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Vector atomic magnetometers that incorporate electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) allow for precision measurements of magnetic fields that are sensitive to the directionality of the observed field by virtue of fundamental physics. However, a practical methodology of accurately recovering the longitudinal angle of the local field through observations of EIT spectra has not been established. In this work, we address this problem of angle determination with an unsupervised machine learning algorithm utilizing nonlinear dimensionality reduction. The proposed algorithm was developed to interface with spectroscopic measurements from an EIT-based atomic rubidium magnetometer and uses kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) as an unsupervised feature extraction tool. The resulting KPCA features allow each EIT spectrum measurement to be represented by a single coordinate in a new reduced dimensional feature space, thereby streamlining the process of angle determination. A supervised support vector regression (SVR) machine was implemented to model the resulting relationship between the KPCA projections and field direction. If the magnetometer is configured so that the azimuthal angle of the field is defined with a polarization lock, the KPCA-SVR algorithm is capable of predicting the longitudinal angle of the local magnetic field within 1 degree of accuracy and the magnitude of the absolute field with a resolution of 70 nT. The combined scalar and angular sensitivity of this method make the KPCA-enabled EIT magnetometer competitive with conventional vector magnetometry methods.
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We demonstrate that stimulated microwave optical sideband generation using parametric frequency conversion can be utilized as a powerful technique for coherent state detection in atomic physics experiments. The technique has advantages over traditional absorption or polarization rotation-based measurements and enables the isolation of signal photons from probe photons. We outline a theoretical framework that accurately models sideband generation using a density matrix formalism. Using this technique, we demonstrate a novel intrinsic magnetic gradiometer that detects magnetic gradient fields between two spatially separated vapor cells by measuring the frequency of the beat note between sidebands generated within each cell. The sidebands are produced with high efficiency using parametric frequency conversion of a probe beam interacting with ^{87}Rb atoms in a coherent superposition of magnetically sensitive hyperfine ground states. Interference between the sidebands generates a low-frequency beat note whose frequency is determined by the magnetic field gradient between the two vapor cells. In contrast to traditional gradiometers the intermediate step of measuring the magnetic field experienced by the two vapor cells is unnecessary. We show that this technique can be readily implemented in a practical device by demonstrating a compact magnetic gradiometer sensor head with a sensitivity of 25 fT/cm/sqrt[Hz] with a 4.4 cm baseline, while operating in a noisy laboratory environment unshielded from Earth's field.
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The Knl1-Mis12-Ndc80 (KMN) network genes (including KNL, MIS12 and NDC80 complexes) encode a highly conserved network of protein complexes that act in cell mitosis. In recent years, multiple studies revealed that KMN network genes also play a vital role in tumor appearance and growth. However, the role of the KMN gene network in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unknown. In this study, we analyzed the effects of KMN genes expression and clinical phenotype in patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). The expression of KMN network genes and related clinical information was extracted from The Cancer Genome Atlas. The samples were classified into cluster I and II by consistent clustering. We analyzed the gene distribution by principal component analysis, and the potential risk characteristics were analyzed using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator Cox regression algorithm. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to analyze the clinical information. The Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery, Gene MANIA and gene set enrichment analysis were used to analyze function and correlation among genes of the KMN network. The expression levels of nine out of ten KMN genes were significantly up-regulated in LUAD and were associated with poor overall survival (OS). Higher expression of NDC80 and KNL1 was related to low OS in both univariate and multivariate analyses. According to two independent prognostic KMN network genes (KNL1 and NDC80), a risk signature was established to predict the prognosis of patients with LUAD. Additionally, the genes NDC80 and KNL1 were considerably enriched in pathways associated with signaling pathways, biological processes, and the cell cycle. The results indicate that KMN network genes are intimately related to lung adenocarcinoma. KMN network genes are involved in the malignant process of LUAD. Assessment of NDC80 and KNL1 might be helpful for prognostic stratification and treatment strategy development.
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Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/genética , Redes Reguladoras de Genes/genética , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón/genética , Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/patología , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Progresión de la Enfermedad , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Cinetocoros/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patología , Proteínas Asociadas a Microtúbulos/genética , PronósticoRESUMEN
Aberrant DNA modifications affect the tumorigenesis and progression of lung cancer. However, the global methylation status of tumor cells and the heterogeneous methylation status of cells within the same tumor need further study. We used publicly available single-cell RNAseq data to investigate the impact and diversity of global methylation status on lung adenocarcinoma. Clustering cells into subgroups and cell differentiation pseudotime analysis, based on expression profile, demonstrated that the global methylation status was crucial to lung adenocarcinoma function and progression. Hypermethylated tumor cells had increased activity related to the hypoxia response. Hyper- and hypomethylated cells indicated upregulation in pathways involving focal adhesion and cell junctions. Pseudotime analysis showed that cell clusters with unique methylation activities were located at the ends of the putative trajectories, suggesting that DNA methylation and demethylation activities were essential to tumor cell progression. Expression of SPP1 was associated with the global methylation status of tumor cells and with patient prognosis. Our study identified the importance and diversity of global DNA methylation status by analysis at the single-cell level. Our findings provide new information about the global DNA methylation status of tumor cells and suggest new approaches for precision medical treatments for lung adenocarcinoma.
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Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón/patología , Biomarcadores de Tumor/genética , Metilación de ADN , Epigénesis Genética , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patología , Análisis de la Célula Individual/métodos , Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón/genética , Apoptosis , Proliferación Celular , Perfilación de la Expresión Génica , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Células Tumorales CultivadasRESUMEN
Taking the Gramineae species Elytrigia intermedia, Avena sativa, Bromus inermis, Elymus sibiricus, Leymus tianschanicus, Elymus dahuricus, Festuca elata, Agropyron cristatum, and Puccinellia distans at the edge of Cele Oasis in southern Taklimakan Desert as test objects, this paper monitored their fast chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics after 20 minutes adaptation in darkness, compared their photosystem II (PS II) characteristics, and analyzed their adaptability to the local environment. Among the nine Gramineae species, L. tianschanicus and E. dahuricus had markedly higher values of maximum fluorescence yield (F(m)), maximum photochemical efficiency of PS II (F(v)/F(m)), and active reaction centers per cross-section (RC/CS0), but lower values of minimum fluorescence yield (F0), absorption flux per reaction center (ABC/RC), maximal trapping flux per reaction center (TR0/RC), flux of dissipated excitation energy per reaction center (DI0/RC), and initial slope of fluorescence intensity (M0), as compared to F. elata, A. cristatum, and P. distans, whereas E. intermedia, A. sativa, B. inermis, and E. sibiricus had a medium level of the values. These results suggested that all the test pasture species were suffered from the severe environmental conditions of Cele Oasis to some extent, as indicated by the inactivation of PS II reaction center and the depression of electron transport chain. L. tianschanicus and E. dahuricus were least impacted, while F. elata, A. cristatum, and P. distans were most impacted.
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Adaptación Fisiológica/fisiología , Complejo de Proteína del Fotosistema II/fisiología , Poaceae/clasificación , Poaceae/fisiología , China , Clima , Oscuridad , Clima Desértico , Complejo de Proteína del Fotosistema II/metabolismo , Poaceae/metabolismo , Especificidad de la EspecieRESUMEN
We demonstrate a direct resonant interaction between the mechanical motion of a mesoscopic resonator and the spin degrees of freedom of a sample of neutral atoms in the gas phase. This coupling, mediated by a magnetic particle attached to the tip of the miniature mechanical resonator, excites a coherent precession of the atomic spins about a static magnetic field. The novel coupled atom-resonator system may enable development of low-power, high-performance sensors, and enhance research efforts connected with the manipulation of cold atoms, quantum control, and high-resolution microscopy.
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An atom Michelson interferometer is implemented on an "atom chip." The chip uses lithographically patterned conductors and external magnetic fields to produce and guide a Bose-Einstein condensate. Splitting, reflecting, and recombining of condensate atoms are achieved by a standing-wave light field having a wave vector aligned along the atom waveguide. A differential phase shift between the two arms of the interferometer is introduced by either a magnetic-field gradient or with an initial condensate velocity. Interference contrast is still observable at 20% with an atom propagation time of 10 ms.