Cardiac muscle cells can exhibit complex patterns including irregular behaviour such as chaos or (chaotic) early afterdepolarisations (EADs), which can lead to sudden cardiac death. Suitable mathematical models and their ...

This paper presents the results of statistical analyses on the difference between measured and calculated fatigue rates for an ocean-going container vessel. Data from a hull monitoring system installed on-board this ship ...

This study presents wave measurements in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) obtained from ship mounted sensors. The system combines altimeter readings from the ship bow with ship motion correction data to provide estimated single ...

Many of the widely used models for description of nonlinear surface gravity waves, in deep or shallow water, such as High Order Spectral Method (HOSM) and Boussinesq-type equations, rely on the elimination of the vertical ...

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With the introduction of the exchange-traded German wind power futures, opportunities for German wind power producers to hedge their volumetric risk are present. We propose two continuous-time multivariate models for wind ...

A sharp version of a recent inequality of Kovalev and Yang on the ratio of the (H1)∗ and H4 norms for certain polynomials is obtained. The inequality is applied to establish a sharp and tractable sufficient condition for ...

In my doctoral work, I have developed stochastic models that use different type of noises, to price financial derivatives and insurance products. Stock prices have a random component in their behavior that characterizes ...

Background Infusion testing is a common procedure to determine whether shunting will be beneficial in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus. The method has a well-developed theoretical foundation and ...

This thesis is a collection of four papers about symmetric and Hermitian determinantal representations of quartic hypersurfaces. - Paper I classifies rational quartic symmetroids in 3-space. - Paper II classifies rational ...

This thesis presents new statistical methodology, models, and estimators that are geared towards answering scientific questions in epidemiology and medicine, and in economics and finance. The questions are: (i) What is the ...

Statistical models are often fitted to obtain a concise description of the association of an outcome variable with some covariates. Even if background knowledge is available to guide preselection of covariates, stepwise ...

A user defined cohesive material model is implemented in the LS-DYNA finite element code. The model is based on interface properties characterised from DCB specimens loaded with unequal bending moments. Different mode ...

We classify rational, irreducible quartic symmetroids in projective 3-space. They are either singular along a line or a smooth conic section, or they have a triple point or a tacnode.

This thesis describes a finite element method for simulation of free-surface flows, such as ocean waves, using the discontinuous Galerkin method. Free-surface flows where there is a large difference in density between two ...

It is well known that randomness can be used as an effective tool to turn a priori ill-posed problems into well-posed ones. This is useful both for answering questions at the theoretical as well as the practical levels. ...

In the last decades the analytical value of data has really become apparent and the amount of data collected has vastly increased. This enables us to approach problems in more data driven manners. In the thesis, I have ...

Let X be a Riemannian manifold and xn a sequence of points in X. Assume that we know a priori some properties of the set A of cluster points of xn. The question is under what conditions that xn will converge. An answer to ...

The coupled Darcy–Stokes problem is widely used for modeling fluid transport in physical systems consisting of a porous part and a free part. In this work we consider preconditioners for monolithic solution algorithms of ...

Present first-order based design code formulations for slender columns in frames with sway, employ sway magnification factors (for global second-order effects) also as moment magnifiers for the individual columns of the ...

We define Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson (CSM) cycles of an arbitrary matroid. These are balanced weighted fans supported on the skeleta of the corresponding Bergman fan. In the case that the matroid arises from a complex ...

We report laboratory experiments of long-crested irregular water surface waves propagating over a shoal. For a sufficiently shallow shoal we find that the surface elevation can have a local maximum of skewness and kurtosis ...

The continuous growth in maritime traffic and recent developments towards autonomous navigation have directed increasing attention to navigational safety in which new tools are required to identify real-time risk and complex ...

Time integration of Fourier pseudospectral DNS is usually performed using the classical fourth‐order accurate Runge‐Kutta method or other second‐ or third‐order methods, with a fixed step size. We investigate the use of ...

Previous studies of fetal death with maternal influenza have been inconsistent. We explored the effect of maternal influenza-like illness (ILI) in pregnancy on the risk of fetal death, distinguishing between diagnoses ...

In this paper, we consider the Keller–Segel chemotaxis system with additional cross-diffusion term in the second equation. This system is consisting of a fully nonlinear reaction–diffusion equations with additional ...

This paper is concerned with properties of permutation matrices and alternating sign matrices (ASMs). An ASM is a square (0,±1)-matrix such that, ignoring 0’s, the 1’s and −1’s in each row and column alternate, beginning ...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a common tool in the literature and widely used for process monitoring and fault detection. Traditional PCA is associated with the two well-known control charts, the Hotelling’s T2 and ...

