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Starting from the pre-powerstroke state myosin complex with ADP and Pi tightly bound (summarized structure in Table I), the M.D.Pi is in rapid equilibrium with an actin-bound state on the microsecond-millisecond time scale. This is very dependent on ionic strength (Furch et al., 2000 White and Taylor, 1976) and is therefore probably a non-stereo-specific weak binding state and is controlled by the ionic interactions between loop 2 and the N-terminus of actin. Other ionic interactions may also be involved. This loose association between actin and myosin probably does not alter the overall conformation of myosin. 

To analyze (56) further let us assume that the reaction time Trxn is much longer than the molecular time scale Tmoi (this is exactly the situation we are interested in). Then, for times rmoi Taylor expansion of the right hand side yields... 

The two-point one time correlation functions, in the form presented in the preceding discussion, are not suitable for analyzing motions at different scales and specifically they are not suitable for understanding relations between movements of fluid characterized by different length and time scales. That is why it is better to use the 3D Fourier transforms of two-point correlations and to decompose them into waves of different frequencies or wave numbers. Turbulence has by definition a 3D character so it is obvious that the spectrum has to be 3D as well, to characterize turbulence properly. The ID spectrum of Taylor (see, e.g., [66]) oversimplifies the observed features of turbulence and may give misleading interpretations of the 3D held (see also, [113], p. 18). The differences and consequences of ID and 3D spectrum analysis are discussed by Hinze ([66], sects. 1-12 and 3-4) and Pope ([121], sect. 6.5). 

From sect 1.2.7 we reitrate that Taylor s simplification is useful for flow situations where the turbulent eddies evolve with a time scale longer than the time it takes an eddy to be advected past a fixed spatial point (e.g., the location of a sensor). If an eddy of diameter A is advected at a mean velocity of magnitude, juj, (i.e., considering a uniform flow with mean velocity, v, of low... 

Taylor eddy diffusion coefiicieni for the turbiijeni iliiid (Goldstein. 1938, p. 217). However, the correlation coefficient in (4.54) applies to the gas velocities over the path of the particle. Heavy particles move slowly and cannot follow the fluid eddies that surge around them. Thus the time scale that should be employed in (4,54) ranges between the Lagrangian scale for small particles that follow the gas and the Eulerian lime scale for heavy particles that remain almost fixed (Fricdlander, 1957),... 

It is by no means certain that the mechanism of fracture-induced decomposition reaction will be the same as that described for slow decomposition. For example, when the crack is running at its maximum velocity, chemical bonds are broken on a time scale comparable to that required for a bond to make one vibration. It can be imagined, therefore, that those bonds which are near their maximum amplitude of vibration when the crack approaches wiU be most likely to break, probably leaving the surface in a highly active state and producing free radicals in the gas phase. Such a process was envisaged by Taylor and Weale... 

The term macroscopic description refers to the long-time and large-scale limit, t -> oo and x -> oo, of mesoscopic equations where the details of the microscopic movement are irrelevant. In particular, it refers to the diffusive limit where balance equations such as (3.13), (3.41), and (3.74) are approximated by the diffusion equation (2.1). The standard derivation of the diffusion equation involves the assumption that the typical microscopic jumps and times are small compared to the characteristic macroscopic space and time scales. Let us illustrate this using the mesoscopic transport equation (3.74). If the jump density w(z) is a rapidly decaying function for large z, one can expand p(x - z, t) in z and truncate the Taylor series at the second moment ... 

I would also like to thank the editorial and production staff at Taylor Francis the publishers for their enthusiasm and support, particularly my Editor, Gavin Fidler. They were able to publish this 8th Edition within the very short time-scale created by the publication of the new 3rd Amendment to the 17th Edition of the lET Regulations. 

Map position Numbers refer to time scale on the map published by Taylor and Trotter [19]. 

As mentioned above, vibronic-coupling model Hamiltonians constructed by low-order Taylor expansions of the diabatic PE functions in terms of normal coordinates are particularly suitable for the calculation of low-resolution spectra of polyatomic molecules. In resonance Raman spectroscopy, for example, the usually extremely fast electronic dephasing in polyatomic s tems limits the time scale for the exploration of the excited-state PE surface by the nuclear wave packet to about 10 jjj... 

Formulas (4.9), (4.10) provide the approximate solution on the slow time scale. From these asymptotics one can see that the second and third components tend to zero, whereas the first one tends to a nonzero constant y = (W/A) at infinity. If we use Taylor expansions of the left sides of Eqs. (4.9) and (4.10), the error estimate of the asymptotic behavior at infinity can easily be derived as follows ... 

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