Sharp non-resonance conditions for periodically perturbed Liénard systems

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Self-consistent center-of-mass correction and the charge form factor of He

The Hartree-Fock approximation is used for ⁴He in the case of Lipkin's Hamiltonian with several nuclear forces. The self-consistent solution practically coincides with the one obtained in the usual HF method applied to the intrinsic Hamiltonian; however, the center of mass is now in its ground state, and its motion is fairly separated in the ground state function of the nucleus. An unambiguous comparison between experimental and theoretical charge form factor is done. The discrepancies cannot be interpreted as due to spurious c.m. effects.     

On the Boltzmann system for a mixture of reacting gases

Exact analytical solutions to the nonlinear spatially homogeneous integro-partiaS differential Boltzmann system, governing the distribution functions of the rarefied gases of a given mixture in the presence of scattering, removal and chemical reaction effects, are derived upon the hypothesis of constant collision frequencies, BGK-type scattering and creation laws, and particles possessing only translational energy. Four classes of second-order chemical reactions are investigated together with the relevant continuity system for the number densities of the participating species.

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Sommario In questo lavoro vengono riportate soluzioni analitiche esatte del sistema integro-differenziale non lineare di Boltzmann, che definisce le funzioni di distribuzione di una miscela di gas rarefatti in presenza di effetti di scattering, di rimozione e di reazioni chimiche. Tre sono le ipotesi invocate, a precisamente: i) la costanza delle frequenze di collisione; ii) il modello di BGK per le leggi di scattering e di creazione, e iii) le particelle costituenti i gas considerati sono dotate di sola energia di traslazione. Vengono cosí studiate quattro classi di reazioni chimiche del secondo ordine insieme al corrispondente sistema di continuità per le densità delle specie partecipanti.

     

Quantitative prediction of protein folding behaviors from a simple statistical model

The statistical nature of the protein folding process requires the use of equally detailed yet simple models that lend themselves to characterize experiments. One such model is the Wako-Saito?-Mun?oz-Eaton model, that we extend here to include solvation effects (WSME-S), introduced via empirical terms. We employ the novel version to analyze the folding of two proteins, gpW and SH3, that have similar size and thermodynamic stability but with the former folding 3 orders of magnitude faster than SH3. A quantitative analysis reveals that gpW presents at most marginal barriers, in contrast to SH3 that folds following a simple two-state approximation. We reproduce the observed experimental differences in melting temperature in gpW as seen by different experimental spectroscopic probes and the shape of the rate-temperature plot. In parallel, we predict the folding complexity expected in gpW from the analysis of both the residue-level thermodynamics and kinetics. SH3 serves as a stringent control with neither folding complexity nor dispersion in melting temperatures being observed. The extended model presented here serves as an ideal tool not only to characterize folding data but also to make experimentally testable predictions.