abstract parasitic insects face many decisions when foraging for host, some for example frequently have to make decisions with regard to staying in or leaving their current patch. in this study, we investigated how the foraging and oviposition behavior of lysiphlebus fabarum is influenced by (1) a female’s previous experience of encountering aphids host and (2) age of female parasitoids. to tes...

An anomalous diffusion model for ion channel gating is put forward. This scheme is able to describe nonexponential, power-law-like distributions of residence time intervals in several types of ion channels. Our method presents a generalization of the discrete diffusion model by Millhauser, Salpeter, and Oswald [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85, 1503 (1988)] to the case of a continuous, anomalou...

An anomalous diffusion model for ion channel gating is put forward. This scheme is able to describe non-exponential, power-law like distributions of residence time intervals in several types of ion channels. Our method presents a generalization of the discrete diffusion model by Millhauser, Salpeter and Oswald [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85, 1503 (1988)] to the case of a continuous, anomalous s...

The chronobiological effect on the pharmacokinetics of liposomal encapsulated ampicillin (LEA) was compared at noon (1200) and midnight (2400) after intravenous injection of 50 mg/kg of LEA in rats. The effects of fasting on the circadian rhythms of LEA were also investigated. Serial blood samples were collected for 2 h. Bile and urine were collected during the entire study. Plasma data was ana...

We investigate fluid transport in random velocity fields with unsteady drift. First, we propose to quantify fluid transport between flow regimes of different characteristic motion, by escape probability and mean residence time. We then develop numerical algorithms to solve for escape probability and mean residence time, which are described by backward Fokker-Planck type partial differential equ...

Non-thermal plasma (NTP) has been introduced over the last few years as a promising after- treatment system for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter removal from diesel exhaust. NTP technology has not been commercialised as yet, due to its high rate of energy consumption. Therefore, it is important to seek out new methods to improve NTP performance. Residence time is a crucial parameter in en...