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Quark Coalescence with Quark Number Conservation and the Effect on Quark-Hadron Scaling
We develop a new formulation of the quark coalescence model by including the
quark number conservation in order to describe the hadronization of the bulk of
the quark-gluon plasma. The scalings between hadron and quark phase space
distributions are shown to depend on the transverse momentum. For hard quarks,
our general scalings reproduce the usual quadratic scaling relation for mesons
and the cubic scaling relation for baryons. For softer quarks, however, the
inclusion of the quark number conservation leads to a linear scaling for the
hadron species that dominates the quark number of each flavor, while the
scalings of non-dominant hadrons depend on the coalescence dynamics. For charm
mesons, we find that the distribution of soft mesons does not depend on the
light quark distribution but the distribution of soft mesons is
inversely correlated to the light quark distribution.Comment: Added 6 more equations to explain the derivations; added discussions;
final published versio
Combined SIRT3 and SIRT5 deletion is associated with inner retinal dysfunction in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes
Abstract Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness in working adults in the industrialized world. In addition to vision loss caused by macular edema and pathological angiogenesis, DR patients often exhibit neuronal dysfunction on electrophysiological testing, suggesting that there may be an independent neuronal phase of disease that precedes vascular disease. Given the tremendous metabolic requirements of the retina and photoreceptors in particular, we hypothesized that derangements in metabolic regulation may accelerate retinal dysfunction in diabetes. As such, we induced hyperglycemia with streptozotocin in mice with monoallelic Nampt deletion from rod photoreceptors, mice lacking SIRT3, and mice lacking SIRT5 and tested multiple components of retinal function with electroretinography. None of these mice exhibited accelerated retinal dysfunction after induction of hyperglycemia, consistent with normal-appearing retinal morphology in hyperglycemic Sirt3 β/β or Sirt5 β/β mice. However, mice lacking both SIRT3 and SIRT5 (Sirt3 β/β Sirt5 β/β mice) exhibited significant evidence of inner retinal dysfunction after induction of hyperglycemia compared to hyperglycemic littermate controls, although this dysfunction was not accompanied by gross morphological changes in the retina. These results suggest that SIRT3 and SIRT5 may be involved in regulating neuronal dysfunction in DR and provide a foundation for future studies investigating sirtuin-based therapies
Perturbation theorems for Hele-Shaw flows and their applications
In this work, we give a perturbation theorem for strong polynomial solutions
to the zero surface tension Hele-Shaw equation driven by injection or suction,
so called the Polubarinova-Galin equation. This theorem enables us to explore
properties of solutions with initial functions close to but are not polynomial.
Applications of this theorem are given in the suction or injection case. In the
former case, we show that if the initial domain is close to a disk, most of
fluid will be sucked before the strong solution blows up. In the later case, we
obtain precise large-time rescaling behaviors for large data to Hele-Shaw flows
in terms of invariant Richardson complex moments. This rescaling behavior
result generalizes a recent result regarding large-time rescaling behavior for
small data in terms of moments. As a byproduct of a theorem in this paper, a
short proof of existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the
Polubarinova-Galin equation is given.Comment: 25 page
First-principles Calculations of Engineered Surface Spin Structures
The engineered spin structures recently built and measured in scanning
tunneling microscope experiments are calculated using density functional
theory. By determining the precise local structure around the surface
impurities, we find the Mn atoms can form molecular structures with the binding
surface, behaving like surface molecular magnets. The spin structures are
confirmed to be antiferromagnetic, and the exchange couplings are calculated
within 8% of the experimental values simply by collinear-spin GGA+U
calculations. We can also explain why the exchange couplings significantly
change with different impurity binding sites from the determined local
structure. The bond polarity is studied by calculating the atomic charges with
and without the Mn adatoms
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