Stochastic geometry

For an infinitely thin rodlike polymer for which d/L = de/Le = 0, we have fi = F 0 = Fx0 = D 0/D = 1, and Eq. (46) reduces to Teraoka and Hay-aka wa s original expression [107] of Dx for rodlike polymers. At high concentrations, the results from the Green function method approach the one from the cage model [107], Teraoka [110] calculated stochastic geometry and probability of the entanglement for infinitely thin rods by use of the cage model, and evaluated px to be... 

In the infinitely thin rod limit, Eq. (50) reduces to Teraoka and Hayakawa s original expression of Dr for rodlike polymers [108]. The latter approaches the equation of Dr derived on the cage model [108, 111] at high concentrations. Teraoka et al. [Ill] estimated pr from calculations of stochastic geometry and probability of the entanglement for infinitely thin rods with the cage model, and obtained... 

An outstanding problem concerns itself with the structure of a hard sphere phase. This is a special instance of the more. general difficulty of the specification of the structure of infinitely extended random media. These questions will perhaps be the subject of a future mathematical discipline-stochastic geometry. The pair correlation function g(r), even if it is known, hardly suffices to specify uniqudy the stochastic metric properties of a random structure. For a finite N and V finite) system in equilibrium in thermal contact with a heat reservoir at temperature T, the density in the configuration space of the N particles [Eq. (2)]... 

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Kendall, D. G. (1975). Foundations of a theory of random sets. In Stochastic geometry, eds D. G. Kendall, Harding, pp. 322-75. John Wiley, London. 

Mathematical models from stochastic geometry are useful tools to achieve this goal since they provide methods allowing for a quantitative description of the correlation between microstructure and functionality. Moreover, systematic modifications of model parameters, in combination with numerical transportation models, offer the opportunity to identify morphologies with improved physical properties by model-based computer simulations, that is, to perform a virtual material design. 

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As discussed above, by changing the geometry of the lattice, it is possible to change the intrinsic nature of the stochastic process. On the other hand, Meng et al. [80] have shown that by adding a new reaction channel, namely... 

In stochastical methods the random kick is typically somewhat larger, and a standard minimization is carried out starting at the perturbed geometry. This may or may not produce a new minimum. A new perturbed geometry is then generated and minimized etc. There are several variations on how this is done. 

Most drug-like molecules adopt a number of conformations through rotations about bonds and/or inversions about atomic centers, giving the molecules a number of different three-dimensional (3D) shapes. To obtain different energy minimized structures using a force field, a conformational search technique must be combined with the local geometry optimization described in the previous section. Many such methods have been formulated, and they can be broadly classified as either systematic or stochastic algorithms. 

T. Bartsch, T. Uzer, and R. Hernandez, Stochastic transition states reaction geometry amidst noise, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 204102 (2005). 

The additive nature of these terms is again evident, a consequence of the stochastic nature of diffusion. The structure of the constants k, which are functions only of the geometry of the cross-section and distributions of velocity and diffusivity, can be seen better if we put... 

In order to compare the results from PD with the simulations, the input properties, and silo geometry have to be the same. As the results of PD in the previous section are based on a first order negative exponential correlation function, this function was used as well for the simulations. Three different input properties were used with different characteristic volumes (Vci) 40 and 400 m3. The silo volume was approximately 40,000 m3, with a height of 50 m and a diameter of 32 m. This relatively high silo was chosen because constant angles over the silo height are required (as indicated in Fig. 1) for a thorough comparison with PD. As the input properties are realizations of a stochastic process 400 repetitions were done per simulation. 

Next let us show how one can compute the proteasome output if the transport rates are given. In our model we assume that the proteasome has a single channel for the entry of the substrate with two cleavage centers present at the same distance from the ends, yielding in a symmetric structure as confirmed by experimental studies of its structure. In reality a proteasome has six cleavage sites spatially distributed around its central channel. However, due to the geometry of its locations, we believe that a translocated protein meets only two of them. Whether the strand is indeed transported or cleaved at a particular position is a stochastic process with certain probabilities (see Fig. 14.5). 

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