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Expansion of global drylands under a warming climate
Global drylands encompassing hyper-arid, arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas cover about 41 percent of the earth's terrestrial surface and are home to more than a third of the world's population. By analyzing observations for 1948–2008 and climate model simulations for 1948–2100, we show that global drylands have expanded in the last sixty years and will continue to expand in the 21st~century. By the end of this century, the world's drylands (under a high greenhouse gas emission scenario) are projected to be 5.8 × 106 km2 (or 10%) larger than in the 1961–1990 climatology. The major expansion of arid regions will occur over southwest North America, the northern fringe of Africa, southern Africa, and Australia, while major expansions of semiarid regions will occur over the north side of the Mediterranean, southern Africa, and North and South America. The global dryland expansions will increase the population affected by water scarcity and land degradations.
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Solar Type J Radio Bursts and the Associated Coronal Loop
The solar type J radio burst is a variant of type III bursts, which are a probe for understanding solar energetic electrons and local electron density. This study investigates a type J burst event on 2017 September 9. We have combined the data from the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imaging and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) to analyze the event. Within 4 minutes several type J bursts with similar morphology occur. Two of them, with clear fundamental and second harmonic bands, are studied in detail. We find a delay of 2 ± 0.5 s between their different harmonic bands. During type J bursts, only one coronal loop brightens significantly at its northern footpoint, in correlation with the continuous injection of erupting jets into the loop. The EUV intensity of the brightening footpoint is correlated with the radio flux at 245 and 410 MHz, with correlation coefficients of 0.2 and 0.4, respectively. These observations suggest that the type J bursts should originate from this coronal loop. By analyzing the electron number density distribution along the coronal loop diagnosed from the EIS data and the time evolution of the plasma frequency calculated from the type J burst, we determine that the velocities of the energetic electrons exciting the two type Js are 0.10 ± 0.02c and 0.12 ± 0.02c. Our results confirm previous studies on type J bursts.
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New First Order Raman-active Modes in Few Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Although the main Raman features of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are well known for the monolayer and bulk, there are important differences exhibited by few layered systems which have not been fully addressed. WSe
2
samples were synthesized and ab-initio calculations carried out. We calculated phonon dispersions and Raman-active modes in layered systems: WSe
2
, MoSe
2
, WS
2
and MoS
2
ranging from monolayers to five-layers and the bulk. First, we confirmed that as the number of layers increase, the E′, E″ and E
2g
modes shift to lower frequencies and the A′
1
and A
1g
modes shift to higher frequencies. Second, new high frequency first order A′
1
and A
1g
modes appear, explaining recently reported experimental data for WSe
2
, MoSe
2
and MoS
2
. Third, splitting of modes around A′
1
and A
1g
is found which explains those observed in MoSe
2
. Finally, exterior and interior layers possess different vibrational frequencies. Therefore, it is now possible to precisely identify few-layered STMD.
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Vocalizations of female frogs contain nonlinear characteristics and individual signatures
Anuran vocalization is sexually dimorphic, with males doing the bulk of vocalizing. Female vocalization is rare and has been observed in a handful of species, including the concave-eared torrent frog (Odorrana tormota). Females O. tormota have been reported to emit moderate-level calls to attract males. In contrast to males, female's vocal signals show no evidence of nonlinear phenomena (NLP). However, with females emitting calls so infrequently that this conclusion must be considered tentative in light of the limited supporting data. The present study was undertaken to test the hypotheses that their vocalizations: 1. may not be purely linear, 2. may contain individual signatures, similar to their male counterparts. We recorded 671 calls from six captive gravid females and found that their vocalizations are as complex as male calls, with numerous calls exhibiting complex upward/downward frequency modulations, and 39% of female calls containing at least one component of the NLP, i.e., subharmonics, deterministic chaos, frequency jump, or biphonation. Furthermore, females in captivity tend to call in bouts throughout the day and night, and the call rate varies hourly with a maximum of >10 calls per minute matching the maximum call rate in males. Similar to males, female vocalizations carry individual signatures, and all sound parameters analyzed differ significantly between individuals. This represents the first report ever showing that vocalizations of female anurans: 1. contain NLP, 2. carry individual signatures. Presence of signatures in both the male and female vocalizations opens up the possibility for males (and females) to distinguish individual frogs in both sexes acoustically, and thus their sound communication ability may be more advanced than previously thought.
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Prediction of the Transit Time of Coronal Mass Ejections with an Ensemble Machine-learning Method
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a kind of violent solar eruptive activity, can exert a significant impact on space weather. When arriving at the Earth, they interact with the geomagnetic field, which can boost the energy supply to the geomagnetic field and may further result in geomagnetic storms, thus having potentially catastrophic effects on human activities. Therefore, accurate forecasting of the transit time of CMEs from the Sun to the Earth is vital for mitigating the relevant losses brought by them. XGBoost, an ensemble model that has better performance in some other fields, is applied to the space weather forecast for the first time. During multiple tests with random data splits, the best mean absolute error (MAE) of ∼5.72 hr was obtained, and in this test, 62% of the test CMEs had absolute arrival time error of less than 5.72 hr. The average MAE over all random tests was ∼10 hr. It indicates that our method has a better predictive potential and baseline. Moreover, we introduce two effective feature importance ranking methods. One is the information gain method, a built-in method of ensemble models. The other is the permutation method. These two methods combine the learning process of the model and its performance to rank the CME features, respectively. Compared with the direct correlation analysis on the sample data set, they can help select the important features that closely match the model. These two methods can assist researchers to process large sample data sets, which often require feature selection in advance.
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A Detailed Temperature Map of the Archetypal Protostellar Shocks in L1157
We present sensitive NH3 (1,1)–(7,7) line images from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array toward successive shocks, which are associated with the blueshifted outflow lobe driven by the compact protobinary system L1157. Within a projection distance of 0.1 pc, our observations not only trace the quiescent and cold gas in the flattened envelope, but also illustrate the complex physical and chemical processes that take place where the high-velocity jet impinges on its surrounding medium. Specifically, the NH3 ortho-to-para ratio is enhanced by a factor of 2–2.5 along the jet path, where the velocity offset between the line peak and the blueshifted wing reaches values as high as 10 km s−1; it also shows a strong spatial correlation with the NH3 column density, which is enhanced to >1016 cm−2 toward the shock cavities. At a linear resolution of 1500 au, our refined temperature map from the seven NH3 lines shows a gradient from the warm B0 eastern cavity wall (>120 K) to the cool cavity B1 and the earlier shock B2 (<80 K), indicating shock heating.
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Carfilzomib–dexamethasone vs bortezomib–dexamethasone in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma by cytogenetic risk in the phase 3 study ENDEAVOR
The randomized phase 3 study ENDEAVOR demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) for carfilzomib and dexamethasone (Kd) vs bortezomib and dexamethasone (Vd) in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM). We conducted a preplanned subgroup analysis of ENDEAVOR to evaluate Kd vs Vd by cytogenetic risk. Of 785 patients with known cytogenetics, 210 (27%) had high-risk cytogenetics (Kd,
n
=97 (25%); Vd,
n
=113 (28%)) and 575 (73%) had standard-risk cytogenetics (Kd,
n
=284 (75%); Vd,
n
=291 (72%)). Median PFS in the high-risk group was 8.8 months for Kd vs 6.0 months for Vd (hazard ratio (HR), 0.65; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.45–0.92;
P
=0.0075). Median PFS in the standard-risk group was not estimable for Kd vs 10.2 months for Vd (HR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.33–0.58;
P
<0.0001). Overall response rates were 72.2% (Kd) vs 58.4% (Vd) in the high-risk group and 79.2% (Kd) vs 66.0% (Vd) in the standard-risk group. In the high-risk group, 15.5% (Kd) vs 4.4% (Vd) achieved a complete response (CR) or better. In the standard-risk group, 13.0% (Kd) vs 7.9% (Vd) achieved ⩾CR. This preplanned subgroup analysis found that Kd was superior to Vd in relapsed or refractory MM, regardless of cytogenetic risk.
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The properties of solar radio spikes with harmonics and the associated EUV brightenings
Solar radio spikes are narrowband, short duration radio bursts. They are excited by the energetic electrons accelerated during small scale magnetic reconnections. Spikes play an important role in diagnosing magnetic reconnections and studying electron accelerations. In this paper, the solar radio spikes observed by the Chashan Solar Observatory (CSO) spectrograph combined with observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are used to study the properties of spikes with harmonics. The CSO data show that the central frequency ratio of the third to the second harmonic is 1.35±0.01\\(1.35 0.01\\) and the third harmonic has a larger absolute and relative bandwidth, but a shorter duration than the second one. By studying the correlation between light curves of the solar radio spike and those of bright points at different Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) passbands, the best associated EUV bright point and passbands are determined. The spike source properties are discussed based on the extrapolated magnetic field around the associated EUV bright point.
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Association Between Age and the 28-Day All-Cause Mortality in Tuberculosis Complicated by Sepsis in ICU Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study Corrigendum
Cui K, Mao Y, Feng S, et al. Infect Drug Resist. 2024;17:1879-1892.
The authors have advised due to an error at the time of figure assembly, Figure 1 on page 1881 is incorrect. The correct Figure 1 is shown below.
Figure 1 Flow chart of participants included in this analysis.
The authors apologize for this error and advise it does not affect the results of the paper.
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