Some large deviation estimates for an Erlang queue of phosphorylated T-cell receptors

Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 03-12

  Wedagedera, Janak R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

T cell activation; TCR pMHC interaction; Variational problem for most probable path; Wentzell Freidlin theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953848374     PISSN: 13914588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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