Bin Chen¹, Ziyang Li¹, Shipeng Li¹, Qingzhou Zhao¹, Xingdou Liu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.5, pp. 1291-1307, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.046374

Abstract To reduce carbon emissions, clean energy is being integrated into the power system. Wind power is connected to the grid in a distributed form, but its high variability poses a challenge to grid stability. This article combines wind turbine monitoring data with numerical weather prediction (NWP) data to create a suitable wind power prediction framework for distributed grids. First, high-precision NWP of the turbine range is achieved using weather research and forecasting models (WRF), and Kriging interpolation locates predicted meteorological data at the turbine site. Then, a preliminary predicted power series is obtained based on the fan’s wind speed-power conversion… More >

Haoxue Wu^#, Xiaohan Zhang^§,#, Xiaoyu Chen, Kang Li, Aixia Xu, Zhen Huang, Jungang Dong, Chengyu Yu^*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.3, pp. 627-640, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.050321

Abstract Genetic manipulation (either restraint or enhancement) of the biosynthesis pathway of α-linolenic acid (ALA) in seed oil is an important goal in Brassica napus breeding. B. napus is a tetraploid plant whose genome often harbors four and six homologous copies, respectively, of the two fatty acid desaturases FAD2 and FAD3, which control the last two steps of ALA biosynthesis during seed oil accumulation. In this study, we compared their promoters, coding sequences, and expression levels in three high-ALA inbred lines 2006L, R8Q10, and YH25005, a low-ALA line A28, a low-ALA/high-oleic-acid accession SW, and the wildtype ZS11. The expression levels of… More >

Fenglan Zhao¹, Jizhi Jin¹, Meng Yang¹, Franklin Eduardo Melo Santiago², Jianping Xue¹, Li Xu^3,*, Yongbo Duan^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.3, pp. 611-625, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.048295

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Seed germination with selenium (Se) is promising for producing Se-biofortified foods. Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) sprout is freshly eaten as a salad dressed with sauce, making it superior for Se biofortification. Since the Se safety range for the human body is extremely narrow, it is imperative to evaluate the genotypic responses of mungbean sprouts to Se. This study evaluated the Se enrichment capacity and interaction with flavonoids and antioxidant systems in sprouts of 20 mungbean germplasms. Selenium treatment was done by immersing mungbean seeds in 20 μM sodium selenite solution for 8 h. Afterward, the biomass, Se amounts, flavonoid… More >

F. Sharifi^a , H. Ghaedamini^b,*, M.R. Salimpour^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.4, pp. 1-10, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.4.3005

Abstract In the present study, conductive cooling of a disc is done by means of incomplete constant and variable cross-section highly conductive inserts embedded in radial and tributary configurations. Variational calculus is invoked to determine the optimum shape of the cross-sections of the inserts. Firstly, it is tried to derive an equation for thermal resistance of the disc for radial configuration of inserts based on the procedure used in constructal studies. This is done by implementing the optimized thermal resistances of elemental sectors. Then, the computed elemental sectors are put together so that they make branching configuration of inserts in the… More >

Tian-Jiao Wei¹, Guang Li¹, Yan-Ru Cui¹, Jiao Xie¹, Xing-Ai Gao¹, Xing Teng¹, Xin-Ying Zhao¹, Fa-Chun Guan^1,*, Zheng-Wei Liang^2,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.1, pp. 29-43, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.046078

Abstract Soil salinization is the main factor that threatens the growth and development of plants and limits the increase of yield. It is of great significance to study the key soil environmental factors affecting plant root traits to reveal the adaptation strategies of plants to saline-alkaline-stressed soil environments. In this study, the root biomass, root morphological parameters and root mineral nutrient content of two alfalfa cultivars with different sensitivities to alkaline stress were analyzed with black soil as the control group and the mixed saline-alkaline soil with a ratio of 7:3 between black soil and saline-alkaline soil as the saline-alkaline treatment… More >

Xiangqun Li^1,*, Jiawen Liang², Jinyu Zhu², Shengping Shi², Fangyu Ding², Jianpeng Sun², Bo Liu²

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.1, pp. 203-219, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.029295

Abstract To solve the problems of a few optical fibre line fault samples and the inefficiency of manual communication optical fibre fault diagnosis, this paper proposes a communication optical fibre fault diagnosis model based on variational modal decomposition (VMD), fuzzy entropy (FE) and fuzzy clustering (FC). Firstly, based on the OTDR curve data collected in the field, VMD is used to extract the different modal components (IMF) of the original signal and calculate the fuzzy entropy (FE) values of different components to characterize the subtle differences between them. The fuzzy entropy of each curve is used as the feature vector, which… More >

Yaping Luo¹, Na Guo^1,*, Dong Liu², Shuming Peng³, Xinchen Wang⁴, Jie Wu³

Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.32, pp. 39-52, 2023, DOI:10.32604/RIG.2023.046014

Abstract Using hyperspectral data collected in January and June 2022 from the Sha River, the concentrations of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) were estimated using the differential method. The results indicate that the optimal bands for estimation vary monthly due to temperature fluctuations. In the TN model, the power function model at 586 nm in January exhibited the strongest fit, yielding a fit coefficient (R²) of 0.95 and F-value of 164.57 at a significance level (p) of less than 0.01. Conversely, the exponential model at 477 nm in June provided the best fit, with R² = 0.93 and F… More > Graphic Abstract

Ravishankar Sathyamurthy^a,*, P.K. Nagarajan^b, Hyacinth J. Kennady^a, T.S. Ravikumar^a, V. Paulson^c, Amimul Ahsan^d

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.5, pp. 1-5, 2014, DOI:10.5098/hmt.5.3

Abstract This paper presents the method of improvement of enhancing the performance of triangular pyramid solar still with and without latent heat energy storage. For comparing the productivity of solar still with and without LHTESS a solar still is designed, fabricated. Experiments are conducted in hot and humid climate of Chennai, India. Paraffin wax is used as LHTESS due to its feasible general and economic properties. The hourly productivity is slightly higher in case of solar still without LHTESS during sunny days. There is an increase of about 35% in production of fresh water with LHTESS than that of solar still… More >

Liwei Deng¹, Henan Sun¹, Jing Wang², Sijuan Huang³, Xin Yang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2271-2287, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039062

Abstract In recent years, radiotherapy based only on Magnetic Resonance (MR) images has become a hot spot for radiotherapy planning research in the current medical field. However, functional computed tomography (CT) is still needed for dose calculation in the clinic. Recent deep-learning approaches to synthesized CT images from MR images have raised much research interest, making radiotherapy based only on MR images possible. In this paper, we proposed a novel unsupervised image synthesis framework with registration networks. This paper aims to enforce the constraints between the reconstructed image and the input image by registering the reconstructed image with the input image… More >

S.V. Subhashini^a,* , Nancy Samuel^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.7, pp. 1-7, 2016, DOI:10.5098/hmt.7.29

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present non-similar solutions of a steady laminar compressible boundary layer flow past a long thin circular cylinder including the effects of wall enthalpy and surface mass transfer. The governing equations along with the boundary conditions are first converted into dimensionless form by a non-similar transformation, and then the resulting system of coupled non-linear partial differential equations is solved by an implicit finite difference scheme in combination with the quasi-linearization technique. The increase in the value of power law variation of viscosity causes an increase in the boundary layer thicknesses of both the velocity… More >