Sluggish sulfur conversion kinetics pose an ongoing challenge in lithium-sulfur batteries(LSBs).Here,we present a solution through far-reaching long-range electronic regulation(LRER)on single-atom active sites.N-doped...Sluggish sulfur conversion kinetics pose an ongoing challenge in lithium-sulfur batteries(LSBs).Here,we present a solution through far-reaching long-range electronic regulation(LRER)on single-atom active sites.N-doped carbons(Co-NC)are implanted with densely-distributed Co single atoms,and supported on Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)MXene substrates to assemble 3D Co-NC/MXene catalyst.MXene effectively mediates interlayer charge transfer(~0.70|e|)contrasted with popular carbon materials(~0.06|e|)to produce LRER through surrounding carbon atoms.The synergy of LRER with near-range electronic regulation(NRER)tunes electronic structures,and enhances heterostructural stability,thus provoking desirous catalytic kinetics of Co single atoms in sulfur reduction.Thereby,the Co-NC/MXene/S cathodes exhibit impressive rate performance and excellent cycling stability(only 0.015%capacity decay per cycle over 600 cycles at 4 C)in LSBs,surpassing state-of-the-art sulfur cathodes.This work reveals the importance of LRER for improved catalysis,and provides new guidance to tailor heterostructures to achieve high-efficient catalysts in various process.展开更多
Catalysts with asymmetric coordination exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity due to changes in the active sites,which affect the arrangement of reactants and catalytic activity/selectivity.Hence,the exploration ...Catalysts with asymmetric coordination exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity due to changes in the active sites,which affect the arrangement of reactants and catalytic activity/selectivity.Hence,the exploration of the inherent characteristics of active sites within diverse coordination environments holds great significance for the experimental design of catalytic structures.Single-atom catalysts(SACs)characterized by high coordination with four carbons(26 candidates)and low coordination with dinitrogen(27candidates)are constructed using nitrogen-doped graphdiyne derivatives(NGDY)as the substrate.Additionally,5 species of dual-atom catalysts(DACs)with coexistence of both high and low coordination sites are also developed and their nitrogen reduction reaction(NRR)activities are systematically investigated by density functional theory.The results indicate that metals with low coordination exhibit superior catalytic performance,such as Mo^(L)-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.30 V)and Nb^(L)-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.32 V).Furthermore,machine learning(ML)methods have deeply analyzed and elucidated the primary intrinsic characteristics that influence catalytic performance.These results not only unveil the underlying mechanisms behind the exceptional catalytic performance exhibited by low-coordination metal atoms,but also provide relevant and significant descriptors.More importantly,based on an investigation of the catalytic activity of a series of DACs,the“buffer and low-coordination accumulate”asymmetric coordination mechanism is proposed to unveil the long-range interactions between low and high coordination atoms.Due to this remote communication,MoNb-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.09/-0.37 V)exhibits the best NRR activity.This mechanism provides valuable insights into the origin of long-range bipartite interactions and inspires the design and synthesis of NRR catalysts with different coordination environments.展开更多
A Hamiltonian mean-field model with long-range four-body interactions is proposed.The model describes a long-range mean-field system in which N unit-mass particles move on a unit circle.Each particleθi interacts with...A Hamiltonian mean-field model with long-range four-body interactions is proposed.The model describes a long-range mean-field system in which N unit-mass particles move on a unit circle.Each particleθi interacts with any three other particles through an infinite-range cosine potential with an attractive interaction(ε>0).By applying a method that remaps the average phase of global particle pairs onto a new unit circle,and using the saddle-point technique,the partition function is solved analytically after introducing four-body interactions,yielding expressions for the free energy f and the energy per particle U.These results were further validated through numerical simulations.The results show that the system undergoes a second-order phase transition at the critical energy Uc.Specifically,the critical energy corresponds to U_(c)=0.32 when the coupling constantε=5,and U_(c)=0.63 whenε=10.Finally,we calculated the system’s largest Lyapunov exponentλand kinetic energy fluctuationsΣthrough numerical simulations.It is found that the peak of the largest Lyapunov exponentλoccurs slightly below the critical energy Uc,which is consistent with the point of maximum kinetic energy fluctuationsΣ.And there is a scaling law ofΣ/N^(1/2)∝λbetween them.展开更多
We investigate the parity-time(PT)symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional(1D)bosonic lattice featuring cavity-mediated long-range interactions and spatially staggered dissipation.By mapping the...We investigate the parity-time(PT)symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional(1D)bosonic lattice featuring cavity-mediated long-range interactions and spatially staggered dissipation.By mapping the system to an effective spin chain under the constraints of hard-core bosons and integrating the mean-field decoupling approach with biorthogonal basis formalism,we derive a self-consistency equation.Numerical simulation results validate that the derived equation quantitatively captures thePT-symmetry order parameter’s phase diagram.Our findings reveal that coherent hopping maintainsPTsymmetry through quantum fluctuations.Conversely,cavity-engineered long-range interactions,in synergy with staggered dissipation,act in opposition to drive symmetry breaking.This competitive interplay can inspire further exploration of tunable quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems.展开更多
Consecutive stresses,such as initial submergence during germination followed by water deficit during the seedling stage,pose significant challenges to direct-seeded rice cultivation.By Linkage disequilibrium analysis,...Consecutive stresses,such as initial submergence during germination followed by water deficit during the seedling stage,pose significant challenges to direct-seeded rice cultivation.By Linkage disequilibrium analysis,Sub1 and Dro1(Δbp:10 Mb),as well as Sub1 and TPP7(Δbp:6 Mb)were identified to exhibit long-range linkage disequilibrium(LRLD).Meta-QTL analysis further revealed that Sub1 and TPP7 co-segregated for tolerance to submergence at the germination and seedling stages.Based on this,we hypothesized that LRLD might influence plant responses to consecutive stresses.To test this hypothesis,we developed a structured recombinant inbred line population from a cross between Bhalum 2 and Nagina 22,with alleles(Sub1 and TPP7)in linkage equilibrium.Mendelian randomization analysis validated that the parental alleles,rather than the recombinant alleles of Sub1 and TPP7,significantly influenced 13 out of 41 traits under consecutive stress conditions.Additionally,16 minor additive effect QTLs were detected between the genomic regions,spanning Sub1 and TPP7 for various traits.A single allele difference between these genomic regions enhanced crown root number,root dry weight,and specific root area by 11.45%,15.69%,and 33.15%,respectively,under flooded germination conditions.Candidate gene analysis identified WAK79 and MRLK59 as regulators of stress responses during flooded germination,recovery,and subsequent water deficit conditions.These findings highlight the critical role of parental allele combinations and genomic regions between Sub1 and TPP7 in regulating the stress responses under consecutive stresses.Favourable haplotypes derived from these alleles can be utilized to improve stress resilience in direct-seeded rice.展开更多
