Multiple fire interactions: A further investigation by burning rate data of square fire arrays

This paper presents the first effort to explore the spatial distributions of the burning rates in group fires consisting of a large number of fire points, by analyzing burn-out time data from experimental square fire arrays ranging from 3 × 3 to 15 × 15. A new concept termed fire layer is introduced and defined to characterize the spatial locations of fire points by which the complex spatial variations of burning rates, under different conditions, are analyzed and physically interpreted. Analysis shows that the fire layer burning rates vary from outer to inner in definite nonlinear modes. This indicates that the two fire interaction effects, heat feedback enhancement and air supply restriction, involve distinct spatial fluctuations in fire arrays. The spatial fluctuations of the two interaction effects are significantly affected by the two major parameters, fire spacing and fire array size. Definite spatial regions and parameter ranges for the spatial fluctuations and high competitions of the two interaction effects are clearly distinguished. It is demonstrated that the average burning rates of all fire layers involve consistent variations versus fire spacing or fire array size, especially with high comparability to the entire fire array. It is found that by varying fire spacing, the average burning rates for all fire layers vary linearly versus the fire area ratio, within the same ranges as the entire fire array, while there exist different fluctuation modes of fire layer burning rates with respect to fire array size. Furthermore, analysis shows that the burning rates of all fire layers will be significantly affected by fire merging when it occurs. Finally, a new approach is presented to simulate fire propagation among discrete fuel sources, by which the positive effect of the surrounding new fire points on the burning rates of the original ones is definitely indicated.     

Rapid detection of doxycycline content in duck meat by using silver nanoparticles and alkylphenols polyoxyethylene enhanced fluorescence of europium complex

Doxycycline can coordinate with europium (III) to form europium (III)-doxycycline complex, which can emit the fluorescence characteristic peak of europium (III) at 617 nm in alkaline solution, and the experiment proved that the fluorescence intensity could be further enhanced in the presence of silver nanoparticles and surfactant alkylphenols polyoxyethylene. So this method was applied to detect doxycycline content in duck meat in this research. First, 390 and 617 nm were selected as the optimum excitation wavelength and optimum emission wavelength by three-dimensional fluorescence spectrometry, respectively. Second, the experimental conditions were optimized through single factor experiment. Lastly, the samples of doxycycline concentration range of 0.05–12 mg/L were analyzed under the optimum experimental conditions. A good linear relationship between the doxycycline concentration and the fluorescence intensity was obtained, and the determination coefficient and the root mean squared error of prediction were 0.9982 and 0.4363 mg/L, respectively. This research showed that it was feasible to achieve the rapid detection of doxycycline content in duck meat by using silver nanoparticles and alkylphenols polyoxyethylene enhanced the fluorescence of europium complex.     

Thermo-optically tunable silicon photonic crystal light modulator

We designed, fabricated, and characterized a thermo-optically tunable compact (10 μm × 10 μm) silicon photonic crystal (PhC) light modulator that operates at around 1.55 μm for TE polarization. The operational principle of the device is the modulation of the cutoff frequency in a silicon-based line defect PhC. The cutoff frequency is shifted because of the thermo-optic tuning of the silicon refractive index, which is realized by localized heating on the PhC. The modulator is formed by a triangular lattice array of cylindrical air holes on a silicon-on-insulator wafer. Optical characterization was carried out, and the result clearly showed thermo-optic tuning of the cutoff frequency at around 1.55 μm.     

Out-of-plane ellipsometry measurements of nanoparticles on surfaces for thin film coated wafer inspection

Measurements of the diameter and size distribution of nanoparticles on wafers are critical parameters in the semiconductor industry, essential to control transistor quality and increase production rate. A goniometric optical scatter instrument (GOSI) has been developed that employs polarized light scattering to make measurements of the diameter and size distribution of nanoparticles on bare and thin film coated wafers. This scatter instrument is capable of distinguishing various types of optical scattering characteristics, which correspond to the diameters of the nanoparticles and thin film thickness, on or near the surfaces using the Mueller matrix calculation in Bobbert and Vlieger (1986) [1]. The experimental results of the GOSI system show good agreement with theoretical predictions for nanoparticles of diameter 100, 200, and 300 nm on wafers coated with thin films of 2, 5, and 10 nm thickness. These results demonstrate that the polarization of light scattered by nanoparticles can be used to determine the size of particulate contaminants on bare and thin film coated silicon wafers.     

