Crowd simulation focuses on modeling the movements and behaviors of large groups of people. This area of study has become increasingly important because of its several applications in various fields such as urban planning, safety, and entertainment. ...

Contingent Convertible (CoCo) bonds represent a novel category of debt financial instruments, recently introduced into the financial landscape. Their primary role is to bolster financial stability by maintaining healthy capital levels for the issuing ...

Monitoring brain cortical activity is essential to decipher and understand neurophysiological behaviour. A wide amount of tools and experimental setups has been developed to stimulate, record and analyze brain activity. The identification of ...

For machine translation (MT) systems to produce accurate and fluent translations, reliable parallel corpora are key. Errors, due to misalignments or inadequate filtering during compilation of a parallel corpus, can have detrimental effects on the ...

Numerical simulations done at the Nanophysics Center at Reykjavík University indicate that under constant illumination from a sufficiently energetic monochromatic light source, a space-charge limited photoemission can cause current modulation in a ...

Nanostructures made from crystalline silicon, especially in the form of nanowires (SiNWs), have shown great potential as pressure sensors due to their unique properties such as high sensitivity, small size, and low power consumption. When a force ...

Magnetoresistance oscillations, also known as Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscil- lations, is a well-known phenomena that results from the quantization of electron orbits in the presence of a magnetic field. These oscillations have been extensively studied ...

Microsatellites are polymorphic tracts of short tandem repeats (STRs) with one to six base-pair (bp) motifs and account for around 3% of the human genome. Just like copying by hand a text where the same word occurs many times in a row, the replication of ...

In this thesis, two methods for automatic enumeration of permutation classes are studied. The first method extends on the theory of combinatorial exploration. We review how combinatorial exploration works as a two phases process: the first phase ...

In transfusion medicine and blood banking, product quality and safety of patients are both essential. Blood transfusion is, in many instances, a lifesaving procedure; however, is not without risk. Blood products contain biological response modifiers ...