Long-range magnetic order appears on a side decorated Heisenberg spin nanoribbon at nonzero temperature,although no spontaneous magnetization exists in a one-or two-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model at any nonzer...Long-range magnetic order appears on a side decorated Heisenberg spin nanoribbon at nonzero temperature,although no spontaneous magnetization exists in a one-or two-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model at any nonzero temperature according to the Mermin-Wagner theorem.By use of the spin Green's function method,we calculated the magnetizations of Heisenberg nanoribbons decorated by side spins with single-ion anisotropy and found that the system exhibits a nonzero transition temperature,whether the decorated edge spins of the system link together or separate from each other.When the width of the nanoribbon achieves infinite limit,the transition temperatures of the system tend to the same finite constant eventually whether one edge or both edges are decorated by side spins in the nanoribbon.The results reveal that the magnetism of a low-dimensional spin system is different from that of a threedimensional spin system.When the single-ion anisotropy of edge spins in a Heisenberg spin nanoribbon can be modulated by an electric field experimentally,various useful long-range magnetic orders of the system can be obtained.This work can provide a detailed theoretical basis for designing and fabricating next-generation low-dimensional magnetic random-access memory.展开更多
Molecular dynamics(MD)simulations and anisotropic thermal diffusion dynamics(ATD)simulations were performed on the wild TrpR and its 75 residue mutant(mTrpR)to investigate TrpR longrange effects.The ATD result shows t...Molecular dynamics(MD)simulations and anisotropic thermal diffusion dynamics(ATD)simulations were performed on the wild TrpR and its 75 residue mutant(mTrpR)to investigate TrpR longrange effects.The ATD result shows that the mTrpR has higher fluctuation than the wild TrpR,and its helix chainⅡF has particular disorder.It is obvious that the 75 residue of wild TrpR and mTrpR affects the protein dynamics flexibilities by the long-range effects.The ATD and MD both confirm that the differences in the size of side-chain and three-dimensional structures of two different 75 residues in the wild TrpR and mTrpR will spread to the entire protein by way of the long-range effects.Long-range effect affects the protein side chain interaction,conformational changes,flexibilities and secondary structures.Further,the ATD result also shows that each 75 residue of the symmetric homodimer has the same effect,and the two 75 residues have a positive correlation in long-range regulating processes.The residues 48,50,71,79 in chainⅠof wild TrpR and residues 45,72,80 in chainⅡof mTrpR play important roles in long-range interaction processes.展开更多
Floating wastes in rivers have specific characteristics such as small scale,low pixel density and complex backgrounds.These characteristics make it prone to false and missed detection during image analysis,thus result...Floating wastes in rivers have specific characteristics such as small scale,low pixel density and complex backgrounds.These characteristics make it prone to false and missed detection during image analysis,thus resulting in a degradation of detection performance.In order to tackle these challenges,a floating waste detection algorithm based on YOLOv7 is proposed,which combines the improved GFPN(Generalized Feature Pyramid Network)and a long-range attention mechanism.Firstly,we import the improved GFPN to replace the Neck of YOLOv7,thus providing more effective information transmission that can scale into deeper networks.Secondly,the convolution-based and hardware-friendly long-range attention mechanism is introduced,allowing the algorithm to rapidly generate an attention map with a global receptive field.Finally,the algorithm adopts the WiseIoU optimization loss function to achieve adaptive gradient gain allocation and alleviate the negative impact of low-quality samples on the gradient.The simulation results reveal that the proposed algorithm has achieved a favorable average accuracy of 86.3%in real-time scene detection tasks.This marks a significant enhancement of approximately 6.3%compared with the baseline,indicating the algorithm's good performance in floating waste detection.展开更多
This article explores the design of a wireless fire alarm system supported by advanced data fusion technology.It includes discussions on the basic design ideas of the wireless fire alarm system,hardware design analysi...This article explores the design of a wireless fire alarm system supported by advanced data fusion technology.It includes discussions on the basic design ideas of the wireless fire alarm system,hardware design analysis,software design analysis,and simulation analysis,all supported by data fusion technology.Hopefully,this analysis can provide some reference for the rational application of data fusion technology to meet the actual design and application requirements of the system.展开更多
Emitting alarm calls may be costly,but few studies have asked whether calling increases a caller’s risk of predation and survival.Since observing animals calling and being killed is relatively rare,we capitalized on ...Emitting alarm calls may be costly,but few studies have asked whether calling increases a caller’s risk of predation and survival.Since observing animals calling and being killed is relatively rare,we capitalized on over 24,000 h of observations of marmot colonies and asked whether variation in the rate that yellow-bellied marmots(Marmota faviventer)alarm called was associated with the probability of summer mortality,a proxy for predation.Using a generalized mixed model that controlled for factors that infuenced the likelihood of survival,we found that marmots who called at higher rates were substantially more likely to die over the summer.Because virtually all summer mortality is due to predation,these results suggest that calling is indeed costly for marmots.Additionally,the results from a Cox survival analysis showed that marmots that called more lived signifcantly shorter lives.Prior studies have shown that marmots reduce the risk by emitting calls only when close to their burrows,but this newly quantifed survival cost suggests a constraint on eliminating risks.Quantifying the cost of alarm calling using a similar approach in other systems will help us better understand its true costs,which is an essential value for theoretical models of calling and social behavior.展开更多
Avian alarm calls mediate defenses against brood parasites and predators. These calls facilitate communication among adults and alert nestlings to potential danger. While heterospecific call recognition has been exten...Avian alarm calls mediate defenses against brood parasites and predators. These calls facilitate communication among adults and alert nestlings to potential danger. While heterospecific call recognition has been extensively studied in adult birds, nestlings—lacking direct predation experience and heterospecific alarm exposure—represent an ideal system to investigate the response to interspecific warning cues. This study explored the recognition capabilities of 5–6-day-old nestlings in Oriental Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis), a common host of the Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). We exposed the nestlings to playbacks of alarm calls directed at parasites and raptors from conspecific, Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana, sympatric species), Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus, allopatric species) and Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius, allopatric species) adults. Results indicated that there was no significant difference in the responses of nestlings to the alarm calls of conspecific and allopatric adults directed at cuckoos and sparrowhawks. In addition, interestingly, nestlings significantly reduced their begging in response to conspecific and unfamiliar allopatric Isabelline Shrike and Common Tailorbird alarm calls but exhibited a weak response to the sympatric Vinous-throated Parrotbill. Whether older warbler nestlings with more social experience exhibit stronger responses to the alarm calls of Vinous-throated Parrotbill adults requires further investigation.展开更多
