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Study of Balance Equations for Hot-Electron Transport in an Arbitrary Energy Band (III)
By choosing an electron gas resting instead of drifting in the laboratory
coordinate system as the initial state, the first order perturbation
calculation of the previous paper (Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 198, 785(1996)) is
revised and extended to include the high order field corrections in the
expression for the frictional forces and the energy transfer rates. The final
expressions are formally the same as those in first order in the electric
field, but the distribution functions of electrons appearing in them are
defined by different expressions. The problems relative to the distribution
function are discussed in detail and a new closed expression for the
distribution function is obtained. The nonlinear impurity-limited resistance of
a strong degenerate electron gas is computed numerically. The result calculated
by using the new expression for the distribution function is quite different
from that using the displaced Fermi function when the electric field is
sufficiently high.Comment: 15 pages with 3 PS figures, RevTeX, to be published in Physica Status
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Numerical Simulation Research on the Characteristics of Tide and Salinity at Pearl River Estuary in China
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Determination of impact parameter in high-energy heavy-ion collisions via deep learning
In this study, Au+Au collisions with the impact parameter of fm at GeV are simulated by the AMPT model to
provide the preliminary final-state information. After transforming these
information into appropriate input data (the energy spectra of final-state
charged hadrons), we construct a deep neural network (DNN) and a convolutional
neural network (CNN) to connect final-state observables with impact parameters.
The results show that both the DNN and CNN can reconstruct the impact
parameters with a mean absolute error about fm with CNN behaving slightly
better. Then, we test the neural networks for different beam energies and
pseudorapidity ranges in this task. It turns out that these two models work
well for both low and high energies. But when making test for a larger
pseudorapidity window, we observe that the CNN shows higher prediction accuracy
than the DNN. With the method of Grad-CAM, we shed light on the `attention'
mechanism of the CNN model
Empirical metallicity-dependent calibrations of effective temperature against colours for dwarfs and giants based on interferometric data
We present empirical metallicity-dependent calibrations of effective
temperature against colours for dwarfs of luminosity classes IV and V and for
giants of luminosity classes II and III, based on a collection from the
literature of about two hundred nearby stars with direct effective temperature
measurements of better than 2.5 per cent. The calibrations are valid for an
effective temperature range 3,100 - 10,000 K for dwarfs of spectral types M5 to
A0 and 3,100 - 5,700 K for giants of spectral types K5 to G5. A total of
twenty-one colours for dwarfs and eighteen colours for giants of bands of four
photometric systems, i.e. the Johnson (), the Cousins
(), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, ) and the Two
Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS, ), have been calibrated. Restricted
by the metallicity range of the current sample, the calibrations are mainly
applicable for disk stars ([Fe/H]). The normalized percentage
residuals of the calibrations are typically 2.0 and 1.5 per cent for dwarfs and
giants, respectively. Some systematic discrepancies at various levels are found
between the current scales and those available in the literature (e.g. those
based on the infrared flux method IRFM or spectroscopy). Based on the current
calibrations, we have re-determined the colours of the Sun. We have also
investigated the systematic errors in effective temperatures yielded by the
current on-going large scale low- to intermediate-resolution stellar
spectroscopic surveys. We show that the calibration of colour ()
presented in the current work provides an invaluable tool for the estimation of
stellar effective temperature for those on-going or upcoming surveys.Comment: 28 pages, 19 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA
Ontology-based Fuzzy Markup Language Agent for Student and Robot Co-Learning
An intelligent robot agent based on domain ontology, machine learning
mechanism, and Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) for students and robot co-learning
is presented in this paper. The machine-human co-learning model is established
to help various students learn the mathematical concepts based on their
learning ability and performance. Meanwhile, the robot acts as a teacher's
assistant to co-learn with children in the class. The FML-based knowledge base
and rule base are embedded in the robot so that the teachers can get feedback
from the robot on whether students make progress or not. Next, we inferred
students' learning performance based on learning content's difficulty and
students' ability, concentration level, as well as teamwork sprit in the class.
Experimental results show that learning with the robot is helpful for
disadvantaged and below-basic children. Moreover, the accuracy of the
intelligent FML-based agent for student learning is increased after machine
learning mechanism.Comment: This paper is submitted to IEEE WCCI 2018 Conference for revie
Elevated circulating level of P2X7 receptor is related to severity of coronary artery stenosis and prognosis of acute myocardial infarction
Background: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a severely life-threatening cardiovascular disease. Previous research has identified an association between the P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) and the development of atherosclerosis. However, the correlation of its expression with the clinical prognosis of patients with AMI remains unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the potential role of P2X7R in Chinese patients with AMI.
Methods: Seventy-nine patients with AMI and 48 controls were consecutively enrolled in this prospective observational study. Circulating P2X7R mRNA expression levels and other clinical variables were determined upon admission to the hospital. Patients were followed up for 360 days, and the end-point was considered as the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE).
Results: Circulating P2X7R mRNA expression level in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with AMI were significantly higher than those in controls and had promising diagnostic ability of AMI with an area under the curve of 0.928. Furthermore, P2X7R was demonstrated to be correlated positively with the severity of coronary artery stenosis. Additionally, this is the first study to indicate that higher P2X7R mRNA expression is associated with a higher rate of MACE within 360 days after AMI.
Conclusions: The present study showed that the circulating level of P2X7R was elevated in AMI patients and was closely associated with the severity of coronary artery stenosis and prognosis of AMI
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