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Roughness with a finite correlation length in the Microtrap
We analyze the effects of roughness in the magnitude of the magnetic field
produced by a current carrying microwire, which is caused by geometric
fluctuation of the edge of wire. The relation between the fluctuation of the
trapping potential and the height that atom trap lies above the wire is
consistent with the experimental data very well, when the colored noise with a
finite correlation length is considered. On this basis, we generate the random
potential and get the density distribution of the BEC atoms by solving the
Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which coincides well with the experimental image,
especially in the number of fragmentations. The results help us further
understand the nature of the fluctuation and predict the possible application
in the precise measurement.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Vehicle Logo Recognition by Spatial-SIFT Combined with Logistic Regression
An efficient recognition framework requires both
good feature representation and effective classification methods.
This paper proposes such a framework based on a spatial Scale
Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) combined with a logistic
regression classifier. The performance of the proposed framework
is compared to that of state-of-the-art methods based on the
Histogram of Orientation Gradients, SIFT features, Support
Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbours classifiers. By testing
with the largest vehicle logo data-set, it is shown that the proposed
framework can achieve a classification accuracy of 99.93%,
the best among all studied methods. Moreover, the proposed
framework shows robustness when noise is added in both training
and testing images
Adding Chinese herbal medicine to probiotics for irritable bowel syndrome-diarrhea: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
© 2020 Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Objective: This study assessed whether Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) combined with probiotics/synbiotics for irritable bowel syndrome - diarrhea (IBS-D) was more effective and safer than probiotics/synbiotics alone. Methods: Ten databases were searched for randomized control trials (RCTs) of IBS-D as diagnosed by Manning or Rome criteria. Trials comparing probiotics and probiotics with CHM were included. The Cochrane risk of bias (ROB) was evaluated for each trial. RevMan 5.3 was used to conduct a meta-analysis. Results: Twenty-six RCTs were included (25 Chinese, 1 English), involving 2045 participants. Meta-analysis was conducted on two outcomes: overall symptom improvement and relapse. CHM combined with live Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus preparations reduced relapse rate (RR 0.28, 95%CI 0.15–0.52, 3 trials, n = 205) compared with probiotics alone. The subgroup analysis showed the benefit of CHM prescriptions based on soothing liver and invigorating spleen (1.28, 1.14–1.44, 3, 244), invigorating spleen and resolving dampness (1.20, 1.03–1.41, 2, 128), or warming and invigorating spleen and kidney formulae (1.27, 1.09–1.46, 2, 210) combined with triple Bifidobacterium preparations than the same probiotics alone which improved overall symptoms for IBS-D. There was unclear bias in almost domains of ROB. Most studies had a high risk of bias due to lack of blinding of investigator and participants, and selective reporting. Conclusions: This study showed that CHM combined with probiotics may reduce relapse rate by 72%, and improve overall symptoms of IBS-D (as diagnosed by Rome II and III) compared to probiotics alone. From the limited subgroup analysis, only soothing liver and invigorating spleen formulae, represented by Tongxie Yaofang, added to triple Bifidobacterium preparations may be superior to the single preparations in terms of overall symptoms. However, due to the poor methodological quality and small sample size of the trials, these findings must be interpreted with caution
Origin and tuning of the magnetocaloric effect for the magnetic refrigerant MnFe(P1-xGex)
Neutron diffraction and magnetization measurements of the magneto refrigerant
Mn1+yFe1-yP1-xGex reveal that the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases
correspond to two very distinct crystal structures, with the magnetic entropy
change as a function of magnetic field or temperature being directly controlled
by the phase fraction of this first-order transition. By tuning the physical
properties of this system we have achieved a maximum magnetic entropy change
exceeding 74 J/Kg K for both increasing and decreasing field, more than twice
the value of the previous record.Comment: 6 Figures. One tabl
Revisiting vertical structure of neutrino-dominated accretion disks: Bernoulli parameter, neutrino trapping and other distributions
We revisit the vertical structure of neutrino dominated accretion flows
(NDAFs) in spherical coordinates with a new boundary condition based on the
mechanical equilibrium. The solutions show that NDAF is significantly thick.
The Bernoulli parameter and neutrino trapping are determined by the mass
accretion rate and the viscosity parameter. According to the distribution of
the Bernoulli parameter, the possible outflow may appear in the outer region of
the disk. The neutrino trapping can essentially affect the neutrino radiation
luminosity. The vertical structure of NDAF is like a "sandwich", and the
multilayer accretion may account for the flares in gamma-ray bursts.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space
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Histological study of intestinal goblet cells, IgA, and CD3+ lymphocyte distribution in Huang-huai white goat
Background: Ten healthy adult Huang-huai white goats were selected and sacrificed by jugular vein bleeding after anaesthesia to observe the distribution characteristics of the histological structure of the intestinal mucosa, goblet cells, IgA, and CD3+ lymphocytes. Materials and methods: Three sections of the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum were immediately collected and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 72 h to prepare tissue sections. After haematoxylin and eosin, periodic acid Schiff, and immunohistochemical staining was performed, the distribution characteristics of goblet cells, IgA-positive cells, and CD3+ lymphocytes were observed. Results showed high columnar epithelial cells in the duodenum and jejunum of Huang-huai white goat and low columnar epithelial cells in the ileum mucosa. Results: Mucopolysaccharides secreted by intestinal goblet cells were mainly neutral, and the number of ileum goblet cells was significantly higher than that of the duodenum and the jejunum (p < 0.05). IgA-positive cells were distributed in the lamina propria of the duodenum, and the number of cells was significantly higher than that in the jejunum and the ileum (p < 0.01). The significant difference was found between the jejunum and the ileum (p < 0.01). The CD3+ cells in the intestinal mucosa were distributed in the lamina propria mucosae, and some of the positive cells in the jejunum were distributed between epithelial cells. CD3+ cells had the largest number in the jejunal lamina propria but had the lowest number in the ileum. Conclusions: The jejunum was significantly higher than the duodenum (p < 0.05), and the ileum was much less than the jejunum (p < 0.01)
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Non-Ideal Fluids
A lattice Boltzmann scheme able to model the hydrodynamics of phase
separation and two-phase flow is described. Thermodynamic consistency is
ensured by introducing a non-ideal pressure tensor directly into the collision
operator. We also show how an external chemical potential can be used to
supplement standard boundary conditions in order to investigate the effect of
wetting on phase separation and fluid flow in confined geometries. The approach
has the additional advantage of reducing many of the unphysical discretisation
problems common to previous lattice Boltzmann methods.Comment: 11 pages, revtex, 4 Postscript figures, uuencode
A Monte Carlo Study of the Dynamical-Flucautation Property of the Hadronic System Inside Jets
A study of the dynamical fluctuation property of jets is carried out using
Monte Carlo method. The results suggest that, unlike the average properties of
the hadronic system inside jets, the anisotropy of dynamical fluctuations in
these systems changes abruptly with the variation of the cut parameter \yct.
A transition point exists, where the dynamical fluctuations in the hadronic
system inside jet behave like those in soft hadronic collisions, i.e. being
circular in the transverse plan with repect to dynamical fluctuations. This
finding obtained from Jetset and Herwig Monte Carlo is encouraged to be checked
by experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
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