先进压缩空气储能系统的基础研究与应用进展

Decarbonization of the electric power sector is essential for sustainable development.Low-carbon generation technologies,such as solar and wind energy,can replace the CO_(2)-emitting energy sources(coal and natural gas plants).As a sustainable engineering practice,long-duration energy storage technologies must be employed to manage imbalances in the variable renewable energy supply and electricity demand.Compressed air energy storage(CAES)is an effective solution for balancing this mismatch and therefore is suitable for use in future electrical systems to achieve a high penetration of renewable energy generation.This study introduces recent progress in CAES,mainly advanced CAES,which is a clean energy technology that eliminates the use of fossil fuels,compared with two commercial CAES plants at Huntorf and McIntosh which are conventional ones utilizing fossil fuels.Advanced CAES include adiabatic CAES,isothermal CAES,liquid air energy storage,supercritical CAES,underwater CAES,and CAES coupled with other technologies.The principles and configurations of these advanced CAES technologies are briefly discussed and a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art technologies is presented,including theoretical studies,experiments,demonstrations,and applications.The comparison and discussion of these CAES technologies are summarized with a focus on technical maturity,power sizing,storage capacity,operation pressure,round-trip efficiency,efficiency of the components,operation duration,and investment cost.Potential application trends were compiled.This paper presents a comprehensive reference for developing novel CAES systems and makes recommendations for future research and development to facilitate their application in several areas,ranging from fundamentals to applications.

Natural sources,refined extraction,biosynthesis,metabolism,and bioactivities of dietary polymethoxyflavones(PMFs)

Polymethoxyflavones(PMFs)are a type of uncommon dietary flavonoids,characterized by more than one methoxy group,which exist in limited plant species,like Citrus species and Kaempferia parviflora.In addition,different PMFs,such as nobiletin,sinensetin,tangeretin,and casticin,have been isolated from these natural sources.PMFs have received increasing attention due to their multiple bioactivities,such as antioxidant,anti-inflammatory,anti-cancer,metabolic regulatory,immunoregulatory,neuroprotective,and skin protective effects.These bioactivities of PMFs should be associated with the regulation of critical molecular targets and the interaction with gut microbiota.In order to provide a comprehensive and updated review of PMFs,their natural sources,refined extraction,biosynthesis,metabolism,and bioactivities are summarised and discussed,with the emphasis on the molecular mechanisms of PMFs on regulating different chronic diseases.Overall,PMFs may be promising flavonoids to the forefront of nutraceuticals for the prevention and/or treatment of certain human chronic diseases.

Elite,transformable haploid inducers in maize

The introduction of alleles into commercial crop breeding pipelines is both time consuming and costly.Two technologies that are disrupting traditional breeding processes are doubled haploid(DH)breeding and genome editing(GE).Recently,these techniques were combined into a GE trait delivery system called HI-Edit(Haploid Inducer-Edit).In HI-Edit,the pollen of a haploid inducer line is reprogrammed to deliver GE traits to any variety,obviating recurrent selection.For HI-Edit to operate at scale,an efficient transformable HI line is needed,but most maize varieties are recalcitrant to transformation,and haploid inducers are especially difficult to transform given their aberrant reproductive behaviors.Leveraging marker assisted selection and a three-tiered testing scheme,we report the development of new Iodent and Stiff Stalk maize germplasm that are transformable,have high haploid induction rates,and exhibit a robust,genetically-dominant anthocyanin native trait that may be used for rapid haploid identification.We show that transformation of these elite‘‘HI-Edit”lines is enhanced using the BABYBOOM and WUSCHEL morphogenetic factors.Finally,we evaluate the HI-Edit performance of one of the lines against both Stiff Stalk and non-Stiff Stalk testers.The strategy and results of this study should facilitate the development of commercially scalable HI-Edit systems in diverse crops.

