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Simulating the G-protein cAMP pathway with a two-compartment reactive lattice gas

Cellular signaling (or signal transduction) is the process by which extracellular signals are converted into cellular responses. Mathematical models of signaling pathways may help understanding their general regulatory principles, as well as the roles of the different components often involved in…

Asymptotic Properties of Sequential Streaming Leveraging Users' Cooperation

We consider a communication system in which a given digital content has to be delivered sequentially at constant rate to a set of users who asynchronously request it according to a Poisson process. Users can retrieve data: 1) from one or more sources that statically store the entire content; and 2…

Relativistic gravity gradiometry

In general relativity, relativistic gravity gradiometry involves the measurement of the relativistic tidal matrix, which is theoretically obtained from the projection of the Riemann curvature tensor onto the orthonormal tetrad frame of an observer. The observer's 4-velocity vector defines its local…

Improving Search Results with Data Mining in a Thematic Search Engine

The problem of obtaining relevant results in web searching has been tackled with several approaches. Although very e0ective techniques are currently used by the most popular search engines when no a priori knowledge on the user's desires beside the search keywords is available, in di0erent settings…

Petrov classification of perturbed spacetimes: the Kasner example

Numerical Analysis of oscillations in a nonconvex problem related to image selective smoothing

We study some numerical properties of a nonconvex variational problem which arises as the continuous limit of a discrete optimization method designed for the smoothing of images with preservation of discontinuities. The functional that has to be minimized fails to attain a minimum value. Instead,…

Continuity properties of solutions to the p-Laplace system

A sharp integrability condition on the right-hand side of the p-Laplace system for all its solutions to be continuous is exhibited. Their uniform continuity is also analyzed and estimates for their modulus of continuity are provided. The relevant estimates are shown to be optimal as the right-hand…

Model independent pre-processing of X-ray powder diffraction profiles

Precise knowledge of X-ray diffraction profile shape is crucial in the investigation of the properties of matter in crystals powder. Line-broadening analysis is the fourth pre-processing step in most of the full powder pattern fitting softwares. The final result of line-broadening analysis strongly…

Godunov-type approximation for a general resonant balance law with large data

We consider the Cauchy problem for the 2 x 2 nonstrictly hyperbolic system [...] For possiblylarge, discontinuous and resonant data, the generalized solution to the Riemann problem is introduced, interaction estimates are carried out using an original change of variables and the convergence of…

A COMPUTATIONAL MODULAR APPROACH TO EVALUATE NOx EMISSIONS AND OZONE PRODUCTION DUE TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC

The societal impact of traffic is a long-standing and complex problem. We focus on the estimation of ground-level ozone production due to vehicular traffic. We propose a comprehensive computational approach combining four consecutive modules: a traffic simulation module, an emission module, a…