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Observation of intervalley biexcitonic optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2
Coherent optical dressing of quantum materials offers technological
advantages to control their electronic properties, such as the electronic
valley degree of freedom in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).
Here, we observe a new type of optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2, one that
is mediated by intervalley biexcitons under the blue-detuned driving with
circularly polarized light. We found that such helical optical driving not only
induces an exciton energy downshift at the excitation valley, but also causes
an anomalous energy upshift at the opposite valley, which is normally forbidden
by the exciton selection rules but now made accessible through the intervalley
biexcitons. These findings reveal the critical, but hitherto neglected, role of
biexcitons to couple the two seemingly independent valleys, and to enhance the
optical control in valleytronics
Rhythm-Flexible Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Using Cycle-GAN over Phoneme Posteriorgram Sequences
Speaking rate refers to the average number of phonemes within some unit time,
while the rhythmic patterns refer to duration distributions for realizations of
different phonemes within different phonetic structures. Both are key
components of prosody in speech, which is different for different speakers.
Models like cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) and variational
auto-encoder (VAE) have been successfully applied to voice conversion tasks
without parallel data. However, due to the neural network architectures and
feature vectors chosen for these approaches, the length of the predicted
utterance has to be fixed to that of the input utterance, which limits the
flexibility in mimicking the speaking rates and rhythmic patterns for the
target speaker. On the other hand, sequence-to-sequence learning model was used
to remove the above length constraint, but parallel training data are needed.
In this paper, we propose an approach utilizing sequence-to-sequence model
trained with unsupervised Cycle-GAN to perform the transformation between the
phoneme posteriorgram sequences for different speakers. In this way, the length
constraint mentioned above is removed to offer rhythm-flexible voice conversion
without requiring parallel data. Preliminary evaluation on two datasets showed
very encouraging results.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to SLT 201
THE EFFECT OF LOADING AND VELOCITY ON MUSCLE POWER OUTPUT
Muscular power is considered one of the main determinants of dynamic athletic performance. Two major methods for power training programs were low-resistance with fast speed and high-resistance with low speed. The purpose of this research was to investigating the influence of different intensities and velocity on muscle power output. The subjects were 10 males who had trained at least 3 month using bench press machine. All lifts were performed on a traditional ballistic bench press machine with a mass of 9.08-36.32 kg (increase in 9.08 kg steps). High-velocity lifting program (HI): The subjects performed 3 trials in each level load, as fast as possible from an elbow angle 90 degrees to full extension. Lower-velocity lifting program (LO): The metronome was used to keep movement speed at 20 rpm. The mean power and peak power were significantly different between HI and LO for all the loads, HI were significantly greater than LO (). In addition, the mean power of 18.16 kg at high speed was significantly greater than mean power of 27.24 kg at low speed. Besides, the displacement decreased with the load increased in the different velocities. In conclusion, High velocity may be considered to be more important than heavy load to produce power output. The heavy resistance may reduce joint ROM in exercise
THE DISCRIMINATION OF BARBELL WEIGHT FOR WEIGHTLIFTERS
Ten college weightlifters were recruited in this study. The standard barbell weight (Ws) of each participant was set at 80% of personal best snatch record. The test barbell weights that include Ws, Ws+-1kg, Ws+-2kg, and Ws+-5kg were given randomly, then each lifter was asked to identify the difference between the test weight and standard weight. The discrimination was over 86% when the test weight was Ws+-5kg. For the test weight equal to the standard weight, the discrimination was significantly less than that of other test weights (p less than 01). Based on the results, the weightlifter seems to have good discrimination in the barbell mass at the difference of 5 kg. It seems that they could not be aware of the slight difference (ex: less than 2kg) of barbell mass by 80% of their best snatch record
Generation of isolated flat bands with tunable numbers through Moir\'e engineering
Unlike the spin-1/2 fermions, the Lieb and Dice lattices both host
triply-degenerate low-energy excitations. Here, we discuss Moir\'e structures
involving twisted bilayers of these lattices, which are shown to exhibit a
tunable number of isolated flat bands near the Fermi level. These flat bands
remain isolated from the high-energy bands even in the presence of small
higher-order terms and chiral-symmetry-breaking interlayer tunneling. At small
twist angles, thousands of flat bands can be generated to substantially amplify
flat band physics. We demonstrate that these flat bands carry substantial
quantum weight so that upon adding a BCS-type pairing potential, the associated
superfluid weight would also be large, and the critical superconducting
temperature would be tunable. Our study suggests a new pathway for flat-band
engineering based on twisted bilayer Lieb and Dice lattices.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Serum ferritin levels and polycystic ovary syndrome in obese and nonobese women
AbstractObjectiveThe aim of this study is to evaluate serum ferritin levels and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-related complications in obese and nonobese women.Materials and methodsThis retrospective study included 539 (286 with PCOS and 253 without PCOS).ResultsSerum ferritin correlated with menstrual cycle length, sex hormone-binding globulin, total testosterone, androstenedione, triglyceride, and total cholesterol in both obese and nonobese women. Obese women with high ferritin levels exhibited higher insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, and liver enzymes (glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvic transaminase) than obese women with low ferritin levels. However, among nonobese women, insulin resistance and risk of diabetes were not significantly different between the high and low ferritin groups. Independent of obesity, hypertriglyceridemia was the major metabolic disturbance observed in women with elevated serum ferritin levels.ConclusionElevated serum ferritin levels are associated with increased insulin resistance and risk of diabetes in obese women but not in nonobese women. However, higher serum ferritin levels were correlated with a greater risk of hyperglyceridemia in both obese and nonobese women. Therefore, hypertriglyceridemia in women with PCOS might be associated with iron metabolism
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