Composite Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Dual-color Afterglow for Cross-correlation-based Living Cell Imaging

Room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials are characterized with emission after removing the excitation source. Such long-lived emission feature possesses great potential in biological fluorescence imaging because it enables a way regarding temporal dimension for separating the interference of autofluorescence and common noises typically encountered in conventional fluorescence imaging. Herein, we constructed a new type of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs)-based composite nanoparticles (NPs) with dual-color long-lived emission, namely millisecond-level green phosphorescence and sub-millisecond-level delayed red fluorescence by encapsulating a typical RTP dye and Rhodamine dye in the cavities of the MSNs with the former acting as energy donor (D) while the latter as acceptor (A). Benefiting from the close D-A proximity, energy match between the donor and the acceptor and the optimized D/A ratio in the composite NPs, efficient triplet-to-singlet Förster resonance energy transfer (TS-FRET) in the NPs occurred upon exciting the donor, which enabled dual-color long-lived emission. The preliminary results of dual-color correlation imaging of live cells based on such emission feature unequivocally verified the unique ability of such NPs for distinguishing the false positive generated by common emitters with single-color emission feature.     

基于阿秒抖动光纤锁模激光器的时钟同步

光纤锁模激光器结构简单, 运转稳定, 且输出的超短脉冲序列具有极高的时钟稳定性, 在抽运探测、脉冲相干合成等要求高精度时钟同步的前沿领域有着广阔的应用前景. 本文通过激光器腔内的电光调制器进行反馈控制, 实现了两台光纤锁模激光器之间的紧密时钟信号同步; 并且通过平衡光学互相关方法, 对残余的时钟误差信号进行了测量, 分辨率达到了13 as. 通过优化激光器的腔内动力学过程及反馈环路的参数, 在[1 Hz, 10 MHz]的积分区间内得到了109 as的残余时钟误差, 对应单台激光器的平均时间抖动为77 as.     

A novel particle tracking algorithm using polar coordinate system similarity

A new algorithm using polar coordinate system similarity (PCSS) for tracking particle in particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is proposed. The essence of the algorithm is to consider simultaneously the changes of the distance and angle of surrounding particles relative to the object particle. Monte Carlo simulations of a solid body rotational flow and a parallel shearing flow are used to investigate flows measurable by PCSS and the influences of experimental parameters on the implementation of the new algorithm. The results indicate that the PCSS algorithm can be applied to flows subjected to strong rotation and is not sensitive to experimental parameters in comparison with the conventional binary image cross-correlation (BICC) algorithm. Finally, PCSS is applied to images of a real experiment. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50206019) The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

时差法超声波流量计测量精度的补偿方法*

超声波时差法测量精度的提高,不仅使流量计的测量值更加准确,更能满足工业生产监控的智能化及自动化的需求。文中对时差法流量计的测量原理以及影响因素进行分析,结合超声波接收原理,设计了过零检测电路结构,并在顺逆流的时间差的测量问题上,应用互相关算法,完成对时间测量的自补偿。实验结果显示:在采取以上补偿方法后,能有效改善流量计精度,时差测量误差小于0.8%,并提高了测量实时性。     

分子动力学研究抑制剂pDI6W与MDM2的相互作用机制

p53-MDM2相互作用已经成为治疗癌症药物设计的重要靶标.本文采用分子动力学模拟和MM-PBSA(molecular mechanics-Possion-Boltzmann surface area)方法计算了肽类抑制剂pD16W与MDM2的结合自由能,结果证明范德华作用是pD16W与MDM2结合的主要力量.相关矩阵的计算结果表明pD16W的结合主要诱导了MDM2内部的反相关运动.基于成对残基的自由能分解计算不仅证明pD16W的5个残基Phe19′,Trp22′,Trp23′,Leu26′和Thr27′能够与MDM2产生较强的相互作用,而且确认了CH-π,CH-CH和π-πc相互作用驱动了pD16W在MDM2疏水裂缝中的结合.这为抗癌药物的设计提供了理论上的指导.     

相关多普勒光学层析成像

提出了基于互相关的多普勒OCT(correlated Doppler optical coherence tomography, CD-OCT)方法, 能够有效的抑制噪声, 实现低信噪比条件下的流速探测. 对CD-OCT算法进行了详细的推导, 分析了噪声的相关性对该算法结果的影响, 最后基于谱域和时域联合探测方法(joint spectral and time domain optical coherence tomography, STD-OCT)以及CD-OCT算法的对比实验证明了该算法能够进一步实现信噪比的提高, 使测量的结果更为稳定.     

Detrended cross-correlation analysis of electroencephalogram

In the paper we use detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA) to study the electroencephalograms of healthy young subjects and healthy old subjects. It is found that the cross-correlation between different leads of a healthy young subject is larger than that of a healthy old subject. It was shown that the cross-correlation relationship decreases with the aging process and the phenomenon can help to diagnose whether the subject's brain function is healthy or not.     

全球成品油交易信息溢出研究——基于CCF检验和协整理论

使用基于协相关函数(CCF)的Hong统计量及其推广形式研究了全球成品油交易间的6种信息溢出效应,并对全球成品油市场主导品种与WTI间的信息溢出及协整关系进行了分析.成品油研究对象涵盖了新加坡、ARA和纽约3个全球成品油市场的汽油、燃料油和柴油,以及纽约市场的取暖油期现货.实证研究表明:柴油在新加坡和ARA市场内各品种间的信息溢出中占优势,而纽约市场则无特别显著的信息溢出占优产品.三个市场间的信息溢出研究表明:纽约成品油市场占主导地位,ARA次之.WTI原油与纽约4种成品油间关系的研究显示序列之间存在协整关系和非常迅速的信息传播.     

Stochastic resonance in an over-damped linear oscillator

For an over-damped linear system subjected to both parametric excitation of colored noise and external excitation of periodically modulated noise, and in the case that the cross-correlation intensity between noises is a time-periodic function,we study the stochastic resonance(SR) in this paper. Using the Shapiro–Loginov formula, we acquire the exact expressions of the first-order and the second-order moments. By the stochastic averaging method, we obtain the analytical expression of the output signal-to-noise ratio(SNR). Meanwhile, we discuss the evolutions of the SNR with the signal frequency, noise intensity, correlation rate of noise, time period, and modulation frequency. We find a new bona fide SR. The evolution of the SNR with the signal frequency presents periodic oscillation, which is not observed in a conventional linear system. We obtain the conventional SR of the SNR with the noise intensity and the correlation rate of noise. We also obtain the SR in a wide sense, in which the evolution of the SNR with time period modulation frequency presents periodic oscillation. We find that the time-periodic modulation of the cross-correlation intensity between noises diversifies the stochastic resonance phenomena and makes this system possess richer dynamic behaviors.     

A new code construction with zero cross correlation based on BIBD

This paper presents a newly constructed zero cross correlation code (ZCC) which is based on BIBD (balanced incomplete block design) code. The ZCC (C, w) code is a family of binary sequences of length C and constant Hamming-weight w. Such codes find applications in spectral amplitude-coding optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA). The constructing ZCC codes have a size of C ? N ÿ w + 1, where N is the number of users and C is any prime number. The proposed construction method is not complicated compared to the existing ones.