Thermodynamics cooperatively rearranging regions

Section 11 introduces two examples, one from physics and the other from biology, that are paradigms of nonequilibrium behavior. Section in covers most important aspects of fluctuation theorems, whereas Section IV presents applications of fluctuation theorems to physics and biology. Section V presents the discipline of path thermodynamics and briefly discusses large deviation functions. Section VI discusses the topic of glassy dynamics from the perspective of nonequilibrium fluctuations in small cooperatively rearranging regions. We conclude with a brief discussion of future perspectives. 

In the AG theory, z defines the size of a cooperatively rearranging region (CRR) at Tg, which is necessarily its maximum value. Donth (1982) has evaluated the size of a CRR by assuming that the region is sufficiently big for the application of thermodynamic relations. From fluctuation theory,... 

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