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Magnetic cooling for microkelvin nanoelectronics on a cryofree platform
We present a parallel network of 16 demagnetization refrigerators mounted on
a cryofree dilution refrigerator aimed to cool nanoelectronic devices to
sub-millikelvin temperatures. To measure the refrigerator temperature, the
thermal motion of electrons in a Ag wire -- thermalized by a spot-weld to one
of the Cu nuclear refrigerators -- is inductively picked-up by a
superconducting gradiometer and amplified by a SQUID mounted at 4 K. The noise
thermometer as well as other thermometers are used to characterize the
performance of the system, finding magnetic field independent heat-leaks of a
few nW/mol, cold times of several days below 1 mK, and a lowest temperature of
150 microK of one of the nuclear stages in a final field of 80 mT, close to the
intrinsic SQUID noise of about 100 microK. A simple thermal model of the system
capturing the nuclear refrigerator, heat leaks, as well as thermal and Korringa
links describes the main features very well, including rather high refrigerator
efficiencies typically above 80%.Comment: 4 color figures, including supplementary inf
A quantitative study of spin-flip co-tunneling transport in a quantum dot
We report detailed transport measurements in a quantum dot in a spin-flip
co-tunneling regime, and a quantitative comparison of the data to microscopic
theory. The quantum dot is fabricated by lateral gating of a GaAs/AlGaAs
heterostructure, and the conductance is measured in the presence of an in-plane
Zeeman field. We focus on the ratio of the nonlinear conductance values at bias
voltages exceeding the Zeeman threshold, a regime that permits a spin flip on
the dot, to those below the Zeeman threshold, when the spin flip on the dot is
energetically forbidden. The data obtained in three different odd-occupation
dot states show good quantitative agreement with the theory with no adjustable
parameters. We also compare the theoretical results to the predictions of a
phenomenological form used previously for the analysis of non-linear
co-tunneling conductance, specifically the determination of the heterostructure
g-factor, and find good agreement between the two.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
The top quark rare decays with flavor violation
In the present study, we investigate the decays of the top quark
, , and . They are extremely rare processes in the Standard Model (SM). As the
extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model, the
SSM features new superfields such as the right-handed neutrinos and
three Higgs singlet states. We analyze the effects of different sensitivity
parameters on the results and make reasonable theorecial predictions useful for
future experimental developments. Considering the constraint of the updated
experimental data, the numerical results show that the branching ratios of all
four processes can reach the same order of
magnitude as their experimental upper limits. Among them, has the
most obvious effect on each process and is the main parameter. , ,
, , , and are important parameters
for the processes, and have effects on the numerical results.Comment: pages 22, figures 1
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Cognitive-enhancing effects of polygalasaponin hydrolysate in aβ(25-35)-induced amnesic mice.
Polygalasaponins are the major active constituents of Polygala tenuifolia exhibiting antiamnesic activity, but their applications are limited due to their toxicities. Evidence showed that the toxicities can be attenuated by hydrolysis. Herein, effects of a hydrolysate of polygalasaponins (HPS) on cognitive impairment induced by Aβ(25-35) were assessed by Morris water maze and step-through passive avoidance tests. The impaired spatial reference memory was improved by HPS (50 and 100 mg/kg). In the acquisition trial of step-through test, HPS (50 and 100 mg/kg) increased the latency into the dark chamber and decreased the error frequency significantly (P < .05). However, no significant change was observed during the retention trial. Additionally, HPS increased the corresponding SOD activities (62.34%, 22.09%) and decreased MDA levels (28.21%, 32.35%) in both cortex and hippocampus as compared to model animals. These results show that HPS may be a useful treatment against amnesia probably via its antioxidant properties.Peer Reviewe
Lightest Higgs boson decays in the from supersymmetric standard model
We study the lightest Higgs boson decays in the framework
of the from supersymmetric standard model (SSM), where
is a vector meson . Compared to the minimal
supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), the SSM introduces three
right-handed neutrino superfields, which lead to the mixing of the Higgs
doublets with the sneutrinos. The mixing affects the lightest Higgs boson mass
and the Higgs couplings. Compared to the standard model, the SSM can
give large new physics contributions to the decay width of in
suitable parameter space, which may be detected by the HL-LHC or the other
future high energy colliders.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:2002.0437
Cognitive-enhancing effects of polygalasaponin hydrolysate in aβ(25-35)-induced amnesic mice.
