We present here the first room-temperature 2D electronic spectroscopy study of energy transfer in the plant light-harvesting complex II, LHCII. Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy has been used to study energy transfer dynamics in LHCII trimers from the chlorophyll b Qy band to the chlorophyll a Qy band. Observing cross-peak regions corresponding to couplings between different excitonic sta...

The ability to dissipate large fractions of their absorbed light energy as heat is a vital photoprotective function of the peripheral light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes in photosystem II of plants. The major component of this process, known as qE, is characterised by the appearance of low-energy (red-shifted) absorption and fluorescence bands. Although the appearance of these red states...

Introduction: Conventional anti-androgen regimens were widely used as an initiation or combined androgen blockade (CAB) therapy in advanced prostate cancer patients. Currently, new androgen pathway inhibitors such as abiraterone acetate (AA) and enzalutamide had been proven effective in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer. In this study, we attempt to analyze the role of conventiona...

The paper specifies modular software for synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated communication and visualization in network-distributed environments. It is new because the distribution of the visualization pipeline is not prescribed, compared to other systems, and supports time-deferred collaboration and presentation by means of recordable sessions of use. Data source is a remote program...

The near-unity efficiency of energy transfer in photosynthesis makes photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes a promising avenue for developing new renewable energy technologies. Knowledge of the energy landscape of these complexes is essential in understanding their function, but its experimental determination has proven elusive. Here, the observation of quantum coherence using two-dimensiona...

We analyze the intertemporal portfolio problem of an investor who has access to both taxable and tax-deferred (retirement) accounts and is subject to borrowing and short-selling constraints. We provide conditions under which the commonly used location rule of preferring higher-taxed assets in the tax-deferred account might not be optimal. We also derive analytical solutions for the optimal port...

This paper analyzes a preference revelation game in the student optimal deferred acceptance algorithm in a college admission problem. We assume that each college’s true preferences are known publicly and analyze the strategic behavior of students. We show the existence of a strictly strong Nash equilibrium in the preference revelation game by providing a simple algorithm that finds it. In parti...

Introduction. In the deferred update technique for database replication, a number of database replicas are used to implement a single serializable database interface. Its main idea consists in executing all operations of a transaction initially on a single database replica. Transactions that do not change the database state can commit locally to the replica they executed, but other transactions...

This paper describes the implementation of a real-time global illumination model (atmospheric scattering and transparency) based on deferred rendering for the realization of virtual test drives used for the evaluation of camera based ADAS. Atmospheric scattering and transparent objects (e.g. windows) contribute to a realistic visualization of outdoor street scenes. However, both are not conside...