A New Thermodynamic Calculation Method for Binary Alloys Part II:Exploring the Correction Factor Function

A new method of revising activity values has been derived based on the so called correction factor function for binary alloys with a large difference between two components. The correction factor is a function of physical properties formed by the difference of two components. Its absolute value increases with the enhancement of the difference in the character of components. It can be either positive or negative and the rules for selecting the sign of correction factor have been analyzed. Results are in good agreement with the experimental values.

Efficacy of invisible advancement correction for mandibular retraction in adolescents based on Pancherz analysis

BACKGROUND Mandibular retraction is the main etiological mechanism of class II malocclusion in China and the subsequent distal molar relationship can cause functional discomfort in mastication,breathing and the temporomandibular joint.The use of mandibular advancement(MA)devices has recently emerged as an adolescent mandibular retraction treatment;however,current studies regarding the effect thereof are relatively few,and there is lack of sufficient clinical support.AIM To investigate the clinical effect of invisalign MA on the treatment of mandibular retraction in adolescents.METHODS This study included 30 adolescent patients who underwent treatment with the MA appliances from December 2017 to June 2021.The lateral cephalometric data before and after treatment were collected and imported into Dolphin Imaging software.The changes were measured by linear measurement superimposed with lateral cephalometric trajectory based on the Pancherz technology.RESULTS There was no significant difference in the length and position of maxilla before and after the treatment.The position of the mandible moved 3.13 mm,the length increased 4.14 mm,the mandibular ramus length increased 4.09 mm,the body length increased 4.25 mm,and the position of the condyle moved 1.03 mm forward after treatment.Additionally,changes in the incisor sagittal position and labial inclination were observed.The position of the upper incisor point moved back 1.33 mm,without statistical difference,the inclination and tooth angle decreased by 3.44°and 4.06°,respectively;the position of the lower incisor point was moved 2.98 mm,and the inclination and tooth angle increased by 2.62°and 1.23°,respectively.Furthermore,changes in the incisor overjet and molar relationship were seen.Overjet decreased by 4.31 mm,of which 1.78 mm was due to dental factors,accounting for 41.3%of the effect as opposed to 58.7%due to skeletal factors.Molar relationship improved 3.87 mm,with 1.34 mm due to dental factors,and dental and skeletal factors were accounted for 34.6%and 65.4%of the effect,respectively.CONCLUSION For adolescent patients with mandible retraction,invisalign MA can effectively promote the mandible growth,and it was proven to be mainly due to skeletal effects.

CHANNEL ERROR CORRECTION FOR WIDEBAND SAR-A JOINT MULTIPLE SUBPULSES PROCESSING METHOD

A novel method,referred to as joint multiple subpulses processing,is developed to calibrate the nonideal transfer function of radio frequency front-end and I/Q imbalance in quadrature modulate/demodulate systems simultaneously,which frequently occur in wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) systems.Based on the time-frequency relation of the chirp signal and the analyses of the channel errors in wideband SAR,joint multiple subpulses processing method is adopted to separate the image frequency component due to the I/Q channel error.Then,the complete description of the channel error is acquired for building the correction function,which is used to correct the radar raw echo in frequency domain.The validity and capability of this method are demonstrated by the experiments of the channel error correction on the high resolution SAR system with the effective bandwidth of 500 MHz.

An effective method to calculate the electron impact excitation cross sections of helium from ground state to a final channel in the whole energy region

The electron impact excitation(EIE) cross sections of an atom/ion in the whole energy region are needed in many research fields, such as astrophysics studies, inertial confinement fusion researches and so on. In the present work, an effective method to calculate the EIE cross sections of an atom/ion in the whole energy region is presented. We use the EIE cross sections of helium as an illustration example. The optical forbidden 1^(1)S–n^(1)S(n = 2–4) and optical allowed 1^(1)S–n^(1)P(n = 2–4) excitation cross sections are calculated in the whole energy region using the scheme that combines the partial wave R-matrix method and the first Born approximation. The calculated cross sections are in good agreement with the available experimental measurements. Based on these accurate cross sections of our calculation, we find that the ratios between the accurate cross sections and Born cross sections are nearly the same for different excitation final states in the same channel. According to this interesting property, a universal correction function is proposed and given to calculate the accurate EIE cross sections with the same computational efforts of the widely used Born cross sections,which should be very useful in the related application fields. The datasets presented in this paper are openly available at https://www.doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.j00113.00142.

Fuzzy logic control strategy for submerged arc automatic welding of digital controlling

A microcomputer control system based on 80C320 and a switching regulation of wire feeder were designed. A correction factor based double model fuzzy logic controller （FLC） was introduced to achieve welding digital and intellectualized control by means of wire feeding speed feedback. The controller has many functions such as keyboard input, light emitting diode （LED） display and real-time intellectualized control of welding process etc. The controlling performance influenced by the coefficient of correction function was discussed. It was concluded by the experiments the relation between the coefficient of correction function and welding quality, when the coefficient of correction function is great, the dynamic character of controller is better, when the coefficient of correction function is small, the sensitivity character of controller is better. Experimental results also show that digital and fuzzy logic control method enable the improvement of appearance of weld and stability of welding process to be achieved in submerged arc automatic welding.