Lately, there has been a lot of research on using deep learning as an alternative method to solve PDEs. The major benefit is being able to solve in higher dimensions without using a full grid of mesh points. Here we try ...

We continue our study of the Fourier–Stieltjes algebra associated to a twisted (unital, discrete) C*-dynamical system and discuss how the various notions of equivalence of such systems are reflected at the algebra level. ...

Environmental contours are used in structural reliability analysis of marine and coastal structures as an approximate means to locate the boundary of the distribution of environmental variables, and hence sets of environmental ...

Spot option prices, forwards and options on forwards relevant for the commodity markets are computed when the underlying process S is modelled as an exponential of a process ξ with memory as, e.g., a Volterra equation ...

Statistical boosting is a powerful tool that has become increasingly more popular in recent years. It works very well in the high-dimensional data setting, and it has many beneficial properties, e.g., shrinkage, automated ...

Seifert manifolds play a crucial role in the classification of 3-manifolds, as they occupy six of the eight geometries proposed by Thurston. In this thesis we determine which Seifert manifolds can be given a smooth action ...

Bølge responsen til en 2d elastisk plate har blitt mod- ellert som et flytende solcellepanel og studert under påvirkn- ing av periodiske overflate vannsbølger. Modellen anal- yseres med lineær bølge teori og hydrodynamikk. ...

This paper focuses on the active flow control of a computational fluid dynamics simulation over a range of Reynolds numbers using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). More precisely, the proximal policy optimization (PPO) ...

We argue that the very effective cover of hermitian K-theory in the sense of motivic homotopy theory is a convenient algebro-geometric generalization of the connective real topological K-theory spectrum. This means the ...

Kemeny's constant κ(G) of a connected undirected graph G can be interpreted as the expected transit time between two randomly chosen vertices for the Markov chain associated with G. In certain cases, inserting a new edge ...

The aim of this thesis is twofold. First we introduce a Hilbert-valued multi-market two-factor forward curve model satisfying the Heath-Jarrow-Morton equation. Each forward curve consist of a shared source of noise and a ...

In the statistical literature, the class of survival analysis models known as cure models has received much attention in recent years. Cure models seem not, however, to be part of the statistical toolbox of perinatal ...

Sediment slumps are known to have generated important tsunamis such as the 1998 Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the 1929 Grand Banks events. Tsunami modellers commonly use solid blocks with short run-out distances to simulate ...

We show how both Poisson regression and recurrent events models can be used to model the number of claims to expect on a car insurance policy. We also show that the same is true when these models are extended to include a ...

There is a hypothesis among epidemiologists that presence of bacteria in the blood, or bacteraemia, is a risk factor for serious health conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Combine this with the fact that cardiovascular ...

The topic of this thesis is stochastic optimal control and reinforcement learning. Our aim is to unify the theory and language used in the two fields. The thesis presents both frameworks and discuss similarities, differences ...

This thesis is concerned with rationality questions of algebraic varieties, specifically questions regarding stable rationality over the complex numbers. We use the techniques related to the motivic volume introduced by ...

An old question of Mori asks whether in dimension at least three, any smooth specialization of a hypersurface of prime degree is again a hypersurface. A positive answer to this question is only known in degrees two and ...

We prove that there exists a pencil of Enriques surfaces defined over Q with non-algebraic integral Hodge classes of non-torsion type. This gives the first example of a threefold with the trivial Chow group of zero-cycles ...

We prove that the product of an Enriques surface and a very general curve of genus at least 1 does not satisfy the integral Hodge conjecture for 1-cycles. This provides the first examples of smooth projective complex ...

This paper deals with a homogeneous Neumann problem of a nonlinear diffusion system involving variable exponents dependent on spatial and time variables and cross-diffusion terms. We prove the existence of weak solutions ...

We present a collection of research questions on cubic surfaces in 3-space. These questions inspired the present collection of papers. This article serves as the introduction to the issue. The number of questions is meant ...

In this paper we aim at modeling stochastic transition rates of state processes in life insurance by using generalized Cox processes. A feature of a our non-Gaussian model is that it can be used to capture ‘regime switching’ ...

Using recent results of Bayer–Macrì, we compute in many cases the pseudoeffective and nef cones of the projectivised cotangent bundle of a smooth projective K3 surface. We then use these results to construct explicit ...

Background The standard lasso penalty and its extensions are commonly used to develop a regularized regression model while selecting candidate predictor variables on a time-to-event outcome in high-dimensional ...

