We study the inverse problem of determining the conformational freedom of two protein domains from residual dipolar coupling (RDC) measurements. For each paramagnetic ion attached to one of the domains we obtain a magnetic susceptibility tensor ? from the RDC of couples of atoms of that domain, and a mean paramagnetic susceptibility tensor ?¯ from the RDC of couples of atoms of the other domain. The latter is an integral average of rotations of ? which depends on the conformational freedom of the two domains.

We analyse the effect of the mechanical response of the solid phase during liquid/solid phase change by numerical simulation of a benchmark test based on the well known and debated experiment of melting of a pure gallium slab counducted by Gau & Viskanta in 1986. The adopted mathematical model includes the description of the melt flow and of the solid phase deformations.

Magnetic tomography is an ill-posed and ill-conditioned inverse problem since, in general, the solution is non-unique and the measured magnetic field is affected by high noise. We use a joint sparsity constraint to regularize the magnetic inverse problem. This leads to a minimization problem whose solution can be approximated by an iterative thresholded Landweber algorithm.

In this paper we investigate the permanence of a system and give a sufficient condition for the endemic equilibrium to be globally asymptotically stable, which are the remaining problems in our previous paper (G. Izzo, Y. Muroya, A. Vecchio, A general discrete time model of population dynamics in the presence of an infection, Discrete Dyn. Nat. Soc. (2009), Article ID 143019, 15 pages. doi:10.1155/2009/143019.) (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This paper presents a novel approach for the extraction of the transients content of audio signals, usually represented as superposition of stationary, transient, and stochastic components. The proposed model exploits the predictable and peculiar time-scale behavior of transients by modeling them as superposition of suitable wavelet atoms. These latter allow to predict transients information even at scales where the tonal component is dominant. In this way it is possible to avoid, if required, the pre-analysis of the tonal component.

Computational experiments are one of the most used and flexible investigation tools in fluid dynamics. The Lattice Boltzmann Equation is a well established computational method particularly promising for multi-phase flows at micro and macro scales. Here we present preliminary results on performances of the LBE method on the Cell Broadband Engine platform.

We present a study of Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from a high-resolution numerical simulation of isotropic and homogeneous turbulence using the FLASH code, with an estimated Taylor microscale Reynolds number of around 600. Statistics are evaluated over a data set with 18563 spatial grid points and with 2563 = 16.8 million particles, followed for about one large-scale eddy turnover time. We present data for the Eulerian and Lagrangian structure functions up to the tenth order. We analyze the local scaling properties in the inertial range.