Alarm calls in bird vocalizations serve as acoustic signals announcing danger.Owing to the convergent evolution of alarm calls,some bird species can beneft from eavesdropping on certain parameters of alarm calls of ot...Alarm calls in bird vocalizations serve as acoustic signals announcing danger.Owing to the convergent evolution of alarm calls,some bird species can beneft from eavesdropping on certain parameters of alarm calls of other species.Vocal mimicry,displayed by many bird species,aids defense against predators and may help brood parasites during parasitism.In the coevolutionary dynamics between brood parasites,such as the common cuckoo(Cuculus canorus),and their hosts,female cuckoo vocalizations can induce hosts to leave the nest,increasing the probability of successful parasitism and reducing the risk of host attacks.Such cuckoo calls were thought to mimic those of the sparrowhawk.However,owing to their similarity to alarm calls,we propose a new hypothesis:Female cuckoos cheat their hosts by mimicking the parameters of the host alarm call.In this study,we tested this new hypothesis and the sparrowhawk mimicry hypothesis simultaneously by manipulating the syllable rate in male and female common cuckoo vocalizations and playing them in front of the host Oriental reed warbler(Acrocephalus orientalis)for examination.The results indicate that similar to a normal female cuckoo call,a female call with a reduced syllable rate prompted the hosts to leave their nests more frequently and rapidly than male cuckoo calls.Additionally,the male cuckoo calls with increased syllable rate did not prompt the host to leave their nests more frequently or quickly compared with the male cuckoo calls with a normal syllable rate.Our results further confrm that female common cuckoos mimic the vocalizations of Eurasian sparrowhawks(Accipiter nisus),reveal the function mechanisms underlying such mimicry,and support the theory of imperfect mimicry.展开更多
There are multiple types of risks involved in the service of long-span railway bridges.Classical methods are difficult to provide targeted alarm information according to different situations of load anomalies and stru...There are multiple types of risks involved in the service of long-span railway bridges.Classical methods are difficult to provide targeted alarm information according to different situations of load anomalies and structural anomalies.To accurately alarm different risks of long-span railway bridges by structural health monitoring systems,this paper proposes a cross-cooperative alarm method using principal and secondary indicators during high-wind periods.It provides the prior criterion for monitoring systems under special conditions,defining the principal and secondary indicators,alarm levels,and thresholds based on the relationship between dynamic equilibrium equations and multiple linear regression analysis.Analysis of one-year monitoring data from a longspan railway cable-stayed bridge shows that the 10-min average cross-bridge wind speed(excitation indicator)can be selected as the principal indicator,while lateral displacement(response indicator)can serve as the secondary indicator.The threshold levels of the secondary indicator prioritize the safety of bridge operation(mainly aiming at the safety of trains traversing bridges),with values significantly lower than structural safety thresholds.This approach enhances alarm timeliness and effectively distinguishes between load anomalies,structural anomalies,and equipment failures.Consequently,it improves alarm accuracy and provides timely decision support for bridge maintenance,train traversing,and emergency treatment.展开更多
Accurate navigation is important for long-range rocket projectile＇s precise striking. To obtain stable and high-per- formance navigation result, a ultra-tight global positioning system/inertial navigation system （GP...Accurate navigation is important for long-range rocket projectile＇s precise striking. To obtain stable and high-per- formance navigation result, a ultra-tight global positioning system/inertial navigation system （GPS/INS） integration based nav- igation approach is proposed. The accurate short-time output of INS is used by GPS receiver to assist in acquisition of signal, and output information of INS and GPS is fused based on federated filter. Meanwhile, the improved cubature Kalman filter with strong tracking ability is chosen to serve as the local filter, and then the federated filter is enhanced based on vector sharing theory. Finally, simulation results show that the navigation accuracy with the proposed method is higher than that with traditional methods. It provides reference for long-range rocket projectile navigation.展开更多
The effects of random long-range connections （shortcuts） on the transitions of neural firing patterns in coupled Hindmarsh-Rose neurons are investigated, where each neuron is subjected to an external current. It is ...The effects of random long-range connections （shortcuts） on the transitions of neural firing patterns in coupled Hindmarsh-Rose neurons are investigated, where each neuron is subjected to an external current. It is found that, on one hand, the system can achieve the transition of neural firing patterns from the fewer-period state to the multi-period one, when the number of the added shortcuts in the neural network is greater than a threshold value, indicating the occurrence of in-transition of neural firing patterns. On the other hand, for a stronger coupling strength, we can also find the similar but reverse results by adding some proper random connections. In addition, the influences of system size and coupling strength on such transition behavior, as well as the internality between the transition degree of firing patterns and its critical characteristics for different external stimulation current, are also discussed.展开更多
This study proposes a novel general image fusion framework based on cross-domain long-range learning and Swin Transformer,termed as SwinFusion.On the one hand,an attention-guided cross-domain module is devised to achi...This study proposes a novel general image fusion framework based on cross-domain long-range learning and Swin Transformer,termed as SwinFusion.On the one hand,an attention-guided cross-domain module is devised to achieve sufficient integration of complementary information and global interaction.More specifically,the proposed method involves an intra-domain fusion unit based on self-attention and an interdomain fusion unit based on cross-attention,which mine and integrate long dependencies within the same domain and across domains.Through long-range dependency modeling,the network is able to fully implement domain-specific information extraction and cross-domain complementary information integration as well as maintaining the appropriate apparent intensity from a global perspective.In particular,we introduce the shifted windows mechanism into the self-attention and cross-attention,which allows our model to receive images with arbitrary sizes.On the other hand,the multi-scene image fusion problems are generalized to a unified framework with structure maintenance,detail preservation,and proper intensity control.Moreover,an elaborate loss function,consisting of SSIM loss,texture loss,and intensity loss,drives the network to preserve abundant texture details and structural information,as well as presenting optimal apparent intensity.Extensive experiments on both multi-modal image fusion and digital photography image fusion demonstrate the superiority of our SwinFusion compared to the state-of-theart unified image fusion algorithms and task-specific alternatives.Implementation code and pre-trained weights can be accessed at https://github.com/Linfeng-Tang/SwinFusion.展开更多
