Incarceration versus probation? Long-run evidence from an anticipated reform
We illustrate how the Hill relation and the notion of quasi-stationary distribution can be used to analyse the error introduced by many algorithms that have been proposed in the literature, in particular in molecular dynamics, to compute mean reaction times between metastable states for Markov processes. The theoretical findings are illustrated on ...
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We investigate the dispersion of a passive scalar such as the concentration of a chemical species, or temperature, in homogeneous bubbly suspensions, by determining an effective diffusivity tensor. Defining the longitudinal and transverse components of this tensor with respect to the direction of averaged bubble rise velocity in a zero mixture velo...
Understanding how the network topology affects the spread of an epidemic is a main concern in order to develop efficient immunization strategies. While there is a great deal of work dealing with the macroscopic topological properties of the networks, few studies have been devoted to the influence of the community structure. Furthermore, while in ma...
Published in Communications Chemistry
MitoNEET is an iron-sulfur protein found in the outer mitochondrial membrane and implicated in several metabolic disorders. Here the crystal structure of mitoNEET with a bound sulfonamide ligand is reported and used to design new mitoNEET ligands.
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Published in Viruses
As the Corona Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 persists, vaccination is one of the key measures to contain the spread. Side effects (SE) from vaccination are one of the reasons for reluctance to vaccinate. We systematically investigated self-reported SE after the first, second, and booster vaccinations. The data were collected during th...
Published in Journal of Biosciences
In host–parasite co-evolution, parasites are assumed to have an advantage owing to their shorter generation time. Evolution of pathogens within the lifetime of a host individual is implicated as a strong selective force in the evolution of sex and aging in the host. However, this assumption or its testable predictions have not been examined empiric...
Published in Space Science Reviews
This review presents our understanding of cometary dust at the end of 2017. For decades, insight about the dust ejected by nuclei of comets had stemmed from remote observations from Earth or Earth’s orbit, and from flybys, including the samples of dust returned to Earth for laboratory studies by the Stardust return capsule. The long-duration Rosett...