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Supplemental material, Supporting information, for Setosphaerine A: A New Chlorinated Polyketide Isolated From the Entomogenous Fungus Setosphaeria rostrata by Wen-Bin Gao, Sha-Sha Liu, Ying-Chao Tian, Qian Dong, Jun Zhang, Jian-Chun Qin, and Du-Qiang Luo in Natural Product Communications

The effects of different time-independent and time-dependent couplings on two-atom entanglement are studied. The results show that the effects depend on the initial state. For the initial state |ee0, it is found that different time-independent couplings make the case without entanglement exhibit entanglement, and time-dependent couplings turn the irregular entanglement regions into regular one. Under the case of decay, for the initial state |eg0, the different time-dependent couplings have disbenefit.

Recently, extensive research has identified the non-invasive and cost-effective biomarker microRNA-106 (miR-106) in cancer detection. However, inconsistent results have prevented its usage in clinical. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis aimed to systematically determine diagnostic accuracy of miR-106 in distinguishing patients with cancer from cancer-free controls and further evaluate its value serving as a biomarker in clinical. We conducted a systematically literature search in databases (PubMed, web of science, Embase and the Cochrane Library) collecting relevant articles up to July 22th, 2014. The overall diagnostic accuracy of miR-106 was assessed by the following indexes: sensitivity, specificity, PLR, NLR and DOR. The SROC curve with AUC value was also generated for the assessment. Due to the significant heterogeneity, the random effects approach was chosen in our analysis and meta-regression was performed to explore the potential source of it. We also tested potential presence of publication bias using Deeks' funnel plots test. Stata 12.0 statistical software was used for analysis in the present study. Overall, the 11 studies involving 756 cancer patients and 834 controls were considered eligible in our analysis. The results in our work showed that sensitivity of 0.57 (95% CI: 0.44-0.68) and specificity of 0.85 (95% CI: 0.72-0.92), with the under area AUC value of 0.75 (95% CI: 0.71-0.79) for miR-106 assay. Additionally, the combined PLR, NLR and DOR describing the discriminatory ability were 3.7 (95% CI: 2.2-6.2), 0.51 (95% CI: 0.42-0.62) and 7 (95% CI: 4-12) in the present analysis. The results in our meta-analysis showed that miR-106 had moderate accuracy in identifying cancer patients. Thus, further larger-scale prospective studies are needed to improve the diagnostic efficiency and explore the combination of miR-106 and other biomarkers with more pronounced accuracy.

Purpose: In order to explore the feasibility and efficacy of acupoint-injecting method for marrow inhibition caused by chemical medications.Methods: 110 cases of malignant tumors in the phase of marrow inhibition after arterial chemotherapy were treated by puncturing the acupoints, Zusanli (ST 36), Sanyinjiao (SP 6), Xuehai (SP 10) and Qihai (CV 6) plus injection of 5 mg dexamethasone.Results: Acupuncture treatment and acupuncture plus injection of medications can both effectively improve marrow inhibition after chemotherapy, and the therapeutic effect was better in the group by acupuncture plus acupoint-injecting method.Conclusion: Acupuncture can effectively stimulate the acute and short-term marrow inhibition caused by chemical medications, and acupuncture plus acupoint-injecting method can effectively shorten the treatment time and the lower hemogram phase of peripheral blood. The combination of two therapeutic methods can have remarkable cooperative effect and reduce the medical expenses.

The structure error, which is not belonged to the kinematical parameters' error, is studied in this paper. According to the characters of the parallel mechanism, a compensation method for structure error is presented. This method can compensate the errors caused by kinematical parameter errors and non-kinematical parameter errors, which are both parts of the structure errors. This method is applied to the iterative compensation for the structure errors caused by the branch chains with prismatic joints in parallel mechanisms. The compensation mathematic model is derived. The structure errors decreased obviously by once iteration of the forward kinematics, and to the higher order by twice. We take this method to simulate the error compensation of a parallel orientation mechanism with 2-degree of freedom (DOF). The simulation result shows that the structure error is reduced to one in hundreds after compensation.

In the present work, the selective preparation of C2H2 in discrete rotational states of the infrared inactive vibrational v mode in its electronic ground state (X1∑g+,v″2=1,J″= 9,11 and 13) is achieved by stimulated Raman excitation. From the UV laser induced fluorescence, A1Au(v′3=←X′∑g+ (v"2=1), the C2H2-C2H2 collisional R-R deactivation rate constants are measured. They are (7.96±1.04)×10-10cm3s-1 for J"= 9, (8.79±0.97)×l0-10cm3s-1 for J"= 11 and (8.76±0.88)×10-10cm3s-1 for J" = 13. The multiquanta R-R energy transfer rcte constants for trdnsitions from the initial pumped level to other different rotational states (v"2= 1, J" = 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15) have been extracted directly.

This paper reports the experimental results on the fluorescence spectra and decay lifetime of 3T2---3A2 vibronic transition of NI2+ : BeAl204 with LIFM. The center wavelength of fluorescence spectra is 1.33u , the bandwidth (FWHM) is 0.14u (1.26 - 1.40u), and the center red-shift of fluorescence spectra in relative to absorption spectra is 0.225u at room temperature (300k). The radiation lifetime is 3T2 band is 198 us.

In this work, the vibrational energy transfer of organic molecule CH2C12 was studied with laser induced fluorescence method for the first time. The activation and deactiva-tion rate constants of modes ν3 and ν3/ν9 of pure CH2C12, as well as the effect of rare gases on the deactivation processes for ν3/ν9, were obtained. The relative propablities of energy transfer from ν3/ν9 vibrational modes of CH2Cl2 to translational degree of freedom were calculated by means of SSH theory for the collision relaxation processes of CH2Cl2-rare gas mixtures. A vibrational energy transfer channel in CH2C12 is also discussed.

In this article, through summarizing experimental data of shock-wave compression for thirty-four metallic elements, we have obtained a generally applicable empirical expression for the reduced Hugoniot curve, which describes the law of shock-wave compressions for metallic elements. In treating these data, the principle of corresponding state was employed. By utilizing the obtained reduced Hugoniot curve and basing on the Debye theory, we have derived a generally applicable equation of state for metallic elements under high pressures. We used this equation of state to calculate the pressure-compression curves for fifteen metallic elements (magnesium, iron, copper, etc). The comparison shows that the calculated values are in good agreement with experimental data.