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    Study on the engineering practice course education teaching reform

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    AbstractThe engineering practice teaching related to civil engineering students professional technology and practical ability of the students, In relation to their future can adapt to the society have talent market demand and high ability important segment. According to the characteristics of students, combined with the registered engineer examination system, the practicality course teaching contents of research, optimize the practicality course reform teaching link, strengthening civil engineering student quality training and performance, and is the key

    Fast Radio Burst/Gamma-Ray Burst Cosmography

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    Recently, both theoretical arguments and observational evidence suggested that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If such FRB/GRB association systems are commonly detected in the future, the combination of dispersion measure (DM) derived from FRBs and redshifts derived from GRBs makes these systems a plausible tool to conduct cosmography. We quantify uncertainties in deriving the redshift-dependent DM_{IGM} as a function of z, and test how well dark energy models can be constrained with Monte Carlo simulations. We show that with potentially several 10s of FRB/GRB systems detected in a decade or so, one may reach reasonable constraints on wCDM models. When combined with SN Ia data, unprecedented constraints on dark energy equation of state may be achieved, thanks to the prospects of detecting FRB/GRB systems at relatively high redshifts. The ratio between the mean value and luminosity distance (D_{L} (z)) is insensitive to dark energy models. This gives the prospects of applying SN Ia data to calibrate using a relatively small sample of FRB/GRB systems, allowing a reliable constraint on the baryon inhomogeneity distribution as a function of redshift. The methodology developed in this paper can also be applied, if the FRB redshifts can be measured by other means. Some caveats of putting this method into practice are also discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap

    On the denominators of harmonic numbers

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    Let HnH_n be the nn-th harmonic number and let vnv_n be its denominator. It is well known that vnv_n is even for every integer n≥2n\ge 2. In this paper, we study the properties of vnv_n. One of our results is: the set of positive integers nn such that vnv_n is divisible by the least common multiple of 1,2,⋯ ,⌊n1/4⌋1, 2, \cdots, \lfloor {n^{1/4}}\rfloor has density one. In particular, for any positive integer mm, the set of positive integers nn such that vnv_n is divisible by mm has density one.Comment: 6 page

    Magnetic-distortion-induced ellipticity and gravitational wave radiation of neutron stars: millisecond magnetars in short GRBs, Galactic pulsars, and magnetars

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    Neutron stars may sustain a non-axisymmetric deformation due to magnetic distortion and are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves (GWs) for ground-based interferometric detectors. With decades of searches using available GW detectors, no evidence of a GW signal from any pulsar has been observed. Progressively stringent upper limits of ellipticity have been placed on Galactic pulsars. In this work, we use the ellipticity inferred from the putative millisecond magnetars in short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) to estimate their detectability by current and future GW detectors. For ∼1\sim 1 ms magnetars inferred from the SGRB data, the detection horizon is ∼30\sim 30 Mpc and ∼600\sim 600 Mpc for advanced LIGO (aLIGO) and Einstein Telescope (ET), respectively. Using the ellipticity of SGRB millisecond magnetars as calibration, we estimate the ellipticity and gravitational wave strain of Galactic pulsars and magnetars assuming that the ellipticity is magnetic-distortion-induced. We find that the results are consistent with the null detection results of Galactic pulsars and magnetars with the aLIGO O1. We further predict that the GW signals from these pulsars/magnetars may not be detectable by the currently designed aLIGO detector. The ET detector may be able to detect some relatively low frequency signals (<50<50 Hz) from some of these pulsars. Limited by its design sensitivity, the eLISA detector seems not suitable for detecting the signals from Galactic pulsars and magnetars.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
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