Real- Time Color Enhancement Method Used for Intelligent Mobile Terminals

In certain environments and under some conditions, the video images taken by the intelligent mobile video phones seem dark, and the colors are not bright or saturated enough.This paper presents an adaptive method to enhance the video image brightness visualization and the color performance depending on the certain hardware property and function parameters. The experimental results prove that this method can enhance the colors and the contrast of the video images, based on the estimated quality feature values of each frame, without using the extra Digital Signal Processor (DSP).

Determination of Anionic Surfactants in Environmental Water Samples Using Fluorescence Enhancement Method Based on Fe_3O_4@PAA-RB Fluorescent Nanoparticles

[ Objective] The study aims at developing a novel fluorescence enhancement method to determine anionic surfactants. [ Method] Based on Fe3O4 @ PAA-RB fluorescent nanoparticles as fluorescent probes, we have developed a novel fluorescence enhancement method for the determi- nation of an anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate （SDS） through the gradual optimization of experiment conditions. [ Result] Under the opti- mum conditions, the extent of fluorescence enhancement is directly proportional to SDS concentration varying from 0.5 to 16.0 μmol/L, and the de- tection limit reaches 0.051 μmol/L. The relative standard deviation （RSD） for 4.0 μmol/L SDS is 3.3% （ n =6）. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the determination of SDS in environmental water samples, with recovery of 96.3% -105.5%. E Conclusion] The novel fluo- rescence enhancement method is not only simple and rapid, but also has avoided using tedious solvent-extraction and toxic organic solvents.

Developing a new red band- SEVI-blue band (RSB) enhancement method for recognition the extra-high-voltage transmission line corridor in green mountains

Monitoring the extra-high-voltage transmission line corridor(EHVTLC)in mountains is critical for safe smart-grid operation.However,the transmission lines are so narrow that they are difficult to recognize using multispectral satellite images with a spatial resolution of 10 m.In this study,we developed a new method using the red band–shadow-eliminated vegetation index(SEVI)–blue band(RSB)composite image to enhance the EHVTLC in green mountains(named RSB-enhancement method).Using this method,the EHVTLC becomes evident in the false-color synthesis of the RSB composite of the Sentinel-2 image.Then,we recognized and extracted approximately 342.45 km of the EHVTLC in a mountainous region of Fuzhou City,China,including a 46.73 km three-parallel-lane segment of 1000 kV and a 295.72 km two-parallel-lane segment of 500 kV.Spatial analysis shows that the SEVI mean difference between the EHVTLC and the buffer zone reaches approximately 10%,and three landslides and 2.66 km^(2) soil erosion reside in the buffer zone which area is approximately 73.67 km^(2).Finally,the RSB-enhancement method can be used in other satellite images with spatial resolutions of greater than 10 m for enhancement and recognition the transmission line corridors in green mountains.

Impact of climate change and human activities on the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water area in Gansu Province, China

Understanding the dynamics of surface water area and their drivers is crucial for human survival and ecosystem stability in inland arid and semi-arid areas.This study took Gansu Province,China,a typical area with complex terrain and variable climate,as the research subject.Based on Google Earth Engine,we used Landsat data and the Open-surface Water Detection Method with Enhanced Impurity Control method to monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water area in Gansu Province from 1985 to 2022,and quantitatively analyzed the main causes of regional differences in surface water area.The findings revealed that surface water area in Gansu Province expanded by 406.88 km2 from 1985 to 2022.Seasonal surface water area exhibited significant fluctuations,while permanent surface water area showed a steady increase.Notably,terrestrial water storage exhibited a trend of first decreasing and then increasing,correlated with the dynamics of surface water area.Climate change and human activities jointly affected surface hydrological processes,with the impact of climate change being slightly higher than that of human activities.Spatially,climate change affected the'source'of surface water to a greater extent,while human activities tended to affect the'destination'of surface water.Challenges of surface water resources faced by inland arid and semi-arid areas like Gansu Province are multifaceted.Therefore,we summarized the surface hydrology patterns typical in inland arid and semi-arid areas and tailored surface water'supply-demand'balance strategies.The study not only sheds light on the dynamics of surface water area in Gansu Province,but also offers valuable insights for ecological protection and surface water resource management in inland arid and semi-arid areas facing water scarcity.

Searching for critical slip surfaces of slopes using stress fields by numerical manifold method

This study first reviews the numerical manifold method(NMM)which possesses some advantages over the traditional limit equilibrium methods(LEMs)in calculating the factors of safety(Fs)of the slopes.Then,with regard to a trial slip surface(TSS),associated stress fields reproduced by NMM as well as the enhanced limit equilibrium method are combined to compute Fs.In order to search for the potential critical slip surface(CSS),the MAX-MIN ant colony optimization algorithm(MMACOA),one of the best performing algorithms for some optimization problems,is adopted.Procedures to obtain Fs in conjunction with the potential CSS are described.Finally,the proposed numerical model and traditional methods are compared with stability analysis of three typical slopes.The numerical results show that Fs and CSSs of the slopes can be accurately calculated with the proposed model.

Solving shock wave with discontinuity by enhanced differential transform method(EDTM)

An enhanced differential transform method （EDTM）, which introduces the Pad@ technique into the standard differential transform method （DTM）, is proposed. The enhanced method is applied to the analytic treatment of the shock wave. It accelerates the convergence of the series solution and provides an exact Dower series solution.

A cost-effective method to enhance adenoviral transduction of primary murine osteoblasts and bone marrow stromal cells

We report here a method for the use of poly-L-lysine （PLL） to markedly improve the adenoviral transduction efficiency of primary murine osteoblasts and bone marrow stromal cells （BMSCs） in culture and in situ, which are typically difficult to transduce. We show by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry that the addition of PLL to the viral-containing medium significantly increases the number of green fluorescence protein （GFP）-positive osteoblasts and BMSCs transduced with an enhanced GFP-expressing adenovirus. We also demonstrate that PLL can greatly enhance the adenoviral transduction of osteoblasts and osteocytes in situ in ex vivo tibia and calvaria, as well as in long bone fragments. In addition, we validate that PLL can improve routine adenoviral transduction studies by permitting the use of low multiplicities of infection to obtain the desired biologic effect. Ultimately, the use of PLL to facilitate adenoviral gene transfer in osteogenic cells can provide a cost-effective means of performing efficient gene transfer studies in the context of bone research.

On the Accuracy Assessment of the Latest Releases of GOCE Satellite-Based Geopotential Models with EGM2008 and Terrestrial GPS/Levelling and Gravity Data over Egypt

The Global Geopotential Models (GGMs) of GOCE (Gravity Recovery and steady- state Ocean Circulation Explorer) differ globally as well as regionally in their accuracy and resolution based on the maximum degree and order (d/o) of the fully normalized spherical harmonic (SH) coefficients, which express each GGM. The main idea of this study is to compare the free-air gravity anomalies and quasi geoid heights determined from several recent GOCE-based GGMs with the corresponding ones from the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008) over Egypt on the one hand and with ground-based measurements on the other hand. The results regarding to the comparison of GOCE-based GGMs with terrestrial gravity and GPS/levelling data provide better improvement with respect to EGM2008. The 4th release GOCE-based GGM developed with the use of space-wise solution strategy (SPW_R4) approximates the gravity field well over the Egyptian region. The SPW_R4 model is accordingly suggested as a reference model for recovering the long wavelength (up to SH d/o 200) components of quasi geoid heights when modelling the gravimetric quasi-geoid over the Egypt. Finally, three types of transformation models: Four-, Five- and Seven-parameter transformations have been applied to reduce the data biases and to provide a better fitting of quasi geoid heights obtained from the studied GOCE-based GGMs to those from GPS/levelling data. These models reveal that the standard deviation of vertical datum over Egypt is at the level of about 32 cm.

Influence of Surface Ultrasonic Scratching Pretreatment on Diamond Nucleation

Influence of the surface ultrasonic scratching pretreatment on diamond nucletion has been studied.Diamond films have been deposited on Si(100) by hot-filament chemical vapour deposition and characterized by scanning electron microscopy. 1.5～40μm diamond powders and mixtures of 1.5～5μm diamond as well as 5～20μm TaC powders were used in the ultrasonic scratching pretreatment. The experiment results show that thediamond nucleation density increases with increment of diamond powders size, and a mixture of diamond and TaCpowders enhances diamond nucleation much more greatly than that of diamond powders alone, especially when thesize of diamond powdets is not very large.

A method of whispered speech enhancement based on speech absence probability and modified mel-domain masking model

Whispered speech enhancement using auditory masking model in modified Mel- domain and Speech Absence Probability （SAP） was proposed. In light of the phonation char- acteristic of whisper, we modify the Mel-frequency Scaling model. Whispered speech is filtered by the proposed model. Meanwhile, the value of masking threshold for each frequency band is dynamically determined by speech absence probability. Then whispered speech enhancement is conducted by adaptively rectifying the spectrum subtraction coefficients using different masking threshold values. Results of objective and subjective tests on the enhanced whispered signal show that compared with other methods; the proposed method can enhance whispered signal with better subjective auditory quality and less distortion by reducing the music noise and background noise under the masking threshold value.

A new non-linear vortex lattice method:Applications to wing aerodynamic optimizations

This paper presents a new non-linear formulation of the classical Vortex Lattice Method （VLM） approach for calculating the aerodynamic properties of lifting surfaces. The method accounts for the effects of viscosity, and due to its low computational cost, it represents a very good tool to perform rapid and accurate wing design and optimization procedures. The mathematical model is constructed by using two-dimensional viscous analyses of the wing span-wise sections, according to strip theory, and then coupling the strip viscous forces with the forces generated by the vortex rings distributed on the wing camber surface, calculated with a fully three-dimensional vortex lifting law. The numerical results obtained with the proposed method are validated with experimental data and show good agreement in predicting both the lift and pitching moment, as well as in predicting the wing drag. The method is applied to modifying the wing of an Unmanned Aerial System to increase its aerodynamic efficiency and to calculate the drag reductions obtained by an upper surface morphing technique for an adaptable regional aircraft wing.

Preparation of ZnO/GO composite material with highly photocatalytic performance via an improved two-step method

ZnO/graphene oxide（ZnO/GO） composite material,in which ZnO nanoparticles were densely coated on the GO nanosheets,was successfully prepared by an improved two-step method and characterized by IR, XRD,TEM,and UV-vis techniques.The improved photocatalytic property of the ZnO/GO composite material,evaluated by the photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange（MO） under UV irradiation,is ascribed to the intimate contact between ZnO and GO,the enhanced adsorption of MO,the quick electron transfer from excited ZnO particles to GO sheets and the activation of MO molecules viaπ-πinteraction between MO and GO.

The enhanced volume source boundary point method for the calculation of acoustic radiation problem

The Volume Source Boundary Point Method (VSBPM) is greatly improved so that it will speed up the VSBPM's solution of the acoustic radiation problem caused by the vibrating body. The fundamental solution provided by Helmholtz equation is enforced in a weighted residual sense over a tetrahedron located on the normal line of the boundary node to replace the coefficient matrices of the system equation. Through the enhanced volume source boundary point analysis of various examples and the sound field of a vibrating rectangular box in a semi-anechoic chamber, it has revealed that the calculating speed of the EVSBPM is more than 10 times faster than that of the VSBPM while it works on the aspects of its calculating precision and stability, adaptation to geometric shape of vibrating body as well as its ability to overcome the non-uniqueness problem.

EXACT SOLUTIONS TO KdV-BURGERS EQUATION USING THE ENHANCED MODIFIED SIMPLE EQUATION METHOD

It is known that many physical phenomenons can be described by the KdV-Burgers equation. By the enhanced modifed simple equation method, we obtain the exact solutions with variable coefcients involving parameters to KdV-Burgers equation, and some new exact solutions are gained. When these parameters are taken special values, the solitary wave solutions are derived from the exact solutions. It is shown that the proposed method provides a more powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.

Enhancement of solar cells parameters by periodic nanocylinders

Optical absorption in thin-film solar cells can be improved by using surface plasmons for guiding and confining the light on the nanoscale.We report theoretical and simulation studies of a-Si thin-film solar cells with silver nanocylinders on the surface.We found that surface plasmons increased the cells＇ spectral response over almost the entire studied solar spectrum.In the ultraviolet range and at wavelengths close to the Si band gap we observed a significant enhancement of the absorption for both thin-film and wafer-based structures.We also performed optimization studies of particle size,inter-particle distance,and dielectric environment,for obtaining maximal absorption within the substrate.A blue-shift of the resonance wavelength with increasing inter-particle distance was observed in the visible range.Cell performance improved at optimal spacing,which strongly depended on the nanoparticle size.Increasing the nanocylinder size was accompanied by the widening of the plasmon resonance band and a red-shift of the plasmon resonance peaks.A weak red-shift and plasmon peak enhancement were observed in the reflectance curve with increasing refractive index of the dielectric spacer.

