We develop coarse-grained models that describe the dynamic encapsidation of functionalized nanoparticles by viral capsid proteins. We find that some forms of cooperative interactions between protein subunits and nanoparticles can dramatically enhance rates and robustness of assembly, as compared to the spontaneous assembly of subunits into empty capsids. For large core-subunit interactions, sub...

Reported are the results of a survey to assess the prevalence of illicit drug use among high-school students in Jamaica. A total of 2417 high-school students in 26 schools were covered: 1063 boys and 1354 girls of whom 1317 were grade-10 students (mean age 15.7 years) and 1100 were grade-11 students (mean age 16.8 years). Of the students, 1072 and 1345 were from rural and urban schools, respect...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.06.051 0022-1694/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Abbreviations: SWI, surface water inputs; ROS, rain on snow; SCA, snow covered area; SWE, snow water equivalent; RMSE, root mean squared error. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 (208) 921 1930. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.R. Kormos), [email protected] (D. Marks), jmcnamar@boises...

Continuing our examination of “the flowers of the First Law” (http://www.mii.ucla.edu/causality/?p=1354), this posting looks at one of the most crucial questions in causal inference: “How generalizable are our randomized clinical trials?” Readers of this blog would be delighted to learn that one of our flowers provides an elegant and rather general answer to this question. I will describe this ...