Existence and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions for delay Lotka-Volterra competition patch systems with stocking

By means of Mawhin's continuation theorem of coincidence degree and Lyapunov functional, a set of easily verifiable criteria are established for the existence and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions for delay Lotka-Volterra competition patch system with stocking

     

Nonlinear Internal Damping of Wave Equations with Variable Coefficients

For wave equations with variable coefficients on regions which are not necessarily smooth, we study the energy decay rate when a nonlinear damping is applied on a suitable subrigion.     

Performance of run-length limited (4, 18) code for optical storage systems

In this paper, the authors investigate the performance of recently presented run-length limited (4, 18) code for high density optical storage systems. The construction of the code is described simply. The code has code rate R = 1/3 and density ratio (DR) = 1.67. The bit error rate (BER) performance for decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) detector are simulated, considering signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and optical channel jitter. The result shows that the performance of the code is acceptable. The encoder and decoder of the code are implemented by complex programmable logic device (CPLD) chip and the hardware resources required for encoder and decoder arelow.     

Current Trends in Laser Separation of Isotopes in Monatomic Vapors

A comparative analysis of the techniques of laser isotope separation in monatomic vapors is presented. The restraints inherent in the conventional isotope separation technique AVLIS (atomic vapor laser isotope separation) are discussed as applied to the large-scale production of various isotopes. The requirements that should be met by the chemical reactions are formulated for the use of these reactions in isotope separation. The photochemical technique was shown to be quite competitive with the AVLIS.     

Solvent viscosity dependence of the folding rate of a small protein: distributed computing study

By using distributed computing techniques and a supercluster of more than 20,000 processors we simulated folding of a 20-residue Trp Cage miniprotein in atomistic detail with implicit GB/SA solvent at a variety of solvent viscosities (gamma). This allowed us to analyze the dependence of folding rates on viscosity. In particular, we focused on the low-viscosity regime (values below the viscosity of water). In accordance with Kramers' theory, we observe approximately linear dependence of the folding rate on 1/gamma for values from 1-10(-1)x that of water viscosity. However, for the regime between 10(-4)-10(-1)x that of water viscosity we observe power-law dependence of the form k approximately gamma(-1/5). These results suggest that estimating folding rates from molecular simulations run at low viscosity under the assumption of linear dependence of rate on inverse viscosity may lead to erroneous results.     

Large Deviations of Empirical Measures Under Symmetric Interaction

We prove the large deviation principle for the joint empirical measure of pairs of random variables which are coupled by a totally symmetric interaction. The rate function is given by an explicit bilinear expression, which is finite only on product measures and hence is non-convex.     

The blow-up rates for systems of heat equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

This paper deals with the blow-up rate estimates of positive solutions for systems of heat equations with nonlinear boundary conditions. The upper and lower bounds of blow-up rate are obtained.     

An optimal service rate in a Poisson arrival queue with two-stage service policy*

We consider a two-stage service policy for a Poisson arrival queueing system. The idle server starts to work with ordinary service rate when a customer arrives. If the number of customers in the system reaches N, the service rate gets faster and continues until the system becomes empty. Otherwise, the server finishes the busy period with ordinary service rate. After assigning various operating costs to the system, we show that there exists a unique fast service rate minimizing the long-run average cost per unit time.This work was supported by Korea Research Foundation Grant(KRF-2002-070-C00021).     

中国与海外股指的混沌特征的比较实证

通过深沪综合指数的5天收益率分布规律以及用R／S方法研究收益率序列得出这样的结论,即深沪综合指数的收益率不服从正态分布,并且收益率是负斜,呈现出胖尾和峰态;中国股票市场不是一个有效的市场,其收益率序列均为服从分形概率分布的持久性时间序列,它们遵循有偏随机游动,市场表现出较强的趋势行为;深综指的赫斯特指数H为0．87,非周期循环为16周(4个月),而沪综指的赫斯特指数H为0．85,非周期循环为25周(6个月)。也就是中国股市呈现出长期记忆等非线性的混沌特征。     

Variational representations of Varadhan functionals

Motivated by the theory of large deviations, we introduce a class of non-negative non-linear functionals that have a variational ``rate function" representation.