Analyses of the soil moisture evolution trend and the influence of different types of radiation on soil moisture are of great significance to the simulation and prediction of soil moisture.In this paper,soil moisture(...Analyses of the soil moisture evolution trend and the influence of different types of radiation on soil moisture are of great significance to the simulation and prediction of soil moisture.In this paper,soil moisture(2–60 cm) and various radiation data from 2014–2015 at the A’rou superstation were selected.The radiation data include the net radiation(NR),shortwave and longwave radiation(SR and LR).Using adaptive fractal analysis(AFA),the long-range correlation(LRC) of soil moisture and long-range cross correlation(LRCC) between moisture and three types of radiation were analyzed at different timescales and soil depths.The results show that:(1) Persistence of soil moisture and consistency between soil moisture and radiation mutate at 18-d and 6-d timescales,respectively.The timescale variation of soil moisture persistence is mainly related to the influence process of radiation on soil moisture;(2) Both the soil moisture persistence and soil moisture-radiation consistency vary substantially with soil depth.The soil depth variation of soil moisture persistence is related to the influence intensity of radiation;(3) From 2–6 day timescales,LR displays the strongest influence on soil moisture at depths of 2–10 cm through negative feedback of radiation on the soil temperature.The influence intensity decreases with depth from 2–15 cm.Therefore,the soil moisture persistence is weak and increases with depth from 2–15 cm;and(4) At more than 6 day timescales,SR and NR display a stronger influence on the soil moisture persistence at depths of 2–40 cm through positive feedback of radiation on the soil temperature,especially at depths of 2–10 cm.This influence also weakens with depth.The soil moisture persistence at depths of 2–10 cm is the weakest and increases with depth from 2–40 cm.The research results are instructive for determining timescales and soil depths related to soil water in hydrological models.展开更多
Air temperature(AT) is a subsystem of a complex climate.Long-range correlation(LRC) is an important feature of complexity.Our research attempt to evaluate AT’s complexity differences in different land-use types in th...Air temperature(AT) is a subsystem of a complex climate.Long-range correlation(LRC) is an important feature of complexity.Our research attempt to evaluate AT’s complexity differences in different land-use types in the Heihe River Basin(HRB) based on the stability and LRC.The results show the following:(1) AT’s stability presents differences in different land-use types.In agricultural land,there is no obvious variation in the trend throughout the year.Whereas in a desert,the variation in the trend is obvious: the AT is more stable in summer than it is in winter,with Ta ranges of [8,20]°C and SD of the AT residual ranges of [0.2,0.7],respectively.Additionally,in mountainous areas,when the altitude is beyond a certain value,AT’s stability changes.(2) AT’s LRC presents differences in different land-use types.In agricultural land,the long-range correlation of AT is the most persistent throughout the year,showing the smallest difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.8,1].Vegetation could be an important factor.In a desert,the long-range correlation of AT is less persistent,showing the greatest difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.54,0.96].Solar insolation could be a dominant factor.In an alpine meadow,the long-range correlation of AT is the least persistent throughout the year,presenting a smaller difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.6,0.85].Altitude could be an important factor.(3) Usually,LRC is a combination of the Ta and SD of the AT residuals.A larger Ta and smaller SD of the AT residual would be conducive to a more persistent LRC,whereas a smaller Ta and larger SD of the AT residual would limit the persistence of LRC.A larger Ta and SD of the AT residual would create persistence to a degree between those of the first two cases,as would a smaller Ta and SD of the AT residual.In addition,the last two cases might show the same LRC.展开更多
The development of novel single-atom catalysts with optimal electron configuration and economical noble-metal cocatalyst for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production is of great importance,but still challenging.He...The development of novel single-atom catalysts with optimal electron configuration and economical noble-metal cocatalyst for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production is of great importance,but still challenging.Herein,we fabricate Pt and Co single-atom sites successively on polymeric carbon nitride(CN).In this Pt_(1)-Co_(1)/CN bimetallic single-atom catalyst,the noble-metal active sites are maximized,and the single-atomic Co_(1)N_4sites are tuned to Co_(1)N_3sites by photogenerated electrons arising from the introduced single-atomic Pt_(1)N_4sites.Mechanism studies and density functional theory(DFT)calculations reveal that the 3d orbitals of Co_(1)N_3single sites are filled with unpaired d-electrons,which lead to the improved visible-light response,carrier separation and charge migration for CN photocatalysts.Thereafter,the protons adsorption and activation are promoted.Taking this advantage of long-range electron synergy in bimetallic single atomic sites,the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity over Pt_(1)-Co_(1)/CN achieves 915.8 mmol g^(-1)Pt h^(-1),which is 19.8 times higher than Co_(1)/CN and 3.5 times higher to Pt_(1)/CN.While this electron-synergistic effect is not so efficient for Pt nanoclusters.These results demonstrate the synergistic effect at electron-level and provide electron-level guidance for the design of efficient photocatalysts.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21573059,12274118 and 22208088)Henan Center for Outstanding Overseas Scientists(No.GZS2023007)Special Project for Fundamental Research in University of Henan Province(No.22ZX013)。
文摘Sluggish sulfur conversion kinetics pose an ongoing challenge in lithium-sulfur batteries(LSBs).Here,we present a solution through far-reaching long-range electronic regulation(LRER)on single-atom active sites.N-doped carbons(Co-NC)are implanted with densely-distributed Co single atoms,and supported on Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)MXene substrates to assemble 3D Co-NC/MXene catalyst.MXene effectively mediates interlayer charge transfer(~0.70|e|)contrasted with popular carbon materials(~0.06|e|)to produce LRER through surrounding carbon atoms.The synergy of LRER with near-range electronic regulation(NRER)tunes electronic structures,and enhances heterostructural stability,thus provoking desirous catalytic kinetics of Co single atoms in sulfur reduction.Thereby,the Co-NC/MXene/S cathodes exhibit impressive rate performance and excellent cycling stability(only 0.015%capacity decay per cycle over 600 cycles at 4 C)in LSBs,surpassing state-of-the-art sulfur cathodes.This work reveals the importance of LRER for improved catalysis,and provides new guidance to tailor heterostructures to achieve high-efficient catalysts in various process.
基金supports by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant No.52271113)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province,China(2020JM 218)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CHD300102311405)。
文摘Catalysts with asymmetric coordination exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity due to changes in the active sites,which affect the arrangement of reactants and catalytic activity/selectivity.Hence,the exploration of the inherent characteristics of active sites within diverse coordination environments holds great significance for the experimental design of catalytic structures.Single-atom catalysts(SACs)characterized by high coordination with four carbons(26 candidates)and low coordination with dinitrogen(27candidates)are constructed using nitrogen-doped graphdiyne derivatives(NGDY)as the substrate.Additionally,5 species of dual-atom catalysts(DACs)with coexistence of both high and low coordination sites are also developed and their nitrogen reduction reaction(NRR)activities are systematically investigated by density functional theory.The results indicate that metals with low coordination exhibit superior catalytic performance,such as Mo^(L)-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.30 V)and Nb^(L)-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.32 V).Furthermore,machine learning(ML)methods have deeply analyzed and elucidated the primary intrinsic characteristics that influence catalytic performance.These results not only unveil the underlying mechanisms behind the exceptional catalytic performance exhibited by low-coordination metal atoms,but also provide relevant and significant descriptors.More importantly,based on an investigation of the catalytic activity of a series of DACs,the“buffer and low-coordination accumulate”asymmetric coordination mechanism is proposed to unveil the long-range interactions between low and high coordination atoms.Due to this remote communication,MoNb-NGDY(U_(L)=-0.09/-0.37 V)exhibits the best NRR activity.This mechanism provides valuable insights into the origin of long-range bipartite interactions and inspires the design and synthesis of NRR catalysts with different coordination environments.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11962002)the Innovation Project of the Guangxi Graduate Education(Grant Nos.YCBZ2021021 and YCSW2022070).
文摘A Hamiltonian mean-field model with long-range four-body interactions is proposed.The model describes a long-range mean-field system in which N unit-mass particles move on a unit circle.Each particleθi interacts with any three other particles through an infinite-range cosine potential with an attractive interaction(ε>0).By applying a method that remaps the average phase of global particle pairs onto a new unit circle,and using the saddle-point technique,the partition function is solved analytically after introducing four-body interactions,yielding expressions for the free energy f and the energy per particle U.These results were further validated through numerical simulations.The results show that the system undergoes a second-order phase transition at the critical energy Uc.Specifically,the critical energy corresponds to U_(c)=0.32 when the coupling constantε=5,and U_(c)=0.63 whenε=10.Finally,we calculated the system’s largest Lyapunov exponentλand kinetic energy fluctuationsΣthrough numerical simulations.It is found that the peak of the largest Lyapunov exponentλoccurs slightly below the critical energy Uc,which is consistent with the point of maximum kinetic energy fluctuationsΣ.And there is a scaling law ofΣ/N^(1/2)∝λbetween them.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12375025).
文摘We investigate the parity-time(PT)symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional(1D)bosonic lattice featuring cavity-mediated long-range interactions and spatially staggered dissipation.By mapping the system to an effective spin chain under the constraints of hard-core bosons and integrating the mean-field decoupling approach with biorthogonal basis formalism,we derive a self-consistency equation.Numerical simulation results validate that the derived equation quantitatively captures thePT-symmetry order parameter’s phase diagram.Our findings reveal that coherent hopping maintainsPTsymmetry through quantum fluctuations.Conversely,cavity-engineered long-range interactions,in synergy with staggered dissipation,act in opposition to drive symmetry breaking.This competitive interplay can inspire further exploration of tunable quantum phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems.
基金supported by the Director General,Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR),New Delhithe Director,ICAR-National Rice Research Institute,Cuttack.
文摘Consecutive stresses,such as initial submergence during germination followed by water deficit during the seedling stage,pose significant challenges to direct-seeded rice cultivation.By Linkage disequilibrium analysis,Sub1 and Dro1(Δbp:10 Mb),as well as Sub1 and TPP7(Δbp:6 Mb)were identified to exhibit long-range linkage disequilibrium(LRLD).Meta-QTL analysis further revealed that Sub1 and TPP7 co-segregated for tolerance to submergence at the germination and seedling stages.Based on this,we hypothesized that LRLD might influence plant responses to consecutive stresses.To test this hypothesis,we developed a structured recombinant inbred line population from a cross between Bhalum 2 and Nagina 22,with alleles(Sub1 and TPP7)in linkage equilibrium.Mendelian randomization analysis validated that the parental alleles,rather than the recombinant alleles of Sub1 and TPP7,significantly influenced 13 out of 41 traits under consecutive stress conditions.Additionally,16 minor additive effect QTLs were detected between the genomic regions,spanning Sub1 and TPP7 for various traits.A single allele difference between these genomic regions enhanced crown root number,root dry weight,and specific root area by 11.45%,15.69%,and 33.15%,respectively,under flooded germination conditions.Candidate gene analysis identified WAK79 and MRLK59 as regulators of stress responses during flooded germination,recovery,and subsequent water deficit conditions.These findings highlight the critical role of parental allele combinations and genomic regions between Sub1 and TPP7 in regulating the stress responses under consecutive stresses.Favourable haplotypes derived from these alleles can be utilized to improve stress resilience in direct-seeded rice.
