Yu Liu¹, Ruiting Jiao¹, Liyao Zhao¹, Kai Liu^1,2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.2, pp. 363-378, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.013472

Abstract The impact of greenization on the marginal utility of the intensity of carbon emissions in China and factors influencing this relationship are explored in this study. China’s level of greenization is evaluated by using an index system developed based on the comprehensive index method. The intensity of carbon emissions is determined by using the standards for the coefficients of conversion of coal equivalent and coefficients of carbon emission. The impact of greenization on the marginal utility of the intensity of carbon emissions is then evaluated by using an elastic formula and factors affecting this relationship are verified by regression analysis.… More >

Patikorn Sriphirom^1,2, Amnat Chidthaisong^1,2,3, Kazuyuki Yagi^1,2, Nimaradee Boonapatcharoen⁴, Sudarut Tripetchkul⁵, Sirintornthep Towprayoon^1,2,3,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.10, pp. 1199-1214, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.010826

Abstract Biochar amendment is generally recognized as an effective mitigation option of methane (CH₄) emissions from rice cultivation. Although its mitigation mechanisms are not well understood, the potential relevance of surface area and porosity of biochar has been discussed. This study aimed to evaluate the application of different biochar particle sizes on CH₄ production, oxidation, and emissions from rice cultivation in a clay loam soil, based on the assumption that porosity and surface area of biochar are directly related to its mitigation effects. Rice was grown under greenhouse conditions for two growing seasons, either with 0.5–2 mm (small, SB) or with… More >

V. E. Prokhorov^*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 737-746, 2020, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2020.08988

Abstract The collision of droplets with a water surface is being actively developed in the interests of many applied problems—transfer of matter through the ocean-atmosphere boundary, underwater acoustic noise of the marine environment, measurement of precipitation intensity, various technologies, and much more. One of the research priorities is acoustic radiation, in particular, shock sound arising at the moment a drop contacts the surface. The impact of the drop is preceded by processes that affect the shape of the drop, because of which it noticeably deviates from the spherical one. As a result, the final (contact) velocity changes–one of the most important… More >

Weibo Yang¹, Weidong Liu^{2, *}, Jinming Liu³, Mingyang Zhang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 515-525, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09801

Abstract The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a widely used deep neural network. Compared with the shallow neural network, the CNN network has better performance and faster computing in some image recognition tasks. It can effectively avoid the problem that network training falls into local extremes. At present, CNN has been applied in many different fields, including fault diagnosis, and it has improved the level and efficiency of fault diagnosis. In this paper, a two-streams convolutional neural network (TCNN) model is proposed. Based on the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectral and Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) input characteristics of two-streams acoustic… More >

Christoph Gräni, Dominik C. Benz, Mathias Possner, Olivier F. Clerc, Fran Mikulicic, Jan Vontobel, Julia Stehli, Tobias A. Fuchs, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Oliver Gaemperli, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 49-57, 2017

Abstract Objective: To provide data on the value of fused cardiac hybrid imaging with coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (PET-MPI) in patients with complex coronary artery anomalies (CCAA).
Design/setting: This is a retrospective, single-center study.
Patients: Seven consecutive patients with CCAA (mean 57 ± 7 y, 86% were male) who underwent clinically indicated hybrid CCTA/PET-MPI between 2005 and 2015 in our clinic were included. The findings from both modalities and fused cardiac hybrid imaging were evaluated in these patients.
Results: Out of the seven patients with CCAA, two patients had Bland–White–Garland anomaly, two patients… More >

Geng Guo^1,*, Leiwen Chen¹, Ji Li², Shu Yan³, Wenxiang Wu⁴, Lingxu Li⁵, Hongda Li⁶

Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.2, pp. 79-88, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.010529

Abstract Featured by high energy density, low combustion pollution and large quantity, natural gas hydrate has become one of the research hotspots in Sanlutian Field of Muri Coalfield since 2008, when China first drilled natural gas hydrate samples in the permafrost area of Qilian Mountains, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, the study on the controlling factors of gas hydrate accumulation is still shallow, which hinders the exploration and development of natural gas hydrate resources. The controlling factors of gas hydrate accumulation mainly include temperature and pressure conditions, gas source conditions, sedimentary conditions and structural conditions, among which structural conditions are the important one.… More >

Ning Li^1,2, Weiming Yi^1,2, Zhihe Li^1,2,*, Lihong Wang^1,2, Yongjun Li^1,2, Xueyuan Bai^1,2, Mei Jiang^1,2

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.3, pp. 329-346, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.08618

Abstract Bio-oil production via pyrolysis is one of promising technologies for renewable energy production from bio-wastes. However, the complicated biooil is still a challenge for high-valued application and during biomass pyrolysis, the emission of non-cleaned aerosol, the potential emission, namely carbonaceous aerosol (CA) increased the difficulty of the commercial promotion. In this study, Rice husk pyrolysis was performed in a semi-continuous fluidized bed reactor coupled with fractional condensers. The effects of pyrolysis and condensation temperature on the properties of bio-oil and emission of CA were investigated systemically. Results indicated that the in-situ separation of vapors was accomplished via condensers of different… More >

Weibo Yang^{1, *}, Jing Li², Wei Peng², Aidong Deng³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 283-299, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07511

Abstract Based on the theory of modal acoustic emission (AE), when the convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to identify rotor rub-impact faults, the training data has a small sample size, and the AE sound segment belongs to a single channel signal with less pixel-level information and strong local correlation. Due to the convolutional pooling operations of CNN, coarse-grained and edge information are lost, and the top-level information dimension in CNN network is low, which can easily lead to overfitting. To solve the above problems, we first propose the use of sound spectrograms and their differential features to construct multi-channel image… More >

Jing Li¹, Yong Yang^{2, *}, Hongmei Ge¹, Li Zhao³, Ruxue Guo^{3, 4}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.1, pp. 151-162, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.05649

Abstract Coal rock mass instability fracture may result in serious hazards to underground coal mining. Acoustic emissions (AE) stimulated by internal structure fracture should carry lots of favorable information about health condition of rock mass. AE as a sensitive non-destructive test method is gradually utilized to detect anomaly conditions of coal rock. This paper proposes an improved multi-resolution feature to extract AE waveform at different frequency resolutions using Coilflet Wavelet Transform method (CWT). It is further adopt an efficient Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) by several cascaded sub weak classifier models to merge AE features at different views of frequency for… More >

ROMINA J. BEVACQUA, RAFAEL FERNANDEZ-MARTIN, DANIEL F. SALAMONE

BIOCELL, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 1-7, 2011, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2011.35.001

Abstract Parthenogenetic embryos are an ethically acceptable alternative for the derivation of human embryonic stem cells. In this work, we propose a new strategy to produce bovine parthenogenetic embryos inhibiting the emission of the first polar body during in vitro maturation, and allowing the extrusion of the second polar body during oocyte activation. Cytochalasin B, an inhibitor of actin microfilaments, was employed during in vitro maturation to inhibit first polar body emission or during parthenogenetic activation to block second polar body emission. Only one polar body was inhibited in each strategy in order to keep the diploid chromosome set. In experiment… More >