We present a method of analysing the correlated X-ray and optical/UV variability in X-ray binaries, using the observed time delays between the X-ray driving lightcurves and their reprocessed optical echoes. This allows us to determine the distribution of reprocessing sites within the binary. We model the time-delay transfer functions by simulating the distribution of reprocessing regions, using...

Many processes in atmosphere-ocean science develop multiscale temporal and spatial patterns, with complex underlying dynamics and time-dependent external forcings. Because of the possible advances in our understanding and prediction of climate phenomena, extracting that variability empirically from incomplete observations is a problem of wide contemporary interest. Here, we present a technique ...

The F-value distribution in a batch retort processing of in-pack conduction heating foods resulting from the variability of four processing factors (initial temperature, heating time, headspace and external heat transfer coecient) was determined by mathematical modelling. Three hundred combinations were generated from normally distributed values for each factor, following the Monte Carlo appro...

In their day-to-day activities human beings are constantly generating behavior, such as pointing, grasping or verbal reports, on the basis of visible target locations. The question arises how the brain represents target locations. One possibility is that the brain represents them metrically, i.e. in terms of distance and direction. Another equally plausible possibility is that the brain represe...

The computational method of constrained constructive optimization (CCO) has been generalized in two important respects: (1) arterial model trees are now grown within a convex, three-dimensional piece of tissue and (2) terminal ̄ow variability has been incorporated into the model to account for the heterogeneity of blood ̄ow observed in real vascular beds. Although no direct information from top...

This article provides an overview of high-pressure die casting (HPDC)-related research undertaken at the EPSRC Future LiME Hub between 2015–2022. The project aimed to identify cause variability in tensile ductility die-cast structures, and develop novel processing techniques address this issue. Variability was related size large pores non-metallic inclusions. It proposed that these inclusions f...