Spatial and Temporal Variation of LURR and Its Implication for the Tendency of Earthquake Occurrence in Southern California

Based on the theory of LURR and its recent development, spatial and temporal variation of Y/Y-c (value of LURR/critical value of LURR) in the Southern California region during the period from 1980 through March, 2001 was studied. According to the previous study on the fault system and stress field in Southern California, we zoned the Southern California region into 11 parts in each of which the stress field is almost uniform. With the time window of one year, time moving step of three months, space window of a circle region with a radius of 100 km and space moving step of 0.25 degree in latitude and longitude direction, the evolution of Y/Y-c were snapshot. The scanning results show that obvious Y/Y-c anomalies occurred before 5/6 of strong earthquakes considered with a magnitude of 6.5 or greater. The critical regions of Y/Y-c are near the epicenters of the strong earthquakes and the Y/Y-c anomalies occur months to years prior to the earthquakes. The tendency of earthquake occurrence in the California region is briefly discussed on the basis of the examination of Y/Y-c.

Spatio-Temporal Scanning and Statistical Test of the Accelerating Moment Release (AMR) Model Using Australian Earthquake Data

The Accelerating Moment Release (AMR) preceding earthquakes with magnitude above 5 in Australia that occurred during the last 20 years was analyzed to test the Critical Point Hypothesis. Twelve earthquakes in the catalog were chosen based on a criterion for the number of nearby events. Results show that seven sequences with numerous events recorded leading up to the main earthquake exhibited accelerating moment release. Two occurred near in time and space to other earthquakes preceded by AM R. The remaining three sequences had very few events in the catalog so the lack of AMR detected in the analysis may be related to catalog incompleteness. Spatio-temporal scanning of AMR parameters shows that 80% of the areas in which AMR occurred experienced large events. In areas of similar background seismicity with no large events, 10 out of 12 cases exhibit no AMR, and two others are false alarms where AMR was observed but no large event followed. The relationship between AMR and Load-Unload Response Ratio (LURR) was studied. Both methods predict similar critical region sizes, however, the critical point time using AMR is slightly earlier than the time of the critical point LURR anomaly.

Aproximación fenomenológica al concepto de refugio temporal: anacronismos de una construcción inestable

Ponencia leída en el Foro de Comunicaciones IkasArt III (BEC Barakaldo, 2011.11.11)[por Skype]

Cidadania e Desenvolvimento Urbano : Análise das Ações Urbanas Governamentais no Norte e Nordeste

Seminário realizado em novembro de 2013, pela Comissão de Desenvolvimento Urbano da Câmara dos Deputados, com o objetivo de debater questões relacionadas ao implemento de políticas públicas de desenvolvimento urbano

Fish assemblages and benthic habitats of Buck Island Reef National Monument (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) and the surrounding seascape: A characterization of spatial and temporal patterns

Since 1999, NOAA’s Biogeography Branch of the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA-BB) has been working with federal and territorial partners to characterize, monitor, and assess the status of the marine environment around northeastern St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. This effort is part of the broader NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Program (NCREMP). With support from CRCP’s NCREMP, CCMA conducts the “Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring project” (CREM) with goals to: (1) spatially characterize and monitor the distribution, abundance, and size of marine fauna associated with shallow water coral reef seascapes (mosaics of coral reefs, seagrasses, sand and mangroves); (2) relate this information to in situ fine-scale habitat data and the spatial distribution and diversity of habitat types using benthic habitat maps; (3) use this information to establish the knowledge base necessary for enacting management decisions in a spatial setting; (4) establish the efficacy of those management decisions; and (5) develop data collection and data management protocols. The monitoring effort in northeastern St. Croix was conducted through partnerships with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (VI-DPNR). The geographical focal point of the research is Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM), a protected area originally established in 1961 and greatly expanded in 2001; however, the work also encompassed a large portion of the recently created St. Croix East End Marine Park (EEMP). Project funding is primarily provided by NOAA CRCP, CCMA and NPS. In recent decades, scientific and non-scientific observations have indicated that the structure and function of the coral reef ecosystem around northeastern St. Croix have been adversely impacted by a wide range of environmental stressors. The major stressors have included the mass Diadema die off in the early 1980s, a series of hurricanes beginning with Hurricane Hugo in 1989, overfishing, mass mortality of Acropora corals due to disease and several coral bleaching events, with the most severe mass bleaching episode in 2005. The area is also an important recreational resource supporting boating, snorkeling, diving and other water based activities. With so many potential threats to the marine ecosystem and a dramatic change in management strategy in 2003 when the park’s Interim Regulations (Presidential Proclamation No. 7392) established BIRNM as one of the first fully protected marine areas in NPS system, it became critical to identify existing marine fauna and their spatial distributions and temporal dynamics. This provides ecologically meaningful data to assess ecosystem condition, support decision making in spatial planning (including the evaluation of efficacy of current management strategies) and determine future information needs. The ultimate goal of the work is to better understand the coral reef ecosystems and to provide information toward protecting and enhancing coral reef ecosystems for the benefit of the system itself and to sustain the many goods and services that it offers society. This Technical Memorandum contains analysis of the first six years of fish survey data (2001-2006) and associated characterization of the benthos (1999-2006). The primary objectives were to quantify changes in fish species and assemblage diversity, abundance, biomass and size structure and to provide spatially explicit information on the distribution of key species or groups of species and to compare community structure inside (protected) versus outside (fished) areas of BIRNM. (PDF contains 100 pages).

