The Microscopic Response Method: theory of transport for systems with both topological and thermal disorder

In this paper, we review and substantially develop the recently proposed "Microscopic Response Method", which has been devised to compute transport coefficients and especially associated temperature dependence in complex materials. The conductivity and Hall mobility of amorphous semiconductors and semiconducting polymers are systematically derived, and shown to be more practical than the Kubo formalism. The effect of a quantized lattice (phonons) on transport coefficients is fully included and then integrated out, providing the primary temperature dependence for the transport coefficients. For higher-order processes, using a diagrammatic expansion, one can consistently include all important contributions to a given order and directly write out the expressions of transport coefficients for various processes.Comment: paper: 12.3 pages, 13 figures, submitted to physica status solidi (b), supporting information: 14.5 page

Effects of dietary compound acidifiers supplementation on growth performance and intestinal health of juvenile American eels (Anguilla rostrata) cultured in cement tanks

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of compound acidifiers (CAs) on the growth performance and intestinal health of juvenile American eels (Anguilla rostrata) cultured in cement tanks. Six cement tanks with similar fish size and weight (approximately 4 g/fish and 87 kg/tank) were randomly divided into control group and CAs group with three replicates each. The fish of two groups were fed commercial diet and commercial diet supplemented with 4 g/kg CAs, respectively. The trial period was 56 days. The dietary CAs supplementation significantly increased final fish weight, weight gain rate, specific growth rate and feed intake (P0.05). Protease activity in intestine was increased significantly by CAs supplementation (P0.05). CAs supplementation significantly increased the villi length and thickness of the intestinal muscular layer (P<0.05). Dietary CAs supplementation increased the richness and the diversity of intestinal microbiota. At the phylum level, the higher relative abundances of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes and the lower relative abundance of Firmicutes were observed in CAs group compared to the control group. At the genus level, dietary CAs supplementation significantly increased the relative abundances of Faecalitalea, Sphingomonas, Sutterella and Mycobacterium (P<0.05). In conclusion, the dietary 4 g/kg CAs supplementation might improve the growth performance and intestinal health of juvenile American eels cultured in cement tanks