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The Hamiltonian index of a graph and its branch-bonds
Let be an undirected and loopless finite graph that is not a path. The minimum such that the iterated line graph is hamiltonian is called the hamiltonian index of denoted by A reduction method to determine the hamiltonian index of a graph with is given here. With it we will establish a sharp lower bound and a sharp upper bound for , respectively, which improves some known results of P.A. Catlin et al. [J. Graph Theory 14 (1990)] and H.-J. Lai [Discrete Mathematics 69 (1988)]. Examples show that may reach all integers between the lower bound and the upper bound. \u
The effect of discrete breathers on heat conduction in nonlinear chains
Intensive studies in the past decades have suggested that the heat
conductivity diverges with the system size as in one dimensional momentum conserving nonlinear lattices and the
value of is universal. But in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam- lattices
with next-nearest-neighbor interactions we find that strongly depends
on , the ratio of the next-nearest-neighbor coupling to the
nearest-neighbor coupling. We relate the -dependent heat conduction to
the interactions between the long-wavelength phonons and the randomly
distributed discrete breathers. Our results provide an evidence to show that
the nonlinear excitations affect the heat transport.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Heat Transfer Properties at Low Prandtl Number
The sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), which is one of the most promising candidates for meeting the goal declared by the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), has drawn a lot of attention. Turbulent heat transfer in liquid sodium, which is a low-Prandtl fluid, is an extremely complex phenomenon. The limitations of the commonly used eddy diffusivity approach have become more evident when considering low-Prandtl fluids. The current study focuses on the assessment and optimization of the existing modeling closure for single-phase turbulence in liquid sodium based on reference results provided by the LES method. In this study, a wall-resolved Large-Eddy Simulation was performed to simulate the flow and heat transfer properties in a turbulent channel at low Prandtl number. The simulation results were first compared with the DNS results obtained from the literature. A good agreement demonstrated the capability of the employed numerical approach to predict the turbulent and heat transfer properties in a low-Prandtl number fluid. Consequently, new reference results were obtained for the typical Prandtl number and wall heat flux of an SFR. A time-averaged process was employed to evaluate the temperature profile quantitatively as well as the turbulent heat flux. Their dependency was also evaluated based on a systematic CFD simulation that covers the typical Reynolds numbers of SFRs. Based on the reference results obtained, the coefficients employed in an algebraic turbulent heat flux model (AFM) are calibrated. The optimized coefficients provide more accurate prediction of heat transfer properties for typical flow conditions of an SFR than the existing models found in the literature
NPP VIIRS On-Orbit Calibration and Characterization Using the Moon
The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of five instruments on-board the Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2011. VIIRS has been scheduled to view the Moon approximately monthly with a spacecraft roll maneuver after its NADIR door open on November 21, 2011. To reduce the uncertainty of the radiometric calibration due to the view geometry, the lunar phase angles of the scheduled lunar observations were confined in the range from -56 deg to -55 deg in the first three scheduled lunar observations and then changed to the range from -51.5 deg to -50.5 deg, where the negative sign for the phase angles indicates that the VIIRS views a waxing moon. Unlike the MODIS lunar observations, most scheduled VIIRS lunar views occur on the day side of the Earth. For the safety of the instrument, the roll angles of the scheduled VIIRS lunar observations are required to be within [-14 deg, 0 deg] and the aforementioned change of the phase angle range was aimed to further minimize the roll angle required for each lunar observation while keeping the number of months in which the moon can be viewed by the VIIRS instrument each year unchanged. The lunar observations can be used to identify if there is crosstalk in VIIRS bands and to track on-orbit changes in VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands (RSB) detector gains. In this paper, we report our results using the lunar observations to examine the on-orbit crosstalk effects among NPP VIIRS bands, to track the VIIRS RSB gain changes in first few months on-orbit, and to compare the gain changes derived from lunar and SD/SDSM calibration
New structural insights into the multifunctional influenza A matrix protein 1
Influenza A virus matrix protein 1 (M1) is the most abundant protein within virions and functions at multiple steps of the virus life cycle, including nuclear RNA export, virus particle assembly, and virus disassembly. Two recent publications have presented the first structures of full-length M1 and show that it assembles filaments in vitro via an interface between the N- and C-terminal domains of adjacent monomers. These filaments were found to be similar to those that form the endoskeleton of assembled virions. The structures provide a molecular basis to understand the functions of M1 during the virus life cycle. Here, we compare and discuss the two structures, and explore their implications for the mechanisms by which the multifunctional M1 protein can mediate virus assembly, interact with viral ribonucleoproteins and act during infection of a new cell
The Microsoft 2017 Conversational Speech Recognition System
We describe the 2017 version of Microsoft's conversational speech recognition
system, in which we update our 2016 system with recent developments in
neural-network-based acoustic and language modeling to further advance the
state of the art on the Switchboard speech recognition task. The system adds a
CNN-BLSTM acoustic model to the set of model architectures we combined
previously, and includes character-based and dialog session aware LSTM language
models in rescoring. For system combination we adopt a two-stage approach,
whereby subsets of acoustic models are first combined at the senone/frame
level, followed by a word-level voting via confusion networks. We also added a
confusion network rescoring step after system combination. The resulting system
yields a 5.1\% word error rate on the 2000 Switchboard evaluation set
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Coil combination using linear deconvolution in k-space for phase imaging
Background: The combination of multi-channel data is a critical step for the imaging of phase and susceptibility contrast in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Magnitude-weighted phase combination methods often produce noise and aliasing artifacts in the magnitude images at accelerated imaging sceneries. To address this issue, an optimal coil combination method through deconvolution in k-space is proposed in this paper.
Methods: The proposed method firstly employs the sum-of-squares and phase aligning method to yield a complex reference coil image which is then used to calculate the coil sensitivity and its Fourier transform. Then, the coil k-space combining weights is computed, taking into account the truncated frequency data of coil sensitivity and the acquired k-space data. Finally, combining the coil k-space data with the acquired weights generates the k-space data of proton distribution, with which both phase and magnitude information can be obtained straightforwardly. Both phantom and in vivo imaging experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.
Results: Compared with magnitude-weighted method and MCPC-C, the proposed method can alleviate the phase cancellation in coil combination, resulting in a less wrapped phase.
Conclusions: The proposed method provides an effective and efficient approach to combine multiple coil image in parallel MRI reconstruction, and has potential to benefit routine clinical practice in the future
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