Structure properties and Noether symmetries for super-long elastic slender rod

DNA is a nucleic acid molecule with double-helical structures that are special symmetrical structures attracting great attention of numerous researchers. The super-long elastic slender rod, an important structural model of DNA and other long-train molecules, is a useful tool in analysing the symmetrical properties and the stabilities of DNA. This paper studies the structural properties of a super-long elastic slender rod as a structural model of DNA by using Kirchhoff＇s analogue technique and presents the Noether symmetries of the model by using the method of infinitesimal transformation. Baaed on Kirchhoff＇s analogue it analyses the generalized Hamilton canonical equations. The infinitesimal transfornaationa with rcspect to the radial coordinnte, the gonarnlizod coordinates, and the Cluasi-momenta of 5he model are introduced. The Noether gymmetries and conserved qugntities of the model are obtained.     

Multiaxial constitutive modeling of aircraft engine materials

Based on a newly developed theory (Lu and Weng, Acta Mech., in press) the high temperature behavior of an aircraft engine material is studied under combined stress state. Both monotonic and cyclic deformations are examined to uncover its stress-strain response, as well as its cyclic hardening and strain-ratchetting characteristics. Under a biaxial loading it is disclosed that tensile cyclic hardening is greatly magnified with a superimposed lateral tension, whereas the strain-ratchetting process is led to an enhanced, unsettling state with a superimposed lateral compression. The biaxial transient and steady-state creep strains have also been calculated. The results suggest that while a superimposed lateral tension will inhibit the creep deformation, a lateral compression can greatly promote the inelastic flow. To reflect the practical service conditions of an aircraft engine, the theory is further applied to examine the effect of loading frequency on the development of inelastic strains under concurrent thermal and mechanical loading. It is found that a more frequently flying aircraft will have a greater accumulation of creep strains and, consequently, a greater possibility of material damage in its engine components over the same total flying time.     

Numerical study of the spin-Hall conductance in the Luttinger model

We present the first numerical studies of the disorder effect on the recently proposed intrinsic spin-Hall conductance in a three dimensional lattice Luttinger model. The results show that the spin-Hall conductance remains finite in a wide range of disorder strength, with large fluctuations. The disorder-configuration-averaged spin-Hall conductance monotonically decreases with the increase of disorder strength and vanishes before the Anderson localization takes place. The finite-size effect is also discussed.     

Heritability of Stroop and flanker performance in 12-year old children

Background  

There is great interest in appropriate phenotypes that serve as indicator of genetically transmitted frontal (dys)function, such as ADHD. Here we investigate the ability to deal with response conflict, and we ask to what extent performance variation on response interference tasks is caused by genetic variation. We tested a large sample of 12-year old monozygotic and dizygotic twins on two well-known and closely related response interference tasks; the color Stroop task and the Eriksen flanker task. Using structural equation modelling we assessed the heritability of several performance indices derived from those tasks.     

A novel fluorometric detection of Cu(2+) based on self-assembled bilayers

Fluorescent reagent sodium 1-naphthylamine diacetate (NADA) was assembled onto gold electrodes via its electrostatic interaction with cysteine (Cys) that was directly assembled on the gold electrode surface. Formation of the self-assembled bilayers was confirmed and primarily characterized by cyclic voltammetry and X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS). The Cys modification of the gold electrode prevented direct adsorption of NADA onto the gold electrode and hence eliminated fluorescence quenching by gold. Strong fluorescence was observed from the NADA self-assembled bilayers at gold surface and was highly efficiently quenched by Cu²⁺ that allowed for an extremely highly sensitive detection of Cu²⁺ with a detection limit of 0.2 ppt and quantitative detection range of 0.5–9 ppt. The fluorescence from NADA/Cys/Au can be easily regenerated and therefore the present report showed a reusable method for immobilizing reagent in fabricating fluorescent chemosensors.     

-metrics, projective flatness and families of polarized abelian varieties

We compute the curvature of the -metric on the direct image of a family of Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles over a family of compact Kähler manifolds. As an application, we show that the -metric on the direct image of a family of ample line bundles over a family of abelian varieties and equipped with a family of canonical Hermitian metrics is always projectively flat. When the parameter space is a compact Kähler manifold, this leads to the poly-stability of the direct image with respect to any Kähler form on the parameter space.

     

Interactions between metal ions and carbohydrates. Coordination behavior of neutral erythritol to Ca(II) and lanthanide ions

The study of the sugar-metal ion interactions remains one of the main objectives of carbohydrate coordination chemistry because the interactions between metal ions and carbohydrates are involved in many biochemical processes. This paper presents a comparison of coordination structures of erythritol with alkaline-earth-metal and lanthanide chloride and nitrate in the solid state using FT-IR and X-ray diffraction. Neutral, nondeprotonated erythritol (E) reacts with CaCl(2) to give three CaCl(2)(-)erythritol (CaE(I), CaE(II), CaE(III)) complexes, showing that three of the five general features of calcium-carbohydrate complexes deduced in the reference encounter contrary examples. Different coordination structures have been observed for calcium and lanthanide chloride and nitrates. The coordination of carbohydrates to metal ions is complicated, and erythritol, chloride ions, nitrates, water molecules, and ethanol (crystallization medium and reaction solvents) have the chance to coordinate to metal ions. IR spectral results show that different lanthanide ions, from LaCl(3) to TbCl(3), have similar coordination structures with erythritol. The results show that erythritol can act as two bidentate neutral ligands (CaE(I), CaE(II), CaE(III), CaEN, PrE, NdE) or as a three-hydroxyl donor (NdEN). The IR results are consistent with the crystal structures.     

具时滞的奇异(n-1,1)共轭边值问题的多重正解

Abstract. This paper discusses the singular (n-l, 1) conjugate boundary value problem as fol-lows by using a fixed point index theorem in cones     

复杂网络上灾害蔓延动力学研究

针对关键生命线系统，如电网、供水网、供气网、交通网、通信网等的一些共性特征，建立一个普适性的灾害蔓延动力学模型. 这个模型考虑网络结点的自修复功能、灾害蔓延机制和内部随机噪声，并研究自修复因子、延迟时间因子和噪声强度三个重要特征参数对三种网络(随机网络、无标度网络和小世界网络)结点修复率和崩溃结点数的影响. 模拟结果与这些实际生命线系统的特征一致，表明所建立的模型可以有效地模拟生命线系统的灾害演化动力学. 关键词： 复杂网络 生命线系统 灾害蔓延