1. (Kleinberg Tardos 7.27) Some of your friends with jobs out West decide they really need some extra time each day to sit in front of their laptops, and the morning commute from Woodside to Palo Alto seems like the only option. So they decide to carpool to work. Unfortunately, they all hate to drive, so they want to make sure that any carpool arrangement they agree upon is fair and doesn’t ove...

Solution: Let G(V,E) denote the graph in question; we construct a new graph H(W,F ) in which an ordinary single particle random walk corresponds to the two particle random walk on G. Take W = V × V = {(v1, v2)|v1, v2 ∈ V } and F = {((v1, v2), (w1, w2))|(v1, w1), (v2, w2) ∈ E}. The idea here is that a uniform random walk on H encodes the state of a two particle random walk on G (in the same way ...

1) National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan 2) Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, 3-18-8 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan 3) Institute of Agricultural and Forest Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan 4) Present address: Eugentech, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Bio...

1 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea 2 Medigenes Co. Ltd., 713 Suseo-dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-539, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Biosystems, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 3731 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of ...

S. Aokib,g, M. Fukugita f , K.-I. Ishikawae, T. Ishikawab, N. Ishizukaa,b, Y. Iwasakib, K. Kanayab, Y. Kuramashia,b, M. Okawae, Y. Taniguchib, A. Ukawaa,b, N. Yamadac,d, T. Yoshié∗ a,b† a Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan b Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan c High Energy Accelerator Resear...

Ling Liu, Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing 210002, China. Email: [email protected] Wenya Lan, Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing 210002, China. Email: [email protected] Bo Wu, Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing 210002, China. ...

CP-PACS Collaborations: Y. Kuramashi∗a,b †, S. Aokib,c, O. Bärb, K.-I. Ishikawag, T. Ishikawaa, N. Ishizukaa,b, Y. Iwasakib, K. Kanayab, T. Kanekoe, f , M. Okawag, Y. Taniguchia,b, N. Tsutsuie, A. Ukawaa,b, N. Yamadae and T. Yoshiéa,b a Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan b Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba...

The Staphylococcus aureus manganese transporter protein MntC is under investigation as a component of a prophylactic S.aureus vaccine. Passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies mAB 305-78-7 and mAB 305-101-8 produced using MntC was shown to significantly reduce S. aureus burden in an infant rat model of infection. Earlier interference mapping suggested that a total of 23 monoclonal antibo...

QCs (glutaminyl cyclases; glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferases, EC 2.3.2.5) catalyse N-terminal pyroglutamate formation in numerous bioactive peptides and proteins. The enzymes were reported to be involved in several pathological conditions such as amyloidotic disease, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and melanoma. The crystal structure of human QC revealed an unusual H-bond (hydrogen-bond) n...

JLQCD Collaboration: T. Kaneko∗a,b†, S. Aokic, H. Fukayad, S. Hashimotoa,b, K-I. Ishikawae, K. Kanayac, H. Matsufurua, M. Okamotoa, M. Okawae, T. Onogig, A. Ukawa f ,c, N. Yamadaa,b, T. Yoshié f ,c a High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan b School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Ibaraki 305-0801, ...