Microtubule-based molecular motors often work in small groups to transport cargos in cells. A key question in understanding transport (and its regulation in vivo) is to identify the sensitivity of multiple-motor-based motion to various single molecule properties. Whereas both single-motor travel distance and microtubule binding rate have been demonstrated to contribute to cargo travel, the role...

In this work, we propose a novel block preconditioner, labeled Explicit Decoupling Factor Approximation (EDFA), to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace solvers used address sequence non-symmetric systems linear equations originating from flow simulations in porous media. The model is discretized blending Mixed hybrid finite element method for Darcy's equation with Finite volume scheme ...

Let E be an elliptic curve defined over Q. The aim of this paper is to make it possible to compute Heegner L-functions and anticyclotomic Λ-adic regulators of E, which were studied by Mazur-Rubin and Howard. We generalize results of Cohen and Watkins, which enable us to compute Heegner points of non-fundamental discriminant. We then prove a relationship between the denominator of a point of E d...

Concept-to-text generation refers to the task of automatically producing textual output from non-linguistic input. We present a joint model that captures content selection (“what to say”) and surface realization (“how to say”) in an unsupervised domain-independent fashion. Rather than breaking up the generation process into a sequence of local decisions, we define a probabilistic context-free g...

Some electromagnetic materials exhibit, in a given frequency range, effective dielectric permittivity and/or magnetic permeability which are negative. In the literature, they are called negative index materials, left-handed materials or metamaterials. We propose in this paper a numerical method to solve a wave transmission between a classical dielectric material and a meta-material. The method ...

We further discuss the N = 2 superinstantons in SU (2) gauge theory, obtained from the general self-dual solutions of topological charge n constructed by Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin and Manin (ADHM). We realize the N = 2 supersymmetry algebra as actions on the superinstanton moduli. This allows us to recast in concise superfield notation our previously obtained expression for the exact classical ...

Advances in methods for solving Boolean satisfiability (SAT) for large problems have motivated recent attempts to recast physical design problems as Boolean SAT problems. One persistent criticism of these approaches is their inability to supply partial solutions, i.e, to satisfy most but not all of the constraints cast in the SAT style. In this paper we present a formulation for “subset satisfi...

Insurance companies are increasingly facing losses that have heavy exposure to capital market risks through the issuance of equity-linked insurance policies. In this paper, we determine the continuous premium rate that an insurer charges via the principle of equivalent utility. Using exponential utility, we obtain the resulting premium rate in terms of a risk-neutral expectation. We also consid...

Within the tradition of generative grammar, filler-gap constructions and especially island constraints (Ross 1967) have played a crucial role in shaping the grammar and in arguing for a rich system of innate constraints that are specific to language. The existence of island phenomena has given rise to such principles as `Subjacency' (1), `Superiority' (2) (commonly recast as `Attract Closest') ...