文摘Long-range magnetic order appears on a side decorated Heisenberg spin nanoribbon at nonzero temperature,although no spontaneous magnetization exists in a one-or two-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model at any nonzero temperature according to the Mermin-Wagner theorem.By use of the spin Green's function method,we calculated the magnetizations of Heisenberg nanoribbons decorated by side spins with single-ion anisotropy and found that the system exhibits a nonzero transition temperature,whether the decorated edge spins of the system link together or separate from each other.When the width of the nanoribbon achieves infinite limit,the transition temperatures of the system tend to the same finite constant eventually whether one edge or both edges are decorated by side spins in the nanoribbon.The results reveal that the magnetism of a low-dimensional spin system is different from that of a threedimensional spin system.When the single-ion anisotropy of edge spins in a Heisenberg spin nanoribbon can be modulated by an electric field experimentally,various useful long-range magnetic orders of the system can be obtained.This work can provide a detailed theoretical basis for designing and fabricating next-generation low-dimensional magnetic random-access memory.
基金supported by the Innovation project of Henan Agricultural University(No.30600982)PhD Start-up Foundation of Henan Agricultural University(30600780)2023 Instrument Operator Capability lmprovement Project(SYS2023T04)
文摘Molecular dynamics(MD)simulations and anisotropic thermal diffusion dynamics(ATD)simulations were performed on the wild TrpR and its 75 residue mutant(mTrpR)to investigate TrpR longrange effects.The ATD result shows that the mTrpR has higher fluctuation than the wild TrpR,and its helix chainⅡF has particular disorder.It is obvious that the 75 residue of wild TrpR and mTrpR affects the protein dynamics flexibilities by the long-range effects.The ATD and MD both confirm that the differences in the size of side-chain and three-dimensional structures of two different 75 residues in the wild TrpR and mTrpR will spread to the entire protein by way of the long-range effects.Long-range effect affects the protein side chain interaction,conformational changes,flexibilities and secondary structures.Further,the ATD result also shows that each 75 residue of the symmetric homodimer has the same effect,and the two 75 residues have a positive correlation in long-range regulating processes.The residues 48,50,71,79 in chainⅠof wild TrpR and residues 45,72,80 in chainⅡof mTrpR play important roles in long-range interaction processes.
基金Supported by the Science Foundation of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology,General Program-Youth Program(2022JQ-695)the Scientific Research Program Funded by Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government(22JK0378)+1 种基金the Talent Program of Weinan Normal University(2021RC20)the Educational Reform Research Project(JG202342)。
文摘Floating wastes in rivers have specific characteristics such as small scale,low pixel density and complex backgrounds.These characteristics make it prone to false and missed detection during image analysis,thus resulting in a degradation of detection performance.In order to tackle these challenges,a floating waste detection algorithm based on YOLOv7 is proposed,which combines the improved GFPN(Generalized Feature Pyramid Network)and a long-range attention mechanism.Firstly,we import the improved GFPN to replace the Neck of YOLOv7,thus providing more effective information transmission that can scale into deeper networks.Secondly,the convolution-based and hardware-friendly long-range attention mechanism is introduced,allowing the algorithm to rapidly generate an attention map with a global receptive field.Finally,the algorithm adopts the WiseIoU optimization loss function to achieve adaptive gradient gain allocation and alleviate the negative impact of low-quality samples on the gradient.The simulation results reveal that the proposed algorithm has achieved a favorable average accuracy of 86.3%in real-time scene detection tasks.This marks a significant enhancement of approximately 6.3%compared with the baseline,indicating the algorithm's good performance in floating waste detection.
基金Chongqing Engineering University Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Project:Wireless Fire Automatic Alarm System(Project No.:CXCY2024017)Chongqing Municipal Education Commission Science and Technology Research Project:Development and Research of Chongqing Wireless Fire Automatic Alarm System(Project No.:KJQN202401906)。
文摘This article explores the design of a wireless fire alarm system supported by advanced data fusion technology.It includes discussions on the basic design ideas of the wireless fire alarm system,hardware design analysis,software design analysis,and simulation analysis,all supported by data fusion technology.Hopefully,this analysis can provide some reference for the rational application of data fusion technology to meet the actual design and application requirements of the system.
