Data analyses in the life sciences are moving from tools run on a personal computer to services run on large computing platforms. This creates a need to package tools and dependencies for easy installation, configuration and deployment on distributed platforms. In addition, for secure execution there is a need for process isolation on a shared platform. Existing virtual machine and container ...

A two-dimensional scattering model based on the Finite Element Method (FEM) is built for simulating the microwave scattering of sea ice, which is a layered medium. The scattering problem solved by the FEM is formulated following a total- and scattered-field decomposition strategy. The model set-up is first validated with good agreements by comparing the results of the FEM with those of the small ...

One of the main challenges in conventional photoacoustic methods, is that thin biological samples typically have low optical absorption in the visible region. Therefore, it is often necessary to stain or label the sample with a color which provide sufficient absorption for the laser wavelength used in the scanning system. Unfortunately, the labeling often introduce unwanted properties to the biological ...

Intermittent fluctuations and turbulence-induced transport of magnetically confined fusion plasmas are investigated by numerical computations. A reduced fluid model describing the evolution of plasma pressure and electric drift vorticity in a two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the magnetic field is derived. A numerical simulation code implemented on graphical processing units is presented. We ...

Non-Newtonian fluids play a crucial role in applications involving heat transfer and mass transfer. The inclusion of nanoparticles in these fluids improves the efficiency of heat and mass transfer processes. This study employs a numerical solution approach to examine the flow of non-Newtonian hybrid nanofluids over a plumb cone/plate surface, considering the effects of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and ...

Remote sensing is a key instrument for monitoring sea ice surface properties over large areas. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) as well as Real Aperture Radar (RAR) are two types of radars that are extensively used in this context and measure the backscatter of the surface that they illuminate. Backscattering of waves from rough surfaces is complicated and depends, among other things, on the roughness ...

The exhaust of particles and heat in the boundary of contemporary magnetic confinement experiments remains to this day a major obstacle on the road to commercially viable fusion energy production. It is recognized, that coherent structures of hot and dense plasma, called blobs or filaments, are the dominant mechanism for cross-field particle transport. These filaments are created by plasma turbulence ...

We perform a comprehensive numerical study of the effect of approximation-theoretical results for neural networks on practical learning problems in the context of numerical analysis. As the underlying model, we study the machine-learning-based solution of parametric partial differential equations. Here, approximation theory for fully-connected neural networks predicts that the performance of the ...

The thesis discusses the possibility of using ultrawideband (UWB) radar to detect breast cancer. At the present time, X-ray mammography and ultrasound are the golden standard imaging techniques for detection and evaluation of breast cancer, but they both have their limitations. UWB radar utilizes the difference in dielectric properties between a tumor and the surrounding healthy tissue. By interpreting ...

The geology, petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry of the Nussir copper deposit in Finnmark, Northern Norway were studied during writing this thesis. The Nussir deposit of copper is a sedimentary-hosted hydrothermal deposit affected by low grade methamorphism and ductile deformation. The copper mineralization includes chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite, covellite, and digenite. The deposit contains ...