The effects of ration level and feeding frequency on digestibility in juvenile soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis, were investigated. Four ration levels 1.5%, 2.5%, 4.0% and satiation (6.0% BW/d) were used. Ap...The effects of ration level and feeding frequency on digestibility in juvenile soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis, were investigated. Four ration levels 1.5%, 2.5%, 4.0% and satiation (6.0% BW/d) were used. Apparent digestibility (AD) of dry matter (DMAD), protein (PAD) and protein real digestibility (PRD) were significantly affected by ration level, but not by feeding frequency when the ration level was similar. However, the feeding frequency affected the AD, DMAD, PAD and PRD significantly when the turtles were fed to satiation. The relationship between fecal protein content (Y) and protein intake (At) can be expressed as a quadric equation: Y=-0.1742+0.1476X-0.0003X^2 (r^2=0.876, n=27, F=93.92, P〈0.01).展开更多
A novel approach is presented for measuring the phase synchronization (frequency-locking) of coupled nonidentical oscillators, which can characterize frequency-locking for chaotic systems without well-defined phase b...A novel approach is presented for measuring the phase synchronization (frequency-locking) of coupled nonidentical oscillators, which can characterize frequency-locking for chaotic systems without well-defined phase by measuring the mean frequency. Numerical simulations confirm the existence of frequency-locking. The relations between the mean frequency and the coupling strength and the frequency mismatch are given. For the coupled hyperchaotic systems, the frequency-locking can be better characterized by more than one mean frequency curves.展开更多
The availability of a large number of sequenced bacterial genomes facilitates in-depth studies about why genes(operons)in a bacterial genome are globally organized the way they are.We have previously discovered that(t...The availability of a large number of sequenced bacterial genomes facilitates in-depth studies about why genes(operons)in a bacterial genome are globally organized the way they are.We have previously discovered that(the relative)transcription-activation frequencies among different biological pathways encoded in a genome have a dominating role in the global arrangement of operons.One complicating factor in such a study is that some operons may be involved in multiple pathways with different activation frequencies.A quantitative model has been developed that captures this information,which tends to be minimized by the current global arrangement of operons in a bacterial(and archaeal)genome compared to possible alternative arrangements.A study is carried out here using this model on a collection of 52 closely related Escherichia coli genomes,which revealed interesting new insights about how bacterial genomes evolve to optimally adapt to their environments through adjusting the(relative)genomic locations of the encoding operons of biological pathways once their utilization and hence transcription activation frequencies change,to maintain the above energy-efficiency property.More specifically we observed that it is the frequencies of the transcription activation of pathways relative to those of the other encoded pathways in an organism as well as the variation in the activation frequencies of a specific pathway across the related genomes that play a key role in the observed commonalities and differences in the genomic organizations of genes(and operons)encoding specific pathways across different genomes.展开更多
Quantum chemical computations have been performed to evaluate the first and second hyperpolarizability quantities of the interference term, linear in the external static electric field, that appear in the electric fie...Quantum chemical computations have been performed to evaluate the first and second hyperpolarizability quantities of the interference term, linear in the external static electric field, that appear in the electric field-induced sum-frequency generation signal of chiral liquids. These are performed at the time-dependent Hartree-Fock level on the prototypical 1,1′-bi-2-naphtol chiral species.展开更多
The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassic...The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassically construct the entropy spectrum of the static and stationary black holes from the null geodesics. The result shows that the spacing of the entropy spectrum only depends on the property of the black hole in the eikonal limit. Moreover, for a black hole far from the extremal case, the spacing is found to be smaller than 2π for any dimension, which is very different from the result of the previous work by using the usual quasinormal mode frequencies.展开更多
A problem of nanocatalyst improvement is considered. The existence of irregularities at the surface of nanoparticle leads to the increasing of the surface/volume ratio and, correspondingly, to the improvement of the c...A problem of nanocatalyst improvement is considered. The existence of irregularities at the surface of nanoparticle leads to the increasing of the surface/volume ratio and, correspondingly, to the improvement of the catalytic activity. But this impurity gives one an additional effect due to the change of the electronic density at the surface. We suggest simple model for the description of this effect. The model allows one to find the discrete spectrum of the Schrdinger operator for nanoparticle. Due to this impurity induced bound states the electron density increases near the surface. It leads to the increase of the catalytic activity of nanoparticles with surface impurities.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Scientific and Research Bureau of Shenzhen, China
文摘The effects of ration level and feeding frequency on digestibility in juvenile soft-shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis, were investigated. Four ration levels 1.5%, 2.5%, 4.0% and satiation (6.0% BW/d) were used. Apparent digestibility (AD) of dry matter (DMAD), protein (PAD) and protein real digestibility (PRD) were significantly affected by ration level, but not by feeding frequency when the ration level was similar. However, the feeding frequency affected the AD, DMAD, PAD and PRD significantly when the turtles were fed to satiation. The relationship between fecal protein content (Y) and protein intake (At) can be expressed as a quadric equation: Y=-0.1742+0.1476X-0.0003X^2 (r^2=0.876, n=27, F=93.92, P〈0.01).
