Major event organisers apply for government financial support. This paper investigates the selection process of events in Norway based on empirical data from 2012 to 2018. In this period, 11 were granted NOK 476 million (€47.7 million), whereas five rejected. The funding was highly concentrated, with 92% being distributed four events. Although Norwegian positively supports major events, a polic...

The Weather Radar Center (WRC) of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has been providing three-dimensional radar wind fields based on “WInd Synthesis System using Doppler Measurements (WISSDOM)” in real time since February 2019. Its accuracy is significantly affected by quality velocity, such as velocity aliasing. For de-aliasing dual-pulse repetition frequency (dual-PRF) technique co...

Many combinatorial Hopf algebras H in the literature are the functorial image of a linearized Hopf monoid H. That is, H = K(H) or H = K(H). Unlike the functor K, the functor K applied to H may not preserve the antipode of H. In this case, one needs to consider the larger Hopf monoid L×H to getH = K(H) = K(L×H) and study the antipode in L × H. One of the main results in this paper provides a can...

We present two redesigns to robustify backstepping control laws against dynamic uncertainties at the input of the plant. In the first redesign we construct a passivating control law from a CLF obtained by backstepping. The second redesign is a simplification of the first, useful for high order systems. We also compare the stability margins of the two main versions of backstepping: cancelation a...

Background: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese professional basketball's B. League postponed its regular season in late February 2020, which was then resumed mid-March, before being suspended again only after one weekend. Eventually, remaining games (173 Division 1 and 117 2) all playoff were cancelled. Purpose: This study mainly aimed examine basketball players' state of mental health such...

The construction of effective field theories describing M-theory compactified on S1/Z2 is revisited, and new insights into the parameters of the theory are explained. Particularly, the web of constraints which follow from supersymmetry and anomaly cancelation is argued to be more rich than previously understood. In contradistinction to the lore on the subject, a consistent classical theory desc...

The performance of spatial multiplexing systems with linear minimum-mean-squared-error receivers is investigated in ad hoc networks. It is shown that single-stream transmission is preferable over multi-stream transmission, due to the weaker interference powers from the strongest interferers remaining after interference-cancelation. This result is obtained by new exact closed-form expressions we...

We consider the problem of Newtonian singularity in the wide class of higher derivative gravity models, including the ones which are renormalizable and superrenormalizable at the quantum level. The simplest version of the singularity-free theory has four derivatives and is pretty well-known. We argue that in all cases of local higherderivative theories, when the poles of the propagator are real...

This article addresses the problem of energy and code allocation to many users accessing, under spreading-based nonorthogonal multiple access, a wireless node set up with successive interference cancellation architecture aided by redundancy-check error control. As an application, we consider asynchronous access delay-tolerant satellite system, where employ finite-length channel codes are subjec...