In this paper,the convergence of the split-step theta method for stochastic differential equations is analyzed using stochastic C-stability and stochastic B-consistency.The fact that the numerical scheme,which is both...In this paper,the convergence of the split-step theta method for stochastic differential equations is analyzed using stochastic C-stability and stochastic B-consistency.The fact that the numerical scheme,which is both stochastically C-stable and stochastically B-consistent,is convergent has been proved in a previous paper.In order to analyze the convergence of the split-step theta method(θ∈[1/2,1]),the stochastic C-stability and stochastic B-consistency under the condition of global monotonicity have been researched,and the rate of convergence 1/2 has been explored in this paper.It can be seen that the convergence does not require the drift function should satisfy the linear growth condition whenθ=1/2 Furthermore,the rate of the convergence of the split-step scheme for stochastic differential equations with additive noise has been researched and found to be 1.Finally,an example is given to illustrate the convergence with the theoretical results.展开更多
There are limited quantitative studies on condensate gas using microfluidics under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.This study employed microfluidics chips based on real porous media structures to conduct...There are limited quantitative studies on condensate gas using microfluidics under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.This study employed microfluidics chips based on real porous media structures to conduct constant volume depletion experiments and investigate the microscopic mechanisms of condensate gas recovery.The aim of the experiments was to reveal the phase-behavior differences between bulk-phase gas and gas contained in porous media.The results revealed that condensate oil recovery in microfluidics experiments was higher than that in PVT cell tests,and nonuniform condensation and evaporation were exclusively observed in the microfluidics experiments.Furthermore,lower pore connectivity resulted in higher depletion recovery,while more developed fractures led to reduced recovery.Specifically,the chip with fewer fractures achieved the highest recovery(71.15%),whereas the highly fractured chip exhibited the lowest recovery(56.11%).These findings demonstrate that oil saturation during the process of constant volume depletion(CVD)of gas condensate within porous media is lower than that observed in the PVT cell,thus providing experimental evidence for optimizing condensate gas development in field applications.展开更多
In recent years,Mendelian randomization(MR)has been increasingly utilized,leveraging genetic variants as instrumental variables.This approach significantly mitigates confounder effects and reverse causation,precisely ...In recent years,Mendelian randomization(MR)has been increasingly utilized,leveraging genetic variants as instrumental variables.This approach significantly mitigates confounder effects and reverse causation,precisely clarifying the causal links between exposures and outcomes.MR’s unique advantages have made it instrumental in medicine,especially in elucidating glaucoma’s etiology.It facilitates the identification of potential risk factors,laying the groundwork for developing preventative and therapeutic strategies against glaucoma.Recent MR research has delved into diverse potential glaucoma risk factors,including behavioral habits,metabolic profiles,and their causative linkage to the disease.This review encapsulates MR’s analysis in glaucoma etiology,heralding new avenues for understanding underlying mechanisms and establishing causality.展开更多
By means of experiments of C02 miscibility with crude oil, four nonpolar chemicals were evaluated in order to enhance the miscibility of C02 with crude oil. Through pre-slug injection and joint injection of toluene in...By means of experiments of C02 miscibility with crude oil, four nonpolar chemicals were evaluated in order to enhance the miscibility of C02 with crude oil. Through pre-slug injection and joint injection of toluene in CO2, crude oil displacement experiments in the slim-tube were conducted to investigate effects of the toluene- enhanced C02 flooding under simulated subterranean reservoir conditions. Experimental results showed that toluene can enhance extraction of oil into C02 and dissolution of C02 into oil with the increment of 251% and 64% respectively. Addition of toluene can obviously improve the oil recovery in either pre-slug injection or joint injection, and the crude oil recovery increased with the increase of the toluene concentration. The oil recov- ery can increase by 22.5% in pre-slug injection with the high toluene concentration. Pre-slug injection was recom- mended because it can consume less toluene than joint injection. This work could be useful to development and application of the CO) flooding in the oil recoverv as well as CO2 emission reduction.展开更多
Undesirable gas channeling always occurs along the high-permeability layers in heterogeneous oil reservoirs during water-alternating-CO_(2)(WAG)flooding,and conventional polymer gels used for blocking the“channeling...Undesirable gas channeling always occurs along the high-permeability layers in heterogeneous oil reservoirs during water-alternating-CO_(2)(WAG)flooding,and conventional polymer gels used for blocking the“channeling”paths usually suffer from either low injectivity or poor gelation control.Herein,we for the first time developed an in-situ high-pressure CO_(2)-triggered gel system based on a smart surfactant,N-erucamidopropyl-N,N-dimethylamine(UC22AMPM),which was introduced into the aqueous slugs to control gas channeling inWAG processes.The water-like,low-viscosity UC22AMPM brine solution can be thickened by high-pressure CO_(2) owing to the formation of wormlike micelles(WLMs),as well as their growth and shear-induced structure buildup under shear flow.The thickening power can be further potentiated by the generation of denser WLMs resulting from either surfactant concentration augmentation or a certain range of heating,and can be impaired via pressurization above the critical pressure of CO_(2) because of its soaring solvent power.Core flooding tests using heterogeneous cores demonstrated that gas channeling was alleviated by plugging of high-capacity channels due to the in-situ gelation of UC22AMPM slugs upon their reaction with the pre-or post-injected CO_(2) slugs under shear flow,thereupon driving chase fluids into unrecovered low-permeability areas and producing an 8.0% higher oil recovery factor than the conventional WAG mode.This smart surfactant enabled high injectivity and satisfactory gelation control,attributable to low initial viscosity and the combined properties of one component and CO_(2)-triggered gelation,respectively.This work could provide a guide towards designing gels for reducing CO_(2) spillover and reinforcing the CO_(2) sequestration effect during CO_(2) enhanced oil recovery processes.展开更多
Authentication is a key component of quality control,and the quality of Chinese medicinal materials directly impacts clinical efficacy.Chinese medicinal quality control is an important concern of the wider community,a...Authentication is a key component of quality control,and the quality of Chinese medicinal materials directly impacts clinical efficacy.Chinese medicinal quality control is an important concern of the wider community,and it is intricately connected to the future and development of Chinese medicine.Macroscopic identification has been used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine,and it continues to be effective for resolving important issues related to quality control in the modern-day.However,new challenges have emerged for macroscopic identification.For example,new botanical varieties have emerged,with differences in macroscopic features related to cultivated vs.wild materials.Changes in processing methods and cultivation techniques also affect these features.Consequently,continual progress and innovation in Chinese medicinal authentication methods are needed.Macroscopic identification is based on organoleptic assessment,microscopy,and research of ancient texts,such as the Bencao.In addition to collecting information from traditional experience-based differentiation,innovation can take advantage of new technologies that can provide even more detailed,precise information about morphology.In the present review,we summarized inheritance and innovation in the scientific exposition of Chinese medicinal authentication,featuring a review of specialized publications,description of the establishment of a Chinese medicine specimen center and Chinese Medicine digital project,the expansion of authentication technologies,and the formation of a cultural project dedicated to the Compendium of Materia Medica.展开更多
Flue gas fooding is one of the important technologies to improve oil recovery and achieve greenhouse gas storage.In order to study multicomponent fue gas storage capacity and enhanced oil recovery(EOR)performance of f...Flue gas fooding is one of the important technologies to improve oil recovery and achieve greenhouse gas storage.In order to study multicomponent fue gas storage capacity and enhanced oil recovery(EOR)performance of fue gas water-alternating gas(fue gas-WAG)injection after continuous waterfooding in an oil reservoir,a long core fooding system was built.The experimental results showed that the oil recovery factor of fue gas-WAG fooding was increased by 21.25%after continuous waterfooding and fue gas-WAG fooding could further enhance oil recovery and reduce water cut signifcantly.A novel material balance model based on storage mechanism was developed to estimate the multicomponent fue gas storage capacity and storage capacity of each component of fue gas in reservoir oil,water and as free gas in the post-waterfooding reservoir.The ultimate storage ratio of fue gas is 16%in the fue gas-WAG fooding process.The calculation results of fue gas storage capacity showed that the injection gas storage capacity mainly consists of N_(2) and CO_(2),only N_(2) exists as free gas phase in cores,and other components of injection gas are dissolved in oil and water.Finally,injection strategies from three perspectives for fue gas storage,EOR,and combination of fue gas storage and EOR were proposed,respectively.展开更多
In the past two decades, software aging has been studied by both academic and industry communities. Many scholars focused on analytical methods or time series to model software aging process. While machine learning ha...In the past two decades, software aging has been studied by both academic and industry communities. Many scholars focused on analytical methods or time series to model software aging process. While machine learning has been shown as a very promising technique in application to forecast software state: normal or aging. In this paper, we proposed a method which can give practice guide to forecast software aging using machine learning algorithm. Firstly, we collected data from a running commercial web server and preprocessed these data. Secondly, feature selection algorithm was applied to find a subset of model parameters set. Thirdly, time series model was used to predict values of selected parameters in advance. Fourthly, some machine learning algorithms were used to model software aging process and to predict software aging. Fifthly, we used sensitivity analysis to analyze how heavily outcomes changed following input variables change. In the last, we applied our method to an IIS web server. Through analysis of the experiment results, we find that our proposed method can predict software aging in the early stage of system development life cycle.展开更多
The study of vehicular networks has attracted considerable interest in academia and the industry.In the broad area,connected vehicles and autonomous driving are technologies based on wireless data communication betwee...The study of vehicular networks has attracted considerable interest in academia and the industry.In the broad area,connected vehicles and autonomous driving are technologies based on wireless data communication between vehicles or between vehicles and infrastructures.A Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I)system consists of communications and computing over vehicles and related infrastructures.In such a system,wireless sensors are installed in some selected points along roads or driving areas.In autonomous driving,it is crucial for a vehicle to figure out the ideal routes by the communications between its equipped sensors and infrastructures then the vehicle is automatically moving along the routes.In this paper,we propose a Bezier curve based recursive algorithm,which effectively creates routes for vehicles through the communication between the On-Board Unit(OBU)and the Road-Side Units(RSUs).In addition,this approach generates a very low overhead.We conduct simulations to test the proposed algorithm in various situations.The experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm creates almost ideal routes.展开更多
Herein,we report bifunctional molybdenum-doped nickel sulfide on nickel foam(Mo-NiS_(x)/NF)for magnetic field-enhanced overall water splitting under alkaline conditions.Proper doping of Mo can lead to optimization of ...Herein,we report bifunctional molybdenum-doped nickel sulfide on nickel foam(Mo-NiS_(x)/NF)for magnetic field-enhanced overall water splitting under alkaline conditions.Proper doping of Mo can lead to optimization of the electronic structure of NiS_(x),which accelerates the dissociation of H2O and the adsorption of OH−in the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)and the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)processes,respectively.In addition,the magnetically active Mo-NiS_(x)/NF can further enhance the HER and OER activity under an applied magnetic field due to the magnetoresistance effect and the ferromagnetic(FM)exchange-field penetration effect.As a result,Mo-NiS_(x)/NF requires low overpotentials of 307 mV at 50mA cm^(−2)(for OER)and 136 mV at 10mA cm^(−2)(for HER)under a magnetic field of 10000 G.Furthermore,the electrolytic cell constructed by the bifunctional Mo-NiS_(x)/NFs as both the cathode and the anode shows a low cell voltage of 1.594 V at 10 mA cm^(−2)with optimal stability over 60 h under the magnetic field.Simultaneous enhancement of the HER and OER processes by an external magnetic field through rational design of electrocatalysts might be promising for overall water splitting applications.展开更多
An automated spectral classification technique for large sky surveys is proposed. We firstly perform spectral line matching to determine redshift candidates for an observed spectrum, and then estimate the spectral cla...An automated spectral classification technique for large sky surveys is proposed. We firstly perform spectral line matching to determine redshift candidates for an observed spectrum, and then estimate the spectral class by measuring the similarity between the observed spectrum and the shifted templates for each redshift candidate. As a byproduct of this approach, the spectral redshift can also be obtained with high accuracy. Compared with some approaches based on computerized learning methods in the literature, the proposed approach needs no training, which is time-consuming and sensitive to selection of the training set. Both simulated data and observed spectra are used to test the approach; the results show that the proposed method is efficient, and it can achieve a correct classification rate as high as 92.9%, 97.9% and 98.8% for stars, galaxies and quasars, respectively.展开更多
Internet of Vehicles(henceforth called IoV) is a public network system and high-value target for intrusions that may cause efficiency issues, privacy leakages or even physical damage. Conventional intrusion detection ...Internet of Vehicles(henceforth called IoV) is a public network system and high-value target for intrusions that may cause efficiency issues, privacy leakages or even physical damage. Conventional intrusion detection methods are normally designed for the Internet infrastructures which cannot directly apply in the context of IoV. This work proposes an FPGA based intrusion detection method that can not only achieve real-time scanning performance but also be applied in vehicular environment. We evaluate our scheme on a Xilinx FPGA based platform. Experiments show that the proposed system can achieve a throughput of more than 39 Gbps on existing FPGA platform which is about 15% higher than state-of-the-art techniques,and the total power consumption for the prototype is about 7.5 w. Moreover, the processing latency of the prototype is about 4 us and is about one sixtieth part of the popular software IDS systems.展开更多
BACKGROUND Tardive dyskinesia(TD)is a serious and disabling movement disorder;it impairs social function and quality of life and increases the mortality rate.TD is usually induced by the use of antipsychotic drugs;how...BACKGROUND Tardive dyskinesia(TD)is a serious and disabling movement disorder;it impairs social function and quality of life and increases the mortality rate.TD is usually induced by the use of antipsychotic drugs;however,the underlying mechanism remains unclear.Pharmacotherapy of TD includes cholinergic drugs,benzodiazepines,ginkgo biloba extract(GBE),antioxidants,amantadine,propanolol,botulinum toxin,valbenazine,and deutetrabenazine,whereas the non-pharmacotherapy approach includes modified electroconvulsive therapy(MECT)and deep brain stimulation.We successfully treated a chronic schizophrenia patient with comorbid long-term severe TD using deutetrabenazine,clozapine,and MECT.CASE SUMMARY A 69-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia 16 years ago developed severe TD after 6-mo prescription of risperidone oral solution.Her TD symptoms did not resolve despite various treatments,such as GBE,vitamin E,trihexyphenidyl,promethazine,benzodiazepines,and switching to quetiapine and olanzapine.After admission,she was given deutetrabenazine 6 mg bid.Her buccal tremor was slightly resolved 3 d later;however,her tongue remained protruded and could not be retracted.Quetiapine was switched to clozapine on day 4,and the buccal tremor remarkably resolved,and the tongue could be retracted into the mouth from day 6 onward.After three sessions of MECT,the buccal tremor resolved further.Since then,she has been able to take a semifluid diet,and her quality of life improved remarkably during 6 mo of follow-up.CONCLUSION TD is a serious condition which could be caused by antipsychotic medications;however,the best strategy against TD is prevention and monitoring during using antipsychotics.For patients with TD caused by antipsychotic medication use,multiple measures should be considered like switching to clozapine,adjunction with deutetrabenazine,or even MECT.展开更多
Seventeen 4-alkylamino/arylamino-substituted methotrexate (MTX) derivatives 6a-14a were designed and synthesized. Their inhibition activities against inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) were evaluated in vitro....Seventeen 4-alkylamino/arylamino-substituted methotrexate (MTX) derivatives 6a-14a were designed and synthesized. Their inhibition activities against inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) were evaluated in vitro. The pharmacological results showed that most of the prepared compounds displayed the potent inhibitory effects on iNOS.展开更多
This study aims to detect the expression of selected circulating microRNAs(miRNA),including miRNA-451a,miRNA-486-5p and miR-10b-5p,and their prospective roles as biomarkers in patients with atherosclerosis.For this pu...This study aims to detect the expression of selected circulating microRNAs(miRNA),including miRNA-451a,miRNA-486-5p and miR-10b-5p,and their prospective roles as biomarkers in patients with atherosclerosis.For this purpose,levels of miRNAs were detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction(RT-qPCR)in case(N=30)and healthy control(N=30)groups.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve analysis was carried out to evaluate the diagnostic ability of miRNAs.The correlations of miR-451a with lipid parameters were evaluated using Pearson’s correlation coefficients.HUVEC tested by ox-LDL was used as a cellular model of atherosclerosis.Cell viability and apoptosis were detected by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium(MTT)and flow cytometry(FC)assays.Luciferase assay was used to determine the miRNA binding site on target genes.The results showed that miRNA-451a expression level was significantly lower in patients than controls.ROC curve analysis showed that the areas under the curve(AUC)of plasma miRNA-451a was 0.90.The miRNA-451a expression level exhibited significant negative correlations with cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),and low-density lipoprotein(LDL).Besides,miRNA-451a specifically binds to the 3’UTR of macrophage migration inhibitory factor(MIF)and mediated the cell proliferation and apoptosis of HUVECs exposed to ox-LDL.Furthermore,overexpression of miRNA-451a promoted the proliferation and alleviated apoptosis of HUVECs exposed to ox-LDL,while this result was attenuated by macrophage migration inhibitory factor(MIF)overexpression.Therefore,miRNA-451a could be considered as a potential biomarker for atherosclerosis and miRNA-451a might contribute to regulating atherosclerosis through targeting MIF.展开更多
There are various types of traumatic stimuli,such as catastrophic events like wars,natural calamities like earthquakes,and personal trauma from physical and psychological neglect or abuse and sexual abuse.Traumatic ev...There are various types of traumatic stimuli,such as catastrophic events like wars,natural calamities like earthquakes,and personal trauma from physical and psychological neglect or abuse and sexual abuse.Traumatic events can be divided into type I and type II trauma,and their impacts on individuals depend not only on the severity and duration of the traumas but also on individuals’self-evaluation of the traumatic events.Individual stress reactions to trauma include posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD),complex PTSD and trauma-related depression.Trauma-related depression is a reactive depression with unclear pathology,and depression occurring due to trauma in the childhood has gained increasing attention,because it has persisted for a long time and does not respond to conventional antidepressants but shows good or partial response to psychotherapy,which is similar to the pattern observed for PTSD.Because trauma-related depression is associated with high risk of suicide and is chronic with a propensity to relapse,it is necessary to explore its pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy.展开更多
Radio frequency interference(RFI)is an important challenge in radio astronomy.RFI comes from various sources and increasingly impacts astronomical observation as telescopes become more sensitive.In this study,we propo...Radio frequency interference(RFI)is an important challenge in radio astronomy.RFI comes from various sources and increasingly impacts astronomical observation as telescopes become more sensitive.In this study,we propose a fast and effective method for removing RFI in pulsar data.We use pseudo-inverse learning to train a single hidden layer auto-encoder(AE).We demonstrate that the AE can quickly learn the RFI signatures and then remove them from fast-sampled spectra,leaving real pulsar signals.This method has the advantage over traditional threshold-based filter method in that it does not completely remove contaminated channels,which could also contain useful astronomical information.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12301521)the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (Grant No. 20210302124081)。
文摘In this paper,the convergence of the split-step theta method for stochastic differential equations is analyzed using stochastic C-stability and stochastic B-consistency.The fact that the numerical scheme,which is both stochastically C-stable and stochastically B-consistent,is convergent has been proved in a previous paper.In order to analyze the convergence of the split-step theta method(θ∈[1/2,1]),the stochastic C-stability and stochastic B-consistency under the condition of global monotonicity have been researched,and the rate of convergence 1/2 has been explored in this paper.It can be seen that the convergence does not require the drift function should satisfy the linear growth condition whenθ=1/2 Furthermore,the rate of the convergence of the split-step scheme for stochastic differential equations with additive noise has been researched and found to be 1.Finally,an example is given to illustrate the convergence with the theoretical results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 52404044).
文摘There are limited quantitative studies on condensate gas using microfluidics under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.This study employed microfluidics chips based on real porous media structures to conduct constant volume depletion experiments and investigate the microscopic mechanisms of condensate gas recovery.The aim of the experiments was to reveal the phase-behavior differences between bulk-phase gas and gas contained in porous media.The results revealed that condensate oil recovery in microfluidics experiments was higher than that in PVT cell tests,and nonuniform condensation and evaporation were exclusively observed in the microfluidics experiments.Furthermore,lower pore connectivity resulted in higher depletion recovery,while more developed fractures led to reduced recovery.Specifically,the chip with fewer fractures achieved the highest recovery(71.15%),whereas the highly fractured chip exhibited the lowest recovery(56.11%).These findings demonstrate that oil saturation during the process of constant volume depletion(CVD)of gas condensate within porous media is lower than that observed in the PVT cell,thus providing experimental evidence for optimizing condensate gas development in field applications.
基金Supported by Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(No.JCYJ20220530152005013,No.JCYJ20230807114605011)Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen(No.SZZYSM202411007).
文摘In recent years,Mendelian randomization(MR)has been increasingly utilized,leveraging genetic variants as instrumental variables.This approach significantly mitigates confounder effects and reverse causation,precisely clarifying the causal links between exposures and outcomes.MR’s unique advantages have made it instrumental in medicine,especially in elucidating glaucoma’s etiology.It facilitates the identification of potential risk factors,laying the groundwork for developing preventative and therapeutic strategies against glaucoma.Recent MR research has delved into diverse potential glaucoma risk factors,including behavioral habits,metabolic profiles,and their causative linkage to the disease.This review encapsulates MR’s analysis in glaucoma etiology,heralding new avenues for understanding underlying mechanisms and establishing causality.
基金Supported by the National Science&Technology Pillar Program(2012BAC24B03)
文摘By means of experiments of C02 miscibility with crude oil, four nonpolar chemicals were evaluated in order to enhance the miscibility of C02 with crude oil. Through pre-slug injection and joint injection of toluene in CO2, crude oil displacement experiments in the slim-tube were conducted to investigate effects of the toluene- enhanced C02 flooding under simulated subterranean reservoir conditions. Experimental results showed that toluene can enhance extraction of oil into C02 and dissolution of C02 into oil with the increment of 251% and 64% respectively. Addition of toluene can obviously improve the oil recovery in either pre-slug injection or joint injection, and the crude oil recovery increased with the increase of the toluene concentration. The oil recov- ery can increase by 22.5% in pre-slug injection with the high toluene concentration. Pre-slug injection was recom- mended because it can consume less toluene than joint injection. This work could be useful to development and application of the CO) flooding in the oil recoverv as well as CO2 emission reduction.
基金Financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(2022NSFSC0030)National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1762218)is gratefully acknowledged.
文摘Undesirable gas channeling always occurs along the high-permeability layers in heterogeneous oil reservoirs during water-alternating-CO_(2)(WAG)flooding,and conventional polymer gels used for blocking the“channeling”paths usually suffer from either low injectivity or poor gelation control.Herein,we for the first time developed an in-situ high-pressure CO_(2)-triggered gel system based on a smart surfactant,N-erucamidopropyl-N,N-dimethylamine(UC22AMPM),which was introduced into the aqueous slugs to control gas channeling inWAG processes.The water-like,low-viscosity UC22AMPM brine solution can be thickened by high-pressure CO_(2) owing to the formation of wormlike micelles(WLMs),as well as their growth and shear-induced structure buildup under shear flow.The thickening power can be further potentiated by the generation of denser WLMs resulting from either surfactant concentration augmentation or a certain range of heating,and can be impaired via pressurization above the critical pressure of CO_(2) because of its soaring solvent power.Core flooding tests using heterogeneous cores demonstrated that gas channeling was alleviated by plugging of high-capacity channels due to the in-situ gelation of UC22AMPM slugs upon their reaction with the pre-or post-injected CO_(2) slugs under shear flow,thereupon driving chase fluids into unrecovered low-permeability areas and producing an 8.0% higher oil recovery factor than the conventional WAG mode.This smart surfactant enabled high injectivity and satisfactory gelation control,attributable to low initial viscosity and the combined properties of one component and CO_(2)-triggered gelation,respectively.This work could provide a guide towards designing gels for reducing CO_(2) spillover and reinforcing the CO_(2) sequestration effect during CO_(2) enhanced oil recovery processes.
基金Research Grants Council(Grant No.12103919)of Hong Kong。
文摘Authentication is a key component of quality control,and the quality of Chinese medicinal materials directly impacts clinical efficacy.Chinese medicinal quality control is an important concern of the wider community,and it is intricately connected to the future and development of Chinese medicine.Macroscopic identification has been used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine,and it continues to be effective for resolving important issues related to quality control in the modern-day.However,new challenges have emerged for macroscopic identification.For example,new botanical varieties have emerged,with differences in macroscopic features related to cultivated vs.wild materials.Changes in processing methods and cultivation techniques also affect these features.Consequently,continual progress and innovation in Chinese medicinal authentication methods are needed.Macroscopic identification is based on organoleptic assessment,microscopy,and research of ancient texts,such as the Bencao.In addition to collecting information from traditional experience-based differentiation,innovation can take advantage of new technologies that can provide even more detailed,precise information about morphology.In the present review,we summarized inheritance and innovation in the scientific exposition of Chinese medicinal authentication,featuring a review of specialized publications,description of the establishment of a Chinese medicine specimen center and Chinese Medicine digital project,the expansion of authentication technologies,and the formation of a cultural project dedicated to the Compendium of Materia Medica.
基金This work was supported by the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province(2019YFG0457)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(5183000045)+1 种基金the National Major Science and Technology Project of CNPC"Research and Application of Key Technologies for Beneft Development of Volcanic Rock Reservoirs”(2017E-04-05)the PetroChina Major Science and Technology Project(2018E-1805).
文摘Flue gas fooding is one of the important technologies to improve oil recovery and achieve greenhouse gas storage.In order to study multicomponent fue gas storage capacity and enhanced oil recovery(EOR)performance of fue gas water-alternating gas(fue gas-WAG)injection after continuous waterfooding in an oil reservoir,a long core fooding system was built.The experimental results showed that the oil recovery factor of fue gas-WAG fooding was increased by 21.25%after continuous waterfooding and fue gas-WAG fooding could further enhance oil recovery and reduce water cut signifcantly.A novel material balance model based on storage mechanism was developed to estimate the multicomponent fue gas storage capacity and storage capacity of each component of fue gas in reservoir oil,water and as free gas in the post-waterfooding reservoir.The ultimate storage ratio of fue gas is 16%in the fue gas-WAG fooding process.The calculation results of fue gas storage capacity showed that the injection gas storage capacity mainly consists of N_(2) and CO_(2),only N_(2) exists as free gas phase in cores,and other components of injection gas are dissolved in oil and water.Finally,injection strategies from three perspectives for fue gas storage,EOR,and combination of fue gas storage and EOR were proposed,respectively.
基金supported by the grants from Natural Science Foundation of China(Project No.61375045)the joint astronomic fund of the national natural science foundation of China and Chinese Academic Sinica(Project No.U1531242)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(4142030)
文摘In the past two decades, software aging has been studied by both academic and industry communities. Many scholars focused on analytical methods or time series to model software aging process. While machine learning has been shown as a very promising technique in application to forecast software state: normal or aging. In this paper, we proposed a method which can give practice guide to forecast software aging using machine learning algorithm. Firstly, we collected data from a running commercial web server and preprocessed these data. Secondly, feature selection algorithm was applied to find a subset of model parameters set. Thirdly, time series model was used to predict values of selected parameters in advance. Fourthly, some machine learning algorithms were used to model software aging process and to predict software aging. Fifthly, we used sensitivity analysis to analyze how heavily outcomes changed following input variables change. In the last, we applied our method to an IIS web server. Through analysis of the experiment results, we find that our proposed method can predict software aging in the early stage of system development life cycle.
基金the Presidential Incentive Awards(No.1103 and No.1105)MCCB summer research award in the University of North Georgia.
文摘The study of vehicular networks has attracted considerable interest in academia and the industry.In the broad area,connected vehicles and autonomous driving are technologies based on wireless data communication between vehicles or between vehicles and infrastructures.A Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I)system consists of communications and computing over vehicles and related infrastructures.In such a system,wireless sensors are installed in some selected points along roads or driving areas.In autonomous driving,it is crucial for a vehicle to figure out the ideal routes by the communications between its equipped sensors and infrastructures then the vehicle is automatically moving along the routes.In this paper,we propose a Bezier curve based recursive algorithm,which effectively creates routes for vehicles through the communication between the On-Board Unit(OBU)and the Road-Side Units(RSUs).In addition,this approach generates a very low overhead.We conduct simulations to test the proposed algorithm in various situations.The experiment results demonstrate that our algorithm creates almost ideal routes.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:21871065,22071038Heilongjiang Touyan Team,Grant/Award Number:HITTY‐20190033Interdisciplinary Research Foundation of HIT,Grant/Award Number:IR2021205。
文摘Herein,we report bifunctional molybdenum-doped nickel sulfide on nickel foam(Mo-NiS_(x)/NF)for magnetic field-enhanced overall water splitting under alkaline conditions.Proper doping of Mo can lead to optimization of the electronic structure of NiS_(x),which accelerates the dissociation of H2O and the adsorption of OH−in the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)and the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)processes,respectively.In addition,the magnetically active Mo-NiS_(x)/NF can further enhance the HER and OER activity under an applied magnetic field due to the magnetoresistance effect and the ferromagnetic(FM)exchange-field penetration effect.As a result,Mo-NiS_(x)/NF requires low overpotentials of 307 mV at 50mA cm^(−2)(for OER)and 136 mV at 10mA cm^(−2)(for HER)under a magnetic field of 10000 G.Furthermore,the electrolytic cell constructed by the bifunctional Mo-NiS_(x)/NFs as both the cathode and the anode shows a low cell voltage of 1.594 V at 10 mA cm^(−2)with optimal stability over 60 h under the magnetic field.Simultaneous enhancement of the HER and OER processes by an external magnetic field through rational design of electrocatalysts might be promising for overall water splitting applications.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘An automated spectral classification technique for large sky surveys is proposed. We firstly perform spectral line matching to determine redshift candidates for an observed spectrum, and then estimate the spectral class by measuring the similarity between the observed spectrum and the shifted templates for each redshift candidate. As a byproduct of this approach, the spectral redshift can also be obtained with high accuracy. Compared with some approaches based on computerized learning methods in the literature, the proposed approach needs no training, which is time-consuming and sensitive to selection of the training set. Both simulated data and observed spectra are used to test the approach; the results show that the proposed method is efficient, and it can achieve a correct classification rate as high as 92.9%, 97.9% and 98.8% for stars, galaxies and quasars, respectively.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61402474by the Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund of Beijing Institute of Technology
文摘Internet of Vehicles(henceforth called IoV) is a public network system and high-value target for intrusions that may cause efficiency issues, privacy leakages or even physical damage. Conventional intrusion detection methods are normally designed for the Internet infrastructures which cannot directly apply in the context of IoV. This work proposes an FPGA based intrusion detection method that can not only achieve real-time scanning performance but also be applied in vehicular environment. We evaluate our scheme on a Xilinx FPGA based platform. Experiments show that the proposed system can achieve a throughput of more than 39 Gbps on existing FPGA platform which is about 15% higher than state-of-the-art techniques,and the total power consumption for the prototype is about 7.5 w. Moreover, the processing latency of the prototype is about 4 us and is about one sixtieth part of the popular software IDS systems.
基金Science and Technology Program of Huzhou City,No.2023GYB32.
文摘BACKGROUND Tardive dyskinesia(TD)is a serious and disabling movement disorder;it impairs social function and quality of life and increases the mortality rate.TD is usually induced by the use of antipsychotic drugs;however,the underlying mechanism remains unclear.Pharmacotherapy of TD includes cholinergic drugs,benzodiazepines,ginkgo biloba extract(GBE),antioxidants,amantadine,propanolol,botulinum toxin,valbenazine,and deutetrabenazine,whereas the non-pharmacotherapy approach includes modified electroconvulsive therapy(MECT)and deep brain stimulation.We successfully treated a chronic schizophrenia patient with comorbid long-term severe TD using deutetrabenazine,clozapine,and MECT.CASE SUMMARY A 69-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia 16 years ago developed severe TD after 6-mo prescription of risperidone oral solution.Her TD symptoms did not resolve despite various treatments,such as GBE,vitamin E,trihexyphenidyl,promethazine,benzodiazepines,and switching to quetiapine and olanzapine.After admission,she was given deutetrabenazine 6 mg bid.Her buccal tremor was slightly resolved 3 d later;however,her tongue remained protruded and could not be retracted.Quetiapine was switched to clozapine on day 4,and the buccal tremor remarkably resolved,and the tongue could be retracted into the mouth from day 6 onward.After three sessions of MECT,the buccal tremor resolved further.Since then,she has been able to take a semifluid diet,and her quality of life improved remarkably during 6 mo of follow-up.CONCLUSION TD is a serious condition which could be caused by antipsychotic medications;however,the best strategy against TD is prevention and monitoring during using antipsychotics.For patients with TD caused by antipsychotic medication use,multiple measures should be considered like switching to clozapine,adjunction with deutetrabenazine,or even MECT.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.39870882).
文摘Seventeen 4-alkylamino/arylamino-substituted methotrexate (MTX) derivatives 6a-14a were designed and synthesized. Their inhibition activities against inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) were evaluated in vitro. The pharmacological results showed that most of the prepared compounds displayed the potent inhibitory effects on iNOS.
文摘This study aims to detect the expression of selected circulating microRNAs(miRNA),including miRNA-451a,miRNA-486-5p and miR-10b-5p,and their prospective roles as biomarkers in patients with atherosclerosis.For this purpose,levels of miRNAs were detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction(RT-qPCR)in case(N=30)and healthy control(N=30)groups.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve analysis was carried out to evaluate the diagnostic ability of miRNAs.The correlations of miR-451a with lipid parameters were evaluated using Pearson’s correlation coefficients.HUVEC tested by ox-LDL was used as a cellular model of atherosclerosis.Cell viability and apoptosis were detected by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium(MTT)and flow cytometry(FC)assays.Luciferase assay was used to determine the miRNA binding site on target genes.The results showed that miRNA-451a expression level was significantly lower in patients than controls.ROC curve analysis showed that the areas under the curve(AUC)of plasma miRNA-451a was 0.90.The miRNA-451a expression level exhibited significant negative correlations with cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),and low-density lipoprotein(LDL).Besides,miRNA-451a specifically binds to the 3’UTR of macrophage migration inhibitory factor(MIF)and mediated the cell proliferation and apoptosis of HUVECs exposed to ox-LDL.Furthermore,overexpression of miRNA-451a promoted the proliferation and alleviated apoptosis of HUVECs exposed to ox-LDL,while this result was attenuated by macrophage migration inhibitory factor(MIF)overexpression.Therefore,miRNA-451a could be considered as a potential biomarker for atherosclerosis and miRNA-451a might contribute to regulating atherosclerosis through targeting MIF.
基金Supported by the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial,No.GF22H093655Nonprofit Applied Research Project of Huzhou Science and Technology Bureau,2021GYB16.
文摘There are various types of traumatic stimuli,such as catastrophic events like wars,natural calamities like earthquakes,and personal trauma from physical and psychological neglect or abuse and sexual abuse.Traumatic events can be divided into type I and type II trauma,and their impacts on individuals depend not only on the severity and duration of the traumas but also on individuals’self-evaluation of the traumatic events.Individual stress reactions to trauma include posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD),complex PTSD and trauma-related depression.Trauma-related depression is a reactive depression with unclear pathology,and depression occurring due to trauma in the childhood has gained increasing attention,because it has persisted for a long time and does not respond to conventional antidepressants but shows good or partial response to psychotherapy,which is similar to the pattern observed for PTSD.Because trauma-related depression is associated with high risk of suicide and is chronic with a propensity to relapse,it is necessary to explore its pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.11988101,61472043,11743002,11873067,11690024,11673005 and 11725313)the Outstanding Youth Fund Project of Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province(Grant No.ZR2019YQ03)+1 种基金supported by the Joint Research Fund in Astronomy(U1531242)under cooperative agreement between the NSFC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)supported by the Chinese Academy of Science Pioneer Hundred Talents Programthe Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB23000000)。
文摘Radio frequency interference(RFI)is an important challenge in radio astronomy.RFI comes from various sources and increasingly impacts astronomical observation as telescopes become more sensitive.In this study,we propose a fast and effective method for removing RFI in pulsar data.We use pseudo-inverse learning to train a single hidden layer auto-encoder(AE).We demonstrate that the AE can quickly learn the RFI signatures and then remove them from fast-sampled spectra,leaving real pulsar signals.This method has the advantage over traditional threshold-based filter method in that it does not completely remove contaminated channels,which could also contain useful astronomical information.