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physics.bio-ph2004
Comment on Why is the DNA Transition First Order? and Griffiths Singularities in Unbinding of Strongly Disordered Polymers
Mark Ya. Azbel
The papers [1,2] consider unbinding of a disordered heteropolymer. They find the first order phase transition [1] when disorder is strong (i.e. the ratio v of the binding energies…
q-bio.QM2004
Dynamics of mortality in protected populations
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Demographic data and recent experiments verify earlier predictions that mortality has short (few percent of the life span) memory of the previous life history, may be significantly…
q-bio.QM2004
Immortality as a physical problem
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Well protected human and laboratory animal populations with abundant resources are evolutionary unprecedented. Physical approach, which takes advantage of their extensively quantif…