the term degradation is used to specify the status of the environment. it is often associated with ‘improper use’. ‘use’ also implies environmental aspects other than physical ones and implies that the more intensive the use, the more susceptible the environment is to degradation, particularly if proper care for the environment is lacking. the question is, and has always been, how to map someth...

PURPOSE Speech perception can be described as the transformation of continuous acoustic information into discrete memory representations. Therefore, research on neural representations of speech sounds is particularly important for a better understanding of this transformation. Speech perception models make specific assumptions regarding the representation of mid vowels (e.g., [ε]) that are arti...

Over the last decades it has been widely recognized that many completely integrable PDE’s from mathematical physics arise naturally in geometry. Their integrable character in the geometric context – usually associated with the presence of a Lax pair and a spectral deformation – is nothing but the flatness condition of a naturally occurring connection. Examples of interest to geometers generally...

Two proper polynomial maps f1, f2 : C 2 −→ C are said to be equivalent if there exist Φ1, Φ2 ∈ Aut(C) such that f2 = Φ2 ◦ f1 ◦ Φ1. We investigate proper polynomial maps of topological degree d ≥ 2 up to equivalence. Under the further assumption that the maps are Galois coverings we also provide the complete description of equivalence classes. This widely extends previous results obtained by Lam...

We present a new, nonautonomous Lax pair for a lattice nonautomous modified Korteweg–deVries equation and show that it can be consistently extended multidimensionally, a property commonly referred to as being consistent around a cube. This nonautonomous equation is reduced to a series of q-discrete Painlevé equations, and Lax pairs for the reduced equations are found. A 2× 2 Lax pair is given f...

A propositional logic program P may be identified with a PfPf -coalgebra on the set of atomic propositions in the program. The corresponding C(PfPf )-coalgebra, where C(PfPf ) is the cofree comonad on PfPf , describes derivations by resolution. Using lax semantics, that correspondence may be extended to a class of first-order logic programs without existential variables. The resulting extension...

2.1 Examples of conservative schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.1 The Godunov Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.2 The Lax-Friedrichs Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.3 The local Lax-Friedrichs Scheme . . . . . . . ....

We discuss some of the experimental motivation for the need for semigroup decay laws, and the quantum Lax-Phillips theory of scattering and unstable systems. In this framework, the decay of an unstable system is described by a semigroup. The spectrum of the generator of the semigroup corresponds to the singularities of the Lax-Phillips S-matrix. In the case of discrete (complex) spectrum of the...

Baxters's Q-operators for the simplest q-deformed model. Abstract In the present paper we describe the procedure of the Q-operators construction for the q-deformed model, described by the Lax operator, which is important to formulate the Bethe ansatz for the Sin-Gordon model. This Lax operator can also be considered as some massless limit of the Lax operator of SG model. We constructed two R op...