基金National Geographic Society,UCLA(Faculty Senate and the Division of Life Sciences),a Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory research fellowship,NSF IDBR-0754247,and DEB-1119660 and 1557130 all to D.T.B.DBI-0242960,0731346,1226713,and 1755522 to the RMBL.K.A.was a NSF GRFP fellow during the fnal preparation of this MS。
文摘Emitting alarm calls may be costly,but few studies have asked whether calling increases a caller’s risk of predation and survival.Since observing animals calling and being killed is relatively rare,we capitalized on over 24,000 h of observations of marmot colonies and asked whether variation in the rate that yellow-bellied marmots(Marmota faviventer)alarm called was associated with the probability of summer mortality,a proxy for predation.Using a generalized mixed model that controlled for factors that infuenced the likelihood of survival,we found that marmots who called at higher rates were substantially more likely to die over the summer.Because virtually all summer mortality is due to predation,these results suggest that calling is indeed costly for marmots.Additionally,the results from a Cox survival analysis showed that marmots that called more lived signifcantly shorter lives.Prior studies have shown that marmots reduce the risk by emitting calls only when close to their burrows,but this newly quantifed survival cost suggests a constraint on eliminating risks.Quantifying the cost of alarm calling using a similar approach in other systems will help us better understand its true costs,which is an essential value for theoretical models of calling and social behavior.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32301295 to JW, 32101242 to LM, and 32260253 to LW)High-Level Talents Research Start-Up Project of Hebei University (No. 521100222044 to JW)
文摘Avian alarm calls mediate defenses against brood parasites and predators. These calls facilitate communication among adults and alert nestlings to potential danger. While heterospecific call recognition has been extensively studied in adult birds, nestlings—lacking direct predation experience and heterospecific alarm exposure—represent an ideal system to investigate the response to interspecific warning cues. This study explored the recognition capabilities of 5–6-day-old nestlings in Oriental Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis), a common host of the Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). We exposed the nestlings to playbacks of alarm calls directed at parasites and raptors from conspecific, Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Sinosuthora webbiana, sympatric species), Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus, allopatric species) and Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius, allopatric species) adults. Results indicated that there was no significant difference in the responses of nestlings to the alarm calls of conspecific and allopatric adults directed at cuckoos and sparrowhawks. In addition, interestingly, nestlings significantly reduced their begging in response to conspecific and unfamiliar allopatric Isabelline Shrike and Common Tailorbird alarm calls but exhibited a weak response to the sympatric Vinous-throated Parrotbill. Whether older warbler nestlings with more social experience exhibit stronger responses to the alarm calls of Vinous-throated Parrotbill adults requires further investigation.
基金funded by the Education Department of Hainan Province(no.HnjgY 2022-12)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.32260127).
文摘Alarm calls in bird vocalizations serve as acoustic signals announcing danger.Owing to the convergent evolution of alarm calls,some bird species can beneft from eavesdropping on certain parameters of alarm calls of other species.Vocal mimicry,displayed by many bird species,aids defense against predators and may help brood parasites during parasitism.In the coevolutionary dynamics between brood parasites,such as the common cuckoo(Cuculus canorus),and their hosts,female cuckoo vocalizations can induce hosts to leave the nest,increasing the probability of successful parasitism and reducing the risk of host attacks.Such cuckoo calls were thought to mimic those of the sparrowhawk.However,owing to their similarity to alarm calls,we propose a new hypothesis:Female cuckoos cheat their hosts by mimicking the parameters of the host alarm call.In this study,we tested this new hypothesis and the sparrowhawk mimicry hypothesis simultaneously by manipulating the syllable rate in male and female common cuckoo vocalizations and playing them in front of the host Oriental reed warbler(Acrocephalus orientalis)for examination.The results indicate that similar to a normal female cuckoo call,a female call with a reduced syllable rate prompted the hosts to leave their nests more frequently and rapidly than male cuckoo calls.Additionally,the male cuckoo calls with increased syllable rate did not prompt the host to leave their nests more frequently or quickly compared with the male cuckoo calls with a normal syllable rate.Our results further confrm that female common cuckoos mimic the vocalizations of Eurasian sparrowhawks(Accipiter nisus),reveal the function mechanisms underlying such mimicry,and support the theory of imperfect mimicry.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants U23A20660,52008099,and 52378288)the Major Science and Technology Project of Yunnan Province,China(Grant 202502AD080007)the China Railway Engineering Corporation Science and Technology Research and Development Project(Grant 2022-Key-44).
文摘There are multiple types of risks involved in the service of long-span railway bridges.Classical methods are difficult to provide targeted alarm information according to different situations of load anomalies and structural anomalies.To accurately alarm different risks of long-span railway bridges by structural health monitoring systems,this paper proposes a cross-cooperative alarm method using principal and secondary indicators during high-wind periods.It provides the prior criterion for monitoring systems under special conditions,defining the principal and secondary indicators,alarm levels,and thresholds based on the relationship between dynamic equilibrium equations and multiple linear regression analysis.Analysis of one-year monitoring data from a longspan railway cable-stayed bridge shows that the 10-min average cross-bridge wind speed(excitation indicator)can be selected as the principal indicator,while lateral displacement(response indicator)can serve as the secondary indicator.The threshold levels of the secondary indicator prioritize the safety of bridge operation(mainly aiming at the safety of trains traversing bridges),with values significantly lower than structural safety thresholds.This approach enhances alarm timeliness and effectively distinguishes between load anomalies,structural anomalies,and equipment failures.Consequently,it improves alarm accuracy and provides timely decision support for bridge maintenance,train traversing,and emergency treatment.
基金Project Funded by Chongqing Changjiang Electrical Appliances Industries Group Co.,Ltd
文摘Accurate navigation is important for long-range rocket projectile＇s precise striking. To obtain stable and high-per- formance navigation result, a ultra-tight global positioning system/inertial navigation system （GPS/INS） integration based nav- igation approach is proposed. The accurate short-time output of INS is used by GPS receiver to assist in acquisition of signal, and output information of INS and GPS is fused based on federated filter. Meanwhile, the improved cubature Kalman filter with strong tracking ability is chosen to serve as the local filter, and then the federated filter is enhanced based on vector sharing theory. Finally, simulation results show that the navigation accuracy with the proposed method is higher than that with traditional methods. It provides reference for long-range rocket projectile navigation.
文摘The effects of random long-range connections （shortcuts） on the transitions of neural firing patterns in coupled Hindmarsh-Rose neurons are investigated, where each neuron is subjected to an external current. It is found that, on one hand, the system can achieve the transition of neural firing patterns from the fewer-period state to the multi-period one, when the number of the added shortcuts in the neural network is greater than a threshold value, indicating the occurrence of in-transition of neural firing patterns. On the other hand, for a stronger coupling strength, we can also find the similar but reverse results by adding some proper random connections. In addition, the influences of system size and coupling strength on such transition behavior, as well as the internality between the transition degree of firing patterns and its critical characteristics for different external stimulation current, are also discussed.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62075169,62003247,62061160370)the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province(2020BAB113).
