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Periodic Radio Variability in NRAO 530: Phase Dispersion Minimization Analysis
In this paper, a periodicity analysis of the radio light curves of the blazar
NRAO 530 at 14.5, 8.0, and 4.8 GHz is presented employing an improved Phase
Dispersion Minimization (PDM) technique. The result, which shows two persistent
periodic components of and years at all three frequencies,
is consistent with the results obtained with the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and
weighted wavelet Z-transform algorithms. The reliability of the derived
periodicities is confirmed by the Monte Carlo numerical simulations which show
a high statistical confidence. (Quasi-)Periodic fluctuations of the radio
luminosity of NRAO 530 might be associated with the oscillations of the
accretion disk triggered by hydrodynamic instabilities of the accreted flow.
\keywords{methods: statistical -- galaxies: active -- galaxies: quasar:
individual: NRAO 530}Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted by RA
Set Representations of Linegraphs
Let be a graph with vertex set and edge set . A family
of nonempty sets is a set representation of
if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the vertices in and the sets in such that if and only if S_i\cap S_j\neq \es. A set representation
is a distinct (respectively, antichain, uniform and simple) set representation
if any two sets and in have the property (respectively, , and ). Let . Two set
representations and are isomorphic if
can be obtained from by a bijection from
to . Let denote a class of set
representations of a graph . The type of is the number of equivalence
classes under the isomorphism relation. In this paper, we investigate types of
set representations for linegraphs. We determine the types for the following
categories of set representations: simple-distinct, simple-antichain,
simple-uniform and simple-distinct-uniform
Over-expression of an S-domain receptor-like kinase extracellular domain improves panicle architecture and grain yield in rice.
The S-domain receptor kinase (SRK) comprises a highly polymorphic subfamily of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) originally found to be involved in the self-incompatibility response in Brassica. Although several members have been identified to play roles in developmental control and disease responses, the correlation between SRKs and yield components in rice is still unclear. The utility of transgenic expression of a dominant negative form of SRK, OsLSK1 (Large spike S-domain receptor like Kinase 1), is reported here for the improvement of grain yield components in rice. OsLSK1 was highly expressed in nodes of rice and is a plasma membrane protein. The expression of OsLSK1 responded to the exogenous application of growth hormones, to abiotic stresses, and its extracellular domain could form homodimers or heterodimers with other related SRKs. Over-expression of a truncated version of OsLSK1 (including the extracellular and transmembrane domain of OsLSK1 without the intracellular kinase domain) increased plant height and improve yield components, including primary branches per panicle and grains per primary branch, resulting in about a 55.8% increase of the total grain yield per plot (10 plants). Transcriptional analysis indicated that several key genes involved in the GA biosynthetic and signalling pathway were up-regulated in transgenic plants. However, full-length cDNA over-expression and RNAi of OsLSK1 transgenic plants did not exhibit a detectable visual phenotype and possible reasons for this were discussed. These results indicate that OsLSK1 may act redundantly with its homologues to affect yield traits in rice and manipulation of OsLSK1 by the dominant negative method is a practicable strategy to improve grain yield in rice and other crops
Collaborative MR Workspace with Shared 3D Vision Based on Stereo Video Transmission
P.R.China Mixed reality (MR) research aims to develop technologies that inputting or mixing the rea
Black hole scalarizations induced by parity violations
It is well-known that parity symmetry is broken in the weak interaction but
conserved for Einstein's general relativity and Maxwell's electromagnetic
theory. Nevertheless, parity symmetry could also be violated in the
gravitational/electromagnetic sectors if a fundamental scalar field couples to
the parity-violating gravitational/electromagnetic curvature terms. Such
parity-violating terms, which flip signs under reversed spatial directions, can
inevitably lead to a negative effective mass squared for the scalar field
perturbations near nonspherically symmetric black holes and thus are expected
to trigger tachyonic instability. As illustrative examples, we show that the
scalar field coupled to gravitational/electromagnetic Chern-Simons terms near a
Kerr-Newmann spacetime can develop tachyonic instabilities, leading to
equilibrium scalar field configurations in certain parameter regions of black
holes. This instability, which is an indication of the black hole scalarization
process, can occur in a broad class of nonspherically symmetric black holes and
parity-violating theories.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
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