Determining the Degree of [001] Preferred Growth of Ni(OH)\u3csub\u3e2\u3c/sub\u3e Nanoplates

Determining the degree of preferred growth of low-dimensional materials is of practical importance for the improvement of the synthesis methods and applications of low-dimensional materials. In this work, three different methods are used to analyze the degree of preferred growth of the Ni(OH)2 nanoplates synthesized without the use of a complex anion. The results suggest that the preferred growth degree of the Ni(OH)2 nanoplates calculated by the March parameter and the expression given by Zolotoyabko, which are based on the analysis and texture refinement of the X-ray diffraction pattern, are in good accordance with the results measured by SEM and TEM imaging. The method using the shape function of crystallites is not suitable for the determination of the preferred growth degree of the Ni(OH)2 nanoplates. The method using the March parameter and the expression given by Zolotoyabko can be extended to the analysis of block materials

PNC Enabled IIoT: A General Framework for Channel-Coded Asymmetric Physical-Layer Network Coding

This paper investigates the application of physical-layer network coding (PNC) to Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) where a controller and a robot are out of each other's transmission range, and they exchange messages with the assistance of a relay. We particularly focus on a scenario where the controller has more transmitted information, and the channel of the controller is stronger than that of the robot. To reduce the communication latency, we propose an asymmetric transmission scheme where the controller and robot transmit different amount of information in the uplink of PNC simultaneously. To achieve this, the controller chooses a higher order modulation. In addition, the both users apply channel codes to guarantee the reliability. A problem is a superimposed symbol at the relay contains different amount of source information from the two end users. It is thus hard for the relay to deduce meaningful network-coded messages by applying the current PNC decoding techniques which require the end users to transmit the same amount of information. To solve this problem, we propose a lattice-based scheme where the two users encode-and-modulate their information in lattices with different lattice construction levels. Our design is versatile on that the two end users can freely choose their modulation orders based on their channel power, and the design is applicable for arbitrary channel codes.Comment: Submitted to IEEE for possible publicatio

SLNSpeech: solving extended speech separation problem by the help of sign language

A speech separation task can be roughly divided into audio-only separation and audio-visual separation. In order to make speech separation technology applied in the real scenario of the disabled, this paper presents an extended speech separation problem which refers in particular to sign language assisted speech separation. However, most existing datasets for speech separation are audios and videos which contain audio and/or visual modalities. To address the extended speech separation problem, we introduce a large-scale dataset named Sign Language News Speech (SLNSpeech) dataset in which three modalities of audio, visual, and sign language are coexisted. Then, we design a general deep learning network for the self-supervised learning of three modalities, particularly, using sign language embeddings together with audio or audio-visual information for better solving the speech separation task. Specifically, we use 3D residual convolutional network to extract sign language features and use pretrained VGGNet model to exact visual features. After that, an improved U-Net with skip connections in feature extraction stage is applied for learning the embeddings among the mixed spectrogram transformed from source audios, the sign language features and visual features. Experiments results show that, besides visual modality, sign language modality can also be used alone to supervise speech separation task. Moreover, we also show the effectiveness of sign language assisted speech separation when the visual modality is disturbed. Source code will be released in http://cheertt.top/homepage/Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures, 5 table

Observing the Effects of Galaxy Interactions on the Circumgalactic Medium

We continue our empirical study of the emission line flux originating in the cool ($T\sim10^4$ K) gas that populates the halos of galaxies and their environments. Specifically, we present results obtained for a sample of galaxy pairs with a range of projected separations, {\bf $10 < {S_p/\rm kpc} < 200$}, and mass ratios $<$ 1:5, intersected by 5,443 SDSS lines of sight at projected radii of 10 to 50 kpc from either or both of the two galaxies. We find significant enhancement in H$\alpha$ emission and a moderate enhancement in [N {\small II}]6583 emission for low mass pairs (mean stellar mass per galaxy, $\overline{\rm M}_*, <10^{10.4} {\rm M}_\odot$) relative to the results from a control sample. This enhanced H$\alpha$ emission comes almost entirely from sight lines located between the galaxies, consistent with a short-term, interaction-driven origin for the enhancement. We find no enhancement in H$\alpha$ emission, but significant enhancement in [N {\small II}]6583 emission for high mass ($\overline{\rm M}_* >10^{10.4}{\rm M}_\odot$) pairs. Furthermore, we find a dependence of the emission line properties on the galaxy pair mass ratio such that those with a mass ratio below 1:2.5 have enhanced [N {\small II}]6583 and those with a mass ratio between 1:2.5 and 1:5 do not. In all cases, departures from the control sample are only detected for close pairs ($S_p <$ 100 kpc). Attributing an elevated [N {\small II}]6583/H$\alpha$ ratio to shocks, we infer that shocks play a role in determining the CGM properties for close pairs that are among the more massive and have mass ratios closer to 1:1.Comment: 6 pages and 3 figure

Morphology, internal architectures and formation mechanisms of mega-pockmarks on the northwestern South China Sea margin

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