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Noncommutative Toda Chains, Hankel Quasideterminants And Painlev'e II Equation
We construct solutions of an infinite Toda system and an analogue of the
Painlev'e II equation over noncommutative differential division rings in terms
of quasideterminants of Hankel matrices.Comment: 16 pp; final revised version, will appear in J.Phys. A, minor changes
(typos corrected following the Referee's List, aknowledgements and a new
reference added
Building the field of health policy and systems research: framing the questions.
In the first of a series of articles addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy & Systems Research (HPSR), Kabir Sheikh and colleagues lay out the main questions vexing the field
Quasideterminant solutions of a non-Abelian Hirota-Miwa equation
A non-Abelian version of the Hirota-Miwa equation is considered. In an
earlier paper [Nimmo (2006) J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. \textbf{39}, 5053-5065] it
was shown how solutions expressed as quasideterminants could be constructed for
this system by means of Darboux transformations. In this paper we discuss these
solutions from a different perspective and show that the solutions are
quasi-Pl\"{u}cker coordinates and that the non-Abelian Hirota-Miwa equation may
be written as a quasi-Pl\"{u}cker relation. The special case of the matrix
Hirota-Miwa equation is also considered using a more traditional, bilinear
approach and the techniques are compared
Matrix solutions of a noncommutative KP equation and a noncommutative mKP equation
Matrix solutions of a noncommutative KP and a noncommutative mKP equation
which can be expressed as quasideterminants are discussed. In particular, we
investigate interaction properties of two-soliton solutions.Comment: 2 figure
Substrate inhibition imposes fitness penalty at high protein stability
Proteins are only moderately stable. It has long been debated whether this
narrow range of stabilities is solely a result of neutral drift towards lower
stability or purifying selection against excess stability is also at work - for
which no experimental evidence was found so far. Here we show that mutations
outside the active site in the essential E. coli enzyme adenylate kinase result
in stability-dependent increase in substrate inhibition by AMP, thereby
impairing overall enzyme activity at high stability. Such inhibition caused
substantial fitness defects not only in the presence of excess substrate but
also under physiological conditions. In the latter case, substrate inhibition
caused differential accumulation of AMP in the stationary phase for the
inhibition prone mutants. Further, we show that changes in flux through Adk
could accurately describe the variation in fitness effects. Taken together,
these data suggest that selection against substrate inhibition and hence excess
stability may have resulted in a narrow range of optimal stability observed for
modern proteins.Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, Supplementary figures and tables - 6
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Logarithmic behavior of degradation dynamics in metal--oxide semiconductor devices
In this paper the authors describe a theoretical simple statistical modelling
of relaxation process in metal-oxide semiconductor devices that governs its
degradation. Basically, starting from an initial state where a given number of
traps are occupied, the dynamics of the relaxation process is measured
calculating the density of occupied traps and its fluctuations (second moment)
as function of time. Our theoretical results show a universal logarithmic law
for the density of occupied traps , i.e., the degradation is logarithmic and its amplitude depends on the
temperature and Fermi Level of device. Our approach reduces the work to the
averages determined by simple binomial sums that are corroborated by our Monte
Carlo simulations and by experimental results from literature, which bear in
mind enlightening elucidations about the physics of degradation of
semiconductor devices of our modern life
Short-Pulse, Compressed Ion Beams at the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment
We have commenced experiments with intense short pulses of ion beams on the
Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX-II) at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, with 1-mm beam spot size within 2.5 ns full-width at half
maximum. The ion kinetic energy is 1.2 MeV. To enable the short pulse duration
and mm-scale focal spot radius, the beam is neutralized in a 1.5-meter-long
drift compression section following the last accelerator cell. A
short-focal-length solenoid focuses the beam in the presence of the volumetric
plasma that is near the target. In the accelerator, the line-charge density
increases due to the velocity ramp imparted on the beam bunch. The scientific
topics to be explored are warm dense matter, the dynamics of radiation damage
in materials, and intense beam and beam-plasma physics including select topics
of relevance to the development of heavy-ion drivers for inertial fusion
energy. Below the transition to melting, the short beam pulses offer an
opportunity to study the multi-scale dynamics of radiation-induced damage in
materials with pump-probe experiments, and to stabilize novel metastable phases
of materials when short-pulse heating is followed by rapid quenching. First
experiments used a lithium ion source; a new plasma-based helium ion source
shows much greater charge delivered to the target.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Submitted to the proceedings for the
Ninth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications,
IFSA 201
On a direct approach to quasideterminant solutions of a noncommutative KP equation
A noncommutative version of the KP equation and two families of its solutions
expressed as quasideterminants are discussed. The origin of these solutions is
explained by means of Darboux and binary Darboux transformations. Additionally,
it is shown that these solutions may also be verified directly. This approach
is reminiscent of the wronskian technique used for the Hirota bilinear form of
the regular, commutative KP equation but, in the noncommutative case, no
bilinearising transformation is available.Comment: 11 page
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