Nanosizedceria (n-CeO2) was synthesized by a facile method in 2-methylimidazolesolution. The characterization results of XRD, N2 adsorption-desorption, Raman and TEM indicate that n-CeO2 shows regular size 10 ± 1 nm, high surface area 130 m2·g−1 oxygen vacancies on the surface. A series CuO/n-CeO2 catalysts (CuCeOX) with different copper loading were prepared for preferential oxidation CO H2-ri...

In this review, recent works on the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide in hydrogen rich gases for fuel cell applications are summarized. H2 is used as a fuel for polymer-electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). It is produced by reforming of natural gas or liquid fuels followed by water gas shift reaction. The produced gas consists of H2, CO, and CO2. In which CO content is around 1%, whi...

Bauschke, Lucet, and Trienis [SIAM Rev., 50 (2008), pp. 115–132] developed the concept of the proximal average of two convex functions. In this work we show the relationship between the proximal average and the Moreau envelope and exploit this relationship to develop stability theory for a generalized proximal average function. This approach allows us to extend the concept of the proximal avera...

Stochastic gradient algorithms estimate the gradient based on only one or a fewsamples and enjoy low computational cost per iteration. They have been widelyused in large-scale optimization problems. However, stochastic gradient algo-rithms are usually slow to converge and achieve sub-linear convergence rates,due to the inherent variance in the gradient computation. To accelerate...

AIMS The term lymphangiosarcoma has largely been abandoned in the current classification of endothelial neoplasms. Recently, a number of lymphatic-associated antibodies have been developed for immunohistochemistry, which frequently stain angiosarcomas, implying lymphatic or mixed lymphatic and blood vascular differentiation is common. The aim was to investigate further lymphatic antigen express...

In this paper, we propose a simple variant of the original stochastic variance reduction gradient (SVRG) [1], where hereafter we refer to as the variance reduced stochastic gradient descent (VR-SGD). Different from the choices of the snapshot point and starting point in SVRG and its proximal variant, Prox-SVRG [2], the two vectors of each epoch in VRSGD are set to the average and last iterate o...

In this issue of Blood, Kang and colleagues describe a molecular signaling network involving Notch, COUP-TFII, and Prox-1, along with other supporting molecules, that regulates the specification and maintenance of lymphatic endothelial cells.

The water drink test is a good tool to evoke dyspeptic symptoms. To what extent these symptoms are related to altered gastric distribution is not clear. Therefore, we determined gastric volumes after a drink test using SPECT. After a baseline scan 20 healthy volunteers (HV) and 18 patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) underwent a drink test (100 mL min(-1)) followed by five scans up to 2 h. D...