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The self-assembly and evolution of homomeric protein complexes
We introduce a simple "patchy particle" model to study the thermodynamics and
dynamics of self-assembly of homomeric protein complexes. Our calculations
allow us to rationalize recent results for dihedral complexes. Namely, why
evolution of such complexes naturally takes the system into a region of
interaction space where (i) the evolutionarily newer interactions are weaker,
(ii) subcomplexes involving the stronger interactions are observed to be
thermodynamically stable on destabilization of the protein-protein interactions
and (iii) the self-assembly dynamics are hierarchical with these same
subcomplexes acting as kinetic intermediates.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Non-attending patients in general practice
Non peer reviewedPublisher PD
Missingnessā in health care : associations between hospital utilization and missed appointments in general practice. A retrospective cohort study.
Funding: AEW DAE AMcC and PW received funding for this research from a Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office research grant (CZH/4/41118) https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/ with Safe Haven and data linkage costs supported in lieu by the DSLS at Scottish Government. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments Thank you to all the GP practices who participated in this study and for strategic support from Ellen Lynch (Health and Social Care Analytical Services, Scottish Government). The general practice data expertise of Dave Kelly (Albasoft) was invaluable. Thanks also to the eDRIS team who facilitated the safe use of our data in the Safehaven, especially Dionysis Vragkos.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Demographic and practice factors predicting repeated non-attendance in primary care : a national retrospective cohort analysis
This study was supported by a Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office research grant (CZH/4/41118) with Safehaven and data linkage costs supported in lieu by the DSLS at Scottish Government. These funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, or collection, analysis, and interpretation of data or in writing the manuscript. The authors declare no conflict of interest.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Comparison of the kā pkā p and direct diagonalization approaches to the electronic structure of InAs/GaAs quantum dots
We present a comparison of the 8-band kā
pkā
p and empirical pseudopotential approaches to describing the electronic structure of pyramidal InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots. We find a generally good agreement between the two methods. The most significant differences found in the kā
pkā
p calculation are (i) a reduced splitting of the electron p states (3 vs 24 meV), (ii) an incorrect in-plane polarization ratio for electron-hole dipole transitions (0.97 vs 1.24), and (iii) an over confinement of both electron (48 meV) and hole states (52 meV), resulting in a band gap error of 100 meV. We introduce a ālinear combination of bulk bandsā technique which produces results similar to a full direct diagonalization pseudopotential calculation, at a cost similar to the kā
pkā
p method. Ā© 2000 American Institute of Physics.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70120/2/APPLAB-76-3-339-1.pd
General practice recording of adverse childhood experiences : a retrospective cohort study of GP records
This study was supported by a Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office research grant (reference number: CZH/4/41118) with Safe Haven and data linkage costs supported in lieu by the Data Sharing and Linkage Service (DSLS) at Scottish Government. These funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, nor in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, nor in writing the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Morbidity, mortality and missed appointments in healthcare : a national retrospective data linkage study
Acknowledgments We thank all practices who participated in this study. The authors acknowledge funding from the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (CZH/4/41118). We acknowledge strategic support from Ellen Lynch (Health and Social Care Analytical Services, Scottish Government) and the general practice data expertise of Dave Kelly (Albasoft). Funding This study was supported by a Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office research grant (CZH/4/41118) with Safe Haven and data linkage costs supported in lieu by the DSLS at Scottish Government. These funding bodies had no role in the design of the study, nor in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, nor in writing the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
A pseudopotential study of electron-hole excitations in colloidal, free-standing InAs quantum dots
Excitonic spectra are calculated for free-standing, surface passivated InAs
quantum dots using atomic pseudopotentials for the single-particle states and
screened Coulomb interactions for the two-body terms. We present an analysis of
the single particle states involved in each excitation in terms of their
angular momenta and Bloch-wave parentage. We find that (i) in agreement with
other pseudopotential studies of CdSe and InP quantum dots, but in contrast to
k.p calculations, dot states wavefunction exhibit strong odd-even angular
momentum envelope function mixing (e.g. with ) and large
valence-conduction coupling. (ii) While the pseudopotential approach produced
very good agreement with experiment for free-standing, colloidal CdSe and InP
dots, and for self-assembled (GaAs-embedded) InAs dots, here the predicted
spectrum does {\em not} agree well with the measured (ensemble average over dot
sizes) spectra. (1) Our calculated excitonic gap is larger than the PL measure
one, and (2) while the spacing between the lowest excitons is reproduced, the
spacings between higher excitons is not fit well. Discrepancy (1) could result
from surface states emission. As for (2), agreement is improved when account is
taken of the finite size distribution in the experimental data. (iii) We find
that the single particle gap scales as (not ), that the
screened (unscreened) electron-hole Coulomb interaction scales as
(), and that the eccitonic gap sclaes as . These scaling
laws are different from those expected from simple models.Comment: 12 postscript figure
Theoretical interpretation of the experimental electronic structure of lens shaped, self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots
We adopt an atomistic pseudopotential description of the electronic structure
of self-assembled, lens shaped InAs quantum dots within the ``linear
combination of bulk bands'' method. We present a detailed comparison with
experiment, including quantites such as the single particle electron and hole
energy level spacings, the excitonic band gap, the electron-electron, hole-hole
and electron hole Coulomb energies and the optical polarization anisotropy. We
find a generally good agreement, which is improved even further for a dot
composition where some Ga has diffused into the dots.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Physical Review
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