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Poly[[aquaÂ(μ2-oxalato)(μ2-2-oxidoÂpyridinium-3-carboxylato)holmium(III)] monohydrate]
In the title complex, {[Ho(C2O4)(C6H4NO3)(H2O)]·(H2O)}n, the HoIII ion is coordinated by three O atoms from two 2-oxidopyridinium-3-carboxylate ligands, four O atoms from two oxalate ligands and one water molÂecule in a distorted bicapped trigonal-prismatic geometry. The 2-oxidopyridinÂium-3-carboxylate and oxalate ligands link the HoIII ions into a layer in (100). These layers are further connected by interÂmolecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the coordinated water molÂecules to assemble a three-dimensional supraÂmolecular network. The uncoordinÂated water molÂecule is involved in N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds within the layer
Discrete chaotic states of a Bose-Einstein condensate
We find the different spatial chaos in a one-dimensional attractive
Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with a Gaussian-like laser barrier and
perturbed by a weak optical lattice. For the low laser barrier the chaotic
regions of parameters are demonstrated and the chaotic and regular states are
illustrated numerically. In the high barrier case, the bounded perturbed
solutions which describe a set of discrete chaotic states are constructed for
the discrete barrier heights and magic numbers of condensed atoms. The chaotic
density profiles are exhibited numerically for the lowest quantum number, and
the analytically bounded but numerically unbounded Gaussian-like configurations
are confirmed. It is shown that the chaotic wave packets can be controlled
experimentally by adjusting the laser barrier potential.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Research on the X-Ray Polarization Deconstruction Method Based on Hexagonal Convolutional Neural Network
Track reconstruction algorithms are critical for polarization measurements.
In addition to traditional moment-based track reconstruction approaches,
convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a promising alternative. However,
hexagonal grid track images in gas pixel detectors (GPD) for better anisotropy
do not match the classical rectangle-based CNN, and converting the track images
from hexagonal to square results in loss of information. We developed a new
hexagonal CNN algorithm for track reconstruction and polarization estimation in
X-ray polarimeters, which was used to extract emission angles and absorption
points from photoelectron track images and predict the uncertainty of the
predicted emission angles. The simulated data of PolarLight test were used to
train and test the hexagonal CNN models. For individual energies, the hexagonal
CNN algorithm produced 15-30% improvements in modulation factor compared to
moment analysis method for 100% polarized data, and its performance was
comparable to rectangle-based CNN algorithm newly developed by IXPE team, but
at a much less computational cost.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures, submitted to NS
Adaptive Confidence Multi-View Hashing for Multimedia Retrieval
The multi-view hash method converts heterogeneous data from multiple views
into binary hash codes, which is one of the critical technologies in multimedia
retrieval. However, the current methods mainly explore the complementarity
among multiple views while lacking confidence learning and fusion. Moreover, in
practical application scenarios, the single-view data contain redundant noise.
To conduct the confidence learning and eliminate unnecessary noise, we propose
a novel Adaptive Confidence Multi-View Hashing (ACMVH) method. First, a
confidence network is developed to extract useful information from various
single-view features and remove noise information. Furthermore, an adaptive
confidence multi-view network is employed to measure the confidence of each
view and then fuse multi-view features through a weighted summation. Lastly, a
dilation network is designed to further enhance the feature representation of
the fused features. To the best of our knowledge, we pioneer the application of
confidence learning into the field of multimedia retrieval. Extensive
experiments on two public datasets show that the proposed ACMVH performs better
than state-of-the-art methods (maximum increase of 3.24%). The source code is
available at https://github.com/HackerHyper/ACMVH.Comment: accepted by International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing 2024(ICASSP2024
The effect of epidural analgesia on maternal-neonatal outcomes: a retrospective study
Objectives: Epidural analgesia is commonly used for relieving labor pain in contemporary clinical practice. The rate of pregnant women who request epidural analgesia during labor has been increasing annually, leading to a debate on the effect of epidural analgesia on maternal or neonatal outcomes.Material and methods: The medical records of nulliparous women with a term singleton pregnancy from January to December 2019 at the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University were retrospectively reviewed. The women were divided into those who received epidural analgesia during delivery and those who did not receive it. Maternal and neonatal outcomes were assessed.Results: A total of 528 women met the inclusion criteria. The overall labor analgesia rate was 43.0% (227). Women with epidural analgesia had a significantly longer second stage [34.5 (22.8–65.3) vs 27.0 (18.0–41.3) min, p < 0.001] and total duration of labor [698.5 (493.5–875.0) vs 489.5 (344.0-676.3) min, p < 0.001] compared with those without epidural. There were no significant relationships between epidural analgesia and the normal vaginal delivery rate, the incidence of episiotomy, and other adverse maternal or neonatal outcomes (p > 0.05).Conclusions: Epidural analgesia can prolong the second stage of labor, but this is no increased risk for both mother and neonate
Identification and association of the single nucleotide polymorphisms in calpain3 (CAPN3) gene with carcass traits in chickens
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The aim of this study is to screen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of chicken <it>Calpain3 </it>(<it>CAPN3</it>) gene and to analyze the potential association between <it>CAPN3 </it>gene polymorphisms and carcass traits in chickens. We screened <it>CAPN3 </it>single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 307 meat-type quality chicken from 5 commercial pure lines (S01, S02, S03, S05, and D99) and 4 native breeds from Guangdong Province (Huiyang Huxu chicken and Qingyuan Ma chicken) and Sichuan Province (Caoke chicken and Shandi Black-bone chicken), China.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Two SNPs (11818T>A and 12814T>G) were detected by single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) method and were verified by DNA sequencing. Association analysis showed that the 12814T>G genotypes were significantly associated with body weight (BW), carcass weight (CW), breast muscle weight (BMW), and leg muscle weight (LMW). Haplotypes constructed on the two SNPs (H1, TG; H2, TT; H3, AG; and H4, AT) were associated with BW, CW (<it>P </it>< 0.05), eviscerated percentage (EP), semi-eviscerated percentage (SEP), breast muscle percentage (BMP), and leg muscle percentage (LMP) (<it>P </it>< 0.01). Diplotype H1H2 was dominant for BW, CW, and LMP, and H2H2 was dominant for EP, SEP, and BMP.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>We speculated that the <it>CAPN3 </it>gene was a major gene affecting chicken muscle growth and carcass traits or it was linked with the major gene(s). Diplotypes H1H2 and H2H2 might be advantageous for carcass traits.</p
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