I. On deal pendulum rods

Solitary.waves on nonlinear elastic rods. I

Monolayers of hard rods on planar substrates. I. Equilibrium.

The equilibrium properties of hard rod monolayers are investigated in a lattice model (where position and orientation of a rod are restricted to discrete values) as well as in an off-lattice model featuring spherocylinders with continuous positional and orientational degrees of freedom. Both models are treated using density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations. Upon increasing the dens...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Deal or No Deal? - Asessing the Daily Deal Shopper

We build upon previous work done in online shopping segmentation but follow a customer-revealed approach by using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 11,848 daily deal shoppers located in Switzerland. We identify six segments into which the daily deal shoppers can be categorized: recreational shoppers, mobile shoppers, traditionalists, bargain hunters, socializers, and convenience se...

Jamming of hard rods I: From Onsager to Edwards

In a 1949 iconic paper, Onsager demonstrated the existence of a first-order isotropic-to-nematic transition as the density of an equilibrium suspension of infinitely thin hard rods is increased. When the particles in the suspension settle under gravity a new jammed phase emerges. Jammed states show reversible behavior when systematically shaken, and therefore, can be treated by statistical mech...