) where f is continuous and piecewise smooth. By this we mean that f is a composition of several smooth functions fj each defined on a domain Xj that join along their boundaries in a continuous but non-differentiable fashion. We assume that fj 2 C2 with bounded, Lipschitz continuous Hessians

Fashion, as a “second nature ” of human beings, plays a quite non-trivial role not only in economy but also in many other areas, including even academia. We classify agents pursuing fashion into two types, conformists and rebels, who prefer to match and mismatch the majority action

This study provides basic information that is needed to build marketing strategies related to consumer brand-switching, through the investigation of consumer motivations for brand-switching, as determined by the types of fashion products. The study was implemented by a descriptive survey method

abundant and widely expressed heterodimer, showing the greater activity. Previously we have shown that E2 decreased sGC activity but exerts opposite effects on sGC subunits increasing a1 and decreasing b1 mRNA and protein levels. In the present work we investigate the mechanisms by which E2 differentially

related to climate change, often in an ad hoc fashion. This paper develops a typology of adaptation to systematically classify and characterize agricultural adaptation options to climate change, drawing primarily on the Canadian situation. In particular, it differentiates adaptation options in agriculture

affects trust formation in a complex non-linear fashion, involving a period of ambivalence early in a relationship. We show that certain kinds of exchange partners can systematically reap differential returns from a common history of interaction. Organizational similarity significantly enhances

) kinase in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. This study is the first demonstration of the presence of fit on non-endothelial cells in vivo and suggests a role for VEGF in the growth and differentiation of cytotrophoblast at implan-tation.

is to maximize the amount of reinforcement received over time. Supervised learning techniques for recurrent networks serve to construct a differentiable model of the environmental dynamics which includes a model of future reinforcement. This model is used for learning goal directed behavior in an on-line fashion

We employ a novel simulation scheme that is based on new a-priori estimates on partial differential equations to numerically study the fully non-linear heat equation in a plasma model for 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. The tools we create for that purpose are designed to perform in multicore

An object-oriented accelerator design code has been de-signed and implemented in a simple and modular fashion. It contains all major features of its predecessors: TRACY and DESPOT. All physics of single-particle dynamics is implemented based on the Hamiltonian in the local frame of the component