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Performance modelling of the Cambridge Fast Ring protocol
The Cambridge Fast Ring is high-speed slotted ring. The features that make it suitable for use at very large transmission rates are the synchronous transmission, the simplicity of the medium-access-control protocol, and the possibility of immediate retransmission of erroneous packets. A novel analytical model of the Cambridge Fast Ring with normal slots is presented. The model is shown to be accurate and usable over wide range of parameters. A performance analysis based on this model is presented
Effects of NHC-Backbone Substitution on Efficiency in Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis
series of ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts bearing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands with varying degrees of backbone and N-aryl substitution have been prepared. These complexes show greater resistance to decomposition through C−H activation of the N-aryl group, resulting in increased catalyst lifetimes. This work has utilized robotic technology to examine the activity and stability of each catalyst in metathesis, providing insights into the relationship between ligand architecture and enhanced efficiency. The development of this robotic methodology has also shown that, under optimized conditions, catalyst loadings as low as 25 ppm can lead to 100% conversion in the ring-closing metathesis of diethyl diallylmalonate
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Selective incorporation of proteinaceous over nonproteinaceous cationic amino acids in model prebiotic oligomerization reactions.
Numerous long-standing questions in origins-of-life research center on the history of biopolymers. For example, how and why did nature select the polypeptide backbone and proteinaceous side chains? Depsipeptides, containing both ester and amide linkages, have been proposed as ancestors of polypeptides. In this paper, we investigate cationic depsipeptides that form under mild dry-down reactions. We compare the oligomerization of various cationic amino acids, including the cationic proteinaceous amino acids (lysine, Lys; arginine, Arg; and histidine, His), along with nonproteinaceous analogs of Lys harboring fewer methylene groups in their side chains. These analogs, which have been discussed as potential prebiotic alternatives to Lys, are ornithine, 2,4-diaminobutyric acid, and 2,3-diaminopropionic acid (Orn, Dab, and Dpr). We observe that the proteinaceous amino acids condense more extensively than these nonproteinaceous amino acids. Orn and Dab readily cyclize into lactams, while Dab and Dpr condense less efficiently. Furthermore, the proteinaceous amino acids exhibit more selective oligomerization through their α-amines relative to their side-chain groups. This selectivity results in predominantly linear depsipeptides in which the amino acids are α-amine-linked, analogous to today's proteins. These results suggest a chemical basis for the selection of Lys, Arg, and His over other cationic amino acids for incorporation into proto-proteins on the early Earth. Given that electrostatics are key elements of protein-RNA and protein-DNA interactions in extant life, we hypothesize that cationic side chains incorporated into proto-peptides, as reported in this study, served in a variety of functions with ancestral nucleic acid polymers in the early stages of life
Zipping and collapse of diblock copolymers
Using exact enumeration methods and Monte Carlo simulations we study the
phase diagram relative to the conformational transitions of a two dimensional
diblock copolymer. The polymer is made of two homogeneous strands of monomers
of different species which are joined to each other at one end. We find that
depending on the values of the energy parameters in the model, there is either
a first order collapse from a swollen to a compact phase of spiral type, or a
continuous transition to an intermediate zipped phase followed by a first order
collapse at lower temperatures. Critical exponents of the zipping transition
are computed and their exact values are conjectured on the basis of a mapping
onto percolation geometry, thanks to recent results on path-crossing
probabilities.Comment: 12 pages, RevTeX and 14 PostScript figures include
Elastic Lattice Polymers
We study a model of "elastic" lattice polymer in which a fixed number of
monomers is hosted by a self-avoiding walk with fluctuating length . We
show that the stored length density scales asymptotically
for large as , where is the
polymer entropic exponent, so that can be determined from the analysis
of . We perform simulations for elastic lattice polymer loops with
various sizes and knots, in which we measure . The resulting estimates
support the hypothesis that the exponent is determined only by the
number of prime knots and not by their type. However, if knots are present, we
observe strong corrections to scaling, which help to understand how an entropic
competition between knots is affected by the finite length of the chain.Comment: 10 page
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