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BACKGROUND: Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by atypical developmental changes during brain maturation, but regional brain functional changes that occur with age and across different frequency bands are unknown. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore potential age and frequency band-related changes in the regional brain activities in autism. METHODS: A total of 65 participants who met the DSM-IV criteria for autistic disorder and 55 typically developed (TD) participants (both age 6–30 years) were recruited in the current study. The two groups were matched in age (t=−1.314, P=0.191) and gender (χ(2)=2.760, P=0.097). The amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) was employed to explore the effect of development on spontaneous brain activity in individuals with autism and in TD participants across slow-5 (0.01–0.027 Hz), slow-4 (0.027–0.073 Hz), and slow-3 (0.073–0.1 Hz) frequency bands. The diagnosis-by-age interaction effect in the whole brain voxels in autism and TD groups was investigated. RESULTS: Autism individuals showed significantly higher ALFF in the dorsal striatum in childhood (Caudate cluster: t=3.626, P=0.001; Putamen cluster: t=2.839, P=0.007) and remarkably lower ALFF in the dorsal striatum in adulthood (Caudate cluster: t=−2.198, P=0.038; Putamen cluster: t=−2.314, P=0.030) relative to TD, while no significant differences were observed in adolescence (all P>0.05). In addition, abnormal ALFF amplitudes were specific to the slow-4 (0.027–0.073 Hz) frequency band in the clusters above. CONCLUSIONS: The current study indicated abnormal development patterns in the spontaneous activity of the dorsal striatum in autism and highlighted the potential role of the slow-4 frequency band in the pathology of autism. Also, the potential brain mechanism of autism was revealed, suggesting that autism-related variations should be investigated in a specific frequency.

The efficacy and safety of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK-9) inhibitors were confirmed by several clinical trials, but its effectiveness in routine clinical practice in China has not been evaluated. This study aims to describe the real world effectiveness of PCSK-9 inhibitors combined with statins compared with statins-based therapy among patients with very high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).This is a multi-center observational study, enrolled patients from 32 hospitals who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from January to June in 2019. There are 453 patients treated with PCSK-9 inhibitors combined with statins in PCSK-9 inhibitor group and 2,610 patients treated with statins-based lipid lowering therapies in statins-based group. The lipid control rate and incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) over six months were compared between two groups. A propensity score-matched (PSM) analysis was used to balance two groups on confounding factors. Survival analysis using Kaplan-Meier methods was applied for MACE.In a total of 3,063 patients, 89.91% of patients had received moderate or high-intensity statins-based therapy before PCI, but only 9.47% of patients had low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels below 1.4 mmol/L at baseline. In the PSM selected patients, LDL-C level was reduced by 42.57% in PCSK-9 inhibitor group and 30.81% (In the real world, PCSK-9 inhibitors combined with statins could significantly reduce LDL-C levels among patients with very high risk of ASCVD in China. The long-term clinical benefits for patients received PCSK-9 inhibitor to reduce the risk of MACE is still unclear and requires further study.

Background The efficacy and safety of PCSK-9 inhibitors were confirmed by several clinical trials, but its effectiveness in routine clinical practice in China is unknown. Objective To describe the real world effectiveness of initiated with PCSK-9 inhibitors combined with statins compared with statins among patients with very high risk of ASCVD and underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods This is a prospective study, enrolled patients from 32 hospitals between January to June 2019. The lipid control rate and incidence of cardiovascular events over 6 months were compared between two groups. A propensity score-matched analysis was used to balance two groups on confounding factors. Survival analysis using Kaplan-Meier methods was applied for cardiovascular events. Results In a total of 3063 patients, 89.91% had received moderate or high-intensity statin therapy before PCI, but only 9.47% had LDL levels below 1.4mmol/L at baseline. In the PSM selected patients, LDL level was reduced by 42.57% in PCSK-9 inhibitor group and 30.81% (P

