Anya Plutynski Department of Philosophy University of Utah [email protected] Abstract There are several different ways in which chance affects evolutionary change. That all of these processes are called “random genetic drift” is in part due to common elements across these different processes, but is also a product of historical borrowing of models and language across different level...

Introduction Recently, much philosophical discussion has centered on the best way to characterize the concepts of random drift 1 and natural selection, and, in particular, whether selection and drift can be conceptually distinguished 2 These authors all contend, to a greater or lesser degree, that their concepts make sense of biological practice. So it should be instructive to see how the conce...

Concept drift has potential in smart grid analysis because the socio-economic behaviour of consumers is not governed by the laws of physics. Likewise there are also applications in wind power forecasting. In this paper we present decision tree ensemble classification method based on the Random Forest algorithm for concept drift. The weighted majority voting ensemble aggregation rule is employed...

We study a one-dimensional random walk whose expected drift depends both on time and the position of a particle. We establish a non-trivial phase transition for the recurrence vs. transience of the walk, and show some interesting applications to Friedman’s urn, as well as showing the connection with Lamperti’s walk with asymptotically zero drift.

A new class of random partial differential equations of parabolic type is considered where the stochastic term consists in an irregular noisy drift, not necessarily Gaussian, for which a suitable interpretation is provided. After freezing a realization of the drift (stochastic process), we study existence and uniqueness (in some appropriate sense) of the associated parabolic equation and a prob...

We study a one-dimensional random walk whose expected drift depends both on time and the position of a particle. We establish a non-trivial phase transition for the recurrence vs. transience of the walk, and show some interesting applications to Friedman’s urn, as well as showing the connection with Lamperti’s walk with asymptotically zero drift .

We derive transport equations for the propagation of water wave action in the presence of a static, spatially random surface drift. Using the Wigner distribution W(x,k, t) to represent the envelope of the wave amplitude at position x contained in waves with wavevector k, we describe surface wave transport over static flows consisting of two length scales; one varying smoothly on the wavelength ...

Escherichia coli is a motile bacterium that moves up a chemoattractant gradient by performing a biased random walk composed of alternating runs and tumbles. Previous models of run and tumble chemotaxis neglect one or more features of the motion, namely (a) a cell cannot directly detect a chemoattractant gradient but rather makes temporal comparisons of chemoattractant concentration, (b) rather ...

We consider a random walk on the discrete cylinder (Z/NZ)×Z, d ≥ 3 with drift N in the Z-direction and investigate the large N -behavior of the disconnection time T disc N , defined as the first time when the trajectory of the random walk disconnects the cylinder into two infinite components. We prove that, as long as the drift exponent α is strictly greater than 1, the asymptotic behavior of T...

The rate of decay of genetic variation is determined for randomly mating autotetraploid populations of finite size, and the equilibrium homozygosity under mutation and random drift is calculated. It is shown that heterozygosity is lost at a slower rate than in diploid populations, and that the equilibrium heterozygosity with mutation and random drift is higher than for diploids. Outcrossing pop...