Article history: Received 29 January 2017 Received in revised form 14 June 2017 Accepted 25 June 2017 Available online 28 June 2017

Neuronavigation systems are usually subject to inaccuracy due to intraoperative changes like brain shift or tumor resection. In order to correct for these deformations a biomechanical model of the brain is proposed. Not only elastic tissues, but also fluids are modeled, since an important volume of the head contains cerebrospinal fluid, which does not behave like soft tissues. Unlike other appr...

It is proved that the scattering amplitude known at a fixed frequency, a fixed direction of the incident plane wave and all directions of the scattered wave in a solid angle, however small, determine uniquely the shape of a strictly convex obstacle with a smooth but not analytic boundary on which the Dirichlet boundary condition is assumed.

A theory of random walks on the mapping class group and its non-elementary subgroups is developed. We prove convergence of sample paths in the Thurston compact-iication and show that the space of projective measured foliations with the corresponding harmonic measure can be identiied with the Poisson boundary of random walks. The methods are based on an analysis of the asymptotic geometry of Tei...

Numerical minimization of the euclidean action of the two-dimensional abelian Higgs model is used to construct periodic instantons, the euclidean field configurations with two turning points describing transitions between the vicinities of topologically distinct vacua. Periodic instantons are found at any energy (up to the sphaleron energy Esp h ) and for a wide range of parameters of the theor...

We investigated human learning and generalization of three novel category structures based on eight exemplars in a continuous (9x9) stimulus space. Each category requires attention to both dimensions, but they differ in their organization. Critically, all three category types are matched on withinand between-category exemplar distances. The first category structure conforms to a condensation or...

‎The spectral analysis of two classes of third order boundary value problems is investigated‎. ‎For every positive integer $m$ we construct two classes of regular third order boundary value problems with at most $2m+1$‎ ‎eigenvalues‎, ‎counting multiplicity‎. ‎These kinds of finite spectrum results are previously known only for even order boundary value problems‎.

Using a system of axioms among with a modified definition of boundary on the basis of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, we formulate an inductive structure for the dimension of fuzzy spaces which has been defined by Coker. This new definition of boundary allows to characterize an intuitionistic fuzzy clopen set as a set with zero boundary. Also, some critical properties and applications are establ...

A collocation method with the modified equilibrium on line method (ELM) forimposition of Neumann and Robin boundary conditions is presented for solving the two-dimensionalacoustical problems. In the modified ELM, the governing equations are integrated over the lines onthe Neumann (Robin) boundary instead of the Neumann (Robin) boundary condition equations. Inother words, integration domains are...