sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_00491241231207914 - Supplemental material for Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_00491241231207914 for Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status by Xi Song and Yu Xie in Sociological Methods & Research</p

sj-pdf-1-smx-10.1177_00811750231193641 – Supplemental material for Trend Analysis with Pooled Data from Different Survey Series: The Latent Attitude Method

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-smx-10.1177_00811750231193641 for Trend Analysis with Pooled Data from Different Survey Series: The Latent Attitude Method by Donghui Wang, Yu Xie and Junming Huang in Sociological Methodology</p

sj-docx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725211072773 – Supplemental material for The Impact of COVID-19 on Americans’ Attitudes toward China: Does Local Incidence Rate Matter?

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725211072773 for The Impact of COVID-19 on Americans’ Attitudes toward China: Does Local Incidence Rate Matter? by Qian He, Ziye Zhang and Yu Xie in Social Psychology Quarterly</p

Experimental Study of Salicylic Acid as a Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate Scale Inhibitor, Analyzed from Surface Properties and Crystal Growth

Static and dynamic experiments were carried out to study the antiscale performance of salicylic acid (SA) to calcium sulfate dihydrate (CSD) scale. The CSD scale formed in the reuse of processing of wastewater of phosphorite flotation. The scale surface physicochemical properties have been investigated by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), ζ potential, and contact angle measurements. The antiscale mechanisms of SA to CSD were studied from surface properties and crystal growth. The results showed that the scale inhibition efficiency of SA to CSD reached 98.9% (6 mg/L) under static conditions. Under dynamic conditions, the faster the fluid velocity, the less CSD formed. The order of scaling capability on different material surfaces was 20#CS > 304SS > PC > PE. The growth of CSD was inhibited by SA resulting in the surface becoming porous. The deprotonated SA could easily interact with the Ca2+ to make the CSD surface potential negative. The wettability properties of the CSD are greatly improved when the contact angle is reduced. The surface tension values of CSD without and with 6 mg/L SA are 19.06 and 240.69 mN/m2, respectively. SA as a scale inhibitor can significantly inhibit crystallization of CSD

sj-pdf-1-chs-10.1177_2057150X211045484 - Supplemental material for Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-chs-10.1177_2057150X211045484 for Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span by Jiashu Xu and Airan Liu in Chinese Journal of Sociology</p

Low temperature exposure increases the protein expression levels of hKv1.5.

<p>Western blot analysis of the total membrane proteins extracted from the CHO-hKv1.5s cells (left panel) or native CHO cells (NC, as a negative control) cultured at 37°C or 28°C for 48 h. The specificity of the hKv1.5 antibody was characterized by an antigen absorption test. GADPH was used as control for protein loading.</p

Improved Functional Expression of Human Cardiac Kv1.5 Channels and Trafficking-Defective Mutants by Low Temperature Treatment

<div><p>We herein investigated the effect of low temperature exposure on the expression, degradation, localization and activity of human Kv1.5 (hKv1.5). In hKv1.5-expressing CHO cells, the currents were significantly increased when cultured at a reduced temperature (28°C) compared to those observed at 37°C. Western blot analysis indicated that the protein levels (both immature and mature proteins) of hKv1.5 were significantly elevated under the hypothermic condition. Treatment with a proteasome inhibitor, MG132, significantly increased the immature, but not the mature, hKv1.5 protein at 37°C, however, there were no changes in either the immature or mature hKv1.5 proteins at low temperature following MG132 exposure. These observations suggest that the enhancement of the mature hKv1.5 protein at reduced temperature may not result from the inhibition of proteolysis. Moreover, the hKv1.5 fluorescence signal in the cells increased significantly on the cell surface at 28°C versus those cultured at 37°C. Importantly, the low temperature treatment markedly shifted the subcellular distribution of the mature hKv1.5, which showed considerable overlap with the trans-Golgi component. Experiments using tunicamycin, an inhibitor of N-glycosylation, indicated that the N-glycosylation of hKv1.5 is more effective at 28°C than at 37°C. Finally, the hypothermic treatment also rescued the protein expression and currents of trafficking-defective hKv1.5 mutants. These results indicate that low temperature exposure stabilizes the protein in the cellular organelles or on the plasma membrane, and modulates its maturation and trafficking, thus enhancing the currents of hKv1.5 and its trafficking defect mutants.</p></div

Ultrafast Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Singlet Fission: Quantum Dynamics with the Multilayer Multiconfigurational Time-Dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) Method

Singlet fission (SF) is supposed to potentially improve the efficiency of solar energy conversion in organic photovoltaic systems. The multilayer multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) method was employed to describe the singlet fission of the pentacene system with a three-state model. The ML-MCTDH result agrees well with the previous simulations using the Redfield theory, the hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM) and the symmetrical quasi-classical (SQC) theory. We carefully investigated the role of vibrational modes with different frequencies in singlet fission dynamics. Interestingly, we observed the important contribution of a few modes with frequency resonance to electronic transition. Such a finding can be understood by revisiting the superexchange mechanism within the framework of Fermi’s golden rule. As a numerically exact method, ML-MCTDH not only provides an accurate description of the microscopy insight of the SF dynamics but also provides benchmark results to examine the performance of other approximated dynamical methods