``When in a difficult situation, it is sometimes better to give up and start all over again.'' While this empirical truth has been regularly observed wide range of circumstances, quantifying the effectiveness such heuristic strategy remains an open challenge. In paper, we combine notions optimal control stochastic resetting address problem. The emerging analytical framework allows one not only ...

Fifty-six resetting trials were conducted across the subjective day in 43 young men using a three-cycle bright-light (∼10,000 lx) stimulus against a background of very dim light (10-15 lx). The phase-response curve (PRC) to these trials was assessed for the presence of a "dead zone" of photic insensitivity and was compared with another three-cycle PRC that had used a background of ∼150 lx. To a...

Entrainment, the synchronization of a circadian clock with the external environment, is a crucial step in daily life. Although many signals contribute to entrainment, light and temperature are typically the strongest resetting cues. Much progress has been made concerning light resetting in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana . Multiple photoreceptors (phytochromes, cryptochromes, LOV-domain pr...

We investigate the stationary state of Symmetric and Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes with local resetting, on a one-dimensional lattice periodic boundary conditions, using mean-field approximations, which appear to be exact in thermodynamic limit, kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. In both cases we find that limit models exhibit three different regimes, depending how resetting rate ...