Due to a thermodynamic coupling between the two leaflets comprising a lipid bilayer, compositional lipid domains residing within opposing leaflets are often found in registry. If the system is perturbed by displacing ...
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Due to a thermodynamic coupling between the two leaflets comprising a lipid bilayer, compositional lipid domains residing within opposing leaflets are often found in registry. If the system is perturbed by displacing one domain relative to the other, diffusive and advective lipid fluxes are established to restore equilibrium and reestablish domain overlap. In this work, we focus on the advective part of the process, and first derive an analytical expression for the hydrodynamic drag coefficient associated with the advective flow for the special case of perfect domain overlap. The resulting expression identifies parameter regions where sliding friction between the leaflets dominates over viscous dissipation within the leaflets or vice versa. It is shown that in all practically relevant cases, sliding friction between the leaflets is the dominant factor. Finally, we investigate the domain separation dependence of the hydrodynamic drag coefficient via direct simulations of a continuum diffuse interface model, and provide useful empirical expressions for its behavior.
The fuzzy optimization problem is one of the prominent topics in the broad area of artificial intelligence. It is applicable in the field of non-linear fuzzy programming. Its application as well as practical realizati...
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The fuzzy optimization problem is one of the prominent topics in the broad area of artificial intelligence. It is applicable in the field of non-linear fuzzy programming. Its application as well as practical realization can been seen in all the real world problems. In this paper a large scale non-linear fuzzy programming problem was solved by hybrid optimization techniques like Line Search (LS), Simulated Annealing (SA) and Pattern Search (PS). An industrial production planning problem with a cubic objective function, eight decision variables and 29 constraints was solved successfully using the LS-SA-PS hybrid optimization techniques. The computational results for the objective function with respect to vagueness factor and level of satisfaction has been provided in the form of 2D and 3D plots. The outcome is very promising and strongly suggests that the hybrid LS-SA-PS algorithm is very efficient and productive in solving the large scale non-linear fuzzy programming problem. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Optimization of neural network topology, weights and neuron activation functions for given data set and problem is not an easy task. In this article, a technique for automatic configuration of parameters topology for ...
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Optimization of neural network topology, weights and neuron activation functions for given data set and problem is not an easy task. In this article, a technique for automatic configuration of parameters topology for feedforward artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented. The determination of optimal parameters is formulated as an optimization problem, solved with the use of meta-heuristic Multiple Particle Collision Algorithm (MPCA). The self-configuring networks are applied to predict the mesoscale climate for the precipitation field. The results obtained from the neural network using the method of data reduction by the Theory of Rough Sets and the self-configuring network by MPCA were compared.
Summary form only given. Typical greedy algorithms for sparse reconstruction problems, such as orthogonal matching pursuit and iterative thresholding, seek strictly sparse solutions. Recent work in the literature sugg...
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Summary form only given. Typical greedy algorithms for sparse reconstruction problems, such as orthogonal matching pursuit and iterative thresholding, seek strictly sparse solutions. Recent work in the literature suggests that given a priori knowledge of the distribution of the sparse signal coefficients, better results can be obtained by a weighted averaging of several sparse solutions. Such a combination of solutions, while not strictly sparse, approximates an MMSE estimator and can outperform strictly sparse solvers in terms of l-2 reconstruction error. We introduce a novel method for obtaining such an approximate MMSE estimator by replacing the deterministic thresholding operator of Iterative Hard Thresholding with a randomized version. We demonstrate the improvement in performance experimentally for both synthetic 1D signals and real images.
Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) directly solves for the ground-state electron density. It scales linearly with respect to system size, providing a promising tool for large-scale material simulations. Re...