Source camera identification has been well studied in laboratory environment where the training and test samples are all original images without recompression. However, image compression is quite common in the real world, when the training and test images are double JPEG compressed with different quantization tables, the identification accuracy of existing methods decreases dramati- cally. To address this challenge, we propose a novel iterative algorithm namely joint first and second order statistics matching (JSM) to learn a feature projection that projects the training and test fea- tures into a low dimensional subspace to reduce the shift caused by image recompression. Inspired by transfer learning, JSM aims to learn a new feature representation from original feature space by simultaneously matching the first and second order statistics between training and test features in a principled dimensionality reduction procedure. After the feature projection, the divergence between training and test features caused by recompression is reduced while the discriminative properties are preserved. Extensive experiments on public Dresden Image Database verify that JSM significantly outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on camera model identification of recompressed images.

Transparent conductive Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films used as transparent conductive oxide (TCO) electrode layers for thin film solar cells were deposited on quartz substrate by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering. After deposition, the samples were annealed at various temperatures. The structural, electrical, and optical properties of these films have been analyzed as a function of the annealing temperature. All of these samples exhibit strong (002) diffraction peaks and the average transmittance in visible range is about 85%. The crystallinity of films together with some changes of the electrical resistance has been improved after thermal annealing. The best characteristics have been obtained at 400 °C, where the lowest resistivity is 2.4×10-3 Ω cm and the optical band gap is 3.22 eV.

An actinomycete, strain D34T, was isolated from a soil sample collected from the rhizosphere of Stipa grandis at Yunwu Mountain in Ningxia, north-west China. Strain D34T showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Saccharothrix espanaensis DSM 44229T (99.0 %), Saccharothrix texasensis NRRL B-16107T (98.7 %) and Saccharothrix variisporea NRRL B-16296T (98.6 %). The strain contained meso-diaminopimelic acid, alanine, glycine and glutamic acid as major cell-wall amino acids. Mannose, rhamnose and galactose were the characteristic whole-cell sugars. The fatty acid profile consisted predominantly of iso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C16 : 1, C17 : 1ω6c, anteiso-C17 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0. The phospholipid profile included phosphatidylethanolamine (typical of phospholipid pattern type II). Furthermore, a combination of some physiological and biochemical properties and low DNA–DNA relatedness values indicated that strain D34T was differentiated from members of closely related species. On the basis of these phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic data, strain D34T represents a novel species of the genus Saccharothrix, for which the name Saccharothrix stipae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is D34T ( = JCM 30560T = ACCC19714T).

Although many studies have focused on abnormal patterns of brain functional connectivity in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), one important factor, the developmental effect of brain networks was largely overlooked. To clarify the abnormal developmental trajectory of brain functional connectivity in ASD, we focused on the age-related changes in three “core” neurocognitive networks: default mode network (DMN), salience network (SN) and central executive network (CEN, also divided into left and right CEN, i.e., lCEN and rCEN). The development of intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) within and between these networks were analyzed in 107 Chinese participants, including children, adolescents, and adults (54 patients with ASD and 53 typically developed (TD) participants; ages 6-30 years). We found that diagnosis-related distinctions in age-related changes suggest three maturation patterns in networks’ or nodes’ iFC: delayed (iFC between SN and rCEN), ectopic (iFC between SN and DMN, and iFC between posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and right anterior insula/dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)), and failure maturation (iFC between dACC and ventral medial prefrontal cortex). Compared with age-matched TD participants, ASD patients in children and adolescents exhibited hypo-connectivity, while that in adults showed hyper-connectivity. In addition, an independent verification based on Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) datasets confirmed our findings of developmental trajectories in ASD group, which also showed unchanged functional connectivity with age between DMN and SN and increasing iFC between rCEN and SN. The conspicuous differences in the development of three “core” networks in ASD were demonstrated, which may lead a nuanced understanding towards the abnormal brain network maturation trajectory of autism.

