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Modeling two-state cooperativity in protein folding
A protein model with the pairwise interaction energies varying as local
environment changes, i.e., including some kinds of collective effect between
the contacts, is proposed. Lattice Monte Carlo simulations on the
thermodynamical characteristics and free energy profile show a well-defined
two-state behavior and cooperativity of folding for such a model. As a
comparison, related simulations for the usual G\={o} model, where the
interaction energies are independent of the local conformations, are also made.
Our results indicate that the evolution of interactions during the folding
process plays an important role in the two-state cooperativity in protein
folding.Comment: 5 figure
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Investigations with various inner shielding distance tests for a novel coupler-based CPT system applied for electric vehicles using electromagnetic resonant coupling and aluminium shielding material
Contactless power transfer (CPT) technology development has been driven rapidly over the past decade by the world-wide trends towards new energy explorations, and numerous reports have been presented in this area. This paper focuses on passive magnetic shielding, which acts as one of the major factors mainly determining the overall CPT system performance when discussing electromagnetic field flux distribution and its real-time effects on magnetic resonant coupling. As a well performance conductive metallic material, aluminium has been adopted to be a passive shielding material in the designed novel H-shape coupler CPT system in this paper, in order to evaluate and find out the optimal inner shielding distance in between the coil and the inner shielding shell. Three inner shielding distances are applied and analyzed across a critical range of system operating frequency, by which the actual CPT system performance differences from perspectives of electromagnetics and power electronics have been illustrated and compared. As a result, it can be noticed that the 15-mm inner shielding gap CPT model is able to yield an optimal system performance with a maximum system efficiency, peak system output RMS power of over 36% and 22 kW, respectively, which also shows an optimal capability to address major concerns over electric vehicle contactless charging. Besides, along with the electromagnetic field parameters generated in the model, such as actual real-time values of flux linkage, magnetic flux density and field strength, it can be found that the 15-mm inner shielding gap prototype is able to achieve better overall magnetic field performance than 5-mm and 25-mm inner shielding distance CPT models
Measuring the Initial Transient: Reflected Brownian Motion
We analyze the convergence to equilibrium of one-dimensional reflected
Brownian motion (RBM) and compute a number of related initial transient
formulae. These formulae are of interest as approximations to the initial
transient for queueing systems in heavy traffic, and help us to identify
settings in which initialization bias is significant. We conclude with a
discussion of mean square error for RBM. Our analysis supports the view that
initial transient effects for RBM and related models are typically of modest
size relative to the intrinsic stochastic variability, unless one chooses an
especially poor initialization.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Central Limit Theorems and Large Deviations for Additive Functionals of Reflecting Diffusion Processes
This paper develops central limit theorems (CLT's) and large deviations
results for additive functionals associated with reflecting diffusions in which
the functional may include a term associated with the cumulative amount of
boundary reflection that has occurred. Extending the known central limit and
large deviations theory for Markov processes to include additive functionals
that incorporate boundary reflection is important in many applications settings
in which reflecting diffusions arise, including queueing theory and economics.
In particular, the paper establishes the partial differential equations that
must be solved in order to explicitly compute the mean and variance for the
CLT, as well as the associated rate function for the large deviations
principle
Design an intelligent controller for full vehicle nonlinear active suspension systems
The main objective of designed the controller for a vehicle suspension system is to reduce the discomfort sensed by passengers which arises from road roughness and to increase the ride handling associated with the pitching and rolling movements. This necessitates a very fast and accurate controller to meet as much control objectives, as possible. Therefore, this paper deals with an artificial intelligence Neuro-Fuzzy (NF) technique to design a robust controller to meet the control objectives. The advantage of this controller is that it can handle the nonlinearities faster than other conventional controllers. The approach of the proposed controller is to minimize the vibrations on each corner of vehicle by supplying control forces to suspension system when travelling on rough road. The other purpose for using the NF controller for vehicle model is to reduce the body inclinations that are made during intensive manoeuvres including braking and cornering. A full vehicle nonlinear active suspension system is introduced and tested. The robustness of the proposed controller is being assessed by comparing with an optimal Fractional Order (FOPID) controller. The results show that the intelligent NF controller has improved the dynamic response measured by decreasing the cost function
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