Invariant-free deduction systems for temporal logic

In this thesis we propose a new approach to deduction methods for temporal logic. Our proposal is based on an inductive definition of eventualities that is different from the usual one. On the basis of this non-customary inductive definition for eventualities, we first provide dual systems of tableaux and sequents for Propositional Linear-time Temporal Logic (PLTL). Then, we adapt the deductive approach introduced by means of these dual tableau and sequent systems to the resolution framework and we present a clausal temporal resolution method for PLTL. Finally, we make use of this new clausal temporal resolution method for establishing logical foundations for declarative temporal logic programming languages. The key element in the deduction systems for temporal logic is to deal with eventualities and hidden invariants that may prevent the fulfillment of eventualities. Different ways of addressing this issue can be found in the works on deduction systems for temporal logic. Traditional tableau systems for temporal logic generate an auxiliary graph in a first pass.Then, in a second pass, unsatisfiable nodes are pruned. In particular, the second pass must check whether the eventualities are fulfilled. The one-pass tableau calculus introduced by S. Schwendimann requires an additional handling of information in order to detect cyclic branches that contain unfulfilled eventualities. Regarding traditional sequent calculi for temporal logic, the issue of eventualities and hidden invariants is tackled by making use of a kind of inference rules (mainly, invariant-based rules or infinitary rules) that complicates their automation. A remarkable consequence of using either a two-pass approach based on auxiliary graphs or aone-pass approach that requires an additional handling of information in the tableau framework, and either invariant-based rules or infinitary rules in the sequent framework, is that temporal logic fails to carry out the classical correspondence between tableaux and sequents. In this thesis, we first provide a one-pass tableau method TTM that instead of a graph obtains a cyclic tree to decide whether a set of PLTL-formulas is satisfiable. In TTM tableaux are classical-like. For unsatisfiable sets of formulas, TTM produces tableaux whose leaves contain a formula and its negation. In the case of satisfiable sets of formulas, TTM builds tableaux where each fully expanded open branch characterizes a collection of models for the set of formulas in the root. The tableau method TTM is complete and yields a decision procedure for PLTL. This tableau method is directly associated to a one-sided sequent calculus called TTC. Since TTM is free from all the structural rules that hinder the mechanization of deduction, e.g. weakening and contraction, then the resulting sequent calculus TTC is also free from this kind of structural rules. In particular, TTC is free of any kind of cut, including invariant-based cut. From the deduction system TTC, we obtain a two-sided sequent calculus GTC that preserves all these good freeness properties and is finitary, sound and complete for PLTL. Therefore, we show that the classical correspondence between tableaux and sequent calculi can be extended to temporal logic. The most fruitful approach in the literature on resolution methods for temporal logic, which was started with the seminal paper of M. Fisher, deals with PLTL and requires to generate invariants for performing resolution on eventualities. In this thesis, we present a new approach to resolution for PLTL. The main novelty of our approach is that we do not generate invariants for performing resolution on eventualities. Our method is based on the dual methods of tableaux and sequents for PLTL mentioned above. Our resolution method involves translation into a clausal normal form that is a direct extension of classical CNF. We first show that any PLTL-formula can be transformed into this clausal normal form. Then, we present our temporal resolution method, called TRS-resolution, that extends classical propositional resolution. Finally, we prove that TRS-resolution is sound and complete. In fact, it finishes for any input formula deciding its satisfiability, hence it gives rise to a new decision procedure for PLTL. In the field of temporal logic programming, the declarative proposals that provide a completeness result do not allow eventualities, whereas the proposals that follow the imperative future approach either restrict the use of eventualities or deal with them by calculating an upper bound based on the small model property for PLTL. In the latter, when the length of a derivation reaches the upper bound, the derivation is given up and backtracking is used to try another possible derivation. In this thesis we present a declarative propositional temporal logic programming language, called TeDiLog, that is a combination of the temporal and disjunctive paradigms in Logic Programming. We establish the logical foundations of our proposal by formally defining operational and logical semantics for TeDiLog and by proving their equivalence. Since TeDiLog is, syntactically, a sublanguage of PLTL, the logical semantics of TeDiLog is supported by PLTL logical consequence. The operational semantics of TeDiLog is based on TRS-resolution. TeDiLog allows both eventualities and always-formulas to occur in clause heads and also in clause bodies. To the best of our knowledge, TeDiLog is the first declarative temporal logic programming language that achieves this high degree of expressiveness. Since the tableau method presented in this thesis is able to detect that the fulfillment of an eventuality is prevented by a hidden invariant without checking for it by means of an extra process, since our finitary sequent calculi do not include invariant-based rules and since our resolution method dispenses with invariant generation, we say that our deduction methods are invariant-free.

