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    Petrochemistry and mineral chemistry studies on metamorphic ultramafic rocks in Yanghou area, Zhenghe Country, Fujian Province, China

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    Petrochemistry studies indicate that the Yanghou metamorphic ultramafic rocksare composed of metamorphosed harzburgite and burgite and ultramafic cumulate . Trace element geochemistry and mineral chemistry studies on the metamorphosed harzburgite indicate that it is the relict of the depleted mantle. From systematic studies on petrochemistry , mineral chemistry and geochronology, it s concluded that the Yanghou metamorphic ultramafic rocks are components of Later Sinian-Early Paleozoic ophiolite in South China.岩石化学研究表明, 洋后变质超镁铁岩是由变质方辉橄榄岩和变质超镁铁堆积岩组成。变质方辉橄榄岩的微量元素地球化学及矿物化学特征表明, 应为亏损的残余地慢产物。通过系统的岩石地球化学、矿物化学及年代学研究, 认为洋后变质超镁铁岩可能为华南晚震旦一早古生代的蛇绿岩组成部分。published_or_final_versio

    A C0 zig-zag model for the analysis of angle-ply composite thick plates

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    Analysis of Functionally Graded Plates Subjected to Hygrothermomechanical Loads

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    New Predictor and 2DOF Control Scheme for Industrial Processes with Long Time Delay

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    © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permissíon from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertisíng or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.[EN] To address the difficulty of controlling industrial processes with long time delay, a novel design of dead-time compensator (DTC) is introduced, which can be used to predict the undelayed output response of any process (no matter stable or unstable) such that the control design may be focused on the delay-free part of the process for performance optimization. Based on the undelayed output estimation, a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) control scheme is analytically developed for optimizing the set-point tracking and disturbance rejection, respectively. By proposing the desired transfer functions, the corresponding controllers are analytically derived based on commonly used low-order process models. A notable advantage is that there is a single adjustable parameter in the proposed DTC, as well as in each controller, which can be monotonically tuned to meet a good tradeoff between the prediction (or control) performance and its robustness. Illustrative examples from the literature and a practical application to a temperature control system of a jacketed reactor are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed predictor-based control scheme.This work was supported in part by the NSF China under Grant 61633006 and Grant 61473054; in part by the National Thousand Talents Program of China, the PROMETEOII/2013/004, Conselleria d'Educacio, Generalitat Valenciana, and TIN2014-56158-C4-4-P-AR; in part by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad; and in part by the FPI-UPV 2014 Grant Program from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, SpainLiu, T.; García Gil, PJ.; Chen, Y.; Ren, X.; Albertos Pérez, P.; Sanz Diaz, R. (2018). New Predictor and 2DOF Control Scheme for Industrial Processes with Long Time Delay. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 65(5):4247-4256. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2017.2760839S4247425665

    A fast algorithm to estimate generation capacity tripped by emergency control for transient stability of large power system

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    High magnetic field scales and critical currents in SmFeAs(O,F) crystals: promising for applications

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    Superconducting technology provides most sensitive field detectors, promising implementations of qubits and high field magnets for medical imaging and for most powerful particle accelerators. Thus, with the discovery of new superconducting materials, such as the iron pnictides, exploring their potential for applications is one of the foremost tasks. Even if the critical temperature Tc is high, intrinsic electronic properties might render applications rather difficult, particularly if extreme electronic anisotropy prevents effective pinning of vortices and thus severely limits the critical current density, a problem well known for cuprates. While many questions concerning microscopic electronic properties of the iron pnictides have been successfully addressed and estimates point to a very high upper critical field, their application potential is less clarified. Thus we focus here on the critical currents, their anisotropy and the onset of electrical dissipation in high magnetic fields up to 65 T. Our detailed study of the transport properties of optimally doped SmFeAs(O,F) single crystals reveals a promising combination of high (>2 x 10^6 A/cm^2) and nearly isotropic critical current densities along all crystal directions. This favorable intragrain current transport in SmFeAs(O,F), which shows the highest Tc of 54 K at ambient pressure, is a crucial requirement for possible applications. Essential in these experiments are 4-probe measurements on Focused Ion Beam (FIB) cut single crystals with sub-\mu\m^2 cross-section, with current along and perpendicular to the crystallographic c-axis and very good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in pulsed magnetic fields. The pinning forces have been characterized by scaling the magnetically measured "peak effect"

    Temporal and spatial analysis of Neural tube defects and detection of geographical factors in Shanxi Province, China

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    Background: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are congenital birth defects that occur in the central nervous system, and they have the highest incidence among all birth defects. Shanxi Province in China has the world's highest rate of NTDs. Since the 1990s, China's government has worked on many birth defect prevention programs to reduce the occurrence of NTDs, such as pregnancy planning, health education, genetic counseling, antenatal ultrasonography and serological screening. However, the rate of NTDs in Shanxi Province is still higher than the world's average morbidity rate after intervention. In addition, Shanxi Province has abundant coal reserves, and is the largest coal production province in China. The objectives of this study are to determine the temporal and spatial variation of the NTD rate in rural areas of Shanxi Province, China, and identify geographical environmental factors that were associated with NTDs in the risk area. Methods: In this study, Heshun County and Yuanping County in Shanxi Province, which have high incidence of NTDs, were selected as the study areas. Two paired sample T test was used to analyze the changes in the risk of NTDs from the time dimension. Ripley's k function and spatial filtering were combined with geographic information system (GIS) software to study the changes in the risk of NTDs from the spatial dimension. In addition, geographical detectors were used to identify the risk geographical environmental factors of NTDs in the study areas, especially the areas close to the coal sites and main roads. Results: In both Heshun County and Yuanping County, the incidence of NTDs was significantly (P<0.05) reduced after intervention. The results from spatial analysis showed that significant spatial heterogeneity existed in both counties. NTD clusters were still identified in areas close to coal sites and main roads after interventions. This study also revealed that the elevation, fault and soil types always had a larger influence on the incidence of NTDs in our study areas. In addition, distance to the river was a risk factor of NTDs in areas close to the coal sites and main roads. Conclusion: The existing interventions may have played an important role to reduce the incidence of NTDs. However, there is still spatial heterogeneity in both counties after using the traditional intervention methods. The government needs to take more measures to strengthen the environmental restoration to prevent the occurrence of NTDs, especially those areas close to coal sites and main roads. The outcome of this research provides an important theoretical basis and technical support for the government to prevent the occurrence of NTDs

    Structural and magnetic phase diagram of CeFeAsO1-xFx and its relationship to high-temperature superconductivity

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    We use neutron scattering to study the structural and magnetic phase transitions in the iron pnictides CeFeAsO1-xFx as the system is tuned from a semimetal to a high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductor through Fluorine (F) doping x. In the undoped state, CeFeAsO develops a structural lattice distortion followed by a stripe like commensurate antiferromagnetic order with decreasing temperature. With increasing Fluorine doping, the structural phase transition decreases gradually while the antiferromagnetic order is suppressed before the appearance of superconductivity, resulting an electronic phase diagram remarkably similar to that of the high-Tc copper oxides. Comparison of the structural evolution of CeFeAsO1-xFx with other Fe-based superconductors reveals that the effective electronic band width decreases systematically for materials with higher Tc. The results suggest that electron correlation effects are important for the mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity in these Fe pnictides.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure

    Nanofluids Research: Key Issues

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    Nanofluids are a new class of fluids engineered by dispersing nanometer-size structures (particles, fibers, tubes, droplets) in base fluids. The very essence of nanofluids research and development is to enhance fluid macroscopic and megascale properties such as thermal conductivity through manipulating microscopic physics (structures, properties and activities). Therefore, the success of nanofluid technology depends very much on how well we can address issues like effective means of microscale manipulation, interplays among physics at different scales and optimization of microscale physics for the optimal megascale properties. In this work, we take heat-conduction nanofluids as examples to review methodologies available to effectively tackle these key but difficult problems and identify the future research needs as well. The reviewed techniques include nanofluids synthesis through liquid-phase chemical reactions in continuous-flow microfluidic microreactors, scaling-up by the volume averaging and constructal design with the constructal theory. The identified areas of future research contain microfluidic nanofluids, thermal waves and constructal nanofluids
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