Binary Star System Decay by Graviton Interaction

The action of gravitons in a binary star system is modelled as the locus of points on an ellipse synchronous to the elliptic orbit of the binary star. In their interaction between the masses in the system the rotational energy of the gravitons is reduced by gravitational redshift, which accounts for the decay of the binary star orbital period. This model is able to fit a broad range of eccentricities of binary pulsar orbits and orbital period decay comparable to the General Relativistic gravitational wave model.

Setup and data analysis for functional magnetic resonance imaging of awake cat visual cortex

Functional magnetic resonance imaging（fMRI）is one of the most commonly used methods in cognitive neuroscience on humans.In recent decades,fMRI has also been used in the awake monkey experiments to localize functional brain areas and to compare the functional differences between human and monkey brains.Several procedures and paradigms have been developed to maintain proper head fixation and to perform motion control training.In this study,we extended the application of fMRI to awake cats without training,receiving a flickering checkerboard visual stimulus projected to a screen in front of them in a block-design paradigm.We found that body movement-induced non-rigid motion introduced artifacts into the functional scans,especially those around the eye and neck.To correct for these artifacts,we developed two methods：one for general experimental design,and the other for studies of whether a checkerboard task could be used as a localizer to optimize the motioncorrection parameters.The results demonstrated that,with proper animal fixation and motion correction procedures,it is possible to perform fMRI experiments with untrained awake cats.

Superconvergence of local discontinuous Galerkin methods with generalized alternating fluxes for 1D linear convection-diffusion equations

This paper investigates superconvergence properties of the local discontinuous Galerkin methods with generalized alternating fluxes for one-dimensional linear convection-diffusion equations.By the technique of constructing some special correction functions,we prove the(2k+1)-th-order superconvergence for the cell averages,and the numerical traces in the discrete L^(2) norm.In addition,superconvergence of orders k+2 and k+1 is obtained for the error and its derivative at generalized Radau points.All the theoretical findings are confirmed by numerical experiments.

Vibrational dynamics of Ni-glassy alloys

The well known model potential is used to investigate the vibrational properties of some Ni-based binary glassy alloys using three theoretical models.Different local field correction functions are employed to see the effect of exchange and correlation in the aforesaid properties and have been found successful.

Photoinduced Charge Transfer Processes of Zinc Porphyrin Derivatives for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

We studied the excitation energies of zinc porphyrin（ZnP） and zinc porphyrin analogues（ZnP-R） with long-range corrected（LC） density functional theory. We compared three recent LC functionals, wB97XD, CAM-B3LYP, LC-wPBE and functionals B3LYP with the experiments. It was lbund that the low energy excitation is well predicted for ZnP with the LC-wPBE functional based on 6-31G（d） basis set. Excited-state geometry optimiza- tions lbr all the compounds were carried out. It was shown that upon the photo-excitation nearly 1 e transferred to the acceptor unit[dodecafluorosubphthalocyanine, SubPc（F）12] and a highly polarized state formed in compound 5. But after the relaxation of the first excited state, the electron on the acceptor went back to the ZnP a little and then shifted from ZnP to the donor segment[bis（4-hexylphenyl）amino] partially. The computed excited-state radiative lifetime（r） for compound 5 is 943 μs, which shows a reasonable agreement with the experimental observation. According to the long-lived exciton in strong push-pull compound 5, we proposed that electron injection to semiconductor might occur alter vibrational relaxation of excited state.

A DFT＋U Investigation on Methylamine Decomposition Catalyzed by Pt4 Cluster Supported on Oxygen Defective Rutile（110） TiO2

The adsorption and decomposition mechanisms of methylamine catalyzed by Pt4 cluster supported on ruffle（110） titania[namely, Pt4/TiO2-R（110）] were investigated via density functional theory slab calculations with Hubbard corrections（DFT＋U）. The adsorption energies under the most stable configuration of the possible species and the energy barriers of the possible elementary reactions involved in methylamine decomposition were obtained. Through systematic calculations for the reaction mechanism of methylamine decomposition on the PtVTiO2-R（110）, the most possible decomposition path is CHaNH2→CH2NH2＋H→CH2NH＋2H→CHNH＋3H→HCN＋4H→CN＋5H, which is similar to that of methylamine dissociation catalyzed by Pt（100） surface.

A comprehensive revisit of the ρ meson with improved Monte-Carlo based QCD sum rules

We improve the Monte-Carlo based QCD sum rules by introducing the rigorous Hoolder-inequalitydetermined sum rule window and a Breit-Wigner type parametrization for the phenomenological spectral function.In this improved sum rule analysis methodology, the sum rule analysis window can be determined without any assumptions on OPE convergence or the QCD continuum. Therefore, an unbiased prediction can be obtained for the phenomenological parameters（the hadronic mass and width etc.）. We test the new approach in the ρ meson channel with re-examination and inclusion of αs corrections to dimension-4 condensates in the OPE. We obtain results highly consistent with experimental values. We also discuss the possible extension of this method to some other channels.