Interpretation of a Seismic Reflection Survey and Geophysical Well Logs in Jay County, Indiana: Orientation and Composition of a Carbonate Layer Below the Mount Simon Sandstone

In August 2017, a dynamite-sourced 2D seismic reflection survey was conducted along a gravel road northwest of Portland, Indiana. The main focus of the survey was to determine the orientation of a lithologic unit previously identified by Welder (2014) on a similar 2D seismic reflection survey in the same area. Drillers logs of two wells within this area identified a limestone layer below the Mt. Simon Sandstone, and a similar limestone layer was identified in a well drilled in Clark County, Ohio. As the focus of this study, this limestone layer will be informally named the `Votaw limestone\u27. The seismic line studied by Welder (2014) was oriented west-east; the seismic line utilized in this study is oriented north-south and crosses the previous one. Together, these seismic lines allow the true orientation of the Votaw limestone to be determined. Geophysical logs from nearby wells and two distant ones (north central Indiana and western Ohio) were used to produce synthetic seismograms which together with drillers logs were used identify the top of Eden, Trenton, Knox, Eau Claire, Mt. Simon, and Middle Run formations. The top of the Votaw limestone was associated with a reflection in the seismic data using the synthetics and the driller\u27s logs for the nearby wells. Importantly, where the Middle Run Formation exists, the Votaw limestone occurs below the top of the Middle Run. The Votaw limestone is horizontal in both north-south and west-east seismic lines, confirming that it is truly horizontal in this area. This limestone could be present beneath the Middle Run in Warren County, Ohio, based on similar seismic characteristics of reflectors. The pre-stack CDP\u27s were used to analyze the Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO) response of the limestone layer. The limestone reflector primarily exhibited a negative gradient with some variations suggesting an impurity of the limestone. The limestone reflector in the area is parallel to the overlying Paleozoic reflectors suggesting the lack of any Grenville deformation. For all these reasons, the site could be a prime candidate for drilling and coring of the entire lithologic sequence beneath the Mt. Simon Sandstone

Corporate Culture in Journalism: Bangladesh Perspective

Thanks to globalization mass media especially news media is controlled by the largest multinational companies of the world The multinational form of the media has started influencing every sector of life of the people in the world because the media as a social institution is working as an intermediary in the practices of socio-economic and politico-cultural norms it is building both the individual and universal identity and is designing the road map for our daily life However like other corporate organization the media is also running behind the profits News like other profitable goods is becoming the way to profits of the multinational companies Though the newspaper is considered the mirror of the society fourth pillar of the country the consciousness of the nation etc it is criticized by the scholars The multinational companies have been using media as a way to profit instead of the way for social change In this study the evolution and nature of the media under the corporate organization in Bangladesh has been discussed and analyzed critically The objective of the research is to investigate how the capitalism known as the basic structure of the media media economy is influencing the superstructure of the media contents news and advertisement Through content analysis of four national dailies and in-depth interview of media experts the article illustrates how the corporate organization is influencing the news The present study also depicts investigates the corporate news organization and the ownership of the media in Bangladesh with mentioning the history of the corporate media organization in the Western countries In this perspective the contemporary practices of the journalism and its nature in Bangladesh are also elaborated her

The Commodification of Domesticity and Scopophiliac Consumerism through YouTube Vlogs

The world is now experiencing a boom time of global capitalism that entirely is rooted in large-scale investments worldwide The word capital however is no more confined to the material or monetary category instead it has started analyzing cultural as well as social realities to find out new forms of profit-making investment sources Interestingly capitalism is nowadays devoted to dig out human interests and to present commodities according to those desires To understand this matter more clearly here few contents from YouTube are going to be analyzed to show how social scopophilia a pleasure principle has been targeted as a space for investment These contents are uploads of some women who share their daily life with the world around on which this study has launched a thorough qualitative analysis In order to find an answer to the question why the selected YouTubers have made their everyday life public and on the other hand why viewers get interested in others life this study has mainly focused on commodity culture of contemporary world that resultantly has brought into view how everything irrespective of their materiality and immateriality gets commodified To conclude the most determining factor behind the commodification of everyday domestic life has been a sort of scopophiliac consumerism that this particular study has earnestly attempted to establis

