A new quantum dynamic equation for excitation energy transfer is developed which can describe quantum coherent wavelike motion and incoherent hopping in a unified manner. The developed equation reduces to the conventional Redfield theory and Forster theory in their respective limits of validity. In the regime of coherent wavelike motion, the equation predicts several times longer lifetime of el...

Over the course of covid-19 pandemic, scientific debate has become increasingly polarised and politicised. Rather than being a new cultural moment, Agnes Arnold-Forster argues that anger, incivility, unprofessional conduct have always played part in topical debates

Preference reversals have been widely studied using risky or riskless gambles. However, little is known about preference reversals under ambiguity. We asked subjects to make a binary choice between ambiguous P-bets and ambiguous $-bets and elicited their willingness to accept. Subjects then performed the same two tasks with risky bets, where the probability of winning for a given risky bet is t...

Howards End (1910), a novel by E. M. Forster, revolves around three families, namely the rich capitalists Wilcoxes, half-German intellectual Schlegels and impoverished couples Bast from lower class, in Edwardian society England at very turn of 20th century. The novel, which is commonly considered to be masterpiece undoubtedly depicts inevitable effects capitalism on identities characters with f...

Roughton and Forster (RF) proposed to split the lung diffusing capacity into two contributions describing first, diffusion to red blood cells (RBC), and second, capture by diffusion from the RBC surface and reaction with haemoglobin. Solving the diffusion-reaction equations for simplified capillary-RBC structures, we investigate the RF interpretation. This reveals first that the conventional ex...