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Application of Flipped Class Model in Teaching Elemental Compounds of Inorganic Chemistry-The Example of Teaching Practice on Carbon Group Elements
The flipped class model is applied to the teaching process of carbon group elements, which fully reflects the effective teaching of "student-oriented and teacher-led". The students complete the "learning first" according to their self-study task list before class. The class's QQ group, wechat group and other social softwares communicate and interact with teachers and students online, and the cloud class topic database is used to detect the feedback effect of learning first. In class, teachers collect the feedback information of students' "learning first", carefully design the teaching process of "fixed teaching" problem inquiry, and encourage students to participate actively. After class, teachers and students can further communicate and interact online. Students can conduct self-awareness, self-reflection, self-evaluation and self-regulation of the learned knowledge unit, complete knowledge construction and improve students' metacognitive ability. Keywords: Flipping class model; Mindmap; Elemental compounds; Inorganic chemistry DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-18-05 Publication date:June 30th 202
DCR: Double Component Ranking for Building Reliable Cloud Applications
Since cloud applications are usually large-scale, it is too expensive to enhance the reliability of all components for building highly reliable cloud applications. Therefore, we need to identify significant components which have great impact on the system reliability. FTCloud, an existing approach, ranks the components only considering the impact of component internal failures and ignoring error propagation. However, error propagation is also an important factor on the system reliability. To attack the problem, we propose an improved component ranking framework, named DCR, to identify significant components in cloud applications. DCR employs two individual algorithms to rank the components twice and determines a set of the most significant components based on the two ranking results. In addition, DCR does not require information of component invocation frequencies. Extensive experiments are provided to evaluate DCR and compare it with FTCloud. The experimental results show that DCR outperforms FTCloud in almost all cases
Turbo-FLASH based arterial spin labeled perfusion MRI at 7 T.
Motivations of arterial spin labeling (ASL) at ultrahigh magnetic fields include prolonged blood T1 and greater signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, increased B0 and B1 inhomogeneities and increased specific absorption ratio (SAR) challenge practical ASL implementations. In this study, Turbo-FLASH (Fast Low Angle Shot) based pulsed and pseudo-continuous ASL sequences were performed at 7T, by taking advantage of the relatively low SAR and short TE of Turbo-FLASH that minimizes susceptibility artifacts. Consistent with theoretical predictions, the experimental data showed that Turbo-FLASH based ASL yielded approximately 4 times SNR gain at 7T compared to 3T. High quality perfusion images were obtained with an in-plane spatial resolution of 0.85×1.7 mm(2). A further functional MRI study of motor cortex activation precisely located the primary motor cortex to the precentral gyrus, with the same high spatial resolution. Finally, functional connectivity between left and right motor cortices as well as supplemental motor area were demonstrated using resting state perfusion images. Turbo-FLASH based ASL is a promising approach for perfusion imaging at 7T, which could provide novel approaches to high spatiotemporal resolution fMRI and to investigate the functional connectivity of brain networks at ultrahigh field
The hamiltonicity and path t-coloring of Sierpiński-like graphs
AbstractA mapping ϕ from V(G) to {1,2,…,t} is called a path t-coloring of a graph G if each G[ϕ−1(i)], for 1≤i≤t, is a linear forest. The vertex linear arboricity of a graph G, denoted by vla(G), is the minimum t for which G has a path t-coloring. Graphs S[n,k] are obtained from the Sierpiński graphs S(n,k) by contracting all edges that lie in no induced Kk. In this paper, the hamiltonicity and path t-coloring of Sierpiński-like graphs S(n,k), S+(n,k), S++(n,k) and graphs S[n,k] are studied. In particular, it is obtained that vla(S(n,k))=vla(S[n,k])=⌈k/2⌉ for k≥2. Moreover, the numbers of edge disjoint Hamiltonian paths and Hamiltonian cycles in S(n,k), S+(n,k) and S++(n,k) are completely determined, respectively
Spectroscopy of broad absorption line quasars at -- I: evidence for quasar winds shaping broad/narrow emission line regions
We present an observational study of 22 broad absorption line quasars (BAL
QSOs) at based on optical/near-IR spectroscopy, aiming
to investigate quasar winds and their effects. The near-IR spectroscopy covers
the \hb\ and/or \mgii\ broad emission lines (BELs) for these quasars, allowing
us to estimate their central black hole (BH) masses in a robust way. We found
that our BAL QSOs on average do not have a higher Eddington ratio than that
from non-BAL QSOs matched in redshift and/or luminosity. In a subset consisting
of seven strong BAL QSOs possessing sub-relativistic BAL outflows, we see the
prevalence of large \civ-BEL blueshift (3100 km s) and weak \oiii\
emission (particularly the narrow \oiii5007 component), indicative of
nuclear outflows affecting the narrow emission-line (NEL) regions. In another
subset consisting of thirteen BAL QSOs having simultaneous observations of
\mgii\ and \hb, we found a strong correlation between 3000~\AA\ and 5000~\AA\
monochromatic luminosity, consistent with that from non-BAL QSOs matched in
redshift and luminosity; however, there is no correlation between \mgii\ and
\hb\ in FWHM, likely due to nuclear outflows influencing the BEL regions. Our
spectroscopic investigations offer strong evidence that the presence of nuclear
outflows plays an important role in shaping the BEL/NEL regions of these
quasars and possibly, regulating the growth of central supermassive black holes
(SMBHs). We propose that BEL blueshift and BAL could be different
manifestations of the same outflow system viewed at different sightlines and/or
phases.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Ap
Electrochemical behavior of lansoprazole at a multiwalled carbon nanotubes-ionic liquid modified glassy carbon electrode and its electrochemical determination
The electrochemical behavior of lansoprazole (LNS) has been investigated at a
glassy carbon electrode (GCE) and the electrode modified by a gel containing
multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and an room-temperature ionic liquid
(RTIL) of 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMIMPF6) in 0.10
M phosphate buffer solution of pH 6.8. It was found that an irreversible
anodic oxidation peak with Epa as 1.060 V appeared at MWCNTs-RTIL/GCE. Under
the optimized experimental conditions a linear calibration curve were
obtained over the concentration range from 5.0 μM to 0.20 mM by differential
pulse voltammetry with the limit of detection (LOD, S/N = 3) as 0.28 μM. In
addition, the novel MWCNTs-RTIL/GCE was also characterized by the
electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and the proposed method has been
successfully applied in the electrochemical quantitative determination of
LNS content in commercial tablet samples and the determination results could
meet the determination requirement
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