Master of Science

thesisThe segmentation model of the Wasatch Fault Zone (WFZ) in north-central Utah has been central to understanding normal fault systems around the world. In this study, we test the notion that the classically defined Brigham City-Weber segment boundary is a barrier to earthquake rupture. To do this, we examined the elevation change of the Bonneville and Provo highstand shorelines of Lake Bonneville along these fault segments. We measured shoreline paleoelevation using the publicly available ± 20 cm vertical accuracy light detection and ranging (lidar) dataset sponsored by the State of Utah (2013-2014) and a new ArcGIS toolbox called PaleoElev that was developed as part of this study. Elevation profiles of the Bonneville and Provo shorelines along the footwall of the fault exhibit constant elevation from the southern end of the Weber segment to the northern subsegment of the Brigham City segment. These elevation patterns suggest that the southern subsegment of the Brigham City segment is linked to the Weber segment and has commonly ruptured coseismically with the Weber segment since the late Pleistocene. The northern subsegment of the Brigham City segment exhibits little to no elevation change, and it is unclear as to whether this subsegment has been active since the late Pleistocene. Where the shorelines are displaced by the WFZ, we have calculated vertical slip rates. The vertical slip rates calculated in this study have significant uncertainty associated with the shoreline paleoelevation measurements. We can only confidently report two vertical slip rates from the Provo shoreline at the Pleasant View Salient, which correlate well to Holocene rates calculated from paleoseismic trenching data and support our interpretation that the Pleasant View Salient is not a barrier to fault rupture

A Nutritional Label for Rankings

Algorithmic decisions often result in scoring and ranking individuals to determine credit worthiness, qualifications for college admissions and employment, and compatibility as dating partners. While automatic and seemingly objective, ranking algorithms can discriminate against individuals and protected groups, and exhibit low diversity. Furthermore, ranked results are often unstable --- small changes in the input data or in the ranking methodology may lead to drastic changes in the output, making the result uninformative and easy to manipulate. Similar concerns apply in cases where items other than individuals are ranked, including colleges, academic departments, or products. In this demonstration we present Ranking Facts, a Web-based application that generates a "nutritional label" for rankings. Ranking Facts is made up of a collection of visual widgets that implement our latest research results on fairness, stability, and transparency for rankings, and that communicate details of the ranking methodology, or of the output, to the end user. We will showcase Ranking Facts on real datasets from different domains, including college rankings, criminal risk assessment, and financial services.Comment: 4 pages, SIGMOD demo, 3 figuress, ACM SIGMOD 201

1861 - The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Document citation: Howe, Julia Ward. Battle Hymn of the Republic / by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Philadelphia: Published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, ?. Philadelphia, 1863. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/98101743/.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nhomefront/1006/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Massachusetts to Anne Whitney, Boston, Massachusetts, between 1876 and 1893

https://repository.wellesley.edu/whitney_correspondence/1841/thumbnail.jp

Art and Handicraft in the Woman\u27s Building of the World\u27s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

3 preliminary leaves, 287 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, plans. The growth of the woman\u27s building / Bertha Honoré Palmer -- The building and its decorations / Maud Howe Elliott -- Woman in art / S.T. Hallowell -- Applied arts in the Woman\u27s Building / Candace Wheeler -- Women illustrators / Alice C. Morse -- The work of Cincinnati women in decorated pottery / Elizabeth W. Perry -- Woman in science / Louisa Parsons Hopkins -- Woman in literature / Laura E. Richards -- The library / Maud Howe Elliott -- New York literary exhibit / Blanche Wilder Bellamy -- Evolution of women\u27s education in the United States / Edna D. Cheney -- Music in the Woman\u27s Building / Lena Burton Clarke -- Congresses in the Woman\u27s Building / Mary Q.O. Eagle -- Associations of women / Julia Ward Howe -- The Children\u27s Building / Emma B. Dunlap -- France / Madame Pegard -- Cottage industries in Scotland and Ireland / Ishbel Aberdeen -- Philanthropic work of British women / the Baroness Burdett-Coutts -- Great Britain : art / E. Crawford -- British nurses\u27 exhibit / Mrs. Bedford-Fenwick -- Germany / Madame Kaselowsky -- Spain / the Duchess of Veragua -- Italy / Eva Mariotti -- Woman\u27s position in the South American states / Matilde G. de Miro Quesada -- Russia / Princess M. Schahovskoy -- Sweden / Thorborg Rappe -- Denmark / Madame D\u27Oxholm -- Greece / Madame Quellenec -- Belgium / Maud Howe Elliott. Color lithograph illustrated half-title page. Decorated publisher\u27s cloth binding, gold and silver pattern on blue, title in gold emboss, bevelled cover edges, gold foreedges. Decorated pattern endpapers. c. 1 Purchased from the V. Stephan Vaughan Collection. c. 2 Gift of Vincent M. Love, Brown University, Class of 1954. 2nd copy has a yellow-brown cloth cover, with same decorations. Binding cover design attributed to Alice C. Morse. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_worldsfairs/1000/thumbnail.jp