THE SUSTAINABLE MICRO-SCALE MOVEMENT OF COMMUNITIES:CASE STUDIES OF SUBDIVIDED DEVELOPMENT AND ADAPTIVE REUSE OF SHARED SPACE IN NEW YORK CITY

1.INTRODUCTION In New York City a decline in manufacturing has propelled social and eco-nomic changes that have transformed certain districts[1,2].Unused building stock there has been the basis for adaptive reuse yielding new housing for families of varying compositions.The constant pressure of the need for affordable housing has resulted in the conversion of existing abandoned industrial structures,pro-viding a green,environmentally friendly alternative to new construction[3,4,5].Adaptive reuse provides an opportunity to bring a building up to current codes,to make the layout and building systems more appropriate and efficient,and to help revitalize neighborhoods.

Pneumatic separation system for collected seedlings using subdivided air streams

To adhere to the needs of automated supply of collected seedlings for mechanized grafting and cutting machines for enhancing their operational efficiency,herein,a separation system that uses subdivided air streams to separate the collected seedlings is developed.The separation system comprises a feeder for supplying collected seedlings,a seedling separator that uses subdivided air streams,a picking belt for the separated seedlings,a delivery unit for the separated seedlings,a pneumatic unit,and a control unit.To investigate the complete performance of separation,picking,and delivery of the separation system,several separation experiments were conducted to separate the collected Anthurium seedlings.The results show that the consistency of the moving direction of seedlings floated by subdivided air streams in the separation container and the moving direction of the picking belt have a significant effect on the picking of the separated seedlings by the picking belt.Moreover,the seedling supply timing of the feeder has a significant effect on the stability of the collected seedling separation rate during continuous separation.When this timing is such that the percentage of separated seedlings is 70%,the separation rate of continuous separation operation is 2.24 plant/s(the separation productivity is 8060 plants/h)with 0.12 CV.The operating conditions are 0.5 MPa separation pressure,0.5 s nozzle operation time,and 60 mm seedling thickness in the separation container.Moreover,the staying times of the collected seedlings separated in the separation container are less than 2.5 min.

Mechanical Analysis of a Multi-Test String in High-Temperature and High-Pressure Deep Wells

The mechanical behavior of the test string in deep wells is generally relatively complex as a result of the high temperature and high pressure,severe dogleg and buckling effects,which in some circumstances can even lead to string failure.Traditional computational methods for the analysis of these behaviors are often inaccurate.For this reason,here a more accurate mechanical model of the test string is introduced by considering variables such as temperature,pressure,wellbore trajectory,and buckling,as well as combining them with the deformation and string constraint conditions brought in by changes in temperature and pressure during the tripping,setting,and test operations.The model is validated by applying it to a specific high-pressure gas well(located in Northeast Sichuan).

Discrimination of foodborne pathogenic bacteria using synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy

Traditional Fourier transform infrared(FTIR)spectroscopy has been recognized as a valuable method to characterize and classify kinds of microorganisms.In this study,combined with multivariate statistical analysis,synchrotron radiation-based FTIR(SR-FTIR) microspectroscopy was applied to identify and discriminate ten foodborne bacterial strains.Our results show that the whole spectra(3000-900 cm^(-1)) and three subdivided spectral regions(3000-2800,1800-1500 and 1200-900 cm^(-1),representing lipids,proteins and polysaccharides,respectively) can be used to type bacteria.Either the whole spectra or the three subdivided spectra are good for discriminating the bacteria at levels of species and subspecies,but the whole spectra should be given preference at the genus level.The findings demonstrate that SR-FTIR microspectroscopy is a powerful tool to identify and classify foodborne pathogenic bacteria at the genus,species and subspecies level.

