101 research outputs found
Non-thermal radiation of black hole off canonical typicality
We study the Hawking radiation of black holes by considering the canonical
typicality. For the universe consisting of black holes and their outer part, we
directly obtain a non-thermal radiation spectrum of an arbitrary black hole
from its entropy, which only depends on a few external qualities (known as
hairs), such as mass, charge, and angular momentum. Our result shows that the
spectrum of the non-thermal radiation is independent of the detailed quantum
tunneling dynamics across black hole horizon. We prove that the black hole
information paradox is naturally resolved by taking account the correlation
between black hole and its radiation in our approach.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, pulished on Europhysics Letters, comments are
welcome
Information-carrying Hawking radiation and the number of microstate for a black hole
AbstractWe present a necessary and sufficient condition to falsify whether a Hawking radiation spectrum indicates unitary emission process or not from the perspective of information theory. With this condition, we show the precise values of BekensteinâHawking entropies for Schwarzschild black holes and ReissnerâNordström black holes can be calculated by counting the microstates of their Hawking radiations. In particular, for the extremal ReissnerâNordström black hole, its number of microstate and the corresponding entropy we obtain are found to be consistent with the string theory results. Our finding helps to refute the dispute about the BekensteinâHawking entropy of extremal black holes in the semiclassical limit
Reflectance reconstruction for multispectral imaging by adaptive Wiener estimation
In multispectral imaging, Wiener estimation is widely adopted for the reconstruction of spectral reflectance. We propose an improved reflectance reconstruction method by adaptively selecting training samples for the autocorrelation matrix calculation in Wiener estimation, without a prior knowledge of the spectral information of the samples being imaged. The performance of the proposed adaptive Wiener estimation and the traditional method are compared in the cases of different channel numbers and noise levels. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the traditional method in terms of both spectral and colorimetric prediction errors when the imaging channel number is 7 or less. When the imaging system consists of 11 or more channels, the color accuracy of the proposed method is slightly better than or becomes close to that of the traditional method.Institute of Textiles and ClothingAuthor name used in this publication: Si-Jie ShaoAuthor name used in this publication: John H. Xi
Integrated Metabolomics and Proteomics Analysis Revealed Second Messenger System Disturbance in Hippocampus of Chronic Social Defeat Stress Rat
Depression is a common and disabling mental disorder characterized by high disability and mortality, but its physiopathology remains unclear. In this study, we combined a non-targeted gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based metabolomic approach and isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)-based proteomic analysis to elucidate metabolite and protein alterations in the hippocampus of rat after chronic social defeat stress (CSDS), an extensively used animal model of depression. Ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) was conducted to integrate underlying relationships among differentially expressed metabolites and proteins. Twenty-five significantly different expressed metabolites and 234 differentially expressed proteins were identified between CSDS and control groups. IPA canonical pathways and network analyses revealed that intracellular second messenger/signal transduction cascades were most significantly altered in the hippocampus of CSDS rats, including cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), phosphoinositol, tyrosine kinase, and arachidonic acid systems. These results provide a better understanding of biological mechanisms underlying depression, and may help identify potential targets for novel antidepressants
Chemical profiling of Sanjin tablets and exploration of their effective substances and mechanism in the treatment of urinary tract infections
Introduction: Sanjin tablets (SJT) are a well-known Chinese patent drug that have been used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) for the last 40Â years. The drug consists of five herbs, but only 32 compounds have been identified, which hinders the clarification of its effective substances and mechanism.Methods: The chemical constituents of SJT and their effective substances and functional mechanism involved in the treatment of UTIs were investigated by using high performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-ion trap-time of flight-mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-IT-TOF-MSn), network pharmacology, and molecular docking.Results: A total of 196 compounds of SJT (SJT-MS) were identified, and 44 of them were unequivocally identified by comparison with the reference compounds. Among 196 compounds, 13 were potential new compounds and 183 were known compounds. Among the 183 known compounds, 169 were newly discovered constituents of SJT, and 93 compounds were not reported in the five constituent herbs. Through the network pharmacology method, 119 targets related to UTIs of 183 known compounds were predicted, and 20 core targets were screened out. Based on the âcompoundâtargetâ relationship analysis, 94 compounds were found to act on the 20 core targets and were therefore regarded as potential effective compounds. According to the literature, 27 of the 183 known compounds were found to possess antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities and were verified as effective substances, of which 20 were first discovered in SJT. Twelve of the 27 effective substances overlapped with the 94 potential effective compounds and were determined as key effective substances of SJT. The molecular docking results showed that the 12 key effective substances and 10 selected targets of the core targets have good affinity for each other.Discussion: These results provide a solid foundation for understanding the effective substances and mechanism of SJT
A simulation study on the measurement of D0-D0bar mixing parameter y at BES-III
We established a method on measuring the \dzdzb mixing parameter for
BESIII experiment at the BEPCII collider. In this method, the doubly
tagged events, with one decays to
CP-eigenstates and the other decays semileptonically, are used to
reconstruct the signals. Since this analysis requires good separation,
a likelihood approach, which combines the , time of flight and the
electromagnetic shower detectors information, is used for particle
identification. We estimate the sensitivity of the measurement of to be
0.007 based on a fully simulated MC sample.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome
The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers âŒ99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of âŒ1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead
Effect of gradient temperature rolling process on precipitation behavior in Q690D steel
In this paper, the second phase precipitation model is incorporated into the finite element simulation system of hot rolling process through the secondary development subprogram VUSDFLD of ABAQUS, and the simulation analysis and calculation of nucleation rate, volume fraction and size of precipitates under different temperature fields and strain fields are realized. The size, morphology and distribution of the microalloyed carbonitride precipitates in Q690D steel under gradient temperature rolling (GTR) and uniform temperature rolling (UTR) were studied by laboratory rolling experiments. The results show that the nucleation sites of the microalloyed carbonitride precipitates in the matrix increase under GTR, which is conducive to the nucleation of new precipitates and promotes the re dissolution of large precipitates. Finally, after tempering, the precipitate particles are distributed randomly on the ferrite matrix, and the size is refined by 20 ⌠35 nm, resulting in obvious precipitation strengthening and microstructure refining effects
Image_2_Case report: tracheobronchial diverticulum, a potential risk for diving?.JPEG
Tracheobronchial diverticulum (TBD) is an asymptomatic, benign cystic lesion outside the lumen of the trachea and bronchus. This is the first report case of a SCUBA (self contained underwater breathing apparatus) diver diagnosed with TBD, which is a potential risk to diving. No literature or guideline is available so far on the diving fitness for patients with congenital or acquired TBD condition. A healthy 26-year-old male professional diver has records of SCUBA diving up to a depth of 40 meters sea water. He did not have any diving-related injuries or symptoms during his career and had no history of smoking, drinking, or other special illnesses except for a COVID-19 infection. A tracheal diverticulum was found accidentally by computed tomography (CT), but its communication with the trachea was not clear initially. Therefore, high-resolution CT and electronic bronchoscopy were done to clarify the situation of the diverticulum and identify the diving risk. High-resolution CT showed a possible opening in the diverticulum, but this was not seen under electronic bronchoscopy. Although a potential opening was shown in high-resolution CT, the lack of visual bronchoscopic evidence made it likely to be a dead cavity. As there is a higher theoretical risk of barotrauma during decompression, leading to pneumomediastinum, hemorrhage, or arterial gas embolism, the current clinical consensus is that air-containing tissue should be regarded as a relative contraindication for diving. Overall, it is recommended that the diver should dive carefully and avoid ascending too rapidly.</p
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