Adsorption of copper ions on porous ceramsite prepared by diatomite and tungsten residue

In order to realize resource utilization of industrial tungsten residue and treatment of heavy metal wastewater in mining and metallurgical area of south China,a novel ceramsite was prepared with the main raw materials of diatomite and tungsten residue.The adsorption behavior of copper ions in solution on the ceramsite was investigated.Results indicated that the surface of the newly-developed ceramsite was rough and porous.There were lots of pores across the ceramsite from inner to outside.MnFe2O4 was one of the main components of the ceramsite.The Cu^2＋adsorption capacity by the ceramsite reached 9.421 mg/g with copper removal efficiency of 94.21%at 303 K,initial Cu^2＋concentration of 100 mg/L and dosage of 0.5 g after 300 min adsorption.With increase of ceramsite dosage,the total adsorption amount of Cu^2＋increased,but the adsorption capacity decreased.The adsorption capacity increased with the increase of solution p H.The isothermal adsorption of Cu^2＋by the ceramsite fitted the Freundlich model better.The adsorption mainly occurred on a heterogeneous surface,and was a favorable process.The adsorption process closely followed the pseudo-second kinetic equation.In initial stage of wastewater treatment,the adsorption process should be controlled mainly by diffusion,and the removal of Cu^2＋can be improved by enhancing agitation.

Modeling mechanism and extension of GM (1,1)

Firstly, the research progress of grey model GM （1,1） is summarized, which is divided into three development stages： assimilation, alienation and melting stages. Then, the matrix analysis theory is used to study the modeling mechanism of GM （1,1）, which decomposes the modeling data matrix into raw data transformation matrix, accumulated generating operation matrix and background value selection matrix. The changes of these three matrices are the essential reasons affecting the modeling and the accuracy of GM （1,1）. Finally, the paper proposes a generalization grey model GGM （1,1）, which is a extended form of GM （1,1） and also a unified form of model GM （1,1）, model GM （1,1,α）, stage grey model, hopping grey model, generalized accumulated model, strengthening operator model, weakening operator model and unequal interval model. And the theory and practical significance of the extended model is analyzed.

Effect of Physical Activity on Hospital Service Use and Expenditures of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Results from Dongfeng-Tongji Cohort Study in China

The intervention of behaviors, including physical activity (PA), has become a strategy for many hospitals dealing with patients with chronic diseases. Given the limited evidence available about PA and healthcare use with chronic diseases, this study explored the association between different levels of PA and annual hospital service use and expenditure for inpatients with coronary heart disease (CHD) in China. We analyzed PA information from the first follow-up survey (2013) of the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort study of 1460 CHD inpatients. We examined factors such as PA exercise volume and years of PA and their associations with the number of inpatient visits, number of hospital days, and inpatient costs and total medical costs. We found that the number of hospital days and the number of inpatient visits were negatively associated with intensity of PA level. Similarly, total inpatient and outpatient costs declined when the PA exercise volume levels increased. Furthermore, there were also significant associations between the number of hospital days, inpatient costs or total medical costs and levels of PA years. This study provides the first empirical evidence about the effects of the intensity and years of PA on hospital service use and expenditure of CHD in China. It suggests that the patients' PA, especially the vigorous PA, should be promoted widely to the public and patients in order to relieve the financial burden of CHD.

Behavior of ammonium adsorption by clay mineral halloysite

Ammonium pollution becomes severe during mining of ionic rare earth-ores in southern China.As one of the main clayminerals in soils of ionic rare earth mines,halloysite plays an important role in ammonium adsorption.In this study,the saturatedadsorption capacity,factors affecting adsorption and adsorption kinetics of halloysite for ammonium were investigated.The resultsindicated that the ammonium adsorption of halloysite was saturated with1.66mg/g at303K,pH of5.6and initial ammoniumconcentration of600mg/L(about half of the actual initial in-situ leaching concentration).When the initial concentration of NH4?-N,pH values and temperatures(288K to313K)increased,the ammonium adsorption capacity of halloysite increased.The ammoniumisothermal adsorption of halloysite matched the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms.The adsorption process of ionic rare earthmining soils for ammonium was favorable.And the adsorption process followed closely the pseudo-second kinetic equation.

