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Strong Cosmic Censorship in Charged de Sitter spacetime with Scalar Field Non-minimally Coupled to Curvature
We examine the stability and the strong cosmic censorship in the
Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter (RN-dS) black hole by investigating the evolution
of a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the curvature. We find that when the
coupling parameter is negative, the RN-dS black hole experiences instability.
The instability disappears when the coupling parameter becomes non-negative.
With the increase of the coupling parameter, the violation of the strong cosmic
censorship occurs at a larger critical charge ratio. But such an increase of
the critical charge is suppressed by the increase of the cosmological constant.
Different from the minimal coupling situation, it is possible to accommodate
in the near extremal black hole when the scalar field is
non-minimally coupled to curvature. The increase of the cosmological constant
can allow to be satisfied for even smaller value of the coupling
parameter. The existence of implies that the resulting curvature
can continuously cross the Cauchy horizon.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 5 table
Evaluation of anti-hyperglycemic activities of phloridzin in diabetic mice
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the hypoglycemic effects of Phloridzin.Methods and Materials: High fat diet induced diabetic KKAy mice were administered with phloridzin at an oral dose (60 mg/kg/day, ig.) for 10 weeks. A range of parameters, including blood glucose and lipid, serum insulin, glucose tolerance, were tested to evaluate its anti-hyperglycemic effects.Results: Phloridzin decreased water-intake, body weight, FBG, FINS, HOME-IR, Serum leptin, and CRP levels, increased serum adiponectin level in diabetic mice. Phloridzin also improved the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to a certain degree. In addition, phloridzin decreased liver index, and epididymal, perirenal white adipose tissue indexs, increased pancreas index in diabetic mice. At last, phloridzin increased hepatic GK activity and hepatic glycogen level, decreased hepatic PEPCK, G-6-Pase activities in diabetic mice.Conclusions: Phloridzin possessed anti-hyperglycemic activities.Keywords: Diabetes, Phloridzin, FBG, Insulin resistance, Area under curv
Geometric bionics: Lotus effect helps polystyrene nanotube films get good blood compatibility
Various biomaterials have been widely used for manufacturing biomedical applications including artificial organs, medical devices and disposable clinical apparatus, such as vascular prostheses, blood pumps, artificial kidney, artificial hearts, dialyzers and plasma separators, which could be used in contact with blood^1^. However, the research tasks of improving hemocompatibility of biomaterials have been carrying out with the development of biomedical requirements^2^. Since the interactions that lead to surface-induced thrombosis occurring at the blood-biomaterial interface become a reason of familiar current complications with grafts therapy, improvement of the blood compatibility of artificial polymer surfaces is, therefore a major issue in biomaterials science^3^. After decades of focused research, various approaches of modifying biomaterial surfaces through chemical or biochemical methods to improve their hemocompatibility were obtained^1^. In this article, we report that polystyrene nanotube films with morphology similar to the papilla on lotus leaf can be used as blood-contacted biomaterials by virtue of Lotus effect^4^. Clearly, this idea, resulting from geometric bionics that mimicking the structure design of lotus leaf, is very novel technique for preparation of hemocompatible biomaterials
An experimental study on biased cognitive processing in accidentally injured patients with different posttraumatic growth levels
Background: Various studies have assessed the negative and/or positive changes in the aftermath of traumatic events. Accidental injuries (such as accidents, injuries, etc.), for its high incidence and disability rate, is easy to cause serious psychological problems and hinder the physical and psychological rehabilitation of the patients.Material and Methods: To explore the characteristics of attention bias in accidentally injured patients with different levels of Posttraumatic growth (PTG), total score of PTG was adopted to screen out 15 high-PTG group and low-PTG group respectively among accidentally injured patients. Dot probe task was used with positive, negative and neutral facial expression pictures as experimental materials. An experimental design of 2 (facial expression: positive and negative)×2 (consistency of probe point and facial expression: consistent and inconsistent)×2 (PTG level: high and low) was employed.Results: Patients with low PTG level had attention bias toward the negative emotional stimuli, and difficulty in distraction from the negative emotional pictures. The value of D and DI were both significantly greater than 0 (p<0.05). Patients with high PTG level did not demonstrate significant attention bias toward positive or negative emotional stimuli. The responding time of patients with high PTG level was significantly shorter than that in patients with low PTG level in the incongruent task (p<0.05).Conclusion: There are different characteristics of implicit cognitive processing in patients with different level of PTG, suggesting the necessity of psychological intervention on the accidentally injured patients.Keywords: Accidentally injured patients; Posttraumatic growth; Attention bias; Dot probe tas
Ethyl 2-(3,3-dibutylÂthioÂureido)-4,5,6,7-tetraÂhydroÂbenzo[b]thioÂphene-3-carboxylÂate
In the title compound, C20H32N2O2S2, the cycloÂhexene ring is disordered over two half-boat conformations with occupancy factors of 0.71:0.29. One n-butyl chain is also disordered over two positions with occupancy factors of 0.83:0.17. The molÂecular conformation is stabilized by an intraÂmolecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bond
ON THE APPLICATION STRATEGIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
The constituent elements of an enterprise are mainly human, material and financial resources. Adjusting the
organizational behavior of an enterprise is, in fact, a reasonable arrangement and effective use of the limited
resources of the enterprise, especially the human resources, so that it plays the greatest economic and social
benefits. Therefore, enterprise managers should deeply study and understand the essence of organizational
behavior, renew their ideas, establish a sense of innovation, and implement a "people-oriented" management
incentive mechanism
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