384 research outputs found

    Framework to Guide Rail type Adhesive Lifting Scaffolding in the Design and Application of High-rise Residential Buildings

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    As to combine with specific engineering practice, this paper presents a framework to guide rail type adhesive lifting scaffolding in high-rise residential building design and constructions well as changed the traditional characteristics of steel pipe scaffold by using new standard truss and scaffold board design All the connecting parts are connected by bolt, using electric wrench to install, and implementing the overall tools, systematic design and installation. Engineering practice proved that the frame rail type adhesive lifting scaffold can not only speed up the construction progress, control costs and improve economic efficiency, but also be popularized in similar engineering

    Experimental and numerical investigation of the dynamics of a coalesced oscillating bubble near a free surface

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    Understanding the dynamics of oscillating bubbles beneath a free surface is crucial to many practical applications including airgun-bubble clusters, underwater explosions, etc. In this paper, an experimental and numerical study of the dynamic behaviors of a coalesced bubble near a free surface is conducted, which shows quite different physical features from single bubble dynamics. Firstly, two similar sized underwater discharge bubbles are generated simultaneously beneath a free surface and their complex interactions are experimentally studied with high-speed photography imaging. A strong interaction between two bubbles and the subsequent coalescence are observed when the initial distance between two bubbles is smaller than the maximum equivalent bubble radius. Secondly, both axisymmetric and three-dimensional (3D) boundary integral models are used to simulate the pre-coalescence and post-coalescence of two bubbles. The results obtained by the two models agree well in axisymmetric conditions. The essential physical phenomena in representative experiments are well reproduced by the present 3D model. The pressure field is calculated by the auxiliary function method, which helps to reveal the underlying mechanisms of bubble collapse patterns and jetting behaviors. A parametric study reveals the dependence of the coalesced bubble dynamics and free surface motion on the governing dimensionless quantities

    Graph based Label Enhancement for Multi-instance Multi-label learning

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    Multi-instance multi-label (MIML) learning is widely applicated in numerous domains, such as the image classification where one image contains multiple instances correlated with multiple logic labels simultaneously. The related labels in existing MIML are all assumed as logical labels with equal significance. However, in practical applications in MIML, significance of each label for multiple instances per bag (such as an image) is significant different. Ignoring labeling significance will greatly lose the semantic information of the object, so that MIML is not applicable in complex scenes with a poor learning performance. To this end, this paper proposed a novel MIML framework based on graph label enhancement, namely GLEMIML, to improve the classification performance of MIML by leveraging label significance. GLEMIML first recognizes the correlations among instances by establishing the graph and then migrates the implicit information mined from the feature space to the label space via nonlinear mapping, thus recovering the label significance. Finally, GLEMIML is trained on the enhanced data through matching and interaction mechanisms. GLEMIML (AvgRank: 1.44) can effectively improve the performance of MIML by mining the label distribution mechanism and show better results than the SOTA method (AvgRank: 2.92) on multiple benchmark datasets.Comment: 7 pages,2 figure

    Empowering Low-Light Image Enhancer through Customized Learnable Priors

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    Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in enhancing low-light images by improving their brightness and eliminating noise. However, most existing methods construct end-to-end mapping networks heuristically, neglecting the intrinsic prior of image enhancement task and lacking transparency and interpretability. Although some unfolding solutions have been proposed to relieve these issues, they rely on proximal operator networks that deliver ambiguous and implicit priors. In this work, we propose a paradigm for low-light image enhancement that explores the potential of customized learnable priors to improve the transparency of the deep unfolding paradigm. Motivated by the powerful feature representation capability of Masked Autoencoder (MAE), we customize MAE-based illumination and noise priors and redevelop them from two perspectives: 1) \textbf{structure flow}: we train the MAE from a normal-light image to its illumination properties and then embed it into the proximal operator design of the unfolding architecture; and m2) \textbf{optimization flow}: we train MAE from a normal-light image to its gradient representation and then employ it as a regularization term to constrain noise in the model output. These designs improve the interpretability and representation capability of the model.Extensive experiments on multiple low-light image enhancement datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed paradigm over state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/zheng980629/CUE.Comment: Accepted by ICCV 202

    The X(3960)X(3960), X0(4140)X_0(4140), and other cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} compact states

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    We study the spectrum and rearrangement decays of S-wave cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} tetraquark states in a simplified quark model. The masses and widths are estimated by assuming that the X(4140)X(4140) is the lower 1++1^{++} cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} tetraquark. Comparing our results with experimental measurements, we find that the recently observed X(3960)X(3960) by LHCb can be assigned as the lowest 0++0^{++} cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} tetraquark state and the X0(4140)X_0(4140) could be the second lowest 0++0^{++} cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} tetraquark. Predictions of ratios between partial widths for the involved tetraquarks are given. We call for searches for more cscˉsˉcs\bar{c}\bar{s} tetraquarks with JPC=1+−J^{PC}=1^{+-}, 0++0^{++}, and 2++2^{++}

    Gut microbiota-derived endotoxin enhanced the incidence of cardia bifida during cardiogenesis

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    Background: Cytotoxicity and inflammation-associated toxic responses could be induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in vitro and in vivo respectively. However, the mechanism involved in LPS-induced cardiac malformation in prenatal fetus is still unknown. Methods and results: In this study, we demonstrated that LPS was induced in gut microbiota imbalance mice, and next, LPS exposure during gastrulation in the chick embryo increased the incidence of cardia bifida. Gene transfection and tissue transplantation trajectory indicated that LPS exposure restricted the cell migration of cardiac progenitors to primary heart field in gastrula chick embryos. In vitro explant allograft of GFP-labeled anterior primitive streak demonstrated that LPS treatments could inhibit cell migration. A similar observation was also obtained from the cell migration assay of scratch wounds using primary culture of cardiomyocytes or H9c2 cells. In the embryos exposed to LPS, expressions of Nkx2.5 and GATA5 were disturbed. These genes are associated with cardiomyocyte differentiation when heart tube fusion occurs. Furthermore, pHIS3, C-caspase3 immunohistological staining indicated that cell proliferation decreased, cell apoptosis increased in the heart tube of chick embryo. Meanwhile, in vivo, pHIS3 immunohistological staining and Hochest/PI staining also draw the similar conclusions. The LPS exposure also caused the production of excess ROS, which might damage the cardiac precursor cells of developing embryos. At last, we showed that LPS-induced cardia bifida could be partially rescued through the addition of antioxidants. Conclusions: Together, these results reveal that excess ROS generation is involved in the LPS-induced defects in heart tube during chick embryo development. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserve

    The immunomodulatory functions and molecular mechanism of a new bursal heptapeptide (BP7) in immune responses and immature B cells

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    International audienceAbstractThe bursa of Fabricius (BF) is the acknowledged central humoural immune organ unique to birds and plays a vital role in B lymphocyte development. In addition, the unique molecular immune features of bursal-derived biological peptides involved in B cell development are rarely reported. In this paper, a novel bursal heptapeptide (BP7) with the sequence GGCDGAA was isolated from the BF and was shown to enhance the monoclonal antibody production of a hybridoma. A mouse immunization experiment showed that mice immunized with an AIV antigen and BP7 produced strong antibody responses and cell-mediated immune responses. Additionally, BP7 stimulated increased mRNA levels of sIgM in immature mouse WEHI-231 B cells. Gene microarray results confirmed that BP7 regulated 2465 differentially expressed genes in BP7-treated WEHI-231 cells and induced 13 signalling pathways and various immune-related functional processes. Furthermore, we found that BP7 stimulated WEHI-231 cell autophagy and AMPK-ULK1 phosphorylation and regulated Bcl-2 protein expression. Finally, chicken immunization showed that BP7 enhanced the potential antibody and cytokine responses to the AIV antigen. These results suggested that BP7 might be an active biological factor that functions as a potential immunopotentiator, which provided some novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of the effects of bursal peptides on immune functions and B cell differentiation

    A three-dimensional modeling for coalescence of multiple cavitation bubbles near a rigid wall

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    The Boundary Integral Method (BIM) has been widely and successfully applied to cavitation bubble dynamics; however, the physical complexities involved in the coalescence of multiple bubbles are still challenging for numerical modeling. In this study, an improved three-dimensional (3D) BIM model is developed to simulate the coalescence of multiple cavitation bubbles near a rigid wall, including an extreme situation when cavitation bubbles are in contact with the rigid wall. As the first highlight of the present model, a universal topological treatment for arbitrary coalescence is proposed for 3D cases, combined with a density potential method and an adaptive remesh scheme to maintain a stable and high-accuracy calculation. Modeling for the multiple bubbles attached to the rigid boundary is the second challenging task of the present study. The effects of the rigid wall are modeled using the method of image; thus, the boundary value problem is transformed to the coalescence of real bubbles and their images across the boundary. Additionally, the numerical difficulties associated with the splitting of a toroidal bubble and self-coalescence due to the self-film-thinning process of a coalesced bubble are successfully overcome. The present 3D model is verified through convergence studies and further validated by the purposely conducted experiments. Finally, representative simulations are carried out to elucidate the main features of a coalesced bubble near a rigid boundary and the flow fields are provided to reveal the underlying physical mechanisms
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