This paper gives an overview of recent results concerning the long time dynamics of repeated interaction quantum systems in a deterministic and random framework. We describe the non equilibrium steady states (NESS) such systems display and we present, as a macroscopic consequence, a second law of thermodynamics these NESS give rise to. We also explain in some details the analysis of products of...

The nonlinear energy sink (NES) is defined as a single-degree-of-freedom structural element with relatively small mass and weak dissipation, attached to primary structure via essentially coupling. It passive dissipation device designed rapidly absorb vibration (due shock, blast, earthquakes, etc.) from locally dissipate it. article contains mini-review of the works on NESs. Design schemes for s...

Using oral histories with women born between 1946 and 1980, this article explores experiences memories of infertility pregnancy loss in the post-women’s liberation era. Infertility had a lasting impact on participants’ relationships their bodies, expressed often terms ambivalence towards physical selves an embodied ‘broken-ness’. I historically contextualise these expressions broken-ness to sho...

— We classify Veech groups of tame non-compact flat surfaces. In particular we prove that all countable subgroups of GL+(2, R) avoiding the set of mappings of norm less than 1 appear as Veech groups of tame non-compact flat surfaces which are Loch Ness monsters. Conversely, a Veech group of any tame flat surface is either countable, or one of three specific types. Résumé. — Nous classifions les...

MOTIVATION Classical nuclear export signals (NESs) are short cognate peptides that direct proteins out of the nucleus via the CRM1-mediated export pathway. CRM1 regulates the localization of hundreds of macromolecules involved in various cellular functions and diseases. Due to the diverse and complex nature of NESs, reliable prediction of the signal remains a challenge despite several attempts ...

Following the success and subsequent notoriety of Eliot Ness as a Prohibition agent in Chicago, Cleveland Mayor Harold Burton appointed Ness Director of Public Safety in December 1935. During this era, the Cleveland Department of Public Safety, particularly the police division, was considered to be one of the most corrupt in America. Burton, elected on a law-and-order platform, had sworn to rid...

Stem cells regulate their fate by binding to, and contracting against, the extracellular matrix. Recently, it has been proposed that in addition to matrix sti ness and ligand type, the degree of coupling of fibrous protein to the surface of the underlying substrate, that is, tethering and matrix porosity, also regulates stem cell di erentiation. By modulating substrate porosity without altering...

The conceptual difference between equilibrium and non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) is well established in physics and chemistry. This distinction, however, is not widely appreciated in dynamical descriptions of biological populations in terms of differential equations in which fixed point, steady state, and equilibrium are all synonymous. We study NESS in a stochastic SIS (susceptible-infect...