Water wave attenuation by grease ice is a key mechanism for the polar regions, as waves in ice influence many phenomena such as ice drift, ice breaking and ice formation. However, the models presented so far in the literature ...

Appendages of seeds, fruits and other diaspores (dispersal units) are essential for their wind dispersal, as they act as wings and enable them to fly. Whirling fruits generate an auto-gyrating motion from their sepals, a ...

Teknikker og konsepter som er knyttet til kombinatorikk blir ofte brukt innenalgebraisk geometri. Et eksempel på dette er toriske degenerasjoner, som kanbrukes til å besvare visse klassifiseringsspørsmål. I denne avhandlingen ...

We present the first application of an Artificial Neural Network trained through a Deep Reinforcement Learning agent to perform active flow control. It is shown that, in a 2D simulation of the Kármán vortex street at ...

We investigate the Smith Normal Form (SNF) of alternating sign matrices (ASMs) and related matrices of 0’s and 1’s ((0, 1)-matrices). We identify certain classes of ASMs and (0, 1)-matrices whose SNFs are (0, 1)-matrices. ...

Let A be an n × n (0, ∗)-matrix, so each entry is 0 or ∗. An A-interval matrix is a (0, 1)-matrix obtained from A by choosing some ∗’s so that in every interval of consecutive ∗’s, in a row or column of A, exactly one ∗ ...

In this paper we show that, with respect to the L2 norm, three classes of functions in Hr(0,1) , defined by certain boundary conditions, admit optimal spline spaces of all degrees ≥r−1 , and all these spline spaces ...

We prove some fundamental results like localization, excision, Nisnevich descent, and the regular blow-up formula for the algebraic K-theory of certain stack quotients of schemes with affine group scheme actions. We show ...

Background Using high-dimensional penalized regression we studied genome-wide DNA-methylation in bone biopsies of 80 postmenopausal women in relation to their bone mineral density (BMD). The women showed ...

We use Matsui and Takeuchi's formula for toric A-discriminants to give algorithms for computing local Euler obstructions and dual degrees of toric surfaces and 3-folds. In particular, we consider weighted projective spaces. ...

The classical maximum principle for optimal stochastic control states that if a control û is optimal, then the corresponding Hamiltonian has a maximum at u=û. The first proofs for this result assumed that the control did ...

We discuss the internal structure of graph products of right LCM semigroups and prove that there is an abundance of examples without property (AR). Thereby we provide the first examples of right LCM semigroups lacking ...

We introduce algebraic dynamical systems, which consist of an action of a right LCM semigroup by injective endomorphisms of a group. To each algebraic dynamical system we associate a C*-algebra and describe it as a semigroup ...

Aims To the best of our knowledge, there are no systematic reviews or meta‐analyses that compare rasagiline, selegiline and safinamide. Therefore, we aimed to perform a drug class review comparing all available monoamine ...

Given a finite-dimensional Hilbert space H and a collection of operators between its tensor powers satisfying certain properties, we give a short proof of the existence of a compact quantum group G with a fundamental ...

In this PhD thesis problems of Bayesian model selection and model averaging are addressed in various regression contexts. The approaches developed within the thesis are based on the idea of marginalizing out parameters ...

If a number of candidate variables are available, variable selection is a key task aiming to identify those candidates which influence the outcome of interest. Methods as backward elimination, forward selection, etc. are ...

In biomedical research, boosting-based regression approaches have gained much attention in the last decade. Their intrinsic variable selection procedure and ability to shrink the estimates of the regression coefficients ...

We study the Whitehead torsion of inertial h-cobordisms, continuing an investigation started in [12]. Of particular interest is a nested sequence of subsets of the Whitehead group, and a number of examples are given to ...

Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) are used for inference and prediction in a wide range of different applications providing a powerful scientific tool. An increasing number of sources of data are becoming available, ...

This study comprises the analysis and the interpretation of the coherent and the noncoherent parts of a coherent-on-receive microwave radar at grazing incidence conditions. The Doppler measurement is an extension of standard ...

Wave statistical properties and occurrence of extreme and rogue waves in crossing sea states are investigated. Compared to previous studies a more extensive set of crossing sea states are investigated, both with respect ...

We propose a non-Gaussian operator-valued extension of the Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard stochastic volatility dynamics, defined as the square-root of an operator-valued Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process with Lévy noise and ...

