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Charged BTZ-like black hole solutions and the diffusivity-butterfly velocity relation
We show that there exists a class of charged BTZ-like black hole solutions in
Lifshitz spacetime with a hyperscaling violating factor. The charged BTZ is
characterized by a charge-dependent logarithmic term in the metric function. As
concrete examples, we give five such charged BTZ-like black hole solutions and
the standard charged BTZ metric can be regarded as a special instance of them.
In order to check the recent proposed universal relations between diffusivity
and the butterfly velocity, we first compute the diffusion constants of the
standard charged BTZ black holes and then extend our calculation to arbitrary
dimension , exponents and . Remarkably, the case and
is a very special in that the charge diffusion is a constant and
the energy diffusion might be ill-defined, but diverges. We
also compute the diffusion constants for the case that the DC conductivity is
finite but in the absence of momentum relaxation.Comment: 30 pages, 2 figure
The Design and Realization for a Multiplex Time Sequence Controller
AbstractIn order to meet the demand of activating several devices at different moments, a multiplex time sequence controller is developed in this paper. When the controller receives the trigger signal for starting, the time sequential control circuit module, consisting of the microcontroller and the FPGA, it can generate a delay trigging signal according to the preset delay value, which will activate the testing device after being driven. The delay value is import by the computer or the dial on the panel. The real firing results show that the time sequence controller can realize the delay of 20-channel independently, one of which is able to be adjustable within 0∼10s, the maximum amplitude of output delay trigging signal is 12V, the width of the signal is 5ms and the error of the delay time is less than 2colons. The multiplex time sequence controller can satisfy the requirements of technical specifications of testing system in conventional shooting range, and it can meet the demand of activating several testing devices operating at different moments
Sound field separation method with single holographic surface based on particle velocity measurement
All the current sound field separation methods based on particle velocity are apply measurement surfaces or a single measurement surface with pressure-velocity. In order to acquire less measurement data and efficient calculation, a sound field separation method with single holographic surface based on particle velocity is proposed. According to the principle of equivalent sources near-field acoustical holography technique, this method can separate directly the sound filed information radiated by target source from coherent sound fields. Numerical simulation analyzed the results with different frequencies and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The results show that this method can separate the coherent sources accurately and efficiently
Inactivation of the MDM2 RING domain enhances p53 transcriptional activity in mice
The MDM2 RING domain harbors E3 ubiquitin ligase activity critical for regulating the degradation of tumor suppressor p53, which controls many cellular pathways. The MDM2 RING domain also is required for an interaction with MDMX. Mice containing a substitution in the MDM2 RING domain, MDM2C462A, disrupting MDM2 E3 function and the MDMX interaction, die during early embryogenesis that can be rescued by p53 deletion. To investigate whether MDM2C462A, which retains p53 binding, has p53-suppressing activity, we generated Mdm2C462A/C462A;p53ER/- mice, in which we replaced the endogenous p53 alleles with an inducible p53ER/- allele, and compared survival with that of similarly generated Mdm2-/-;p53ER/- mice. Adult Mdm2-null mice died ~7 days after tamoxifen-induced p53 activation, indicating that in the absence of MDM2, MDMX cannot suppress p53. Surprisingly, Mdm2C462A/C462A;p53ER/- mice died ~5 days after tamoxifen injection, suggesting that p53 activity is higher in the presence of MDM2C462A than in the absence of MDM2. Indeed, in MDM2C462A-expressing mouse tissues and embryonic fibroblasts, p53 exhibited higher transcriptional activity than in those expressing no MDM2 or no MDM2 and MDMX. This observation indicated that MDM2C462A not only is unable to suppress p53 but may have gained the ability to enhance p53 activity. We also found that p53 acetylation, a measure of p53 transcriptional activity, was higher in the presence of MDM2C462A than in the absence of MDM2. These results reveal an unexpected role of MDM2C462A in enhancing p53 activity and suggest the possibility that compounds targeting MDM2 RING domain function could produce even more robust p53 activation
First report on the occurrence of Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor silvarum in China
10.1186/1756-3305-5-19Parasites and Vectors511
Holographic Storage of Biphoton Entanglement
Coherent and reversible storage of multi-photon entanglement with a multimode
quantum memory is essential for scalable all-optical quantum information
processing. Although single photon has been successfully stored in different
quantum systems, storage of multi-photon entanglement remains challenging
because of the critical requirement for coherent control of photonic
entanglement source, multimode quantum memory, and quantum interface between
them. Here we demonstrate a coherent and reversible storage of biphoton
Bell-type entanglement with a holographic multimode atomic-ensemble-based
quantum memory. The retrieved biphoton entanglement violates Bell's inequality
for 1 microsecond storage time and a memory-process fidelity of 98% is
demonstrated by quantum state tomography.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. Let
Chiral Separation of D,L-Mandelic Acid Using An Enantioselective Membrane Formed by Polycondensation of β-Cyclodextrin with 1,6-Diisocyanatohexane on A Polysulfone Membrane
An enantioselective composite membrane was prepared by polycondensation between β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) on a polysulfone support (PS) and a heptane solution of 1,6-diisocyanatohexane (1,6-DCH). The flux and permselective properties of the composite membrane were studied using an aqueous solution of D,L-mandelic acid as the feed solution. The influences of a number of parameters, such as the air-drying time of the β-CD solution on PS, the time of polymerization, the operating pressure and the feed concentration of the racemate, were studied. Chemical characterization was carried out using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and the top surface/cross-section was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that when using the enantioselective composite membrane for the optical resolution of the D,L-mandelic acid racemic mixture, an enantiomeric excess of over 85% could be obtained. The paper thus details, for the first time, how a poly(β-CD crosslinked with 1,6-DCH)/PS composite membrane can be used as an optical resolution membrane material to isolate the optical isomers of D,L-mandelic acid
Continuously Controllable Facial Expression Editing in Talking Face Videos
Recently audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted
considerable attention. However, very few researches address the issue of
emotional editing of these talking face videos with continuously controllable
expressions, which is a strong demand in the industry. The challenge is that
speech-related expressions and emotion-related expressions are often highly
coupled. Meanwhile, traditional image-to-image translation methods cannot work
well in our application due to the coupling of expressions with other
attributes such as poses, i.e., translating the expression of the character in
each frame may simultaneously change the head pose due to the bias of the
training data distribution. In this paper, we propose a high-quality facial
expression editing method for talking face videos, allowing the user to control
the target emotion in the edited video continuously. We present a new
perspective for this task as a special case of motion information editing,
where we use a 3DMM to capture major facial movements and an associated texture
map modeled by a StyleGAN to capture appearance details. Both representations
(3DMM and texture map) contain emotional information and can be continuously
modified by neural networks and easily smoothed by averaging in
coefficient/latent spaces, making our method simple yet effective. We also
introduce a mouth shape preservation loss to control the trade-off between lip
synchronization and the degree of exaggeration of the edited expression.
Extensive experiments and a user study show that our method achieves
state-of-the-art performance across various evaluation criteria.Comment: Demo video: https://youtu.be/WD-bNVya6k
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