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Novel design of drug delivery in stented artery: a numerical comparative study

Implantation of drug eluting stents following percutaneous trans- luminal angioplasty has revealed a well established technique for treating occlusions caused by the atherosclerotic plaque. However, due to the risk of vascular re-occlusion, other alternative therapeutic strategies of drug delivery…

Some Remarks about the Hilbert Transform

In this paper we present som eremarks about the Hilbert transform on the real line and its numerical approximation, in connection with its application in signal processing.

Pattern formation in liquid-vapor systems under periodic potential and shear

In this paper the phase behavior and pattern formation in a sheared nonideal fluid under a periodic potential is studied. An isothermal two-dimensional formulation of a lattice Boltzmann scheme for a liquid-vapor system with the van der Waals equation of state is presented and validated. Shear is…

Chirplet approximation of band-limited, real signals made easy

In this paper we present algorithms for approximating real band-limited signals by multiple Gaussian Chirps. These algorithms do not rely on matching pursuit ideas. They are hierarchial and, at each stage, the number of terms in a given approximation depends only on the number of positive-valued…

Near-critical reflection of internal waves

Internal waves describe the (linear) response of an incompressible sta- bly stratified fluid to small perturbations. The inclination of their group velocity with respect to the vertical is completely determined by their frequency. Therefore the reflection on a sloping boundary cannot follow…

Modeling the European Central Bank official rate: a stochastic approach

On the universality of spiral waves

Spiral waves appear in many different contexts: excitable biological tissues, fungi and amoebae colonies, chemical reactions, growing crystals, fluids and gas eddies as well as in galaxies. While the existing theories explain the presence of spirals in terms of nonlinear parabolic equations, in…

Penetration of the blood-brain barrier and the anti-tumour effect of a novel PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelle drug delivery system

Effective treatment of glioma and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases is hindered by the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A novel nano-delivery vehicle system composed of PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelles was developed to cross the BBB for CNS treatment. We have shown that doxorubicin (…

Modelling and numerical sensitivity study on the conjecture of a subglacial lake at Amundsenisen, Svalbard

We present a new numerical procedure to assess the plausibility of a subglacial lake in case of relative small/moderate extension and surging temperate icefield. In addition to the flat signal from Ground Penetrating Radar remote survey of the area, early indication of a likely subglacial lake,…

Effective band-limited extrapolation relying on Slepian series and $\ell^1$ regularization

We consider a rather simple algorithm to address the fascinating field of numerical extrapolation of (analytic) band-limited functions. It relies on two main elements: namely, the lower frequencies are treated by projecting the known part of the signal to be extended onto the space generated by ``…