We determined the added enthalpic and entropic contributions of protective osmolytes to the folding of a model peptide into its native beta-hairpin state. In contrast to entropically driven steric "crowding", this study shows that sugars and polyols can act as protective osmolytes by primarily diminishing the unfavourable enthalpic contribution to folding.

We review the mechanism of gaugino condensation in the framework of the d = 10 heterotic string and its d = 11 extension of Horava and Witten. In particular we emphasize the relation between the gaugino condensate and the flux of the antisymmetric tensor fields of higher dimensional supergravity. Its potential role for supersymmetry breakdown and moduli stabilization is investigated.

Let G be the group of projectivities stabilizing a unital U in PG(2, q2) and let A,B be two distinct points of U . In this paper we prove that, if G has an elation group of order q with center A and a group of projectivities stabilizing both A and B of order a divisor of q − 1 greater than 2(√q − 1), then U is an ovoidal Buekenhout–Metz unital. From this result two group theoretic characterizat...

semi-aerobic leachate is characterized by organic matter (cod, bod) which is relatively low in concentration and difficult to biodegrade. in conventional treatment systems, the low biodegradability is attributed to partial stabilization of leachate at the landfill. biological treatment of leachate in malaysia is not well established and any important data for the treatment process is not availa...

The phase synchronization problem requires each node to infinitely transfer from one phase to the next one under the restriction that at most two consecutive phases can appear among all nodes. In this paper, we propose a self-stabilizing algorithm under the parallel execution model to solve this problem for semi-uniform systems of general graph topologies. The proposed algorithm is memory-effic...

This paper describes a self-stabilizing version of an algorithm presented by A. Mazurkiewicz [Inform. Process. Lett. 61 (1997) 233–239] for enumerating nodes by local rules on an anonymous network. The result improves the reliability aspects of the original algorithm and underlines the importance of a non-ambiguous topology for a network.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The exit time and the exit location of a non-markovian diffusion is analyzed. More particularly, we focus on the so-called self-stabilizing process. The question has been studied by Herrmann, Imkeller and Peithmann in [HIP08]. Some results similar to the ones of Freidlin and Wentzell for classical diffusions have been proved. We aim to provide the same results by a method more intuitive. Our ar...

We examine the task of constructing self-stabilizing real-time decision systems, which take their input from an external environment, and present a series of results concerning compilers which force the property of self-stabilization onto such systems. We consider compilers that do and do not preserve termination applied to nite state and innnite state programs.