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The SOC change index, defined as the normalized difference between the actual Soil Organic Carbon and the value assumed at an initial reference year, is here tailored to the RothC carbon model dynamics. It assumes as a baseline the value of the SOC equilibrium under constant environmental… |
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We investigate the effects of high solvated-methane concentration on methane-hydrate nucleation at 250 K and 500 atm. We consider solutions at four levels of methane molar fraction in the initial H2O-CH4 solution, ?CH4 = 0.038, 0.044, 0.052, and 0.058, which are higher than (metastable) bulk… |
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Bartlett's decomposition provides the distributional properties of the elements of the Cholesky factor of $A=G^TG$ where the elements of $G$ are i.i.d. standard Gaussian random variables.
In this paper the most general case where the elements of $G$ have a joint multivariate Gaussian density is… |
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Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is among the most common human systemic autoimmune diseases, affecting approximately 1% of the population worldwide. To date, there is no cure for the disease and current treatments show undesirable side effects. As the disease affects a growing number of… |
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A key ecological parameter for planktonic copepod studies is their encounter rates within the same population as well as with other species. The encounter rate is partly determined by copepod's swimming behaviour and is strongly influenced by turbulence of the surrounding environment. A distinctive… |
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A model problem of the flow under an air-cushion vessel is studied. Two different numerical techniques are used to determine the solution of the free-surface elevation and the wave resistance for a range of Froude number, Reynolds number, value of the pressure applied in the cushion, and depth of… |
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The authors develop an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of Cauchy principal value integrals of oscillatory functions. The method is based on an interpolatory procedure at the zeros of the orthogonal polynomials with respect to a Jacobi weight. A numerically stable procedure is obtained and… |
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The Critical Node Detection Problem (CNDP) consists in finding the set of nodes, defined critical, whose removal maximally degrades the graph. In this work we focus on finding the set of critical nodes whose removal minimizes the pairwise connectivity of a direct graph (digraph). Such problem has… |
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We present a new numerical model to simulate settling trajectories of discretized individual or a mixture of particles of different geometrical shapes in a quiescent fluid and their flow trajectories in a flowing fluid. Simulations unveiled diverse particle settling trajectories as a function of… |
