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The Landau distribution as well as its first and second momenta are well suited for describing the energy loss of charged particles traversing a thin layer of matter. At present, just rational approximations and asymptotic expressions for…

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We study by computer simulation distribution functions (DF) of mesoscopic hopping conductance. The DFs obtained for one-dimensional systems were found to be quite close to the predictions of the theory by Raikh and Ruzin. For D=2, the DFs…

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Within the disk model framework used to approximately describe flattened galaxies, we develop an iterative method of determining column mass density from rotation curve supplemented with isotropic velocity dispersion profile. This…

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Radial basis functions are a common mathematical tool used to construct a smooth interpolating function from a set of data points. A spatial prior based on thin-plate spline radial basis functions can be easily implemented resulting in a…

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In this work, we investigate dispersion interactions in a selection of atomic, molecular, and molecule-surface systems, comparing high-level correlated methods with empirically-corrected density functional theory (DFT). We assess the…

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Usually, the Kohlrausch (stretched exponential) function is employed to fit the luminescence decays. In this work we propose to use the Tsallis distribution as an alternative to describe them. We show that the curves of the luminescence…

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A general inversion technique for the recovery of the underlying distribution function for observed galactic disks is presented and illustrated. Under the assumption that these disks are axi-symmetric and thin, the proposed method yields…

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Recently, we have proposed a new diffusive representation for fractional derivatives and, based on this representation, suggested an algorithm for their numerical computation. From the construction of the algorithm, it is immediately…

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We analyse the global structure of the old stellar discs in 34 edge-on spiral galaxies. The radial and vertical exponential scale parameters of the discs are obtained by applying an improved two-dimensional decomposition technique to our…

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The coefficient of restitution of a spherical particle in contact with a flat plate is investigated as a function of the impact velocity. As an experimental observation we notice non-trivial (non-Gaussian) fluctuations of the measured…

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In this paper we discuss a closed-form approximation of the likelihood functions of an arbitrary diffusion process. The approximation is based on an exponential ansatz of the transition probability for a finite time step $\Delta t$, and a…

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We derive a simple, fast one-dimensional integral for the equatorial rotation curve of a thin disk with surface density Sigma(R) modeled as a spheroid with axis ratio q. The result is simpler than standard expressions even in the limit of…

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The fractional order generalization of Shannon entropy proposed by Ubriaco has been studied for discrete distributions. In the current paper, we conduct a detailed study of the continuous analogue of this entropy termed as fractional…

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Apparent exponential surface density profiles are nearly universal in galaxy discs across Hubble types, over a wide mass range, and a diversity of gravitational potential forms. Several processes have been found to produce exponential…

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Stable distributions are an important class of infinitely-divisible probability distributions, of which two special cases are the Cauchy distribution and the normal distribution. Aside from a few special cases, the density function for…

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