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Amer Geophysical Union2013

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Avalanches can exhibit many different flow regimes from powder clouds to slush flows. Flow regimes are largely controlled by the properties of the snow released and entrained along the path. Recent investigations showed the temperature of the moving snow t ...

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Scaling of conductivity and Young’s modulus in replicated microcellular materials

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Scaling exponents for the conductivity and stiffness of replicated microcellular materials exceed commonly predicted values of 1 and 2. We show here that this is caused by the fact that, in replicated microcellular materials, the solid architecture varies ...

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We describe certain extremality properties for Gallager's reliability function E-0 for binary input symmetric DMCs. In particular, we show that amongst such DMC's whose E-0(rho(1)) has a given value for a given rho(1), the BEC and BSC have the largest and ...

Ieee2012

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Springer2011

On identification methods for direct data-driven controller tuning

Alireza Karimi, Klaske van Heusden

In non-iterative data-driven controller tuning, a set of measured input/output data of the plant is used directly to identify the optimal controller that minimizes some control criterion. This approach allows the design of fixed-order controllers, but lead ...

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Privacy-sensitive recognition of group conversational context with sociometers

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2011

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In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the stories of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by me ...

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On inconsistent entities. A reply to Colyvan

Francesco Piazza

In a recent article M. Colyvan has argued that Quinean forms of scientific realism are faced with an unexpected upshot. Realism concerning a given class of entities, along with this route to realism, can be vindicated by running an indispensability argumen ...

2010

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