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An experimental exploration of Marsaglia's xorshift generators, scrambled

, 2016
Marsaglia proposed recently xorshift generators as a class of very fast, good-quality pseudorandom number generators. Subsequent analysis by Panneton and L'Ecuyer has lowered the expectations raised by Marsaglia's paper, showing several weaknesses of ...
Vigna, Sebastiano
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Single and cross-generation natural hedging of longevity and financial risk [PDF]

, 2012
The paper provides natural hedging strategies among death benefits and annuities written on a single and on different generations. It obtains closed-form Delta and Gamma hedges, in the presence of both longevity and interest rate risk.
Luciano, Elisa, Regis, Luca, Vigna, Elena   +2 more
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Traditional Knowledge and use of Wild Cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) in Selected Communities of Tanzania

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Wild cowpeas are utilized as food, medicine, and nutritious fodder. However, there are limited reports on the cultural significance of wild cowpeas across different agroecologies of Tanzania.
John Godlove, Liberatus Dominick Lyimo, George Muhamba Tryphone, William Hamisy, Maarten van Zonneveld, Sognigbé N’Danikou   +5 more
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Vein networks in hydrothermal systems provide constraints for the monitoring of active volcanoes

Scientific Reports, 2017
Vein networks affect the hydrothermal systems of many volcanoes, and variations in their arrangement may precede hydrothermal and volcanic eruptions. However, the long-term evolution of vein networks is often unknown because data are lacking.
Luigi Cucci, Francesca Di Luccio, Alessandra Esposito, Guido Ventura   +3 more
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The biochemical properties of new for Russia vegetable crops in relation to their non-traditional use

Овощи России
Relevance. New for Russia vegetable crops (vigna, kiwano, bitter melon and wax gourd), expanding their range and winning the attention of consumers, gradually increase their importance in the plant growing industry of the country.
Yu. V. Fotev, E. P. Khramova, A. F. Petrov   +2 more
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Breeding drought tolerant cowpea: constraints, accomplishments, and future prospects [PDF]

, 2009
This review presents an overview of accomplishments on different aspects of cowpea breeding for drought tolerance. Furthermore it provides options to enhance the genetic potential of the crop by minimizing yield loss due to drought stress. Recent efforts
Agbicodo, A.C.M.E., Fatokun, C.A., Linden, C.G., van der, Muranaka, S., Visser, R.G.F.   +4 more
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Revitalizing cultivation and strengthening the seed systems of fonio and Bambara groundnut in Mali through a community biodiversity management approach [PDF]

, 2020
Fonio (Digitaria exilis(Kippist)Stapf) and Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea(L.)Verdc.) are native crops grown at a small scale in Mali that have potential to support agricultural productivity under climate change.
Coulibaly, Harouna, Diawara, Gaoussou, Mbosso, Charlie, Meldrum, Gennifer, Padulosi, Stefano, Sangaré, Rokiatou Adja, Sidibé, Amadou, Traoré, Issa   +7 more
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The Causative Fault of the 2016 Mwp 6.1 Petermann Ranges Intraplate Earthquake (Central Australia) Retrieved by C- and L-Band InSAR Data

Remote Sensing, 2018
On 21 May 2016, an Mwp 6.1 earthquake occurred along the Petermann Ranges in Central Australia. Such a seismic event can be classified as a rare intraplate earthquake because the affected area presents low seismicity, being at the center of the Indo ...
Marco Polcari, Matteo Albano, Simone Atzori, Christian Bignami, Salvatore Stramondo   +4 more
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Towards a Real-Time Description of the Ionosphere: A Comparison between International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) and IRI Real-Time Assimilative Mapping (IRTAM) Models

Atmosphere, 2021
This paper focuses on a detailed comparison, based on the F2-layer peak characteristics foF2 and hmF2, between the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI), which is a climatological empirical model of the terrestrial ionosphere, and the IRI Real-Time ...
Alessio Pignalberi, Marco Pietrella, Michael Pezzopane   +2 more
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Fibonacci Binning [PDF]

, 2014
This note argues that when dot-plotting distributions typically found in papers about web and social networks (degree distributions, component-size distributions, etc.), and more generally distributions that have high variability in their tail, an ...
Vigna, Sebastiano
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