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 ...

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 ...

Based on a study of isolated restrained columns, and two-column panel frames, the often complicated mechanics of moment formations in the members are studdied using elastic second-order theory for the purpose of establishing ...

Columns in sway frames may be divided into laterally ``supporting (bracing) sway columns'', which can resist applied lateral shears, and ``supported (braced) sway columns'', which must have negative shears from the rest ...

We compute the 1-line of stable homotopy groups of motivic spheres over fields of characteristic not two in terms of hermitian and Milnor K-groups. This is achieved by solving questions about convergence and differentials ...

We study optimal control of stochastic Volterra integral equations (SVIE) with jumps by using Hida-Malliavin calculus. We give conditions under which there exist unique solutions of such equations. Then we prove both a ...

Sea ice is highly complex due to the inhomogeneity of the physical properties (e.g. temperature and salinity) as well as the permeability and mixture of water and a matrix of sea ice and/or sea ice crystals. Such complexity ...

Background: Omics data can be very informative in survival analysis and may improve the prognostic ability of classical models based on clinical risk factors for various diseases, for example breast cancer. Recent research ...

In this paper, we present and analyze a new mixed finite element formulation of a general family of quasi-static multiple-network poroelasticity (MPET) equations. The MPET equations describe flow and deformation in an ...

We develop cointegration for multivariate continuous-time stochastic processes, both in finite and infinite dimension. Our definition and analysis are based on factor processes and operators mapping to the space of prices ...

We prove that the integral Hodge conjecture holds for 1-cycles on irreducible holomorphic symplectic varieties of K3[n]-type and of generalized Kummer type. As an application, we give a new proof of the integral Hodge ...

Clicking data, which exists in abundance and contains objective user preference information, is widely used to produce personalized recommendations in web-based applications. Current popular recommendation algorithms, ...

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 ...

Current theories suggest that waste solutes are cleared from the brain via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow, driven by pressure pulsations of possibly both cardiac and respiratory origin. In this study, we explored the ...

Coupled multiphysics problems often give rise to interface conditions naturally formulated in fractional Sobolev spaces. Here, both positive and negative fractionality are common. When designing efficient solvers for ...

An inherent problem with microfluidic filters is the tendency to clog, especially when applied to cells due to their geometrical complexity, deformability, and tendency to adhere to surfaces. In this work, we handle live ...

In [IMA J. Numer. Anal., 29 (2009), pp. 24--42], Nielsen, Tveito, and Hackbusch study the operator generated by using the inverse of the Laplacian as the preconditioner for second order elliptic PDEs $-\nabla \cdot (k(x) ...

The posterior predictive p value (ppp) was invented as a Bayesian counterpart to classical p values. The methodology can be applied to discrepancy measures involving both data and parameters and can, hence, be targeted to ...

We present a Bayesian model for multi-resolution component separation for cosmic microwave background (CMB) applications based on Wiener filtering and/or computation of constrained realizations, extending a previously ...

The notion of a generalized scale emerged in recent joint work with Afsar–Brownlowe–Larsen on equilibrium states on C*-algebras of right Least Common Multiple (LCM) monoids, where it features as the key datum for the ...

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 ...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is often used in anomaly detection and statistical process control tasks. For bivariate normal data, we prove that the minor projection (the least varying projection) of the PCA‐rotated ...

Let G be an undirected simple graph. The signless Laplacian spread of G is defined as the maximum distance of pairs of its signless Laplacian eigenvalues. This paper establishes some new bounds, both lower and upper, for ...

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 ...

Volterra processes appear in several applications ranging from turbulence to energy finance where they are used in the modelling of e.g.temperatures and wind and the related financial derivatives. Volterra processes are ...

Excitable biological cells, such as cardiac muscle cells, can exhibit complex patterns of oscillations such as spiking and bursting. Moreover, it is well known that an enhancement in calcium currents may yield certain kind ...

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 ...

