We present here a first step towards developing a quantitative model that relates investor emotions to financial markets. We used Wall Street Journal articles as a proxy of investor emotions on a "macro" level. We measured the emotional characteristic of…

We have derived a broad, deterministic model of the steady-state actin cycle that includes its major regulatory
mechanisms. Ours is the first model to solve the complete nucleotide profile within filaments, a feature that determines the
dynamics and geometry of…

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Significant progress has been made in understanding
some of the basic mechanisms of force production and flow manipulation
in oscillating foils for underwater use. Biomimetic observations,
however, show that there is a lot more to be learned, since
many of…

We describe the general phenomenon of ‘induced-charge electro-osmosis’ (ICEO) –
the nonlinear electro-osmotic slip that occurs when an applied field acts on the ionic
charge it induces around a polarizable surface. Motivated by a simple physical picture,
we calculate ICEO…

The thesis addresses the problem of automatic and dynamic tuning of parallel and distributed applications. Our objective is to help developers in the process of improving the application performance. The work presents a whole solution that deals with the issues…

In this thesis, parallel computing on installed local area networks (LAN) is focused, analyzing problems and possible solutions taking into account the main factors of computing and communications. More specifically, LAN are characterized as parallel computers in the context of…

The growing importance and interest in parallel processing within Computer Sciences are undeniable, and thus make it one of the more influencing areas of this discipline. Several reasons support this fact, such as the increase in the computer power, the…

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