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FAST polarization mapping of the SNR VRO 42.05.01
We have obtained the polarization data cube of the VRO 42.05.01 supernova
remnant at 1240 MHz using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio
Telescope (FAST). Three-dimensional Faraday Synthesis is applied to the FAST
data to derive the Faraday depth spectrum. The peak Faraday depth map shows a
large area of enhanced foreground RM of ~60 rad m-2 extending along the
remnant's "wing" section, which coincides with a large-scale HI shell at -20
km/s. The two depolarization patches within the "wing" region with RM of 97 rad
m-2 and 55 rad m-2 coincide with two HI structures in the HI shell. Faraday
screen model fitting on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) 1420 MHz
full-scale polarization data reveals a distance of 0.7-0.8d_{SNR} in front of
the SNR with enhanced regular magnetic field there. The highly piled-up
magnetic field indicates that the HI shell at -20 km/s could originate from an
old evolved SNR.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Ap
Optically-Nonactive Assorted Helices Array with Interchangeable Magnetic/Electric Resonance
We report here the designing of optically-nonactive metamaterial by
assembling metallic helices with different chirality. With linearly polarized
incident light, pure electric or magnetic resonance can be selectively
realized, which leads to negative permittivity or negative permeability
accordingly. Further, we show that pure electric or magnetic resonance can be
interchanged at the same frequency band by merely changing the polarization of
incident light for 90 degrees. This design demonstrates a unique approach to
construct metamaterial.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Demonstration of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering with Enhanced Subchannel Discrimination
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering describes a quantum nonlocal
phenomenon in which one party can nonlocally affect the other's state through
local measurements. It reveals an additional concept of quantum nonlocality,
which stands between quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Recently, a
quantum information task named as subchannel discrimination (SD) provides a
necessary and sufficient characterization of EPR steering. The success
probability of SD using steerable states is higher than using any unsteerable
states, even when they are entangled. However, the detailed construction of
such subchannels and the experimental realization of the corresponding task are
still technologically challenging. In this work, we designed a feasible
collection of subchannels for a quantum channel and experimentally demonstrated
the corresponding SD task where the probabilities of correct discrimination are
clearly enhanced by exploiting steerable states. Our results provide a concrete
example to operationally demonstrate EPR steering and shine a new light on the
potential application of EPR steering.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, appendix include
Information filtering based on transferring similarity
In this Brief Report, we propose a new index of user similarity, namely the
transferring similarity, which involves all high-order similarities between
users. Accordingly, we design a modified collaborative filtering algorithm,
which provides remarkably higher accurate predictions than the standard
collaborative filtering. More interestingly, we find that the algorithmic
performance will approach its optimal value when the parameter, contained in
the definition of transferring similarity, gets close to its critical value,
before which the series expansion of transferring similarity is convergent and
after which it is divergent. Our study is complementary to the one reported in
[E. A. Leicht, P. Holme, and M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 73} 026120
(2006)], and is relevant to the missing link prediction problem.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
MnBa2(HPO4)2(H2PO4)2
Crystals of manganese(II) dibarium bis(hydrogenphosphate) bis(dihydrogenphosphate), MnBa2(HPO4)2(H2PO4)2, were obtained by hydrothermal synthesis. The title compound is isotypic with its CdII and CaII analogues. The structure is built up of an infinite {[Mn(HPO4)2(H2PO4)2]4−}n chain running along [100], which consists of alternate MnO6 octahedra and [PO4] tetrahedra, in which the centrosymmetric MnO6 octahedra share their four equatorial O-atom corners with tetrahedral [PO3(OH)] groups and their two axial apices with tetrahedral [PO2(OH)2] groups. These chains are held together by BaO9 coordination polyhedra, developing into a three-dimensional structure. The O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds additionally stabilize the structural set-up. Due to the ionic radius of Mn2+ being much smaller than those of Ca2+ and Cd2+, this may imply that their adopted structure type has a great tolerance for incorporating various ions and the exploitation of more diverse compounds in the future is encouraged
catena-Poly[[(2,2′-bipyridine)nickel(II)]-μ-2,4′-oxydibenzoato]
In the title compound, [Ni(C14H8O5)(C10H8N2)]n, the NiII atom is six-coordinated in a slightly distorted octahedral geometry by four O atoms from two chelating carboxylate groups of symmetry-related 2,4′-oxydibenzoate anions and by two N atoms from a 2,2′-bipyridine ligand. The NiII atoms are bridged by the 2,4′-oxydibenzoate anions, resulting in the formation of helical chains parallel to [010] with a repeating unit of 15.039 (2) Å
Compound loss of GSDMD and GSDME function is necessary to achieve maximal therapeutic effect in colitis
Gasdermin D (GSDMD) and gasdermin E (GSDME) perpetuate inflammation by mediating the release of cytokines such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and IL-18. However, not only are the actions of GSDMD in colitis still controversial, but its interplay with GSDME in the pathogenesis of this disease has not been investigated. We sought to fill these knowledge gaps using the dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) experimental mouse colitis model. DSS ingestion by wild-type mice caused body weight loss as the result of severe gut inflammation, outcomes that were significantly attenuated i
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