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Joseph Adams1, Madan M. Aggarwal2, Zubayer Ahammed3, J. Amonett4  +363 moreInstitutions (46)
TL;DR: In this paper, the most important experimental results from the first three years of nucleus-nucleus collision studies at RHIC were reviewed, with emphasis on results of the STAR experiment.

2,750 citations


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TL;DR: A brief summary of the different preparation and characteristics of ion exchange membrane as well as their potential applications can be found in this paper, where the most relevant literatures in the field are surveyed and some elucidating case studies are discussed.

1,159 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized data for δ18O in zircons that have been analyzed from 1,200 dated rocks ranging over 96% of the age of Earth.
Abstract: Analysis of δ18O in igneous zircons of known age traces the evolution of intracrustal recycling and crust-mantle interaction through time. This record is especially sensitive because oxygen isotope ratios of igneous rocks are strongly affected by incorporation of supracrustal materials into melts, which commonly have δ18O values higher than in primitive mantle magmas. This study summarizes data for δ18O in zircons that have been analyzed from 1,200 dated rocks ranging over 96% of the age of Earth. Uniformly primitive to mildly evolved magmatic δ18O values are found from the first half of Earth history, but much more varied values are seen for younger magmas. The similarity of values throughout the Archean, and comparison to the composition of the “modern” mantle indicate that δ18O of primitive mantle melts have remained constant (±0.2‰) for the past 4.4 billion years. The range and variability of δ18O in all Archean zircon samples is subdued (δ18O(Zrc)=5–7.5‰) ranging from values in high temperature equilibrium with the mantle (5.3± 0.3‰) to slightly higher, more evolved compositions (6.5–7.5‰) including samples from: the Jack Hills (4.4–3.3 Ga), the Beartooth Mountains (4.0–2.9 Ga), Barberton (3.5–2.7 Ga), the Superior and Slave Provinces (3.0 to 2.7 Ga), and the Lewisian (2.7 Ga). No zircons from the Archean have been analyzed with magmatic δ18O above 7.5‰. The mildly evolved, higher Archean values (6.5–7.5‰) are interpreted to result from exchange of protoliths with surface waters at low temperature followed by melting or contamination to create mildly elevated magmas that host the zircons. During the Proterozoic, the range of δ18O(Zrc) and the highest values gradually increased in a secular change that documents maturation of the crust. After ∼1.5 Ga, high δ18O zircons (8 to >10‰) became common in many Proterozoic and Phanerozoic terranes reflecting δ18O(whole rock) values from 9 to over 12‰. The appearance of high δ18O magmas on Earth reflects nonuniformitarian changes in the composition of sediments, and rate and style of recycling of surface-derived material into magmas within the crust.

940 citations


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20 May 2005-Science
TL;DR: The 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake initiated slowly, with small slip and a slow rupture speed for the first 40 to 60 seconds, then the rupture expanded at a speed of about 2.5 kilometers per second toward the north northwest, extending 1200 to 1300 kilometers along the Andaman trough as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake initiated slowly, with small slip and a slow rupture speed for the first 40 to 60 seconds. Then the rupture expanded at a speed of about 2.5 kilometers per second toward the north northwest, extending 1200 to 1300 kilometers along the Andaman trough. Peak displacements reached ∼15 meters along a 600-kilometer segment of the plate boundary offshore of northwestern Sumatra and the southern Nicobar islands. Slip was less in the northern 400 to 500 kilometers of the aftershock zone, and at least some slip in that region may have occurred on a time scale beyond the seismic band.

660 citations


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02 Sep 2005-Science
TL;DR: It is reported that the Kondo effect exerted by a magnetic ion depends on its chemical environment and is attributed to the small on-site Coulomb repulsion and the large half-width of the hybridized d-level.
Abstract: We report that the Kondo effect exerted by a magnetic ion depends on its chemical environment. A cobalt phthalocyanine molecule adsorbed on an Au(111) surface exhibited no Kondo effect. Cutting away eight hydrogen atoms from the molecule with voltage pulses from a scanning tunneling microscope tip allowed the four orbitals of this molecule to chemically bond to the gold substrate. The localized spin was recovered in this artificial molecular structure, and a clear Kondo resonance was observed near the Fermi surface. We attribute the high Kondo temperature (more than 200 kelvin) to the small on-site Coulomb repulsion and the large half-width of the hybridized d-level.

