Preface These are the extended version of the Cattedra Galileiana I gave in April 2003 in Scuola Normale, Pisa. I am grateful to the Society of Amici della Scuola Normale for the funding and to Professors Maurizio Pratelli, Marzia De Donno and Paulo Guasoni for organizing these lectures and their hospitality. In these notes, I give a very quick introduction to stochastic optimal control and the...

Among the materials of Murudj al-Dhahab wa Ma‘adin al-Djawhar (“The Meadows Gold and Mines Gems”) by al-Mas‘udi (10th century), dedicated to pre-Islamic Arabia, one notes legendary tradition about sons Nizar, for-father so called Northern Arabs: Unable comprehend their father’s testimony, they turned for help wise king al-Af‘a b. al-Djuhumi. On way sage during stay at his lodging Nizar’s manife...

This paper provides insights into the key results of a research project funded by the German Institute for Standardization DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.). It investigates how German companies, in particular SMEs, can leverage committee standards to drive innovations. Whereas the impact of standardization on innovation has been acknowledged in the scientific literature from the macro...

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In this article we present Curras, the first morphologically annotated corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. Palestinian Arabic is one of the many primarily spoken dialects of the Arabic language. Arabic dialects are generally under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic, the primarily written and official form of Arabic. We start in the article with a background description that situ...

(i) To have more confidence in claims’ authors, it should be more useful to use frequency spectra of the surface elevation, namely to demonstrate quantitatively the period doubling and edge wave suppression. We have added a new Figure 3, where we show two frequency spectra. The first spectrum (Figure 3 a) is in absence of the breaking waves, where the first peak indicates the edge wave frequenc...

The article touches a physically interesting phenomena of half-frequency edge waves. Results look interesting and useful in the context of shore wave dynamics. A few points need to be expanded though. 1) It is worth presenting the raw data explicitly displaying the period doubling effect. ADV versus wave gauges? Difference between wave gauge reading? 2) The flume is narrow hence parameters of t...

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