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2003 - Gale Group | TDA
Natalia Poiata, Jean‐Pierre Vilotte, Н. М. Шапиро, Mariano Supino, Kazushige Obara,
... derive an extensive catalog of low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) in western and central Shikoku applying an automatic, ... selected seismic stations. Our catalog is the first LFE catalog in this area that does not rely ... It allows investigating in detail main characteristics of LFE activity in space and time. We observe clear heterogeneity of the LFE space distribution in the along‐strike direction of ... sizes, some of which are highly productive in LFE generation. More detailed statistical and correlation‐based analysis ...
Tópico(s): Seismology and Earthquake Studies
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
... Wave, which uses the conventional local frequency elastography (LFE) method. However, MRE Wave is unable to supply ... improve the local frequency estimation algorithm used in LFE, which we refer to as the Enhanced Complex Local Frequency Elastography (EC-LFE) algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses wave equations under ... investigate the accuracy and sensitivity of the EC-LFE algorithm for detecting small tumors. The corresponding statistical ... error and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). EC-LFE was investigated with two different parameter sets, one ...
Tópico(s): Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
2020 - Elsevier BV | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Elena Y. Smirnova, Anton V. Chizhov, Aleksey V. Zaitsev,
Low-frequency electrical stimulation (LFES) of the brain is one of the promising methods for helping patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy. However, the mechanism of the antiepileptic effect of LFES is still unclear. We applied electrophysiological and pharmacological ... in juvenile rat brain slices, we found that LFES increased the interval between ictal discharges (IDs) in ... However, only under the blockade of GABAB receptors, LFES becomes entirely ineffective, indicating that the activation of GABAB receptors underlies the main LFES antiepileptic effect. Further experiments allowed us to suggest ...
Tópico(s): Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
2020 - Elsevier BV | Brain stimulation
Hannah Maybrier, Christopher R. King, Amanda E. Crawford, Angela M. Mickle, Daniel A. Emmert, Troy S. Wildes, Michael S. Avidan, Ben Julian A. Palanca,
... ActiGraph devices, activation of the Low Frequency Extension (LFE) reduces the high-pass filter cutoff frequency for ... Thus, we performed analyses, with and without the LFE active, to determine if discriminability among patient groups ... all activity and immobility measures, with and without LFE. Multivariable logistical regression models were then constructed to ... Enhance Immobility MeasuresActivation of the low frequency extension (LFE) allowed the processing of lower signal frequencies that ... within or between patient groups were unchanged with LFE active (Table 3) compared to identical analyses with ...
Tópico(s): Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
2019 - American Academy of Sleep Medicine | Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
J. R. Sweet, K. C. Creager, Heidi Houston, S. Chestler,
... identify and characterize four different low‐frequency earthquake (LFE) families (LFEs 1–4, ordered updip to downdip) that span ... Zone beneath western Washington State. We find that LFE swarm duration, recurrence interval, and event size decrease systematically with increasing depth. LFE moments are observed to follow an exponential distribution ... size for each family. Absolute locations of these LFE families place them very near the inferred Juan ... North America plate interface. Relative relocation of individual LFEs within each family reveal elongation parallel to the ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake Detection and Analysis
2019 - Wiley | Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Zhiteng Yu, Dapeng Zhao, Xiongwei Niu, Jiabiao Li,
Low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) in the lower crust and uppermost mantle are widely observed in Southwest Japan, and they occur not only along ... but also beneath active arc volcanoes. The volcanic LFEs are still not well understood because of their ... Vs models are used to relocate the volcanic LFEs precisely. The results show that the volcanic LFEs can be classified into two types: pipe-like and swarm-like LFEs, and both of them are located in or ... mantle beneath the active volcanoes. The pipe-like LFEs may be related to the fluid migration from ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2017 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Laura‐May Baratin, C. J. Chamberlain, John Townend, M. K. Savage,
... use recently detected tremor and low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) to examine how slow tectonic deformation is loading ... the Southern Alps Microearthquake Borehole Array. Fourteen primary LFE templates are used in an iterative matched-filter ... allowing the detection of similar signals corresponding to LFE families sharing common locations. This yields an 8-yr catalogue containing 10,000 LFEs that are combined for each of the 14 LFE families using phase-weighted stacking to produce signals ... possible signal-to-noise ratios. We show that LFEs occur almost continuously during the 8-yr study ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2017 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Abstract Using high‐resolution relative low‐frequency earthquake (LFE) locations, we calculate the patch areas (A p ) of LFE families. During episodic tremor and slip (ETS) events, ... A T as the area that slips during LFEs and S T as the total amount of summed LFE slip. Using observed and calculated values for A ... T , we evaluate two end‐member models for LFE slip within an LFE family patch. In the ductile matrix model, LFEs produce 100% of the observed ETS slip (S ... T = A P , but S T ≪ S ETS . LFEs cluster into 45 LFE families. Spatial gaps (∼10 ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2017 - Wiley | Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
... seismic moments for 34,264 low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) beneath the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. LFE moments range from 1.4 × 10 10 to ... M w ), we find that while for large LFEs the b value is ~6, for small LFEs it is <1. The magnitude‐frequency distribution for all LFEs is best fit by an exponential distribution with ... moment‐frequency distributions for each of the 43 LFE families, or spots on the plate interface where LFEs repeat, can also be fit by exponential distributions. ... process. We consider two end‐member models where LFE moment is limited by (1) the amount of ...
Tópico(s): Seismology and Earthquake Studies
2017 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
J. R. Russell, W. J. Sexten, M. S. Kerley, Stephanie L Hansen,
... feed efficient (HFE) and 12 least feed efficient (LFE) steers from each diet (n = 48; 467 kg [ ... of oxidized:reduced blood lysate glutathione concentrations than LFE steers. There were GP diet × FE group interactions ( ≤ ... activity was greater ( ≤ 0.03) in G-Rough/LFE steers than in G-Rough/HFE and G-Corn/LFE steers; G-Corn/HFE steers were intermediate. The G-Rough/LFE steers had greater ( < 0.04) glutathione peroxidase (GPX) ... 0.03) plasma malondialdehyde concentrations than G-Corn/LFE steers. During the FP, the G-Rough/LFE ...
Tópico(s): Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
2016 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Animal Science
Amanda M. Thomas, Gregory C. Beroza, D. R. Shelly,
Abstract Low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) are small repeating earthquakes that occur in conjunction with deep slow slip. Like typical earthquakes, LFEs are thought to represent shear slip on crustal ... when compared to earthquakes of the same magnitude, LFEs are depleted in high‐frequency content and have ... exploit this difference to estimate the duration of LFEs on the deep San Andreas Fault (SAF). We find that the M ~ 1 LFEs have typical durations of ~0.2 s. Using ... the deep SAF and the average number of LFEs per year, we estimate average LFE slip rates ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake Detection and Analysis
2016 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
M. G. Bostock, Amanda M. Thomas, G. Savard, Lindsay Chuang, Allan M. Rubin,
Abstract We employ 130 low‐frequency earthquake (LFE) templates representing tremor sources on the plate boundary below southern Vancouver Island to examine LFE magnitudes. Each template is assembled from hundreds to thousands of individual LFEs, representing over 269,000 independent detections from major ... match‐filtered detections facilitates precise alignment of individual LFE detections and analysis of waveforms. Upon correction for ... linear system for 3‐D path corrections and LFE magnitudes for all detections corresponding to a single‐ ...
Tópico(s): Seismic Waves and Analysis
2015 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Zhen Su, Alayna Robinson, Hu Li, Janet D. Klein, Faten Hassounah, Min Li, Haidong Wang, Hui Cai, Xiaonan H. Wang,
... that acupuncture plus low frequency electric stimulation (Acu-LFES) would mimic the impact of exercise and prevent ... mice. The mice were then treated with Acu-LFES for 15 minutes daily for 14 days. Acupuncture ... device delivering pulses at 20Hz and 1mA. Acu-LFES prevented soleus and EDL muscle weight loss and ... Muscle regeneration capacity was significantly increased by Acu-LFES. The expression of Pax7, MyoD, myogenin and embryo ... levels in diabetic muscle were reversed by Acu-LFES. The IGF-1 signaling pathway was also upregulated ...