565 citations


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TL;DR: Gold colloids with nanoparticles of different sizes were found to enhance the chemiluminescence (CL) of the luminol-H2O2 system, and the most intensive CL signals were obtained with 38-nm-diameter gold nanoparticles.
Abstract: Gold colloids with nanoparticles of different sizes were found to enhance the chemiluminescence (CL) of the luminol-H2O2 system, and the most intensive CL signals were obtained with 38-nm-diameter gold nanoparticles. UV-visible spectra, X-ray photoelectron spectra, and transmission electron microscopy studies were carried out before and after the CL reaction to investigate the CL enhancement mechanism. The CL enhancement by gold nanoparticles of the luminol-H2O2 system was supposed to originate from the catalysis of gold nanoparticles, which facilitated the radical generation and electron-transfer processes taking place on the surface of the gold nanoparticles. The effects of the reactant concentrations, the size of the gold nanoparticles. and some organic compounds were also investigated. Organic compounds containing OH, NH2, and SH groups were observed to inhibit the CL signal of the luminol-H2O2-gold colloids system, which made it applicable for the determination of such compounds.

459 citations


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Joseph Adams1, Madan M. Aggarwal2, Zubayer Ahammed3, J. Amonett4  +374 moreInstitutions (46)
TL;DR: The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v(1), elliptic flow, and the fourth harmonic in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV are summarized and compared with results from other experiments and theoretical models.
Abstract: The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v(1)), elliptic flow (v(2)), and the fourth harmonic (v(4)) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV are summarized and compared with results from other experiments and theoretical models. Results for identified particles are presented and fit with a blast-wave model. Different anisotropic flow analysis methods are compared and nonflow effects are extracted from the data. For v(2), scaling with the number of constituent quarks and parton coalescence are discussed. For v(4), scaling with v(2)(2) and quark coalescence are discussed.

448 citations


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A. Airapetian1, N. Akopov2, Z. Akopov2, M. Amarian2  +171 moreInstitutions (21)
TL;DR: Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target polarization, and the Sivers asymmetry may be affected by exclusive vector meson production.
Abstract: Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target polarization. The asymmetry depends on the azimuthal angles of both the pion ($\ensuremath{\phi}$) and the target spin axis (${\ensuremath{\phi}}_{S}$) about the virtual-photon direction and relative to the lepton scattering plane. The extracted Fourier component $\mathbf{⟨}\mathrm{sin} (\ensuremath{\phi}+{\ensuremath{\phi}}_{S}){\mathbf{⟩}}_{UT}^{\ensuremath{\pi}}$ is a signal of the previously unmeasured quark transversity distribution, in conjunction with the Collins fragmentation function, also unknown. The component $\mathbf{⟨}\mathrm{sin} (\ensuremath{\phi}\ensuremath{-}{\ensuremath{\phi}}_{S}{\mathbf{⟩}}_{UT}^{\ensuremath{\pi}}$ arises from a correlation between the transverse polarization of the target nucleon and the intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks, as represented by the previously unmeasured Sivers distribution function. Evidence for both signals is observed, but the Sivers asymmetry may be affected by exclusive vector meson production.

