WATER RELATIONS IN MEMBRANE TRANSPORT IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS

By ELIZABETH ROBINSON

CONTENTS PART I ANALYTIC ASPECTS OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION 1 RIGOROUS RESULTS FOR CONSERVATION EQUATIONS AND TREND TO EQUILIBRIUM IN SPACE-INHOMOGENEOUS KINETIC THEORY 2 RESULTS ON OPTIMAL RATE OF CONVERGENCE TO EQUILIBRIUM FOR SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS MAXWELLIAN GASES 3 NONRESONANT VELOCITY AVERAGING AND THE VLASOV–MAXWELL SYSTEM PART II MODELING APPLICATIONS, INVERSE AND COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM KINETIC THEORY 4 MULTIBAND QUANTUM TRANSPORT MODELS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 5 OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DOPANT PRO?LING 6 INVERSE PROBLEMS FOR SEMICONDUCTORS: MODELS AND METHODS 7 DETERMINISTIC KINETIC SOLVERS FOR CHARGED PARTICLE TRANSPORT IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES PART III MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES 8 METHODS AND TOOLS OF MATHEMATICAL KINETIC THEORY TOWARDS MODELLING COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 9 KINETIC MODELLING OF LATE STAGES OF PHASE SEPARATION 10 GROUND STATES AND DYNAMICS OF ROTATING BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATES 11 TWO INVERSE PROBLEMS IN PHOTON TRANSPORT THEORY: EVALUATION OF A TIME-DEPENDENT SOURCE AND OF A TIME- DEPENDENT CROSS SECTION