A coal seam is thin compared to the wavelength of seismic waves and usually shows strong anisotropy.It may form special geological formations,such as goafs and collapses,in coal mines.The existence of these formations...A coal seam is thin compared to the wavelength of seismic waves and usually shows strong anisotropy.It may form special geological formations,such as goafs and collapses,in coal mines.The existence of these formations may lead to instability in numerical simulations of the goaf area in a coal seam.The calculation speed of simulations is always a factor that restricts the development of simulation techniques.To improve the accuracy and effi ciency of seismic numerical simulations of goaf areas,an improved vacuum method has been incorporated into a rotated staggered grid scheme and calculations implemented by combining parallel computing and task parallelism.This ensures that the proposed numerical simulation method can be utilized in a geological model with large differences in elastic parameters among layers and improve the performance of a parallel application by enabling the full use of processor resources to expedite the calculations.We set up anisotropic coal seam models and then analyze numerically the characteristics of synthetic seismograms and snapshots of diff erent goaf areas with or without collapse.The results show that the proposed method can accurately simulate the goaf area and the calculation method can run with a high speed and parallel efficiency.The research will further advance the technology of anisotropic seismic exploration in coal fi elds,provide data for seismic inversion and build a theoretical support for coal mine disaster prediction.展开更多
Although earthquake lights have been known since ancient times,it has not been easy to study them.It was not until the 60s that the first photographs of them were taken.During the Peruvian earthquake in 2007,it was po...Although earthquake lights have been known since ancient times,it has not been easy to study them.It was not until the 60s that the first photographs of them were taken.During the Peruvian earthquake in 2007,it was possible to obtain the fi rst fi lm recording on earthquake lights.Likewise,during the earthquakes in Ecuador in 2016 and in Mexico in 2017,two fi lms of the earthquake lights were recorded.These fi lm recordings have helped in the study of earthquake lights,both for their objectivity and for their informational content.Several causal mechanisms have been proposed to explain earthquake lights:piezoelectricity,radon emanation,fluid diffusion,friction-vaporization,positive holes and dipole currents,among others.In this work a time difference correlation between earthquake lights and seismic ground accelerations was found and we use both seismic data and fi lm recordings of earthquake lights to explain its origin.In the discussion section it is suggested that fracturing of rocks manifest itself to some extent in the form of static electricity producing earthquake lights through induction The induction model proposed is new and it can explain the formation of EQL,even if the earth’s crust has layers of large electrical resistivity.The model also explains the formation of seismic lights without the need for special conditions on the earth’s surface or in the atmosphere.A better understanding of the earthquake lights generation process can improve our understanding of seismicity and help in the prediction of earthquakes.展开更多
Neonatal stroke is similar to the stroke that occurs in adults and produces a significant morbidity and long-term neurologic and cognitive deficits.There are important differences in the factors,clinical events and ou...Neonatal stroke is similar to the stroke that occurs in adults and produces a significant morbidity and long-term neurologic and cognitive deficits.There are important differences in the factors,clinical events and outcomes associated with the stroke in infants and adults.However,mechanisms underlying age differences in the stroke development remain largely unknown.Therefore,treatment guidelines for neonatal stroke must extrapolate from the adult data that is often not suitable for children.The new information about differences between neonatal and adult stroke is essential for identification of significant areas for future treatment and effective prevention of neonatal stroke.Here,we studied the development of stress-induced hemorrhagic stroke and possible mechanisms underlying these processes in newborn and adult rats.Using histological methods and magnetic resonance imaging,we found age differences in the type of intracranial hemorrhages.Newborn rats demonstrated small superficial bleedings in the cortex while adult rats had more severe deep bleedings in the cerebellum.Using Doppler optical coherent tomography,we found higher stress-reactivity of the sagittal sinus to deleterious effects of stress in newborn vs.adult rats suggesting that the cerebral veins are more vulnerable to negative stress factors in neonatal vs.adult brain in rats.However,adult but not newborn rats demonstrated the stroke-induced breakdown of blood brain barrier(BBB)permeability.The one of possible mechanisms underlying the higher resistance to stress-related stroke injures of cerebral vessels in newborn rats compared with adult animals is the greater expression of two main tight junction proteins of BBB(occludin and claudin-5)in neonatal vs.mature brain in rats.展开更多
This paper provides a finite-difference discretization for the one-and two-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian and solves the tempered fractional Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions.T...This paper provides a finite-difference discretization for the one-and two-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian and solves the tempered fractional Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions.The main ideas are to,respectively,use linear and quadratic interpolations to approximate the singularity and non-singularity of the one-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian and bilinear and biquadratic interpolations to the two-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian.Then,we give the truncation errors and prove the convergence.Numerical experiments verify the convergence rates of the order O(h^2−2s).展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41304105 and 41674135)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi province(No.2016JM4010).
文摘A coal seam is thin compared to the wavelength of seismic waves and usually shows strong anisotropy.It may form special geological formations,such as goafs and collapses,in coal mines.The existence of these formations may lead to instability in numerical simulations of the goaf area in a coal seam.The calculation speed of simulations is always a factor that restricts the development of simulation techniques.To improve the accuracy and effi ciency of seismic numerical simulations of goaf areas,an improved vacuum method has been incorporated into a rotated staggered grid scheme and calculations implemented by combining parallel computing and task parallelism.This ensures that the proposed numerical simulation method can be utilized in a geological model with large differences in elastic parameters among layers and improve the performance of a parallel application by enabling the full use of processor resources to expedite the calculations.We set up anisotropic coal seam models and then analyze numerically the characteristics of synthetic seismograms and snapshots of diff erent goaf areas with or without collapse.The results show that the proposed method can accurately simulate the goaf area and the calculation method can run with a high speed and parallel efficiency.The research will further advance the technology of anisotropic seismic exploration in coal fi elds,provide data for seismic inversion and build a theoretical support for coal mine disaster prediction.
文摘Although earthquake lights have been known since ancient times,it has not been easy to study them.It was not until the 60s that the first photographs of them were taken.During the Peruvian earthquake in 2007,it was possible to obtain the fi rst fi lm recording on earthquake lights.Likewise,during the earthquakes in Ecuador in 2016 and in Mexico in 2017,two fi lms of the earthquake lights were recorded.These fi lm recordings have helped in the study of earthquake lights,both for their objectivity and for their informational content.Several causal mechanisms have been proposed to explain earthquake lights:piezoelectricity,radon emanation,fluid diffusion,friction-vaporization,positive holes and dipole currents,among others.In this work a time difference correlation between earthquake lights and seismic ground accelerations was found and we use both seismic data and fi lm recordings of earthquake lights to explain its origin.In the discussion section it is suggested that fracturing of rocks manifest itself to some extent in the form of static electricity producing earthquake lights through induction The induction model proposed is new and it can explain the formation of EQL,even if the earth’s crust has layers of large electrical resistivity.The model also explains the formation of seismic lights without the need for special conditions on the earth’s surface or in the atmosphere.A better understanding of the earthquake lights generation process can improve our understanding of seismicity and help in the prediction of earthquakes.
基金This work was supported by Grant of Russian Science Foundation (No.14-15-00128).
文摘Neonatal stroke is similar to the stroke that occurs in adults and produces a significant morbidity and long-term neurologic and cognitive deficits.There are important differences in the factors,clinical events and outcomes associated with the stroke in infants and adults.However,mechanisms underlying age differences in the stroke development remain largely unknown.Therefore,treatment guidelines for neonatal stroke must extrapolate from the adult data that is often not suitable for children.The new information about differences between neonatal and adult stroke is essential for identification of significant areas for future treatment and effective prevention of neonatal stroke.Here,we studied the development of stress-induced hemorrhagic stroke and possible mechanisms underlying these processes in newborn and adult rats.Using histological methods and magnetic resonance imaging,we found age differences in the type of intracranial hemorrhages.Newborn rats demonstrated small superficial bleedings in the cortex while adult rats had more severe deep bleedings in the cerebellum.Using Doppler optical coherent tomography,we found higher stress-reactivity of the sagittal sinus to deleterious effects of stress in newborn vs.adult rats suggesting that the cerebral veins are more vulnerable to negative stress factors in neonatal vs.adult brain in rats.However,adult but not newborn rats demonstrated the stroke-induced breakdown of blood brain barrier(BBB)permeability.The one of possible mechanisms underlying the higher resistance to stress-related stroke injures of cerebral vessels in newborn rats compared with adult animals is the greater expression of two main tight junction proteins of BBB(occludin and claudin-5)in neonatal vs.mature brain in rats.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11671182the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.lzujbky-2018-ot03.
文摘This paper provides a finite-difference discretization for the one-and two-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian and solves the tempered fractional Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions.The main ideas are to,respectively,use linear and quadratic interpolations to approximate the singularity and non-singularity of the one-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian and bilinear and biquadratic interpolations to the two-dimensional tempered fractional Laplacian.Then,we give the truncation errors and prove the convergence.Numerical experiments verify the convergence rates of the order O(h^2−2s).
