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A design of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) spectrometer for spatial- and time-resolved spectroscopy.
The optical design of a Hettrick-Underwood-style soft X-ray spectrometer with Wolter type 1 mirrors is presented. The spectrometer with a nominal length of 3.1 m can achieve a high resolving power (resolving power higher than 10000) in the soft X-ray regime when a small source beam (<3 µm in the grating dispersion direction) and small pixel detector (5 µm effective pixel size) are used. Adding Wolter mirrors to the spectrometer before its dispersive elements can realize the spatial imaging capability, which finds applications in the spectroscopic studies of spatially dependent electronic structures in tandem catalysts, heterostructures, etc. In the pump-probe experiments where the pump beam perturbs the materials followed by the time-delayed probe beam to reveal the transient evolution of electronic structures, the imaging capability of the Wolter mirrors can offer the pixel-equivalent femtosecond time delay between the pump and probe beams when their wavefronts are not collinear. In combination with some special sample handing systems, such as liquid jets and droplets, the imaging capability can also be used to study the time-dependent electronic structure of chemical transformation spanning multiple time domains from microseconds to nanoseconds. The proposed Wolter mirrors can also be adopted to the existing soft X-ray spectrometers that use the Hettrick-Underwood optical scheme, expanding their capabilities in materials research
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Mechanism of Exact Transition between Cationic and Anionic Redox Activities in Cathode Material Li2FeSiO4.
The discovery of anion redox activity is promising for boosting the capacity of lithium ion battery (LIB) cathodes. However, fundamental understanding of the mechanisms that trigger the anionic redox is still lacking. Here, using hybrid density functional study combined with experimental soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (sXAS) measurements, we unambiguously proved that Li(2- x)FeSiO4 performs sequent cationic and anionic redox activity through delithiation. Specifically, Fe2+ is oxidized to Fe3+ during the first Li ion extraction per formula unit (f.u.), while the second Li ion extraction triggered the oxygen redox exclusively. Cationic and anionic redox result in electron and hole polaron states, respectively, explaining the poor conductivity of Li(2- x)FeSiO4 noted by previous experiments. In contrast, other cathode materials in this family exhibit diversity of the redox process. Li2MnSiO4 shows double cationic redox (Mn2+-Mn4+) during the whole delithiation, while Li2CoSiO4 shows simultaneous cationic and anionic redox. The present finding not only provides new insights into the oxygen redox activity in polyanionic compounds for rechargeable batteries but also sheds light on the future design of high-capacity rechargeable batteries
Towards Frame Rate Agnostic Multi-Object Tracking
Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is one of the most fundamental computer vision
tasks which contributes to a variety of video analysis applications. Despite
the recent promising progress, current MOT research is still limited to a fixed
sampling frame rate of the input stream. In fact, we empirically find that the
accuracy of all recent state-of-the-art trackers drops dramatically when the
input frame rate changes. For a more intelligent tracking solution, we shift
the attention of our research work to the problem of Frame Rate Agnostic MOT
(FraMOT). In this paper, we propose a Frame Rate Agnostic MOT framework with
Periodic training Scheme (FAPS) to tackle the FraMOT problem for the first
time. Specifically, we propose a Frame Rate Agnostic Association Module (FAAM)
that infers and encodes the frame rate information to aid identity matching
across multi-frame-rate inputs, improving the capability of the learned model
in handling complex motion-appearance relations in FraMOT. Besides, the
association gap between training and inference is enlarged in FraMOT because
those post-processing steps not included in training make a larger difference
in lower frame rate scenarios. To address it, we propose Periodic Training
Scheme (PTS) to reflect all post-processing steps in training via tracking
pattern matching and fusion. Along with the proposed approaches, we make the
first attempt to establish an evaluation method for this new task of FraMOT in
two different modes, i.e., known frame rate and unknown frame rate, aiming to
handle a more complex situation. The quantitative experiments on the
challenging MOT datasets (FraMOT version) have clearly demonstrated that the
proposed approaches can handle different frame rates better and thus improve
the robustness against complicated scenarios.Comment: 21 pages; Author versio
Larotrectinib treatment for infantile fibrosarcoma in newborns: a case report and literature review
Infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS) is a rare tumor in childhood characterized by a single, localized, painless mass that grows rapidly but has a relatively indolent biological behavior and a favorable prognosis. Eighty-five percent of infantile fibrosarcomas are associated with t (12;15) (p13;25) chromosomal translocation resulting in ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion, which provides the target for targeted therapy. Here, we report a case of IFS in a newborn with a mass in the left lower extremity confirmed by imaging, histopathological examination, tissue FISH testing, and high-throughput sequencing to detect gene rearrangement. Based on gene fusion targeted drug testing results, the patient was treated with standard doses of larotrectinib, resulting in significant mass shrinkage with no adverse effects, demonstrating the treatment effect of targeted therapy. This case provides a reference for using larotrectinib in newborns with IFS
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