438 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of empirical formulae to predict the penetration depth, scabbing thickness and perforation thickness is presented in both Imperial and SI units and the current status of various design codes is summarized based on a dimensional analysis, dominant non-dimensional parameters that may influence the local impact effects on concrete targets are obtained and then used to present some of the test data Various nose shape factors are compared and a unique definition of the nose shape factor is suggested Analytical models and numerical simulation methods for penetration are summarized Criticisms are made for the current understanding of

411 citations


Proceedings ArticleDOI
20 Jun 2005
TL;DR: A new supervised algorithm, Marginal Fisher Analysis (MFA), is proposed, for dimensionality reduction by designing two graphs that characterize the intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, respectively.
Abstract: In the last decades, a large family of algorithms - supervised or unsupervised; stemming from statistic or geometry theory - have been proposed to provide different solutions to the problem of dimensionality reduction. In this paper, beyond the different motivations of these algorithms, we propose a general framework, graph embedding along with its linearization and kernelization, which in theory reveals the underlying objective shared by most previous algorithms. It presents a unified perspective to understand these algorithms; that is, each algorithm can be considered as the direct graph embedding or its linear/kernel extension of some specific graph characterizing certain statistic or geometry property of a data set. Furthermore, this framework is a general platform to develop new algorithm for dimensionality reduction. To this end, we propose a new supervised algorithm, Marginal Fisher Analysis (MFA), for dimensionality reduction by designing two graphs that characterize the intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, respectively. MFA measures the intra-class compactness with the distance between each data point and its neighboring points of the same class, and measures the inter-class separability with the class margins; thus it overcomes the limitations of traditional Linear Discriminant Analysis algorithm in terms of data distribution assumptions and available projection directions. The toy problem on artificial data and the real face recognition experiments both show the superiority of our proposed MFA in comparison to LDA.

404 citations


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Joseph Adams1, C. Adler2, Madan M. Aggarwal3, Zubayer Ahammed4  +366 moreInstitutions (41)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconstructed hadrons in 0.15 4 4 GeV/c collisions with pp and Au+Au at the radical (s{sub NN}) = 200 GeV and the associated multiplicity and p{sub perpendicular} magnitude sum were found to increase from pp to central Au+AU collisions.
Abstract: Charged hadrons in 0.15 4 GeV/c are reconstructed in pp and Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=200 GeV. The associated multiplicity and p{sub perpendicular} magnitude sum are found to increase from pp to central Au+Au collisions. The associated p{sub perpendicular} distributions, while similar in shape on the nearside, are significantly softened on the awayside in central Au+Au relative to pp and not much harder than that of inclusive hadrons. The results, consistent with jet quenching, suggest that the awayside fragments approach equilibration with the medium traversed.

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TL;DR: A generally applicable protocol was developed that could successfully predict the standard redox potentials of 270 structurally unrelated organic molecules in acetonitrile and was able to establish a scale of standard redbox potentials for diverse types of organic free radicals for the first time.
Abstract: A calibrated B3LYP/6-311++G(2df,2p)//B3LYP/6-31+G(d) method was found to be able to predict the gas-phase adiabatic ionization potentials of 160 structurally unrelated organic molecules with a precision of 0.14 eV. A PCM solvation model was benchmarked that could predict the pK(a)'s of 15 organic acids in acetonitrile with a precision of 1.0 pK(a) unit. Combining the above two methods, we developed a generally applicable protocol that could successfully predict the standard redox potentials of 270 structurally unrelated organic molecules in acetonitrile. The standard deviation of the predictions was 0.17 V. The study demonstrated that computational electrochemistry could become a powerful tool for the organic chemical community. It also confirmed that the continuum solvation theory could correctly predict the solvation energies of organic radicals. Finally, with the help of the newly developed protocol we were able to establish a scale of standard redox potentials for diverse types of organic free radicals for the first time. Knowledge about these redox potentials should be of great value for understanding the numerous electron-transfer reactions in organic and bioorganic chemistry.

