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2-(1H-Pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridin-2-yl)pyridine
In the title compound, C12H9N3, the dihedral angle between the pyridine and azaindole rings is 6.20 (2)°. In the crystal, pairs of N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds link molecules into inversion dimers
3,4-Dinitro-2,5-bis[4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]thiophene
The title compound, C18H8F6N2O4S, is a precursor for the production of low-band-gap conjugated polymers. In the crystal structure, the dihedral angles between the thiophene and benzene rings are 35.90 (8) and 61.94 (8)°, and that between the two benzene rings is 40.18 (8)°. The two nitro groups are twisted with respect to the thiophene ring, the dihedral angles being 53.66 (10) and 31.63 (10)°. Weak intermolecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonding helps to stabilize the crystal structure
[4-(1-Benzofuran-2-yl)phenyl]diphenylamine
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C26H19NO, contains two molecules. The dihedral angles between the benzofuran and benzene rings are 5.09 (8), 59.02 (8) and 67.74 (8)° in one molecule and 18.70 (8), 52.78 (8) and 41.74 (8)° in the other. Weak intermolecular C—H⋯π interactions help to stabilize the molecular structure
Entanglement, subsystem particle numbers and topology in free fermion systems
We study the relationship between bipartite entanglement, subsystem particle
number and topology in a half-filled free fermion system. It is proposed that
the spin-projected particle numbers can distinguish the quantum spin Hall state
from other states, and can be used to establish a new topological index for the
system. Furthermore, we apply the new topological invariant to a disordered
system and show that a topological phase transition occurs when the disorder
strength is increased beyond a critical value. It is also shown that the
subsystem particle number fluctuation displays behavior very similar to that of
the entanglement entropy. This provides a lower-bound estimation for the
entanglement entropy, which can be utilized to obtain an estimate of the
entanglement entropy experimentally.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Effects of Electroacupuncture on Benign Prostate Hyperplasia Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: A Single-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial
We tested the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients. A total of 42 BPH patients with LUTS were randomly assigned to either the EA group (EG), received 2 Hz EA for 20 min twice/week for a total of twelve treatments, or a sham EA group (CG), received sham EA. The increase of voiding volume, average flow rate, and maximal flow rate in the EG were 32.2 ± 104.4 mL, 1.2 ± 1.6 mL/sec, and 2.3 ± 3.7 mL/sec, respectively, from baseline value (before EA) using the measurement of an uroflowmetry. These increases were greater than −37.9 ± 120.4, −0.22 ± 2.7, and −0.3 ± 4.3, respectively, in the CG (P = .038, .026, and .030, resp.). The changes of prostate special antigen and international prostatic symptom score were not significantly different between two groups (P = .573, .175, resp.), suggesting the clinical improvement of 2 Hz EA was quite limited to the LUTS of patients with BPH
Online Multicast Traffic Engineering for Software-Defined Networks
Previous research on SDN traffic engineering mostly focuses on static
traffic, whereas dynamic traffic, though more practical, has drawn much less
attention. Especially, online SDN multicast that supports IETF dynamic group
membership (i.e., any user can join or leave at any time) has not been
explored. Different from traditional shortest-path trees (SPT) and graph
theoretical Steiner trees (ST), which concentrate on routing one tree at any
instant, online SDN multicast traffic engineering is more challenging because
it needs to support dynamic group membership and optimize a sequence of
correlated trees without the knowledge of future join and leave, whereas the
scalability of SDN due to limited TCAM is also crucial. In this paper,
therefore, we formulate a new optimization problem, named Online Branch-aware
Steiner Tree (OBST), to jointly consider the bandwidth consumption, SDN
multicast scalability, and rerouting overhead. We prove that OBST is NP-hard
and does not have a -competitive algorithm for any
, where is the largest group size at any time. We
design a -competitive algorithm equipped with the notion of the
budget, the deposit, and Reference Tree to achieve the tightest bound. The
simulations and implementation on real SDNs with YouTube traffic manifest that
the total cost can be reduced by at least 25% compared with SPT and ST, and the
computation time is small for massive SDN.Comment: Full version (accepted by INFOCOM 2018
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