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 $\sim 6$ and $\sim 10$ 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 $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. A family $\mathcal{S}$ of nonempty sets $\{S_1,\ldots,S_n\}$ is a set representation of $G$ if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the vertices $v_1, \ldots, v_n$ in $V(G)$ and the sets in $\mathcal{S}$ such that $v_iv_j \in E(G)$ if and only if S_i\cap S_j\neq \es. A set representation $\mathcal{S}$ is a distinct (respectively, antichain, uniform and simple) set representation if any two sets $S_i$ and $S_j$ in $\mathcal{S}$ have the property $S_i\neq S_j$ (respectively, $S_i\nsubseteq S_j$, $|S_i|=|S_j|$ and $|S_i\cap S_j|\leqslant 1$). Let $U(\mathcal{S})=\bigcup_{i=1}^n S_i$. Two set representations $\mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal{S}'$ are isomorphic if $\mathcal{S}'$ can be obtained from $\mathcal{S}$ by a bijection from $U(\mathcal{S})$ to $U(\mathcal{S}')$. Let $F$ denote a class of set representations of a graph $G$. The type of $F$ 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