Rugged free energy landscapes : common computational approaches in spin glasses, structural glasses, and biological macromolecules / / edited by W. Janke

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466704603316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer, , [2008]; ©2008
• ISBN: 3-540-74029-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 412 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 736
• Disciplina: 530.413
• Soggetti: Spin glasses - Mathematical models; Condensed matter - Mathematical models; Protein folding - Mathematical models
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Rugged Free-Energy Landscapes – An Introduction -- Rugged Free-Energy Landscapes – An Introduction -- Spin Glasses -- Some Aspects of Infinite-Range Models of Spin Glasses: Theory and Numerical Simulations -- The Potts Glass Model: A Scenario for the Freezing Transition of Structural Glasses? -- Domain Walls, Droplets and Barriers in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses -- Local Scale-Invariance in Disordered Systems -- Structural Glasses -- Transport of Mobile Particles in an Immobile Environment: Computer Simulations of Sodium Silicates -- The Gonihedric Ising Model and Glassiness -- Protein Folding -- Thermodynamics of Protein Folding from Coarse-Grained Models’ Perspectives -- Exact Energy Landscapes of Proteins Using a Coarse-Grained Model -- Protein Folding, Unfolding and Aggregation Studied Using an All-Atom Model with~a~Simplified Interaction Potential -- All-Atom Simulations of Proteins -- Algorithmic Developments -- Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Simulations of Biomolecules -- A Different Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Systems with Complex Free-Energy Landscapes -- Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms for Protein Folding Simulations.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of lectures and tutorial reviews by renowned experts ; focusses on the common computational approaches in use to unravel the static and dynamical behaviour of complex physical systems at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. Paradigmatic examples of condensed matter physics are spin and structural glasses and protein folding, as well as their aggregation and adsorption to hard and soft surfaces, in physico-chemical biology. Among the most prominent joint key features of the systems considered in this volume are rugged free-energy landscapes. These generate metastability and are often responsible for very slow dynamics allowing for the system to be trapped in one of the many available local minima. The challenge set forth by the authors of this volume is to provide a common basis and technical language for the (computational) technology transfer between the fields and systems considered.

L'allégement de la dette au Club de Paris : Les évolutions récentes en perspective / / Ann Vourc'h

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910138009103321
• Autore: Vourc'h Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, France : , : OECD Publishing, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (57 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: OECD Development Centre Working Papers
• Disciplina: 332.02402
• Soggetti: Debt relief; Debt relief - Developing countries; France Paris; Developing Countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: What does the Paris Club do for debtor countries, and more particularly for the poorest of them? Set up to ease the liquidity constraints of a country experiencing payment problems, by rescheduling its debt with the creditor governments, the Paris Club has frequently had to ; intervene since the beginning of the debt crisis. Since the Toronto Summit of June 1988 it has also been playing the role of aid provider for the poorest debtor countries. After describing the functioning of the Paris Club in part one, the study goes on to evaluate the extent and role of the liquidity provided by the Club throughout the 1980s in part two. An initial finding is that the sums rescheduled through its action were very much greater than those lent over the same period by the creditor governments comprising the Club. Through focusing on selected African countries, the paper then shows that the main role of the liquidity created has been to avoid these countries' accumulating massive arrears and being cut.

Diasporic mediations : between home and location / / R. Radhakrishnan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784371603321
• Autore: Radhakrishnan R (Rajagopalan)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1996
• ISBN: 0-8166-8664-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.01; 301/.01; 306
• Soggetti: Postmodernism - Social aspects; Culture; Ethnicity; Identity (Psychology)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Changing Subject and the Politics of Theory; 2 Toward an Effective Intellectual: Foucault or Gramsci?; 3 Ethnic Identity and Poststructuralist Differance; 4 Culture as Common Ground: Ethnicity and Beyond; 5 Canonicity and Theory: Toward a Poststructuralist Pedagogy; 6 Negotiating Subject Positions in an Uneven World; 7 Cultural Theory and the Politics of Location; 8 ; Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity; 9 Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity; 10 Is the Ethnic ""Authentic"" in the Diaspora?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the heated, often rancorous debates that are the "culture wars," identity politics has been at the center of both popular and academic discussion. In this series of meditations on the relationship between theory and practice, R. Radhakrishnan probes the intersections of poststructuralism and postcoloniality that lie at the heart of contemporary controversies over identity and difference.