基金香港研究资助局资助项目,the Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant(FRG),国家自然科学基金,国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)
文摘A novel approach is presented for measuring the phase synchronization (frequency-locking) of coupled nonidentical oscillators, which can characterize frequency-locking for chaotic systems without well-defined phase by measuring the mean frequency. Numerical simulations confirm the existence of frequency-locking. The relations between the mean frequency and the coupling strength and the frequency mismatch are given. For the coupled hyperchaotic systems, the frequency-locking can be better characterized by more than one mean frequency curves.
基金supported in part by National Science Foundation (#NSF DEB-0830024 and NSF MCB-0958172)the US Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center grant through the Office of Biological and Environmental Research+1 种基金The BioEnergy Science Center is a US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of ScienceFunding for open access charge: US Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center
文摘The availability of a large number of sequenced bacterial genomes facilitates in-depth studies about why genes(operons)in a bacterial genome are globally organized the way they are.We have previously discovered that(the relative)transcription-activation frequencies among different biological pathways encoded in a genome have a dominating role in the global arrangement of operons.One complicating factor in such a study is that some operons may be involved in multiple pathways with different activation frequencies.A quantitative model has been developed that captures this information,which tends to be minimized by the current global arrangement of operons in a bacterial(and archaeal)genome compared to possible alternative arrangements.A study is carried out here using this model on a collection of 52 closely related Escherichia coli genomes,which revealed interesting new insights about how bacterial genomes evolve to optimally adapt to their environments through adjusting the(relative)genomic locations of the encoding operons of biological pathways once their utilization and hence transcription activation frequencies change,to maintain the above energy-efficiency property.More specifically we observed that it is the frequencies of the transcription activation of pathways relative to those of the other encoded pathways in an organism as well as the variation in the activation frequencies of a specific pathway across the related genomes that play a key role in the observed commonalities and differences in the genomic organizations of genes(and operons)encoding specific pathways across different genomes.
基金The calculations were performed on the computing facilities of the Consortium deséquipements de Calcul Intensif(CéCI),in particular those of the Plateforme Technologique de Calcul Intensif(PTCI)installed in the University of Namur,for which we gratefully acknowledge financial support of the FNRS-FRFC(2.4.617.07.F,2.5020.11)
文摘Quantum chemical computations have been performed to evaluate the first and second hyperpolarizability quantities of the interference term, linear in the external static electric field, that appear in the electric field-induced sum-frequency generation signal of chiral liquids. These are performed at the time-dependent Hartree-Fock level on the prototypical 1,1′-bi-2-naphtol chiral species.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.1120507411375075 and 11522541)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.lzujbky-2015-jl01)
文摘The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassically construct the entropy spectrum of the static and stationary black holes from the null geodesics. The result shows that the spacing of the entropy spectrum only depends on the property of the black hole in the eikonal limit. Moreover, for a black hole far from the extremal case, the spacing is found to be smaller than 2π for any dimension, which is very different from the result of the previous work by using the usual quasinormal mode frequencies.
基金Supported by Federal Targeted Program "Scientific and Educational Human Resources for Innovation-Driven Russia" (contracts P689NK-526P, 14.740.11.0879, and 16.740.11.0030) and grant 11-08-00267 of Russian Foundation for Basic Researchesstate contract SC16.516.11.6073 and by Federal Targeted Program "Researches and Development in the Prioring Directions Developments of a Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia 2007-2013" (state contract 07.514.11.4146)
文摘A problem of nanocatalyst improvement is considered. The existence of irregularities at the surface of nanoparticle leads to the increasing of the surface/volume ratio and, correspondingly, to the improvement of the catalytic activity. But this impurity gives one an additional effect due to the change of the electronic density at the surface. We suggest simple model for the description of this effect. The model allows one to find the discrete spectrum of the Schrdinger operator for nanoparticle. Due to this impurity induced bound states the electron density increases near the surface. It leads to the increase of the catalytic activity of nanoparticles with surface impurities.