Wang, Ke, and Brown (2003, Biometrics59, 804-812) developed a smoothing-based approach for modeling circadian rhythms with random effects. Their approach is flexible in that fixed and random covariates can affect both the amplitude and phase shift of a nonparametrically smoothed periodic function. In motivating their approach, Wang et al. stated that a simple sinusoidal function is too restrict...

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The Wang Tiles method is a successful and effective technique for the representation of 2D-texture or 3D-geometry. In this paper we present a new method to fill Wang tiles with a 2D-FON distribution or a 3D-geometry in order to achieve a more efficient runtime. We extend the Wang Tiles method to include information about their position. We further demonstrate how the individual tiles are filled...

In computer graphics, Wang tiles are used as a tool to generate non periodic textures and patterns. We develop a framework and a method for the tiling problem which is suitable for applications. In particular, we apply our methodology to a special kind of Wang tiles, called Brick Wang tiles, introduced by Derouet-Jourdan et al. in 2015 to model wall patterns. We generalise their result by provi...

This document contains a comparison of two BGP yang models: draftzhdankin-netmod-bgp-cfg-01 and draft-wang-i2rs-bgp-dm. The yang model in draft-zhdankin-netmod-bgp-cfg-01 is a model focused on configuration. The yang model in draft-wang-i2rs-bgp-dm-00 is focused on the status and ephemeral state changes needed for the I2RS interface. The conclusion of comparison is that there little overlap exc...

Article history: Received 5 June 2009 Available online xxxx Submitted by Goong Chen

We study two widely used algorithms, Glauber dynamics and the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, on rectangular subsets of the hypercubic lattice Z. We prove that under certain circumstances, the mixing time in a box of side length L with periodic boundary conditions can be exponential in L. In other words, under these circumstances, the mixing in these widely used algorithms is not rapid; instead, it is...

Article history: Received 28 January 2014 Accepted 6 June 2014 Available online 23 June 2014 Communicated by D.-Z. Du

We consider local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional