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When the wind speed is 12.5 m/s, the power is 110 W, the fin height is 31.2 mm, and the fin thickness is 2.3 mm, the rectangular radiator can achieve the best heat dissipation performance.In his "What Is Life?" Schrödinger poses three questions (1) What is the source of order in organisms? (2) How do organisms remain ordered in the face of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? (3) Are new laws of physics required? He answers his first question with his famous "aperiodic solid". He leaves his second and third questions unanswered. I try to show that his first answer is also the answer to his second question. Aperiodic solids such as protein enzymes are "boundary conditions" that constrain the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom in non-equilibrium processes such that thermodynamic work is done. This work propagates and builds structures and controls processes. These constitute his causally efficacious "code script" controlling development. The constrained release of energy also delays the production of entropy that can be exported from cells as it forms. Therefore, cells remain ordered. This answers his second question. However, "What is life?" must also ask about the diachronic evolution of life. Here, the surprising answer to this extended version of Schrödinger's third question is that there are no new entailing laws of physics. No laws at all entail the evolution of ours or any biosphere.In this paper, we consider the stability and various dynamical behaviors of both discrete-time delta modulator (Δ-M) and adaptive Δ-M. The stability constraints and conditions of Δ-M and adaptive Δ-M are derived following the theory of quasi-sliding mode. Furthermore, the periodic behaviors are explored for both the systems with steady-state inputs and certain parameter values. The results derived in this paper are validated using simulated examples which confirms the derived stability conditions and the existence of periodicity.Computer-aided automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays an important role in the diagnosis of diseases such as diabetes, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale feature fusion retinal vessel segmentation model based on U-Net, named MSFFU-Net. The model introduces the inception structure into the multi-scale feature extraction encoder part, and the max-pooling index is applied during the upsampling process in the feature fusion decoder of an improved network. The skip layer connection is used to transfer each set of feature maps generated on the encoder path to the corresponding feature maps on the decoder path. Moreover, a cost-sensitive loss function based on the Dice coefficient and cross-entropy is designed. Four transformations-rotating, mirroring, shifting and cropping-are used as data augmentation strategies, and the CLAHE algorithm is applied to image preprocessing. The proposed framework is tested and trained on DRIVE and STARE, and sensitivity (Sen), specificity (Spe), accuracy (Acc), and area under curve (AUC) are adopted as the evaluation metrics. Detailed comparisons with U-Net model, at last, it verifies the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed model. The Sen of 0.7762 and 0.7721, Spe of 0.9835 and 0.9885, Acc of 0.9694 and 0.9537 and AUC value of 0.9790 and 0.9680 were achieved on DRIVE and STARE databases, respectively. Results are also compared to other state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of other methods and showing its competitive results.Wave-particle duality as the defining characteristic of quantum objects is a typical example of the principle of complementarity. The wave-particle-entanglement (WPE) complementarity, initially developed for two-qubit systems, is an extended form of complementarity that combines wave-particle duality with a previously missing ingredient, quantum entanglement. For two-qubit systems in mixed states, the WPE complementarity was further completed by adding yet another piece that characterizes ignorance, forming the wave-particle-entanglement-ignorance (WPEI) complementarity. buy CH-223191 A general formulation of the WPEI complementarity can not only shed new light on fundamental problems in quantum mechanics, but can also have a wide range of experimental and practical applications in quantum-mechanical settings. The purpose of this study is to establish the WPEI complementarity for general multi-dimensional bipartite systems in pure or mixed states, and extend its range of applications to incorporate hierarchical and infiniterimental investigations on complementarity in infinite-dimensional bipartite systems.Besides Hermitian systems, quantum simulation has become a strong tool to investigate non-Hermitian systems, such as PT-symmetric, anti-PT-symmetric, and pseudo-Hermitian systems. In this work, we theoretically investigate quantum simulation of an anti-P-pseudo-Hermitian two-level system in different dimensional Hilbert spaces. In an arbitrary phase, we find that six dimensions are the minimum to construct the anti-P-pseudo-Hermitian two-level subsystem, and it has a higher success probability than using eight dimensions. We find that the dimensions can be reduced further to four or two when the system is in the anti-PT-symmetric or Hermitian phase, respectively. Both qubit-qudit hybrid and pure-qubit systems are able to realize the simulation, enabling experimental implementations in the near future.We analyze the network of cross-border bank lending connections among countries from 1977 to 2018. The network includes core countries that lend money and peripheral countries that borrow money from core countries. In nowadays highly connected banking network, financial crisis that start from a country can spread to other countries very fast and cause global affects. We use principal component analysis (PCA) to find the influential lending (core) countries in this network over the years and clusters of borrowing (peripheral) countries related to these impactful core countries. We find three clusters of peripheral countries, with some constant and some changing members over time. This can be a sign of changes in the financial or political interactions among countries. The changes in the role of core countries and how these roles get affected by the important financial crisis in the past decades is investigated. Among 31 of core countries, 7 countries have a partially or constantly important role in the network including France, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Germany, Chinese Taipei and Switzerland.