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Scattering of particles by radiation fields: a comparative analysis

The features of the scattering of massive neutral particles propagating in the field of a gravitational plane wave are compared with those characterizing their interaction with an electromagnetic radiation field. The motion is geodesic in the former case, whereas in the case of an electromagnetic…

Long-time behaviour of the approximate solution to quasi-convolution Volterra equations

The integral representation of some biological phenomena consists in Volterra equations whose kernels involve a convolution term plus a non convolution one. Some significative applications arise in linearised models of cell migration and collective motion, as described in Di Costanzo et al. (…

Minimum Makespan Task Sequencing with Multiple Shared Resources

Nel presente lavoro si studia lo scheduling nelle celle robotizzate in presenza di un braccio meccanico che deve eseguire operazioni di load, process e unload su macchine a controllo numerico. Viene studiata la complessità del problema quando l'obiettivo è la minimizzazione del tempo di…

Descent Algorithms on Oblique Manifold for Source Adaptive ICA Contrast

A Riemannian manifold optimization strategy is proposed to facilitate the relaxation of the orthonormality constraint in a more natural way in the course of performing independent component analysis (ICA) that employs a mutual information-based source-adaptive contrast function. Despite the…

Discrete fluidization of dense monodisperse emulsions in neutral wetting microchannels

The rheology of pressure-driven flows of two-dimensional dense monodisperse emulsions in neutral wetting microchannels is investigated by means of mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann simulations, capable of handling large collections of droplets, in the order of several hundreds. The simulations reveal…

A lower semi-continuity result for polyconvex functionals in SBV

We prove a semi-continuity theorem for an integral functional made up by a polyconvex energy and a surface term. Our result extends a well-known result by Ball to the BV framework.

Jefferey-Hamel flow of power-law fluid for exponent values close to the critical value

ALIASING AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL WELL-BALANCED FOR DRIFT-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS ON SQUARE GRIDS

A notion of "2D well-balanced" for drift-diffusion is proposed. Exactness at steady-state, typical in 1D, is weakened by aliasing errors when deriving "truly 2D" numerical fluxes from local Green's function. A main ingredient for proving that such a property holds is the optimality of the…

OpenMP parallelization of agent-based models

Signalling pathway database usability: lessons learned

BACKGROUND: issues and limitations related to accessibility, understandability and ease of use of signalling pathway databases may hamper or divert research workflow, leading, in the worst case, to the generation of confusing reference frameworks and misinterpretation of experimental results. In an…