A numerical model for simulating storm surge with nested grid system has been applied to hindcast the coastal flooding on both sides of Taiwan Strait. The simulation results can be used to understand the transport var...A numerical model for simulating storm surge with nested grid system has been applied to hindcast the coastal flooding on both sides of Taiwan Strait. The simulation results can be used to understand the transport variation and the inundation distribution induced by the storm surge on the interested area during typhoon invades. The case in this study is Typhoon SEPAT, which passed through central Taiwan in 2007. The transport characteristics through Taiwan Strait under the influence of Typhoon SEPAT were discussed by comparing the field observations and numerical simulations during the typhoon period. The results indicate that the surge height of Typhoon SEPAT did not respond to the peak of wind waves accompanied with 15 hrs time lag. According to the influence of dynamical forces on the storm surge in Taiwan Strait, the onshore wind is the dominant role of coastal inundation during this typhoon event in Taiwan Strait. By observing the inundation map through the typhoon period, the coasts of Yulin County are verified to be the most serious affected area in the vicinity of Taiwan Strait.展开更多
To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid mode...To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid model implemented in CFD software. In this paper, the effect of expansion of the inclined pipe, which is the actual plant geometry, was evaluated. When increasing the air velocity, CCFL characteristics and the mechanism of flow pattern transition had significant differences between the case with and without expansion of the inclined pipe. CCFL characteristics were mitigated in the case with expansion. The effect of computational grid size was also discussed. When the supplied water velocity was small, the predicted flow pattern transition point agreed well with the measured data by increasing the number of cells. On the other hand, when the air velocity was decreasing, there were no significant differences in each case.展开更多
A 43-year-old man with a history of rheumatoid heart disease developed endocarditis.Blood culture showed endocarditis was caused by Kodamaea ohmeri and the susceptibility test showed the yeast species were susceptible...A 43-year-old man with a history of rheumatoid heart disease developed endocarditis.Blood culture showed endocarditis was caused by Kodamaea ohmeri and the susceptibility test showed the yeast species were susceptible to itraconazole,amphotericin B,and voriconazole,but susceptible-dose dependent to fluconazole,and resistant to 5-flucytosine.Treated with surgery and anti-fungi agents,the patient recovered from endocarditis.This is the first case of K.ohmeri fungemia found in Chinese from mainland.More and more evidence indicate that K.ohmeri is an important opportunistic pathogen for human beings.展开更多
We show that the Susskind-Glogower phase state is a limiting case of a kind of SU（1,1） coherent states. By analogy, based on the bipartite entangled state representation （ESR） we demonstrate that an appropriate SU...We show that the Susskind-Glogower phase state is a limiting case of a kind of SU（1,1） coherent states. By analogy, based on the bipartite entangled state representation （ESR） we demonstrate that an appropriate SU（1,1） coherent state composed of the two-mode unitary phase operator e^i also leads to a new phase state in two-mode Fock space, e^i is diagonalized in the ESR.展开更多
A case study of 350 farmwomen in Croatia was conducted to contribute the understudied area of farming and entrepreneurship. The study considered the sociodemographical features of farmwoman and its influence on entrep...A case study of 350 farmwomen in Croatia was conducted to contribute the understudied area of farming and entrepreneurship. The study considered the sociodemographical features of farmwoman and its influence on entrepreneurial and organization skills. Field research was conducted through a questionnaire and interviews. Results showed that farmwoman were keen to start innovations, use new technologies and start new income generating farm activities but their gender roles and process of socialization hinders them in such attempts. High statistical correlations were significant for sociodemographic status to entrepreneurial abilities like farm work organization, actual professional status to involvement in decision making and farm economic status to farm economical position （income）.展开更多
A theorem of Lambrechts and Stanley is used to find the rational cohomology of the complement of an embedding S^(4n-1)→ S^(2n)× S^m as a module and demonstrate that it is not necessarily determined by the map in...A theorem of Lambrechts and Stanley is used to find the rational cohomology of the complement of an embedding S^(4n-1)→ S^(2n)× S^m as a module and demonstrate that it is not necessarily determined by the map induced on cohomology by the embedding, nor is it a trivial extension. This demonstrates that the theorem is an improvement on the classical Lefschetz duality.展开更多
Although the degree of mate competition, given extreme differences in sex ratio, explains much of the pattern of male-biased size dimorphism among diverse taxa, it fails for some species which have potential for inten...Although the degree of mate competition, given extreme differences in sex ratio, explains much of the pattern of male-biased size dimorphism among diverse taxa, it fails for some species which have potential for intense male competition for mates and yet exhibit little or no sexual size dimorphism （SSD）. This fact suggest that species with low SSD should be express the effect of evolutionary pressure in non-obvious geometrical shape promoted by sex ratio in an evolutionary time scale. To evaluate this hypothesis we used phylogenetic comparative method in a Bayesian framework to investigate the evolution of SSD and the role of sex ratio at inter-specific level in the species of Ceroglossus （Coleoptera： Carabidae）. In our results the proportion farthest from 1：1 is associated with more disparate body shape, even though the entire group has minimum variation in sex ratio, which is an intrinsic life history character of this group considering its phylogenetic conservatism or phylogenetic signal. We suggest that the sex ratio has determined the dimorphism degree during evolution of this group, since both traits have increased or decreased together during the species divergence （i.e. positive phylogenetic correlation： r2=0.85）. We suggest that morphological studies of SSD will benefit from using comparative method with Bayesian approaches to assess the effect of phylogenetic history and its uncertainty. Finally, this will be allow to researchers to quantify the uncertainty of specific evolutionary hypotheses accounting for observed sexual dimorphism patterns.展开更多
文摘A numerical model for simulating storm surge with nested grid system has been applied to hindcast the coastal flooding on both sides of Taiwan Strait. The simulation results can be used to understand the transport variation and the inundation distribution induced by the storm surge on the interested area during typhoon invades. The case in this study is Typhoon SEPAT, which passed through central Taiwan in 2007. The transport characteristics through Taiwan Strait under the influence of Typhoon SEPAT were discussed by comparing the field observations and numerical simulations during the typhoon period. The results indicate that the surge height of Typhoon SEPAT did not respond to the peak of wind waves accompanied with 15 hrs time lag. According to the influence of dynamical forces on the storm surge in Taiwan Strait, the onshore wind is the dominant role of coastal inundation during this typhoon event in Taiwan Strait. By observing the inundation map through the typhoon period, the coasts of Yulin County are verified to be the most serious affected area in the vicinity of Taiwan Strait.
