Background Conditional relative survival(CRS),the probability of survival given that an individual has already survived a certain period post-diagnosis,is a more clinically relevant measure for long-term survival than...Background Conditional relative survival(CRS),the probability of survival given that an individual has already survived a certain period post-diagnosis,is a more clinically relevant measure for long-term survival than standard relative survival(RS).This study aims to evaluate the 5-year CRS among adolescent and young adult(AYA)breast cancer patients by age,tumor stage,and receptor subtype to guide disclosure periods for insurance.Methods Data of all females aged 18–39 years and diagnosed with invasive breast cancer between 2003 and 2021(n=13,075)were obtained from The Netherlands Cancer Registry(NCR).The five-year CRS was calculated annually up to 10 years post-diagnosis using a hybrid analysis approach.Results For the total AYA breast cancer study population the 5-year CRS exceeded 90%from diagnosis and increased beyond 95%7 years post-diagnosis.Patients aged 18–24 reached 95%9 years post-diagnosis,those aged 25–29 after 5 years,and those aged 30–34 and 35–39 after 8 years.For stage I,the 5-year CRS reached 95%from diagnosis,for stage II after 6 years,while the 5-year CRS for stages III and IV did not reach the 95%threshold during the 10-year follow-up.Triple-negative tumors exceeded 95%after 4 years,human epidermal growth factor receptor 2(HER2)positive tumors after 6 years,while hormone receptor(HR)positive tumors did not reach 95%.Conclusion Excess mortality among AYA breast cancer patients tends to be little(CRS 90%–95%)from diagnosis and becomes minimal(CRS>95%)over time compared to the general population.These results can enhance expectation management and inform policymakers,suggesting a shorter disclosure period.展开更多
Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pest...Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pests and their natural enemies is required to minimize the pest population and yield losses.In the current study,analysis of the seasonal population trend of pests and natural enemies and their relative occurrence on cultivars of three cotton species in Central India has been carried out.Results A higher number and diversity of sucking pests were observed during the vegetative cotton growth stage(60 days after sowing),declining as the crop matured.With the exception of cotton jassid(Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida),which caused significant crop damage mainly from August to September;populations of other sucking insects seldom reached economic threshold levels(ETL)throughout the studied period.The bollworm complex populations were minimal,except for the pink bollworm(Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders),which re-emerged as a menace to cotton crops during the cotton cropping season 2017–2018 due to resistance development against Bt-cotton.A reasonably good number of predatory arthropods,including coccinellids,lacewings,and spiders,were found actively preying on the arthropod pest complex of the cotton crop during the early vegetative growth stage.Linear regression indicates a significant relationship between green boll infestations and pink bollworm moths in pheromone traps.Multiple linear regression analyse showed mean weekly weather at one-or two-week lag periods had a significant impact on sucking pest population(cotton aphid,cotton jassid,cotton whitefly,and onion thrips)fluctuation.Gossypium hirsutum cultivars RCH 2 and DCH 32,and G.barbadense cultivar Suvin were found susceptible to cotton jassid and onion thrips.Phule Dhanvantary,an G.arboreum cotton cultivar,demonstrated the highest tolerance among all evaluated cultivars against all sucking pests.Conclusion These findings have important implications for pest management in cotton crops.Susceptible cultivars warrant more attention for plant protection measures,making them more input-intensive.The choice of appropriate cultivars can help minimize input costs,thereby increasing net returns for cotton farmers.展开更多
Studies on plant diversity are usually based on the total number of species in a community.However,few studies have examined species richness(SR)of different plant life forms in a community along largescale environmen...Studies on plant diversity are usually based on the total number of species in a community.However,few studies have examined species richness(SR)of different plant life forms in a community along largescale environmental gradients.Particularly,the relative importance(RIV)of different plant life forms in a community and how they vary with environmental variables are still unclear.To fill these gaps,we determined plant diversity of ephemeral plants,annual herbs,perennial herbs,and woody plants from 187 sites across drylands in China.The SR patterns of herbaceous plants,especially perennial herbs,and their RIV in plant communities increased with increasing precipitation and soil nutrient content;however,the RIV of annual herbs was not altered along these gradients.The SR and RIV of ephemeral plants were affected mainly by precipitation seasonality.The SR of woody plants had a unimodal relationship with air temperature and exhibited the highest RIV and SR percentage in plant communities under the harshest environments.An obvious shift emerged in plant community composition,SR and their critical impact factors at 238.5 mm of mean annual precipitation(MAP).In mesic regions(>238.5 mm),herbs were the dominant species,and the SR displayed a relatively slow decreasing rate with increasing aridity,which was mediated mainly by MAP and soil nutrients.In arid regions(<238.5 mm),woody plants were the dominant species,and the SR displayed a relatively fast decreasing rate with increasing aridity,which was mediated mainly by climate variables,especially precipitation.Our findings highlight the importance of comparative life form studies in community structure and biodiversity,as their responses to gradients differed substantially on a large scale.展开更多
Gas-bearing shales have become a major source of future natural gas production worldwide.It has become increasingly urgent to develop a reliable prediction model and corresponding workflow for identifying shale gas sw...Gas-bearing shales have become a major source of future natural gas production worldwide.It has become increasingly urgent to develop a reliable prediction model and corresponding workflow for identifying shale gas sweet spots.The formation of gas-bearing shales is closely linked to relative sealevel changes,providing an important approach to predicting sweet spots in the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale in the southern Sichuan Basin,China.Three types of marine shale gas sweet spots are identified in the shale based on their formation stages combined with relative sea-level changes:early,middle,and late transgression types.This study develops a prediction model and workflow for identifying shale gas sweet spots by analyzing relative sea-level changes and facies sequences.Predicting shale gas sweet spots in an explored block using this model and workflow can provide a valuable guide for well design and hydraulic fracturing,significantly enhancing the efficiency of shale gas exploration and development.Notably,the new prediction model and workflow can be utilized for the rapid evaluation of the potential for shale gas development in new shale gas blocks or those with low exploratory maturity.展开更多
