Deterministic Sensitivity Analysis for a Model for Flow in Porous Media

A deterministic method for sensitivity analysis is developed and applied to a mathematical model for the simulation of flow in porous media. The method is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the Jacobian matrix of the model. It is a local approach to sensitivity analysis providing a hierarchical classification of the directions in both the input space and of those in the output space reflecting the degree of sensitiveness of the latter to the former. Its low computational cost, in comparison with that of statistical approaches, allows the study of the variability of the results of the sensitivity analysis due to the variations of the input parameters of the model, and thus it can provide a quality criterion for the validity of more classical probabilistic global approaches. For the example treated here, however, this variability is weak, and deterministic and statistical methods yield similar sensitivity results

Respiration and Heart Rate Modulation Due to Competing Cognitive Tasks While Driving

Research works on operator monitoring underline the benefit of taking into consideration several signal modalities to improve accuracy for an objective mental state diagnosis. Heart rate (HR) is one of the most utilized systemic measures to assess cognitive workload (CW), whereas, respiration parameters are hardly utilized. This study aims at verifying the contribution of analyzing respiratory signals to extract features to evaluate driver’s activity and CW variations in driving. Eighteen subjects participated in the study. The participants carried out two different cognitive tasks requiring different CW demands, a single task as well as a competing cognitive task realized while driving in a simulator. Our results confirm that both HR and breathing rate (BR) increase in driving and are sensitive to CW. However, HR and BR are differently modulated by the CW variations in driving. Specifically, HR is affected by both driving activity and CW, whereas, BR is suitable to evidence a variation of CW only when driving is not required. On the other hand, spectral features characterizing respiratory signal could be also used similarly to HR variability indices to detect high CW episodes. These results hint the use of respiration as an alternative to HR to monitor the driver mental state in autonomic vehicles in order to predict the available cognitive resources if the user has to take over the vehicle

State Of the Art Report in the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computing. Final version as of 16/02/2020 deliverable D4.1 of the HORIZON 2020 project EURAD.: European Joint Programme on Radioactive Waste Management

Document information Project Acronym EURAD Project Title European Joint Programme on Radioactive Waste Management Project Type European Joint Programme (EJP) EC grant agreement No. 847593 Project starting / end date 1 st June 2019-30 May 2024 Work Package No. 4 Work Package Title Development and Improvement Of NUmerical methods and Tools for modelling coupled processes Work Package Acronym DONUT Deliverable No. 4.

Carbone des sols en Afrique

Les sols sont une ressource essentielle à préserver pour la production d’aliments, de fibres, de biomasse, pour la filtration de l’eau, la préservation de la biodiversité et le stockage du carbone. En tant que réservoirs de carbone, les sols sont par ailleurs appelés à jouer un rôle primordial dans la lutte contre l’augmentation de la concentration de gaz à effet de serre. Ils sont ainsi au centre des objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies, notamment les ODD 2 « Faim zéro », 13 « Lutte contre le changement climatique », 15 « Vie terrestre », 12 « Consommation et production responsables » ou encore 1 « Pas de pauvreté ». Cet ouvrage présente un état des lieux des sols africains dans toute leur diversité, mais au-delà, il documente les capacités de stockage de carbone selon les types de sols et leurs usages en Afrique. Il propose également des recommandations autour de l’acquisition et de l’interprétation des données, ainsi que des options pour préserver, voire augmenter les stocks de carbone dans les sols. Tous les chercheurs et acteurs du développement impliqués dans les recherches sur le rôle du carbone des sols sont concernés par cette synthèse collective. Fruit d’une collaboration entre chercheurs africains et européens, ce livre insiste sur la nécessité de prendre en compte la grande variété des contextes agricoles et forestiers africains pour améliorer nos connaissances sur les capacités de stockage de carbone des sols et lutter contre le changement climatique

Sermonum dominicalium ex epistolis et evangeliis totius anni pars hyemalis [-aestivalis]

authore R.P.F. Guillelmo Pepin, theologo Parisiensi ...Druckermarken.Bogensignaturen: Band 1: †⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Ww⁸, Xx⁴; Band 2: †⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Yy⁸, Zz

Sermonum dominicalium, ex epistolis, et evangeliis totius anni, pars hyemalis [-aestivalis] : cum indice locupletissimo

authore R.P.F. Guillelmo Pepin theologo Parisiensi ...Druckermarken.Bogensignaturen: Band 1: †⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Ww⁸, Xx⁴; Band 2: †⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Yy⁸, Zz

R.P.F. Guillelmi Pepini theologi Parisiensis ... Conciones de imitatione sanctorum, pro illorum diebus, qui toto anno in ecclesia celebrantur : ex quorum lectione non modo verbi dei praedicatores, verum etiam sacrae theologiae, & sacrorum canonum professores, animarumque curae praepositi, admirabilem utilitatem sibi, & aliis proferent, & spiritualem profectum sentient

Pars altera : Conciones de adventu domini de secretis secretorum nuncupatae, quaestionibus utilissimis unaquaque concione adiectisPars quadragesimalis : Conciones ad sacros evangeliorum sensus explicandosPars tertia & ultima : Rosarium aureum b. Mariae virginis, cui adiectum est parvum rosarium habens conciones septem, ab eodem editum, quod inscribitur salutate MariamTitelseite (Pars altera) zweifarbig (rot-schwarz) gedruck

R.P.F. Guillelmi Pepini theologi Parisiensis eximii ... Elucidatio in confiteor : in qua quaecunquae ad confessionem, ad peccata cordis, oris, operis & omissionis, ad contritionem & satisfactionem spectant, accurate explicantur ...

nunc primum in Germania correctius quam antehac editae, verbaquae S. Scripturae & SS. Patrum, diversis characterum notis distinctaeTitelvignette (Jesuitensignet