Conceptual continuity as a mode of understanding complex systems: Applications to the dynamics sociopolitical systems

In complex biological systems, entities that are conceptually distinct but empirically related—such as sunlight and plant growth or antigene and immune response—are being explicitly linked through the identification of highly specific uninterrupted interaction sequences that take place between their macromolecular system components. These uninterrupted sequences of causation include common elements that are shared by the empirically related but conceptually distinct entities. Through the identification of specific shared elements, “conceptual continuity” is established between these entities. Examples are introduced to suggest that in sociopolitical systems, an analogous conceptual continuity can be established between distinct sociopolitical entities. The identification of specific shared elements, essential for the well being of each of the entities, can play a significant role in resolving conflicts between those separated by seemingly insurmountable obstacles such as race or religion or ideology. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 11:20–24, 2006     

N指标d维广义Wiener过程象集的m项代数和的几个性质

设珮犠（狋）：犚犖＋ →犚犱是犖指标犱维广义Ｗｉｅｎｅｒ过程，对任意紧集犈１，…，犈犿犚犖＞ ，该文研究了犿项代数和珮犠（犈１）…珮犠（犈犿）的Ｈａｕｓｄｏｒｆｆ维数，Ｐａｃｋｉｎｇ维数和正的Ｌｅｂｅｓｇｕｅ测度及内点的存在性． 其结果包含并推广了布朗单的结果．     

Preservation of Lipschitz constants by Bernstein type operators

Summary We obtain preservation inequalities for Lipschitz constants of higher order in simultaneous approximation processes by Bernstein type operators. From such inequalities we derive the preservation of the corresponding Lipschitz spaces.     

广义Sierpinski集

本文考察了包括平面上的各种广义 Cantor集 ,Sierpinski集和包括某些连续不可微曲线在内的广义 Sierpinski集 .由相似变换 ,导出了它们的级数表达式 ,并利用它和字符串空间的对应关系 ,计算出它们的Hausdorff维数     

On the Behaviors of Hyperspace Topologies for Subspaces

For a topological space X we denote by CL(X) the collection of all nonempty closed subsets of X. Suppose we have a map T which assigns in some coherent way to every topological space X some topology T(X) on CL(X). In this paper we study continuity and inverse continuity of the map iA,X :(CL(A),T{A)) → (CL(X),T(X)) defined by iA,x(F) = F whenever F ∈CL(A), for various assignment T; in particular, for locally finite topology, upper Kuratowski topology, and Attouch-Wets topology, etc.     

Multilevel a posteriori error analysis for reaction–convection–diffusion problems

We present a new approach to the a posteriori error analysis of stable Galerkin approximations of reaction–convection–diffusion problems. It relies upon a non-standard variational formulation of the exact problem, based on the anisotropic wavelet decomposition of the equation residual into convection-dominated scales and diffusion-dominated scales. The associated norm, which is stronger than the standard energy norm, provides a robust (i.e., uniform in the convection limit) control over the streamline derivative of the solution. We propose an upper estimator and a lower estimator of the error, in this norm, between the exact solution and any finite dimensional approximation of it. We investigate the behaviour of such estimators, both theoretically and through numerical experiments. As an output of our analysis, we find that the lower estimator is quantitatively accurate and robust.     

The long‐time behaviour of the thermoconvective flow in a porous medium

For the Boussinesq approximation of the equations of coupled heat and fluid flow in a porous medium we show that the corresponding system of partial differential equations possesses a global attractor. We give lower and upper bounds of the Hausdorff dimension of the attractor depending on a physical parameter of the system, namely the Rayleigh number of the flow. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical findings and raise new questions on the structure of the solutions of the system. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Hausdorff dimension of a random invariant set

The notion of random attractor for a dissipative stochastic dynamical system has recently been introduced. It generalizes the concept of global attractor in the deterministic theory. It has been shown that many stochastic dynamical systems associated to a dissipative partial differential equation perturbed by noise do possess a random attractor. In this paper, we prove that, as in the case of the deterministic attractor, the Hausdorff dimension of the random attractor can be estimated by using global Lyapunov exponents. The result is obtained under very natural assumptions. As an application, we consider a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation and show that its random attractor has finite Hausdorff dimension.     

A Note on Topological Entropy of Maps

For a given collection of subsets of a compact metric space X which cover X,the entropies,hm(f)and hi(f),are introduced for a continuous map f of X to itseif. Also the concept of shadowing property with same end point (SPSEP for short) is introduced. The main results are,(1)H(f)≤hi(f)+hm(f)and,(2)h(f)=hm(f)whenever f has SPSEP,where h(f) is the topological entropy of f. Moreover,several corollaries are obtained.     

GIRSANOV'S THEOREM ON ABSTRACT WIENER SPACES

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