Chlorido{μ-2,6-bis­[(2-amino­eth­yl)imino­meth­yl]-4-chloro­phenolato}-μ-oxido-dicopper(II) trihydrate

In the title dinuclear complex, [Cu2(C14H20ClN4O)ClO]·3H2O, one CuII cation assumes a distorted square-planar coordination geometry and the other a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry. Both CuII cations are N,N′,O-chelated by one arm of the 2,6-bis­[(2-amino­eth­yl)imino­meth­yl]-4-chloro­phenolate anion, and one oxide anion bridges the two CuII cations, forming a dinuclear complex. One of the CuII cations is further coordinated by an Cl− anion in the apical direction. In the crystal, lattice water mol­ecules are linked with the complex mol­ecule via O—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds while O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding occurs between lattice water mol­ecules , forming three-dimensional network structure

Earthquake response of large-span reinforced concrete structures with haunch braces under vertical ground motions

A new type of reinforced concrete (RC) frame system with diagonal haunch braces is introduced in a large-span sports education building. In this paper, the nonlinear dynamic responses of the large-span RC frame structures with diagonal haunch braces (RCFB) are studied under vertical near-fault pulse-like and non-pulse-like ground motions. Ten ground motions of the Chichi earthquake event are selected and divided into two groups. The large-span plane RCFB structure is simplified from a practical engineering structure and used to perform a dynamic time-history analysis. The vertical mid-beam displacement and the axial pressure at the base of the bottom column of the structure are compared under vertical pulse-like and vertical non-pulse-like ground motions, and the effects of the structural system parameters on the vertical mid-beam displacement are analyzed. This study shows that the vertical earthquake response of a large-span RCFB structure is significant, especially under pulse-like ground motions, and that the structural system parameters and the impulsive effect of ground motion exhibit a distinct coupled effect on the vertical response. Optimizing the location of haunch braces is very critical in RCFB structural design

Positive surface charge of GluN1 N-terminus mediates the direct interaction with EphB2 and NMDAR mobility.

Localization of the N-methyl-D-aspartate type glutamate receptor (NMDAR) to dendritic spines is essential for excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity. Rather than remaining trapped at synaptic sites, NMDA receptors undergo constant cycling into and out of the postsynaptic density. Receptor movement is constrained by protein-protein interactions with both the intracellular and extracellular domains of the NMDAR. The role of extracellular interactions on the mobility of the NMDAR is poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that the positive surface charge of the hinge region of the N-terminal domain in the GluN1 subunit of the NMDAR is required to maintain NMDARs at dendritic spine synapses and mediates the direct extracellular interaction with a negatively charged phospho-tyrosine on the receptor tyrosine kinase EphB2. Loss of the EphB-NMDAR interaction by either mutating GluN1 or knocking down endogenous EphB2 increases NMDAR mobility. These findings begin to define a mechanism for extracellular interactions mediated by charged domains

Particle Swarm and Bacterial Foraging Inspired Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Numerical Function Optimization

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has good performance in discovering the optimal solutions to difficult optimization problems, but it has weak local search ability and easily plunges into local optimum. In this paper, we introduce the chemotactic behavior of Bacterial Foraging Optimization into employed bees and adopt the principle of moving the particles toward the best solutions in the particle swarm optimization to improve the global search ability of onlooker bees and gain a hybrid artificial bee colony (HABC) algorithm. To obtain a global optimal solution efficiently, we make HABC algorithm converge rapidly in the early stages of the search process, and the search range contracts dynamically during the late stages. Our experimental results on 16 benchmark functions of CEC 2014 show that HABC achieves significant improvement at accuracy and convergence rate, compared with the standard ABC, best-so-far ABC, directed ABC, Gaussian ABC, improved ABC, and memetic ABC algorithms