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Human localization is gaining momentum in security, healthcare, logistics, and smart spaces applications. While global navigation systems are unreliable indoor, device-free (a.k.a. passive) localization methods that exploit human-induced…
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This paper introduces a new Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of passive microwave rainfall retrieval. The proposed methodology relies on a regularization technique and makes use of two joint dictionaries of coincidental rainfall…
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Cosmic shear tomography has emerged as one of the most promising tools to both investigate the nature of dark energy and discriminate between General Relativity and modified gravity theories. In order to successfully achieve these goals,…
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A theory and computational method are provided for the calculation of lipid membranes elastic parameters, which overcomes the difficulties of the existing approaches and can be applied not only to single-component but also to…
Localization of elastic waves in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) media with random distributions of the Lam\'e coefficients (the shear and bulk moduli) is studied, using extensive numerical simulations. We compute the…