Slippery runways represent a significant risk to aircrafts especially during the winter season. In order to apply the appropriate braking action, the pilots need reliable information about the runway conditions. Unfortunately ...

Multivalency achieves strong, yet reversible binding by the simultaneous formation of multiple weak bonds. It is a key interaction principle in biology and promising for the synthesis of high-affinity inhibitors of pathogens. ...

Stratified air-water flow in a horizontal pipe is investigated experimentally using particle image velocimetry and conductance probes. This flow regime is characterized by a complex interplay between a turbulent airflow ...

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a certain Hodgkin-Huxley model describing the action potential (AP) of a cardiac muscle cell for a better understanding of the occurrence of a special type of cardiac arrhythmia, the ...

Powersum varieties, also called varieties of sums of powers, have provided examples of interesting relations between varieties since their first appearance in the 19th century. One of the most useful tools to study them ...

Extreme wave statistics of unidirectional and counter-propagating seas are investigated, for the special case of long-crested irregular waves, with laboratory experiments and with numerical simulations using the higher ...

The potential and density wake behind a finite-sized object in a magnetized collisionless plasma flow is studied with self-consistent numerical simulations. With increasing magnetization of the plasma, the standard picture ...

The main idea of this paper is to use the notion of buffered failure probability from probabilistic structural design, first introduced by Rockafellar & Royset (2010), to introduce buffered environmental contours. Classical ...

This study presents a statistical analysis of interfacial waves in a turbulent stratified air-water flow inside a 10 cm diameter pipe. Wave elevation measurements were acquired using conductance probes with high sampling ...

Modulational instability is an efficient mechanism for the generation of rogue waves in the limit of narrow-banded and long-crested wave fields. While such wave fields are easily achieved in laboratories, there appears to ...

Quantum groups are a noncommutative extension of the notion of a group and first appeared in the context of quantum mechanics. Now the theory of quantum groups has further developed and has become interesting in its own ...

In this paper, we study strongly robust optimal control problems under volatility uncertainty. In the G-framework, we adapt the stochastic maximum principle to find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of ...

For large multicomponent systems it is typically too costly to monitor the entire system constantly. In the present paper we consider a case where a component is unobserved in a time interval [0, T]. Here T is a stochastic ...

Knowledge about how information is stored in neurons of animals and in the human brain is still incomplete. A hypothesis related to long-term changes in synaptic efficiency has strong experimental support, but does not ...

We analyze the relation between completely positive (CP) divisibility and the lack of information backflow for an arbitrary—not necessarily invertible—dynamical map. It is well known that CP divisibility always implies a ...

We consider systems with memory represented by stochastic functional differential equations. Substantially, these are stochastic differential equations with coefficients depending on the past history of the process itself. ...

The polar regions are the focus of increased attention due to a combination of environmental, political and economic reasons. In order to help support human activities in the arctic and monitor the state of the ecosystem, ...

Two-phase dispersed and slug flows in a pipe are investigated using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The data are acquired through tomographic reconstruction of X-ray measurements, where holdup, cross-sectional phase ...

The properties of directional distributions in ocean wave spectra are studied, with an emphasis on sea states with bimodal directional distributions in the high-frequency tails of single-peaked wave systems. A peak-splitting ...

An alternating sign matrix, or ASM, is a (0, ±1)-matrix where the nonzero entries in each row and column alternate in sign. We generalize this notion to hypermatrices: an n × n × n hypermatrix A = [aijk] is an alternating ...

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/COM-170081

Computational models of cardiac mechanics, personalized to a patient, offer access to mechanical information above and beyond direct medical imaging. Additionally, such models can be used to optimize and plan therapies ...

We show that a cubic fourfold F that is apolar to a Veronese surface has the property that its variety of power sums V SP ( F, 10) is singular along a K 3 surface of genus 20 which is the variety of power sums of a sextic ...

We study the problem of optimal insider control of an SPDE (a stochastic evolution equation) driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. Our optimal control problem is new in two ways: - The controller has ...

The air-sea gas transfer velocity k is frequently estimated as an empirical function of wind speed. However, it is widely recognized that k depends on processes other than wind speed alone. The small-eddy model, which ...

