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Dordrecht2023Nothing New Under the Sun: Novelty Constructs and Measures in Social Studies
The concept of novelty is central to questions of creativity, innovation, and discovery. Despite the prominence in scientific inquiry and everyday discourse, there is a chronic ambiguity over its meaning and a surprising variety of empirical measures, whic ...
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This paper presents explicit solutions for two related non-convex information extremization problems due to Gray and Wyner in the Gaussian case. The first problem is the Gray-Wyner network subject to a sum-rate constraint on the two private links. Here, ou ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022A convex set of robust D—stabilizing controllers using Cauchy's argument principle
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A new approach is presented to obtain a convex set of robust D—stabilizing fixed structure controllers, relying on Cauchy's argument principle. A convex set of D—stabilizing controllers around an initial D—stabilizing controller for a multi-model set is re ...
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020Jamming with Tunable Roughness
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We introduce a new model to study the effect of surface roughness on the jamming transition. By performing numerical simulations, we show that for a smooth surface, the jamming transition density and the contact number at the transition point both increase ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020Non-perturbative probability distribution function for cosmological counts in cells
Sergey Sibiryakov, Mikhail Ivanov
We present a non-perturbative calculation of the 1-point probability distribution function (PDF) for the spherically-averaged matter density field. The PDF is represented as a path integral and is evaluated using the saddle-point method. It factorizes into ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019Cost for a controlled linear KdV equation
Joachim Krieger, Shengquan Xiang
The controllability of the linearized KdV equation with right Neumann control is studied in the pioneering work of Rosier [25]. However, the proof is by contradiction arguments and the value of the observability constant remains unknown, though rich mathem ...
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