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Nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals - are they improving?
Abstract of paper that presented at The 16th International Congress of Dietetics, 5-8 Sep, 2012, Sydney
Theory for superconductivity in (Tl,K)FeSe as a doped Mott insulator
Possible superconductivity in recently discovered (Tl,K)FeSe
compounds is studied from the viewpoint of doped Mott insulator. The Mott
insulating phase is examined to be preferred in the parent compound at
due to the presence of Fe vacancies. Partial filling of vacancies at the
Fe-sites introduces electron carriers and leads to electron doped
superconductivity. By using a two-orbital Hubbard model in the strong coupling
limit, we find that the s-wave pairing is more favorable at small Hund's
coupling, and d wave pairing is more favorable at large Hund's
coupling.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figures, to appear in EP
Multiparty Quantum Secret Report
A multiparty quantum secret report scheme is proposed with quantum
encryption. The boss Alice and her agents first share a sequence of
(+1)-particle Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) states that only Alice
knows which state each (+1)-particle quantum system is in. Each agent
exploits a controlled-not (CNot) gate to encrypt the travelling particle by
using the particle in the GHZ state as the control qubit. The boss Alice
decrypts the travelling particle with a CNot gate after performing a
operation on her particle in the GHZ state or not. After the GHZ states (the
quantum key) are used up, the parties check whether there is a vicious
eavesdropper, say Eve, monitoring the quantum line, by picking out some samples
from the GHZ states shared and measure them with two measuring bases. After
confirming the security of the quantum key, they use the GHZ states remained
repeatedly for next round of quantum communication. This scheme has the
advantage of high intrinsic efficiency for qubits and the total efficiency.Comment: 4 pages, no figure
Scaling of Anisotropic Flows and Nuclear Equation of State in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
Elliptic flow () and hexadecupole flow () of light clusters have
been studied in details for 25 MeV/nucleon Kr + Sn at large
impact parameters by Quantum Molecular Dynamics model with different potential
parameters. Four parameter sets which include soft or hard equation of state
(EOS) with/without symmetry energy term are used. Both number-of-nucleon ()
scaling of the elliptic flow versus transverse momentum () and the scaling
of versus have been demonstrated for the light clusters
in all above calculation conditions. It was also found that the ratio of
keeps a constant of 1/2 which is independent of for all the
light fragments. By comparisons among different combinations of EOS and
symmetry potential term, the results show that the above scaling behaviors are
solid which do not depend the details of potential, while the strength of flows
is sensitive to EOS and symmetry potential term.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Efficient symmetric multiparty quantum state sharing of an arbitrary m-qubit state
We present a scheme for symmetric multiparty quantum state sharing of an
arbitrary -qubit state with Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states following
some ideas from the controlled teleportation [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{72}, 02338
(2005)]. The sender Alice performs Bell-state measurements on her
particles and the controllers need only to take some single-photon product
measurements on their photons independently, not Bell-state measurements, which
makes this scheme more convenient than the latter. Also it does not require the
parties to perform a controlled-NOT gate on the photons for reconstructing the
unknown -qubit state and it is an optimal one as its efficiency for qubits
approaches the maximal value.Comment: 6 pages, no figures; It simplifies the process for sharing an
arbitrary m-qubit state in Phys. Rev. A 72, 022338 (2005) (quant-ph/0501129
Neutrino Anomalies and Quasi-Dirac neutrinos
We discuss possibility of describing solar, atmospheric and LSND results with
four neutrinos forming two quasi-degenerate pairs. The simplest versions of
this 2+2 scheme with either or mixing exclusively with
sterile neutrino is disfavored by the SNO and atmospheric neutrino results
respectively. A generalized scheme with sterile state participating in both the
solar and atmospheric oscillations is still allowed. We show thasolar and
atmospheric oscillations is still allowed. We show that the complex pattern of