Hyperlipidemia can be harmful to the pancreas and β3-adrenoceptor agonist can improve lipid metabolism disorder. We aimed to study the effects of β3-adrenoceptor activation on glucose, insulin and the expression of pancreatic adrenoceptors and angiotensin II receptors. Ten C57BL/6J mice at the age of 10 weeks served as normal control, and forty age-matched apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE(-/-)) mice were randomly divided into hyperlipidaemia model group, low-dose and high-dose β3-adrenoceptor agonist group and β3-adrenoceptor antagonist group. After 26 weeks of high-fat diet, treatments were given for 12 weeks. Serum glucose and insulin levels in 48 weeks old mice were measured using an automatic biochemical detector. Quantitative rt-PCR and Western blot were used to analyze the mRNA and protein expression of α1A-, α2A-, β2-, β3-adrenoceptors and angiotensin II type 1 and type 2 receptors in pancreas. We found that β3-adrenoceptor agonist could decrease serum glucose and insulin levels in aged ApoE(-/-) mice (P0.01) and down-regulate the expression of α1A-adrenoceptor and angiotensin II type 1 receptor which were significantly increased in model mice (P0.05, P0.01). Compared with the model mice, α2A-, β2-, β3-adrenoceptor and angiotensin II type 2 receptor expression were up-regulated in β3-adrenoceptor agonist treat mice (P0.05, P0.01). These results suggest that chronic β3-adrenoceptor activation regulated the expression of adrenoceptors and angiontensin II receptors towards contrary direction, which indicates that there are interactions between β3-adrenoceptor and subtypes of adrenoceptor and angiotensin II receptor, and these interactions may play a protective role in pancreas and improve glucose metabolism disorders.

Objective To describe the revolution and research status of Advances in Psychological Science . Methods A total of 3060 articles published in Advances in Psychological Science from 1983 to 2014 were analyzed with the information visualization method using Citespace software from the aspects of publications, cited frequency and downloads, funding, organizations, authors and keywords. Results The results showed that the amount of literature published annually had an upward tendency, and 49.4% of the papers were supported by national or provincial projects. Institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the normal universities were rated in the forefront of the scientific research output. Xiting Huang, Hong Li and Yuejia Luo were at the top of the list of prolific authors. Conclusions A new pattern of cooperative development of the theory and application in the field of psychological research is forming.

In this paper, we address the issue of enhancing coherence of a state under stochastic strictly incoherent operations. Based on the $l_1$ norm of coherence, we obtain the maximal value of coherence that can be achieved for a state undergoing a stochastic strictly incoherent operation and the maximal probability of obtaining the maximal coherence. Our findings indicate that a pure state can be transformed into a maximally coherent state under a stochastic strictly incoherent operation if and only if all the components of the pure state are nonzero while a mixed state can never be transformed into a maximally coherent state under a stochastic strictly incoherent operation., Comment: 7 pages

Hyperlipidemia can be harmful to the lung and β3-adrenoceptor agonist can improve lipid metabolism disorders. In this study, we aim to investigate the effects of β3-adrenoceptor activation on the interactions of adrenoceptors and angiotensin II receptors in aged apolipoprotein E gene knockout (ApoE(-/-)) mouse lung. Ten wild type C57BL/6J mice were included as normal control, 40 ApoE(-/-) mice were randomly divided into hyperlipidemia model (saline), low dose and high dose β3-adrenoceptor agonist and β3-adrenoceptor antagonist groups. After 26 weeks of high-fat diet, treatments were given for 12 weeks. Total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were examined by an automatic biochemical analyzer. Quantitative real-time PCR and Western blot were used to analyze the mRNA and protein expression of α1A-, α1B-, α2A-, β1-, β2-, β3-adrenoceptors and angiotensin II type 1 and type 2 receptors in lung. We found that β3-adrenoceptor agonist could decrease TG, TC and LDL-C in aged ApoE(-/-) mice (P

The key mechanism which enables two-qubit operations of a hybrid quantum processing unit for hybrid quantum computing is demonstrated. A scheme which realizes a disguised switch for two-qubit gating is proposed, combining external magnetic field control, quantum dot sample tuning, and assisted laser control. Our methods overcome the limitation of asynchrony between single-qubit operations of respective solid-state qubits and improve the efficiency of single-qubit gating.