Dementia is a growing concern for the health-care in the world and most treatment strategies are not successful. Dementia is associated with accumulation of metabolic waste in the form of protein fragments. Recent breakthroughs ...

Statistical solutions are time-parameterized probability measures on spaces of integrable functions, which have been proposed recently as a framework for global solutions and uncertainty quantification for multi-dimensional ...

The recently proposed glymphatic system suggests that bulk flow is important for clearing waste from the brain, and as such may underlie the development of e.g. Alzheimer’s disease. The glymphatic hypothesis is still ...

Background Graph-based reference genomes have become popular as they allow read mapping and follow-up analyses in settings where the exact haplotypes underlying a high-throughput sequencing experiment are ...

Successful trading in electricity markets relies on the market actor's ability to accurately forecast the electricity price. The fundamental electricity price models use market information, provided by various price drivers, ...

Numerical simulations of granular flows with Navier–Stokes type models emerged in the last decade, challenging the well established depth-averaged models. The structure of these equations allows for extension to general ...

We prove a strengthened form of convexity for operator monotone decreasing positive functions defined on the positive real numbers. This extends Ando and Hiai's work to allow arbitrary positive maps instead of states (or ...

The seller's risk-indifference price evaluation is studied. We propose a dynamic risk-indifference pricing criterion derived from fully-dynamic risk measures on the $L_p$-spaces for $p\in [1,\infty]$. The concept of ...

Hoftebrudd innebærer brudd i lårhalsen eller i området ved den lille og store lårbensknuten. Vi vet at 70% av individer med hoftebrudd er kvinner og også at 70% av disse individene er over 70 år. I denne oppgaven er vi ...

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a neuron–glia cell system and the underlying mechanism for the occurrence of seizures. For our mathematical and numerical investigation of the cell model we will use bifurcation ...

The liberalization of energy markets worldwide during recent decades has introduced severe implications for the price formation in these markets. Especially within the European day-ahead electricity markets, increased ...

Somatic copy number alterations are a frequent sign of genome instability in cancer. A precise characterization of the genome architecture would reveal underlying instability mechanisms and provide an instrument for outcome ...

We study first-order concatenation theory with bounded quantifiers. We give axiomatizations with interesting properties, and we prove some normal-form results. Finally, we prove a number of decidability and undecidability results.

In nested case-control and case-cohort studies of time-to-events, covariate information is collected for all individuals in the sampled cohort. Often information on some of the covariates are easily available for the entire ...

The main aim of the thesis is to study attractors for certain iterated function systems arising from quantum channels on finite dimensional C*-algebras. I will show the existence of attractors on the density operators by ...

Given a set A in the unit interval and the associated Lebesgue measure λ, it is a natural question whether we may (in some sense) compute the measure λ(A) in terms of the set A. Under the moniker measure theoretic uniformity, ...

We introduce two essentially undecidable first-order theories WT and T. The intended model for the theories is a term model. We prove that WT is mutually interpretable with Robinson’s R. Moreover, we prove that Robinson’s ...

In this paper, we study a so-called Condition C1 on square matrices with complex coefficients and a weaker Condition C2. For Druzkowski maps Condition C2 is equivalent to the Jacobian conjecture. We show that these conditions ...

Epigenetic observations are represented by the total number of reads from a given pool of cells and the number of methylated reads, making it reasonable to model this data by a binomial distribution. There are numerous ...

The existence of large and extreme claims of a non-life insurance portfolio influences the ability of (re)insurers to estimate the reserve. The excess over-threshold method provides a way to capture and model the typical ...

Co-current two-phase simulations of gas-liquid flow with mixture velocities from 1.2 to 4.2 m/s were run in a partially eccentric annulus and compared with entirely eccentric and concentric experimental data collected at ...

The process of a circular free falling jet entering an idle pool was studied with the objective of determining a relation between the naturally occurring disturbances on the jet surface and air entrainment. To this end the ...

We have developed an efficient methodology for Bayesian prediction of lithology and pore fluid, and layer-bounding horizons, in which we include and use spatial geologic prior knowledge such as vertical ordering of ...

In this paper, we provide new results and algorithms (including backtracking versions of Nesterov accelerated gradient and Momentum) which are more applicable to large scale optimisation as in Deep Neural Networks. We also ...

\textit{Isogeny graphs} are a type of graphs, where the vertices represent elliptic curves and the edges represent isogenies. I will examine some of the structures of these graphs in this thesis. It turns out that the ...