Structural health monitoring is important to ensuring the health and safety of dams.An inverse analysis method based on a novel hybrid fireworks algorithm (FWA) and the radial basis function (RBF) model is proposed to...Structural health monitoring is important to ensuring the health and safety of dams.An inverse analysis method based on a novel hybrid fireworks algorithm (FWA) and the radial basis function (RBF) model is proposed to diagnose the health condition of concrete dams.The damage of concrete dams is diagnosed by identifying the elastic modulus of materials using the displacement changes at different reservoir water levels.FWA is a global optimization intelligent algorithm.The proposed hybrid algorithm combines the FWA with the pattern search algorithm, which has a high capability for local optimization.Examples of benchmark functions and pseudo-experiment examples of concrete dams illustrate that the hybrid FWA improves the convergence speed and robustness of the original algorithm.To address the time consumption problem, an RBF-based surrogate model was established to replace part of the finite element method in inverse analysis.Numerical examples of concrete dams illustrate that the use of an RBF-based surrogate model significantly reduces the computation time of inverse analysis with little influence on identification accuracy.The presented hybrid FWA combined with the RBF network can quickly and accurately determine the elastic modulus of materials, and then determine the health status of the concrete dam.展开更多
Epigenetic modifications within promoter sequences can act as regulators of gene expression.Shoot regeneration is influenced by both DNA methylation and histone methylation,but the mechanistic basis of this regulation...Epigenetic modifications within promoter sequences can act as regulators of gene expression.Shoot regeneration is influenced by both DNA methylation and histone methylation,but the mechanistic basis of this regulation is obscure.Here,we identified 218 genes related to the regeneration capacity of callus that were differentially transcribed between regenerable calli(RC)and non-regenerable calli(NRC)in Arabidopsis thaliana.An analysis of the promoters of five of the differentially expressed genes(FWA,ACC1,TFL1,MAX3,and GRP3)pointed to an inverse relationship between cytosine methylation and transcription.The FWA promoter was demethylated and highly expressed in NRC,whereas it was methylated and expressed at low levels in RC.Explants of the hypomethylation mutants fwa-1 and fwa-2 showed strong levels of FWA expression and regenerated less readily than the wild type,suggesting that FWA inhibits direct in vitro shoot regeneration.WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 9(WOX9),which is required for shoot apical meristem formation,was directly repressed by FWA.Overexpressing WOX9 partly rescued the shoot regeneration defect of fwa-2 plants.These findings suggest that cytosine methylation of the FWA promoter forms part of the regulatory system governing callus regenerability and direct in vitro shoot regeneration.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grants No.2016YFC0401600 and 2017YFC0404906)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants No.51769033 and 51779035)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grants No.DUT17ZD205 and DUT19LK14)
文摘Structural health monitoring is important to ensuring the health and safety of dams.An inverse analysis method based on a novel hybrid fireworks algorithm (FWA) and the radial basis function (RBF) model is proposed to diagnose the health condition of concrete dams.The damage of concrete dams is diagnosed by identifying the elastic modulus of materials using the displacement changes at different reservoir water levels.FWA is a global optimization intelligent algorithm.The proposed hybrid algorithm combines the FWA with the pattern search algorithm, which has a high capability for local optimization.Examples of benchmark functions and pseudo-experiment examples of concrete dams illustrate that the hybrid FWA improves the convergence speed and robustness of the original algorithm.To address the time consumption problem, an RBF-based surrogate model was established to replace part of the finite element method in inverse analysis.Numerical examples of concrete dams illustrate that the use of an RBF-based surrogate model significantly reduces the computation time of inverse analysis with little influence on identification accuracy.The presented hybrid FWA combined with the RBF network can quickly and accurately determine the elastic modulus of materials, and then determine the health status of the concrete dam.
基金We thank Maarten Koornneef for the gift of fwa-1 and fwa-2 seeds,X.Wu for that of stip-1 and Takashi Araki for fwa-101D and 35S::myc-FWA seeds.This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,grants U1906203,31770317,and 31970189)the National Transgenic Project of China(grants 2016ZX08010002-009 and 2018ZX08009-14B),China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(grant 2019M662331).Thanks to Plant Editor for language editing.
文摘Epigenetic modifications within promoter sequences can act as regulators of gene expression.Shoot regeneration is influenced by both DNA methylation and histone methylation,but the mechanistic basis of this regulation is obscure.Here,we identified 218 genes related to the regeneration capacity of callus that were differentially transcribed between regenerable calli(RC)and non-regenerable calli(NRC)in Arabidopsis thaliana.An analysis of the promoters of five of the differentially expressed genes(FWA,ACC1,TFL1,MAX3,and GRP3)pointed to an inverse relationship between cytosine methylation and transcription.The FWA promoter was demethylated and highly expressed in NRC,whereas it was methylated and expressed at low levels in RC.Explants of the hypomethylation mutants fwa-1 and fwa-2 showed strong levels of FWA expression and regenerated less readily than the wild type,suggesting that FWA inhibits direct in vitro shoot regeneration.WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 9(WOX9),which is required for shoot apical meristem formation,was directly repressed by FWA.Overexpressing WOX9 partly rescued the shoot regeneration defect of fwa-2 plants.These findings suggest that cytosine methylation of the FWA promoter forms part of the regulatory system governing callus regenerability and direct in vitro shoot regeneration.