Software Development Standard and Software Engineering Practice: A Case Study of Bangladesh

Improving software process to achieve high quality in a software development organization is the key factor to success. Bangladeshi software firms have not experienced much in this particular area in comparison to other countries. The ISO 9001 and CMM standard has become a basic part of software development. The main objectives of our study are: 1) To understand the software development process uses by the software developer firms in Bangladesh 2) To identify the development practices based on established quality standard and 3) To establish a standardized and coherent process for the development of software for a specific project. It is revealed from this research that software industries of Bangladesh are lacking in target set for software process and improvement, involvement of quality control activities, and standardize business expertise practice. This paper investigates the Bangladeshi software industry in the light of the above challenges.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, 11 table

A Two-Stage Feature Selection Approach for Robust Evaluation of Treatment Effects in High-Dimensional Observational Data

A Randomized Control Trial (RCT) is considered as the gold standard for evaluating the effect of any intervention or treatment. However, its feasibility is often hindered by ethical, economical, and legal considerations, making observational data a valuable alternative for drawing causal conclusions. Nevertheless, healthcare observational data presents a difficult challenge due to its high dimensionality, requiring careful consideration to ensure unbiased, reliable, and robust causal inferences. To overcome this challenge, in this study, we propose a novel two-stage feature selection technique called, Outcome Adaptive Elastic Net (OAENet), explicitly designed for making robust causal inference decisions using matching techniques. OAENet offers several key advantages over existing methods: superior performance on correlated and high-dimensional data compared to the existing methods and the ability to select specific sets of variables (including confounders and variables associated only with the outcome). This ensures robustness and facilitates an unbiased estimate of the causal effect. Numerical experiments on simulated data demonstrate that OAENet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods by either producing a higher-quality estimate or a comparable estimate in significantly less time. To illustrate the applicability of OAENet, we employ large-scale US healthcare data to estimate the effect of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) on suicidal behavior. When compared to competing methods, OAENet closely aligns with existing literature on the relationship between OUD and suicidal behavior. Performance on both simulated and real-world data highlights that OAENet notably enhances the accuracy of estimating treatment effects or evaluating policy decision-making with causal inference

Should government of the people's republic of Bangladesh directly operate Micro Credit?

Thesis(Master) --KDI School:Master of Growth and Development Studies,2000Economic development and poverty alleviation are important goals of every developing nation of the world. Since the 1950s and 1960s several development strategies, such as ‘growth with industrialization, ‘growth with sectoral balance’ and ‘growth with equity’ have been implemented in attempts to achieve economic development in these counties. Of late, liberalization and export orientation have become the catch cries of development policy. These approaches have had mixed results; in all cases, capital, labor and technology have been regarded as the main inputs to development. With some variations, most developing countries registered upward growth during the last three decades, and certain Asian countries have achieved the most impressive results of all. But despite this record, not all Asian countries achieved similar growth, nor, as is evident, were the successes in economic growth matched by similar successes in poverty alleviation. In some countries, economic development was accompanied by gross inequality. Examination of the causes of incongruities between planning and development and between development and poverty alleviation has revealed that quite often, ‘governance’ is a more important factor than capital, labor and technology in inducing growth and ensuring equity in a society. It has been argued that good governance ensures good vision and pragmatic direction for the economy, creates enabling environment for investment opportunities, guarantees rational allocation of resources and their proper use, and maintains political commitment to and a sense of urgency about economic development and poverty alleviation. Governance has been defined as the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social resources for development (World Bank, 1992)’. The research paper presents a framework describing the relationship between role of government, poverty alleviation as well as rural development through micro credit operation. The micro credit programs operated by GO and NGOs in Bangladesh are the main issue covered in this paper and the paper concluded that more than anything else, urgent measures should be taken to determine the role of bureaucracy as well as government of Bangladesh in operation of micro credit for eradicating povertyCHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II ALLEVIATION OF RURAL POVERTY THROUGH MICRO CREDIT CHAPTER III NGOs VERSUS GO: MICRO CREDIT IN BANGLADESH CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONSmasterpublishedMD.Saiful Alam Hamidi