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Atomistic models for friction suffer from the severe length- and time-scale restrictions of molecular dynamics. In this paper, a novel approach to quantify the scratching work and the energy associated with plastic activity is used. The approach is combine ...
Recent research works on distributed adaptive networks have inten- sively studied the case where the nodes estimate a common parame- ter vector collaboratively. However, there are many applications that are multitask-oriented in the sense that there are mu ...
Diffusion adaptation techniques based on the least-mean-squares criterion have been proposed for distributed detection of a signal in Gaussian-distributed noise, forgoing the need for a fusion center. However, least-mean-squares solutions are generally non ...
A whole-sediment toxicity test with Myriophyllum aquaticum has been developed by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and standardized within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO; ISO 16191). An international ring-test was performed ...
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2014
Mathematical models of cholera dynamics can not only help in identifying environmental drivers and processes that influence disease transmission, but may also represent valuable tools for the prediction of the epidemiological patterns in time and space as ...
Can the physical knowledge put into hydrological models add information to predictions? Current practise in modelling suggests that this is indeed assumed to be the case, given that physically based models play an important role in science and engineering. ...
The identification and selection of a small set of models that are able to well describe and predict the error signals coming from IMU sensors is of utmost importance to improve the navigation precision of these devices. For this reason, in this paper we p ...
Adaptive networks are suitable for decentralized inference tasks. Recent works have intensively studied distributed optimization problems in the case where the nodes have to estimate a single optimum parameter vector collaboratively. However, there are man ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014
The turbulence observed in the scrape-off-layer of a tokamak is often characterized by intermittent events of bursty nature, a feature which raises concerns about the prediction of heat loads on the physical boundaries of the device. It appears thus necess ...
The problem of mechanical contact is a truly multiscale one. Atomistic effects that violate continuum theory dominate the deformations of contacting asperities, while the interactions between distant asperities occur through long-range elasticity. This the ...