Search Results - "Girard, Lucas"
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Environmental controls of frost cracking revealed through in situ acoustic emission measurements in steep bedrock
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-05-2013)“…Frost cracking, the breakdown of rock by freezing, is one of the most important mechanical weathering processes acting on Earth's surface. Insights on the…”
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(Finite) statistical size effects on compressive strength
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-04-2014)“…The larger structures are, the lower their mechanical strength. Already discussed by Leonardo da Vinci and Edmé Mariotte several centuries ago, size effects on…”
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Damage-cluster distributions and size effect on strength in compressive failure
Published in Physical review letters (30-05-2012)“…We investigate compressive failure of heterogeneous materials on the basis of a continuous progressive-damage model. The model explicitly accounts for tensile…”
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Explicit Non-Asymptotic Bounds for the Distance to the First-Order Edgeworth Expansion
Published in Sankhya A (01-02-2024)“…In this article, we obtain explicit bounds on the uniform distance between the cumulative distribution function of a standardized sum S n of n independent…”
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segregsmall: A command to estimate segregation in the presence of small units
Published in The Stata journal (01-03-2021)“…Suppose that a population, composed of a minority and a majority group, is allocated into units, which can be neighborhoods, firms, classrooms, etc…”
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Evidence of frost-cracking inferred from acoustic emissions in a high-alpine rock-wall
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-08-2012)“…Ice formation within rock is known to be an important driver of near-surface frost weathering as well as of rock damage at the depth of several meters, which…”
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Bridging Methodologies: Angrist and Imbens' Contributions to Causal Identification
Published 20-02-2024“…In the 1990s, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens studied the causal interpretation of Instrumental Variable estimates (a widespread methodology in economics)…”
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A custom acoustic emission monitoring system for harsh environments: application to freezing-induced damage in alpine rock walls
Published in Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems (05-11-2012)“…We present a custom acoustic emission (AE) monitoring system designed to perform long-term measurements on high-alpine rock walls. AE monitoring is a common…”
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Evaluation of high-resolution sea ice models on the basis of statistical and scaling properties of Artic sea ice drift and deformation
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research (2009)“…Sea ice drift and deformation from models are evaluated on the basis of statistical and scaling properties. These properties are derived from two observation…”
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Explicit non-asymptotic bounds for the distance to the first-order Edgeworth expansion
Published 14-01-2021“…In this article, we obtain explicit bounds on the uniform distance between the cumulative distribution function of a standardized sum $S_n$ of $n$ independent…”
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On the construction of confidence intervals for ratios of expectations
Published 10-04-2019“…In econometrics, many parameters of interest can be written as ratios of expectations. The main approach to construct confidence intervals for such parameters…”
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Damage-cluster distributions and size effect on strength in compressive failure
Published 05-03-2012“…We investigate compressive failure of heterogeneous materials on the basis of a continuous progressive damage model. The model explicitely accounts for tensile…”
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