Stochastic Analysis of the Motion of DNA Nanomechanical Bipeds

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1932-1951

  Ben Ari, Iddo ^a   Boushaba, Khalid ^b   Matzavinos, Anastasios ^b   Roitershtein, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Controlled random walks; DNA nanodevices; Large deviations; Law of large numbers; Markov additive processes; Molecular spiders; Recurrence transience criteria; Regeneration structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

DNA; MARKOV CHAINS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARANEAE;

EID: 79959585766     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9600-x     Document Type: Article

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