Twelve derivatives of peptide-amphiphile molecules, designed to self-assemble into nanofibers, are described. The scope of amino acid selection and alkyl tail modification in the peptide-amphiphile molecules are investigated, yielding nanofibers varying in morphology, surface chemistry, and potential bioactivity. The results demonstrate the chemically versatile nature of this supramolecular sys...

A discrete model, inspired by publication activity, is introduced. It includes an increasing number of objects equipped with positive weights, which also increase with time. The random evolution of the model is driven by a weight dependent dynamics in such a way that the empirical weight distribution converges weakly with probability 1, and the limit law has a regularly varying tail. The probab...

We characterize dependence and tail dependence in corporate credit using a new class of dynamic copula models which can capture dynamic dependence and asymmetry in large samples of firms. We also document important differences between the dependence dynamics for credit spreads and equity returns. Modeling a decade of weekly CDS spreads for 215 firms, we find that copula correlations are highly ...

We present a new weak law of large numbers for dependent heterogeneous triangular arrays fyn;tg with applications to tail trimming. The law follows from a new partial sum moment bound Ej Pn t=1 yn;tj p K Pn t=1 Ejyn;tj p for zero mean Lp-mixingale arrays fyn;t;=tg, p 2 [1; 2], where =t is a -…eld. We do not require uniform integrability, nor restrict mixingale dependence or heterogeneity. The w...

We explore the idea that the power-law tail in the mass function of protostellar condensations and stars arises from the accretion of ambient cloud material on to a condensation, coupled with a nonuniform (exponential) distribution of accretion lifetimes. This model allows for the generation of power-law distributions in all star-forming regions, even if condensations start with a lognormal mas...

Peritrichously flagellated Escherichia coli swim back and forth by wrapping their flagella together in a helical bundle. However, other monotrichous bacteria cannot swim back and forth with a single flagellum and planar wave propagation. Quantifying this observation, a magnetically driven soft two-tailed microrobot capable of reversing its swimming direction without making a U-turn trajectory o...

Murid herpesvirus-4 (MuHV-4) provides a tractable model with which to define common, conserved features of gamma-herpesvirus biology. The multi-membrane spanning glycoprotein M (gM) is one of only 4 glycoproteins that are essential for MuHV-4 lytic replication. gM binds to gN and is thought to function mainly secondary envelopment and virion egress, for which several predicted trafficking motif...

This paper describes alternative approaches to estimate the Value at Risk (VaR) of a position. Four methods are compared: the unconditional case, the model with time varying drift (modeled as an AR(l) process), the model with time varying drift and time varying volatility (modeled as a GARCH(I,l) process) with error terms that are normally distributed, and the model with time varying drift and ...

Many studies have examined the effect of caudal autotomy on speed and behaviour of lizards escaping over horizontal surfaces, but there have been few studies on lizards escaping over vertical surfaces and, in particular, species that jump between surfaces. We examined jumping by the Cape dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus capensis) in terms of individuals’ varying states of tail autotomy and regeneratio...

The interest sparked by observations of long-range dependent traffic in real networks has lead to a revival of interest in non-standard queueing systems. One such queueing system is the M/G/l queue where the service-time distribution has infinite variance. The known results for such systems are asymptotic in nature, typically providing the asymptotic form for the tail of the workload distributi...