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A dream about lightning bugs : a life of music and cheap lessons /
Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as \"Brick,\" \"You Don't Know Me,\" \"Rockin' the Suburbs,\" and \"The Luckiest,\" and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore than hardcore. Now, in his first book, Folds looks back at his life so far in a charming and wise chronicle of his artistic coming of age, infused with the wry observations of a natural storyteller. In the title chapter, \"A Dream About Lightning Bugs,\" Folds recalls his earliest childhood dream -- and realizes how much it influenced his understanding of what it means to be an artist. In \"Measure Twice, Cut Once\" he learns to resist the urge to skip steps during the creative process. In \"Hall Pass\" he recounts his 1970s North Carolina working-class childhood, and in \"Cheap Lessons\" he returns to the painful life lessons he learned the hard way -- but that luckily didn't kill him. In his inimitable voice, both relatable and thought-provoking, Folds digs deep into the life experiences that shaped him, imparting hard-earned wisdom about both art and life. Collectively, these stories embody the message Folds has been singing about for years: Smile like you've got nothing to prove, because it hurts to grow up, and life flies by in seconds.
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Cohomology of the Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds and Its Smooth Models
We compute and compare the (intersection) cohomology of various natural geometric compactifications of the moduli space of cubic
threefolds: the GIT compactification and its Kirwan blowup, as well as the Baily–Borel and toroidal compactifications of the ball
quotient model, due to Allcock–Carlson–Toledo. Our starting point is Kirwan’s method. We then follow by investigating the behavior of
the cohomology under the birational maps relating the various models, using the decomposition theorem in different ways, and via a
detailed study of the boundary of the ball quotient model. As an easy illustration of our methods, the simpler case of the moduli space
of cubic surfaces is discussed in an appendix.
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Nannoniite, Al.sub.2
The new mineral nannoniite, Al.sub.2 (OH).sub.5 F (Z=4), has been discovered in the Cetine di Cotorniano mine, Chiusdino, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. It occurs as spherical aggregates formed by micrometre-sized crystals, colourless to white in colour, with a white streak and a vitreous to earthy lustre. Fluorescence is bluish-yellow and yellowish-white under short- and longwave UV radiation, respectively. Electron microprobe analysis gave (in wt %) SO.sub.3 0.49, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 63.97, MgO 0.51, CaO 0.22, K.sub.2 O 0.07, F 11.72, H.sub.2 O.sub.(calc) 28.54, and -O = F -4.94, with a total of 100.58. Nannoniite is monoclinic, with space group P21/n and with a=8.688(3), b=5.024(2), c=9.734(4) Ã, β=90.77(2)°, and V=424.9(3) Ã.sup.3 . The crystal structure was solved using three-dimensional electron diffraction and refined to R.sub.(obs) =0.1524 for 2141 unique reflections with I3Ï(I). Nannoniite is homeotypic with gibbsite. In type material, nannoniite is associated with quartz, baryte, gypsum, and alunite in vugs of a silicified limestone. Its origin is probably related to the late-stage circulation of (Al,F)-rich fluids within the Sb ore deposit formerly exploited at the Cetine di Cotorniano mine.
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Review of flanking structures in meso- and micro-scales
A variety of host-fabric elements (HE) cut by cross-cutting elements (CE) in rocks defines flanking structures (FS) on mesoscopic and microscopic scales. There has been renewed interest in studying and classifying the FS for their morphologies, useful as shear sense indicators and geneses. Existing non-genetic morphologic parameters for the FS are reviewed, and two new classification schemes are presented. One of these is based on the nature of the CE and whether HE penetrates it. The other scheme takes account of all the potential combinations of drag/no drag and slip/no slip of the HE. Deciphering the shear sense of the rock body from FS is complicated because the angular relationship between the CE and the primary shear planes might be opposite to what is found between S- and C- ductile shear fabrics. Further, single CEs can curve and several similar FS occur in reverse forms. As with mineral fish, the shape asymmetries of microscopic CEs indicate the shear sense. Conjugate FS (with non-parallel CEs) with interfering perturbation fields around the CEs are more reliable shear-sense indicators than FS with single CE. During low but increasing bulk strains, FS may evolve from one type to another, e.g. from a- to s-type. At high strain, FS can resemble intrafolial or sheath fold. Whether the drag is normal or reverse depends fundamentally on the initial angle between the HE and the CE and the relative magnitudes of throw and vertical separation.
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Tectonic Implication and Geometry of the Minor Folds in Qaiwan and Goizhah Anticlines, Northeast of Sulaimani District, Northeastern Iraq
In our research we studied thirty minor folds in Qaiwan and Goizhah anticlines, 22 km northeast of Sulaimani District, Northeastern Iraq. They are located within the Zagros Imbricate Zone between the Zagros High Folds Zone and Zagros Suture Zone. The study area is occupied by the alternative of competent and incompetent layers of Cretaceous formations which facilitates the formation of minor folds at the limbs and hinge zone of the major fold. This work aims to find the relationship between these minor folds and major folds and how these minor folds assist in understanding the regional structure, and tectonic history and finding tectonic episodes that responded to the development of the anticlines. Pi (π) diagrams were constructed to find the characteristics of the folds. Fleuty’s (1964) and Ramsey’s (1967) classifications were used to classify the tightness, fold types, and fold style. Two paleostress directions were revealed from congruous and incongruous minor folds in the direction (NE‒SW) and (NW‒SE), respectively. The sub-congruous minor folds attributed to the oblique collision and anticlockwise rotation of the Arabian plate with respect to the Eurasian plate. Back-thrusting paleostress was detected from the opposite break-thrust fold of the forelimb of the minor folds. The homogeneous flattening during continuous folding processes changes the geometry of the folds from classes 1B and 1C to classes 2 and 3. The proportion of incompetent to competent layers changed the shape of the hinge zone from rounded to angular. As the incompetence increased the hinge zone become more rounded. The intensity of folding and structural origin of the folds as fault propagation folds maybe flipped the vergency of some minor folds in the southwestern limbs of the major fold from northeast to southwest.
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Crustal-scale cross-sections across the NW Zagros belt: implications for the Arabian margin reconstruction
Quantified balanced and restored crustal cross-sections across the NW Zagros Mountains are presented in this work integrating geological and geophysical local and global datasets. The balanced crustal cross-section reproduces the surficial folding and thrusting of the thick cover succession, including the near top of the Sarvak Formation (~90 Ma) that forms the top of the restored crustal cross-section. The base of the Arabian crust in the balanced cross-section is constrained by recently published seismic receiver function results showing a deepening of the Moho from 42 ± 2 km in the undeformed foreland basin to 56 ± 2 km beneath the High Zagros. The internal parts of the deformed crustal cross-section are constrained by new seismic tomographic sections imaging a ~50° NE-dipping sharp contact between the Arabian and Iranian crusts. These surfaces bound an area of 10800 km2 that should be kept constant during the Zagros orogeny. The Arabian crustal cross-section is restored using six different tectonosedimentary domains according to their sedimentary facies and palaeobathymetries, and assuming Airy isostasy and area conservation. While the two southwestern domains were directly determined from well-constrained surface data, the reconstruction of the distal domains to the NE was made using the recent margin model of Wrobel-Daveau et al. (2010) and fitting the total area calculated in the balanced cross-section. The Arabian continental–oceanic boundary, at the time corresponding to the near top of the Sarvak Formation, is located 169 km to the NE of the trace of the Main Recent Fault. Shortening is estimated at ~180 km for the cover rocks and ~149 km for the Arabian basement, including all compressional events from Late Cretaceous to Recent time, with an average shortening rate of ~2 mm yr−1 for the last 90 Ma.
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Predicting the flowability of UHPC and identifying its significant influencing factors using an accurate ANN model
In this research, a one-hidden layer artificial neural network paradigm (ANN) was created to forecast the slump flow of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC). To achieve this goal, 3,200 ANNs were evaluated to estimate the fresh UHPC’s slump flow utilizing 793 observations. The performance metrics measured on training and test data subsets were in the same order of magnitude, thereby pointing out the proper work of the k-fold validation procedure. The results of the connection weight approach analysis (CWA) indicated that water dosage had the highest positive importance in slump flow, preceding the superplasticizer volume ratio. Other factors that positively influenced slump flow were the water-to-powder ratio, the dosage of high-alkali glass powder, the water-to-binder ratio, and limestone concentration. The most negative influences on rheology were the high-alumina FC3R and metakaolin. The ANN accurately predicted the slump flow of UHPC, while the results of the CWA analysis were well-correlated with previous research.
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Timing, sequence, duration and rate of deformation in fold-and-thrust belts: a review of traditional approaches and recent advances from absolute dating (K–Ar illite/U–Pb calcite) of brittle structures
Based on a review of literature and a few case studies, this paper summarizes the state of the art on the dating of folds and thrusts, then presents and discusses how recent advances in K–Ar illite and U–Pb calcite geochronology applied to brittle structures in fold-and-thrust belts have helped better constrain the timing, sequence, duration and rates of deformation.
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Individualized High Double Eyelid Fold Correction in Secondary Blepharoplasty: A Free-Style Design
Background
High crease correction is difficult to achieve in secondary blepharoplasty. Currently, patients tend to have more precise requirements for crease-lowering procedures, such as low in-fold or low out-fold creases. For the out-fold crease, the height of the central crease is similar with the height of the medial crease, whereas for the in-fold crease, the height of the medial crease is lower than the height of the central crease.
Objectives
In this study, the authors developed a strategy to create low in-fold or out-fold creases to satisfy patients’ individualized requirements.
Methods
The medical records of patients who received crease-lowering secondary blepharoplasty from January 2015 to January 2021 were reviewed. The results were grouped by preoperative condition (high in-fold/out-fold) and patients’ expectations for postoperative outcome (low in-fold/out-fold). Preoperative and postoperative images were collected, and patient satisfaction, complications and revisions were evaluated.
Results
In total, 297 consecutive patients were included in this study with an average follow-up duration of 12.3 months. Eighteen patients had high in-fold creases, and 279 patients had high out-fold creases. Regarding patients with high out-folds, 233 patients wanted to have low out-folds, and 46 patients wanted to have low in-folds. Two hundred and sixty-six (89.6%) patients were satisfied with their results. Complications included complete crease loss (
n
= 3, 1.0%), partial crease loss (
n
= 5, 1.7%), multiple creases (
n
= 6, 2.0%), asymmetric creases (
n
= 7, 2.4%), and upper eyelid skin laxity (
n
= 10, 3.4%).
Conclusions
This flexible, novel technique for customizing low out-fold or in-fold creases is reliable in high double-eyelid crease correction based on preoperative upper eyelid skin tightness, scar positions, and the patient’s expected double-eyelid crease shape.
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