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  • SMOOTH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OVER TWO-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS WITH AN APPLICATION TO NEUROIMAGING 

    Lila, Eardi; Aston, John Alexander; Sangalli, Laura M (Institute of Mathematical StatisticsThe Annals of Applied Statistics, 2016-01-05)
    Motivated by the analysis of high-dimensional neuroimaging signals located over the cortical surface, we introduce a novel Principal Component Analysis technique that can handle functional data located over a two-dimensional ...

  • Level lines of the Gaussian free field with general boundary data 

    Powell, Ellen
    We study the level lines of a Gaussian free field in a planar domain with general boundary data F. We show that the level lines exist as continuous curves under the assumption that F is regulated (i.e., admits finite left ...

  • On the formation of a quasi-stationary twisted disc after a tidal disruption event 

    Xiang-Gruess, M; Ivanov, PB; Papaloizou, John Christopher (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-08-24)
    We investigate misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events that occur when a star encounters a supermassive black hole. We employ the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the shape of a disc ...

  • Asymptotics of Partial Density Functions for Divisors 

    Ross, Julius; Singer, Michael (SpringerThe Journal of Geometric Analysis, 2016-09-19)
    We study the asymptotic behaviour of the partial density function associated to sections of a positive hermitian line bundle that vanish to a particular order along a fixed divisor $Y$ . Assuming the data in question is ...

  • Unstable mode solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetimes 

    Dold, Dominic (SpringerCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 2016)
    For any cosmological constant Λ = −3/$l^2$ < 0 and any $\alpha$ < 9/4, we find a Kerr-AdS spacetime ($M$, $g_{KAdS}$), in which the Klein-Gordon equation $\square g_{KAdS}$ ψ+$\alpha$/$l^2$ψ = 0 has an exponentially growing ...

  • Flowtune: Flowlet Control for Datacenter Networks 

    Unknown author (2016-08-15)
    Rapid convergence to a desired allocation of network resources to endpoint traffic has been a long-standing challenge for packet-switched networks. The reason for this is that congestion control decisions are distributed ...

  • Isometric disks are holomorphic 

    Antonakoudis, Stergios (SpringerInventiones mathematicae, 2016-10-05)
    This paper shows that every totally-geodesic isometry from the unit disk to a finite-dimensional Teichmüller space for the intrinsic Kobayashi metric is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, it is a ...

  • Impact of aperture separation on wind-driven single-sided natural ventilation 

    Daish, Nicholas Charles; Carrilho da Graça, G; Linden, Paul Frederick; Banks, D (ElsevierBuilding and Environment, 2016-11-01)
    This paper presents a study of the impact of horizontal aperture separation in single-sided ventilation flows with two apertures (SS2). The study is based on wind tunnel measurements and dimensional analysis. The results ...

  • Accelerating radio transient detection using the Bispectrum algorithm and GPGPU 

    Lin, Tsu-Shiuan (University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2015)
    Modern radio interferometers such as those in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project are powerful tools to discover completely new classes of astronomical phenomena. Amongst these phenomena are radio transients. Transients ...

  • Pattern formation in chemically interacting active rotors with self-propulsion 

    Liebchen, B; Cates, Michael Elmhirst; Marenduzzo, D (Royal Society of ChemistrySoft Matter, 2016-09-21)
    We demonstrate that active rotations in chemically signalling particles, such as autochemotactic $\textit{E. coli}$ close to walls, create a route for pattern formation based on a nonlinear yet deterministic instability ...

  • Ten questions about natural ventilation of non-domestic buildings 

    Carrilho da Graça, G; Linden, Paul Frederick (ElsevierBuilding and Environment, 2016-10)
    Throughout history, natural ventilation has remained the preferred choice for the majority of residential buildings, while, in commercial buildings, natural ventilation went from being the single option to somewhat of a ...

  • Classification and Reconstruction of High-Dimensional Signals from Low-Dimensional Features in the Presence of Side Information 

    Renna, Francesco; Wang, L; Yuan, X; Yang, J; Reeves, G; Calderbank, R; Carin, L; Rodrigues, M (IEEEIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2016-09-07)
    This paper offers a characterization of fundamental limits on the classification and reconstruction of high-dimensional signals from low-dimensional features, in the presence of side information. We consider a scenario ...

  • Optimized finite-difference (DRP) schemes perform poorly for decaying or growing oscillations 

    Brambley, Edward James (ElsevierJournal of Computational Physics, 2016-08-11)
    Computational aeroacoustics often use finite difference schemes optimized to require relatively few points per wavelength; such optimized schemes are often called Dispersion Relation Preserving (DRP). Similar techniques ...

  • On the survival of zombie vortices in protoplanetary discs 

    Lesur, Geoffroy RJ; Latter, Henrik Nils (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-09-06)
    Recently it has been proposed that the zombie vortex instability (ZVI) could precipitate hydrodynamical activity and angular momentum transport in unmagnetized regions of protoplanetary discs, also known as ‘dead zones’. ...

  • Media Query Processing for the Internet-of-Things: Coupling of Device Energy Consumption and Cloud Infrastructure Billing 

    Renna, Francesco; Doyle, J; Giotsas, V; Andreopoulos, Y (IEEEIEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2016-12-01)
    Audio/visual recognition and retrieval applications have recently garnered significant attention within Internet-of-Things (IoT) oriented services, given that video cameras and audio processing chipsets are now ubiquitous ...

  • Nonhyperbolic free-by-cyclic and one-relator groups 

    Button, Jack; Kropholler, RP (New York Journal of MathematicsNew York Journal of Mathematicshttp://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2016/22-35.html, 2016-08-01)
    We show that the free-by-cyclic groups of the form $F_2$ $\rtimes$ $\Bbb Z$ act properly cocompactly on CAT(0) square complexes. We also show using generalized Baumslag–Solitar groups that all known groups defined by a ...

  • Interactive simulation and rendering of fluids on graphics hardware 

    Silson, Shaun (University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2016)
    Computational uid dynamics can be used to reproduce the complex motion of fluids for use in computer graphics, but the simulation and rendering are both highly computationally intensive. In the past performing these tasks ...

  • Automating user privacy policy recommendations in social media 

    Abuelgasim, Ammar (University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2016)
    Most Social Media Platforms (SMPs) implement privacy policies that enable users to protect their sensitive information against privacy violations. However, observations indicate that users find these privacy policies ...

  • How old are you, really? Communicating chronic risk through ‘effective age’ of your body and organs 

    Spiegelhalter, David John (BioMed CentralBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2016-08-05)
    In communicating chronic risks, there is increasing use of a metaphor that can be termed ‘effective-age’: the age of a ‘healthy’ person who has the same risk profile as the individual in question. Popular measures include ...

  • Universal Charge Diffusion and the Butterfly Effect in Holographic Theories 

    Blake, Mike (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Letters, 2016-08-23)
    We study charge diffusion in holographic scaling theories with a particle-hole symmetry. We show that these theories have a universal regime in which the diffusion constant is given by D$_{c}$ = Cv$^{2}$$_{B}$/(2πT), where ...