A particular class of Partial differential Equations (PDEs) is the hyperbolic conservation laws which play an instrumental role in numerous real life applications such as synchronization of cardiac pacemakers, traffic flow ...

Kinetic simulation results are presented to study the response of multi-Needle Langmuir Probes of the type used on many satellites. Simulations of isolated probes are used to parametrize the current collected as a function ...

We consider the Navier–Stokes system in two and three space dimensions perturbed by transport noise and subject to periodic boundary conditions. The noise arises from perturbing the advecting velocity field by space–time-dependent ...

Objective. Mechanistic modeling of neurons is an essential component of computational neuroscience that enables scientists to simulate, explain, and explore neural activity. The conventional approach to simulation of ...

Two stationary and non-negative processes that are based on continuous-time autoregressive moving average (CARMA) processes are discussed. First, we consider a generalization of Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) processes. Next, ...

We present a new method for performing global redistributions of multidimensional arrays essential to parallel fast Fourier (or similar) transforms. Traditional methods use standard all-to-all collective communication of ...

We consider a stochastic hydroelectric power plant management problem in discrete time with arbitrary scenario space. The inflow to the system is some stochastic process, representing the precipitation to each dam. The ...

An elastic sheet that deforms near a solid substrate in a viscous fluid is a situation relevant to various dynamical processes in biology, geophysics, and engineering. Here, we study the relaxation dynamics of an elastic ...

Cox’s proportional hazards regression model is the standard method for modelling censored life-time data with covariates. In its standard form, this method relies on a semiparametric proportional hazards structure, leaving ...

The Neumann problem of linear elasticity is singular with a kernel formed by the rigid motions of the body. There are several tricks that are commonly used to obtain a nonsingular linear system. However, they often cause ...

In this paper we study mean–variance hedging under the -expectation framework. Our analysis is carried out by exploiting the -martingale representation theorem and the related probabilistic tools, in a continuous financial ...

Several cardiovascular diseases are caused from localised abnormal blood flow such as in the case of stenosis or aneurysms. Prevailing theories propose that the development is caused by abnormal wall shear stress in focused ...

This paper studies a duopoly investment model with uncertainty. There are two alternative irreversible investments. The first firm to invest gets a monopoly benefit for a specified period of time. The second firm to invest ...

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 ...

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 develop a theory of crossed products by actions of Hecke pairs (G, Γ), motivated by applications in non-abelian C ∗ -duality. Our approach gives back the usual crossed product construction whenever G/Γ is a group and ...

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 ∗ ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We introduce a new majorization order for classes (sets) of matrices which generalizes several existing notions of matrix majorization. Roughly, the notion says that every matrix in one class is majorized by some matrix ...

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

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 ...

We give a short proof of the convergence to the boundary of Riemann maps on varying domains. Our proof provides a uniform approach to several ad-hoc constructions that have recently appeared in the literature.

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 this ...

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 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, ...

We model the logarithm of the spot price of electricity with a normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) process and the wind speed and wind power production with two Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes. In order to reproduce the correlation ...

We prove uniqueness of representations of Nica–Toeplitz algebras associated to product systems of C∗-correspondences over right LCM semigroups by applying our previous abstract uniqueness results developed for C∗-precategories. ...

A simplicial set is said to be non-singular if its non-degenerate simplices are embedded. Let sSet denote the category of simplicial sets. We prove that the full subcategory nsSet whose objects are the non-singular simplicial ...

The continuous-time version of Kyle [(1985) Continuous auctions and insider trading, Econometrica53 (6), 1315–1335.] developed by Back [(1992) Insider trading in continuous time, The Review of Financial Studies5 (3), ...

We solve affirmatively the homotopy limit problem for (effective) -theory over fields of finite virtual cohomological dimension. Our solution uses the motivic slice filtration and the first motivic Hopf map.

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 ...

The multistate reliability theory was applied to the network real-time kinematic (NRTK) data processing chain, where the qualities of the network corrections, baseline residuals, and the associated variance-covariance ...

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 ...