depicted by the vertical extent of the grid in this graphic.) For the next several billion years, the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity. More recently, the expansion has begun to speed up again as the repulsive effects of dark energy have come to dominate the expansion of the universe. The afterglow light seen by WMAP was emitted about 375,000 years after inflation and has traversed the universe largely unimpeded since then. The conditions of earlier times are imprinted on this light; it also forms a backlight for later developments of the universe.
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Recently, our social team talked about using social media for the customer journey in the auto industry. Watch the video below to hear their discussion on touchpoints, customer experience and how legacy brands are going beyond traditional tactics like targeted ads to tell their story.
Current state maps are fantastic for sharing user frustrations with all departments. This helps you get everyone on board with investing in solutions and brainstorming ways to address user pain points.
Future state customer journey maps follow the same format as current state maps except they represent the ideal journey. You can use them alongside your current state maps to identify painpoints and areas to improve.
In the 1870s, the paleontologist O.C. Marsh published a description of newly discovered North American horse fossils. At the time, very few transitional fossils were known. The sequence of horse fossils that Marsh described (and that T.H. Huxley popularized) was a striking example of evolution taking place in a single lineage. He thought that through a series of clear intermediates, one could see the fossil species, Eohippus, transform into an almost totally different-looking (and very familiar) descendent, Equus.
But horse evolution was not smooth and gradual. Different traits evolved at different rates, didn't always evolve together, and even occasionally reversed "direction". Also, horse species did not always come into being by gradual transformation (anagenesis) of their ancestors; instead, sometimes new species split off from ancestors (cladogenesis) and then coexisted with those ancestors for some time. Some species arose gradually, others suddenly. Overall, the horse family demonstrates the diversity of evolutionary mechanisms. The most modern equids (descendants of Parahippus) are called equines. Strictly speaking, only the very modern genus, Equus, contains what we know as "horses".
There are those, including paleontologist Michael Voorhies, who characterize the evolution of horses as more like a bush than a tree, with starts and stops and jumps in the development of genetic traits. This development took place over the course of at least 55 million years and covered at least five sub-periods of geologic time. Paleontologist Kathleen Hunt has suggested the following evolutionary tree, with the major development path in copper lines and the geologic periods highlighted.
This change in climate was a critical element in the evolution of horse species, because they were the first animals to take advantage of the new habitat and source of food. The new species began to develop tougher teeth to grind up the grasses. They developed longer legs as it became more important for animals to run and escape predators. Horses began to grow larger for more strength.
During the Miocene epoch, the evolution of the horse was accelerated and split into various branches. Global cooling continued. The ice sheet covering Antarctica formed. In North America, horses shared grassy prairies with rhinoceros, camels, cats, mastodons, and raccoons.
Second, these horses started to become specialized runners. There was a simultaneous increase in body size, leg length, and face length. The leg bones began to fuse together, and along with their musculature, became specialized for efficient forward-and-backward strides, with flexible leg rotation eliminated. Most significantly, the horses began to stand permanently on tiptoe (another adaptation for speed). Instead of walking on dog-like pads, their weight was supported by springy ligaments that ran under the fetlock to the big central toe. All of these changes occurred rapidly, and we are lucky to have a fairly good fossil record during this time, one of the most interesting in horse evolution.
Throughout the evolution of these Merychippine descendants, the facial fossa became deeper and more elaborate. With so many equine species overlapping at once, these facial fossae may have housed species-specific glands of some sort, similar to the scent-marking glands of modern antelopes and deer.
A force platform is used to measure the ground reaction forces during various activities. Forces are measured in the vertical, anterior posterior and medial lateral directions. Data are often combined with motion analysis measures using link segment modeling to calculate joint moments and joint reaction forces.
This project produces and displays free interactive maps showing the historical geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics since the late 19th century, including radical movements, civil rights movements, labor movements, women's movements, and more. Until now historians and social scientists have mostly studied social movements in isolation and often with little attention to geography. This project allows us to see where social movements were active and where not, helping us better understand patterns of influence and endurance. It exposes new dimensions of American political geography, showing how locales that in one era fostered certain kinds of social movements often changed political colors over time. We do this by developing detailed geographic data about each movement, identitying locations where membership, activities, or other measures of support were concentrated. The links above and below lead to over 120 interactive maps, charts, and data tables, with more to come. We started with maps and charts that show the activist geography of the Socialist Party, Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist Party, then developed similar maps on Black Freedom movements: NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, SNCC, and the Black Panther Party.
We have added a battery of visualizations showing the geography of Chicanx/Latinx movements: United Farm Workers (UFW), MEChA, Raza Unida Party, Brown Berets, League of United Latin American Citizens, hundreds of Chicano movement periodicals published between 1966 and 1977, and also maps of the Immigrant Rights Protests of 2006.
Project director James Gregory has recently published Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity in the journal LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History. Based on this project, the article develops new understandings about the dynamics of American radicalism. The American left has been more discontinuous and more innovative than its counterparts in most countries and operates in different ways. The essay maps five distinct left constellations over the last century and explores the question of how American radicalism has survived, how it has repeatedly reconstituted itself absent the supportive institutional apparatus of an electoral party. It is available free from the journal website linked here.
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