Problem Statement Gas distribution modelling with a mobile robot in uncontrolled environments is a challenging field of research. This is mainly due to the chaotic nature of the dispersed gas that is affected by the turbulent features of the wind. We propose a statistical method to build two-dimensional gas distribution maps that takes into consideration the influence of wind in the dispersion ...

We have investigated the performance of eight popular density functionals, four of which are "standard" functionals not including dispersion (B3LYP, BP86, PBE, and TPSS) and four of which have been constructed to account for dispersion (B97D, wB97XD, M06, and M06L), in reproducing 18 molecular structures derived from single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments on ruthenium-based olefin metathe...

This project combines linguistic and statistical information to develop a term extraction tool for Basque. Being Basque an agglutinative and highly inflected language, the treatment of morphosyntactic information is vital. In addition, due to late unification process of the language, texts present more elevated term dispersion than in a highly normalized language. The result is a semiautomatic ...

A method to improve model based diagnosis for the air path of a truck engine is presented. Originally, inaccuracies in both the volumetric efficiency static model and sensors limited the diagnosis performances. Statistical charts built from truck operational data were tested in order to reduce the overall residual dispersion. Data taken from two different trucks working in various operating con...

We develop a statistical model to study all the relevant phenomena that can give rise to an anomalous intensity saturation in the propagation of incoherent pulses in a laser amplifier. The interplay among diffraction, self-focusing, group-velocity dispersion, gain narrowing, and gain saturation is investigated. Changes in the temporal and spatial characteristics of the pulses are shown. © 1998 ...

The shell model of atomic polarizability is generalized to include a statistical distribution of shell states for each instantaneous configuration of the cores. Effective Hamiltonians for motions of the cores are derived for both quantum and classical descriptions of the shells. This extends the shell model into a formalism useful for molecular -dynamics. The fluctuations of the shell positions...

Probabilistic modeling is cyclical: we specify a model, infer its posterior, and evaluate its performance. Evaluation drives the cycle, as we revise our model based on how it performs. This requires a metric. Traditionally, predictive accuracy prevails. Yet, predictive accuracy does not tell the whole story. We propose to evaluate a model through posterior dispersion. The idea is to analyze how...

The optical rotatory dispersion of five individual specimens of Bence-Jones proteins was investigated, including the far ultraviolet spectral zone. The Mo5tt constants (bo) were determined, and either low positive or low negative values were found. The rotatory dispersion curves of all specimens had flat negative minima at 220 to 235 rnp and positive maxima at 204 to 212 rnp. Denaturation with ...

An analytical solution for the transient two-dimensional atmospheric pollutant dispersion problem is presented. The approach used in this problem utilizes the double GITT (Generalized Integral Transform Technique), the Laplace Transform and the matrix diagonalization. Furthermore, mathematical filters are used due to the existence of non-homogeneous boundary conditions. The results we obtained ...

A [0, m]-space is a linear space with the following property: For any point-line pair (x, G) there are at most m lines through x which are coplanar with G and which have no point in common with G. For every [0, m]-space (M, 90l) we define an order o r d M in a natural way. For dimM~>3 and o r d M ~ > 3 m + 2 , every [0, m]-space (M, 991) can be embedded in a projective space (P, £) with dim P =...