"The aim of this paper is to develop a probability model describing the variation in...total out-migration [using] micro-level data. The parameters involved in the models are estimated with the help of [the] method of moment, proportion of zeroth cell and one'th cell respectively, [and] the suitability of [the] model [is] tested through observed demographic survey data [for India]."

Nonadditive composition rules for several physical quantities are treated in thermodynamics. It is argued that the zeroth law defines the existence of their additive forms, the formal logarithms. A further principle, the universal thermostat independence leads to a particular formal logarithm, equivalent to Tsallis entropy Sq. We connect q with generalized susceptibilities of the thermostat.

In this work we address the problem of convex optimization in a multi-agent setting where objective is to minimize mean local cost functions whose derivatives are not available (e.g. black-box models). Moreover agents can only communicate with neighbors according connected network topology. Zeroth-order (ZO) has recently gained increasing attention federated learning and scenarios exploiting fi...

Bi-adjoint scalars are helpful in studying properties of color/kinematics duality and the double copy, which relates scattering amplitudes gauge gravity theories. Here we study bi-adjoint from a worldline perspective. We show how global $G \times \tilde G$ symmetry group may be realized by degrees freedom. The action gives rise to vertex operators, compared similar ones describing coupling fiel...

This highly interdisciplinary project extends previous work in combat modeling and in control-theoretic descriptions of decision-making human factors in complex activities. A previous paper has established the first theory of the statistical mechanics of combat (SMC), developed using modern methods of statistical mechanics, baselined to empirical data gleaned from the National Training Center (...

The interception of two spherical particles with arbitrary size in an infinite linear ambient Stokes flow is considered. The particle surfaces allow for slip according to the Navier–Maxwell–Basset law relating the shear stress to the tangential velocity. At any instant, the flow is computed in a frame of reference with origin at the centre of one particle using a cylindrical polar coordinate sy...

In this paper we consider distributed optimization problems over a multi-agent network, where each agent can only partially evaluate the objective function, and it is allowed to exchange messages with its immediate neighbors. Differently from all existing works on distributed optimization, our focus is given to optimizing a class of difficult non-convex problems, and under the challenging setti...