Experimental investigations on small-and full-scale ship models with polyurea coatings subjected to underwater explosion

Nowadays, the mitigation of damage to a ship caused by the underwater explosion attracts more and more attention from the modern ship designers. In this study, two kinds of scale tests were conducted to investigate the effects of polyurea coatings on the blast resistance of hulls subjected to underwater explosion. Firstly, small-scale model tests with different polyurea coatings were carried out. Results indicate that polyurea has a better blast resistance performance when coated on the front face, which can effectively reduce the maximum deflection of the steel plate by more than 20% and reduce the deformation energy by 35.7%-45.4%. Next, a full-scale ship(approximately 50 m × 9 m) under loadings produced by the detonation of 33 kg of spherical TNT charges was tested, where a part of the ship was coated with polyurea on the front face(8 mm + 24 mm) and not on the contrast area. Damage characteristics on the bottom were statistically analyzed based on a 3D scanning technology, indicating that polyurea contributes to enhancing the blast protection of the ship. However, damage results of this test were different from those of the small-scale tests. Moreover, the deformation area of the bottom with polyurea was greatly increased by 40.1% to disperse explosion energy, a conclusion that cannot be drown from the small-scale tests.

Does cranial-medial mixed dominant approach have a unique advantage for laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with complete mesocolic excision?

BACKGROUND Complete mesocolic excision(CME)with central vascular ligation(CVL)was proposed by Hohenberger in 2009.The CME principle has gradually become the technical standard for colon cancer surgery.How to achieve CME with CVL in laparoscopic right hemicolectomy(LRH)is controversial,and a unified standard approach is not yet available.In recent years,the authors’team has integrated the theory of membrane anatomy,tried to combine the cephalic approach with the classic medial approach(MA)for technical optimization,and proposed a cranialmedial mixed dominant approach(CMA).AIM To explore the feasibility of operational approaches for LRH with CME.METHODS In this retrospective cohort study,the clinical data of 57 patients with right-sided colon cancer(TNM stage I,II,or III)who underwent LRH with CME from January 2016 to June 2020 were collected and summarized.There were 31 patients in the traditional MA group and 26 in the CMA group.RESULTS There were no significant differences in baseline data between the two groups.The operation was shorter and the number of lymph nodes dissected was higher in the CMA group than in the MA group,but there was no significant difference in the number of positive lymph nodes,intraoperative blood loss,postoperative exhaust time,feeding time,postoperative hospital stay or postoperative complication incidence.CONCLUSION Our study shows that the CMA is a safe and feasible procedure for LRH with CME and has a unique advantage.

Prenatal Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Birth Weight in China

Adverse birth outcomes are a leading cause of mortality in children in China, but the environmental influences of these conditions remain largely unexplained in this population. We aimed to evaluate the levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Chinese pregnant women and their newborns, and to examine the association between levels of PAHs and infant birth weight. We conducted a cross-sectional study including 81 pairs of mothers and newborns from four hospitals in four different cities in China. High Performance Liquid Chromatography was used to measure the concentration of nine PAHs in maternal and cord blood and multiple linear regression analyses were used to evaluate the associations of these PAHs with infant birth weight. Anthracene (ANT) had the highest average concentration and detection rate (geometric mean = 69.54 ng/g and 76.5%, respectively) in maternal serum samples, while fluoranthene (FLT) had the highest concentration and detection rate (geometric mean = 68.4 ng/g and 50.6%, respectively) in the cord blood. Most of the measured PAHs in maternal serum and three PAHs in cord blood were inversely but non-significantly associated with birth weight. The strongest associations were observed for higher concentrations of benzo (a) pyrene (BaP) in maternal serum (230.7 g decrease for levels > median vs. < LOD;p = 0.151) and for ANT in cord blood (153.1 g decrease for levels < median vs. < LOD;p = 0.208). Ant and FLT were the predominant PAHs in the maternal and cord blood serum. Serum concentrations of several measured PAHs were associated with a decreased birth weight, although not significantly, suggesting that further studies with larger sample sizes are needed to validate our findings.

