Capital Normal University

About: Capital Normal University is a education organization based out in Beijing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Terahertz radiation & Quantum entanglement. The organization has 11441 authors who have published 11988 publications receiving 159071 citations. The organization is also known as: Shǒudū Shīfàn Dàxué.

Simple Waves and a Characteristic Decomposition of the Two Dimensional Compressible Euler Equations

Abstract: We present a characteristic decomposition of the potential flow equation in the self-similar plane The decomposition allows for a proof that any wave adjacent to a constant state is a simple wave for the adiabatic Euler system This result is a generalization of the well-known result on 2-d steady potential flow and a recent similar result on the pressure gradient system

The FG 2015 Kinship Verification in the Wild Evaluation

Abstract: The aim of the Kinship Verification in the Wild Evaluation (held in conjunction with the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Ljubljana, Slovenia) was to evaluate different kinship verification algorithms. For this task, two datasets were made available and three possible experimental protocols (unsupervised, image-restricted, and image-unrestricted) were designed. Five institutions submitted their results to the evaluation: (i) Politecnico di Torino, Italy; (ii) LIRIS-University of Lyon, France; (iii) Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; (iv) Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; and (v) Bar Ilan University, Israel. Most of the participants tackled the image-restricted challenge and experimental results demonstrated better kinship verification performance than the baseline methods provided by the organizers.

Proteome characterization of developing grains in bread wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.)

Abstract: The analyses of protein synthesis, accumulation and regulation during grain development in wheat are more complex because of its larger genome size compared to model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice. In this study, grains from two wheat cultivars Jimai 20 and Zhoumai 16 with different gluten quality properties were harvested at five development stages, and were used to displayed variable expression patterns of grain proteins. Proteome characterization during grain development in Chinese bread wheat cultivars Jimai 20 and Zhoumai 16 with different quality properties was investigated by 2-DE and tandem MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS. Identification of 117 differentially accumulated protein spots representing 82 unique proteins and five main expression patterns enabled a chronological description of wheat grain formation. Significant proteome expression differences between the two cultivars were found; these included 14 protein spots that accumulated in both cultivars but with different patterns and 27 cultivar-different spots. Among the cultivar-different protein spots, 14 accumulated in higher abundance in Jimai 20 than in Zhoumai 16, and included NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase, triticin precursor, LMW-s glutenin subunit and replication factor C-like protein. These proteins are likely to be associated with superior gluten quality. In addition, some proteins such as class II chitinase and peroxidase 1 with isoforms in developing grains were shown to be phosphorylated by Pro-Q Diamond staining and phosphorprotein site prediction. Phosphorylation could have important roles in wheat grain development. qRT-PCR analysis demonstrated that transcriptional and translational expression patterns of many genes were significantly different. Wheat grain proteins displayed variable expression patterns at different developmental stages and a considerable number of protein spots showed differential accumulation between two cultivars. Differences in seed storage proteins were considered to be related to different quality performance of the flour from these wheat cultivars. Some proteins with isoforms were phosphorylated, and this may reflect their importance in grain development. Our results provide new insights into proteome characterization during grain development in different wheat genotypes.

Index and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Systems with Application to Figure-Eight Orbit

Abstract: In this paper, using the Maslov index theory in symplectic geometry, we build up some stability criteria for symmetric periodic orbits in a Hamiltonian system, which is motivated by the recent discoveries in the n-body problem. The key ingredient is a generalized Bott-type iteration formula for periodic solution in the presence of finite group action on the orbit. For second order system, we prove, under general boundary conditions, the close formula for the relationship between the Morse index of an orbit in a Lagrangian system and the Maslov index of the fundamental solution for the corresponding orbit in its Hamiltonian system counterpart, and the boundary conditions cover the cases which appeared in the n-body problem. As an application we consider the stability problem of the celebrated figure-eight orbit due to Chenciner and Montgomery in the planar three-body problem with equal masses, and we clarify the relationship between linear stability and its variational nature on various loop spaces. The basic idea is as follows: the variational characterization of the figure-eight orbit provides information about its Morse index; based on its relation to the Maslov index, our stability criteria come into play.