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Conformational freedom of proteins and the maximal probability of sets of orientations

We study the inverse problem of determining the relative orientations of the moving C- and N-terminal domains in a flexible protein from measurements of its mean magnetic susceptibility tensor ?¯ . The latter is an integral average of rotations of the corresponding magnetic susceptibility tensor…

Elastic Characterization of S- and P-Wave Velocities in Marinelike Silica: The Role of Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics

The alpha-quartz polymorph of SiO2 forms the basis of mineral sands stable down to 100 km depths below the surface, making it of central geoscientific relevance. The characterization of the nanoscale properties of these materials is of importance, especially for elastic properties governing phonon…

Splitting schemes and energy preservation for separable Hamiltonian systems

It is known that symplectic algorithms do not necessarily conserve energy even for the harmonic oscillator. However, for separable Hamiltonian systems, splitting and composition schemes have the advantage to be explicit and can be constructed to preserve energy. In this paper we describe and test…

Spin-rotation couplings: spinning test particles and Dirac field

Constraining a nonminimally coupled curvature-matter gravity model with ocean experiments

We examine the constraints on the Yukawa regime from the nonminimally coupled curvature-matter gravity theory arising from deep underwater ocean experiments. We consider the geophysical experiment of Zumberge et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3051 (1991)] for searching deviations of Newton's inverse…

Behaviour of Hourly Solar Irradiance in the Italian Climate

A general class of finite-difference methods for the linear transport equation

Hydrodynamics of contraction-based motility in a compressible active fluid

Cell motility is crucial to biological functions ranging from wound healing to immune response. The physics of cell crawling on a substrate is by now well understood, whilst cell motion in bulk (cell swimming) is far from being completely characterized. We present here a minimal model for pattern…

Front Propagation in Stirred Media

The problem of asymptotic features of front propagation in stirred media is addressed for laminar and turbulent velocity fields. In particular we consider the problem in two dimensional steady and unsteady cellular flows in the limit of very fast reaction and sharp front, i.e., in the geometrical…

An implicit Q-theorem for Hessenberg-like matrices