1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene and 1-methoxy-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene undergoes reversible dimerization, after electrochemical reduction of two units of corresponding anion radical. The pi-dimer formed captures molecular oxygen (O(2)) leading to a sigma(o-o)(H)-adduct, in an atmosphere of oxygen or even air. The sigma(o-o)(H)-adduct is able to reversibly bind and remove dioxygen afte...

The $e^+e^-\to\gamma\chi_{cJ}$ ($J=0,1,2$) processes are studied at center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.773 to 4.600 GeV, using a total integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb$^{-1}$ $e^+e^-$ annihilation data accumulated with the BESIII detector BEPCII. We observe for first time $e^+e^-\to\gamma \chi_{c1,c2}$ signals $\sqrt{s}=$ 4.180 GeV statistical significances 7.6$\sigma$ and 6.0$\sigma$, resp...

We consider the conductivity sigma of graphene with negligible intervalley scattering at half filling. We derive the effective field theory, which, for the case of a potential disorder, is a symplectic-class sigma model including a topological term with theta=pi. As a consequence, the system is at a quantum critical point with a universal value of the conductivity of the order of e(2)/h. When t...

We investigate the screening masses of neutral pions and sigma mesons in hot magnetized quark matter framework a two-flavor lattice-improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model with magnetic-field-dependent coupling constant, which is determined by utilizing results from lattice QCD simulations. Since such can well reproduce inverse magnetic catalysis (IMC), comparing standard NJL model, we systemi...

Vacuum ultraviolet/photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence has been demonstrated to be a highly specific and sensitive method for the quantitative measurement of atmospheric ammonia (NH(3)). The fluorescence detected in this approach results from the two 193-nm photon photofragmentation step NH(3)?NH(2)? NH(b(1)Sigma(+)) followed by the excitation of the NH(b(1)Sigma(+)) NH(c(1)Pi) transi...

Many biominerals, including mollusk and echinoderm shells, avian eggshells, modern and fossil bacterial sediments, planktonic coccolithophores, and foraminifera, contain carbonates in the form of biogenic aragonite or calcite. Here we analyze biogenic and geologic aragonite using different kinds of surface- and bulk-sensitive X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy at the carb...

Higher Order Neural Networks (HONN) are characterized with fast learning abilities, stronger approximation, greater storage capacity, higher fault tolerance capability and powerful mapping of single layer trainable weights. Since higher order terms are introduced, they provide nonlinear decision boundaries, hence offering better classification capability as compared to linear neuron. Nature-ins...

The Standard Model (SM) predicts that $\Delta A_{\rm CP}$, the difference between direct CP asymmetries for modes $B^+\to \pi^0 K^+$ and $B^0\to \pi^- are related by weak isospin, should be close to zero. There has been a recent claim LHCb Collaboration measured value of CP}$ shows an uncomfortable tension with SM prediction, almost at $8\sigma$ level. Motivated this claim, we critically re-exa...

The allylic hydrogen is found to have a dramatic effect on the regioselectivity of the Wacker oxidation, leading to the postulation that an agostic hydrogen or enyl (sigma + pi) complex helps to stabilise the key intermediate.

Recent studies have suggested a role for phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase in cell survival, including the survival of neurons. We used rat sympathetic neurons maintained in vitro to characterize the potential survival signals mediated by PI 3-kinase and to test whether the Akt protein kinase, a putative effector of PI 3-kinase, functions during nerve growth factor (NGF)-mediated survival. Two...