: The purpose of this paper is to explain variations in the divorce rates across prefectures in Japan over the period 1982 to 2002. This paper examines the various factors which ma...
We describe the theoretical solution of an approximation problem that uses a finite weighted sum of complex exponential functions. The problem arises in an optimization model for t...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in many parts of the world. One of the characteristics of HBV transmission is the age structure of the host population. In this paper, ...
If listening in adverse conditions is hard, then listening in a foreign language is doubly so: non-native listeners have to cope with both imperfect signals and imperfect knowledg...
Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Anne ...
The competitive layer model (CLM) can be described by an optimization problem. The problem can be further formulated by an energy function, called the CLM energy function, in the s...