324 research outputs found
Fire Performance of Steel Reinforced Concrete (SRC) Structures
AbstractThis paper summarizes some of the recent research published on steel reinforced concrete (SRC) structures under or after exposure to fire. The contents include: 1) Fire resistance and post-fire behavior of SRC columns; 2) Fire performance of SRC column to beam joints, by adopting a loading sequence including initial loading, heating, cooling and post-fire loading; 3) Fire resistance and post-fire behavior of SRC composite frames
Analysis of concrete-filled stainless steel tubular columns under combined fire and loading
[EN] In fire scenarios, concrete-filled stainless steel tubular (CFSST) columns undergo initial loading at ambient temperature, loading during the heating phase as the fire develops, loading during the cooling phase as the fire dies out and continual loading after the fire. CFSST columns may fail some points during this process under combined fire and loading. In this paper, the failure modes and corresponding working mechanism of CFSST columns subjected to an entire loading and fire history are investigated. Sequentially coupled thermal-stress analyses in ABAQUS are employed to establish the temperature field and structural response of the CFSST column. To improve the precision of the finite element (FE) model, the influence of moisture on the thermal conductivity and specific heat of concrete during both the heating and cooling phases is considered using subroutines. Existing fire and post-fire test data of CFSST columns are used to validate the FE models. Comparisons between predicted and test results confirm that the accuracy of the FE models is acceptable; the FE models are then extended to simulate a typical CFSST column subjected to the entire loading and fire history. The behaviour of the CFSST column is explained by analysis of the temperature distribution, load versus axial deformation curves and failure response.The research reported in the paper is part of the Project 51308539 supported by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China. The financial support is highly appreciated.Tan, Q.; Gardner, L.; Han, L.; Song, D. (2018). Analysis of concrete-filled stainless steel tubular columns under combined fire and loading. En Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures. ASCCS 2018. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 825-833. https://doi.org/10.4995/ASCCS2018.2018.7206OCS82583
BotMoE: Twitter Bot Detection with Community-Aware Mixtures of Modal-Specific Experts
Twitter bot detection has become a crucial task in efforts to combat online
misinformation, mitigate election interference, and curb malicious propaganda.
However, advanced Twitter bots often attempt to mimic the characteristics of
genuine users through feature manipulation and disguise themselves to fit in
diverse user communities, posing challenges for existing Twitter bot detection
models. To this end, we propose BotMoE, a Twitter bot detection framework that
jointly utilizes multiple user information modalities (metadata, textual
content, network structure) to improve the detection of deceptive bots.
Furthermore, BotMoE incorporates a community-aware Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
layer to improve domain generalization and adapt to different Twitter
communities. Specifically, BotMoE constructs modal-specific encoders for
metadata features, textual content, and graphical structure, which jointly
model Twitter users from three modal-specific perspectives. We then employ a
community-aware MoE layer to automatically assign users to different
communities and leverage the corresponding expert networks. Finally, user
representations from metadata, text, and graph perspectives are fused with an
expert fusion layer, combining all three modalities while measuring the
consistency of user information. Extensive experiments demonstrate that BotMoE
significantly advances the state-of-the-art on three Twitter bot detection
benchmarks. Studies also confirm that BotMoE captures advanced and evasive
bots, alleviates the reliance on training data, and better generalizes to new
and previously unseen user communities.Comment: Accepted at SIGIR 202
Differences in diversity and community assembly processes between planktonic and benthic diatoms in the upper reach of the Jinsha River, China
Comparing spatio-temporal patterns between planktonic and benthic algae is helpful for understanding their associations and differences. However, such studies are still rare especially in large rivers. We used a dataset collected in the upper reach of the Jinsha River in different seasons to explore biodiversity and assembly processes of planktonic and benthic diatom assemblages. We found that planktonic and benthic diatoms presented different seasonal variation in species richness and community compositions. We also found evidence that planktonic and benthic diatoms were coupled in the summer. Planktonic diatom assemblages were mainly affected by spatial processes via directional spatial dispersal, especially in the summer. By comparison, benthic diatom assemblages were more affected by environmental processes. Our findings suggest that mass effect and species sorting paradigms explain the assembly processes of planktonic and benthic diatom assemblages, respectively, but the explanatory powers of these two paradigms vary seasonally. To effectively monitor and assess ecological conditions of large rivers, we recommend using benthic algae as a biotic indicator group as they had stronger correlations with environmental factors.Peer reviewe
Detecting Spoilers in Movie Reviews with External Movie Knowledge and User Networks
Online movie review platforms are providing crowdsourced feedback for the
film industry and the general public, while spoiler reviews greatly compromise
user experience. Although preliminary research efforts were made to
automatically identify spoilers, they merely focus on the review content
itself, while robust spoiler detection requires putting the review into the
context of facts and knowledge regarding movies, user behavior on film review
platforms, and more. In light of these challenges, we first curate a
large-scale network-based spoiler detection dataset LCS and a comprehensive and
up-to-date movie knowledge base UKM. We then propose MVSD, a novel Multi-View
Spoiler Detection framework that takes into account the external knowledge
about movies and user activities on movie review platforms. Specifically, MVSD
constructs three interconnecting heterogeneous information networks to model
diverse data sources and their multi-view attributes, while we design and
employ a novel heterogeneous graph neural network architecture for spoiler
detection as node-level classification. Extensive experiments demonstrate that
MVSD advances the state-of-the-art on two spoiler detection datasets, while the
introduction of external knowledge and user interactions help ground robust
spoiler detection. Our data and code are available at
https://github.com/Arthur-Heng/Spoiler-DetectionComment: EMNLP 202
HOFA: Twitter Bot Detection with Homophily-Oriented Augmentation and Frequency Adaptive Attention
Twitter bot detection has become an increasingly important and challenging
task to combat online misinformation, facilitate social content moderation, and
safeguard the integrity of social platforms. Though existing graph-based
Twitter bot detection methods achieved state-of-the-art performance, they are
all based on the homophily assumption, which assumes users with the same label
are more likely to be connected, making it easy for Twitter bots to disguise
themselves by following a large number of genuine users. To address this issue,
we proposed HOFA, a novel graph-based Twitter bot detection framework that
combats the heterophilous disguise challenge with a homophily-oriented graph
augmentation module (Homo-Aug) and a frequency adaptive attention module
(FaAt). Specifically, the Homo-Aug extracts user representations and computes a
k-NN graph using an MLP and improves Twitter's homophily by injecting the k-NN
graph. For the FaAt, we propose an attention mechanism that adaptively serves
as a low-pass filter along a homophilic edge and a high-pass filter along a
heterophilic edge, preventing user features from being over-smoothed by their
neighborhood. We also introduce a weight guidance loss to guide the frequency
adaptive attention module. Our experiments demonstrate that HOFA achieves
state-of-the-art performance on three widely-acknowledged Twitter bot detection
benchmarks, which significantly outperforms vanilla graph-based bot detection
techniques and strong heterophilic baselines. Furthermore, extensive studies
confirm the effectiveness of our Homo-Aug and FaAt module, and HOFA's ability
to demystify the heterophilous disguise challenge.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Three new shuttle vectors for heterologous expression in Zymomonas mobilis
Background: Zymomonas mobilis , as a novel platform for bio-ethanol
production, has been attractedmore attention and it is very important
to construct vectors for the efficient expression of foreign genes in
this bacterium. Results: Three shuttle vectors (pSUZM1, pSUZM2 and
pSUZM3)were first constructedwith the origins of replication from the
chromosome and two native plasmids (pZZM401 and pZZM402) of Z. mobilis
ZM4, respectively. The three shuttle vectorswere stable in Z. mobilis
ZM4 and have 3, 32 and 27 copies, respectively. The promoter Ppdc (a),
from the pyruvate decarboxylase gene,was cloned into the shuttle
vectors, generating the expression vectors pSUZM1(2, 3)a. The
codon-optimized glucoamylase gene from Aspergillus awamori combined
with the signal peptide sequence from the alkaline phosphatase gene of
Z. mobilis was cloned into pSUZM1(2, 3)a, resulting in the plasmids
pSUZM1a-GA, pSUZM2a-GA and pSUZM3a-GA, respectively. After transforming
these plasmids into Z. mobilis ZM4, the host was endowed with
glucoamylase activity for starch hydrolysis. Both pSUZM2a-GA and
pSUZM3a-GA were more efficient at producing glucoamylase than
pSUZM1a-GA. Conclusions: These results indicated that these
expression vectors are useful tools for gene expression in Z. mobilis
and this could provide a solid foundation for further studies of
heterologous gene expression in Z. mobilis
Longitudinal Variations in Physiochemical Conditions and Their Consequent Effect on Phytoplankton Functional Diversity Within a Subtropical System of Cascade Reservoirs
The social and environmental impacts of large dams are quantifiable and have been well documented, while small dams have often been presumed to be less environmentally damaging than large dams. The purpose of this study was to analyze longitudinal gradients in environmental, hydrodynamic variables and their impact on phytoplankton function, within a cascade of four reservoirs (XuanMiaoGuan, XMG; TianFuMiao, TFM; XiBeiKou, XBK; ShangJiaHe, SJH) and one reservoir bay (Huangbohe Bay, HBH), located from upstream to downstream in the Huangbo River, Hubei Province, China. Our results showed that water temperature, total nitrogen, and soluble silicate increased along the cascade reservoir system, while the concentration of dissolved oxygen and total phosphorus decreased. We identified 16 phytoplankton functional groups, and the predominant groups, including D (Synedra and Stephanodiscus hantzschii), E (Dinobryon divergens), Lo (Dinoflagellate: Peridinium bipes and Peridiniopsis), X2 (Chroomona), and Y (Cryptomonas), changed longitudinally from up to down in the cascade reservoirs. The number of dominant functional groups increased along the longitudinal gradient, indicating that the function of the phytoplankton community was more stable. Functional group D was the dominant phytoplankton functional group among the four reservoirs, and Lo group was dominant except SJH. The phytoplankton functional groups in the HBH have been completely changed due to the backwater jacking of the main stream of the Yangtze River. Euphotic depth, suspended solids, and nutrients were apparently the key factors driving variations in phytoplankton functional groups among the reservoirs. Notably, the patterns we observed were not all consistent with the cascading reservoir continuum concept (CRCC) that typically characterizes large rivers. Thus, our findings contribute to the further theoretical development of the CRCC, which may not apply widely to all cascade systems
CO-CHANGES I: IRAM 30m CO Observations of Molecular Gas in the Sombrero Galaxy
Molecular gas plays a critical role in explaining the quiescence of star
formation (SF) in massive isolated spiral galaxies, which could be a result of
either the low molecular gas content and/or the low SF efficiency. We present
IRAM 30m observations of the CO lines in the Sombrero galaxy (NGC~4594), the
most massive spiral at . We detect at least one of the
three CO lines covered by our observations in all 13 observed positions located
at the galactic nucleus and along a -diameter dusty ring. The
total extrapolated molecular gas mass of the galaxy is . The measured maximum CO gas rotation
velocity of suggests that NGC~4594 locates in a dark
matter halo with a mass . Comparing to
other galaxy samples, NGC~4594 is extremely gas poor and SF inactive, but the
SF efficiency is apparently not inconsistent with that predicted by the
Kennicutt-Schmidt law, so there is no evidence of enhanced SF quenching in this
extremely massive spiral with a huge bulge. We also calculate the predicted gas
supply rate from various sources to replenish the cold gas consumed in SF, and
find that the galaxy must experienced a starburst stage at high redshift, then
the leftover or recycled gas provides SF fuels to maintain the gradual growth
of the galactic disk at a gentle rate.Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
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