An efficient linear elastic iterative finite element method, namely, the elastic modulus reduction method is introduced to calculate limit load of frame structure. The elastic modulus reduction method defines the element bearing ratio on the basis of the generalized yield criterion and the strain energy equilibrium principle. Because the bending moment is the main factor inducing the frame structure damage, the element bearing ratio only considering the bending moment yield is proposed. Numerical examples demonstrate the applicability and precision of the elastic modulus reduction method for limit analysis of frame structures.

It is clear that activated β3-adrenoceptor can improve disorders of lipid metabolism, however there are few reports concerning the anti-atherosclerotic effects of β3-adrenoceptor in the artery of apolipoprotein E knockout (Apoe−/−) mice. In the present study, we aimed at investigating the effects of β3-adrenoceptor on lipids, atherosclerosis plaques, scavenger receptor class B type 1 and its signal transduction in Apoe−/− mice. Ten C57BL/6J mice were used as a control, and fifty age-matched Apoe−/− mice were randomly divided into five groups: atherosclerotic model (saline), positive control (atorvastatin), low-dose β3-adrenoceptor agonist, high-dose β3-adrenoceptor agonist and β3-adrenoceptor antagonist groups. After 26 weeks on the high-fat diet, the mice received the above treatments for 12 weeks. Thoracic aortas, serum lipids, SR-B1, P-MeK1/2, P-ErK1/2 and protein kinase Cα(PKCα) activity were detected. We found that the levels of serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, very low-density lipoprotein/low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and the area of atherosclerotic plaques were significantly decreased in β3-adrenoceptor agonist-treated mice (P

To examine the effects of β3-adrenoceptor (β3-AR) activation on atherosclerotic plaque development in ApoE(-/-) mice.Thirty six week-old male ApoE(-/-) mice on a high-fat diet were treated with atorvastatin (10 mg·kg(-1)·d(-1), po), BRL37344 (β3-AR agonist, 1.65 or 3.30 μg/kg, ip, twice a week) or SR52390A (β3-AR antagonist, 50 μg/kg, ip, twice a week) for 12 weeks. Wild-type C57BL/6J mice receiving a normal diet were taken as healthy controls. At the end of the treatments, serum levels of triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (nHDL-C), glucose and insulin were measured. The thoracic aortas were dissected out, the area of atherosclerotic plaques and extent of fibrosis in the plaques were examined using HE and Masson's trichome staining, respectively.Compared to wild-type mice, ApoE(-/-) mice fed on a high-fat diet exhibited prominent hyperlipidemia and insulin resistance, associated with large area of atherosclerotic plaques and great extent of fibrosis in aortas. Atorvastatin significantly decreased the serum levels of TC and nHDL-C, and reduced the plaque area and collagen content in aortas. BRL37344 significantly decreased the serum levels of TG, TC, nHDL-C, glucose and insulin, and increased HDL-C and the insulin sensitivity, and dose-dependently reduced the plaque area and collagen content in aortas. SR52390A treatment did not affect any parameters studied.The β3-AR agonist impedes the progression of atherosclerosis in ApoE(-/-) mice, through improvement of the lipid and glucose profiles.

The effects of water-potassium interaction on stalk structure and function of high-yield summer maize were studied in the waterproof cultivation pools with Zhengdan 958 (ZD958) as the experimental material. The results showed that the quantity of bleeding sap in stalk was significantly improved by irrigation. Potassium (K) application could reduce the influence of drought stress on the quantity of bleeding sap in stalk to a certain extent. The quantity of bleeding sap in stalks during different growth periods were significantly improved in the treatment of 2250 m³ · hm⁻²2 irrigation amount with K application. The stalk rind penetration strength and stem diameter were significantly improved by water-potassium interactions. Under the irrigation amount of 2250 m³ · hm⁻², the stalk rind penetration strength and stem diameter with K application were respectively increased by 46.0% and 36.4% compared with no K application. Under K application, the stalk rind penetration strength and stem diameter in the irrigation amount 2250 m³ · hm⁻² were respectively increased by 30.7% and 8.6% compared with 450 m³ · hm⁻². The number, area of vascular bundle and the thickness of thick-walled cell, cortex and rind, were significantly improved by the irrigation amount 2250 m³ · hm⁻² with K application. In conclusion, application of 180 kg K₂O · hm⁻² and increasing the irrigation amount properly could increase the lodging resistance and yield of summer maize in this field experiment condition.