Discrete fracture network(DFN)commonly existing in natural rock masses plays an important role in geological complexity which can influence rock fracturing behaviour during fluid injection.This paper simulated the hyd...Discrete fracture network(DFN)commonly existing in natural rock masses plays an important role in geological complexity which can influence rock fracturing behaviour during fluid injection.This paper simulated the hydraulic fracturing process in lab-scale coal samples with DFNs and the induced seismic activities by the discrete element method(DEM).The effects of DFNs on hydraulic fracturing,induced seismicity and elastic property changes have been concluded.Denser DFNs can comprehensively decrease the peak injection pressure and injection duration.The proportion of strong seismic events increases first and then decreases with increasing DFN density.In addition,the relative modulus of the rock mass is derived innovatively from breakdown pressure,breakdown fracture length and the related initiation time.Increasing DFN densities among large(35–60 degrees)and small(0–30 degrees)fracture dip angles show opposite evolution trends in relative modulus.The transitional point(dip angle)for the opposite trends is also proportionally affected by the friction angle of the rock mass.The modelling results have much practical meaning to infer the density and geometry of pre-existing fractures and the elastic property of rock mass in the field,simply based on the hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity monitoring data.展开更多
Magnesium and magnesium alloys,serving as crucial lightweight structural materials and hydrogen storage elements,find extensive applications in space technology,aviation,automotive,and magnesium-based hydrogen industr...Magnesium and magnesium alloys,serving as crucial lightweight structural materials and hydrogen storage elements,find extensive applications in space technology,aviation,automotive,and magnesium-based hydrogen industries.The global production of primary magnesium has reached approximately 1.2 million tons per year,with anticipated diversification in future applications and significant market demand.Nevertheless,approximately 80%of the world’s primary magnesium is still manufactured through the Pidgeon process,grappling with formidable issues including high energy consumption,massive carbon emission,significant resource depletion,and environmental pollution.The implementation of the relative vacuum method shows potential in breaking through technological challenges in the Pidgeon process,facilitating clean,low-carbon continuous magnesium smelting.This paper begins by introducing the principles of the relative vacuum method.Subsequently,it elucidates various innovative process routes,including relative vacuum ferrosilicon reduction,aluminum thermal reduction co-production of spinel,and aluminum thermal reduction co-production of calcium aluminate.Finally,and thermodynamic foundations of the relative vacuum,a quantitative analysis of the material,energy flows,carbon emission,and production cost for several new processes is conducted,comparing and analyzing them against the Pidgeon process.The study findings reveal that,with identical raw materials,the relative vacuum silicon thermal reduction process significantly decreases raw material consumption,energy consumption,and carbon dioxide emissions by 15.86%,30.89%,and 26.27%,respectively,compared to the Pidgeon process.The relative vacuum process,using magnesite as the raw material and aluminum as the reducing agent,has the lowest magnesium-to-feed ratio,at only 3.385.Additionally,its energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are the lowest,at 1.817 tce/t Mg and 7.782 t CO_(2)/t Mg,respectively.The energy consumption and carbon emissions of the relative vacuum magnesium smelting process co-producing calcium aluminate(12CaO·7Al_(2)O_(3),3CaO·Al_(2)O_(3),and CaO·Al_(2)O_(3))are highly correlated with the consumption of dolomite in the raw materials.When the reduction temperature is around 1473.15 K,the critical volume fraction of magnesium vapor for different processes varies within the range of 5%–40%.Production cost analysis shows that the relative vacuum primary magnesium smelting process has significant economic benefits.This paper offers essential data support and theoretical guidance for achieving energy efficiency,carbon reduction in magnesium smelting,and the industrial adoption of innovative processes.展开更多
Compared with Pidgeon process,the relative vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process reduces the ratio of material to magnesium by changing raw materials and the direct reduction after calcination of prefabricated ...Compared with Pidgeon process,the relative vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process reduces the ratio of material to magnesium by changing raw materials and the direct reduction after calcination of prefabricated pellets,so that the energy consumption per ton of magnesium produced is reduced by 30∼40%,and the carbon emission is reduced by 43∼52%,breaking through the vacuum conditions to achieve continuous production.However,in the process of industrialization,it was found that the magnesium yield in the condenser was low.Therefore,this paper constructs a condenser model of relative vacuum continuous magnesium refining process,and comprehensively analyzes the condensation mechanism of magnesium vapor through simulation and experiment.It is found that the dynamic characteristics of magnesium vapor condensation is an important index to measure its continuity.Under the condition offlowing argon as the protective gas,when the condensation plate spacing is 10 cm,the surface roughness amplitude variance is 2,and the carrier gasflow rate is 20×10^(-3) m/s,the magnesium vapor has a better condensation effect,and the condensation efficiency formula is derived.展开更多
This paper presents the design and ground verification for vision-based relative navigation systems of microsatellites,which offers a comprehensive hardware design solution and a robust experimental verification metho...This paper presents the design and ground verification for vision-based relative navigation systems of microsatellites,which offers a comprehensive hardware design solution and a robust experimental verification methodology for practical implementation of vision-based navigation technology on the microsatellite platform.Firstly,a low power consumption,light weight,and high performance vision-based relative navigation optical sensor is designed.Subsequently,a set of ground verification system is designed for the hardware-in-the-loop testing of the vision-based relative navigation systems.Finally,the designed vision-based relative navigation optical sensor and the proposed angles-only navigation algorithms are tested on the ground verification system.The results verify that the optical simulator after geometrical calibration can meet the requirements of the hardware-in-the-loop testing of vision-based relative navigation systems.Based on experimental results,the relative position accuracy of the angles-only navigation filter at terminal time is increased by 25.5%,and the relative speed accuracy is increased by 31.3% compared with those of optical simulator before geometrical calibration.展开更多
Compared with the vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process(RVCMS), its excellent energy saving and emission reduction performance provides a feasible method for green magnesium smelting. In the process of industri...Compared with the vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process(RVCMS), its excellent energy saving and emission reduction performance provides a feasible method for green magnesium smelting. In the process of industrialization, the reduction rate of prefabricated pellets affects the yield of metal magnesium and the utilization of reducing slag. In this paper, the reduction mechanism under different carbonate structures is analyzed by controlled disproportionation of prefabricated pellets and micro-nano simulation. The results show that the low temperature decomposition of NH_(4)·HCO_(3)pore-forming, improve the reduction rate(99.72%) effect is remarkable. Combined with thermodynamics and relative vacuum mechanism, a theoretical model of the relationship between disproportionation pore-forming and reduction rate was established. It was concluded that the energy consumption required to produce per ton of magnesium by adding NH_(4)·HCO_(3)to the prefabricated pellets was reduced by 0.29±0.34 tce, and the carbon emission was reduced by 1.069±1.263 t. The reduction slag had good compressive strength(Side 101.19 N cm^(-2), Bottom 466.4 N cm^(-2)). Compared with the 20 MPa reduction slag sample without pore-forming agent, the side compressive strength increased by 51.66%, and the bottom compressive strength increased by 119.10%. The amount of single furnace filler is increased by more than 50%.展开更多