Waves propagating below drift ice were observed in the North-West Barents Sea. In-situ measurements of ice and water characteristics were performed with the equipment deployed on the ice and in the water below the ice ...

We study the problem of convergence to the boundary in the setting of random walks on discrete quantum groups. Convergence to the boundary is established for random walks on SU\q(2). Furthermore, we will define the Martin ...

The spatial and temporal development of shear-induced overturning billows associated with breaking internal solitary waves is studied by means of a combined laboratory and numerical investigation. The waves are generated ...

We study how the geometry of a projective variety X is reflected in the positivity properties of the diagonal ΔX considered as a cycle on X×X. We analyze when the diagonal is big, when it is nef, and when it is rigid. In ...

This article studies singular mean field control problems and singular mean field two-players stochastic differential games. Both sufficient and necessary conditions for the optimal controls and for the Nash equilibrium ...

It is argued that the accuracy of risk aggregation in Solvency II can be improved by updating skewness recursively. A simple scheme based on the log-normal distribution is developed and shown to be superior to the standard ...

As modern biotechnologies advance, it has become increasingly frequent that different modalities of high-dimensional molecular data (termed “omics” data in this paper), such as gene expression, methylation, and copy number, ...

We show that the Cuntz splice induces stably isomorphic graph C∗-algebras. This result is a key step towards the recent complete classification of unital graph C∗-algebras both with respect to K-theoretical classification ...

We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems offorward–backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite and infinite time horizon.Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information ...

By a memory mean-field process we mean the solution X(\cdot ) of a stochastic mean-field equation involving not just the current state X(t) and its law \mathcal {L}(X(t)) at time t, but also the state values X(s) and its ...

Influential points can cause severe problems when deriving a multivariable regression model. A novel approach to check for such points is proposed, based on the variable inclusion matrix, a simple way to summarize results ...

In recent years, renewable energy has gained importance in producing power in many markets. The aim of this article is to model photovoltaic (PV) production for three transmission operators in Germany. PV power can only ...

Given a discrete quantum group H with a finite normal quantum subgroup G, we show that any positive, possibly unbounded, harmonic function on H with respect to an irreducible invariant random walk is G-invariant. This ...

Background: Recent large-scale undertakings such as ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics have generated experimental data mapped to the human reference genome (as genomic tracks) representing a variety of functional elements ...

We prove that all moment varieties of univariate Gaussian mixtures have the expected dimension. Our approach rests on intersection theory and Terracini’s classification of defective surfaces. The analogous identifiability ...

-stability for entropy solutions of nonlinear degenerate parabolic convection–diffusion equations with discontinuous coefficients, Skr. K. Nor. Vidensk. Selsk. 3 (2003) 1–49], singles out the vanishing viscosity solution ...

Wind field ensembles from six CMIP5 models force wave model time slices of the northeast Atlantic over the last three decades of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The future wave climate is investigated by considering the ...

We construct 2D and 3D finite element de Rham sequences of arbitrary polynomial degrees with extra smoothness. Some of these elements have nodal degrees of freedom and can be considered as generalisations of scalar Hermite ...

In this paper, we propose a new multivariate model for the dynamics of regional ocean freight rates. We show that a cointegrated system of regional spot freight rates can be decomposed into a common non-stationary market ...

In this paper, we study a second-order, nonlinear evolution equation with damping arising in elastodynamics. The nonlinear term is monotone and possesses a convex potential but exhibits anisotropic and nonpolynomial growth. ...

We prove a version of Onsager’s conjecture on the conservation of energy for the incompressible Euler equations in the context of statistical solutions, as introduced recently by Fjordholm et al. (2017). As a byproduct, ...

The Grassmannian Gr(2,5) is embedded in ℙ9 via the Pl\"ucker embedding. The intersection of two general PGL(10)-translates of Gr(2,5) is a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X, and the intersection of the projective duals of the two ...

The attenuation of surface gravity waves is an important process associated with air–sea and wave–current interactions. Here we investigate experimentally the attenuation of monochromatic surface gravity waves due to the ...

Skatteetaten bruker i dag prediktive metoder til blant annet utvelgelse til kontroll av merverdiavgiftsoppgaver og til å forbedre og effektivisere innkreving av skatter. Dette har vist seg å gi økt proveny og en mer effektiv ...

