Large-scale synoptic patterns significantly affect meteorological conditions and air pollution,yet their impacts on the vertical distribution of formaldehyde(HCHO)and nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2))have been little studied.F...Large-scale synoptic patterns significantly affect meteorological conditions and air pollution,yet their impacts on the vertical distribution of formaldehyde(HCHO)and nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2))have been little studied.From 1 June 2020 to 31 December 2021,Multi-AXis-Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy(MAX-DOAS)was used to observe NO_(2) and HCHO vertical profiles in three typical environments of Shanghai,China,representing urban,suburban and coastal rural environments,respectively.HCHO level is the highest at suburban site,NO_(2) is the highest at urban site.HCHO is mainly distributed between 0 and 1 kmin altitude,and NO_(2) is concentrated near the ground.The ratio of HCHO to NO_(2) is used to identify ozone formation regimes,ozone sensitivities vary with environmental area,season and altitude.The principal component analysis in the T-mode approach and typhoon“In-Fa”case is applied to analyze the effects of synoptic patterns on HCHO and NO_(2) vertically.HCHO concentrations show a pattern of low-pressure type>uniform-pressure type>high-pressure type at each altitude layer,while NO_(2) concentrations follow the opposite pattern.Meteorological factors(especially radiation,temperature,relative humidity,cloud cover and wind),external transport and initial emissions contribute to the differences in HCHO and NO_(2) levels across synoptic types.The“In-Fa”case shows how this special synoptic pattern elevates HCHO and NO_(2) levels by improving meteorological conditions,boosting biogenic precursors and shifting air mass directions.This study assesses the impacts of synoptic patterns on HCHO and NO_(2) vertical distribution in Shanghai,offering insights into understanding causes of pollution.展开更多
Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of death;therefore cardiac health of the human heart has been a fascinating topic for decades.The electrocardiogram(ECG)signal is a comprehensive non-invasive met...Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of death;therefore cardiac health of the human heart has been a fascinating topic for decades.The electrocardiogram(ECG)signal is a comprehensive non-invasive method for determining cardiac health.Various health practitioners use the ECG signal to ascertain critical information about the human heart.In this article,swarm intelligence approaches are used in the biomedical signal processing sector to enhance adaptive hybrid filters and empirical wavelet transforms(EWTs).At first,the white Gaussian noise is added to the input ECG signal and then applied to the EWT.The ECG signals are denoised by the proposed adaptive hybrid filter.The honey badge optimization(HBO)algorithm is utilized to optimize the EWT window function and adaptive hybrid filter weight parameters.The proposed approach is simulated by MATLAB 2018a using the MIT-BIH dataset with white Gaussian,electromyogram and electrode motion artifact noises.A comparison of the HBO approach with recursive least square-based adaptive filter,multichannel least means square,and discrete wavelet transform methods has been done in order to show the efficiency of the proposed adaptive hybrid filter.The experimental results show that the HBO approach supported by EWT and adaptive hybrid filter can be employed efficiently for cardiovascular signal denoising.展开更多
The island rule,a general pattern of dwarfism in large species to gigantism in small species on islands relative to mainland,is typically seen as a macroevolutionary phenomenon.However,whether the ecological processes...The island rule,a general pattern of dwarfism in large species to gigantism in small species on islands relative to mainland,is typically seen as a macroevolutionary phenomenon.However,whether the ecological processes associated with abiotic and biotic factors generate a pattern of plant size variation similar to the island rule remains unknown.We measured plant height for 29,623 individuals of 50 common woody plant species across 43 islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago(8500 years old and yet to undergo major evolutionary adaptation)and the adjacent mainlands in China.We found pronounced variations in plant height,similar to those of the island rule.Interestingly,islands with low resource availability,such as low soil organic matter content and low precipitation,had a high degree of dwarfism;islands experiencing high environmental stress,such as high soil pH,had a high degree of dwarfism;and islands experiencing less planteplant competition had a high degree of gigantism.The magnitude of plant dwarfism was higher on small and remote islands than on larger and nearer islands.These results highlight the importance of ecological processes associated with abiotic and biotic conditions in shaping the island rule-like patterns of plant size variation.Since our studied archipelago is too young to undergo major evolution,ecological processes likely played a prominent role in generating the observed pattern,challenging the notion that the evolutionary process is the dominant factor underlying the island rule.Future studies on the island rule need to perform experiments to disentangle evolutionary from ecological mechanisms.展开更多
