446 research outputs found
The C/C++ Integrative Teaching Based on CDIO Education Model
AbstractIn view of the curriculum characteristic of the C/C++ language, a new idea about teaching reform based on CDIO is proposed in this paper. In everyday teaching, the teaching link, which centers on cases and for the purpose of program design skills to improve can effectively improve the ability of students to solve real application problems
Shot Noise Suppression in Avalanche Photodiodes
We identify a new shot noise suppression mechanism in a thin (~100 nm)
heterostructure avalanche photodiode. In the low-gain regime the shot noise is
suppressed due to temporal correlations within amplified current pulses. We
demonstrate in a Monte Carlo simulation that the effective excess noise factors
can be <1, and reconcile the apparent conflict between theory and experiments.
This shot noise suppression mechanism is independent of known mechanisms such
as Coulomb interaction, or reflection at heterojunction interfaces.Comment: Phys. Rev. Lett., accepted for publicatio
Disruption of the mouse MRF4 gene identifies multiple waves of myogenesis in the myotome
MRF4 (herculin/Myf-6) is one of the four member MyoD family of transcription factors identified by their ability to enforce skeletal muscle differentiation upon a wide variety of nonmuscle cell types. In this study the mouse germline MRF4 gene was disrupted by targeted recombination. Animals homozygous for the MRF4bh1 allele, a deletion of the functionally essential bHLH domain, displayed defective axial myogenesis and rib pattern formation, and they died at birth. Differences in somitogenesis between homozygous MRF4bh1 embryos and their wild-type littermates provided evidence for three distinct myogenic regulatory programs (My1-My3) in the somite, which correlate temporally and spatially with three waves of cellular recruitment to the expanding myotome. The first program (My1), marked initially by Myf-5 expression and followed by myogenin, began on schedule in the MRF4bh1/bh1 embryos at day 8 post coitum (E8). A second program (My2) was highly deficient in homozygous mutant MRF4 embryos, and normal expansion of the myotome failed. Moreover, expression of downstream muscle-specific genes, including FGF-6, which is a candidate regulator of inductive interactions, did not occur normally. The onset of MyoD expression around E10.5 in wild-type embryos marks a third myotomal program (My3), the execution of which was somewhat delayed in MRF4 mutant embryos but ultimately led to extensive myogenesis in the trunk. By E15 it appeared to have largely compensated for the defective My2 program in MRF4 mutants. Homozygous MRF4bh1 animals also showed improper rib pattern formation perhaps due to the absence of signals from cells expressing the My2 program. Finally, a later and relatively mild phenotype was detected in intercostal muscles of newborn animals
Opportunistic Wireless Control Over State-Dependent Fading Channels
The heterogeneous system consisting of the wireless control system (WCS) and
mobile agent system (MAS) is ubiquitous in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
systems. Within this system, the positions of mobile agents may lead to shadow
fading on the wireless channel that the WCS is controlled over and can
significantly compromise the WCS's performance. This paper focuses on the
controller design for the MAS to ensure the performance of WCS in the presence
of WCS and MAS coupling. Firstly, the constrained finite field network (FFN)
with profile-dependent switching topology is adopted to proceed the operational
control for the MAS. By virtue of the algebraic state space representation
(ASSR) method, an equivalent form is obtained for the WCS and MAS coupling. A
necessary and sufficient condition in terms of constrained set stabilization is
then established to ensure the Lyapunov-like performance with expected decay
rate. Finally, a graphical method together with the breath-first searching is
provided to design state feedback controllers for the MAS. With this method, it
is easy to check the constrained set stabilization of MAS and to ensure the
performance requirements of WCS in the presence of WCS and MAS coupling. The
study of an illustrative example shows the effectiveness of the proposed
method
Norovirus GII.17: The Emergence and Global Prevalence of a Novel Variant
A rare norovirus (NoV) genotype GII.17 has recently emerged and rapidly became predominant in most East Asian countries in the winters of 2014ā2015. In this study, we report the diversity of NoV GII.17Ā in detail; a total of 646 GII.17 sequences obtained during 1978ā2015 were analyzed and subjected to meta-analysis. At least five major recombinant GII.17 clusters were identified. Each recombinant variant group appeared to have emerged following the time order: GII.P4-GII.17 (1978ā1990), GII.P16-GII.17 (2001ā2004), GII.P13-GII.17 (2004ā2010), GII.Pe-GII.17 (2012ā2015) and GII.P3-GII.17 (2011ā2015). The newly emerged GII.P3-GII.17 variant, which exhibited significant sequence and structure variations, is evolving toward a unique lineage. Our results indicate that circulation of GII.17 appears to change every 3ā5Ā years due to replacement by a newly emerged variant and that the evolution of GII.17 is sequentially promoted by inter-genotype recombination, which contributes to the exchange between non-GII.17 and GII.17 RdRp genes and drives the evolution of GII.17 capsid genes
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