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This paper reviews and extends an approach to superluminal kinematics set forth by R. Sutherland and J. Shepanski in 1986. This theory is characterized by a spacetime with positive definite metric, a Lorentz factor of the form…
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During the last twenty years there have been considerable methodological developments in the design and analysis of Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 1/2 dose-finding studies. Many of these developments are related to the continual reassessment…
Continuous time random walks have been developed as a straightforward generalisation of classical random walk processes. Some 10 years ago, Fogedby introduced a continuous representation of these processes by means of a set of Langevin…
The original Donsker theorem says that a standard random walk converges in distribution to a Brownian motion in the space of continuous functions. It has recently been extended to enriched random walks and enriched Brownian motion. We use…
Invented some 65 years ago in a seminal paper by Marguerite Straus-Frank and Philip Wolfe, the Frank-Wolfe method recently enjoys a remarkable revival, fuelled by the need of fast and reliable first-order optimization methods in Data…
We consider a walker that at each step keeps the same direction with a probabilitythat depends on the time already spent in the direction the walker is currently moving. In this paper, we study some asymptotic properties of this persistent…
The career of an employee can be described (under certain circumstances) by a random walk, where the states of the random walk are determined by the level and position of an employee. At each decision moment the state of the employee is…
Discussion of ``The William Kruskal Legacy: 1919--2005'' by Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur [arXiv:0710.5063]
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During the last decade, possibilities to realize new phenomena and create new applications by varying system properties in time have gained increasing attention in many research fields, spanning a wide range from acoustics to optics. While…
We present three methods to construct majorizing measures in various settings. These methods are based on direct constructions of increasing sequences of partitions through a simple exhaustion procedure rather than on the construction of…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging is one of the most versatile experimental techniques in chemistry, physics and biology, providing insight into the structure and dynamics of matter at the molecular scale. A group led by Klaas Pruessmann at ETH…
In the 1930's, Tarski introduced his plank problem at a time when the field Discrete Geometry was about to born. It is quite remarkable that Tarski's question and its variants continue to generate interest in the geometric and analytic…
In this expository paper, I survey Room frames and Kirkman frames, concentrating on the early history of these objects. I mainly look at the basic construction techniques, but I also provide some historical remarks and discussion. I also…
In this paper we present a computation of the mean first-passage times both for a random walk in a discrete bounded lattice, between a starting site and a target site, and for a Brownian motion in a bounded domain, where the target is a…
This paper provides an overview of 3D scanning methodologies and technologies proposed in the existing scientific and industrial literature. Throughout the paper, various types of the related techniques are reviewed, which consist, mainly,…
The accepted lore is that Operational Research traces its roots back to the First and Second World Wars, when scientific research was used to improve military operations. In this essay we provide a different perspective on the origins of…
We recall Dirac's early proposals to develop a description of quantum phenomena in terms of a non-commutative algebra in which he suggested a way to construct what he called `quantum trajectories'. Generalising these ideas, we show how they…