The South China Sea winter monsoon(SCSWM),an integral component of the East Asian winter monsoon,connects extratropical and tropical regions.Utilizing ERA5 reanalysis and PAMIP simulations,the relationship between Arc...The South China Sea winter monsoon(SCSWM),an integral component of the East Asian winter monsoon,connects extratropical and tropical regions.Utilizing ERA5 reanalysis and PAMIP simulations,the relationship between Arctic sea ice and the SCSWM is investigated.The authors reveal that its strongest relationship with Arctic sea ice occurs in the North Pacific sector,i.e.,the Sea of Okhotsk and western Bering Sea.This link persists throughout the cold season,peaks when sea ice precedes the SCSWM by one month,and is independent of ENSO.North Pacific sea-ice loss weakens the meridional temperature gradient(MTG)and vertical wind shear in midlatitudes,reducing baroclinic eddy formation.Given the reduced zonal wind according to the thermal wind relation,the reduced wave activity flux in the upper troposphere must be balanced by equatorward wind based on the quasi-geostrophic momentum equation.This generates an anomalous meridional overturning circulation with descent and low-level divergence around 30°N,which intensifies the divergent component of the SCSWM.The divergent northerly anomalies also lead to cold advection and subtropical cooling.The enhanced MTG due to the subtropical cooling and weakened MTG due to high-latitude warming closely tied to reduced North Pacific sea ice displace the westerly jet southward,creating cyclonic shears over the North Pacific and intensifying the rotational component of the SCSWM.These findings establish North Pacific sea ice as a non-ENSO driver of the SCSWM,holding substantial implications for the predictability of the SCSWM.展开更多
Same-sex mounts provide male juvenile golden snub-nosed monkeys(Rhinopithecus roxellana)with opportunities to practice heterosexual copulatory skills and are often followed by grooming(post-mounting grooming,PMG).We h...Same-sex mounts provide male juvenile golden snub-nosed monkeys(Rhinopithecus roxellana)with opportunities to practice heterosexual copulatory skills and are often followed by grooming(post-mounting grooming,PMG).We hypothesized that juveniles acted as the mountee and provided mounting opportunities to receive grooming from their peer mounter.Here,we observed same-sex mounts among male juveniles(N=5)in a captive group of R.roxellana in Shanghai Wild Animal Park,China,from November 2014 to June 2015.Among 1,044 mounts recorded,45.40% were accompanied by PMG initiated by the mounter and only 3.74% were followed by PMG initiated by the mountee.Mountees were more likely to receive PMG when they performed a mounting solicitation than when they did not,or when they were mounted for a longer time(even if they did not solicit).Over a long timeframe(1 month),mountee’s tended to choose partners who groomed them more often than others after mounting,regardless of how long the grooming lasted.However,whether the mounter groomed the mountee did not predict the mounting direction in their subsequent mount.Our results suggest that,in the context of same-sex mounts,juveniles provide mounting opportunities to receive grooming from peers on a long-term,rather than on a short-term basis.This study provides the first evidence that juveniles’same-sex mounting strategy may be associated with the grooming market in nonhuman primates,which necessitates further investigation with large free-ranging groups due to the limited sample size of individuals and the captive setting of the current study.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2023YFC3705301)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22176037,42075097,22376030,42375089,and 21976031).
文摘Large-scale synoptic patterns significantly affect meteorological conditions and air pollution,yet their impacts on the vertical distribution of formaldehyde(HCHO)and nitrogen dioxide(NO_(2))have been little studied.From 1 June 2020 to 31 December 2021,Multi-AXis-Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy(MAX-DOAS)was used to observe NO_(2) and HCHO vertical profiles in three typical environments of Shanghai,China,representing urban,suburban and coastal rural environments,respectively.HCHO level is the highest at suburban site,NO_(2) is the highest at urban site.HCHO is mainly distributed between 0 and 1 kmin altitude,and NO_(2) is concentrated near the ground.The ratio of HCHO to NO_(2) is used to identify ozone formation regimes,ozone sensitivities vary with environmental area,season and altitude.The principal component analysis in the T-mode approach and typhoon“In-Fa”case is applied to analyze the effects of synoptic patterns on HCHO and NO_(2) vertically.HCHO concentrations show a pattern of low-pressure type>uniform-pressure type>high-pressure type at each altitude layer,while NO_(2) concentrations follow the opposite pattern.Meteorological factors(especially radiation,temperature,relative humidity,cloud cover and wind),external transport and initial emissions contribute to the differences in HCHO and NO_(2) levels across synoptic types.The“In-Fa”case shows how this special synoptic pattern elevates HCHO and NO_(2) levels by improving meteorological conditions,boosting biogenic precursors and shifting air mass directions.This study assesses the impacts of synoptic patterns on HCHO and NO_(2) vertical distribution in Shanghai,offering insights into understanding causes of pollution.
