Rgobservations from four continents: inverse- and forward-modelling experiments

ILU and IUL factorizations obtained from forward and backward factored approximate inverse algorithms

In this paper‎, ‎an efficient dropping criterion has been used to compute the IUL factorization obtained from Backward Factored APproximate INVerse (BFAPINV) and ILU factorization obtained from Forward Factored APproximate INVerse (FFAPINV) algorithms‎. ‎We use different drop tolerance parameters to compute the preconditioners‎. ‎To study the effect of such a dropping on the quality of the ILU ...

Betrayal Aversion on Four Continents

Due to betrayal aversion, people take risks less willingly when the agent of uncertainty is another person rather than nature. Individuals in four countries (Brazil, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) confronted either a binary-choice trust game or a risky decision offering the same payoffs and probabilities. Risk acceptance was calibrated by asking individuals their “...

Forward and inverse modelling approaches for prediction of light stimulus from electrophysiological response in plants

In this paper, system identification approach has been adopted to develop a novel dynamical model for describing the relationship between light as an environmental stimulus and the electrical response as the measured output for a bay leaf (Laurus nobilis) plant. More specifically, the target is to predict the characteristics of the input light stimulus (in terms of on–off timing, duration and i...

Forward and Inverse

Chapter 1 the Intimacies of Four Continents

My study investigates the often obscured connections between the emergence of Eu ro pean liberalism, settler colonialism in the Americas, the transatlantic African slave trade, and the East Indies and China trades in the late eigh teenth and early nineteenth centuries. In Cuban Counterpoint (1940), Fernando Ortiz described " peoples from all four quarters of the globe " who labored in the " new...