Aging-induced double ferroelectric hysteresis loops in BiFeO₃multiferroic ceramic

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Preliminary study on the inducement effect of colchicine during microsporogenesis of Ginkgo biloba L.

This is the first report of colchicine treatment effect on microsporogenesis of Ginkgo biloba L, By high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis, colchicine was detected in microsporocyte inclusion from colchicine-treated microsporangium and microsporocyte of G. biloba, The change amount of colchicine was detected in mixture liquid after the protoplasm of G. biloba was co-cultured with colchicine by different conditions. Fixed with Carnoy's fluid and stained with improved phenol fuchsin, the development of colchicine-treated microsporogenesis could be examined with microscope. The results are as follows: The colchicine could intrude into treated microsporangium and microsporocyte, but intruded amount of colchicine was different when treatment conditions were different; the change of colchicine content in co-cultured mixtures liquid was few; and there were high frequencies of development tardiness in colchicine-induced microsporangium (more than 70%), but only a few dyads and triads were detected in meiotic products (less than 10%). These observations suggest that 2n pollen can be induced by colchicine but treatment conditions and slowing development of colchicine-treated microsporocyte may affect the inducement effect of colchicines.Key words: Ginkgo biloba L., microsporogenesis, colchicine, 2n pollen, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

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

Linear physical-layer network coding and information combining for the K-user fading multiple-access relay network

© 2002-2012 IEEE. We propose a new linear physical-layer network coding (LPNC) and information combining scheme for the K -user fading multiple-access relay network (MARN), which consists of K users, one relay, and one destination. The relay and the destination are connected by a rate-constraint wired or wireless backhaul. In the proposed scheme, the K users transmit signals simultaneously. The relay and the destination receive the superimposed signals distorted by fading and noise. The relay reconstructs L linear combinations of the K users' messages, referred to as network-coded (NC) messages, and forwards them to the destination. The destination then attempts to recover all K users' messages by combining its received signals and the NC messages obtained from the relay. We develop an explicit expression on the selection of the coefficients of the NC messages at the relay that minimizes the end-to-end error probability at a high signal-to-noise ratio. We develop a channel-coded LPNC scheme by using an irregular repeat-accumulate modulation code over GF( q ). An iterative belief-propagation algorithm is employed to compute the NC messages at the relay, while a new algorithm is proposed for the information combining decoding at the destination. We demonstrate that our proposed scheme outperforms benchmark schemes significantly in both un-channel-coded and channel-coded MARNs