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N,N′-Di-8-quinolyl-2,2′-(o-phenylenedioxy)diacetamide
In the title compound, C28H22N4O4, the molecule lies on a crystallographic twofold axis. The quinoline ring is essentially planar (give max or rms deviation 0.0186 Å), and the dihedral angle between the quinoline ring and the central benzene ring is 19.1 (4)°. Intramolecular N—H⋯(N,O) and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds contribute to the formation of the roughly planar configuration. The crystal packing is stabilized by intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, and weak π–π interactions between the pyridine rings and central benzene rings of the neighboring molecules [centroid–centroid separation = 3.9009 (6) Å]
Substructure and Boundary Modeling for Continuous Action Recognition
This paper introduces a probabilistic graphical model for continuous action
recognition with two novel components: substructure transition model and
discriminative boundary model. The first component encodes the sparse and
global temporal transition prior between action primitives in state-space model
to handle the large spatial-temporal variations within an action class. The
second component enforces the action duration constraint in a discriminative
way to locate the transition boundaries between actions more accurately. The
two components are integrated into a unified graphical structure to enable
effective training and inference. Our comprehensive experimental results on
both public and in-house datasets show that, with the capability to incorporate
additional information that had not been explicitly or efficiently modeled by
previous methods, our proposed algorithm achieved significantly improved
performance for continuous action recognition.Comment: Detailed version of the CVPR 2012 paper. 15 pages, 6 figure
The peculiar filamentary HI structure of NGC 6145
In this paper, we report the peculiar HI morphology of the cluster spiral
galaxy NGC 6145, which has a 150 kpc HI filament on one side that is nearly
parallel to its major axis. This filament is made up of several HI clouds and
the diffuse HI gas between them, with no optical counterparts. We compare its
HI distribution with other one-sided HI distributions in the literature, and
find that the overall HI distribution is very different from the typical tidal
and ram-pressure stripped HI shape, and its morphology is inconsistent with
being a pure accretion event. Only about 30% of the total HI gas is anchored on
the stellar disk, while most of HI gas forms the filament in the west. At a
projected distance of 122 kpc, we find a massive elliptical companion (NGC
6146) with extended radio emission, whose axis points to an HI gap in NGC 6145.
The velocity of the HI filament shows an overall light-of- sight motion of 80
to 180 km/s with respect to NGC 6145. Using the long-slit spectra of NGC 6145
along its major stellar axis, we find that some outer regions show enhanced
star formation, while in contrast, almost no star formation activities are
found in its center (less than 2 kpc). Pure accretion, tidal or ram-pressure
stripping is not likely to produce the observed HI filament. An alternative
explanation is the jet-stripping from NGC 6146, although direct evidence for a
jet-cold gas interaction has not been found.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures; Accepted for publication in A
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Health and economic benefits of building ventilation interventions for reducing indoor PM2.5 exposure from both indoor and outdoor origins in urban Beijing, China
China is confronted with serious PM2.5 pollution, especially in the capital city of Beijing. Exposure to PM2.5 could lead to various negative health impacts including premature mortality. As people spend most of their time indoors, the indoor exposure to PM2.5 from both indoor and outdoor origins constitutes the majority of personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Different building interventions have been introduced to mitigate indoor PM2.5 exposure, but always at the cost of energy expenditure. In this study, the health and economic benefits of different ventilation intervention strategies for reducing indoor PM2.5 exposure are modelled using a representative urban residence in Beijing, with consideration of different indoor PM2.5 emission strengths and outdoor pollution. Our modelling results show that the increase of envelope air-tightness can achieve significant economic benefits when indoor PM2.5 emissions are absent; however, if an indoor PM2.5 source is present, the benefits only increase slightly in mechanically ventilated buildings, but may show negative benefit without mechanical ventilation. Installing mechanical ventilation in Beijing can achieve annual economic benefits ranging from 200yuan/capita to 800yuan/capita if indoor PM2.5 sources exist. If there is no indoor emission, the annual benefits above 200yuan/capita can be achieved only when the PM2.5 filtration efficiency is no less than 90% and the envelope air-tightness is above Chinese National Standard Level 7. Introducing mechanical ventilation with low PM2.5 filtration efficiency to current residences in urban Beijing will increase the indoor PM2.5 exposure and result in excess costs to the resident
Structure fusion based on graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised classification
Suffering from the multi-view data diversity and complexity for
semi-supervised classification, most of existing graph convolutional networks
focus on the networks architecture construction or the salient graph structure
preservation, and ignore the the complete graph structure for semi-supervised
classification contribution. To mine the more complete distribution structure
from multi-view data with the consideration of the specificity and the
commonality, we propose structure fusion based on graph convolutional networks
(SF-GCN) for improving the performance of semi-supervised classification.
SF-GCN can not only retain the special characteristic of each view data by
spectral embedding, but also capture the common style of multi-view data by
distance metric between multi-graph structures. Suppose the linear relationship
between multi-graph structures, we can construct the optimization function of
structure fusion model by balancing the specificity loss and the commonality
loss. By solving this function, we can simultaneously obtain the fusion
spectral embedding from the multi-view data and the fusion structure as
adjacent matrix to input graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised
classification. Experiments demonstrate that the performance of SF-GCN
outperforms that of the state of the arts on three challenging datasets, which
are Cora,Citeseer and Pubmed in citation networks
Quenching depends on morphologies: implications from the ultraviolet-optical radial color distributions in Green Valley Galaxies
In this Letter, we analyse the radial UV-optical color distributions in a
sample of low redshift green valley (GV) galaxies, with the Galaxy Evolution
Explorer (GALEX)+Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images, to investigate how the
residual recent star formation distribute in these galaxies. We find that the
dust-corrected colors of early-type galaxies (ETGs) are flat out to
, while the colors turn blue monotonously when for
late-type galaxies (LTGs). More than a half of the ETGs are blue-cored and have
remarkable positive NUV color gradients, suggesting that their star
formation are centrally concentrated; the rest have flat color distributions
out to . The centrally concentrated star formation activity in a large
portion of ETGs is confirmed by the SDSS spectroscopy, showing that 50 %
ETGs have EW(H) \AA. For the LTGs, 95% of them show uniform
radial color profiles, which can be interpreted as a red bulge plus an extended
blue disk. The links between the two kinds of ETGs, e.g., those objects having
remarkable "blue-cored" and those having flat color gradients, are less known
and require future investigations. It is suggested that the LTGs follow a
general picture that quenching first occur in the core regions, and then
finally extend to the rest of the galaxy. Our results can be re-examined and
have important implications for the IFU surveys, such as MaNGA and SAMI.Comment: ApJ Letter, accepted. Five figure
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