Objective In China, elderly make up a large proportion of the society, but their mental health is often overlooked. The aim of this study is to compare mental health and related influencing factors among the empty-nest and the non-empty-nest elderly, and attain the purpose of improving their quality of life. Study design Cross-sectional survey. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 488 elderly people aged 60–92 years in six districts of Taiyuan, China. A demographic questionnaire and SCL-90-R were employed to collect demographic variables and evaluate mental health, respectively. Multiple regression analysis was performed to estimate factors related to mental health of the elderly. Results The empty-nest elderly were mostly male, married, higher education level, higher income and living in urban areas. The scores of SCL-90-R among the empty-nest elderly were lower than those of the non-empty-nest elderly except for psychoticism. Comparing with scores of national norms, some dimension of SCL-90-R had statistically significant differences. Multiple regression analysis showed that the main risk factors of the empty-nest elderly were gender and income, whereas the main risk factor of the non-empty-nest elderly was chronic diseases. Conclusion The mental health status of the empty-nest elderly was better than that of the non-empty-nest elderly. Overall mental health of the study population was at a high level compared with national norms. The elderly who were male, with younger age, having higher income, and without chronic diseases had better mental health status.

Series of a-Si:H/a-SiNx multilayers were prepared by very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system. As-deposited samples were thermally annealed at the various temperatures. The effects of thermal annealing on the properties of luminescence were investigated. The photoluminescence intensity of the film annealed at 600 °C is found to be higher than that of the film without annealing. However, with further increasing the annealing temperature from 600 °C to 800 °C, the photoluminescence intensity of the film rapidly decreases. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman-scattering spectroscopy were used to study the changes of the microstructures and bonding configurations. Based on the measurements of structural and bonding configurations, the improved photoluminescence intensity is attributed to the forming of radiative defect states caused by the effusion of hydrogen in the films.

The N-rich a-SiNx:H films were deposited on Si substrates by very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique at a low temperature of 250 °C. Strong blue photoluminescence (PL), which originates from nitrogen dangling bond, can be observed in the as-deposited samples. The dependence of defect PL on annealing temperature was systematically investigated. The PL spectra reveal that the PL peak is almost independent of the annealing temperatures while the luminescence intensity rapidly decreases with the annealing temperature increasing from 400°C to 600°C. However, higher annealing temperatures over 700 °C results in an enhancement of luminescence intensity. Based on the relationship between PL spectra and bonding configurations of the samples, the evolution of defect PL with annealing temperatures was briefly discussed.

Stack nanocrystalline-Si (nc-Si) based metal insulator semiconductor memory structure was fabricated by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The doubly stacked layers of nc-Si with the thickness of about 5 nm were fabricated by the layer-by-layer deposition technique with silane and hydrogen mixture gas. Capacitance-Voltage (C-V) measurements were used to investigate electron tunnel and storage characteristic. Abnormal capacitance hysteresis phenomena are obtained. The C-V results show that the flatband voltage increases at first, then decreases and finally increases, exhibiting a clear deep at gate voltage of 9 V. The charge transfer effect model was put forward to explain the electron storage and discharging mechanism of the stacked nc-Si based memory structure. The decreasing of flatband voltage at moderate programming bias is attributed to the transfer of electrons from the lower nc-Si layer to the upper nc-Si layer.

In recent years, hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) film has received much attention due to its potential application in various optoelectronic devices. In the present work, nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) films were fabricated from SiH4 diluted with H2 in very high frequency (40.68 MHz) plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system. The influence of radio frequency (rf) power on the structural properties of nanocrystalline silicon films has been studied. Raman spectra show that the crystallinity of the nc-Si films can be increased by promoting the rf power. But over high rf power leads to the structural deterioration of nc-Si:H film. AFM images manifest that, with the increase of deposition time, the grain size becomes larger accompanied by the decrease of the number density.

