Intraclonal Resource Sharing and Functional Specialization of Ramets in Response to Resource Heterogeneity in Three Stoloniferous Herbs

Environments with reciprocal patchiness of resources, in which the availability of two resources such as light and soil nutrients are patchily distributed in horizontal space and negatively correlated in each patch, are common in many ecosystems. The strategies by which clonal plants adapt to this type of heterogeneous environment were examined in three stoloniferous herbs,Potentilla reptans L. var. sericophylla Franch., P. anserina L. and Halerpestes ruthenica (Jacq.) Qvcz., commonly inhabiting forest understories, grasslands and low saline meadows, respectively. As pairs of connected ramets were subjected to reciprocal patchiness of light and nutrients, stolon connection between the two ramets significantly enhanced biomass of both ramet growing in low light intensity but high soil nutrient condition (LH ramet) and ramet growing in high light intensity but low soil nutrient condition (HL ramet) as well as whole ramet pairs (consisting of LH ramets and HL ramets). Additionally, stolon connection greatly increased root/shoot ratio of LH ramet while significantly decreased that of HL ramet. The results indicate that a reciprocal transportation of resources between interconnected ramets and a functional specialization of ramets in uptake of abundant resources occurred. By resource sharing and functional specialization, clonal plants can efficiently acquire locally abundant resources and buffer the stress caused by reciprocal patchiness of resources.

AGGREGATE SPECIAL FUNCTIONS TO APPROXIMATE PERMUTING TRI-HOMOMORPHISMS AND PERMUTING TRI-DERIVATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A TRI-ADDITIVEψ-FUNCTIONAL INEQUALITY IN BANACH ALGEBRAS

In this paper,we define a new class of control functions through aggregate special functions.These class of control functions help us to stabilize and approximate a tri-additiveψ-functional inequality to get a better estimation for permuting tri-homomorphisms and permuting tri-derivations in unital C*-algebras and Banach algebras by the vector-valued alternative fixed point theorem.

Dynamic Changes of China’s Functional Specialization in Export and International Comparison under Global Value Chains

The functional specialization in export of a country(and its sectors)in different activities,such as fabrication,R&D,management and marketing,is crucial to its governance and control on the value chains,which magnifies the shortage of the existing aggregate value added studies on our understanding of global value chains(GVCs).Considering production fragmentation at both the spatial and functional levels,this paper defines the modified functional specialization indicators at the national and sectoral levels from the forward linkage(rather than backward linkage).Based on the World Input-Output Database together with the newly compiled Labor Occupations Database,this paper re-estimates and analyzes the functional specialization and changes in China and major developed economies’exports.The results show that China’s export is mainly specialized in fabrication activity,which is among the world leading level,while it is weak in headquarter activities(especially R&D and management),which is almost locked at the lowest level in the world and could not pose an export threat to the developed economies.China’s manufacturing basically follows the functional development path of“relying on fabrication,entering market,targeting management and R&D”,featuring the coexistence of“strong”fabrication and“weak”management and R&D.The fabrication specialization of the typical processing sector“electronic and optical equipment”has reached the international leading level.The level of functional specialization of China’s service industry is generally lower than that of manufacturing and generally lags behind in the world,indicating that China still has a long way to go before becoming a major power of service in the world.Finally,this paper proposes policy implications and further researches that can be extended.

A RELAXATION RESULT OF FUNCTIONALS IN THE SPACE SBD(Ω)

In this article,the authors obtain an integral representation for the relaxation of the functionalF（x,u,Ω）：={∫^f（x,u（x）,εu（x））dx Ω if u∈W^1,1（Ω,R^N）, ＋∞ otherwise, in the space of functions of bounded deformation,with respect to L^1-convergence.Here Eu represents the absolutely continuous part of the symmetrized distributional derivative Eu.f（x,p,ξ）satisfying weak convexity assumption.

Guest Editorial—TTA Special Section on Terahertz Functional Devices

In the past decades, terahertz technology has a great development and steady improvement, which has kept discovering and developing a series of potential applications in terahertz sensing, imaging, spectroscopy, security, and communication. After the recent technical breakthroughs in reliable sources and sensitive detectors, terahertz functional devices, such as waveguides, switches, filters, splitters, isolators, modulators and sensors, are indispensable for the construction of compact application systems and have become a worldwide supreme issue in research.

Optical spectroscopy and crystal-field strength of Cr^(3+) in various solid matrixes

The Cr^3＋：BeAl2O4 crystal, Cr^3＋：LiNbO3 crystal, and ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass-ceramic were obtained by the Czochralski technique, Bridgman method, and melting processing, respectively. The optical absorption and emission spectra of the above Cr^3＋-incorporated solid-state materials were recorded. The technical parameters for growing high-quality Cr^3＋：BeAl2O4 and Cr^3＋：LINbO3 crystals were obtained. The results indicate that the optical absorption and fluorescence spectra of Cr^3＋ show quite a few differences in various matrixes. The sharp line emissions were observed in the Cr^3＋：BeAl2O4 and Cr^3＋：LiNbO3 crystals. The crystal-field parameters （Dq） for Cr^3＋. in different matrixes were calculated from their corresponding spectra. It is indicated that Cr^3＋：BeAl2O4 and Cr^3＋：LiNbO3 belong to the high-field site crystal, while the Cr^3＋ ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass and glass-ceramic belong to the weak-field site crystal.

