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Modelling self-interacting dark matter substructures I: Calibration with N-body simulations of a Milky-Way-sized halo and its satellite
We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of in a Milky-Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM)
models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of dynamical evolution
of individual subhaloes orbiting its host by varying self-scattering cross
sections (including a velocity-dependent scenario), subhalo orbits, and
internal properties of the subhalo. We calibrate a gravothermal fluid model to
predict time evolution in spherical mass density profiles of isolated SIDM
haloes with the simulations. We find that tidal effects of SIDM subhaloes can
be described with a framework developed for the case of collision-less cold
dark matter (CDM), but a shorter typical time scale for the mass loss due to
tidal stripping is required to explain our SIDM simulation results. As long as
the cross section is less than and initial
states of subhaloes are set within a -level scatter at redshifts of
predicted by the standard CDM cosmology, our simulations do
not exhibit a prominent feature of gravothermal collapse in the subhalo central
density for 10 Gyr. We develop a semi-analytic model of SIDM subhaloes in a
time-evolving density core of the host with tidal stripping and self-scattering
ram pressure effects. Our semi-analytic approach provides a simple, efficient
and physically-intuitive prediction of SIDM subhaloes, but further improvements
are needed to account for baryonic effects in the host and the gravothermal
instability accelerated by tidal stripping effects.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS.
Note that results in the previous manuscript (v1) were affected by a bug in
our SIDM implementation. We fixed the bug and updated all results accordingl
Differential expression of topoisomerase IIα protein in salivary gland carcinomas: histogenetic and prognostic implications
BACKGROUND: Salivary gland carcinomas are relatively uncommon heterogeneous malignancies characterized by locoregional invasion and distant metastasis. Topoisomerase IIα (topoIIα), located at chromosome 17q21-22, is considered a major mediator of cell proliferation and DNA replication. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the expression of topoIIα in various types of salivary gland tumors and its biological significance. METHODS: The protein expression of topoIIα was evaluated immunohistochemically in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue from 54 salivary gland carcinomas and 20 benign tumors (10 pleomorphic adenomas and 10 Warthin's tumors). The primary salivary gland carcinoma specimens consisted of 17 adenoid cystic carcinomas, 7 adenocarcinomas not otherwise specified, 7 mucoepidermoid carcinomas, 6 salivary duct carcinomas, 3 acinic cell carcinomas, 3 carcinomas ex pleomorphic adenomas, 3 epithelial-myoepithelial carcinomas, 2 carcinosarcomas, 2 lymphoepithelial carcinomas, 2 myoepithelial carcinomas, 1 oncocytic carcinoma, and 1 squamous cell carcinoma. The associations between clinicopathological factors and outcome were analyzed. RESULTS: Of the 54 primary salivary gland carcinomas, 38 (70%) showed positive expression (≥10%) of topoIIα protein, and 16 carcinomas (30%) and all benign tumors were negative (p < 0.001). Expression of topoIIα was more frequently observed in salivary duct carcinoma, carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma, adenocarcinoma, and adenoid cystic carcinoma, solid type, and it was associated with advanced stage and shortened survival. CONCLUSION: The results of the present study suggest that topoIIα expression is associated with histologically aggressive subtypes and shortened survival. Furthermore, it may provide useful prognostic information and suggests the potential efficacy of topoIIα-targeting therapy in patients with salivary gland carcinoma
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Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year data
We measure cosmic weak lensing shear power spectra with the Subaru Hyper
Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalog covering 137deg of the
sky. Thanks to the high effective galaxy number density of 17
arcmin even after conservative cuts such as magnitude cut of
and photometric redshift cut of , we obtain a high
significance measurement of the cosmic shear power spectra in 4 tomographic
redshift bins, achieving a total signal-to-noise ratio of 16 in the multipole
range . We carefully account for various uncertainties
in our analysis including the intrinsic alignment of galaxies, scatters and
biases in photometric redshifts, residual uncertainties in the shear
measurement, and modeling of the matter power spectrum. The accuracy of our
power spectrum measurement method as well as our analytic model of the
covariance matrix are tested against realistic mock shear catalogs. For a flat
cold dark matter (CDM) model, we find for
( for ) from our HSC tomographic
cosmic shear analysis alone. In comparison with Planck cosmic microwave
background constraints, our results prefer slightly lower values of ,
although metrics such as the Bayesian evidence ratio test do not show
significant evidence for discordance between these results. We study the effect
of possible additional systematic errors that are unaccounted in our fiducial
cosmic shear analysis, and find that they can shift the best-fit values of
by up to in both directions. The full HSC survey data
will contain several times more area, and will lead to significantly improved
cosmological constraints.Comment: 43 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in PAS
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