Various forms of the viscous force caused by collision-induced parallel viscous stresses within an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma are presented. New forms are proposed for initial value extended MHD codes to capture the “fast” (Braginskii) collisional viscous force effects on short time scales and multi-collisionality regime “residual” viscous forces on collision time scales and longer in axis...

The information retrieval based on speech recognition is an important technique to easy access to large amount of mul-timedia contents including speech. The development of spoken term detection (STD) techniques, which detect a given word or phrase from spoken documents, is widely conducted. This paper proposes a new method of STD based on the vector quantization (VQ). Spoken documents are repre...

Tlusty’s topological analysis of the genetic code suggests ecosystem changes in available metabolic free energy that predated the aerobic transition enabled a punctuated sequence of increasingly complex genetic codes and protein translators. These coevolved via a ‘Cambrian explosion’ until, very early on, the ancestor of the present narrow spectrum of protein machineries became evolutionarily l...

We perform a detailed analysis of the network constituted by the citations in a legal code, we search for hidden structures and properties. The graph associated to the Environmental code has a small-world structure and it is partitioned in several hidden communities of articles that only partially coincide with the organization of the code as given by its table of content. Several articles are ...

We show how programming pearls can be systematically derived via fusion, followed by tupling transformations. By focusing on the elimination of intermediate data structures (fusion) followed by the elimination of redundant calls (tupling), we can systematically realise both space and time e cient algorithms from naive speci cations. We illustrate our approach using a well-known maximum segment ...

Data visualization is important in the context of grid applications, especially when successive refinements are iteratively realized based on intermediate results. We mainly focus on code coupling grid applications, structured as a set of distributed, autonomous, weakly-coupled codes. We consider the case where the codes are able to interact using the abstraction of a shared data space. In prev...

J.C. Rivera (ed.), The Scope and Structure of Civil Codes, Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 32, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7942-6_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract This paper originates in the report submitted to the Intermediate Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which took place in Taiwan in May 2012 under the heading “Scop...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to side-channel key recovery, that combines the low time/memory complexity and noise tolerance of standard (divide and conquer) differential power analysis with the optimal data complexity of algebraic side-channel attacks. Our fundamental contribution for this purpose is to change the way of expressing the problem, from the system of equations used in...

In conventional sparse representations based dictionary learning algorithms, initial dictionaries are generally assumed to be proper representatives of the system at hand. However, this may not be the case, especially in some systems restricted to random initializations. Therefore, a supposedly optimal state-update based on such an improper model might lead to undesired effects that will be con...

Satellite communication (SATCOM) systems have attracted great attention from academic and industrial communities in recent years, and huge amount of data delivery over satellite downlinks is considered as a promising service in emerging 5G networks, such as multimedia broadcasting. Nevertheless, due to intermittent connections from LEO or MEO satellite to earth station, and high dynamic channel...