Monte Carlo uncertainty propagation approaches in ADS burn-up calculations

In activation calculations, there are several approaches to quantify uncertainties: deterministic by means of sensitivity analysis, and stochastic by means of Monte Carlo. Here, two different Monte Carlo approaches for nuclear data uncertainty are presented: the first one is the Total Monte Carlo (TMC). The second one is by means of a Monte Carlo sampling of the covariance information included in the nuclear data libraries to propagate these uncertainties throughout the activation calculations. This last approach is what we named Covariance Uncertainty Propagation, CUP. This work presents both approaches and their differences. Also, they are compared by means of an activation calculation, where the cross-section uncertainties of 239Pu and 241Pu are propagated in an ADS activation calculation.

Measurement of genetic structure within populations using Moran's spatial autocorrelation statistics.

Spatial structure of genetic variation within populations, an important interacting influence on evolutionary and ecological processes, can be analyzed in detail by using spatial autocorrelation statistics. This paper characterizes the statistical properties of spatial autocorrelation statistics in this context and develops estimators of gene dispersal based on data on standing patterns of genetic variation. Large numbers of Monte Carlo simulations and a wide variety of sampling strategies are utilized. The results show that spatial autocorrelation statistics are highly predictable and informative. Thus, strong hypothesis tests for neutral theory can be formulated. Most strikingly, robust estimators of gene dispersal can be obtained with practical sample sizes. Details about optimal sampling strategies are also described.

Critical properties of the four-state commutative random permutation glassy Potts model in three and four dimensions

We investigate the critical properties of the four-state commutative random permutation glassy Potts model in three and four dimensions by means of Monte Carlo simulations and a finite-size scaling analysis. By using a field programmable gate array, we have been able to thermalize a large number of samples of systems with large volume. This has allowed us to observe a spin-glass ordered phase in d=4 and to study the critical properties of the transition. In d=3, our results are consistent with the presence of a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, but also with different scenarios: transient effects due to a value of the lower critical dimension slightly below 3 could be very important.

The works of Alexandre Dumas.

v. 1. The Count of Monte-Cristo.--v. 2. The three musketeers. Twenty years after.--v. 3-4. The Vicomte de Bragelonne.--v. 5. Marguerite de Valois. Chicot, the Jester.--v. 6. The forty-five guardsmen. The conspirators. The regent's daughter.--v. 7. The memoirs of a physician.--v. 8. The queen's necklace. Taking the Bastille.--v. 9. The Countess de Charny. The Chevalier de Maison Rouge.

The romances of Dumas.

At head of title of v. 23: The romances of Alexandre Dumas. New series.

The confessions of St. Augustine; books I-IX (selections)

"A selected bibliography": p. 55-61.

Answer to skeptics; a translation of St. Augustine's Contra academicos,

222.8 A9AK

The confessions of St. Augustine.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Aleut language, the elements of Aleut grammar with a dictionary in two parts containing basic vocabularies of Aleut and English,

"Aleut-English dictionary, compiled by Richard Henry Geoghegan. A vocabulary of the Aleutian or Unangan language as spoken on the eastern Aleutian Islands and on the Alaska Peninsula, being a translation of the Russian, 'Slovarʹ aleutsko-lisʹevskago yazyka' or 'Dictionary of the Aleut-Fox language', by Ivan Veniaminov, 1834, with additions and annotations by the compiler": p. 89-124.

Select anti-Pelagian treatises of St. Augustine & the acts of the second council of Orange;

Mode of access: Internet.

Tapestry of the fifteenth century : representing the martyrdom of St. Paul the Apostle, with the arms of Guillaume de Hellande, Bishop-Count of Beauvais /

Mode of access: Internet.

In defense of Harriet Shelley : and other essays /

In defense of Harriet Shelley.--Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses.--Traveling with a reformer.--Private history of the "Jumping frog" story.--Mental telegraphy.--Mental telegraphy again.--What Paul Bourget thinks of us.--A little note to M. Paul Bourget.--The invalid's story.--Stirring times in Austria.--The German Chicago.--Concerning the Jews.--About all kinds of ships.--From the "London times" of 1904.--A majestic literary fossil.--At the appetite cure.--Saint Joan of Arc.--In memoriam.--A biographical sketch.

Un inédit de saint Anselme? : le traité De unitate divinae essentiae et pluralitate creaturarum d'après Jean de Ripa /

"Le manuscrit B. N. lat. 15.369 nous fournira notre texte de base." - p. 16.

Gallus : dialogues sur les "vertus" de saint Martin /

Mode of access: Internet.

La gnose valentinienne et le témoignage de saint Irénée.

Issued also as thesis, Paris.