Non-technical summary Global income inequality and energy consumption are related. High-income households consume more than low-income ones, for different purposes. Here, we explore the global household implications of redistribution. We show that shapes not only inequalities but quantity composition overall demand. Our results call inclusion distribution into system models, as well climate pol...

This paper presents an impulse-based model for n-body collisions with or without friction. In the frictionless case, impulses at all the contacts, initialized from solution of a non-linear system, accumulate over different phases (compression and restitution) tracked through numerical integration. Validation over Newton’s cradle is conducted using vision-based velocity estimation with high accu...

A computational study has been carried out to examine if the metal-free catalyst (1) designed for imine hydrogenation is able to hydrogenate ketones, using the cyclohexanone (3) and its derivatives (4-6) as ketone models. The catalytic cycle includes two major steps: hydrogen activation and hydrogen transfer. The concerted pathway in the hydrogen transfer step is preferred over the stepwise pat...

Within the computer sciences, different subdisciplines have different requirements for software quality and assurance. Additionally, there are different expectations for the ease of development, programming time investment, and time to create and deploy new features. Embedded/real-time computing, web programming, and scientific computing have starkly different software development practices and...

Independent reproducibility is essential to the generation of scientific knowledge. Optimizing experimental protocols to ensure reproducibility is an important aspect of scientific work. Genetic or pharmacological lifespan extensions are generally small compared to the inherent variability in mean lifespan even in isogenic populations housed under identical conditions. This variability makes re...

Repository for a great number of the suspected function runs must often be organized during the realization of numerical global optimization method or program modules testing methods. In this connection the problem of a fastaccess search of required element arises. A way to solve the problem can be found through the organization of an effective data repository, which allows for rapid implementa...

A novel framework for the design and analysis of energy-aware algorithms is presented, centered around a deterministic Bit-level (Boltzmann) Random Access Machine or BRAM model of computing, as well its probabilistic counterpart, the RABRAM . Using this framework, it is shown for the first time that probabilistic algorithms can asymptotically yield savings in the energy consumed, over their det...

The computation of surprise is one factor necessary for the computational detection of creativity in product design. An original computational model of surprise is proposed. A demonstration program was written to demonstrate the model’s validity. An experiment on human subjects was performed to test the program’s accuracy. The results of the experiment are analyzed, the model is assessed, and c...