考虑交叉网络外部性下平台竞争的定价策略研究

平台经济在我国随着移动互联网的普及而蓬勃发展,平台之间的竞争正受到学术界的广泛关注。在双边市场理论框架下,考虑交叉网络外部性特征分析平台竞争的特点,对新进平台与在位平台竞争下的定价策略展开研究。运用改进的Hotelling模型构建平台竞争博弈模型,以平台收益最大化为目标,探讨了平台间的用户规模、用户转换成本如何影响平台竞争中的定价策略,而新进平台又如何进行差异化与兼容战略选择。结果表明:用户转换成本和在位平台已有的用户规模是新进平台进入市场的最大壁垒,而新进平台可以通过实施积极的差异化战略与兼容性战略缓解与在位平台的竞争强度,平台差异化会提高平台的收益水平,处于劣势地位的新进平台将偏好于完全兼容策略,逐渐减小与在位平台的差距,进而提升新进平台的定价优势与市场收益。

Efficient DIPA-CRISPR-mediated knockout of an eye pigment gene in the white-backed planthopper,Sogatella furcifera

Although CRISPR/Cas9 has been widely used in insect gene editing,the need for the microinjection of preblastoderm embryos can preclude the technique being used in insect species with eggs that are small,have hard shells,and/or are difficult to collect and maintain outside of their normal environment.Such is the case with Sogatella furcifera,the white-backed planthopper(WBPH),a significant pest of Oryza sativa(rice)that oviposits inside rice stems.Egg extraction from the stem runs the risk of mechanical damage and hatching is heavily influenced by the micro-environment of the rice stem.To bypass these issues,we targeted embryos prior to oviposition via direct parental(DIPA)-CRISPR,in which Cas9 and single-guide RNAs(sgRNAs)for the WBPH eye pigment gene tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase were injected into the hemocoel of adult females.Females at varying numbers of days posteclosion were evaluated to determine at what stage their oocyte might be most capable of taking up the gene-editing components.An evaluation of the offspring indicated that the highest G0 gene-edited efficacy(56.7%)occurred in females injected 2 d posteclosion,and that those mutations were heritably transmitted to the G1 generation.This study demonstrates the potential utility of DIPA-CRISPR for future gene-editing studies in non-model insect species and can facilitate the development of novel pest management applications.

MethylGenotyper:Accurate Estimation of SNP Genotypes and Genetic Relatedness from DNA Methylation Data

Epigenome-wide association studies(EWAS)are susceptible to widespread confounding caused by population structure and genetic relatedness.Nevertheless,kinship estimation is challenging in EWAS without genotyping data.Here,we proposed MethylGenotyper,a method that for the first time enables accurate genotyping at thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs)directly from commercial DNA methylation microarrays.We modeled the intensities of methylation probes near SNPs with a mixture of three beta distributions corresponding to different genotypes and estimated parameters with an expectation-maximization algorithm.We conducted extensive simulations to demonstrate the performance of the method.When applying MethylGenotyper to the Infinium EPIC array data of 4662 Chinese samples,we obtained genotypes at 4319 SNPs with a concordance rate of 98.26%,enabling the identification of 255 pairs of close relatedness.Furthermore,we showed that MethylGenotyper allows for the estimation of both population structure and cryptic relatedness among 702 Australians of diverse ancestry.We also implemented MethylGenotyper in a publicly available R package(https://github.com/Yi-Jiang/MethylGenotyper)to facilitate future large-scale EWAS.

Dear-DIA^(XMBD): Deep Autoencoder Enables Deconvolution of Data-Independent Acquisition Proteomics

Data-independent acquisition(DIA)technology for protein identification from mass spectrometry and related algorithms is developing rapidly.The spectrum-centric analysis of DIA data without the use of spectra library from data-dependent acquisition data represents a promising direction.In this paper,we proposed an untargeted analysis method,Dear-DIA^(XMBD),for direct analysis of DIA data.Dear-DIA^(XMBD) first integrates the deep variational autoencoder and triplet loss to learn the representations of the extracted fragment ion chromatograms,then uses the k-means clustering algorithm to aggregate fragments with similar representations into the same classes,and finally establishes the inverted index tables to determine the precursors of fragment clusters between precursors and peptides and between fragments and peptides.We show that Dear-DIA^(XMBD) performs superiorly with the highly complicated DIA data of different species obtained by different instrument platforms.

CT引导下经皮穿刺置管硬化治疗卵巢巧克力囊肿的临床疗效分析

目的探讨CT引导下经皮穿刺置管硬化治疗卵巢巧克力囊肿的临床疗效与安全性。方法回顾性分析51例卵巢巧克力囊肿患者资料,其中8例经前腹壁穿刺置管,43例经臀部穿刺置管,随后经引流管注入聚桂醇泡沫硬化剂硬化治疗巧克力囊肿,分析治疗前后巧克力囊肿最大径、糖类抗原125(CA125)、抗缪勒管激素(AMH)变化情况及术后并发症情况。结果51例患者的整体有效率为98.0%。患者术后3、6个月的囊肿最大径均较术前显著性缩小(P值均<0.001);CA125水平均较术前显著性降低(P值均<0.001)。患者术后6个月与术前、术后3个月的AMH水平差异均无统计学意义(P=0.421,0.182)。无相关严重手术并发症出现。结论CT引导下经皮穿刺置管硬化治疗卵巢巧克力囊肿安全、有效,可作为较大(直径≥4 cm)卵巢巧克力囊肿的替代治疗方案。

胰岛素基因突变:从遗传学和β细胞生物学到临床疾病

近年来,越来越多新的胰岛素基因突变开始吸引人们的注意,已证实突变位于胰岛素基因的非翻译区和前胰岛素原的编码区,包括信号肽、胰岛素链、C肽和A链,以及信号肽酶和激素原转换酶的蛋白水解剪切位点.这些突变影响胰岛细胞中胰岛素合成的不同步骤,引起胰岛素原错误折叠和早发的常染色体显性糖尿病,前胰岛素原基因突变所致的前胰岛素原加工缺陷、胰岛素原错误折叠和内质网应激可能在糖尿病发生、发展中发挥重要作用.

Maize orthologs of rice GS5 and their transregulator are associated with kernel development

Genome information from model species such as rice can assist in the cloning of genes in a complex genome, such as maize. Here, we identified a maize ortholog of rice GS5 that contributes to kernel development in maize. The genome- wide association analysis of the expression levels of ZmGSs, and 15 of its 26 paralogs, identified a trans-regulator on chromosome 7, which was a BAK1-1ike gene. This gene that we named as ZmBAK1-7 could regulate the expression of ZmGS5 and three of the paralogs. Candidate-gene association analyses revealed that these five genes were associated with maize kernel development-related traits. Linkage analyses also detected that ZINGS5 and ZmI3AK1-7 co-localized with mapped QTLs. A transgenic analysis of ZINGS5 in Arabidopsis thaliana L. showed a significant increase in seed weight and cell number, suggesting that 2mG55 may have a conserved function among different plant species that affects seed development.

Efficient nanoparticle-based CRISPR-Cas13d induced mRNA disruption of an eye pigmentation gene in the white-backed planthopper,Sogatella furcifera

The discovery of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat(CRISPR)system has driven gene manipulation technology to a new era with applications reported in organisms that span the tree of life.The utility of CRISPR-mediated editing was further expanded to mRNA following identification of the RNA-targeting Cas13 family of smaller endonuclease proteins.Application of this family to insect research,however,has been more limited.In this study,the smallest Cas13 family member,Cas13d,and guide RNAs(gRNAs)were complexed with a versatile nanomaterial(star polycation,SPc)to generate a proof-of-concept RNA-editing platform capable of disrupting mRNA expression of the eye pigmentation gene tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase(SfTO)in white-backed planthoppers(WBPHs).The resulting red-eye phenotype was present in 19.76%(with SPc)and 22.99%(without SPc)of the treatment groups and was comparable to the red-eye phenotype generated following conventional RNA interference knockdown(22.22%).Furthermore,the Cas13/gRNA phenotype manifested more quickly than RNA interference.Consistent with the expected Cas13d mechanism,SfTO transcript levels were significantly reduced.Taken together,the results indicate that the SPc-CRISPR-Cas13d/gRNA complex negatively impacted expression of the target gene.These findings confirm the utility of this novel mRNA disruption system in insects and lay the foundation for further development of these tools in the implementation of green agricultural pest management tactics.

Ka-band broadband filtering packaging antenna based on through-glass vias (TGVs)

This work presents a novel design of Ka-band(33 GHz)filtering packaging antenna(FPA)that features broadband and great filtering response,and is based on glass packaging material and through-glass via(TGV)technologies.Compared to traditional packaging materials(printed circuit board,low temperature co-fired ceramic,Si,etc.),TGVs are more suitable for miniaturization(millimeter-wave three-dimensional(3D)packaging devices)and have superior microwave performance.Glass substrate can realize 3D high-density interconnection through bonding technology,while the coefficient of thermal expansion(CTE)matches that of silicon.Furthermore,the stacking of glass substrate enables high-density interconnections and is compatible with micro-electro-mechanical system technology.The proposed antenna radiation patch is composed of a patch antenna and a bandpass filter(BPF)whose reflection coefficients are almost complementary.The BPF unit has three pairs ofλg/4 slots(defect microstrip structure,DMS)and twoλg/2 U-shaped slots(defect ground structure,DGS).The proposed antenna achieves large bandwidth and high radiation efficiency,which may be related to the stacking of glass substrate and TGV feed.In addition,the introduction of four radiation nulls can effectively improve the suppression level in the stopband.To demonstrate the performance of the proposed design,a 33-GHz broadband filtering antenna is optimized,debugged,and measured.The antenna could achieve|S11|<-10 dB in 29.4‒36.4 GHz,and yield an impedance matching bandwidth up to 21.2%,with the stopband suppression level at higher than 16.5 dB.The measurement results of the proposed antenna are a realized gain of~6.5 dBi and radiation efficiency of~89%.

Effect of Fluorination on the Photovoltaic Properties of Medium Bandgap Polymers for Polymer Solar Cells

Fluorination of conjugated polymers is one of the effective strategies to tune the molecular energy levels and morphology for high efficient polymer solar cells （PSCs）. Herein, two novel donor-acceptor conjugated polymers, PffBT and PBT, based on bis（3,5-bis（hexyloxy）phenyl）benzo[1,2- b：4,5-b＇]dithiophene and benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole （BT） with or without fluorination, respectively, were synthesized, and their photovoltaic properties were compared. The polymer PffBT based on fluorinated BT showed lower frontier energy levels, improved polymer ordering, and a well-developed fibril structure in the blend with PC71BM. As a result, the PSCs based on PffBT/PC71BM exhibit a superior power conversion efficiency （PCE） of 8.6% versus 4.4% for PBT-based devices, due to a high space charge limit current （SCLC） hole mobility, mixed orientation of polymer crystals in the active layer, and low bimolecular recombination.