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Numerical results for kinetic and thermal energy dissipation rates in bubbly Rayleigh-Bénard convection are reported. Bubbles have a twofold effect on the flow: on the one hand, they absorb or release heat to the surrounding liquid phase, thus tending to decrease the temperature differences… |
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Advanced age is the major risk factor for idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), but to date the biological relationship between PD and ageing remains elusive. Here we describe the rationale and the design of the H2020 funded project "PROPAG-AGEING", whose aim is to characterize the contribution of… |
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We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of the strong maximum principle in one space dimension. |
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A compression tool for satellite based imagery of the earth's land and atmosphere is presented. Orthogonal wavelet filters are adopted for this purpose. The ability of the technique to compress images has been applied to AVHRR images of cloud fields and the earth's surface. Compression by a factor… |
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The visual quality evaluation is one of the fundamental challenging problems in image processing. It plays a central role in the shaping, implementation, optimization, and testing of many methods. The existing image quality assessment methods centered mainly on images altered by common distortions… |
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Even though the Hartley-entropy-based contrast function guarantees an unmixing local minimum, the reported nonsmooth optimization techniques that minimize this nondifferentiable function encounter computational bottlenecks. Toward this, Powell's derivative-free optimization method has been extended… |
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This paper deals with the modeling of social competition, possibly resulting in the onset of extreme conflicts. More precisely, we discuss models describing the interplay between individual competition for wealth distribution that, when coupled with political stances coming from support or… |
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According to the European Charter for Researchers «all researchers should ensure [...] that the results of their research are disseminated and exploited, e.g. communicated, transferred into other research settings or, if appropriate, commercialised ...». Therefore, it's part of the researchers'… |
