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ALMA CO Observations of a Giant Molecular Cloud in M33: Evidence for High-Mass Star Formation Triggered by Cloud-Cloud Collisions
We report the first evidence for high-mass star formation triggered by
collisions of molecular clouds in M33. Using the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array, we spatially resolved filamentary structures of
giant molecular cloud 37 in M33 using CO( = 2-1), CO( =
2-1), and CO( = 2-1) line emission at a spatial resolution of 2
pc. There are two individual molecular clouds with a systematic velocity
difference of 6 km s. Three continuum sources representing up to
10 high-mass stars with the spectral types of B0V-O7.5V are embedded
within the densest parts of molecular clouds bright in the CO( = 2-1)
line emission. The two molecular clouds show a complementary spatial
distribution with a spatial displacement of 6.2 pc, and show a V-shaped
structure in the position-velocity diagram. These observational features traced
by CO and its isotopes are consistent with those in high-mass star-forming
regions created by cloud-cloud collisions in the Galactic and Magellanic Cloud
HII regions. Our new finding in M33 indicates that the cloud-cloud collision is
a promising process to trigger high-mass star formation in the Local Group.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in PAS
Identification of minimal sequence for HIV-1 fusion inhibitors.
Emergence of multi-drug resistant HIV-1 is a serious problem for AIDS treatment. Recently, the virus-cell membrane fusion process has been identified as a promising target for the development of novel drugs against these resistant variants. In this study, we identified a 29-residue peptide fusion inhibitor, SC29EK, which shows activity comparable to the previously reported inhibitor SC35EK. Some residues in SC29EK not required for interaction with virus gp41 heptad repeat 1 (HR1) were replaced with a non-proteinogenic amino acid, 2-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib), to stabilize the alpha-helix structure and to provide resistance to peptidases
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Research and Design of a Routing Protocol in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
无线传感器网络,作为全球未来十大技术之一,集成了传感器技术、嵌入式计算技术、分布式信息处理和自组织网技术,可实时感知、采集、处理、传输网络分布区域内的各种信息数据,在军事国防、生物医疗、环境监测、抢险救灾、防恐反恐、危险区域远程控制等领域具有十分广阔的应用前景。 本文研究分析了无线传感器网络的已有路由协议,并针对大规模的无线传感器网络设计了一种树状路由协议,它根据节点地址信息来形成路由,从而简化了复杂繁冗的路由表查找和维护,节省了不必要的开销,提高了路由效率,实现了快速有效的数据传输。 为支持此路由协议本文提出了一种自适应动态地址分配算——ADAR(AdaptiveDynamicAddre...As one of the ten high technologies in the future, wireless sensor network, which is the integration of micro-sensors, embedded computing, modern network and Ad Hoc technologies, can apperceive, collect, process and transmit various information data within the region. It can be used in military defense, biomedical, environmental monitoring, disaster relief, counter-terrorism, remote control of haz...学位:工学硕士院系专业:信息科学与技术学院通信工程系_通信与信息系统学号:2332007115216
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