Xinnaoshutong capsule (XC) is a traditional Chinese prescription derived from the ripe fruit of Tribulus terrestris L. (TT). Although XC has long been considered as an important herbal medicine, no analytical method of marker compounds for quality assessment is registered in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. A simple analytical method of twelve marker components was developed and validated by HPLC-VWD...

We investigate, for a given smooth closed manifold M , the existence of an algebraic model X for M (i.e., a nonsingular real algebraic variety diffeomorphic to M) such that some nonsingular projective complexification i : X → XC of X admits a retraction r : XC → X. If such an X exists, we show that M must be formal in the sense of Sullivan’s minimal models, and that all rational Massey products...

The ferroelectric degenerate semiconductor Sn1−δTe exhibits superconductivity with critical temperatures, Tc, of up to 0.3 K for hole densities of order 10 21 cm. When doped on the tin site with greater than xc = 1.7(3)% indium atoms, however, superconductivity is observed up to 2 K, though the carrier density does not change significantly. We present specific heat data showing that a stronger ...

XC cells originally derived from the tumor of a rat previously inoculated with the Prague strain of Rous sarcoma virus were used to induce tumors in chickens surgically thymectomized or bursectomized in the newly hatched period. Thymectomized chickens had a significantly higher incidence of tumors, larger tumors, and a higher tumor mortality, compared with control chickens, when both groups wer...

Convergence problems of meta-GGA (generalized gradient approximation) XC (exchange and correlation) functionals containing a self-interaction correction term are traced back to a singularity of the latter that occurs at critical points of the electron density. This is demonstrated for the bond critical point of equilibrium and stretched H2. A simple remedy is suggested that cures meta-XC functi...

∂tc+ λ c+ u ∂xc− κ ∂ xc = q + ∂xf + ∂ xg . At the grid points the extremely high order of approximation for the numerical solutions is such that if loss of accuracy is to be avoided then interpolation must use values extending beyond the local 3 by 2 computational module. Illustrative examples show that reasonable accuracy is possible with extremely long time steps on sparse non-uniform, moving...

1. Introduction Recent advances in photonic cross-connect (XC) systems and their associated switch fabrics are remarkable [1], [2]. Some photonic switches are reported to allow for an abundant switching capability beyond 1000×1000 at the optical path (OP) level. However, the rationale for such large-scale switches has not yet been proven from the viewpoint of network management or operation. Wa...

Proof. ‖∇F (δ)‖∞ ≤ guarantees that μ = μ(δ) are -consistent in the sense that |μi(xi) − μc(xi)| ≤ for all c, i ∈ c and xi. Algorithm 1 maps any such -consistent μ to locally consistent marginals μ̃ such that |μi(xi)− μ̃i(xi)| ≤ 3 Nmax, |μc(xc)− μ̃c(xc)| ≤ 2 N max, (3) for all i, xi, c, and xc, where Nmax = max{maxiNi,maxcNc}. In other words, ‖μ− μ̃‖∞ ≤ K . This can be easily derived from the update...

We suggest a more nuanced view of the merit and utility of generalized gradient approximations (GGAs) for the noninteracting kinetic energy (KE) than the critique of Xia and Carter (XC) [Phys. Rev. B 91, 045124 (2015)]. Specifically, the multiple valuedness of the Pauli term enhancement factor (denoted G[n] by XC) with respect to the inhomogeneity variable s can be excluded by enforcement of a ...