SEM STUDY OF CELL WALLS OF 24 DESMIDS (DESMIDIACEAE, CHLOROPHYTA) FROM CHINA

Surface ornamentations of the cell walls of 24 desmid species varieties and forms belonging to 7 genera were studied under a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Among these desmids, 1 species and 1 variety are new to science, 13 species, varieties and forms are recorded in China for the first time. These desmids are subdivided into homogeneous and heterogeneous types based on the characteristic ornamentations on their cell walls. A unique ornamentation pattern, the centre of each scrobiculation with a small punctum regularly arranged on the cell wall, and very fine puncta scattered on the cell wall can only be revealed under high SEM magnification.

New Zircon U-Pb Ages of the Shirenshan Gneiss, North Qinling and Their Geological Implications

The Qinling Orogenic Belt(QOB)is a composite continental orogenic belt that has experienced many tectonic events.The QOB is subdivided into the following three litho-tectonic units:the North Qinling terrane,the Middle Qinling microplate and the South Qinling terrane.The North Qinling Terrane(NQT)underwent destruction and lithospheric thinning during the late Mesozoic,accompanied by extensive magmatic activity and increased surface heat flux,led to large-scale tectonic extension(e.g.,Ren Shenglian et al.,2016).The Shirenshan gneiss is located along the contact between the NQT and the North China Block(Fig.1).Previous studies suggested that it was produced as a result of the northward subduction of the NQT beneath the North China Block(e.g.,Wang Jingya et al.,2017).Therefore,it is significant to study its structural geology,petrology,geochemistry and chronology in order to understand the tectonic settings and the interaction between the Middle Qinling microplate and the North China Block.

An Approximation for the Entropy Measuring in the General Structure of SGSP_(3)

In this article,we calculate various topological invariants such as symmetric division degree index,redefined Zagreb index,VL index,first and second exponential Zagreb index,first and second multiplicative exponential Zagreb indices,symmetric division degree entropy,redefined Zagreb entropy,VL entropy,first and second exponential Zagreb entropies,multiplicative exponential Zagreb entropy.We take the chemical compound named Proanthocyanidins,which is a very useful polyphenol in human’s diet.They are very beneficial for one’s health.These chemical compounds are extracted from grape seeds.They are tremendously anti-inflammatory.A subdivision formof this compound is presented in this article.The compound named subdivided grape seed Proanthocyanidins is abbreviated as SGSP_(3).This network SGSP_(3),is converted and modeled into its mathematical graphical formation with the support of the latest mathematical tools.We have also developed many closed formulas for the measurement of entropy for the general chemical structure of the subdivided grape seed Proanthocyanidins network.The achieved outcomes can be correlated with the chemical version of SGSP_(3) to get a better understanding of its biological as well as physical features.

12.DIGESTIVE TRACT 12.1.Esophagus

920110 The clinical study on gastroeso-phageal reflux.LUO Jinyan (罗金燕),et al.Digest Funct Lab,2nd Affil Hosp,Xian Med Univ.Chin J Digest 1991; 11(3): 137-140.Fifty-two patients with symptomatic gas-troesophageal reflux (GER) were studied withprolonged intraesopnageal pH monitoring,scin-

Will Pet Care Products Become a New Track for Making Money?

“Personified pet raising”has become a new buzzword of the pet industry.In the past,people raise pets mainly for apparent functional demands like“looking after the house”.By comparison,more and more pet-raising people are now treating pets as their own family members.Under this concept,consumption scenes of pet care are keeping on being upgraded and iterated.Apart from basic bathing shampoo,more subdivided products such as hair-care essence and oral spray have occurred.According to GIM market investigation report,the scale of the global pet care market exceeded 232.0 billion U.S.Dollars(equivalent to about RMB 1.47 trillion Yuan)in 2020,and is hoped to increase at a compound annual rate of more than 6.1%in 2021-2027.

