Gut bacteria play an important role in several metabolic processes and human diseases, such as obesity and its co-morbidities, like fatty liver disease, insulin resistance/diabetes and cardiovascular events. Among several factors, dietary patterns, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, antimicrobials and non-dietary factors, such as stress, age, exercise and climatic conditions, can dramatically ...

after occupation of palestine by zionists in 1948, some of palestinians became refugees to adjacent arabic countries and some of other people were inhabited inside the occupied land, particularly in west bank (of jordan river) and gaza strip. thence, palestinians never saw political tranquility, stability, and equilibrium. consequently, contemporary poetry was also affected by such chaotic circ...

Acceleration of relaxation toward a fixed stationary distribution via violation of detailed balance was reported in the context of a Markov chain Monte Carlo method recently. Inspired by this result, systematic methods to violate detailed balance in Langevin dynamics were formulated by using exponential and rotational nonconservative forces. In the present paper, we accentuate that such specifi...

This paper is concerned with the effect of capacity constraints on the locations of terror response facilities. We assume that the state has limited resources, and multiple facilities may be involved in the response until the demand is satisfied consequently. We formulate a leader-follower game model between the state and the terrorist and prove the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibr...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium matching model with many types of long-lived workers, many types of jobs and stochastic transitions between many possible aggregate productivity states. The supply of new jobs is determined by free entry, matching is directed, wages are determined by auction and workers can continue to search on-the-job for better employment opportunities. We sh...

Using the notion of aggregation work, we construct a system of differential equations for the aggregation number of micelles which is a function of the parameters of micellization (parametric equations). There are explicit solutions for two important models of spherical micelles. Based on these solutions, we obtain an analytical expression for the equilibrium concentration of surfactant monomer...

We introduce a variational principle suitable for the computational modeling of crystalline materials. We consider a class of materials that are described by non-quasiconvex variational integrals. We are further focused on equlibria of such materials that have non-attainment structure, i.e., Dirichlet boundary conditions prohibit these variational integrals from attaining their infima. Conseque...

We show that projected-gradient methods for the distributed computation of generalized Nash equilibria in aggregative games are preconditioned forward-backward splitting methods applied to the KKT operator of the game. Specifically, we adopt the preconditioned forward-backward design, recently conceived by Yi and Pavel in the manuscript “A distributed primal-dual algorithm for computation of ge...

It is demonstrated that systems of two pleiotropically related characters controlled by additive diallelic loci can maintain under Gaussian stabilizing selection a stable polymorphism in more than two loci. It is also shown that such systems may have multiple stable polymorphic equilibria. Stabilizing selection generates negative linkage disequilibrium, as a result of which the equilibrium phen...