How animals distribute themselves in space: variable energy landscapes

How to quantify energy landscapes of solids.

We explore whether the topology of energy landscapes in chemical systems obeys any rules and what these rules are. To answer this and related questions we use several tools: (i) Reduced energy surface and its density of states, (ii) descriptor of structure called fingerprint function, which can be represented as a one-dimensional function or a vector in abstract multidimensional space, (iii) de...

How Hallucinations Make Themselves Heard

the approach used by Ranganath and Paller is not simply the patient’s thoughts) and are usually hostile, as in the following example: in their use of separate blocked recognition conditions to encourage varied retrieval strategies. Rather, the Days later while in the Metropolis again, I was once analysis possible in their study relied both on a manipumore startled by these same pursuers, who ha...

Funnels in Energy Landscapes

Local minima and the saddle points separating them in the energy landscape are known to dominate the dynamics of biopolymer folding. Here we introduce a notion of a “folding funnel” that is concisely defined in terms of energy minima and saddle points, while at the same time conforming to a notion of a “folding funnel” as it is discussed in the protein folding literature. PACS. 87.10.+e General...

How to distribute antidote to control epidemics

We give a rigorous analysis of variations of the contact process on a finite graph in which the cure rate is allowed to vary from one vertex to the next, and even to depend on the current state of the system. In particular, we study the epidemic threshold in the models where the cure rate is proportional to the degree of the node or when it is proportional to the number of its infected neighbors.

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves