The role of Bose-Einstein correlations in a widely discussed intermittency phenomenon is reviewed. In particular, it is shown that particle correlations of different origin are better displayed when analysed as functions of appropriately chosen variables. Correspondingly, if the shape of Bose-Einstein contribution is chosen to be Gaussian in 3momentum transferred, it provides the power-like law...

A hydromagnetic Rankine-Hugoniot model for propellant acceleration in gas-fed pulsed plasma thrusters is presented and verified against available experimental data. Building on early work by Cheng et al [Nuclear Fusion 10, pp. 305-317, 1970], the snowplow mode is compared to a detonation process and it is shown here that a competing “second” mode, which was observed independently in gas-fed pul...

Support vector machines (SVMs) can be interpreted as a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of a model’s parameters, for an appropriately chosen likelihood function. In the standard formulation for SVM classification and regression problems, the prior distribution on the weight vector is implicitly assumed to be a multidimensional Gaussian with zero mean and identity covariance matrix. In this...