An automatic unified modeling method of geological object and engineering object based on tri-prism(TP)

For the interaction relation between geological object and engineering object in some fields related to water conservancy and hydropower, a unified modeling idea was proposed. On the basis of summarizing both advantages and disadvantages of existing modeling methods, an automatic unified modeling method of both engineering and geological objects based on tri-prism(TP) model was presented. Through the lossless correction algorithm of deviated drill holes contained in this method, the real deviated drill holes could be corrected into the equivalent virtual vertical ones. And the correction accuracy fully meets the requirements of unified modeling. With the virtual vertical drilling data, TIN construction of both cover layer and other stratums would be built in order to obtain the 3D geological model. Then, the engineering design data would be introduced into the 3D geological model for achieving unified modeling. For this process, the volume subdividing and restructuring principles were introduced to deal with the spatial relationships between engineering object and geological object. In order to improve the efficiency of unified modeling, the reconstruction of TIN based on constraint information was also applied in this method. At last, the feasibility and validation of the unified modeling method as well as its relevant key algorithms were verified by specific experiments and analysis of results.

A modified interval subdividing based geometric calibration method for interior tomography

The interior tomography is commonly met in practice, whereas the self-calibration method for geometric parameters remains far from explored. To determine the geometry of interior tomography, a modified interval subdividing based method, which was originally developed by Tan et al.,^[11] was presented in this paper. For the self-calibration method, it is necessary to obtain the reconstructed image with only geometric artifacts. Therefore, truncation artifacts reduction is a key problem for the self-calibration method of an interior tomography. In the method, an interior reconstruction algorithm instead of the Feldkamp-Davis-Kress （FDK） algorithm was employed for truncation artifact reduction. Moreover, the concept of a minimum interval was defined as the stop criterion of subdividing to ensure the geometric parameters are determined nicely. The results of numerical simulation demonstrated that our method could provide a solution to the self- calibration for interior tomography while the original interval subdividing based method could not. Furthermore, real data experiment results showed that our method could significantly suppress geometric artifacts and obtain high quality images for interior tomography with less imaging cost and faster speed compared with the traditional geometric calibration method with a dedicated calibration phantom.

区域一体化视角下RCEP自贸区的商品贸易结构分析

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP) was formally signed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) countries, along with China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. This was a significant step towards regional integration in the Asia-Pacific region. Analysing the trade structure among member states is crucial in understanding the path to regional integration and policy implications of regional cooperation within the RCEP framework. Based on subdivided commodity data, this study reviews the evolution of merchandise trade in the RCEP region in the past two decades. It investigates the current trade structure of the RCEP, emphasising the relative importance of intra-regional versus extra-regional interdependence and the trade asymmetry of the regional members. The results of the study are as follows: First, the overall extent of regional trade integration in the RCEP region increased modestly from 2001 to 2018, indicating that the RCEP region was export-oriented and there was significant room for further expansion of regional trade. Second, most of the commodities traded in the RCEP region demonstrated much higher extra-regional interdependence than intra-regional in 2018, particularly labor-, capital-, and technology-intensive products such as television and radio apparatus. Third, the trade networks of the top five traded commodities were distinguished by large economic asymmetries, with China, Japan, and South Korea being the dominant regional powers. These findings have significant implications for understanding how to promote regional integration and cooperation. Besides expanding intra-regional trade, outward-oriented factors influenced by the regional powers—including consolidating the global advantages of manufacturing, stabilizing supply chains by including large resource countries, and attracting extra-regional investments—were also the main rationales for the conclusion of the RCEP.

Development of rapid nucleic acid assays based on the recombinant polymerase amplification for monkeypox virus

Dear Editor,Monkeypox virus(MPXV),an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus with 190 open-reading frames and a genome length of about 200 kb,belongs to the genus Orthomyxovirus(OPXV;subfamily Chordopoxvirinae,family Poxviridae),which causes a disease with symptoms similar to,but less severe than,smallpox.MPXV is subdivided into two clades:clade I for the former Congo Basin clade and clade II for the former West African,and the clade I is more pathogenic.The clade II consists two subclades,clade IIa and clade IIb,with the latter referring primarily to the group of variants largely circulating in the 2022 global outbreak(ICTV,2022;Bunge et al.,2022;Mauldin et al.,2022).