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TL;DR: Experimental results show that BPHEME can not only enhance the image effectively, but also preserve the original brightness quite well, so that it is possible to be utilized in consumer electronic products.
Abstract: Histogram equalization (HE) is a simple and effective image enhancing technique, however, it tends to change the mean brightness of the image to the middle level of the permitted range, and hence is not very suitable for consumer electronic products, where preserving the original brightness is essential to avoid annoying artifacts. This paper proposes a novel extension of histogram equalization, actually histogram specification, to overcome such drawback as HE. To maximize the entropy is the essential idea of HE to make the histogram as flat as possible. Following that, the essence of the proposed algorithm, named brightness preserving histogram equalization with maximum entropy (BPHEME), tries to find, by the variational approach, the target histogram that maximizes the entropy, under the constraints that the mean brightness is fixed, then transforms the original histogram to that target one using histogram specification. Comparing to the existing methods including HE, brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization (BBHE), equal area dualistic sub-image histogram equalization (DSIHE), and minimum mean brightness error bi-histogram equalization (MMBEBHE), experimental results show that BPHEME can not only enhance the image effectively, but also preserve the original brightness quite well, so that it is possible to be utilized in consumer electronic products.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed in situ combined study of intragrain U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircons from granitic gneiss and eclogite in the Dabie orogen of China was performed.


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23 Nov 2005-Neuron
TL;DR: It is shown that ischemia enhances ASIC currents through the phosphorylation at Ser478 and Ser479 of ASIC1a, leading to exacerbated ischemic cell death, and specific blockade of NMDAR/CaMKII-ASIC coupling may reduce neuronal death after ischemIA and other pathological conditions involving excessive glutamate release and acidosis.

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24 Jun 2005-Science
TL;DR: Concentration profiles demonstrate that enol flame chemistry cannot be accounted for purely by keto-enol tautomerization, and currently accepted hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms will likely require revision to explain the formation and reactivity of these unexpected compounds.
Abstract: Models for chemical mechanisms of hydrocarbon oxidation rely on spectrometric identification of molecular structures in flames. Carbonyl (keto) compounds are well-established combustion intermediates. However, their less-stable enol tautomers, bearing OH groups adjacent to carbon-carbon double bonds, are not included in standard models. We observed substantial quantities of two-, three-, and four-carbon enols by photoionization mass spectrometry of flames burning representative compounds from modern fuel blends. Concentration profiles demonstrate that enol flame chemistry cannot be accounted for purely by keto-enol tautomerization. Currently accepted hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms will likely require revision to explain the formation and reactivity of these unexpected compounds.