The electric potential distribution around a dust particle immersed in a magnetised supersonic plasma flow is studied by numerical simulations. It is shown that with increasing magnetisation of plasma, the peak in the wake ...

Nocturnal low-level jets (LLJs) are defined as relative maxima in the vertical profile of the horizontal wind speed at the top of the stable boundary layer. Such peaks constitute major power resources for wind turbines. ...

Compound events (CEs) are multivariate extreme events in which the individual contributing variables may not be extreme themselves, but their joint – dependent – occurrence causes an extreme impact. Conventional univariate ...

We present a two-factor option-pricing model, which parsimoniously captures the difference in volatility persistences under the historical and risk-neutral probabilities. The model generates an S-shaped pricing kernel that ...

In this paper, we are interested by advanced backward stochastic differential equations (ABSDEs), in a probability space equipped with a Brownian motion and a single jump process, with a jump at time τ. ABSDEs are BSDEs ...

Landslides are the second-most important cause of tsunamis after earthquakes, and their potential for generating large tsunamis depend on the slide process. Among the world's largest submarine landslides is the Storegga ...

In this paper we construct a new type of noise of fractional nature that has a strong regularizing effect on differential equations. We consider an equation with this noise with a highly irregular coefficient. We employ a ...

The problem on identification of a limit of an ordinary differential equation with discontinuous drift that perturbed by a zero-noise is considered in multidimensional case. This problem is a classical subject of stochastic ...

We study congruences of lines Xω defined by a sufficiently general choice of an alternating 3-form ω in n dimensions, as Fano manifolds of index 3 and dimension n-1. These congruences include the G2-variety for n=6 and the ...

Should one rely on a parametric or nonparametric model when analysing a given data set? This classic question cannot be answered by traditional model selection criteria like AIC and BIC, since a nonparametric model has no ...

Let ℓ be a prime and q=pν, where p is a prime different from ℓ. We show that the ℓ–completion of the nth stable homotopy group of spheres is a summand of the ℓ–completion of the (n,0) motivic stable homotopy group of spheres ...

We propose a boundary quotient diagram for right LCM semigroups with property (AR) that generalizes the boundary quotient diagram for N⋊N×. Our approach focuses on two important subsemigroups: the core subsemigroup and the ...

This paper presents an implementation framework for spline spaces over T-meshes (and their d-dimensional analogs). The aim is to share code between the implementations of several spline spaces. This is achieved by reducing ...

We show that a Hilbert scheme of conics on a Fano fourfold double cover of P2×P2 ramified along a divisor of bidegree (2,2) admits a P1-fibration with base being a hyper-Kähler fourfold. We investigate the geometry of such ...

Electricity infrastructure has become a critical element of modern industrial society. In order to model and analyse this infrastructure, identify weaknesses, and optimize performance, one needs to take into account its ...

We consider a scalar conservation law with zero-flux boundary conditions imposed on the boundary of a rectangular multidimensional domain. We study monotone schemes applied to this problem. For the Godunov version of the ...

We propose and investigate a valuation model for the income of selling tradeable green certificates (TGCs) in the Swedish–Norwegian market, formulated as a singular stochastic control problem. Our model takes into account ...

We consider a Navier-Stokes equation in two and three space dimensions subject to periodic boundary conditions and perturbed by a transport type noise. The perturbation is sufficiently smooth in space, but rough in time. ...

In this paper we prove the existence of strong solutions to a SDE with a generalized drift driven by a multidimensional fractional Brownian motion for small Hurst parameters H<1/2. Here the generalized drift is given as ...

Background: Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to compute the hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms has received much attention in the last decade. The usability of these methods depends on the quality of the computations, ...

Stochastic models for forward electricity prices are of great relevance nowadays, given the major structural changes in the market due to the increase of renewable energy in the production mix. In this study, we derive a ...

We lift ambit fields to a class of Hilbert space-valued volatility modulated Volterra processes. We name this class Hambit fields, and show that they can be expressed as a countable sum of weighted real-valued volatility ...

We comment on the discretization of the Dirac equation using finite element spaces of differential forms. In order to treat perturbations by low order terms, such as those arising from electromagnetic fields, we develop ...

Background It has been proposed that future reference genomes should be graph structures in order to better represent the sequence diversity present in a species. However, there is currently no standard ...