GENERALIZED FINITE SPECTRAL METHOD FOR 1D BURGERS AND KDV EQUATIONS

A generalized finite spectral method is proposed. The method is of highorder accuracy. To attain high accuracy in time discretization, the fourth-order AdamsBashforth-Moulton predictor and corrector scheme was used. To avoid numerical oscillations caused by the dispersion term in the KdV equation, two numerical techniques were introduced to improve the numerical stability. The Legendre, Chebyshev and Hermite polynomials were used as the basis functions. The proposed numerical scheme is validated by applications to the Burgers equation （nonlinear convection- diffusion problem） and KdV equation（single solitary and 2-solitary wave problems）, where analytical solutions are available for comparison. Numerical results agree very well with the corresponding analytical solutions in all cases.

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Nanostructural La_xBi_(2-x)Se_yTe_(3-y) Powders

Nanostructural monophase LaxBi2-xSeyTe3-y alloy was synthesized with a hydrothermal route using BiCl3, LaCl3, selenium and tellurium powders as the precursors, NaOH and disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetiate （EDTA） as the additives. The hydrothermally synthesized powders have a petal-like morphology self-structured by the parallel side-by-side arrangement of the nano-scales. It is found that an alkaline additive is necessary for the synthesis of a monophase Bi2Te3 based alloy.

A THEORETICAL SOLUTION OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS FOR AXISYMMETRIC PLAIN STRAIN ELASTODYNAMIC PROBLEMS

A method is developed for the transient responses of axisymmetric plain strain problems of cylindrical shells subjected to dynamic loads. Firstly, a special Junction was introduced to transform the inhomogeneous boundary conditions into the homogeneous ones. Secondly, using the method of separation of variables, the quantity that the displacement subtracts the special function was expanded as the multiplication series of Bassel functions and time functions. Then by virtue of the orthogonal properties of Bessel Junctions, the equation With respect to the time variable was derived, of which the solution is easily obtained. The displacement solution was finally obtained by adding the two parts mentioned above. The present method can avoid the integral transform and is fit for arbitrary loads. Numerical results are presented for internally shocked isotropic and cylindrically isotropic cylindrical shells and externally shocked cylinders, as well as for an externally shocked, cylindrically isotropic cylindrical shell that is fixed at the internal surface.

A new kind of special function and its application

By virtue of the operator Hermite polynomial method and the technique of integration within the ordered product of operators we derive a new kind of special function, which is closely related to one- and two-variable Hermite polynomials.Its application in deriving the normalization for some quantum optical states is presented.

APPLICATION OF TREFFTZ BEM TO ANTI-PLANE PIEZOELECTRIC PROBLEM

Anti-plane electroelastic problems are studied by the Trefftz boundary element method （BEM） in this paper. The Trefftz BEM is based on a weighted residual formulation and indirect boundary approach. In particular the point-collocation and Galerkin techniques, in which the basic unknowns are the retained expansion coefficients in the system of complete equations, are considered. Furthermore, special Trefftz functions and auxiliary functions which satisfy exactly the specified boundary conditions along the slit boundaries are also used to derive a special purpose element with local defects. The path-independent integral is evaluated at the tip of a crack to determine the energy release rate for a mode Ⅲ fracture problem. In final, the accuracy and efficiency of the Trefftz boundary element method are illustrated by an example and the comparison is made with other methods.

Coordinate Transformation and Exact Solutions of Schrodinger Equation with Position-Dependent Effective Mass

Using the coordinate transformation method, we solve the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation with position-dependent mass. The explicit expressions for the potentials, energy eigenvalues, and eigenfunctions of the systems are given. The eigenfunctions can be expressed in terms of the Jacobi, Hermite, and generalized Laguerre polynomials. All potentials for these solvable systems have an extra term Vm, which is produced from the dependence of mass on the position, compared with those for the systems of constant mass. The properties of Vm for several mass functions are discussed.

Parabose Squeezed Operator and Its Applications

By virtue of the parabose squeezed operator, propagator of a parabose parametric amplifier, explicit forms of parabose squeezed number states and normalization factors of excitation states on a parabose squeezed vacuum state are calculated, which generalize the relevant results from ordinary Bose statistics to the parabose case.

New useful special function in quantum optics theory

By virtue of the operator Hermite polynomial method [Fan H Y and Zhan D H 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 060301] we find a new special function which is useful in quantum optics theory, whose expansion involves both power-series and Hermite polynomials, i.e.,min（m,n）∑l=0^min（m,n）n!m!（-1）^l/l!（n-1）!（m-l）!/Hn-l（x）y^m-l≡ n,m（x,y）.By virtue of the operator Hermite polynomial method and the technique of integration within ordered product of operators（IWOP） we derive its generating function. The circumstance in which this new special function appears and is applicable is considered.

