Research works

Robust targeted exploration for systems with non-stochastic disturbances

We propose a novel targeted exploration strategy designed specifically for uncertain linear time-invariant systems with energy-bounded disturbances, i.e., without any assumptions on the distribution of the disturbances. We use classical results characterising the set of non-falsi...

Skew-symmetric augmented matrices and a characterization of virtual doodles

Abstract In this paper, we present a brief overview of the concept of doodles from the perspective of J. S. Carter’s work on classifying immersed curves and the work of J. Carter, S. Kamada, and M. Saito on stable equivalence of knots on surfaces and virtual knot cobordisms. We u...

Genome-wide machine learning analysis of anosmia and ageusia with COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial worldwide disruptions in health, economy, and society, manifesting symptoms such as loss of smell (anosmia) and loss of taste (ageusia), that can result in prolonged sensory impairment. Establishing the host genetic etiology of anosmia...

Approximately optimal search on a higher-dimensional sliding puzzle

Abstract Higher-dimensional sliding puzzles are constructed on the vertices of a d -dimensional hypercube, where $$2^d-l$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> <mml:mi>...

Symmetrization maps and minimal border rank Comon’s conjecture

Abstract One of the fundamental open problems in the field of tensors is the border Comon’s conjecture : given a symmetric tensor $$F\in (\mathbb {C}^n)^{\otimes d}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>F</mml:mi> <mml:mo>∈</mml:mo> <mml:m...

Visual Field Progression Rate and Laminar Depth and Curvature in the African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study (ADAGES)

Abstract P urpose To determine if lamina cribrosa (LC) depth and curvature predict visual field (VF) progression rate in the African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study (ADAGES) cohort in patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). S ubjects Participants, and/or Controls....

Examination of Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Organ Donation: A Cross-Sectional Study

<title>Abstract</title> Background Nursing students, who will play a significant role in the healthcare team, need to have the necessary knowledge and a positive attitude towards organ donation to increase the number of organ donations. Because nurses have the power to improve so...

The tradition of washing hands in a common bowl before eating: a qualitative study of the practice of communal bowl hand rinsing before mealtimes, in rural and urban Mali

<title>Abstract</title> Background Diarrhoeal disease is a leading cause of death in children under 5 years old globally, despite being largely preventable. It is widely known that individual handwashing with soap is key in preventing transmission of enteric pathogens. Communal b...

On weak bounded negativity conjecture

In the first part of this article, we give bounds on self-intersections C2 of integral curves C on blow-ups BlnX of surfaces X with the anti-canonical divisor −KX effective. In the last part, we prove the weak bounded negativity for self-intersections C2 of integral curves C in a...

Guarded Fraïssé Banach spaces

We characterize separable Banach spaces having $G_δ$ isometry classes in the Polish codings $\mathcal{P}$, $\mathcal{P}_\infty$ and $\mathcal{B}$ introduced by Cúth-Doležal-Doucha-Kurka [13] as those being guarded Fraïssé, a weakening of the notion of Fraïssé Banach spaces define...

From Noise to Knowledge: Distill Social Media Opinions on Rumor Detection Exploiting LLMs

The majority of social media research relies on datasets gathered from social media websites such as Reddit and Twitter. However, their intrinsic high noisy content reduces the performance of data-driven models. This restriction of noisy data has made data preparation techniques...

Inflation, innovation, and technology transfer in an open economy with variety expansion

Abstract This study explores the cross‐country effects of inflation on innovation and technology transfer in a North–South variety‐expansion model. We find that higher southern inflation causes a permanent increase in the North–South relative wage ratio, a temporary decrease in t...

Orthogonality related to Steiner and Pappus chains

The focus of this paper is on the study of specific circle formations known as orthogonal Pappus chains and the related incidence results that involve points of tangency between the circles in the construction. Using circle inversion as a key tool, it is shown that these chains g...

A generalized supervised contrastive learning framework for integrative multi-omics prediction models

Abstract Recent technological advances have highlighted the significant impact of the human microbiome and metabolites on physiological conditions. Integrating microbiome and metabolite data has shown promise in predictive capabilities. We developed a new supervised contrastive l...

Endomorphism Algebras Over Commutative Rings and Torsion in Self Tensor Products

Abstract Let R be a commutative Noetherian local ring. We study tensor products involving a finitely generated R -module M through the natural action of its endomorphism ring. In particular, we study torsion properties of self tensor products in the case where $${\text {End}}_R(M...

Influences on decision-making in road safety

This paper extends work previously undertaken to map the actors involved in the road transport industry at a municipal level in the UK (Staton et al., 2022) and explores the decision-making of, and relationships between, key actors with regard to road safety intervention. Intervi...

Probing the jet transport coefficient of cold nuclear matter in electron-ion collisions

Abstract We investigate the transverse momentum broadening~(TMB) of particle production in upcoming electron–ion collision experiments, an important manifestation of jet transport in cold nuclear matter. By considering the effects of parton multiple scattering in nuclear medium w...

Excavations at Wixoe Roman Small Town, Suffolk

Roman Wixoe, one of eight potential small towns of the period in Suffolk, developed adjacent to an ancient ford across the River Stour and close to the intersection of two major Roman roads. Until investigations were carried out in advance of the construction of the Abberton pipe...

Functionalised silk fibres

Abstract : The aim of this project was to understand the structure-properties-performance relationship of honeybee silks and to use this information to guide design of second-generation honeybee silk materials. We demonstrated a single recombinant silk protein could adopt the nat...

Artian's Completed-Record Fan-Out and Timing-Access Reference Framework

When Does a Quantum Record Become a Timing Observable? This framework separates a reversible marker, an accessible memory, and a completed physical record. It then asks a sharper question: after the complete record packet is reconstructed, can the same independently measured reco...