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Suyong Choi1, S. L. Olsen, Kazuo Abe, I. Adachi, Hiroaki Aihara2, Y. Asano3, S. Bahinipati4, A. M. Bakich5, Y. Ban6, I. Bedny7, U. Bitenc, I. Bizjak, A. Bondar7, A. Bozek8, M. Bračko9, Jolanta Brodzicka8, T. E. Browder, M. C. Chang10, P. Chang10, A. Chen11, W. T. Chen11, Byung Gu Cheon12, R. Chistov, Y. Choi13, A. Chuvikov14, S. Cole5, J. Dalseno15, M. Danilov, M. Dash16, A. Drutskoy4, S. Eidelman7, Yuji Enari17, F. Fang, S. Fratina, N. Gabyshev7, T. J. Gershon, G. Gokhroo18, B. Golob19, T. Hara20, N. C. Hastings, K. Hayasaka17, H. Hayashii21, Masashi Hazumi, L. Hinz22, T. Hokuue17, Y. Hoshi23, S. R. Hou11, W. S. Hou10, Y. B. Hsiung10, T. Iijima17, A. Imoto21, K. Inami17, A. Ishikawa, M. Iwasaki2, Y. Iwasaki, J. Kang24, J. S. Kang25, S. U. Kataoka21, N. Katayama, H. Kawai26, T. Kawasaki27, H. R. Khan28, H. Kichimi, Hyun-Chul Kim29, S. M. Kim13, K. Kinoshita4, S. Korpar9, P. Križan19, P. Krokovny7, C. C. Kuo11, A.S. Kuzmin7, Youngil Kwon24, J. S. Lange30, S. E. Lee31, S. H. Lee31, T. Lesiak8, J. Li32, S. W. Lin10, D. Liventsev, Gobinda Majumder18, T. Matsumoto33, A. Matyja8, W. A. Mitaroff34, K. Miyabayashi21, H. Miyata27, R. Mizuk, D. Mohapatra16, G. R. Moloney15, E. Nakano35, M. Nakao, H. Nakazawa, S. Nishida, O. Nitoh36, S. Ogawa37, T. Ohshima17, T. Okabe17, S. Okuno38, W. Ostrowicz8, H. Palka8, C. W. Park13, N. Parslow5, R. Pestotnik, L. E. Piilonen16, M. Rozanska8, Hiroyuki Sagawa, Y. Sakai, Noriaki K. Sato17, T. Schietinger22, O. Schneider22, C. Schwanda34, H. Shibuya37, B. Shwartz7, A. Somov4, N. Soni39, S. Stanič3, M. Starič, T. Sumiyoshi33, S. Suzuki40, S. Y. Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, F. Takasaki, K. Tamai, N. Tamura27, Y. Teramoto35, X. C. Tian6, K. Trabelsi, S. Uehara, T. Uglov, S. Uno, G. S. Varner, Kevin Varvell5, S. Villa22, C. H. Wang41, M. Z. Wang10, M. Watanabe27, B. D. Yabsley16, A. Yamaguchi42, Y. Yamashita, M. Yamauchi, Heyoung Yang31, You-Jin Yuan, Y. Yusa42, C. Zhang, Jie Zhang, Long Zhang32, Zhenyu Zhang32, D. Žontar19, D. Zürcher22 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a method to solve the problem of the EPT problem in PhysRevLett, a journal published on 2010-11-05, modified on 2017-12-10.
Abstract: Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-154584doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.182002View record in Web of Science Record created on 2010-11-05, modified on 2017-12-10

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31 Oct 2005
TL;DR: This paper proposes to use a hybrid index structure, which integrates inverted files and R*-trees, to handle both textual and location aware queries, and designs and implements a complete location-based web search engine.
Abstract: There is more and more commercial and research interest in location-based web search, i.e. finding web content whose topic is related to a particular place or region. In this type of search, location information should be indexed as well as text information. However, the index of conventional text search engine is set-oriented, while location information is two-dimensional and in Euclidean space. This brings new research problems on how to efficiently represent the location attributes of web pages and how to combine two types of indexes. In this paper, we propose to use a hybrid index structure, which integrates inverted files and R*-trees, to handle both textual and location aware queries. Three different combining schemes are studied: (1) inverted file and R*-tree double index, (2) first inverted file then R*-tree, (3) first R*-tree then inverted file. To validate the performance of proposed index structures, we design and implement a complete location-based web search engine which mainly consists of four parts: (1) an extractor which detects geographical scopes of web pages and represents geographical scopes as multiple MBRs based on geographical coordinates; (2) an indexer which builds hybrid index structures to integrate text and location information; (3) a ranker which ranks results by geographical relevance as well as non-geographical relevance; (4) an interface which is friendly for users to input location-based search queries and to obtain geographical and textual relevant results. Experiments on large real-world web dataset show that both the second and the third structures are superior in query time and the second is slightly better than the third. Additionally, indexes based on R*-trees are proven to be more efficient than indexes based on grid structures.

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TL;DR: In this article, a method to fabricate isotropic magnetorheological (MR) elastomers under natural conditions was presented, and a simple self-assembled microstructure was proposed to explain the inherent magnetoviscoelasticity of MR elastomer prepared in the absence of a magnetic field.

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TL;DR: Results indicate that over a short-term, a high-dose of selenite caused more pronounced oxidative stress, greater liver injury, and prominent retardation of growth as compared to Nano-Se.

