On 5 May 2000, Ken Livingstone became Mayor of London and Britain's first directly elected executive head of an administration. Returned as an independent, he had no backing from a party machine and inherited a weak administrative apparatus. Nevertheless, key strategies on transport, economic...

The stochastic properties of the sojourn times attached to a Markov process in continuous time and with a finite number of states are described by using a statistical ensemble approach. This approach is applied for investigating the large time behavior of independent rate processes with...

We present a response theory for random channel kinetics, based on the method of characteristic functionals. We assume that the fluctuations of the rate coefficients are generated by the contributions of a large number of reaction channels, and can be described in terms of a set of grand...