Since the visible photoluminescence (PL) in porous Si was observed by Canham, much attention has been paid to the light emission from silicon-based materials. In this work, luminescent amorphous silicon nitride films were prepared by very-high-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique using ammonia, silane and hydrogen as source gases at a low temperature of 50 °C. It is found that the films exhibit strong visible light emissions with ranging from green to red region. Photoluminescence spectra show that the emission peaks as well as intensity strongly depends on the flow rates of ammonia. Combining with the analyses of Fourier transform infrared absorption spectra and the transmission spectra, it is suggested that the light emissions are originated from the radiative recombination in the band-tail states of amorphous silicon nitride.

Applied nano-ZnFe2O4/TiO2 photocatlytic films are prepared by template sol-gel method on porous haydites. The effects of ZnFe2O4-doping on TiO2 crystallization, sintering temperature, light absorption and photocatalysis are mainly studied, simultaneously, effect of template, amphiphilic block copolymer P(styrene-b-acrylic acid) (PS-b-PAA) on the phtocatalytic activity of ZnFe2O4/TiO2 films are also studied. The results show that right amount of ZnFe2O4-doping reduces TiO2 sintering temperature and particle size, and increases TiO2 absorbency in ultraviolet region, and a right amount of template (PS-b-PAA) forms orient arranged ZnFe2O4/TiO2 films with the high photocatalytic activity and decomposes fully methyl orange in water after light irradiating 2h.

A new method to improve the water-resistance of magnesium oxychloride composites (MOCs), with the addition of nano rice-husk ash (RHA), was studied. The related properties of samples were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Brunauer Emmett and Teller (BET). The phase composition of MOCs was determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The water-resistance of MOCs was estimated by calculating softening coefficients. The experiments show that the particles size of nano RHA prepared is about 50nm, and the SiO2content is 92.30 %; a suitable amount of nano RHA to MOCs obviously increases the water-resistance without reducing the bending strength of MOCs, and increases the softening coefficient from 0.29 to 0.78.

The nc-Ge/a-Si multilayer structures were fabricated by ion beam sputtering technique on silicon substrates at temperature of 400 °C. Raman scattering spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and room temperature photoluminescence were used to characterize the structure and optical property of the samples. It was found that the nc-Ge/a-Si multilayer sample can be obtained when the Ge sublayer is 3 nm. The room temperature photoluminescence was observed and the luminescent peak is located at 685 nm. Compared with the a-Ge/a-Si film, the intensity of PL of the nc-Ge/a-Si multilayer film becomes stronger due to the higher volume fraction of crystallized component.

Background: This study screened children in Beijing, China, in order to establish the validity of a Mandarin Chinese translation of the ASSQ. Methods: We recruited children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) (DSM-IV diagnoses made independently by two senior psychiatrists) and unaffected children attending a public school in Beijing. Their parents were asked to complete the CH-ASSQ. Results: Data from the parents of 94 children with ASD (mean age: 81 ± 47 months), 45 with ADHD (106 ± 27 months), 26 with COS (166 ± 36 months), and 120 unaffected control (72 ± 16 months) were collected. The total scores of ASSQ in children with ASD, ADHD, COS, and unaffected controls were 25.3 ± 9.2, 10.4 ± 7.1, 12.2 ± 10.6, and 5.2 ± 6.6 respectively. Total ASSQ scores of children with ASD were significantly higher than in any other group (all p < .0001). ROC analysis of ASD versus unaffected control subjects showed the area under curve was 0.957, with a cutoff of 12 having the maximum sensitivity (0.957) and specificity (0.825). Conclusions: Our pilot data suggest that CH-ASSQ successfully differentiates clinically diagnosed ASD patients from unaffected controls, as well as from patients with ADHD and COS. The instrument might therefore be useful for screening for ASD in urban Mandarin Chinese-speaking populations.

Microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) film deposited on silicon oxide in a very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition with highly H2 dilution of SiH4 has been investigated by Raman spectroscopy and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Raman spectroscopy results show that the crystalline volume fraction increases with increasing the hydrogen flow rate and for the hydrogen flow rate of 160 sccm, the crystalline volume fraction reaches to 67.5%. Nearly parallel columnar structures with complex microstructure are found from cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy images of the film. The temperature depend dark conductivity and activation energy are studied in order to investigate the electronic transport processes in the nc-Si films.

Silicon oxynitride films were deposited in very-high-frequency (40.68 MHz) plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (VHF-PECVD), and subsequently annealed between 400 and 1200°C in N2 ambient. The effect of annealing temperature on the PL characteristics of the samples was investigated. The experimental results reveal that a broad PL peak around 430 nm (2.88eV) appears in all of the samples. The maximum intensity of this broad PL peak was obtained in the sample annealed at 400°C. The PL characteristics of the annealed samples were discussed.

Nanocrystalline silicon films have been fabricated from SiH4 diluted with H2 in very high frequency (40.68 MHz) plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system at low temperatures (250oC). The influence of pressure on the structural properties of nanocrystalline silicon films has been investigated. The experimental results reveal that a very high hydrogen dilution is needed to crystallize the film grown at high pressure. If the hydrogen dilution is not high enough, the film could also be crystallized through lowering the pressure. Furthermore, the crystallinity and grain size increase with decreasing the pressure. These results could be attributed to the increase of ion bombardment energy and the higher atomic hydrogen flux toward the growing film surface at lower pressures.

We propose a scheme to implement quantum state transfer between two distant quantum nodes via a hybrid solid–optomechanical interface. The quantum state is encoded on the native superconducting qubit, and transferred to the microwave photon, then the optical photon successively, which afterwards is transmitted to the remote node by cavity leaking, and finally the quantum state is transferred to the remote superconducting qubit. The high efficiency of the state transfer is achieved by controllable Gaussian pulses sequence and numerically demonstrated with theoretically feasible parameters. Our scheme has the potential to implement unified quantum computing–communication–computing, and high fidelity of the microwave–optics–microwave transfer process of the quantum state.

We propose a spin- 1 2 approximation method to study the quantum entanglement of two-component Bose–Einstein condensates trapped in double wells. This approximation is demonstrated to be valid under the stationary tunneling condition and for odd particle numbers of each component. The contours of entanglement with respect to tunneling rate and time are found to be hyperbolic-like. Strong and long time sustained entanglement can be achieved, with the maximal entanglement occurring at tunneling times t ≈ κ Ω 2 ( π 2 + k π ) .

An actinomycete, strain K55T, was isolated from a composite soil sample from a nickel mine, collected from Yueyang, Shaanxi Province, PR China. Strain K55T showed 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of 98.73 %–98.51 % to species of the genus Micromonospora, including Micromonospora haikouensis 232617T, Micromonospora coxensis 2-30-b(28)T, Micromonospora wenchangensis 2602GPT1-05T, Micromonospora matsumotoense IMSNU 22003T, Micromonospora maoerensis NEAU-MES19T, and Micromonospora humi P0402T. This strain harboured meso-diaminopimelic acid, alanine and glycine as the major cell-wall amino acids, xylose and glucose as the characteristic whole-cell sugars, and iso-C15 : 0 (20.53 %),iso-C17 : 0 (12.74 %), iso-C16 : 0 (12.15 %), anteiso-C17 : 0 (7.97 %), C17 : 1ω8c (7.49 %) and C17 : 0 (6.63 %) as the dominant fatty acids. The major menaquinones were MK-10(H4) and MK-10(H6). The phospholipid profile comprised phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol and unknown phosphoglycolipids. The DNA G+C content was 71.4 mol%. A comprehensive analysis of several physiological and biochemical traits and DNA–DNA relatedness indicated that strain K55T was different from closely related species. These phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic data suggest that strain K55T represents a novel species of the genus Micromonospora, for which the name Micromonospora nickelidurans sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is K55T ( = JCM 30559T = ACCC19713T).