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Interface behaviour of the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption: Intermediate-asymptotic properties (2023)
Journal Article
King, J. R., Richardson, G. W., & Foster, J. M. (2023). Interface behaviour of the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption: Intermediate-asymptotic properties. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 34(5), 1099-1132. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956792523000098

The dynamics of interfaces in slow diffusion equations with strong absorption are studied. Asymptotic methods are used to give descriptions of the behaviour local to a comprehensive range of possible singular events that can occur in any evolution. T... Read More about Interface behaviour of the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption: Intermediate-asymptotic properties.

Spectral properties of substitutions on compact alphabets (2023)
Journal Article
Mañibo, N., Rust, D., & Walton, J. J. (2023). Spectral properties of substitutions on compact alphabets. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 55(5), 2425-2445. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.12872

We consider substitutions on compact alphabets and provide sufficient conditions for the diffraction to be pure point, absolutely continuous and singular continuous. This allows one to construct examples for which the Koopman operator on the associat... Read More about Spectral properties of substitutions on compact alphabets.

Bayesian Model Choice for Directional Data (2023)
Journal Article
Fallaize, C. J., & Kypraios, T. (2024). Bayesian Model Choice for Directional Data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 33(1), 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2023.2206076

This article is concerned with the problem of choosing between competing models for directional data. In particular, we consider the question of whether or not two independent samples of axial data come from the same Bingham distribution. This is not... Read More about Bayesian Model Choice for Directional Data.

A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways (2023)
Journal Article
Pybus, H. J., O’dea, R. D., & Brook, B. S. (2023). A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 40(3), 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqad004

Excessive activation of the regulatory cytokine transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) via contraction of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is associated with the development of asthma. In this study, we develop an ordinary differential equation model that de... Read More about A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways.

Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university (2023)
Journal Article
Fairbanks, E. L., Bolton, K. J., Jia, R., Figueredo, G. P., Knight, H., & Vedhara, K. (2023). Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university. Epidemics, 43, Article 100688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100688

We survey 62 users of a university asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 testing service on details of their activities, protective behaviours and contacts in the 7 days prior to receiving a positive or negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result in the period October 202... Read More about Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university.

Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators (2023)
Journal Article
Strocchi, M., Longobardi, S., Augustin, C. M., Gsell, M. A. F., Petras, A., Rinaldi, C. A., Vigmond, E. J., Plank, G., Oates, C. J., Wilkinson, R. D., Niederer, S. A., Gsell, M. A. F., Rinaldi, C. A., Vigmond, E. J., Oates, C. J., Wilkinson, R. D., & Niederer, S. A. (2023). Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(6), Article e1011257. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011257

Cardiac pump function arises from a series of highly orchestrated events across multiple scales. Computational electromechanics can encode these events in physics-constrained models. However, the large number of parameters in these models has made th... Read More about Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators.

The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance (2023)
Journal Article
Shaker, A. J., Brignell, C., & Pugh, M. (2023). The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 56(2), 258-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2214562

A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; that is, students engage more with activities that are assessed compared with those that are not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives... Read More about The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance.

The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change. (2023)
Journal Article
Peter Binding, L., Neal Taylor, P., O'Keeffe, A. G., Giampiccolo, D., Fleury, M., Xiao, F., Caciagli, L., de Tisi, J., Winston, G. P., Miserocchi, A., McEvoy, A., Duncan, J. S., & Vos, S. B. (2023). The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38, Article 103444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103444

Background: Anterior temporal lobe resection (ATLR) is a successful treatment for medically-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). In the language-dominant hemisphere, 30%- 50% of individuals experience a naming decline which can impact upon daily... Read More about The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change..

Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling (2023)
Book Chapter
Rempała, G. A., & KhudaBukhsh, W. R. (2023). Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling. In Handbook of Visual, Experimental and Computational Mathematics: Bridges through Data (1-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93954-0_31-1

This chapter describes the dynamical survival analysis (DSA) method for modeling infectious diseases. This method provides a powerful framework for analyzing compartmental models of large epidemics, such as the popular susceptible-infected-recovered... Read More about Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling.

Toric Sarkisov Links of Toric Fano Varieties (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, G., Buczyński, J., & Kasprzyk, A. (2019, April). Toric Sarkisov Links of Toric Fano Varieties. Presented at Birational Geometry, Kähler–Einstein Metrics and Degenerations, Moscow, Shanghai and Pohang

We explain a web of Sarkisov links that overlies the classification of Fano weighted projective spaces in dimensions 3 and 4, extending results of Prokhorov.

Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media (2023)
Journal Article
Icardi, M., Pescimoro, E., Municchi, F., & Hidalgo, J. J. (2023). Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media. Engineering with Computers, 39, 3927–3940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-023-01825-8

We present a flexible scalable open-source computational framework, named SECUReFoam, based on the finite-volume library OpenFOAM®, for flow and transport problems in highly heterogeneous geological media and other porous materials. The framework com... Read More about Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media.

Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions (2023)
Journal Article
Leimkuhler, B., Sharma, A., & Tretyakov, M. V. (2023). Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions. Annals of Applied Probability, 33(3), 1904-1960. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AAP1856

A simple-to-implement weak-sense numerical method to approximate reflected stochastic differential equations (RSDEs) is proposed and analysed. It is proved that the method has the first order of weak convergence. Together with the Monte Carlo techniq... Read More about Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions.

Neural Importance Sampling for Rapid and Reliable Gravitational-Wave Inference (2023)
Journal Article
Dax, M., Green, S. R., Gair, J., Pürrer, M., Wildberger, J., Macke, J. H., Buonanno, A., Macke, J. H., & Schölkopf, B. (2023). Neural Importance Sampling for Rapid and Reliable Gravitational-Wave Inference. Physical Review Letters, 130(17), Article 171403. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.171403

We combine amortized neural posterior estimation with importance sampling for fast and accurate gravitational-wave inference. We first generate a rapid proposal for the Bayesian posterior using neural networks, and then attach importance weights base... Read More about Neural Importance Sampling for Rapid and Reliable Gravitational-Wave Inference.

Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., & Pumplün, S. (2023). Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials. Glasgow Mathematical Journal, 65(2), 480-500. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001708952300006X

Let be a division algebra, finite-dimensional over its center, and a skew polynomial ring. Using skew polynomials, we construct division algebras and maximum rank distance codes consisting of matrices with entries in a noncommutative division algebra... Read More about Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials.

Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis (2023)
Journal Article
Binenbaum, J., Wulff, N., Camut, L., Kiradjiev, K., Anfang, M., Tal, I., Vasuki, H., Zhang, Y., Sakvarelidze-Achard, L., Davière, J. M., Ripper, D., Carrera, E., Manasherova, E., Ben Yaakov, S., Lazary, S., Hua, C., Novak, V., Crocoll, C., Weinstain, R., Cohen, H., …Shani, E. (2023). Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 9, 785-802. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01391-3

The plant hormone gibberellin (GA) regulates multiple developmental processes. It accumulates in the root elongating endodermis, but how it moves into this cell file and the significance of this accumulation are unclear. Here we identify three NITRAT... Read More about Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis.

Adaptive measurement filter: efficient strategy for optimal estimation of quantum Markov chains (2023)
Journal Article
Godley, A., & Guta, M. (in press). Adaptive measurement filter: efficient strategy for optimal estimation of quantum Markov chains. Quantum, 7, Article 973. https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-04-06-973

Continuous-time measurements are instrumental for a multitude of tasks in quantum engineering and quantum control, including the estimation of dynamical parameters of open quantum systems monitored through the environment. However, such measurements... Read More about Adaptive measurement filter: efficient strategy for optimal estimation of quantum Markov chains.

A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, M., Green, M., Kypraios, T., & Kaler, J. (2023). A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21749

Claw horn disruption lesions (CHDL) are a leading cause of lameness in dairy cattle, and the development, effect, and pathology of these lesions remains an open area of interest within dairy cattle health. Current literature typically attempts to mea... Read More about A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows.

Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors (2023)
Journal Article
Golovaty, D., Kurzke, M., Montero, J. A., & Spirn, D. (2023). Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(3), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-023-09898-x

Tetrahedral frame fields have applications to certain classes of nematic liquid crystals and frustrated media. We consider the problem of constructing a tetrahedral frame field in three-dimensional domains in which the boundary normal vector is inclu... Read More about Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors.

COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison (2023)
Journal Article
KhudaBukhsh, W. R., Khalsa, S. K., Kenah, E., Rempała, G. A., & Tien, J. H. (2023). COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1087698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1087698

Incarcerated individuals are a highly vulnerable population for infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Understanding the transmission of respiratory infections within prisons and between prisons and surrounding c... Read More about COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison.