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Numerical Study on Indoor Wideband Channel Characteristics with Different Internal Wall
Effects of material and configuration of the internal wall on the performance of wideband channel are investigated by using the Finite Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. The indoor wideband channel characteristics, such as the path-loss, Root-Mean-Square (RMS) delay spread and number of the multipath components (MPCs), are presented. The simulated results demonstrate that the path-loss and MPCs are affected by the permittivity, dielectric loss tangent and thickness of the internal wall, while the RMS delay spread is almost not relevant with the dielectric permittivity. Furthermore, the comparison of simulated result with the measured one in a simple scenario has validated the simulation study
A new small satellite sunspot triggering recurrent standard- and blowout-coronal jets
In this paper,we report a detailed analysis of recurrent jets originated from
a location with emerging, canceling and converging negative magnetic field at
the east edge of NOAA active region AR11166 from 2011 March 09 to 10. The event
presented several interesting features. First, a satellite sunspot appeared and
collided with a pre-existing opposite polarity magnetic field and caused a
recurrent solar jet event. Second, the evolution of the jets showed
blowout-like nature and standard characteristics. Third, the satellite sunspot
exhibited a motion toward southeast of AR11166 and merged with the emerging
flux near the opposite polarity sunspot penumbra, which afterward, due to flux
convergence and cancellation episodes, caused recurrent jets. Fourth, three of
the blowout jets associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), were observed
from field of view of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. Fifth,
almost all the blowout jet eruptions were accompanied with flares or with more
intense brightening in the jet base region, while almost standard jets did not
manifest such obvious feature during eruptions. The most important, the blowout
jets were inclined to faster and larger scale than the standard jets. The
standard jets instead were inclined to relative longer-lasting. The obvious
shearing and twisting motions of the magnetic field may be interpreted as due
to the shearing and twisting motions for a blowout jet eruption. From the
statistical results, about 30% blowout jets directly developed into CMEs. It
suggests that the blowout jets and CMEs should have a tight relationship.Comment: ApJ 18 pages, 7 figure
Microstructure and Fe-vacancy ordering in the KFexSe2 superconducting system
Structural investigations by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
on KFexSe2 with 1.5 \leq x \leq 1.8 have revealed a rich variety of
microstructure phenomena, the KFe1.5Se2 crystal often shows a superstructure
modulation along the [310] zone-axis direction, this superstructure can be well
interpreted by the Fe-vacancy order within the a-b plane. Increase of
Fe-concentration in the KFexSe2 materials could not only result in the
appearance of superconductivity but also yield clear alternations of
microstructure. Structural inhomogeneity, the complex superstructures and
defect structures in the superconducting KFe1.8Se2 sample have been
investigated based on the high-resolution TEM.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Antiviral treatment alters the frequency of activating and inhibitory receptor-expressing natural killer cells in chronic Hepatitis B virus infected patients
Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in innate antiviral immunity, but little is known about the impact of antiviral therapy on the frequency of NK cell subsets. To this aim, we performed this longitudinal study to examine the dynamic changes of the frequency of different subsets of NK cells in CHB patients after initiation of tenofovir or adefovir therapy. We found that NK cell numbers and subset distribution differ between CHB patients and normal subjects; furthermore, the association was found between ALT level and CD158b+ NK cell in HBV patients. In tenofovir group, the frequency of NK cells increased during the treatment accompanied by downregulated expression of NKG2A and KIR2DL3. In adefovir group, NK cell numbers did not differ during the treatment, but also accompanied by downregulated expression of NKG2A and KIR2DL3. Our results demonstrate that treatment with tenofovir leads to viral load reduction, and correlated with NK cell frequencies in peripheral blood of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. In addition, treatments with both tenofovir and adefovir in chronic HBV infected patients induce a decrease of the frequency of inhibitory receptor+ NK cells, which may account for the partial restoration of the function of NK cells in peripheral blood following treatment
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