The spatial sign covariance matrix and its application for robust correlation estimation

8 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the conference proceedings of 11th international conference "Computer Data Analysis & Modeling 2016"

A link density clustering algorithm based on automatically selecting density peaks for overlapping community detection

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The impact of model detail on power grid resilience measures

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Identification of the mRNA targets of tRNA-­specific regulation using genome-­wide simulation of translation

FUNDING Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/I020926/1 to I.S.]; BBSRC PhD studentship award [C103817D to I.S. and M.C.R.]; Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance PhD studentship award (to M.C.R. and I.S.]. Funding for open access charge: BBSRC. Conflict of interest statement. None declared.

Tilted excitation implies odd periodic resonances

This work was supported by the Brazilian agencies FAPESP and CNPq. MSB also acknowledges the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant Ref. EP/I032606/1. GID thanks Felipe A. C. Pereira for fruitful discussions.

Parameter space of experimental chaotic circuits with high-precision control parameters

The authors thank Professor Iber^e Luiz Caldas for the suggestions and encouragement. The authors F.F.G.d.S., R.M.R., J.C.S., and H.A.A. acknowledge the Brazilian agency CNPq and state agencies FAPEMIG, FAPESP, and FAPESC, and M.S.B. also acknowledges the EPSRC Grant Ref. No. EP/I032606/1.

Leading birds by their beaks : the response of flocks to external perturbations

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Reconstructing direct and indirect interactions in networked public goods game

W.-X.W. was supported by NNSFC under Grant No. 61573064 and Grant No. 61074116, Beijing Nova Programme, China, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Y.-C.L. was supported by ARO under Grant W911NF-14-1-0504.

Experimental Validation of Wireless Communication with Chaos

The work was supported in part by the NSFC (60804040 and 61172070), the Key Basic Research Fund of Shaanxi Province (2016ZDJC-01), the Innovation Research Team of Shaanxi Province (2013KCT-04), the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (Grant No. 111065), the Collaborative innovation program of Xi’an city (CXY1509-19), and the EPSRC (EP/I032606/1). Chao Bai was supported by Excellent Ph.D. research fund from XAUT.

A Chaotic Spread Spectrum System for Underwater Acoustic Communication

The work is supported in part by NSFC (Grant no. 61172070), IRT of Shaanxi Province (2013KCT-04), EPSRC (Grant no.Ep/1032606/1).

A generalised formulation for computing the microbuckling load in periodic layered materials

Acknowledgments The financial support of the part of this research by The Royal Society, The Royal Academy of Engineering and The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is gratefully acknowledged.

Community control in cellular protein production : consequences for amino acid starvation

The authors thank M. C. Romano, I. Stansfield, L. Ciandrini, A. Kort, and M. Rehberg for helpful discussions. This work was funded by BBSRC grants BB/F00513/X1 and BB/G010722, and the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA).

Thick-walled composite tubes for offshore applications : an example of stress and failure analysis for filament-wound multi-layered pipes

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Coupled symplectic maps as models for subdiffusive processes in disordered Hamiltonian lattices

Acknowledgements One of us (T. B.) acknowledges many interesting discussions on coupled maps with Professor C. Tsallis. We are also grateful to the anonymous referees for their constructive feedback that helped us improve the manuscript and to the HPCS Laboratory of the TEI of Western Greece for providing the computer facilities where all our simulations were performed. C. G. A. was partially supported by the “EPSRC EP/I032606/1” grant of the University of Aberdeen. This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: THALES - Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.

Cascade failure analysis of power grid using new load distribution law and node removal rule

The work is supported in part by NSFC (Grant no. 61172070), IRT of Shaanxi Province (2013KCT-04), EPSRC (Grant no.Ep/1032606/1).