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TL;DR: Uniform and monodisperse CuO nanorods have been synthesized by directional aggregation and crystallization of tiny CuO nanoparticles generated from a solid-liquid arc discharge process under ambient conditions in the absence of any surfactants.
Abstract: Uniform and monodisperse CuO nanorods have been synthesized by directional aggregation and crystallization of tiny CuO nanoparticles generated from a solid−liquid arc discharge process under ambient conditions in the absence of any surfactants. Uniform CuO nanorods with sharp ends are formed from tiny nanoparticles via a process that involves the rapid oxidation of Cu nanoclusters, the spontaneous aggregation of CuO nanoparticles, and the Ostawald ripening process. The spontaneous aggregation and oriented attachment of tiny CuO nanoparticles contributed obviously to the formation of these kinds of nanostructures. By choice of suitable reducing agent to prevent the oxidation of Cu nanoclusters, Cu and Cu2O nanoparticles can be selectively synthesized.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated study of geochronological, petrological, and paleontological observations demonstrates that precursors of flysch-facies metasedimentary rocks were deposited along the northern, passive continental margin of the Yangtze plate prior to the Triassic.
Abstract: Greenschist-facies metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks occur continuously along the northern margin, and sporadically in the interior, of the Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt in east-central China. An integrated study of geochronological, petrological, and paleontological observations demonstrates that precursors of flysch-facies metasedimentary rocks were deposited along the northern, passive continental margin of the Yangtze plate prior to the Triassic, and that protoliths of the meta-igneous rocks are a product of Middle Neoproterozoic bimodal magmatism along the northern margin of this plate. Except for the striking contrast in metamorphic grade, these low-grade rocks generally can be correlated in protolith origin and age with ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks within the orogenic belt. Relationships in time and space between these rocks of contrasting grades can be reasonably interpreted through an accretionary wedge model that links their evolution with continent subduction. The low-grade metamorphic ...

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TL;DR: In this paper, a water-soluble multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with temperature-responsive shells were synthesized by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAM) from sidewall of MWNT via surface reversible addition and fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization using RAFT agent functionalized MWNT as chain transfer agent.
Abstract: Water-soluble multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with temperature-responsive shells were synthesized by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAM) from sidewall of MWNT via surface reversible addition and fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization using RAFT agent functionalized MWNT as chain transfer agent. Carboxylic groups on MWNT were formed by nitric acid oxidation. Then bromoisobutyrate groups were covalently attached to the MWNT by esterification of 2-hydroxyethyl-2‘-bromoisobutyrate with carboxylic groups, forming bromoisobutyrate functionalized MWNT (MWNT-Br). RAFT agent functionalized MWNT was produced by substitute reaction of MWNT-Br with PhC(S)SMgBr. 1H NMR, FT-IR, and thermogravimetric analyses (TGA) results showed that PNIPAAM chains grew from MWNT by surface reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. The molecular weight of PNIPAAM on MWNT increased linearly with monomer conversion, and its PDI is narrow (around 1.3). TGA showed that the amount of PNIPAA...

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TL;DR: An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field.
Abstract: An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field. A novel truncation scheme is further proposed and compared with other approaches to close the resulting hierarchically coupled equations of motion. The interplay between system-bath interaction strength, non-Markovian property, and required level of hierarchy is also demonstrated with the aid of simple spin-boson systems.

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TL;DR: The distributed entangled photon source is exploited to demonstrate the Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum cryptography scheme and the distribution distance achieved is for the first time well beyond the effective thickness of the aerosphere, hence presenting a significant step towards satellite-based global quantum communication.
Abstract: We report free-space distribution of entangled photon pairs over a noisy ground atmosphere of 13 km. It is shown that the desired entanglement can still survive after both entangled photons have passed through the noisy ground atmosphere with a distance beyond the effective thickness of the aerosphere. This is confirmed by observing a spacelike separated violation of Bell inequality of 2.45+/-0.09. On this basis, we exploit the distributed entangled photon source to demonstrate the Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum cryptography scheme. The distribution distance of entangled photon pairs achieved in the experiment is for the first time well beyond the effective thickness of the aerosphere, hence presenting a significant step towards satellite-based global quantum communication.