Análise do Fluxo Informacional da Tramitação de Medidas Provisórias na Coordenação de Elaboração de Autógrafos do Senado Federal e do Congresso Nacional : Relatório de Intervenção

Analisa os fluxos de informação relativos à tramitação de medidas provisórias na Coordenação de Elaboração de Autógrafos do Senado Federal e do Congresso Nacional, um órgão da estrutura do Senado

Análise de Fluxo Informacional da Delegacia Virtual da Polícia do Senado Federal : Relatório de Intervenção

Analisa a ferramenta Delegacia Virtual da Polícia do Senado Federal, disponibilizada por meio da Intranet da Instituição, com vistas a possibilitar o registro de ocorrências de maneira remota ao público interno.

Análise comparativa entre a Portaria Conjunta PGNF n° RFB nº 7, de 6 de agosto de 2009, e a Medida Provisória nº 589, de 13 de novembro de 2012, que tratam de parcelamento de débitos relativos às contribuições previdenciárias

Consultoria de Orçamento e Fiscalização Financeira. Núcleo Trabalho, Previdência e Assistência Social

Análise dos possíveis impactos das propostas de fim das coligações proporcionais, para as eleições da Câmara dos Deputados, a partir dos resultados de 2014

Analisa as possíveis consequências – para fins de representação partidária – das seguintes propostas de fim das coligações proporcionais: a) Fim das coligações e com a manutenção da regra que restringe a distribuição das sobras aos partidos que atingirem o quociente eleitoral e; b) Fim das coligações e com a introdução de nova regra que permitiria a distribuição das sobras a todos os partidos políticos. A avaliação dos efeitos das propostas que envolvem o desenho de novos distritos eleitorais (sistema distrital puro ou misto, por exemplo) e as que utilizam listas partidárias fechadas ficam prejudicadas, uma vez que não há como simular os novos distritos nem a composição das listas fechadas de cada partido. Para a compreensão dos resultados aqui apresentados, é importante lembrar que as regras eleitorais desempenham importante variável na definição das estratégias eleitorais adotadas pelos partidos, candidatos e eleitores.

Análise do veto ao art. 118 da Lei nº 13.080, de 2 de janeiro 2015 (LDO 2015), que determina ao Poder Executivo a criação de “Cadastro de Obras Públicas”

Visa a atender à Solicitação de Trabalho nº 17/2015-CONOF, por meio da qual o Deputado Pauderney Avelino solicita a esta Consultoria que elabore nota técnica acerca do veto ao art. 118 da Lei 13.080, de 2 de janeiro 2015 (LDO 2015), que determinava ao Poder Executivo a criação de “Cadastro de Obras Públicas”

Análise do Anexo I do Decreto nº 8.456/2015 relativa às despesas da área temática IV – MCTI, MEC, MinC e ME

Analisa e detalha as ações orçamentárias das dotações iniciais constantes da Lei Orçamentária para 2015 – LOA 2015 dos órgãos integrantes da Área Temática IV (Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação – MCTI, Ministério da Educação – MEC, Ministério da Cultura – MinC e Ministério do Esporte – ME) que foram objeto de limitação de movimentação e empenho em face do Decreto nº 8.456, de 22 de maio de 2015.

Análise das Portarias Interministeriais nº 221 e 222 : Execução das programações decorrentes de Emendas Individuais em 2015 : Orçamento Impositivo - art. 56 da LDO 2015 –Lei nº 13.080, de 2/1/2015

Analisa as disposições contidas nas Portarias Interministeriais nºs 221 e 222, editadas em 18 de junho último pelo Governo Federal. Essas portarias regulamentam procedimentos preparatórios à execução de emendas individuais da Lei Orçamentária Anual (LOA) de 2015, sujeitas ao regime de execução obrigatória (“orçamento impositivo”), instituído na Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentárias de 2015 (LDO 2015 – Lei 13.080/2015) e, posteriormente, na Emenda Constitucional 86.

Análise acerca da arrecadação de receitas tributárias classificadas como "outros" constantes da tabela II do relatório da arrecadação de receitas federais de janeiro de 2015

Estuda os fatores que teriam influenciado a arrecadação, nos meses de novembro e dezembro de 2012, das receitas federais classificadas como “Outros” constantes da Tabela II da "Análise da Arrecadação das Receitas Federais - Janeiro/2015”, elaborada pela Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil (SRF). Conforme registra o solicitante, a receita arrecadada naqueles meses teria apresentado excessiva oscilação em relação à média do ano