Among the 21st century's major emerging health issues, one of the most critical is the increasing prevalence of individuals with comorbidities, or multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), and the myriad challenges this poses for public health, healthcare, social services, and other sectors. Given the increasing prevalence of individuals with MCCs and the paramount role of MCCs as a healthcare cost d...

We study an initial-boundary-value problem of a nonlinear Korteweg-de Vries equation posed on a finite interval (0, 2π). The whole system has Dirichlet boundary condition at the left end-point, and both of Dirichlet and Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions at the right end-point. It is known that the origin is not asymptotically stable for the linearized system around the origin. We prove th...

The paper is concerned with linear thermoelastic plate equations in a domain Ω: utt +∆u+∆θ = 0 and θt −∆θ −∆ut = 0 in Ω× (0,∞), subject to Dirichlet boundary condition: u|Γ = Dνu|Γ = θ|Γ = 0 and initial condition: (u, ut, θ)|t=0 = (u0, v0, θ0) ∈W 2 p,D(Ω)×Lp×Lp. Here, Ω is a bounded or exterior domain in R (n ≥ 2). We assume that the boundary Γ of Ω is a C hypersurface and we define W 2 p,D by ...

In this paper we study necessary optimality conditions for nonsmooth mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). We first show that MPEC-LICQ is not a constraint qualification for the strong (S-) stationary condition when the objective function is nonsmooth. Enhanced Fritz John conditions provide stronger necessary optimality conditions under weaker constraint qualifications. In...

Abstract. We consider a Korteweg-de Vries equation perturbed by a noise term on a bounded interval with periodic boundary conditions. The noise is additive, white in time and “almost white in space”. We get a local existence and uniqueness result for the solutions of this equation. In order to obtain the result, we use the precise regularity of the Brownian motion in Besov spaces, and the metho...

When the permeability field of a given porous medium domain is heterogeneous by the existence of randomly distributed fractures such that numerical investigation becomes cumbersome, another level of upscaling may be required. That is such complex permeability field could be relaxed i.e., smoothed by constructing an effective permeability field. The effective permeability field is an approximati...

We consider a discrete bridge from (0, 0) to (2N, 0) evolving according to the corner growth dynamics, where the jump rates are subject to an upward asymmetry of order N with α > 0. We provide a classification of the static and dynamic behaviour of this model according to the value of the parameter α. Our main results concern the hydrodynamic limit and the fluctuations of the bridge. For α < 1,...