The minimal folding pathway or trajectory for a biopolymer can be defined as the transformation that minimizes the total distance traveled between a folded and an unfolded structure. This involves generalizing the usual Euclidean distance from points to one-dimensional objects such as a polymer. We apply this distance here to find minimal folding pathways for several candidate protein fragments...

spatial and temporal distribution of qualitative factors of groundwaters is important to preserve their quality. so, one of the advanced techniques for distribution of groundwater’s qualitative is geostatistic methods. in this study, 33 active wells were randomly sampled to determine the spatial distribution of nitrate pollution in groundwater of the siakh darengoun region (west of shiraz in fa...

water use productivity is one of the most important factors in scientific agriculture. it is equal to 0. 7 kg of production per cubic meter of irrigation water (kg/m3) in iran which is very low in comparison with advanced countries (1 to 2 kg/m3). current research studies temporal and spatialchanges of water use productivity in hamedan province in iran using geographic information system (gis),...

The focusing of the vacuum modes of a quantized field by a parabolic mirror is investigated. We use a geometric optics approximation to calculate the energy density and mean squared field averages for scalar and electromagnetic fields near the focus. We find that these quantities grow as an inverse power of the distance to the focus. There is an attractive Casimir-Polder force on an atom which ...

where ∆ is the Laplace operator. Here σ > 0 is a constant (the diffusion constant). It has dimensions of distance squared over time, so H0 has dimensions of inverse time. The operator exp(−tH0) for t > 0 is an self-adjoint integral operator, which gives the solution of the heat or diffusion equation. Here t is the time parameter. It is easy to solve for this operator by Fourier transforms. Sinc...

This paper presents a new approach to ranking relevant images for retrieval. Distance in the feature space associated with a kernel is used to rank relevant images. An adaptive quasiconformal mapping based on relevance feedback is used to generate successive new kernels. The effect of the quasiconformal mapping is a change in the spatial resolution of the feature space. The spatial resolution a...

Water use productivity is one of the most important factors in scientific agriculture. It is equal to 0. 7 kg of production per cubic meter of irrigation water (Kg/m3) in Iran which is very low in comparison with advanced countries (1 to 2 Kg/m3). Current research studies temporal and spatialchanges of water use productivity in Hamedan province in Iran using Geographic Information System (GIS),...