Despite the considerable advances in our understanding of biological processes, the physicochemical relationship between living and nonliving systems remains uncertain and a continuing source of controversy. In this review, we describe a kinetic model based on the concept of dynamic kinetic stability that attempts to incorporate living systems within a conventional physicochemical framework. It...

Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics. The term was first used by professor A. Eucken in 1930. The main branches of chemical physics are studies of electronic and molecular structure, spectral properties of chemical substances and dynamic behavior of chemical processes. The chai...

Noncovalent binding interactions between proteins are the central physicochemical phenomenon underlying biological signaling and functional control on the molecular level. Here, we perform an extensive structural analysis of a large set of bound and unbound ubiquitin conformers and study the level of residual induced fit after conformational selection in the binding process. We show that the re...

PERSPECTIVES AND SUMMARY ............................................................................ 117 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PR PERTIES ............................................................ 119 Time Constants and Noise Analysis .................................................................. 119 Gating Concept .............................................................................

There is considerable interest among computational linguists in lexicalized grammatical frameworks; lexicalized tree adjoining grammar (LTAG) is one widely studied example. In this paper, we investigate how derivations in LTAG can be viewed not as manipulations of trees but as manipulations of tree descriptions. Changing the way the lexicalized formalism is viewed raises questions as to the des...