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Concentration around the mean for maxima of empirical processes
In this paper we give optimal constants in Talagrand's concentration
inequalities for maxima of empirical processes associated to independent and
eventually nonidentically distributed random variables. Our approach is based
on the entropy method introduced by Ledoux.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000044 in the
Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Transient situations in traffic flow: Modelling the Mexico City Cuernavaca Highway
In this paper a recent variable anticipation cellular automata model for
single-lane traffic flow is extended to analyze the situation of free and
congested flow in the Highway from Mexico City to Cuernavaca. This highway
presents free flow in standard days; but in the returning day of long weekends
or holidays it exhibits congested flow and in rush hours jamming appears. We
illustrate how our CA model for traffic flow can deal appropriately with
transient situations and can be used to search new alternatives that allow to
improve the traffic flow in Mexican highways.Comment: Paper accepted to be published in the Proceedings of Second Mexican
Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics (September 2004), El Colegio
Nacional, Mexico City, Mexic
Physical and Sexual Violence, Mental Health indicators, and treatment seeking among street-based population groups in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
To establish the prevalence of exposure to physical and sexual violence, mental health symptoms, and medical treatment-seeking behavior among three street-based subpopulation groups in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and to assess the association between sociodemographic group, mental health indicators, and exposure to violence
The geometry of modified Riemannian extensions
We show that every paracomplex space form is locally isometric to a modified
Riemannian extension and give necessary and sufficient conditions so that a
modified Riemannian extension is Einstein. We exhibit Riemannian extension
Osserman manifolds of signature (3,3) whose Jacobi operators have non-trivial
Jordan normal form and which are not nilpotent. We present new four dimensional
results in Osserman geometry
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