文摘To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid model implemented in CFD software. In this paper, the effect of expansion of the inclined pipe, which is the actual plant geometry, was evaluated. When increasing the air velocity, CCFL characteristics and the mechanism of flow pattern transition had significant differences between the case with and without expansion of the inclined pipe. CCFL characteristics were mitigated in the case with expansion. The effect of computational grid size was also discussed. When the supplied water velocity was small, the predicted flow pattern transition point agreed well with the measured data by increasing the number of cells. On the other hand, when the air velocity was decreasing, there were no significant differences in each case.
文摘A 43-year-old man with a history of rheumatoid heart disease developed endocarditis.Blood culture showed endocarditis was caused by Kodamaea ohmeri and the susceptibility test showed the yeast species were susceptible to itraconazole,amphotericin B,and voriconazole,but susceptible-dose dependent to fluconazole,and resistant to 5-flucytosine.Treated with surgery and anti-fungi agents,the patient recovered from endocarditis.This is the first case of K.ohmeri fungemia found in Chinese from mainland.More and more evidence indicate that K.ohmeri is an important opportunistic pathogen for human beings.
文摘We show that the Susskind-Glogower phase state is a limiting case of a kind of SU（1,1） coherent states. By analogy, based on the bipartite entangled state representation （ESR） we demonstrate that an appropriate SU（1,1） coherent state composed of the two-mode unitary phase operator e^i also leads to a new phase state in two-mode Fock space, e^i is diagonalized in the ESR.
文摘A case study of 350 farmwomen in Croatia was conducted to contribute the understudied area of farming and entrepreneurship. The study considered the sociodemographical features of farmwoman and its influence on entrepreneurial and organization skills. Field research was conducted through a questionnaire and interviews. Results showed that farmwoman were keen to start innovations, use new technologies and start new income generating farm activities but their gender roles and process of socialization hinders them in such attempts. High statistical correlations were significant for sociodemographic status to entrepreneurial abilities like farm work organization, actual professional status to involvement in decision making and farm economic status to farm economical position （income）.
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文摘A theorem of Lambrechts and Stanley is used to find the rational cohomology of the complement of an embedding S^(4n-1)→ S^(2n)× S^m as a module and demonstrate that it is not necessarily determined by the map induced on cohomology by the embedding, nor is it a trivial extension. This demonstrates that the theorem is an improvement on the classical Lefschetz duality.
文摘Although the degree of mate competition, given extreme differences in sex ratio, explains much of the pattern of male-biased size dimorphism among diverse taxa, it fails for some species which have potential for intense male competition for mates and yet exhibit little or no sexual size dimorphism （SSD）. This fact suggest that species with low SSD should be express the effect of evolutionary pressure in non-obvious geometrical shape promoted by sex ratio in an evolutionary time scale. To evaluate this hypothesis we used phylogenetic comparative method in a Bayesian framework to investigate the evolution of SSD and the role of sex ratio at inter-specific level in the species of Ceroglossus （Coleoptera： Carabidae）. In our results the proportion farthest from 1：1 is associated with more disparate body shape, even though the entire group has minimum variation in sex ratio, which is an intrinsic life history character of this group considering its phylogenetic conservatism or phylogenetic signal. We suggest that the sex ratio has determined the dimorphism degree during evolution of this group, since both traits have increased or decreased together during the species divergence （i.e. positive phylogenetic correlation： r2=0.85）. We suggest that morphological studies of SSD will benefit from using comparative method with Bayesian approaches to assess the effect of phylogenetic history and its uncertainty. Finally, this will be allow to researchers to quantify the uncertainty of specific evolutionary hypotheses accounting for observed sexual dimorphism patterns.