文摘Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of death;therefore cardiac health of the human heart has been a fascinating topic for decades.The electrocardiogram(ECG)signal is a comprehensive non-invasive method for determining cardiac health.Various health practitioners use the ECG signal to ascertain critical information about the human heart.In this article,swarm intelligence approaches are used in the biomedical signal processing sector to enhance adaptive hybrid filters and empirical wavelet transforms(EWTs).At first,the white Gaussian noise is added to the input ECG signal and then applied to the EWT.The ECG signals are denoised by the proposed adaptive hybrid filter.The honey badge optimization(HBO)algorithm is utilized to optimize the EWT window function and adaptive hybrid filter weight parameters.The proposed approach is simulated by MATLAB 2018a using the MIT-BIH dataset with white Gaussian,electromyogram and electrode motion artifact noises.A comparison of the HBO approach with recursive least square-based adaptive filter,multichannel least means square,and discrete wavelet transform methods has been done in order to show the efficiency of the proposed adaptive hybrid filter.The experimental results show that the HBO approach supported by EWT and adaptive hybrid filter can be employed efficiently for cardiovascular signal denoising.
基金supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32030068)the“Lump-sum System”Project of Chongqing Talent Plan(Grant No.cstc2022ycjh-bgzxm0204).
文摘The island rule,a general pattern of dwarfism in large species to gigantism in small species on islands relative to mainland,is typically seen as a macroevolutionary phenomenon.However,whether the ecological processes associated with abiotic and biotic factors generate a pattern of plant size variation similar to the island rule remains unknown.We measured plant height for 29,623 individuals of 50 common woody plant species across 43 islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago(8500 years old and yet to undergo major evolutionary adaptation)and the adjacent mainlands in China.We found pronounced variations in plant height,similar to those of the island rule.Interestingly,islands with low resource availability,such as low soil organic matter content and low precipitation,had a high degree of dwarfism;islands experiencing high environmental stress,such as high soil pH,had a high degree of dwarfism;and islands experiencing less planteplant competition had a high degree of gigantism.The magnitude of plant dwarfism was higher on small and remote islands than on larger and nearer islands.These results highlight the importance of ecological processes associated with abiotic and biotic conditions in shaping the island rule-like patterns of plant size variation.Since our studied archipelago is too young to undergo major evolution,ecological processes likely played a prominent role in generating the observed pattern,challenging the notion that the evolutionary process is the dominant factor underlying the island rule.Future studies on the island rule need to perform experiments to disentangle evolutionary from ecological mechanisms.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China[grant number 2022YFF0801701]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 42105017].
文摘The South China Sea winter monsoon(SCSWM),an integral component of the East Asian winter monsoon,connects extratropical and tropical regions.Utilizing ERA5 reanalysis and PAMIP simulations,the relationship between Arctic sea ice and the SCSWM is investigated.The authors reveal that its strongest relationship with Arctic sea ice occurs in the North Pacific sector,i.e.,the Sea of Okhotsk and western Bering Sea.This link persists throughout the cold season,peaks when sea ice precedes the SCSWM by one month,and is independent of ENSO.North Pacific sea-ice loss weakens the meridional temperature gradient(MTG)and vertical wind shear in midlatitudes,reducing baroclinic eddy formation.Given the reduced zonal wind according to the thermal wind relation,the reduced wave activity flux in the upper troposphere must be balanced by equatorward wind based on the quasi-geostrophic momentum equation.This generates an anomalous meridional overturning circulation with descent and low-level divergence around 30°N,which intensifies the divergent component of the SCSWM.The divergent northerly anomalies also lead to cold advection and subtropical cooling.The enhanced MTG due to the subtropical cooling and weakened MTG due to high-latitude warming closely tied to reduced North Pacific sea ice displace the westerly jet southward,creating cyclonic shears over the North Pacific and intensifying the rotational component of the SCSWM.These findings establish North Pacific sea ice as a non-ENSO driver of the SCSWM,holding substantial implications for the predictability of the SCSWM.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31901083,31872250,and 31401985)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2019M663796).
文摘Same-sex mounts provide male juvenile golden snub-nosed monkeys(Rhinopithecus roxellana)with opportunities to practice heterosexual copulatory skills and are often followed by grooming(post-mounting grooming,PMG).We hypothesized that juveniles acted as the mountee and provided mounting opportunities to receive grooming from their peer mounter.Here,we observed same-sex mounts among male juveniles(N=5)in a captive group of R.roxellana in Shanghai Wild Animal Park,China,from November 2014 to June 2015.Among 1,044 mounts recorded,45.40% were accompanied by PMG initiated by the mounter and only 3.74% were followed by PMG initiated by the mountee.Mountees were more likely to receive PMG when they performed a mounting solicitation than when they did not,or when they were mounted for a longer time(even if they did not solicit).Over a long timeframe(1 month),mountee’s tended to choose partners who groomed them more often than others after mounting,regardless of how long the grooming lasted.However,whether the mounter groomed the mountee did not predict the mounting direction in their subsequent mount.Our results suggest that,in the context of same-sex mounts,juveniles provide mounting opportunities to receive grooming from peers on a long-term,rather than on a short-term basis.This study provides the first evidence that juveniles’same-sex mounting strategy may be associated with the grooming market in nonhuman primates,which necessitates further investigation with large free-ranging groups due to the limited sample size of individuals and the captive setting of the current study.
