We build a Markov partition of the Feigenbaum dynamical plane, and a system of “external rays”, which are invariant under rescaling. Applications to geometry of the Feigenbaum map are given.

We report the effects of ligand presentation on the binding of aqueous proteins to solid supported lipid bilayers. Specifically, we show that the equilibrium dissociation constant can be strongly affected by ligand lipophilicity and linker length/structure. The apparent equilibrium dissociation constants (K(D)) were compared for two model systems, biotin/anti-biotin and 2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP)/...

To understand the molecular mechanism underlying the diversity of mammalian skeletal muscle fibers, the elementary steps of the cross-bridge cycle were investigated in three fast-twitch fiber types from rabbit limb muscles. Skinned fibers were maximally Ca(2+)-activated at 20 degrees C and the effects of MgATP, phosphate (P, P(i)), and MgADP were studied on three exponential processes by sinuso...

A laser photolysis–long path laser absorption (LP-LPLA) experiment has been used to determine the rate constants for H-atom abstraction reactions of the dichloride radical anion (Cl2) in aqueous solution. From direct measurements of the decay of Cl2 in the presence of different reactants at pH 5 4 and I 5 0.1 M the following rate constants at T 5 298 K were derived: methanol, (5.1 6 0.3) · 104 ...

The splay and bend elastic constants of the bent-core oxadiazole material [C5-Ph-ODBP-Ph-OC12] have been investigated as a function of temperature across the nematic phase. The bend constant K(33) is found to take values of ~3.0 pN and to be almost temperature independent, whereas, the splay constant K(11) increases monotonically from ~3.5 pN close to the isotropic phase transition to values of...

The immune system is known to generate a diverse panel of high-affinity Abs by adaptively improving the recognition of pathogens during ongoing immune responses. In this study, we report the biological limits for Ag-driven affinity maturation and repertoire diversification by analyzing Ab repertoires in two adult volunteers after each of three consecutive booster vaccinations with tetanus toxoi...

Thermal rate constants for the H + D, reaction on the LSTH potential-energy surface are determined quantum mechanically over T = 300-1500 K using the quantum flux-flux autocorrelation function of Miller [J. Chem. Phys. 61, 1823 ( 1974) 3. Following earlier works [T. J. Park and J. C. Light, J. Chem. Phys. 91,974 ( 1989); T. J. Park and J. C. Light, ibid. 94, 2946 ( 199 1) 1, we use the adiabati...

Using FT-ESR coupled with pulse radiolysis the kinetics of hydrogen abstraction from 2-propanol by hydrogen and deuterium radicals were studied in aqueous solution. The rate constants were determined from the effective spin–spin relaxation times of the free induction decay of hydrogen or deuterium ESR lines by variation of the 2-propanol Ž . Ž . concentration. The rate constants k and k for H D...