Tópico(s): Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Zhen Su, Hu Li, Jinzhong Cheng, Janet D. Klein, Faten Hassounah, Hui Cai, Min Li, Haidong Wang, Xiaonan H. Wang,
... test acupuncture plus low-frequency electric stimulation (Acu-LFES) as a therapeutic strategy for muscle atrophy. Acupuncture ... was 15 min daily for 2 wk. Acu-LFES prevented soleus and plantaris muscle weight loss and ... myosin heavy chain were significantly increased by Acu-LFES in both normal and denervated muscle. The number of central nuclei was increased in Acu-LFES-treated muscle fibers. Phosphorylation of Akt was downregulated ... to a decline in muscle mass; however, Acu-LFES prevented the denervation-induced decline largely by upregulation ...
Tópico(s): Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
2015 - American Physiological Society | Journal of Applied Physiology
... of S waves generated by low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) in northern Cascadia results in strong waveform coherence ... station similarity can be exploited for detection of LFEs in tremor. We develop a cross‐station correlation ... Washington state. Our approach yields thousands of impulsive LFE detections per slow‐slip episode and hundreds of events between episodes. LFE epicentral distributions reveal the presence of well‐defined ... during interepisodic tremor and slow‐slip periods. The LFE epicenters also display pronounced spatiotemporal clustering that compares ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2015 - Seismological Society of America | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Chunquan Wu, R. A. Guyer, D. R. Shelly, Daniel T. Trugman, William B. Frank, Joan Gomberg, Paul A. Johnson,
Tectonic tremor (TT) and low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) have been found in the deeper crust of various tectonic environments globally in the last decade. The spatial-temporal behaviour of LFEs provides insight into deep fault zone processes. In ... times from a 12-yr catalogue of 88 LFE families with ∼730 000 LFEs in the vicinity of the Parkfield section of ... apply an automatic burst detection algorithm to the LFE recurrence times to identify the clustering behaviour of LFEs (LFE bursts) in each family. We find that ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2015 - Oxford University Press | Geophysical Journal International
Qian Wang, Fangyuan Tian, Ziqian Feng, Xueying Fan, Zetong Pan, Jiang Zhou,
... was developed by incorporating Lycium barbarum fruit extract (LFE) into chitosan. The effects of LFE on physicochemical properties of the chitosan/LFE films were evaluated. When the weight ratio of LFE to chitosan was increased from 0:1 to ... picrylhydrazyl) free radical scavenging activity of the chitosan/LFE films increased near ten‐folds and reached up ... 35.8%; water vapour permeability of the chitosan/LFE films decreased 43.0% from 5.67 g ... 100% to 24.52% because of interactions between LFE and hydrophilic groups of chitosan confirmed by FTIR. ...
Tópico(s): Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
2014 - Wiley | International Journal of Food Science & Technology
J. R. Sweet, K. C. Creager, Heidi Houston,
We analyze an isolated low-frequency earthquake (LFE) family located at the downdip edge of the main episodic tremor and slip (ETS) zone beneath western Washington State. The 9000 individual LFEs from this repeating family cluster into 198 swarms that recur roughly every week. Cumulative LFE seismic moment for each swarm correlates strongly with ... time until the next swarm, suggesting that these LFE swarms are time predictable. Precise double-difference relative locations for 700 individual LFEs within this family show a distribution that is ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake Detection and Analysis
2014 - Wiley | Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
William B. Frank, Н. М. Шапиро, Allen Husker, V. Kostoglodov, Alexey Romanenko, Michel Campillo,
Abstract Studies of low‐frequency earthquakes (LFEs) have focused on detecting events within previously identified tectonic tremor. However, the principal LFE detection tools of matched‐filter searches are intrinsically ... focus on generating the largest number possible of LFE templates by uniformly applying a recently developed LFE template detection method to a 2.5 yearlong ... statistics to select the event families that represent LFEs. Our resulting catalog contains 1120 unique LFE sources and a total of 1,849,486 ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2014 - Wiley | Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
Yuri Feito, Heather R. Garner, David R. Bassett,
... examined the effects of the "low-frequency extension" (LFE) on step counts in the free-living environment, ... to determine the accuracy of the AG's LFE to measure step counts during laboratory and free- ... and two versions of the AG, with the LFE turned on (GT1M-LFE and GT3X-LFE) and the LFE turned off (GT1M-N and GT3X-N), on ... m·min−1 (P < 0.001). With the LFE turned on, this underestimation was reduced to 7% ... respectively. Under free-living conditions, both the GT1M-LFE and GT3X-LFE overestimated steps by approximately 32% ( ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2014 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise