Subsolutions and concavity play critical roles in classical solvability, especially
estimates, of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Our first primary goal in this paper is to explore the ...possibility to weaken the concavity condition. The second is to clarify relations between weak notions of subsolution introduced by Székelyhidi and the author, respectively, in attempt to treat equations on closed manifolds. More precisely, we show that these weak notions of subsolutions are equivalent for equations defined on convex cones of type 1 in the sense defined by Caffarelli, Nirenberg and Spruck.
Inflammation is a pathological hallmark associated with bacterial and viral infections, autoimmune diseases, genetic disorders, obesity and diabetes, as well as environmental stresses including ...physical and chemical trauma. Among numerous proteins regulating proinflammatory signaling, very few such as Protein kinase R (PKR), have been shown to play an all‐pervading role in inflammation induced by varied stimuli. PKR was initially characterized as an interferon‐inducible gene activated by viral double‐stranded RNA with a role in protein translation inhibition. However, it has become increasingly clear that PKR is involved in multiple pathways that promote inflammation in response to stress activation, both dependent on and independent of its cellular protein activator of PKR (PACT). In this review, we discuss the signaling pathways that contribute to the initiation of inflammation, including Toll‐like receptor, interferon, and RIG‐I‐like receptor signaling, as well as inflammasome activation. We go on to discuss the specific roles that PKR and PACT play in such proinflammatory signaling, as well as in metabolic syndrome‐ and environmental stress‐induced inflammation.
Inflammation is the body's protective response against injury, infection, and stress. Several cellular proteins play specific roles in the inflammatory response to particular stimuli. Interestingly, some proteins such as protein kinase R (PKR) and the protein activator of PKR (PACT) play diverse roles in mediating the cellular inflammatory response to various stimuli. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the diverse roles of the proteins PKR and PACT in inflammation and their implications in select diseases.
An optimally designed ferrite permanent magnet (PM)-assisted synchronous reluctance machine (PMaSynRM) is presented to demonstrate its feasibility in electric vehicle applications. The Prius ...rare-earth interior PM machine is used as the benchmark, and through theoretical study and experimental testing, it is verified that the optimally designed PMaSynRM can achieve performance very close to that of the benchmark PM machine with much lower costs.
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Conventional ultrafine-grains can generate high strength in Mg alloys, but significant tradeoff of corrosion resistance due to inclusion of a large number of non-equilibrium grain ...boundaries. Herein, an ultrafine-grain structure consisting of dense ultrafine twins is prepared, yielding a high strength up to 469 MPa and decreasing the corrosion rate by one order of magnitude. Generally, the formation of dense ultrafine twins in Mg alloys is rather difficult, but a carefully designed multi-directional compression treatment effectively stimulates twinning nucleation within twins and refines grain size down to 300 nm after 12-passes compressions. Grain-refinement by low-energy twins not only circumvents the detrimental effects of non-equilibrium grain boundaries on corrosion resistance, but also alters both the morphology and distribution of precipitates. Consequently, micro-galvanic corrosion tendency decreases, and severe localized corrosion is suppressed completely. This technique has a high commercial viability as it can be readily implemented in industrial production.
The family of bimetallic oxides, chalcogenides, and pnictides is regarded as a promising and cost-effective oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst compared to noble metals. For practical ...utilizations, lowering the overpotential and improving the stability of electrocatalysts for the OER are highly important. However, the particular roles of active sites and their surrounding moieties in these catalysts, especially in an aqueous system during the reaction (
in situ
working conditions), are still ambiguous. Thanks to the well-developed techniques of X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy based on a synchrotron light source, the local structural transformation of these catalysts can be evidently revealed by
in situ
experiments. Herein, the research on 3d transition metal oxides and chalcogenides used for the OER is enumerated with their corresponding
in situ
characterization and electrochemical (EC) performances. We generalize the universality of phase transition in the catalysts from the pristine/as-prepared structure to the specific active species during the OER and propose a synergistic effect between the active sites and subsidiary sites on the surface of the catalysts.
The family of bimetallic oxides, chalcogenides, and pnictides is regarded as a promising and cost-effective oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst compared to noble metals.
Plasticity of neoplasia, whereby cancer cells attain stem-cell-like properties, is required for disease progression and represents a major therapeutic challenge. We report that in breast cancer cells ...NANOG, SNAIL and NODAL transcripts manifest multiple isoforms characterized by different 5' Untranslated Regions (5'UTRs), whereby translation of a subset of these isoforms is stimulated under hypoxia. The accumulation of the corresponding proteins induces plasticity and "fate-switching" toward stem cell-like phenotypes. Mechanistically, we observe that mTOR inhibitors and chemotherapeutics induce translational activation of a subset of NANOG, SNAIL and NODAL mRNA isoforms akin to hypoxia, engendering stem-cell-like phenotypes. These effects are overcome with drugs that antagonize translational reprogramming caused by eIF2α phosphorylation (e.g. ISRIB), suggesting that the Integrated Stress Response drives breast cancer plasticity. Collectively, our findings reveal a mechanism of induction of plasticity of breast cancer cells and provide a molecular basis for therapeutic strategies aimed at overcoming drug resistance and abrogating metastasis.
For high‐power converters, the low switching frequency (SF) modulation represented by selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHE‐PWM) is crucial to reduce the switching loss and ...enhance the efficiency with a good steady‐state performance. However, since the advantages of SHE‐PWM mainly come from the fixed switching angle distribution limited by non‐linear equations, switching angles should be adjusted slowly. This requires that the bandwidth of proportional integral (PI) controllers be limited hugely, resulting in a poor dynamic response. As the most popular control to improve the dynamic response, finite‐control‐set model predictive control (FCS‐MPC) has a worse steady‐state performance under low SF because of large errors caused by a long prediction period and harmonics caused by space vector PWM (SVPWM). Therefore, a hybrid modulation strategy with an acceptable complexity is proposed in this article, which combines SHE‐PWM and FCS‐MPC. PI + SHE‐PWM is adopted in a steady state with low SF, while MPC + SVPWM is used in a transient state with high SF. By studying smooth switching from the modulation level and control level, the proposed method can eliminate the current surge when switching between PI + SHE‐PWM and MPC + SVPWM. Experiments verify that the proposed method have a good steady‐state performance and high dynamic response simultaneously under overall low SF.
1. Low switching frequency modulation is important for a high‐power voltage source converter. 2. The proposed hybrid modulation with a new smooth switching way can achieve good output performance and high dynamic response.
In multienzymes cascade reaction, the inter‐enzyme spacing is supposed to be a factor affecting the cascade activity. Here, a simple and efficient Y‐shaped DNA scaffold is assembled using two ...partially complementary DNA single strands on magnetic microspheres, which is used to coimmobilize glucose oxidase (GOD) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP). As a result, on poly(vinyl acetate) magnetic microspheres (PVAC), GOD/HRP‐DNA@PVAC multienzyme system is obtained, which can locate GOD and HRP accurately and control the inter‐enzyme distance precisely. The distance between GOD and HRP is regulated by changing the length of DNA strand. It showed that the cascade activity is significantly distance‐dependent. Moreover, the inter‐enzyme spacing is not the closer the better, and too short distance would generate steric hindrance between enzymes. The cascade activity reached the maximum value of 967 U mg−1 at 13.6 nm, which is 3.5 times higher than that of free enzymes. This is ascribed to the formation of substrate channeling.
A simple and efficient Y‐shaped DNA scaffold is assembled on magnetic microspheres to coimmobilize glucose oxidase (GOD) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP). As a result, GOD/HRP‐DNA@PVAC multienzyme system is obtained, which can locate GOD and HRP accurately and control the inter‐enzyme distance precisely. The optimum inter‐enzyme distance is obtained by changing the length of the DNA strand.
Li+-conductive ceramic oxide electrolytes, such as garnet-structured Li7La3Zr2O12, have been considered as promising candidates for realizing the next-generation solid-state Li-metal batteries with ...high energy density. Practically, the ceramic pellets sintered at elevated temperatures are often provided with high stiffness yet low fracture toughness, making them too brittle for the manufacture of thin-film electrolytes and strain-involved operation of solid-state batteries. The ceramic powder, though provided with ductility, does not yield satisfactorily high Li+ conductivity due to poor ion conduction at the boundaries of ceramic particles. Here we show, with solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, that a uniform conjugated polymer nanocoating formed on the surface of ceramic oxide particles builds pathways for Li+ conduction between adjacent particles in the unsintered ceramics. A tape-casted thin-film electrolyte (thickness: <10 μm), prepared from the polymer-coated ceramic particles, exhibits sufficient ionic conductivity, a high Li+ transference number, and a broad electrochemical window to enable stable cycling of symmetric Li/Li cells and all-solid-state rechargeable Li-metal cells.
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