Polygalasaponins are the major active constituents of Polygala tenuifolia exhibiting antiamnesic activity, but their applications are limited due to their toxicities. Evidence showed that the toxicities can be attenuated by hydrolysis. Herein, effects of a hydrolysate of polygalasaponins (HPS) on cognitive impairment induced by Aβ25−35 were assessed by Morris water maze and step-through passive avoidance tests. The impaired spatial reference memory was improved by HPS (50 and 100mg/kg). In the acquisition trial of step-through test, HPS (50 and 100mg/kg) increased the latency into the dark chamber and decreased the error frequency significantly (P < .05). However, no significant change was observed during the retention trial. Additionally, HPS increased the corresponding SOD activities (62.34%, 22.09%) and decreased MDA levels (28.21%, 32.35%) in both cortex and hippocampus as compared to model animals. These results show that HPS may be a useful treatment against amnesia probably via its antioxidant properties
THE EFFECTS Of VOLLEYBALL ATTACKING ON SCORE POINTS: A CASE STUDY OF 2014 TVL IN TAIWAN
Volleyball is a sport in which team tactical and players' attacking skills determine to score points. Therefore, an effective team tactical is achieved by main spikers' and middle blockers' skills. To name but a few, delayed spike, open spike and back-row spike are main spikers' skills, yet quick spike, and individual time difference attack are associated with middle blockers'. Under this aspect, a case study of male teams of Taiwan Top Volleyball League (TVL) was yield out, which aimed at exploring the effects of team tactical and players attacking skills on score points. The results indicated that the attacking point ratio of main spikers and middle blockers in the champion team was higher than others. This was because the middle blockers gave cover to main spikers as attacking. By doing so, it promoted point ratio to main spikers. Furthermore, it found that to strengthen main spikers and middle blockers' skills would increase team's attacking point ratio
PCT: Point cloud transformer
The irregular domain and lack of ordering make it challenging to design deep
neural networks for point cloud processing. This paper presents a novel
framework named Point Cloud Transformer(PCT) for point cloud learning. PCT is
based on Transformer, which achieves huge success in natural language
processing and displays great potential in image processing. It is inherently
permutation invariant for processing a sequence of points, making it
well-suited for point cloud learning. To better capture local context within
the point cloud, we enhance input embedding with the support of farthest point
sampling and nearest neighbor search. Extensive experiments demonstrate that
the PCT achieves the state-of-the-art performance on shape classification, part
segmentation and normal estimation tasks.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Insulin regulates glucose consumption and lactate production through reactive oxygen species and pyruvate kinase M2.
Although insulin is known to regulate glucose metabolism and closely associate with liver cancer, the molecular mechanisms still remain to be elucidated. In this study, we attempt to understand the mechanism of insulin in promotion of liver cancer metabolism. We found that insulin increased pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) expression through reactive oxygen species (ROS) for regulating glucose consumption and lactate production, key process of glycolysis in hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 and Bel7402 cells. Interestingly, insulin-induced ROS was found responsible for the suppression of miR-145 and miR-128, and forced expression of either miR-145 or miR-128 was sufficient to abolish insulin-induced PKM2 expression. Furthermore, the knockdown of PKM2 expression also inhibited cancer cell growth and insulin-induced glucose consumption and lactate production, suggesting that PKM2 is a functional downstream effecter of insulin. Taken together, this study would provide a new insight into the mechanism of insulin-induced glycolysis
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