New solitary waves and exact solutions for the fifth-order nonlinear wave equation using two integration techniques

In this paper,we discussed the enhanced Kudryashov’s and general projective Riccati equations tech-niques for obtaining exact solutions to the fifth-order nonlinear water wave(FONLWWE)equation.Using the enhanced Kudryashov’s method,we were able to achieve solitary wave and singular soliton solutions.Solitary-shock hybrid wave,singular soliton,and periodic wave solutions were discovered when we em-ployed the general projective Riccati equations approach.We can say the given methods are effective and powerful for obtaining exact solutions.Our findings in this paper are critical for explaining a wide range of scientific and oceanographic applications involving ocean gravity waves and other related phenomena.

Enhanced flow injection analysis for measurements of S-nitrosothiols species in biological samples using highly selective amperometric nitric oxide sensor

A highly selective nitric oxide（NO） sensor is fabricated and applied to devise an enhanced flow injection analysis（FIA） system for S-nitrosothiols（RSNOs） measurement in biological samples.The NO sensor is prepared using a polytetrafluoroethylene（PTFE） gas-permeable membrane loaded with Teflon AF？ solution,a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and 2,2-bis（trifluoroethylene）-4,5-difluoro -l,3-dioxole,to improve selectivity.This method is much simpler and possesses good performance over a wide range of RSNOs concentrations.Standard deviation for three parallel measurements of blood plasma is 4.0%.The use of the gas sensing configuration as the detector enhances selectivity of the FIA measurement vs.using less selective electrochemical detectors that do not use PTFE/Teflon type outer membranes.

Bright, periodic, compacton and bell-shape soliton solutions of the extended QZK and (3+1)-dimensional ZK equations

The(3+1)-dimensional Zakharov–Kuznetsov(ZK) and the new extended quantum ZK equations are functional to decipher the dense quantum plasma, ion-acoustic waves, electron thermal energy,ion plasma, quantum acoustic waves, and quantum Langmuir waves. The enhanced modified simple equation(EMSE) method is a substantial approach to determine competent solutions and in this article, we have constructed standard, illustrative, rich structured and further comprehensive soliton solutions via this method. The solutions are ascertained as the integration of exponential, hyperbolic,trigonometric and rational functions and formulate the bright solitons, periodic, compacton, bellshape, parabolic shape, singular periodic, plane shape and some new type of solitons. It is worth noting that the wave profile varies as the physical and subsidiary parameters change. The standard and advanced soliton solutions may be useful to assist in describing the physical phenomena previously mentioned. To open out the inward structure of the tangible incidents, we have portrayed the three-dimensional, contour plot, and two-dimensional graphs for different parametric values. The attained results demonstrate the EMSE technique for extracting soliton solutions to nonlinear evolution equations is efficient, compatible and reliable in nonlinear science and engineering.

Surface micro/nanostructure evolution of Au-Ag alloy nanoplates： Synthesis, simulation, plasmonic photothermal and surface-enhanced Raman scattering applications

This study reports the controllable surface roughening of Au-Ag alloy nanoplates via the galvanic replacement reaction between single-crystalline triangular Ag nanoplates and HAuC14 in an aqueous medium. With a combination of experimental evidence and finite element method （FEM） simulations, improved electromagnetic field （E-field） enhancement around the surface-roughened Au- Ag nanoplates and tunable light absorption in the near-infrared （NIR） region （-800-1,400 nm） are achieved by the synergistic effects of the localized surface plasmon resonance （LSPR） from the maintained triangular shape, the controllable Au-Ag alloy composition, and the increased surface roughness. The NIR light extinction enables an active photothermal effect as well as a high photothermal conversion efficiency （78.5%）. The well-maintained triangular shape, surface- roughened evolutions of both micro- and nanostructures, and tunable NIR surface plasmon resonance effect enable potential applications of the Au-Ag alloy nanoplates in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic detection of biomolecules through 785-nm laser excitation.