文摘This study proposes a novel general image fusion framework based on cross-domain long-range learning and Swin Transformer,termed as SwinFusion.On the one hand,an attention-guided cross-domain module is devised to achieve sufficient integration of complementary information and global interaction.More specifically,the proposed method involves an intra-domain fusion unit based on self-attention and an interdomain fusion unit based on cross-attention,which mine and integrate long dependencies within the same domain and across domains.Through long-range dependency modeling,the network is able to fully implement domain-specific information extraction and cross-domain complementary information integration as well as maintaining the appropriate apparent intensity from a global perspective.In particular,we introduce the shifted windows mechanism into the self-attention and cross-attention,which allows our model to receive images with arbitrary sizes.On the other hand,the multi-scene image fusion problems are generalized to a unified framework with structure maintenance,detail preservation,and proper intensity control.Moreover,an elaborate loss function,consisting of SSIM loss,texture loss,and intensity loss,drives the network to preserve abundant texture details and structural information,as well as presenting optimal apparent intensity.Extensive experiments on both multi-modal image fusion and digital photography image fusion demonstrate the superiority of our SwinFusion compared to the state-of-theart unified image fusion algorithms and task-specific alternatives.Implementation code and pre-trained weights can be accessed at https://github.com/Linfeng-Tang/SwinFusion.
基金National Key R&D Program of China,No.2017YFB0504102National Natural Science Foundation of China No.41771537
文摘Analyses of the soil moisture evolution trend and the influence of different types of radiation on soil moisture are of great significance to the simulation and prediction of soil moisture.In this paper,soil moisture(2–60 cm) and various radiation data from 2014–2015 at the A’rou superstation were selected.The radiation data include the net radiation(NR),shortwave and longwave radiation(SR and LR).Using adaptive fractal analysis(AFA),the long-range correlation(LRC) of soil moisture and long-range cross correlation(LRCC) between moisture and three types of radiation were analyzed at different timescales and soil depths.The results show that:(1) Persistence of soil moisture and consistency between soil moisture and radiation mutate at 18-d and 6-d timescales,respectively.The timescale variation of soil moisture persistence is mainly related to the influence process of radiation on soil moisture;(2) Both the soil moisture persistence and soil moisture-radiation consistency vary substantially with soil depth.The soil depth variation of soil moisture persistence is related to the influence intensity of radiation;(3) From 2–6 day timescales,LR displays the strongest influence on soil moisture at depths of 2–10 cm through negative feedback of radiation on the soil temperature.The influence intensity decreases with depth from 2–15 cm.Therefore,the soil moisture persistence is weak and increases with depth from 2–15 cm;and(4) At more than 6 day timescales,SR and NR display a stronger influence on the soil moisture persistence at depths of 2–40 cm through positive feedback of radiation on the soil temperature,especially at depths of 2–10 cm.This influence also weakens with depth.The soil moisture persistence at depths of 2–10 cm is the weakest and increases with depth from 2–40 cm.The research results are instructive for determining timescales and soil depths related to soil water in hydrological models.
基金Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,No.XDA23100303
文摘Air temperature(AT) is a subsystem of a complex climate.Long-range correlation(LRC) is an important feature of complexity.Our research attempt to evaluate AT’s complexity differences in different land-use types in the Heihe River Basin(HRB) based on the stability and LRC.The results show the following:(1) AT’s stability presents differences in different land-use types.In agricultural land,there is no obvious variation in the trend throughout the year.Whereas in a desert,the variation in the trend is obvious: the AT is more stable in summer than it is in winter,with Ta ranges of [8,20]°C and SD of the AT residual ranges of [0.2,0.7],respectively.Additionally,in mountainous areas,when the altitude is beyond a certain value,AT’s stability changes.(2) AT’s LRC presents differences in different land-use types.In agricultural land,the long-range correlation of AT is the most persistent throughout the year,showing the smallest difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.8,1].Vegetation could be an important factor.In a desert,the long-range correlation of AT is less persistent,showing the greatest difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.54,0.96].Solar insolation could be a dominant factor.In an alpine meadow,the long-range correlation of AT is the least persistent throughout the year,presenting a smaller difference between summer and winter,with the Hs range of [0.6,0.85].Altitude could be an important factor.(3) Usually,LRC is a combination of the Ta and SD of the AT residuals.A larger Ta and smaller SD of the AT residual would be conducive to a more persistent LRC,whereas a smaller Ta and larger SD of the AT residual would limit the persistence of LRC.A larger Ta and SD of the AT residual would create persistence to a degree between those of the first two cases,as would a smaller Ta and SD of the AT residual.In addition,the last two cases might show the same LRC.
基金the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22002118,22208262,52271228,52202298,52201279,51834009,51801151)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2021JQ-468,2020JZ-47)+2 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education (21JP086)the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (2020 M683528,2020TQ0245,2018M633643XB)the Hundred Talent Program of Shaanxi Province。
文摘The development of novel single-atom catalysts with optimal electron configuration and economical noble-metal cocatalyst for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production is of great importance,but still challenging.Herein,we fabricate Pt and Co single-atom sites successively on polymeric carbon nitride(CN).In this Pt_(1)-Co_(1)/CN bimetallic single-atom catalyst,the noble-metal active sites are maximized,and the single-atomic Co_(1)N_4sites are tuned to Co_(1)N_3sites by photogenerated electrons arising from the introduced single-atomic Pt_(1)N_4sites.Mechanism studies and density functional theory(DFT)calculations reveal that the 3d orbitals of Co_(1)N_3single sites are filled with unpaired d-electrons,which lead to the improved visible-light response,carrier separation and charge migration for CN photocatalysts.Thereafter,the protons adsorption and activation are promoted.Taking this advantage of long-range electron synergy in bimetallic single atomic sites,the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity over Pt_(1)-Co_(1)/CN achieves 915.8 mmol g^(-1)Pt h^(-1),which is 19.8 times higher than Co_(1)/CN and 3.5 times higher to Pt_(1)/CN.While this electron-synergistic effect is not so efficient for Pt nanoclusters.These results demonstrate the synergistic effect at electron-level and provide electron-level guidance for the design of efficient photocatalysts.
