1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458189003321

Autore

Dewey Thomas Gregory <1952->

Titolo

Fractals in molecular biophysics / / T. Gregory Dewey, Department of Chemistry, University of Denver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

1-280-52698-X

9786610526987

0-19-535918-6

1-4294-0424-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Topics in physical chemistry : a series of advanced textbooks and monographs

Disciplina

574.8/8/0151474

Soggetti

Molecular biology - Mathematical models

Biophysics - Mathematical models

Fractals

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 What Are Fractals?; 2 Fractal Aspects of Protein Structure; 3 Loops, Polymer Statistics, and Helix-Coil Transitions; 4 The Multifractality of Biomacromolecules; 5 Fractal Diffusion and Chemical Kinetics; 6 Are Protein Dynamics Fractal?; 7 Fractons and Vibrational Relaxation in Proteins; 8 Encoded Walks and Correlations in Sequence Data; 9 Percolation; 10 Chaos in Biochemical Systems; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses applications of fractal geometry to complex problems in molecular biophysics. It provides a treatment of fractal aspects of protein and structure dynamics, fractal reaction kinetics in biochemical systems, sequence correlations in DNA, and descriptors of chaos in enzymes.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159013003321

Autore

Taibbi Matt

Titolo

Insane Clown President : Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2017

, : Random House Publishing Group, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Classificazione

POL008000POL040010POL032000

Altri autori (Persone)

JuhaszVictor

Disciplina

973.932

Soggetti

Nonfiction

Essays

Politics

United States Politics and government 2009-2017

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Matt Taibbi's first piece on the 2016 presidential election, published in August 2015, opens with these words: "The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end." In twenty-four pieces from Rolling Stone--plus two original essays--Taibbi tells the full story the campaign, from its tragi-comic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, through sharp, on-the-ground reporting, incisive analysis, and gallows humor. This isn't simply a blow-by-blow recounting of this uniquely bizarre and disturbing election season, but the wider story of the seeming collapse of American democracy. Unlike many campaign chroniclers, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story from beginning: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality between warring sides of the political spectrum; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new,



explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. The pieces cover the "clown car" of the Republican primary season, the thwarted Bernie insurgency, the deeply flawed and aimless Clinton campaign, the often pathetic media coverage, the legacy of the Obama administration, and the lives of actual voters across the country forced to bear witness to the whole dispiriting spectacle"--