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Epigenetic aberrations and cancer
The correlation between epigenetic aberrations and disease underscores the importance of epigenetic mechanisms. Here, we review recent findings regarding chromatin modifications and their relevance to cancer
Influence of a road on a population in an ecological niche facing climate change
We introduce a model designed to account for the influence of a line with
fast diffusion-such as a road or another transport network-on the dynamics of a
population in an ecological niche. This model consists of a system of coupled
reaction-diffusion equations set on domains with different dimensions (line /
plane). We first show that the presence of the line is always deleterious and
can even lead the population to extinction. Next, we consider the case where
the niche is subject to a displacement, representing the effect of a climate
change or of seasonal variation of resources. We find that in such case the
presence of the line with fast diffusion can help the population to persist. We
also study several qualitative properties of this system. The analysis is based
on a notion of generalized principal eigenvalue developed by the authors in
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Generalized principal eigenvalues for heterogeneous road-field systems
This paper develops the notion and properties of the generalized principal
eigenvalue for an elliptic system coupling an equation in a plane with one on a
line in this plane, together with boundary conditions that express exchanges
taking place between the plane and the line. This study is motivated by the
reaction-diffusion model introduced by H. Berestycki, J.-M. Roquejoffre and L.
Rossi [8] to describe the effect on biological invasions of networks with fast
diffusion imbedded in a field. Here we study the eigenvalue associated with
heterogeneous generalizations of this model. In a forthcoming work [5] we show
that persistence or extinction of the associated nonlinear evolution equation
is fully accounted for by this generalized eigenvalue. A key element in the
proofs is a new Harnack inequality that we establish for these systems and
which is of independent interest
Dimensionality influence on passive scalar transport
We numerically investigate the advection of a passive scalar through an interface placed inside a decaying shearless turbulent mixing layer. We consider the system in both two and three dimensions. The dimensionality produces a different time scaling of the diffusion, which is faster in the two-dimensional case. Two intermittent fronts are generated at the margins of the mixing layer. During the decay these fronts present a sort of propagation in both the direction of the scalar flow and the opposite direction. In two dimensions, the propagation of the fronts exhibits a significant asymmetry with respect to the initial position of the interface and is deeper for the front merged in the high energy side of the mixing. In three dimensions, the two fronts remain nearly symmetrically placed. Results concerning the scalar spectra exponents are also presente
Representing Code History with Development Environment Events
Modern development environments handle information about the intent of the
programmer: for example, they use abstract syntax trees for providing
high-level code manipulation such as refactorings; nevertheless, they do not
keep track of this information in a way that would simplify code sharing and
change understanding. In most Smalltalk systems, source code modifications are
immediately registered in a transaction log often called a ChangeSet. Such
mechanism has proven reliability, but it has several limitations. In this paper
we analyse such limitations and describe scenarios and requirements for
tracking fine-grained code history with a semantic representation. We present
Epicea, an early prototype implementation. We want to enrich code sharing with
extra information from the IDE, which will help understanding the intention of
the changes and let a new generation of tools act in consequence
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