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A note on relaxation approximations in lattice kinetic theory

Momentum recoil in the relativistic two-body problem: Higher-order tails

In the description of the relativistic two-body interaction, together with the effects of energy and angular momentum losses due to the emission of gravitational radiation, one has to take into account also the loss of linear momentum, which is responsible for the recoil of the center-of-mass of…

A diffusion equation for the density of the ratio of two jointly distributed Gaussian variables and the exponential analysis problem

It is shown that the density of the ratio of two random variables with the same variance and joint Gaussian density satisfies a nonstationary diffusion equation. Implications of this result for adaptive kernel density estimation of the condensed density of the generalized eigenvalues of a random…

CCl4 distribution derived from MIPAS ESA v7 data: intercomparisons, trend, and lifetime estimation

Atmospheric emissions of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) are regulated by the Montreal Protocol due to its role as a strong ozone-depleting substance. The molecule has been the subject of recent increased interest as a consequence of the so-called "mystery of CCl4", the discrepancy between atmospheric…

An image segmentation variational model with free discontinuities and contour curvature

We introduce a functional for image segmentation which takes into account the transparencies (or shadowing) and the occlusions between objects located at different depths in space. By minimizing the functional, we try to reconstruct a piecewise smooth approximation of the input image, the contours…

A Stk4 -Foxp3-p65 transcriptional complex promotes Treg cell activation and homeostasis.

The molecular programs involved in regulatory T (Treg) cell activation and homeostasis remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that T cell receptor (TCR) signaling in Treg cells induces the nuclear translocation of serine/threonine kinase 4 (Stk4), leading to the formation of an Stk4-NF-?B…

Diffuse cohesive energy in plasticity and fracture

Validation of community robustness

The large amount of work on community detection and its applications leaves unaddressed one important question: the statistical validation of the results. A methodology is presented that is able to clearly detect if the community structure found by some algorithms is statistically significant or is…

Mesoscopic modeling of a two-phase flow in the presence of boundaries: The contact angle

We present a mesoscopic model, based on the Boltzmann equation, for the interaction between a solid wall and a nonideal fluid. We present an analytic derivation of the contact angle in terms of the surface tension between the liquid-gas, the liquid-solid, and the gas-solid phases. We study the…

Semi-automated socio-anthropologic analysis of the medical discourse on rheumatoid arthritis: potential impact on public health

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