This paper presents a multi-scale experimental investigation of the weathering degradation of red mudstone.Natural rocks were extracted from the surface ground to 120 m,inwhich three sets of samples were selected to c...This paper presents a multi-scale experimental investigation of the weathering degradation of red mudstone.Natural rocks were extracted from the surface ground to 120 m,inwhich three sets of samples were selected to consider the different initial rock fabrics.The long-term relative humidity(RH)cycles under two amplitudes were imposed on red mudstone to simulate the weathering process.After RH cycles,a series of uniaxial compression tests,Brazilian splitting tests and bender-extender element tests were carried out to examine the reduction in strength and stiffness.The objective of this study is to develop an extended stress-volume framework characterizing the degradation of natural red mudstone both at microscale and macroscale.Accompanied by the irreversible swelling of the rock specimen is the progressive degradation of strength,stiffness and Poisson's ratio.A unified exponential degradation model in terms of the irreversible volumetric strain was thus proposed to capture such a degradation pattern.The effect of the initial rock fabric was evident.The highest degradation rate and potential were identified in slightly weathered specimens.Significant slaking of aggregates and crack propagation were confirmed by scanning electron microscope(SEM)micrographs,which were considered as the main consequence of structure damage leading to degradation of mechanical properties.The structure damage during RH cycles denoted the hysteresis nature in the response to the cycling hydraulic reaction,in turn causing the increase in volumetric strain.Thus,the stress-volume relation rather than the suction relation was found in more reasonable agreement with the experimental results.展开更多
Following the work of Li-Shi-Qing, we propose the definition of the relative volume function for an AH manifold. It is not a constant function in general and we study the regularity of this function. We use this funct...Following the work of Li-Shi-Qing, we propose the definition of the relative volume function for an AH manifold. It is not a constant function in general and we study the regularity of this function. We use this function to provide an accurate characterization of the height of the geodesic defining function for the AH manifold with a given boundary metric. Furthermore, it is shown that such functions are uniformly bounded from below at infinity and the bound only depends on the dimension. In the end, we apply this function to study the capacity of balls in AH manifolds and demonstrate that the “relative p—capacity function” coincides with the relative volume function under appropriate curvature conditions.展开更多
Clayey-silt natural gas hydrate reservoirs in the South China Sea exhibit loose and unconsolidated structures, heterogeneous pore structures, high clay mineral contents, and strong hydrophilicity. These characteristic...Clayey-silt natural gas hydrate reservoirs in the South China Sea exhibit loose and unconsolidated structures, heterogeneous pore structures, high clay mineral contents, and strong hydrophilicity. These characteristics complicate the gas-water two-phase flow process in porous media following hydrate decomposition, posing challenges for efficient development. This study examines the transport response of clayey-silt reservoir samples from the Shenhu area using gas-water two-phase flow experiments and CT scanning to explore changes in pore structure, gas-water distribution, and relative permeability under varying flow conditions. The results indicate that pore heterogeneity significantly influences flow characteristics. Gas preferentially displaces water in larger pores, forming fracture-like pores, which serve as preferential flow channels for gas migration. The preferential flow channels enhance gas-phase permeability up to 19 times that of the water phase when fluid pressures exceed total stresses. However,small pores retain liquid, leading to a high residual water saturation of 0.561. CT imaging reveals that these hydro-fractures improve gas permeability but also confine gas flow to specific channels. Pore network analysis shows that gas injection expands the pore-throat network, enhancing connectivity and forming fracture-like pores. Residual water remains trapped in smaller pores and throats, while structural changes, including new fractures, improve gas flow pathways and overall connectivity. Relative permeability curves demonstrate a narrow gas-water cocurrent-flow zone, a right-shifted iso-permeability point and high reservoir capillary pressure, indicating a strong "water-blocking" effect. The findings suggest that optimizing reservoir stimulation techniques to enhance fracture formation, reduce residual water saturation, and improve gas flow capacity is critical for efficient hydrate reservoir development.展开更多
Missing data handling is vital for multi-sensor information fusion fault diagnosis of motors to prevent the accuracy decay or even model failure,and some promising results have been gained in several current studies.T...Missing data handling is vital for multi-sensor information fusion fault diagnosis of motors to prevent the accuracy decay or even model failure,and some promising results have been gained in several current studies.These studies,however,have the following limitations:1)effective supervision is neglected for missing data across different fault types and 2)imbalance in missing rates among fault types results in inadequate learning during model training.To overcome the above limitations,this paper proposes a dynamic relative advantagedriven multi-fault synergistic diagnosis method to accomplish accurate fault diagnosis of motors under imbalanced missing data rates.Firstly,a cross-fault-type generalized synergistic diagnostic strategy is established based on variational information bottleneck theory,which is able to ensure sufficient supervision in handling missing data.Then,a dynamic relative advantage assessment technique is designed to reduce diagnostic accuracy decay caused by imbalanced missing data rates.The proposed method is validated using multi-sensor data from motor fault simulation experiments,and experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness and superiority in improving diagnostic accuracy and generalization under imbalanced missing data rates.展开更多
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCM)is a primary myocardial disease characterized by myocardial hypertrophy,excluding other cardiovascular or systemic/metabolic causes of ventricular wall thickening.Apical hypertrophic ca...Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCM)is a primary myocardial disease characterized by myocardial hypertrophy,excluding other cardiovascular or systemic/metabolic causes of ventricular wall thickening.Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(ApHCM)represents a special form of ventricular hypertrophy predominantly affecting the left ventricular apex below the papillary muscles,typically without significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.[1,2]ApHCM often coexists with mild coronary artery abnormalities,[3]and reports of acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery stenosis in ApHCM or HCM patients are uncommon.展开更多
The historical movements of relative sea level(RSL)reflect the geomorphological dynamics around coastal regions in the past,and reconstructing the RSL curve contributes to the prediction of future RSL movements.On the...The historical movements of relative sea level(RSL)reflect the geomorphological dynamics around coastal regions in the past,and reconstructing the RSL curve contributes to the prediction of future RSL movements.On the basis of the sediment sequence and optical stimulated luminescence(OSL)dating data of three boreholes in the Yellow River Delta(YRD),the positions of paleo-coastlines and the movements of RSL in the last 2000 years were reconstructed.The main results are as follows:1)the YRD coast transformed from a tide-dominated silty coast to a wave-dominated sandy coast and back to a tide-dominated silty coast in the last 2000 years.2)The sand layers consisting of shell fragments indicated the locations of the coastline in 1855 AD,893 AD,and 40 BC,and their top elevations were close to the mean high water level in the corresponding years.3)The mean sea level elevation in 79 BC,1019 AD,and 1800 AD relative to the modern sea level was -4.52,-4.52,and-2.92 m,respectively.4)The RSL was almost stagnant during 79 BC-1019 AD,rose slowly during 1019-1800 AD due to the reverse change of global climate from the Little Ice Age to the Medieval Warm Period,and rose significantly after 1800 AD due to the warm period.5)The movement of RSL controlled the surface slope of YRD,which was a slope of approximately 0.022‰ at 893 AD,an inverted slope of 0.144‰ at 1855 AD,and a slope of 0.075‰ recently.These findings indicate that the modern YRD is far from being abandoned in the future,providing a historical geomorphological basis for the management of the Yellow River Estuary.展开更多
In this paper,a novel cooperative collision avoidance control strategy with relative velocity information for redundant robotic manipulators is derived to guarantee the behavioral safety of robots in the cooperative o...In this paper,a novel cooperative collision avoidance control strategy with relative velocity information for redundant robotic manipulators is derived to guarantee the behavioral safety of robots in the cooperative operational task.This strategy can generate the collision-free trajectory of the robotic links in real-time,which is to realize that the robot can avoid moving obstacles less conservatively and ensure tracking accuracy of terminal end-effector tasks in performing cooperative tasks.For the case where there is interference between the moving obstacle and the desired path of the robotic end-effector,the method inherits the null-space-based self-motion characteristics of the redundant manipulator,integrates the relative motion information,and uses the improved artificial potential field method to design the control items,which are used to generate the collision avoidance motion and carry out moving obstacles smoothly and less conservatively.At the same time,the strategy maintains the kinematic constraint relationship of dual-arm cooperatives,to meet the real-time collision avoidance task under collaborative tasks.Finally,the algorithm simulation indicates that the method can better ensure the tracking accuracy of the end-effector task and carry out moving obstacles smoothly.The experimental results show that the method can generate the real-time collision-free trajectory of the robot in the cooperative handling task,and the joint movement is continuous and stable.展开更多
Based on ground observation data of relative humidity,the prediction performance of STNF and MIFS in each competition area during February 13-26,2024 was tested and evaluated by using two intelligent forecasting metho...Based on ground observation data of relative humidity,the prediction performance of STNF and MIFS in each competition area during February 13-26,2024 was tested and evaluated by using two intelligent forecasting methods(STNF and MIFS).The results show that STNF had better performance in forecasting relative humidity in high-altitude areas,and was suitable for fine forecasting under complex terrain.MIFS improved the short-term forecast of some low-altitude stations,but the long-term reliability was insufficient.STNF method performed better than MIFS during 0-24 h.As the prediction time extended to 24-72 h,the errors of both methods showed a systematic increase trend.STNF had higher precision,lower root mean square error and smaller mean error in most regions under the background of most weather systems,showing its superiority as a forecasting method of relative humidity.However,the precision of MIFS was slightly higher than that of STNF in Liangcheng without system background,revealing that MIFS may also be an effective option in some specific conditions.展开更多
In this paper,we first introduce the notion of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras and define a cohomology of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras w...In this paper,we first introduce the notion of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras and define a cohomology of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras with coefficients in a suitable representation.Next,we introduce and study 3-Hom-post-Lie-algebras as the underlying structure of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras.Finally,we investigate relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras induced by Hom-Lie algebras.展开更多
As China enters a new stage of agricultural modernization,understanding how rural e-commerce can address the multidimensional relative poverty of farmers is of significant research importance.This research utilized da...As China enters a new stage of agricultural modernization,understanding how rural e-commerce can address the multidimensional relative poverty of farmers is of significant research importance.This research utilized data from China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)and China Statistical Yearbook to construct a multi-dimensional relative poverty index system and an evaluation index system for rural e-commerce development.A fixed-effect model was employed to test the direct impact,and an intermediary-effect model was used to analyze the mechanism.The study found that rural e-commerce effectively alleviated multidimensional relative poverty among farmers,with varying effects across different dimensions.Notably,improving digital payment levels and non-agricultural employment were effective means by which rural e-commerce mitigated this poverty.However,the impact of rural e-commerce showed regional heterogeneity.Based on these findings,this research offered a series of countermeasures and suggestions.展开更多
Modern crops were derived from wild ancestors between 8000 and 12,000 years ago in a process called domestication,when humans selected plant types that gave better yield.For cereal plants,they carry so-called “domest...Modern crops were derived from wild ancestors between 8000 and 12,000 years ago in a process called domestication,when humans selected plant types that gave better yield.For cereal plants,they carry so-called “domestication syndromes”,such as non-shattering spikes,free threshing grains,shorter seed dormancy,and larger grain size[1].But these early crop breeders selected only a small number of domesticated plants to satisfy their limited need,leading to a phenomenon called “domestication bottleneck”resulting in restricted genetic diversity among crop cultivars.Untapped crop wild relatives(CWRs)remain a source of traits to be bred into new cultivars with resilience to challenges facing modern agriculture.展开更多
基金supported by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research VIDI(grant number:198.007).
文摘Background Conditional relative survival(CRS),the probability of survival given that an individual has already survived a certain period post-diagnosis,is a more clinically relevant measure for long-term survival than standard relative survival(RS).This study aims to evaluate the 5-year CRS among adolescent and young adult(AYA)breast cancer patients by age,tumor stage,and receptor subtype to guide disclosure periods for insurance.Methods Data of all females aged 18–39 years and diagnosed with invasive breast cancer between 2003 and 2021(n=13,075)were obtained from The Netherlands Cancer Registry(NCR).The five-year CRS was calculated annually up to 10 years post-diagnosis using a hybrid analysis approach.Results For the total AYA breast cancer study population the 5-year CRS exceeded 90%from diagnosis and increased beyond 95%7 years post-diagnosis.Patients aged 18–24 reached 95%9 years post-diagnosis,those aged 25–29 after 5 years,and those aged 30–34 and 35–39 after 8 years.For stage I,the 5-year CRS reached 95%from diagnosis,for stage II after 6 years,while the 5-year CRS for stages III and IV did not reach the 95%threshold during the 10-year follow-up.Triple-negative tumors exceeded 95%after 4 years,human epidermal growth factor receptor 2(HER2)positive tumors after 6 years,while hormone receptor(HR)positive tumors did not reach 95%.Conclusion Excess mortality among AYA breast cancer patients tends to be little(CRS 90%–95%)from diagnosis and becomes minimal(CRS>95%)over time compared to the general population.These results can enhance expectation management and inform policymakers,suggesting a shorter disclosure period.
基金Funding support for the Crop Pest Surveillance and Advisory Project(CROPSAP)。
文摘Background Cotton crop is infested by numerous arthropod pests from sowing to harvesting,causing substantial direct and indirect yield losses.Knowledge of seasonal population trends and the relative occurrence of pests and their natural enemies is required to minimize the pest population and yield losses.In the current study,analysis of the seasonal population trend of pests and natural enemies and their relative occurrence on cultivars of three cotton species in Central India has been carried out.Results A higher number and diversity of sucking pests were observed during the vegetative cotton growth stage(60 days after sowing),declining as the crop matured.With the exception of cotton jassid(Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida),which caused significant crop damage mainly from August to September;populations of other sucking insects seldom reached economic threshold levels(ETL)throughout the studied period.The bollworm complex populations were minimal,except for the pink bollworm(Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders),which re-emerged as a menace to cotton crops during the cotton cropping season 2017–2018 due to resistance development against Bt-cotton.A reasonably good number of predatory arthropods,including coccinellids,lacewings,and spiders,were found actively preying on the arthropod pest complex of the cotton crop during the early vegetative growth stage.Linear regression indicates a significant relationship between green boll infestations and pink bollworm moths in pheromone traps.Multiple linear regression analyse showed mean weekly weather at one-or two-week lag periods had a significant impact on sucking pest population(cotton aphid,cotton jassid,cotton whitefly,and onion thrips)fluctuation.Gossypium hirsutum cultivars RCH 2 and DCH 32,and G.barbadense cultivar Suvin were found susceptible to cotton jassid and onion thrips.Phule Dhanvantary,an G.arboreum cotton cultivar,demonstrated the highest tolerance among all evaluated cultivars against all sucking pests.Conclusion These findings have important implications for pest management in cotton crops.Susceptible cultivars warrant more attention for plant protection measures,making them more input-intensive.The choice of appropriate cultivars can help minimize input costs,thereby increasing net returns for cotton farmers.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFF0805602)National Natural Science Foundation of China(32225032,32001192,32271597)+1 种基金the Innovation Base Project of Gansu Province(2021YFF0703904)the Science and Technology Program of Gansu Province(24JRRA515,22JR5RA525,23JRRA1157).
文摘Studies on plant diversity are usually based on the total number of species in a community.However,few studies have examined species richness(SR)of different plant life forms in a community along largescale environmental gradients.Particularly,the relative importance(RIV)of different plant life forms in a community and how they vary with environmental variables are still unclear.To fill these gaps,we determined plant diversity of ephemeral plants,annual herbs,perennial herbs,and woody plants from 187 sites across drylands in China.The SR patterns of herbaceous plants,especially perennial herbs,and their RIV in plant communities increased with increasing precipitation and soil nutrient content;however,the RIV of annual herbs was not altered along these gradients.The SR and RIV of ephemeral plants were affected mainly by precipitation seasonality.The SR of woody plants had a unimodal relationship with air temperature and exhibited the highest RIV and SR percentage in plant communities under the harshest environments.An obvious shift emerged in plant community composition,SR and their critical impact factors at 238.5 mm of mean annual precipitation(MAP).In mesic regions(>238.5 mm),herbs were the dominant species,and the SR displayed a relatively slow decreasing rate with increasing aridity,which was mediated mainly by MAP and soil nutrients.In arid regions(<238.5 mm),woody plants were the dominant species,and the SR displayed a relatively fast decreasing rate with increasing aridity,which was mediated mainly by climate variables,especially precipitation.Our findings highlight the importance of comparative life form studies in community structure and biodiversity,as their responses to gradients differed substantially on a large scale.
文摘Gas-bearing shales have become a major source of future natural gas production worldwide.It has become increasingly urgent to develop a reliable prediction model and corresponding workflow for identifying shale gas sweet spots.The formation of gas-bearing shales is closely linked to relative sealevel changes,providing an important approach to predicting sweet spots in the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale in the southern Sichuan Basin,China.Three types of marine shale gas sweet spots are identified in the shale based on their formation stages combined with relative sea-level changes:early,middle,and late transgression types.This study develops a prediction model and workflow for identifying shale gas sweet spots by analyzing relative sea-level changes and facies sequences.Predicting shale gas sweet spots in an explored block using this model and workflow can provide a valuable guide for well design and hydraulic fracturing,significantly enhancing the efficiency of shale gas exploration and development.Notably,the new prediction model and workflow can be utilized for the rapid evaluation of the potential for shale gas development in new shale gas blocks or those with low exploratory maturity.
基金Australian Research Council Linkage Program(LP200301404)for sponsoring this researchthe financial support provided by the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection(Chengdu University of Technology,SKLGP2021K002)National Natural Science Foundation of China(52374101,32111530138).
文摘Discrete fracture network(DFN)commonly existing in natural rock masses plays an important role in geological complexity which can influence rock fracturing behaviour during fluid injection.This paper simulated the hydraulic fracturing process in lab-scale coal samples with DFNs and the induced seismic activities by the discrete element method(DEM).The effects of DFNs on hydraulic fracturing,induced seismicity and elastic property changes have been concluded.Denser DFNs can comprehensively decrease the peak injection pressure and injection duration.The proportion of strong seismic events increases first and then decreases with increasing DFN density.In addition,the relative modulus of the rock mass is derived innovatively from breakdown pressure,breakdown fracture length and the related initiation time.Increasing DFN densities among large(35–60 degrees)and small(0–30 degrees)fracture dip angles show opposite evolution trends in relative modulus.The transitional point(dip angle)for the opposite trends is also proportionally affected by the friction angle of the rock mass.The modelling results have much practical meaning to infer the density and geometry of pre-existing fractures and the elastic property of rock mass in the field,simply based on the hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity monitoring data.
基金supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2023T160088)the Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52304324).
文摘Magnesium and magnesium alloys,serving as crucial lightweight structural materials and hydrogen storage elements,find extensive applications in space technology,aviation,automotive,and magnesium-based hydrogen industries.The global production of primary magnesium has reached approximately 1.2 million tons per year,with anticipated diversification in future applications and significant market demand.Nevertheless,approximately 80%of the world’s primary magnesium is still manufactured through the Pidgeon process,grappling with formidable issues including high energy consumption,massive carbon emission,significant resource depletion,and environmental pollution.The implementation of the relative vacuum method shows potential in breaking through technological challenges in the Pidgeon process,facilitating clean,low-carbon continuous magnesium smelting.This paper begins by introducing the principles of the relative vacuum method.Subsequently,it elucidates various innovative process routes,including relative vacuum ferrosilicon reduction,aluminum thermal reduction co-production of spinel,and aluminum thermal reduction co-production of calcium aluminate.Finally,and thermodynamic foundations of the relative vacuum,a quantitative analysis of the material,energy flows,carbon emission,and production cost for several new processes is conducted,comparing and analyzing them against the Pidgeon process.The study findings reveal that,with identical raw materials,the relative vacuum silicon thermal reduction process significantly decreases raw material consumption,energy consumption,and carbon dioxide emissions by 15.86%,30.89%,and 26.27%,respectively,compared to the Pidgeon process.The relative vacuum process,using magnesite as the raw material and aluminum as the reducing agent,has the lowest magnesium-to-feed ratio,at only 3.385.Additionally,its energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are the lowest,at 1.817 tce/t Mg and 7.782 t CO_(2)/t Mg,respectively.The energy consumption and carbon emissions of the relative vacuum magnesium smelting process co-producing calcium aluminate(12CaO·7Al_(2)O_(3),3CaO·Al_(2)O_(3),and CaO·Al_(2)O_(3))are highly correlated with the consumption of dolomite in the raw materials.When the reduction temperature is around 1473.15 K,the critical volume fraction of magnesium vapor for different processes varies within the range of 5%–40%.Production cost analysis shows that the relative vacuum primary magnesium smelting process has significant economic benefits.This paper offers essential data support and theoretical guidance for achieving energy efficiency,carbon reduction in magnesium smelting,and the industrial adoption of innovative processes.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1908225,U1702253)the Special Funds for Ba-sic Research Operations of Central Universities(N182515007,N170908001,N2025004).
文摘Compared with Pidgeon process,the relative vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process reduces the ratio of material to magnesium by changing raw materials and the direct reduction after calcination of prefabricated pellets,so that the energy consumption per ton of magnesium produced is reduced by 30∼40%,and the carbon emission is reduced by 43∼52%,breaking through the vacuum conditions to achieve continuous production.However,in the process of industrialization,it was found that the magnesium yield in the condenser was low.Therefore,this paper constructs a condenser model of relative vacuum continuous magnesium refining process,and comprehensively analyzes the condensation mechanism of magnesium vapor through simulation and experiment.It is found that the dynamic characteristics of magnesium vapor condensation is an important index to measure its continuity.Under the condition offlowing argon as the protective gas,when the condensation plate spacing is 10 cm,the surface roughness amplitude variance is 2,and the carrier gasflow rate is 20×10^(-3) m/s,the magnesium vapor has a better condensation effect,and the condensation efficiency formula is derived.
基金supported in part by the Doctoral Initiation Fund of Nanchang Hangkong University(No.EA202403107)Jiangxi Province Early Career Youth Science and Technology Talent Training Project(No.CK202403509).
文摘This paper presents the design and ground verification for vision-based relative navigation systems of microsatellites,which offers a comprehensive hardware design solution and a robust experimental verification methodology for practical implementation of vision-based navigation technology on the microsatellite platform.Firstly,a low power consumption,light weight,and high performance vision-based relative navigation optical sensor is designed.Subsequently,a set of ground verification system is designed for the hardware-in-the-loop testing of the vision-based relative navigation systems.Finally,the designed vision-based relative navigation optical sensor and the proposed angles-only navigation algorithms are tested on the ground verification system.The results verify that the optical simulator after geometrical calibration can meet the requirements of the hardware-in-the-loop testing of vision-based relative navigation systems.Based on experimental results,the relative position accuracy of the angles-only navigation filter at terminal time is increased by 25.5%,and the relative speed accuracy is increased by 31.3% compared with those of optical simulator before geometrical calibration.
基金supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023T160088)the Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52304324)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1908225, U1702253)the Special Funds for Basic Research Operations of Central Universities(N182515007, N170908001, N2025004)。
文摘Compared with the vacuum continuous magnesium smelting process(RVCMS), its excellent energy saving and emission reduction performance provides a feasible method for green magnesium smelting. In the process of industrialization, the reduction rate of prefabricated pellets affects the yield of metal magnesium and the utilization of reducing slag. In this paper, the reduction mechanism under different carbonate structures is analyzed by controlled disproportionation of prefabricated pellets and micro-nano simulation. The results show that the low temperature decomposition of NH_(4)·HCO_(3)pore-forming, improve the reduction rate(99.72%) effect is remarkable. Combined with thermodynamics and relative vacuum mechanism, a theoretical model of the relationship between disproportionation pore-forming and reduction rate was established. It was concluded that the energy consumption required to produce per ton of magnesium by adding NH_(4)·HCO_(3)to the prefabricated pellets was reduced by 0.29±0.34 tce, and the carbon emission was reduced by 1.069±1.263 t. The reduction slag had good compressive strength(Side 101.19 N cm^(-2), Bottom 466.4 N cm^(-2)). Compared with the 20 MPa reduction slag sample without pore-forming agent, the side compressive strength increased by 51.66%, and the bottom compressive strength increased by 119.10%. The amount of single furnace filler is increased by more than 50%.
基金The financial support from Project(Grant Nos.52278432,and 52168066)of National Natural Science Foundation of China and Project(Grant No.K2023G033)of the Science and Technology Research and Development Plan of China National Railway Group Co.,Ltd.were greatly appreciated.
文摘This paper presents a multi-scale experimental investigation of the weathering degradation of red mudstone.Natural rocks were extracted from the surface ground to 120 m,inwhich three sets of samples were selected to consider the different initial rock fabrics.The long-term relative humidity(RH)cycles under two amplitudes were imposed on red mudstone to simulate the weathering process.After RH cycles,a series of uniaxial compression tests,Brazilian splitting tests and bender-extender element tests were carried out to examine the reduction in strength and stiffness.The objective of this study is to develop an extended stress-volume framework characterizing the degradation of natural red mudstone both at microscale and macroscale.Accompanied by the irreversible swelling of the rock specimen is the progressive degradation of strength,stiffness and Poisson's ratio.A unified exponential degradation model in terms of the irreversible volumetric strain was thus proposed to capture such a degradation pattern.The effect of the initial rock fabric was evident.The highest degradation rate and potential were identified in slightly weathered specimens.Significant slaking of aggregates and crack propagation were confirmed by scanning electron microscope(SEM)micrographs,which were considered as the main consequence of structure damage leading to degradation of mechanical properties.The structure damage during RH cycles denoted the hysteresis nature in the response to the cycling hydraulic reaction,in turn causing the increase in volumetric strain.Thus,the stress-volume relation rather than the suction relation was found in more reasonable agreement with the experimental results.
文摘Following the work of Li-Shi-Qing, we propose the definition of the relative volume function for an AH manifold. It is not a constant function in general and we study the regularity of this function. We use this function to provide an accurate characterization of the height of the geodesic defining function for the AH manifold with a given boundary metric. Furthermore, it is shown that such functions are uniformly bounded from below at infinity and the bound only depends on the dimension. In the end, we apply this function to study the capacity of balls in AH manifolds and demonstrate that the “relative p—capacity function” coincides with the relative volume function under appropriate curvature conditions.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42302143, 42172159)China Geological Survey Project (No. DD20211350)support from the G. Albert Shoemaker endowment
文摘Clayey-silt natural gas hydrate reservoirs in the South China Sea exhibit loose and unconsolidated structures, heterogeneous pore structures, high clay mineral contents, and strong hydrophilicity. These characteristics complicate the gas-water two-phase flow process in porous media following hydrate decomposition, posing challenges for efficient development. This study examines the transport response of clayey-silt reservoir samples from the Shenhu area using gas-water two-phase flow experiments and CT scanning to explore changes in pore structure, gas-water distribution, and relative permeability under varying flow conditions. The results indicate that pore heterogeneity significantly influences flow characteristics. Gas preferentially displaces water in larger pores, forming fracture-like pores, which serve as preferential flow channels for gas migration. The preferential flow channels enhance gas-phase permeability up to 19 times that of the water phase when fluid pressures exceed total stresses. However,small pores retain liquid, leading to a high residual water saturation of 0.561. CT imaging reveals that these hydro-fractures improve gas permeability but also confine gas flow to specific channels. Pore network analysis shows that gas injection expands the pore-throat network, enhancing connectivity and forming fracture-like pores. Residual water remains trapped in smaller pores and throats, while structural changes, including new fractures, improve gas flow pathways and overall connectivity. Relative permeability curves demonstrate a narrow gas-water cocurrent-flow zone, a right-shifted iso-permeability point and high reservoir capillary pressure, indicating a strong "water-blocking" effect. The findings suggest that optimizing reservoir stimulation techniques to enhance fracture formation, reduce residual water saturation, and improve gas flow capacity is critical for efficient hydrate reservoir development.
文摘Missing data handling is vital for multi-sensor information fusion fault diagnosis of motors to prevent the accuracy decay or even model failure,and some promising results have been gained in several current studies.These studies,however,have the following limitations:1)effective supervision is neglected for missing data across different fault types and 2)imbalance in missing rates among fault types results in inadequate learning during model training.To overcome the above limitations,this paper proposes a dynamic relative advantagedriven multi-fault synergistic diagnosis method to accomplish accurate fault diagnosis of motors under imbalanced missing data rates.Firstly,a cross-fault-type generalized synergistic diagnostic strategy is established based on variational information bottleneck theory,which is able to ensure sufficient supervision in handling missing data.Then,a dynamic relative advantage assessment technique is designed to reduce diagnostic accuracy decay caused by imbalanced missing data rates.The proposed method is validated using multi-sensor data from motor fault simulation experiments,and experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness and superiority in improving diagnostic accuracy and generalization under imbalanced missing data rates.
文摘Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(HCM)is a primary myocardial disease characterized by myocardial hypertrophy,excluding other cardiovascular or systemic/metabolic causes of ventricular wall thickening.Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(ApHCM)represents a special form of ventricular hypertrophy predominantly affecting the left ventricular apex below the papillary muscles,typically without significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.[1,2]ApHCM often coexists with mild coronary artery abnormalities,[3]and reports of acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery stenosis in ApHCM or HCM patients are uncommon.
基金supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42330406 and 42476163)。
文摘The historical movements of relative sea level(RSL)reflect the geomorphological dynamics around coastal regions in the past,and reconstructing the RSL curve contributes to the prediction of future RSL movements.On the basis of the sediment sequence and optical stimulated luminescence(OSL)dating data of three boreholes in the Yellow River Delta(YRD),the positions of paleo-coastlines and the movements of RSL in the last 2000 years were reconstructed.The main results are as follows:1)the YRD coast transformed from a tide-dominated silty coast to a wave-dominated sandy coast and back to a tide-dominated silty coast in the last 2000 years.2)The sand layers consisting of shell fragments indicated the locations of the coastline in 1855 AD,893 AD,and 40 BC,and their top elevations were close to the mean high water level in the corresponding years.3)The mean sea level elevation in 79 BC,1019 AD,and 1800 AD relative to the modern sea level was -4.52,-4.52,and-2.92 m,respectively.4)The RSL was almost stagnant during 79 BC-1019 AD,rose slowly during 1019-1800 AD due to the reverse change of global climate from the Little Ice Age to the Medieval Warm Period,and rose significantly after 1800 AD due to the warm period.5)The movement of RSL controlled the surface slope of YRD,which was a slope of approximately 0.022‰ at 893 AD,an inverted slope of 0.144‰ at 1855 AD,and a slope of 0.075‰ recently.These findings indicate that the modern YRD is far from being abandoned in the future,providing a historical geomorphological basis for the management of the Yellow River Estuary.
基金supported in part by the Advanced Equipment Manufacturing Technology Innovation Project of Hebei Province under Grant No.22311801D,23311807D,and 236Z1816Gin part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.U20A20283.
文摘In this paper,a novel cooperative collision avoidance control strategy with relative velocity information for redundant robotic manipulators is derived to guarantee the behavioral safety of robots in the cooperative operational task.This strategy can generate the collision-free trajectory of the robotic links in real-time,which is to realize that the robot can avoid moving obstacles less conservatively and ensure tracking accuracy of terminal end-effector tasks in performing cooperative tasks.For the case where there is interference between the moving obstacle and the desired path of the robotic end-effector,the method inherits the null-space-based self-motion characteristics of the redundant manipulator,integrates the relative motion information,and uses the improved artificial potential field method to design the control items,which are used to generate the collision avoidance motion and carry out moving obstacles smoothly and less conservatively.At the same time,the strategy maintains the kinematic constraint relationship of dual-arm cooperatives,to meet the real-time collision avoidance task under collaborative tasks.Finally,the algorithm simulation indicates that the method can better ensure the tracking accuracy of the end-effector task and carry out moving obstacles smoothly.The experimental results show that the method can generate the real-time collision-free trajectory of the robot in the cooperative handling task,and the joint movement is continuous and stable.
文摘Based on ground observation data of relative humidity,the prediction performance of STNF and MIFS in each competition area during February 13-26,2024 was tested and evaluated by using two intelligent forecasting methods(STNF and MIFS).The results show that STNF had better performance in forecasting relative humidity in high-altitude areas,and was suitable for fine forecasting under complex terrain.MIFS improved the short-term forecast of some low-altitude stations,but the long-term reliability was insufficient.STNF method performed better than MIFS during 0-24 h.As the prediction time extended to 24-72 h,the errors of both methods showed a systematic increase trend.STNF had higher precision,lower root mean square error and smaller mean error in most regions under the background of most weather systems,showing its superiority as a forecasting method of relative humidity.However,the precision of MIFS was slightly higher than that of STNF in Liangcheng without system background,revealing that MIFS may also be an effective option in some specific conditions.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12161013)the School-Level Student Research Project of Guizhou University of Finance and Economics(Grant No.2024ZXSY231)。
文摘In this paper,we first introduce the notion of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras and define a cohomology of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras with coefficients in a suitable representation.Next,we introduce and study 3-Hom-post-Lie-algebras as the underlying structure of relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras.Finally,we investigate relative Rota-Baxter operators of nonzero weight on 3-Hom-Lie algebras induced by Hom-Lie algebras.
基金Supported by General Project of the National Social Science Foundation(Topic 20BJY135)。
文摘As China enters a new stage of agricultural modernization,understanding how rural e-commerce can address the multidimensional relative poverty of farmers is of significant research importance.This research utilized data from China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)and China Statistical Yearbook to construct a multi-dimensional relative poverty index system and an evaluation index system for rural e-commerce development.A fixed-effect model was employed to test the direct impact,and an intermediary-effect model was used to analyze the mechanism.The study found that rural e-commerce effectively alleviated multidimensional relative poverty among farmers,with varying effects across different dimensions.Notably,improving digital payment levels and non-agricultural employment were effective means by which rural e-commerce mitigated this poverty.However,the impact of rural e-commerce showed regional heterogeneity.Based on these findings,this research offered a series of countermeasures and suggestions.
文摘Modern crops were derived from wild ancestors between 8000 and 12,000 years ago in a process called domestication,when humans selected plant types that gave better yield.For cereal plants,they carry so-called “domestication syndromes”,such as non-shattering spikes,free threshing grains,shorter seed dormancy,and larger grain size[1].But these early crop breeders selected only a small number of domesticated plants to satisfy their limited need,leading to a phenomenon called “domestication bottleneck”resulting in restricted genetic diversity among crop cultivars.Untapped crop wild relatives(CWRs)remain a source of traits to be bred into new cultivars with resilience to challenges facing modern agriculture.
