I give a brief overview of the resolution of the apparent problem of reconciling time symmetric microscopic dynamic with time asymmetric equations describing the evolution of macroscopic variables. I then show how the large deviation function of the stationary state of the microscopic system can be used as a Lyapunov function for the macroscopic evolution equations. —————————————————————————— G...

in this paper taqi modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. he is one of the early persian writers in diaspora who left iran decades before the islamic revolution.  his novels have been published both in english and persian. azra-ye khalvatneshin [the virgin of solitude], which was published posthumously in an english translation in 2008 and in the original persian in 2010, both in...

Ye, Lin, and Taylor (2008, Biometrics 64, 1238-1246) proposed a joint model for longitudinal measurements and time-to-event data in which the longitudinal measurements are modeled with a semiparametric mixed model to allow for the complex patterns in longitudinal biomarker data. They proposed a two-stage regression calibration approach that is simpler to implement than a joint modeling approach...

In this paper we note that for neutrino mass squared differences in the range 10−4−10−1eV 2, vacuum neutrino oscillations can take place between the neutrinosphere and the weak freeze-out radius in a type II supernova. Requiring that such oscillations are consistent with the r-process nucleosynthesis from supernovae one can constrain the mixing of νe with νμ ( or ντ ) down to 10 −4 eV 2. We fir...

Yeast cells grown anaerobically have been shown to vary in their ultrastructure and absorption spectrum depending upon the composition of the growth medium. The changes observed in the anaerobically grown cells are governed by the availability of unsaturated fatty acids and ergosterol and a catabolite or glucose repression. All the cells contain nuclear and plasma membranes, but the extent of t...