A CLIMATOSTRATIGRAPHIC SUBDIVISION OF LATE PLEISTOCENE STRATA NAMED BY MALAN FORMATION IN NORTH CHINA

Since Teilhard de Chardin and C. C. Young identified the Late Pleisocene loess which is distributed widely in Malan Formation of North China, it has become one of the marker beds of the Late Pleistocene.

Unnormalized and normalized forms of gefura measures in directed and undirected networks

In some networks nodes belong to predefined groups （e.g., authors belong to institutions）. Common network cen- trality measures do not take this structure into account. Gefura measures are designed as indicators of a node＇s brokerage role between such groups. They are defined as variants of betweeuness centrality and consider to what extent a node belongs to shortest paths between nodes from different groups. In this article we make the following new contributions to their study： （1） We systematically study unnormalized gefura measures and show that, next to the ＇structural＇ normalization that has hitherto been applied, a ＇basic＇ normalization procedure is possible. While the former normalizes at the level of groups, the latter normalizes at the level of nodes. （2） Treating undirected networks as equivalent to symmetric directed networks, we expand the definition of gefura measures to the directed case. （3） It is shown how Brandes＇ algorithm for betweenness centrality can be adjusted to cover these cases.

THE GREAT WUQIA EARTHQUAKE(M_s=7.4;1985)AND SUNSPOT CYCLE

On August 23, 1985, a great earthquake (Ms=7.4) occurred at southern Wuqia County, Western Xinjiang. It brought devastation to people in this area. Earthquakes occurring in this region present apparently regular pattern in time-space distribution and may be correlated with the variation of sunspot cycles. Hence, the Wuqia earthquake of 1985 may serve as one of the best examples, which, based on multidisciplinary study, might be successfully forecast in middle-term sense.

THE AGE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF OPHIOLITES OF THE UNDORSUM GROUP, NEI MONGGOL AUTONOMOUS REGION

The Undorsum group has been looked upon as a famous mute zone in the region along the Jining-Erenhot railway, central Nei Menggol Autonomous Region forming an EW trending zone 700 km long and 100 km wide as a series of epimetamorphic rock of marine volcanic facies, this group is divided into the north and south belts.

LOWER CAMBRIAN PHOSPHATE-REPLICATED ENDOLITHS FROM EMEI, SICHUAN, CHINA

The locality yielding the endoliths under present study lies at Maidiping, 14 km south of the township of Emei County, Sichuan Province, China, where the fossils occur within a 38.42m thick phosphatic dolomite sequence stratigraphically known as the Maidiping Formation. Its lower boundary with Hongchunping Formation is defined at the lowest occurrence of the small shelly fossils, by which its age is dated as equivalent to Meishucunian. The lithological sequence has been measured by Yin et al. (1980) and subdivided into numerous subunits in stratigraphical order from Beds 32 to 39. The endoliths under study were obtained

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PALAEOFUSULINA ZONE IN STRATIGRAPHICAL DIVISION AND CORRELATION OF THE PERMIAN SYSTEM IN CHINA

The Chaugxing Stage is the youngest unit of the Permian System. It is characterized by the Palaeofusulina zone in it as is recently identified by Sheng and Rui. ’It may be subdivided into two subzones: The Gallowayinella meitienensis and the Palaeofusulina sinensis subzones from lower to upper. But Lin considered that it would be better to classify

FAULT ROCKS AND SOUTHWARD THRUSTING OF DABIE COMPLEX IN EAST DABIE MOUNTAINS, ANHUI, CHINA

The essential part of Dabie Complex in the area discussed is composed of different kinds of fault rocks produced by two syntectonic slides during southward movements of Dabie Massif; some post tectonic ones, namely, thrusts superimpose upon them sub-