Compact and robust dual-color linearly polarized illumination source for three-photon fluorescence imaging

The miniaturized femtosecond laser in near infrared-Ⅱregion is the core equipment of threephoton microscopy.In this paper,we design a compact and robust illumination source that emits dual-color linearly polarized light for three-photon microscopy.Based on an all-polarizationmaintaining passive mode-locked fiber laser,we shift the center wavelength of the pulses to the 1.7m band utilizing cascade Raman effect,thereby generate dual-wavelength pulses.To enhance clarity,the two wavelengths are separated through the graded-index multimode fiber.Then we obtain the dual-pulse sequences with 1639.4 nm and 1683.7 nm wavelengths,920 fs pulse duration,and 23.75 MHz pulse repetition rate.The average power of the signal is 53.64mW,corresponding to a single pulse energy of 2.25 nJ.This illumination source can be further amplified and compressed for three-photon fluorescence imaging,especially dual-color three-photon fluorescence imaging,making it an ideal option for biomedical applications.

Water Resources and Water Services Infrastructure and Its Vulnerability to Extreme Events—The Case of Jordan

This study discussed the water sector as a critical infrastructural element in Jordan where the sector is exposed to the extreme events. The exposure of the country to extreme events has initiated this study. Such events are Pollution accidents, flooding, draughts, overexploitation, failure in electricity supply, climate changes, earthquakes, landslides, failure of dams, failure of wastewater treatment plants, failure of desalination plants, sabotage, fire, water theft, migration and demographic changes (immigration and urban migration), relations to neighboring countries, epidemics, and others. These extreme events are discussed in this article and the results show that failures in the water infrastructure and water supply, in Jordan, with its water sector situation have rigorous percussions on the country’s health, food supply, economy, societal stability, the built environment, and on other water-related issues. The study concludes that developing national programs to protect the water infrastructure in the water-fragile country has become very crucial to reach a robust and resilient water sector which not only means providing the inhabitants with quantitatively sufficient and qualitatively healthy water but also aims to incorporate guaranteeing social, economic and political stability.

Reliability Assessment for Integrated Power-gas Systems Considering Renewable Energy Uncertainty and Cascading Effects

Integrated power-gas systems(IPGSs)make the power system and natural gas system(NGS)as a whole,and strengthen interdependence between the two systems.Due to bidirectional energy conversion in IPGS,a disturbance may turn into a catastrophic outage.Meanwhile,increasing proportion of renewable energy brings challenges to reliability of IPGS.Moreover,partial failure or degradation of system performance leads IPGS operate at multiple performance levels.Therefore,this paper proposes a reliability assessment model of IPGSs which represents multiple performance of components and considers cascading effects,as well as renewable energy uncertainty.First,a framework of IPGS reliability assessment is proposed:multistate models for main elements in the IPGS are represented.Especially a gas-power-generation calculation operator and a power-to-gas calculation operator are utilized to bi-directionally convert a multi-state model between NGS and power systems.Furthermore,nodal reliability indices for IPGS are given to display impacts of cascading effects and renewable energy uncertainty on reliabilities of IPGSs.Numerical results on IPGS test system demonstrate the proposed methods.

Cascading effects of cyber-attacks on interconnected critical infrastructure

Modern critical infrastructure,such as a water treatment plant,water distribution system,and power grid,are representative of Cyber Physical Systems(CPSs)in which the physical processes are monitored and controlled in real time.One source of complexity in such systems is due to the intra-system interactions and inter-dependencies.Consequently,these systems are a potential target for attackers.When one or more of these infrastructure are attacked,the connected systems may also be affected due to potential cascading effects.In this paper,we report a study to investigate the cascading effects of cyber-attacks on two interdependent critical infrastructure namely,a Secure water treatment plant(SWaT)and a Water Distribution System(WADI).

Flood cascading on critical infrastructure with climate change:A spatial analysis of the extreme weather event in Xinxiang,China

Floods caused by extreme weather events and climate change have increased in occurrence and severity all over the world,resulting in devastation and disruption of activities.Researchers and policy practitioners have increasingly paid attention to the role of critical infrastructure(CI)in disaster risk reduction,flood resilience and climate change adaptation in terms of its backbone functions in maintaining societal services in hazard attacks.The analysed city in this study,Xinxiang(Henan province,China),was affected by an extreme flood event that occurred on 17–23 July 2021,which caused great socio-economic losses.However,few studies have focused on medium-sized cities and the flood cascading effects on CI during this event.Therefore,this study explores the damages caused by this flooding event with links to CI,such as health services,energy supply stations,shelters and transport facilities(HEST infrastructure).To achieve this,the study first combines RGB(red,green blue)composition and supervised classification for flood detection to monitor and map flood inundation areas.Second,it manages a multiscenario simulation and evaluates the cascading effects on HEST infrastructure.Diverse open-source data are employed,including Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar(SAR)data and Landsat-8 OIL data,point-of-interest(POI)and OpenStreetMap(OSM)data.The study reveals that this extreme flood event has profoundly affected croplands and villagers.Due to the revisiting period of Sentinel-1 SAR data,four scenarios are simulated to portray the retreated but‘omitted’floodwater:Scenario 0 is the flood inundation area on 27 July,and Scenarios 1,2 and 3 are built based on this information with a buffer of 50,100 and 150 m outwards,respectively.In the four scenarios,as the inundation areas expand,the affected HEST infrastructure becomes more clustered at the centre of the core study area,indicating that those located in the urban centre are more susceptible to flooding.Furthermore,the affected transport facilities assemble in the north and east of the core study area,implying that transport facilities located in the north and east of the core study area are more susceptible to flooding.The verification of the flood inundation maps and affected HEST infrastructure in the scenario simulation support the series method adopted in this study.The findings of this study can be used by flood managers,urban planners and other decision makers to better understand extreme historic weather events in China,improve flood resilience and decrease the negative impacts of such events on HEST infrastructure.

Voles and weasels in the boreal Fennoscandian small mammal community:what happens if the least weasel disappears due to climate change?

Climate change,habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats for populations and a challenge for individual behavior,interactions and survival.Predator-prey interactions are modified by climate processes.In the north­ern latitudes,strong seasonality is changing and the main predicted feature is shortening and instability of win­ter.Vole populations in the boreal Fennoscandia exhibit multiannual cycles.High amplitude peak numbers of voles and dramatic population lows alternate in 3-5-year cycles shortening from North to South.One key fac­tor,or driver,promoting the population crash and causing extreme extended lows,is suggested to be predation by the least weasel.We review the arms race between prey voles and weasels through the multiannual density fluctuation,affected by climate change,and especially the changes in the duration and stability of snow cover.For ground-dwelling small mammals,snow provides thermoregulation and shelter for nest sites,and helps them hide from predators.Predicted increases in the instability of winter forms a major challenge for species with coat color change between brown summer camouflage and white winter coat.One of these is the least weasel,Mustela nivalis nivalis.Increased vulnerability of wrong-colored weasels to predation affects vole populations and may have dramatic effects on vole dynamics.It may have cascading effects on other small rodent-predator interactions and even on plant-animal interactions and forest dynamics.