EEGManyPipelines: A Large-scale, Grassroots Multi-analyst Study of Electroencephalography Analysis Practices in the Wild

The ongoing reproducibility crisis in psychology and cognitive neuroscience has sparked increasing calls to re-evaluate and reshape scientific culture and practices. Heeding those calls, we have recently launched the EEGManyPipelines project as a means to assess the robustness of EEG research in naturalistic conditions and experiment with an alternative model of conducting scientific research.

Predictive Maintenance of Pins in the ECD Equipment for Cu Deposition in the Semiconductor Industry

Nowadays, Predictive Maintenance is a mandatory tool to reduce the cost of production in the semiconductor industry. This paper considers as a case study a critical part of the electrochemical deposition system, namely, the four Pins that hold a wafer inside a chamber. The aim of the study is to replace the schedule of replacement of Pins presently based on fixed timing (Preventive Maintenance) with a Hardware/Software system that monitors the conditions of the Pins and signals possible conditions of failure (Predictive Maintenance).

jewel: a novel method for joint node-wise estimation of multiple Gaussian graphical models

Graphical models are well-known mathematical objects for describing conditional dependency relationships between random variables of a complex system. Gaussian graphical models refer to the case of multivariate Gaussian variable for which the graphical model is encoded through the support of corresponding inverse covariance (precision) matrix. We consider a problem of estimating multiple Gaussian graphical models from high- dimensional data sets under the assumption that they share the same conditional independence structure. However, the individual correlation matrices can differ.

Some Results on Colored Network Contraction

Networks are pervasive in computer science and in real world applications. It is often useful to leverage distinctive node features to regroup such data in clusters, by making use of a single representative node per cluster. Such contracted graphs can help identify features of the original networks that were not visible before. As an example, we can identify contiguous nodes having the same discrete property in a social network. Contracting a graph allows a more scalable analysis of the interactions and structure of the network nodes.

An all-densities pedestrian simulator based on a dynamic evaluation of the interpersonal distances

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space, discrete-in-time, nondifferential model, where pedestrians have finite size and are compressible to a certain extent. The model also takes into account the pushing behavior appearing at extremely high densities. The main novelty is that pedestrians are not assumed to generate any kind of "field" which governs the dynamics of the others in the space around them.

Controlling release from encapsulated drug-loaded devices: insights from modeling the dissolution front propagation

Dissolution of drug from its solid form to a dissolved form is an important consideration in the design and optimization of drug delivery devices, particularly owing to the abundance of emerging compounds that are extremely poorly soluble. When the solid dosage form is encapsulated, for example by the porous walls of an implant, the impact of the encapsulant drug transport properties is a further confounding issue. In such a case, dissolution and diffusion work in tandem to control the release of drug.

A new frame based de-noising procedure for fast oscillating signals

In recent years there has been a growing interest in frame based de-noising procedures. The advantage of frames with respect to classical orthonor- mal bases (e.g. wavelet, Fourier, polynomial) is that they can furnish an efficient representation of a more broad class of signals. For example, signals which have fast oscillating behavior as sonar, radar, EEG, stock market, audio and speech are much more well represented by a frame (with similar oscillating characteristic) than by a classical wavelet basis, although the frame representation for such kind of signals can be not properly sparse.

Strong ill-posedness in W1,? of the 2d stably stratified Boussinesq equations and application to the 3d axisymmetric Euler Equations.

We prove the strong ill-posedness of the two-dimensional Boussinesq system in vorticity form in L8pR2q without boundary, building upon the method that Shikh Khalil & Elgindi arXiv:2207.04556v1 developed for scalar equations. We provide examples of initial data with vorticity and density gradient of small L8pR2q size, for which the horizontal density gradient has a strong L8pR2q-norm inflation in infinitesimal time, while the vorticity and the vertical density gradient remain bounded.

Exploiting the Abstract Calculus Pattern for the Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations for Dynamics Systems: An Object-Oriented Programming Approach in Modern Fortran

This manuscript relates to the exploiting of the abstract calculus pattern (ACP) for the (numerical) solution of ordinary differential equation (ODEs) systems, which are ubiquitous mathematical formulations of many physical (dynamical) phenomena. We present FOODIE, a software suite aimed to numerically solve ODE problems by means of a clear, concise, and efficient abstract interface.