四种新型仲胺配合物的合成、表征及与ct-DNA相互作用的光谱研究

合成了新型仲胺类配体L(N,N’-二(4-甲基苄基)乙二胺)及其四种过渡金属的硝酸盐配合物,[ML2(H2O)2]2+.2NO3-(M=CuⅡ,CoⅡ,NiⅡ,ZnⅡ),利用元素分析、红外、1H NMR等对其结构进行了表征,其中用X-ray单晶衍射解析了Cu-L单晶结构,为波谱分析推测的分子结构进行了验证。通过紫外、荧光光谱研究了该四种金属配合物与小牛胸腺DNA的相互作用,结果表明配合物与DNA的作用方式均为静电结合,Cu-L,Co-L,Ni-L,Zn-L与DNA的结合常数分别为:1.67×103,2.5×103,1.35×103和9.85×102。     

Controlled Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Local Separate Measurements in Cavity QED

In this paper, we proposed an experimentally feasible new scheme for controlled quantum secure direct communication in cavity quantum electrodynamics without apparent joint Bell-state measurement. According to the results measured by the sender and the controller, the receiver can obtain different secret messages in a deterministic way using GHZ state as the quantum channel with unit successful probability if controller cooperates with it. In the communication processes, with the assistance of a strong classical driving field, the interactions between atoms and a single-mode nonresonant cavity substitute the generalized joint Bell-basis measurements. So this scheme only need separate measurements. In addition, the scheme is insensitive to the cavity decay and the thermal field. The discussion of the scheme indicates that it is simple and realizable with present technology.     

VEGA: visual comparison of phylogenetic trees for evolutionary genome analysis (ChinaVis 2019)

In the field of evolutionary genome analysis, biologists seek to identify important genes or chromosome regions by comparing phylogenetic trees and analyzing the mutation at which locus might affect phenotypic traits. Unfortunately, the tree comparison and accompanying analysis are often performed manually. In this paper, we characterize the workflow of evolutionary genome analysis and present a task analysis for the fundamental questions asked by biologists during the analysis procedure. We propose two algorithms to enable quantitative tree comparison. One is to measure the differences between corresponding leaf nodes on two trees, and the other is to compute the classification inconsistency of each leaf node by comparing tree structure with a given biological classification. Configuring with the obtained difference and inconsistency, we present a visual analysis system, visual comparison of phylogenetic trees for evolutionary genome analysis, which not only enables biologists to intuitively explore trees but also identify locus which affects their traits by comparing SNP variants of selected leaf nodes. We conclude with case studies from two biologists who used our system to augment their previous manual analysis workflow and demonstrate that our system can reveal more insight.     

Novel family of prime codes for synchronous optical CDMA

In this paper we have proposed a novel prime spreading sequence family hereby referred to as “new-Modified Prime Code (n-MPC)” for direct-detection synchronous optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) networks. The new code has been applied to Overlapping Pulse-Position Modulation (OPPM) CDMA system and the performance of system is evaluated. In addition, we have analyzed the system throughput and also introduced a new interference cancellation technique which significantly improves the bit error probability (BEP) of OPPM-OCDMA systems.     

Spectroscopic evidence of the multiple- site structure of Eu(3+) ions incorporated in ZnO nanocrystals

Hexagonal Eu(3+):ZnO nanocrystals were synthesized by a modified solgel method. By means of the site-selective spectroscopy at 10 K, two kinds of luminescence sites of Eu(3+) are identified. One site exhibits a long lifetime of (5)D(0) and sharp emission and excitation peaks, which are ascribed to the inner lattice site with an ordered crystalline environment. The other site associated with the distorted lattice sites near the surface shows a relatively short lifetime of (5)D(0) and significantly broadened fluorescence lines. The energy transfer from the nanocrystal host to Eu(3+) confirms that Eu(3+) ions can, to some extent, be incorporated into the ZnO nanocrystal.