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The CoHSI (Conservation of Hartley-Shannon Information) distribution is at the heart of a wide-class of discrete systems, defining the length distribution of their components amongst other global properties. Discrete systems such as the known proteome where components are proteins, computer software, where components are functions and texts where components are books, are all known to fit this distribution accurately. In this short paper, we explore its solution and its resulting properties and lay the foundation for a series of papers which will demonstrate amongst other things, why the average length of components is so highly conserved and why long components occur so frequently in these systems. These properties are not amenable to local arguments such as natural selection in the case of the proteome or human volition in the case of computer software, and indeed turn out to be inevitable global properties of discrete systems devolving directly from CoHSI and shared by all. We will illustrate this using examples from the Uniprot protein database as a prelude to subsequent studies.
The CoHSI (Conservation of Hartley-Shannon Information) distribution is at the heart of a wide-class of discrete systems, defining (amongst other properties) the length distribution of their components. Discrete systems such as the known proteome, computer software and texts are all known to fit this distribution accurately. In a previous paper, we explored the properties of this distribution in detail. Here we will use these properties to show why the average length of components in general and proteins in particular is highly conserved, howsoever measured, demonstrating this on various aggregations of proteins taken from the UniProt database. We will go on to define departures from this equilibrium state, identifying fine structure in the average length of eukaryotic proteins that result from evolutionary processes.
Cicadas (Homoptera:Cicadidae) are insects able to produce loudly songs and it is known that the mechanism to produce sound of tymballing cicadas works as a Helmholtz resonator. In this work we offer evidence on the participation of the wings in a high quality resonating process which defines the details of the acoustic properties of the calling song. The study is carry on textit{Quesada gigas} species and it is dividied in three stages: (i) the acoustical characterization of the abdominal cavity, (ii) the record and calculation of frequency spectrum of the calling song, and (iii) the measurement of the vibration modes of the wings. The comparison between all the results unequivocally show the dramatic influence of the wings in the moment in which the insect emits its calling song.
As a first step in the search of an analytical study of mechanical denaturation of DNA in terms of the sequence, we study stable, stationary solutions in the discrete, finite and homogeneous Peyrard-Bishop DNA model. We find and classify all the stationary solutions of the model, as well as analytic approximations of them, both in the continuum and in the discrete limits. Our results explain the structure of the solutions reported by Theodorakopoulos {em et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {bf 93}, 258101 (2004)] and provide a way to proceed to the analysis of the generalized version of the model incorporating the genetic information.
We present simulations of the cluster distribution in several dark matter models, using an optimized version of the truncated Zeldovich approximation (TZA). We compare them with N-body cluster simulations and find that the TZA provides a very accurate description of the cluster distribution as long as fluctuations on the cluster mass scale are in the mildly non-linear regime. The simulated dark matter models are: Standard CDM (SCDM), Tilted CDM (TCDM) with n=0.7, Cold+Hot DM (CHDM) with 30% of hot component, low Hubble constant (h=0.3) CDM (LOWH) and a spatially flat low-density CDM model with Omega_0=0.2. We compare the simulations with a redshift sample of Abell/ACO clusters, using the integral of the 2-point correlation function and the probability density function. We find that the best models at reproducing the data are CHDM and LCDM. All the other models are ruled out. The reduced skewness S_3 is fairly constant with S_3=1.9, independent of the DM model and consistent with observational data. The abundances of clusters predicted using the Press--Schechter theory provide strong constraints: only the CHDM, LOWH and LCDM models appear to produce the correct number-density of clusters.
It is shown that there is a sense in splitting Genetic Code Table (GCT) into three parts using the harmonic mean, calculated by the formula H (a, b) = 2ab / (a + b), where a = 63 and b = 31.5. Within these three parts, the amino acids (AAs) are positioned on the basis of the validity of the evident regularities of key parameters, such as polarity, hydrophobicity and enzyme-mediated amino acid classification. In addition, there are obvious balances of the number of atoms in the nucleotide triplets and corresponding amino acid groups and/or classes.