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Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) directly solves for the ground-state electron density. It scales linearly with respect to system size, providing a promising tool for large-scale material simulations. Removal of the orbitals requires use of approximate noninteracting kinetic energy density functionals. If replacing ionic cores with pseudopotentials, removal of the orbitals also requires these pseudopotentials to be local. These are two severe challenges to the capabilities of conventional OFDFT. While main group elements are often well described within conventional OFDFT, transition metals remain intractable due to their localized d electrons. To advance the accuracy and general applicability of OFDFT, we have recently reported a general angular momentum dependent formulation as a next-generation OFDFT. In this formalism, we incorporate the angular momenta of electrons by devising a hybrid scheme based on a muffin tin geometry: inside spheres centered at the ionic cores, the electron density is expanded in a set of atom-centered basis functions combined with an onsite density matrix. The explicit treatment of the angular momenta of electrons provides an important basis for accurately describing the important ionic core region, which is not possible in conventional OFDFT. In addition to the conventional OFDFT total energy functional, we introduce a nonlocal energy term containing a set of angular momentum dependent energies to correct the errors due to the approximate kinetic energy density functional and local pseudopotentials. Our approach greatly increases the accuracy of OFDFT while largely preserving its numerical simplicity. Here, we provide details of the theoretical formulation and practical implementation, including the hybrid scheme, the derivation of the nonlocal energy term, the choice of basis functions, the direct minimization of the total energy, the procedure to determine the angular momentum dependent energies, the force formula with Pu
Stationary bubbles simulated by the multiphase lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) lead to eight symmetric eddies at the interfaces of two-phase flows. A distribution function is introduced in the lattice Boltzmann equatio...
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Stationary bubbles simulated by the multiphase lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) lead to eight symmetric eddies at the interfaces of two-phase flows. A distribution function is introduced in the lattice Boltzmann equation. Numerical simulations conform that eight symmetric eddies at the interfaces of two-phase flows are eliminated effectively by using this method, and the spurious velocities are reduces effectively.
In this paper, a comprehensive study of the downlink performance in a heterogeneous cellular network (or hetnet) is conducted. A general hetnet model is considered consisting of an arbitrary number of open-access and ...
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We present an efficient algorithm for calculating the minimum energy path(MEP)and energy barriers between local minima on a multidimensional potential energy surface(PES).Such paths play a central role in the understa...
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We present an efficient algorithm for calculating the minimum energy path(MEP)and energy barriers between local minima on a multidimensional potential energy surface(PES).Such paths play a central role in the understanding of transition pathways between metastable *** method relies on the original formulation of the string method[***.B,66,052301(2002)],*** evolve a smooth curve along a direction normal to the *** algorithm works by performing minimization steps on hyperplanes normal to the *** the problem of finding MEP on the PES is remodeled as a set of constrained minimization *** provides the flexibility of using minimization algorithms faster than the steepest descent method used in the simplified string method[***.,126(16),164103(2007)].At the same time,it provides a more direct analog of the finite temperature string *** applicability of the algorithm is demonstrated using various examples.
Networks often possess mesoscale structures, and studying them can yield insights into both structure and function. It is most common to study community structure, but numerous other types of mesoscale structures also...
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Networks often possess mesoscale structures, and studying them can yield insights into both structure and function. It is most common to study community structure, but numerous other types of mesoscale structures also exist. In this paper, we examine core-periphery structures based on both density and transport. In such structures, core network components are well-connected both among themselves and to peripheral components, which are not well-connected to anything. We examine core-periphery structures in a wide range of examples of transportation, social, and financial networks—including road networks in large urban areas, a rabbit warren, a dolphin social network, a European interbank network, and a migration network between counties in the United States. We illustrate that a recently developed transport-based notion of node coreness is very useful for characterizing transportation networks. We also generalize this notion to examine core versus peripheral edges, and we show that the resulting diagnostic is also useful for transportation networks. To examine the properties of transportation networks further, we develop a family of generative models of roadlike networks. We illustrate the effect of the dimensionality of the embedding space on transportation networks, and we demonstrate that the correlations between different measures of coreness can be very different for different types of networks.
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