Fractional sum and fractional difference on non-uniform lattices and analogue of Euler and Cauchy Beta formulas

As is well known,the definitions of fractional sum and fractional difference of f(z)on non-uniform lattices x(z)=c1z^(2)+c2z+c3 or x(z)=c1q^(z)+c2q^(-z)+c3 are more difficult and complicated.In this article,for the first time we propose the definitions of the fractional sum and fractional difference on non-uniform lattices by two different ways.The analogue of Euler’s Beta formula,Cauchy’Beta formula on non-uniform lattices are established,and some fundamental theorems of fractional calculas,the solution of the generalized Abel equation on non-uniform lattices are obtained etc.

欧拉-高斯-狄利克雷-黎曼间和谐的灵感(英文)

This paper contains material presented by the first authors in CIMPA School at Kathmandu University.,July 26,27,28,2010,to be included in ,and is intended for a rambling introduction to number-theoretic concepts through built-in properties of(number-theoretic) special functions.We follow roughly the historical order of events from somewhat more modern point of view.§1 deals with Euler's fundamental ideas as expounded in [6] and ,from a more advanced standpoint.§2 gives some rudiments of Bernoulli numbers and polynomials as consequences of the partial fraction expansion.§3 states sieve-theoretic treatment of the Euler product.Thus,the events in §1-§3 more or less belong to Euler's era.§4 deals with RSA cryptography as motivated by Euler's function,with its several descriptions being given.§5 contains a slight generalization of Dirichlet's test on uniform convergence of series,which is more effectively used in §6 to elucidate Riemann's posthumous Fragment II than in [1].Thus §5-§6 belong to the Dirichlet-Riemann era.§7 gives the most general modular relation which is the culmination of the Riemann-Hecke-Bochner correspondence between modular forms and zeta-functions.Appendix gives a penetrating principle of the least period that appears in various contexts.

DERIVATION OF SOME SPECIAL STRESS FUNCTION FROM BELTRAMI-SCHAEFER STRESS FUNCTION

Using liellrami-Schaefer stress funtion in the theory of elasticity in this paper, we derive the stress functions of torsion, plane problem, axisymmetric deformation in solid of revolution and torsion on solid of revolution.

Analytical Solutions to Definite Integrals for Combinations of Legendre, Bessel and Trigonometric Functions Encountered in Propagation and Scattering Problems in Spherical Coordinates

Mie theory is a rigorous solution to scattering problems in spherical coordinate system. The first step in applying Mie theory is expansion of some arbitrary incident field in terms of spherical harmonics fields in terms of spherical which in turn requires evaluation of certain definite integrals whose integrands are products of Bessel functions, associated Legendre functions and periodic functions. Here we present analytical results for two specific integrals that are encountered in expansion of arbitrary fields in terms of summation of spherical waves. The analytical results are in terms of finite summations which include Lommel functions. A concise analytical expression is also derived for the special case of Lommel functions that arise, rendering expensive numerical integration or other iterative techniques unnecessary.

Construction of Exactly Solvable Ring-Shaped Potentials

We propose a method for construction of exactly solvable ring-shaped potentials where the linear homogeneous second-order differential equation satisfied by special function is subjected to the extended transformation comprising a coordinate transformation and a functional transformation to retrieve the standard Schr?dinger polar angle equation form in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. By invoking plausible ansatze, exactly solvable ring-shaped potentials and corresponding angular wave functions are constructed. The method is illustrated using Jacobi and hypergeometric polynomials and the wave functions for the constructed ring-shaped potentials are normalized.

Study of scalar particles through the Klein–Gordon equation under rainbow gravity effects in Bonnor–Melvin-Lambda space-time

In our investigation,we explore the quantum dynamics of charge-free scalar particles through the Klein–Gordon equation within the framework of rainbow gravity,considering the Bonnor–Melvin-Lambda(BML)space-time background.The BML solution is characterized by the magnetic field strength along the axis of the symmetry direction which is related to the cosmological constantΛand the topological parameterαof the geometry.The behavior of charge-free scalar particles described by the Klein–Gordon equation is investigated,utilizing two sets of rainbow functions:(i)f(χ)=■,h(χ)=1 and(ii)f(χ)=1,h(χ)=1+βХ/2.Here 0<(Х=■)≤1 with E representing the particle's energy,Ep is the Planck's energy,andβis the rainbow parameter.We obtain the approximate analytical solutions for the scalar particles and conduct a thorough analysis of the obtained results.Afterwards,we study the quantum dynamics of quantum oscillator fields within this BML space-time,employing the Klein–Gordon oscillator.Here also,we choose the same sets of rainbow functions and obtain the approximate eigenvalue solution for the oscillator fields.Notably,we demonstrate that the relativistic approximate energy profiles of charge-free scalar particles and oscillator fields get influenced by the topology of the geometry and the cosmological constant.Furthermore,we show that the energy profiles of scalar particles receive modifications from the rainbow parameter and the quantum oscillator fields by both the rainbow parameter and the frequency of oscillation.