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TL;DR: The formation of granules was found to be a four-phase process, that is, acclimating, shaping, developing, and maturated, and a modified Logistic model could well fit with the granule growth by diameter and could be employed to estimate the maximum diameter, lag time, and specific diameter growth rate effectively.
Abstract: Aerobic granules were cultivated in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with soybean-processing wastewater at 25+/-1 degrees C and pH 7.0+/-0.1. The granulation process was described via measuring the increase of sludge size. The formation of granules was found to be a four-phase process, that is, acclimating, shaping, developing, and maturated. A modified Logistic model could well fit with the granule growth by diameter and could be employed to estimate the maximum diameter, lag time, and specific diameter growth rate effectively. Both normal and log-normal distributions proved to be applicable to model the diameter distribution of the granules. The granule-containing liquor was shear thinning, and their rheological characteristics could be described by using the Herschel-Buckley equation. The suspended solids concentration, pH, temperature, diameter, settling velocity, specific gravity, and sludge volume index all had an effect on the apparent viscosity of the mixed liquor of granules. The matured granules had fractal nature with a fractal dimension of 1.87+/-0.34. Moreover, 83% of matured granules were permeable with fluid collection efficiencies over 0.034. As compared to activated sludge flocs, the aerobic granules grown on the soybean-processing wastewater had better settling ability, mass transfer efficiency, and bioactivity.

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TL;DR: The method of grey related analysis to this problem, using interval fuzzy numbers, standardizes inputs through norms of interval number vectors to apply multiplicative operations over interval numbers.

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TL;DR: It is proved that RANs are maximal planar networks, which are of particular practicability for layout of printed circuits and so on, and the diseases spread slower in R ANs than BA networks in the early stage of the susceptible-infected process, indicating that the large clustering coefficient may slow the spreading velocity.
Abstract: In this article, we propose a simple rule that generates scale-free networks with very large clustering coefficient and very small average distance. These networks are called random Apollonian networks (RANs) as they can be considered as a variation of Apollonian networks. We obtain the analytic results of power-law exponent $\ensuremath{\gamma}=3$ and clustering coefficient $C=\frac{46}{3}\ensuremath{-}36\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ln}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\frac{3}{2}\ensuremath{\approx}0.74$, which agree with the simulation results very well. We prove that the increasing tendency of average distance of RANs is a little slower than the logarithm of the number of nodes in RANs. Since most real-life networks are both scale-free and small-world networks, RANs may perform well in mimicking the reality. The RANs possess hierarchical structure as $C(k)\ensuremath{\sim}{k}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ that are in accord with the observations of many real-life networks. In addition, we prove that RANs are maximal planar networks, which are of particular practicability for layout of printed circuits and so on. The percolation and epidemic spreading process are also studied and the comparisons between RANs and Barab\'asi-Albert (BA) as well as Newman-Watts (NW) networks are shown. We find that, when the network order $N$ (the total number of nodes) is relatively small (as $N\ensuremath{\sim}{10}^{4}$), the performance of RANs under intentional attack is not sensitive to $N$, while that of BA networks is much affected by $N$. And the diseases spread slower in RANs than BA networks in the early stage of the suseptible-infected process, indicating that the large clustering coefficient may slow the spreading velocity, especially in the outbreaks.

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TL;DR: A traffic-driven evolution model of weighted technological networks is proposed, under which the traffic and topology mutually interact, and the model gives power-law distributions of degree, weight, and strength, as confirmed in many real networks.
Abstract: For most technical networks, the interplay of dynamics, traffic, and topology is assumed crucial to their evolution. In this Letter, we propose a traffic-driven evolution model of weighted technological networks. By introducing a general strength-coupling mechanism under which the traffic and topology mutually interact, the model gives power-law distributions of degree, weight, and strength, as confirmed in many real networks. Particularly, depending on a parameter W that controls the total weight growth of the system, the nontrivial clustering coefficient C, degree assortativity coefficient r, and degree-strength correlation are all consistent with empirical evidence.