The escape problem for mortal walkers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 146, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Grebenkov, D S ^a   Rupprecht, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOBLEACHING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; FLUORESCENT TRACERS; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; STORAGE CONTAINER; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

FLUORESCENT DYE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLEACHING; CELL DEATH; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; KINETICS; MALE; MARKOV CHAIN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROBABILITY; RNA STABILITY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOBLEACHING; PROBABILITY; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 85014015734     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4976522     Document Type: Article

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