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On the Dynamics of a Nonlinear Duopoly Game Model

The Cournot duopoly game modeled by Kopel, with adaptive expectations, is generalized by introducing the self-diffusion and cross-diffusion terms. General properties, such as boundedness and uniqueness, are obtained. Nonlinear stability results are reached by the analysis of the stability of a ODE…

Formation of calcium phosphate nanoparticles in the presence of carboxylate molecules: a time-resolved in situ synchrotron SAXS and WAXS study

In this work we have studied in situ the formation and growth of calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticles (NPs) in the presence of three calcium-binding carboxylate molecules having different affinities for Ca2+ ions: citrate (Cit), hydroxycitrate (CitOH), and glutarate (Glr). The formation of CaP NPs…

Microscopic simulation in biology and medicine

Structural and dynamical properties of methane clathrate hydrates from molecular dynamics: Comparison of atomistic and more coarse-grained potential models

In an attempt to study the accuracy and utility of 'coarse grained' models for methane-clathrate systems, molecular-dynamics simulations were run for three different potential models. One was fully atomistic of TIP4P water and fully atomistic methane, the next model was atomistic SPC water and…

Smoothing data with correlated noise via Fourier transform

The problem of smoothing data trough a transform in the Fourier domain is analyzed in the case of correlated noise affecting data. A regularization method and two GCV-type criteria are resorted in order to solve the problem, in analogy with the case of uncorrelated noise. All convergence theorems…

Multilevel omic data integration in cancer cell lines: advanced annotation and emergent properties

Background: High-throughput (omic) data have become more widespread in both quantity and frequency of use, thanks to technological advances, lower costs and higher precision. Consequently, computational scientists are confronted by two parallel challenges: on one side, the design of efficient…

Strains and axial outflows in the field of a rotating black hole

We study the behaviour of an initially spherical bunch of particles accelerated along trajectories parallel to the symmetry axis of a rotating black hole. We find that, under suitable conditions, curvature and inertial strains compete to generate jet-like structures. This is a purely kinematical…

Geometry of tracer trajectories in rotating turbulent flows

The geometry of passive tracer trajectories is studied in two different types of rotating turbulent flows; rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC; experiments and direct numerical simulations) and rotating electromagnetically forced turbulence (EFT; experiments). This geometry is fully described…

Analytic determination of the two-body gravitational interaction potential at the 4th post-Newtonian approximation

We complete the analytical determination, at the 4th post-Newtonian approximation, of the main radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies. The (non logarithmic) coefficient $a_5(\nu)$ measuring this 4th post-Newtonian…

A long-time behavior preserving numerical scheme for age-of-infection epidemic models with heterogeneous mixing

In this manuscript we propose a numerical method for non-linear integro-differential systems arising in age-of-infection models in a heterogeneously mixed population. The discrete scheme is based on direct quadrature methods and provides an unconditionally positive and bounded solution. Furthermore…