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Tailoring boundary geometry to optimize heat transport in turbulent convection

By tailoring the geometry of the upper boundary in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection we manipulate the boundary layer-interior flow interaction, and examine the heat transport using the lattice Boltzmann method. For fixed amplitude and varying boundary wavelength., we find that the exponent beta…

THE ANTITRIANGULAR FACTORIZATION OF SYMMETRIC MATRICES

Indefinite symmetric matrices occur in many applications, such as optimization, least squares problems, partial differential equations, and variational problems. In these applications one is often interested in computing a factorization of the indefinite matrix that puts into evidence the inertia…

Dixon's extended bodies and weak gravitational waves

General relativity considers Dixon’s theory as the standard theory to deal with the motion of extended bodies in a given gravitational background. We discuss here the features of the “reaction” of an extended body to the passage of a weak gravitational wave. We find that the body acquires a dipolar…

Heterogeneity of prodromal Parkinson symptoms in siblings of Parkinson disease patients

A prodromal phase of Parkinson's disease (PD) may precede motor manifestations by decades. PD patients' siblings are at higher risk for PD, but the prevalence and distribution of prodromal symptoms are unknown. The study objectives were (1) to assess motor and non-motor features estimating…

Travelling wave solutions of a parabolic-hyperbolic system for contact inhibition of cell-growth

We consider a cell growth model involving a nonlinear system of partial differential equations which describes the growth of two types of cell populations with contact inhibition. Numerical experiments show that there is a parameter regime where, for a large class of initial data, the large time…

Growth Arrest-Specific Transcript 5 associated snoRNA levels are related to p53 expression and DNA damage in colorectal cancer

Background: The growth arrest-specific transcript 5 gene (GAS5) encodes a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) and hosts a number of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) that have recently been implicated in multiple cellular processes and cancer. Here, we investigate the relationship between DNA damage, p53, and…

Time-varying Riemann solvers for conservation laws on networks

Quiet ionospheric d-region (Qiondr) model based on vlf/lf observations

The ionospheric D-region affects propagation of electromagnetic waves including ground-based signals and satellite signals during its intensive disturbances. Consequently, the modeling of electromagnetic propagation in the D-region is important in many technological domains. One of sources of…

Bridging InSAR and GPS Tomography: A New Differential Geometrical Constraint

The integration of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and GPS tomography techniques for the estimation of the 3-D distribution of atmosphere refractivity is discussed. A methodology to use the maps of the temporal changes of precipitable water vapor (PWV) provided by InSAR as a…

IMPROVED APPROXIMATION OF MAXIMUM VERTEX COVERAGE PROBLEM ON BIPARTITE GRAPHS

Given a simple undirected graph G and a positive integer s, the maximum vertex coverage problem (MVC) is the problem of finding a set U of s vertices of G such that the number of edges having at least one endpoint in U is as large as possible. The problem is NP-hard even in bipartite graphs, as…