mixing needed for this purpose follows from a simple L_e+L_\mu-L_\tau-L_s
symmetry. Specific form of L_e+L_\mu-L_\tau-L_s symmetric mass matrix is
determined from experimental results. Two theoretical schemes which lead to
this form and a proper breaking of L_e+L_\mu-L_\tau-L_s symmetry are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, LATEX, minor corrections; addition of few reference
Quantum secure direct communication network with superdense coding and decoy photons
A quantum secure direct communication network scheme is proposed with quantum
superdense coding and decoy photons. The servers on a passive optical network
prepare and measure the quantum signal, i.e., a sequence of the -dimensional
Bell states. After confirming the security of the photons received from the
receiver, the sender codes his secret message on them directly. For preventing
a dishonest server from eavesdropping, some decoy photons prepared by measuring
one photon in the Bell states are used to replace some original photons. One of
the users on the network can communicate any other one. This scheme has the
advantage of high capacity, and it is more convenient than others as only a
sequence of photons is transmitted in quantum line.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figur
Transcription of Muscle Actin Genes by a Nuclear Form of Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase
Actins are the major constituent of the cytoskeleton. In this report we present several lines of evidence that muscle actin genes are transcribed by nuclear isoform of mitochondrial RNA polymerase (spRNAP-IV) whereas the non-muscle actin genes are transcribed by the conventional RNA polymerase II (PolII). We show that mRNA level of muscle actin genes are resistant to PolII inhibitors Ξ±-amanitin and triptolide as well as insensitive to knockdown of PolII but not to knockdown of spRNAP-IV, in contrast to non-muscle actin genes in several cell lines. Similar results are obtained from nuclear run-on experiments. Reporter assay using muscle actin or PolII gene promoters also demonstrate the differential sensitivity to PolII inhibitors. Finally, chromatin-immunoprecipitation experiment was used to demonstrate that spRNAP-IV is associated with promoter of muscle actin genes but not with that of non-muscle gene and knockdown of spRNAP-IV depleted this polymerase from muscle actin genes. In summary, these experiments indicate that the two types of actin genes are transcribed by different transcription machinery. We also found that POLRMT gene is transcribed by spRNAP-IV, and actin genes are sensitive to oligomycin, suggesting a transcription coupling between mitochondria and nucleus
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HIV-1 persistence in CD4+ T cells with stem cell-like properties
Cellular HIV-1 reservoirs that persist despite antiretroviral treatment are incompletely defined. We show that during suppressive antiretroviral therapy, CD4+ T memory stem cells (TSCM) harbor high per-cell levels of HIV-1 DNA, and make increasing contributions to the total viral CD4+ T cell reservoir over time. Moreover, phylogenetic studies suggested long-term persistence of viral quasispecies in CD4+ TSCM cells. Thus, HIV-1 may exploit stem cell characteristics of cellular immune memory to promote long-term viral persistence
q-Form fields on p-branes
In this paper, we give one general method for localizing any form (q-form)
field on p-branes with one extra dimension, and apply it to some typical
p-brane models. It is found that, for the thin and thick Minkowski branes with
an infinite extra dimension, the zero mode of the q-form fields with q<(p-1)/2
can be localized on the branes. For the thick Minkowski p-branes with one
finite extra dimension, the localizable q-form fields are those with q<p/2, and
there are also some massive bound Kaluza-Klein modes for these q-form fields on
the branes. For the same q-form field, the number of the bound Kaluza-Klein
modes (but except the scalar field (q=0)) increases with the dimension of the
p-branes. Moreover, on the same p-brane, the q-form fields with higher q have
less number of massive bound KK modes. While for a family of pure geometrical
thick p-branes with a compact extra dimension, the q-form fields with q<p/2
always have a localized zero mode. For a special pure geometrical thick
p-brane, there also exist some massive bound KK modes of the q-form fields with
q<p/2, whose number increases with the dimension of the p-brane.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures, published versio
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