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The emergence of biochemical activities in a protein seem to commence with the onset of atomic mean-square displacements along the protein lattice. The ensuing protein dynamical transition has been discussed extensively in the literature, and often with conflicting conclusions. Here we clarify the phenomenon by establishing a deep connection between the dynamical transition and the pseudogap st...

Given a time slotted list of resource capacities, we address the problem of scheduling resource allocation considering that a change in allocation results in the changeover penalty of one timeslot. The goal is to maximize the overall allocation of resources. We prove that no 1lookahead algorithm can be better than 8/5-competitive. We provide improved analysis of Wait Dominate Hold (WDH) algorit...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The reload cost concept refers to the cost that occurs at a vertex along a path on an edge-colored graph when it traverses an internal vertex between two edges of different colors. This cost depends only on the colors of the traversed edges. Reload costs arise in various applications such as transportation networks, energy distribution networks, and telecom...

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric approach is also used to analyze the impact of difficulties with the new currency on well-being. The result...

We study the impact of the Euro on prices charged by online retailers within the EU. Our data spans the period before and after the Euro was introduced, covers a variety of products, and includes countries inside and outside of the Eurozone. Our main finding is that the Euro changeover in 2002 neither mitigated price differences nor resulted in purchasing power parity for products sold online. ...

In this note we present a numerical example related to the problem addressed in ”Drift control with changeover costs”. We also provide more detailed versions of some of the proofs. First we present a description of the problem and the results. We consider the problem of managing capacity in a build-to-order environment like the personal computer manufacturing operations of Dell. We model this p...

We study a scheduling problem with changeover costs and capacity constraints. The problem is NP-complete and combinatorial algorithms for solving it have not performed well. We identify a general class of facets that subsumes as special cases some known facets from the literature. We also develop a cutting plane based procedure and reformulation for the problem, and obtain optimal solutions to ...