772 research outputs found
Study on synthetic evaluation of lakes water quality improvement policies in Wuhan City in China
Wuhan City is located in the central part of China, which is an import foothold of the transportation, manufacturing industry, commerce and education in China. Chinese government appointed Wuhan City as a national pilot reform area of resource-saving and environmentally friendly society at the end of 2007. There is a great deal of fresh water resources in Wuhan City, and Wuhan City is known as 'the city with 100 lakes'. However, about 60% of the lake water resources have became seriously polluted in Wuhan City. The most important reason for water degradation of Wuhan City is the imbalance between rapid economic development and the environment load capacity. In this study, we raised synthetic policies to reduce amount of lake water pollutants and realize the harmonious development between regional economy and water environment. In this paper, we focused on three contamination materials (COD, T-N and T-P) and constructed a model from environmental load, socio-economy and water quality improvement policies. We performed optimization simulation based on linear programming to maximize gross regional production (GRP) and reduce environmental load, and finally we suggested proper policies to improve water quality in this area
The Formation History of Subhalos and the Evolution of Satellite Galaxies
Satellites constitute an important fraction of the overall galaxy population
and are believed to form in dark matter subhalos. Here we use the cosmological
hydrodynamic simulation TNG100 to investigate how the formation histories of
subhalos affect the properties and evolution of their host galaxies. We use a
scaled formation time () to characterize the mass assembly
histories of the subhalos before they are accreted by massive host halos. We
find that satellite galaxies in young subhalos (low ) are less
massive and more gas rich, and have stronger star formation and a higher
fraction of ex situ stellar mass than satellites in old subhalos (high ). Furthermore, these low satellites require longer timescales
to be quenched as a population than the high counterparts. We find
very different merger histories between satellites in fast accretion (FA,
) subhalos. For FA
satellites, the galaxy merger frequency dramatically increases just after
accretion, which enhances the star formation at accretion. While, for SA
satellites, the mergers occur smoothly and continuously across the accretion
time. Moreover, mergers with FA satellites happen mainly after accretion, while
a contrary trend is found for SA satellites. Our results provide insight into
the evolution and star formation quenching of the satellite population.Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Frequency-dependent Switching Control for Disturbance Attenuation of Linear Systems
The generalized Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma as established by Iwasaki and
Hara in 2005 marks a milestone in the analysis and synthesis of linear systems
from a finite-frequency perspective. Given a pre-specified frequency band, it
allows us to produce passive controllers with excellent in-band disturbance
attenuation performance at the expense of some of the out-of-band performance.
This paper focuses on control design of linear systems in the presence of
disturbances with non-strictly or non-stationary limited frequency spectrum. We
first propose a class of frequency-dependent excited energy functions (FD-EEF)
as well as frequency-dependent excited power functions (FD-EPF), which possess
a desirable frequency-selectiveness property with regard to the in-band and
out-of-band excited energy as well as excited power of the system. Based upon a
group of frequency-selective passive controllers, we then develop a
frequency-dependent switching control (FDSC) scheme that selects the most
appropriate controller at runtime. We show that our FDSC scheme is capable to
approximate the solid in-band performance while maintaining acceptable
out-of-band performance with regard to global time horizons as well as
localized time horizons. The method is illustrated by a commonly used benchmark
model
Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Resistant and Susceptible Tomato Lines in Response to Infection by Xanthomonas perforans Race T3
Bacterial spot, incited by several Xanthomonas sp., is a serious disease in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Although genetics of resistance has been widely investigated, the interactions between the pathogen and tomato plants remain unclear. In this study, tanscriptomes of X. perforans race T3 infected tomato lines were compared to those of controls. An average of 7 million reads were generated with approximately 21,526 genes mapped in each sample post-inoculation at 6h (6 HPI) and 6d (6 DPI) using RNA-sequencing technology. Overall, the numbers of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were higher in the resistant tomato line PI 114490 than in the susceptible line OH 88119, and the numbers of DEGs were higher at 6 DPI than at 6 HPI. Fewer genes (78 in PI 114490 and 15 in OH 88119) were up-regulated and most DEGs were down-regulated, suggesting that the inducible defense response might not be fully activated at 6 HPI. Accumulation expression levels of 326 co-up regulated genes in both tomato lines at 6 DPI might be involved in basal defense, while the specific and strongly induced genes at 6 DPI might be correlated with the resistance in PI114490. Most DEGs were involved in plant hormone signal transduction, plant-pathogen interaction and phenylalanine metabolism, and the genes significantly up-regulated in PI114490 at 6 DPI were associated with defense response pathways. DEGs containing NBS-LRR domain or defense-related WRKY transcription factors were also identified. The results will provide a valuable resource for understanding the interactions between X. perforans and tomato plants
Cytocompatibility and osteogenesis evaluation of HA/GCPU composite as scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
AbstractPorous scaffolds for bone repair were prepared from newly designed segmented aliphatic polyurethane based on glyceride of castor oil and isophorone diisocyanate. To promote the scaffolds' biological and mechanical properties, hydroxyapatite powder was incorporated into the polymer matrix. The scaffold (named as HA/GCPU) with 40 wt% HA had an average pore size of 500 μm and a compressive strength of 4.6 MPa. The in vitro cell culture studies demonstrated that the HA/GCPU scaffold owned good cytocompatibility. The scaffold and cell-seeded scaffold were implanted in defects (Ф3 mm × 3 mm) of femoral condyle of Sprague–Dawley rats, respectively. New bone could extensively form in both the scaffold and cell-seeded scaffold. It indicates that the HA/GCPU composite scaffold has good prospect for bone repair and regeneration
Point Cloud Upsampling via Cascaded Refinement Network
Point cloud upsampling focuses on generating a dense, uniform and
proximity-to-surface point set. Most previous approaches accomplish these
objectives by carefully designing a single-stage network, which makes it still
challenging to generate a high-fidelity point distribution. Instead, upsampling
point cloud in a coarse-to-fine manner is a decent solution. However, existing
coarse-to-fine upsampling methods require extra training strategies, which are
complicated and time-consuming during the training. In this paper, we propose a
simple yet effective cascaded refinement network, consisting of three
generation stages that have the same network architecture but achieve different
objectives. Specifically, the first two upsampling stages generate the dense
but coarse points progressively, while the last refinement stage further adjust
the coarse points to a better position. To mitigate the learning conflicts
between multiple stages and decrease the difficulty of regressing new points,
we encourage each stage to predict the point offsets with respect to the input
shape. In this manner, the proposed cascaded refinement network can be easily
optimized without extra learning strategies. Moreover, we design a
transformer-based feature extraction module to learn the informative global and
local shape context. In inference phase, we can dynamically adjust the model
efficiency and effectiveness, depending on the available computational
resources. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-scanned datasets
demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the existing
state-of-the-art methods.Comment: The first two authors contributed equally to this work. The code is
publicly available at https://github.com/hikvision-research/3DVision.
Accepted to ACCV 2022 as oral presentatio
Highly Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Suspended Black Arsenic Nanoribbons
Anisotropy, as an exotic degree of freedom, enables us to discover the
emergent two-dimensional (2D) layered nanomaterials with low in-plane symmetry
and to explore their outstanding properties and promising applications. 2D
black arsenic (b-As) with puckered structure has garnered increasing attention
these years owing to its extreme anisotropy with respect to the electrical,
thermal, and optical properties. However, the investigation on mechanical
properties of 2D b-As is still lacking, despite much effort on theoretical
simulations. Herein, we report the highly anisotropic elastic properties of
suspended b-As nanoribbons via atomic force microscope-based nanoindentation.
It was found that the extracted Young's modulus of b-As nanoribbons exhibits
remarkable anisotropy, which approximates to 72.2 +- 5.4 and 44.3 +- 1.4 GPa
along zigzag and armchair directions, respectively. The anisotropic ratio
reaches up to ~ 1.6. We expect that these results could lay a solid foundation
for the potential applications of 2D anisotropic nanomaterials in the
next-generation nanomechanics and optoelectronics.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
The Simulation Analysis of Optimal Policy Including Introduction of Biomass Plant Technology for Decreasing Water Pollutions in Jiaxing City, China
In the study, we proposed the environmental policies to decrease water pollutants that generate from household, non-point and production in Jiaxing city of China. We especially introduced biomass plant technology for pig farming industry in order to improve the water environment. We constructed environmental model and social economic model by computer simulation that evaluated the efficiency of biomass plant technology from both water environmental preservation and social economic development. The research established the significance and feasibility of introducing biomass plant technology that allows simultaneous pursuit of environmental improvement and regional development. The comprehensive evaluation and optimal policies are expected to form the basis of decision-making in Jiaxing city
Endogenous Derivation of Optimal Environmental Policies for Proper Treatment of Stockbreeding Wastes in the Upstream Region of Miyun Reservoir, Beijing
Stockbreeding industries are increasing rapidly in rural areas around big cities in China, especially the rural areas around Beijing. This increase carries high risks to the environment due to emissions of large amounts of pollutants in terms of COD (chemical oxygen demand), T-N (total nitrogen) and T-P (total phosphorus) as well as greenhouse gases to rivers and the atmosphere. On the other hand, stockbreeding wastes are a typical biomass resource and can be used as an energy source by advanced new technologies. In this study, we selected Miyun County of Beijing and focused on analyzing the synthetic environmental management policies by computer simulation including the introduction of two new technologies to improve the environment and provide more biomass energy. The model considered both the total ecological system of the objective region and the social-economic situational changes during a ten year period from 2007 to 2016. The basic aim of this article has been to develop a dynamic liner model, and to verify it through carrying out simulations in order to evaluate the possibility and feasibility to introduce new technologies into rural areas around big cities in China and research the arrangement of the new technologies to realize effective utilization of stockbreeding biomass resource. When we adopted the policy to introduce two new technologies, the policy was a very effective tool to reduce environmental pollutants in all simulations. The introduction of two new technologies raised the level of economic growth by 10% as compared to not adopting the new technologies policy. When the two new technologies were introduced, the objective value (total T-N) showed a reduction of about 13% as compared to not adopting the new technologies. The purpose of our research is to establish effective utilization methods for biomass resources as well as coordinate resource reutilization, environmental preservation and economic development, and finally realize sustainable development of the society
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