The study of resting-state networks provides an informative paradigm for understanding the functional architecture of the human brain. Although investigating specialized resting-state networks has led to significant advances in our understanding of brain organization, the manner in which information is integrated across these networks remains unclear. Here, we have developed and validated a dat...

In this paper we investigate the rate of convergence of the optimal value function of an innnite horizon discounted optimal control problem as the discount rate tends to zero. Using the Integration Theorem for Laplace transformations we provide conditions on averaged functionals along suitable trajectories yielding at most quadratic pointwise convergence. Under appropriate controllability assum...

We study whether financial openness facilitates the economic integration of formerly centrally planned economies with the EU-15. Two dimensions of economic integration are considered: cross-country convergence of per-capita incomes and bilateral trade in goods and services. We find that more financially open economies effectively catch-up faster and trade more with the EU-15. These integration-...

This special issue addresses the question of how to understand the civic turn within immigrant integration in the West towards programs and instruments, public discourses and political intentions, which aim to condition, incentivize, and shape through socialization immigrants into 'citizens'. Empirically, it focuses on the less studied Scandinavian cases of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In this ...

We study high dimensional integration in the quantum model of computation. We develop quantum algorithms for integration of functions from Sobolev classes W r p ([0, 1] ) and analyze their convergence rates. We also prove lower bounds which show that the proposed algorithms are, in many cases, optimal within the setting of quantum computing. This extends recent results of Novak on integration o...

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Monte Carlo integration of multi-dimensional Gaussian functions is widely applicable in the statistical analysis of functions of many variables, and such analysis is encountered in many fields of science. In this write-up, we compare two Monte Carlo integration algorithms from the Cuba library, Vegas, and Suave, in terms of convergence time and accuracy of evaluation of a multi-dimensional Gaus...

A White Paper discussing the productivity increase to be gained by the continued convergence and integration of “data-centric” and “document-centric” technologies.

The lack of consistence and convergence is often considered as a major drawback of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Here, we analysis two errors introduced by typical conservative SPH approximations of the gradient of a scalar field: one (smoothing error) is due to smoothing of the gradient by an integration associated with a kernel function; the other (integration error) is due to approx...

A general uniform convergence theorem for numerical integration of Cauchy principal value integrals is proved. Seven special instances of this theorem are given as corollaries.