Since the 1970s, the studies on the geography of enterprise have become increasingly concerned with the spatial evolution of an enterprises in the West developed countries. However, little attention has so far been g...Since the 1970s, the studies on the geography of enterprise have become increasingly concerned with the spatial evolution of an enterprises in the West developed countries. However, little attention has so far been given to the spatial evolution of an enterprise in China. With China's ongoing economy and political reforms, a number of fundamental changes of enterprise behavior have occurred. These changes have certainly important influences on the evolution of industrial location. Therefore, there is a need for examining the spatial evolution of an enterprise in China. The purpose of the paper is to review the mapjor models of both the growth,and associated spatial evolution of an enterprise, with an illustrative case study of the HeaVy Automobile Enterprise Group of China. The paper is organized by three parts. The first examines the spoilal groWth and location adjustment of multi-plant enterprise. The second reviews mapjor models of the spatial evolution of an enterprise. And the third analyzes the spatial evolution, over a period of time, of a representative sample of the Heavy Automobile Enterprise Group of China, and illustrates the findings with case studies. It is suggested that the models of spatial evolution of an enterprise would provide more evidence about micro-mechanism for evolution of micro- regional economic systems.展开更多
Designing of a multi-purpose plant as one of the well-known manufacturing systems is more challenging than other manufacturing systems. This paper applies a stochastic colored Petri net (CPN) to design and analyze mul...Designing of a multi-purpose plant as one of the well-known manufacturing systems is more challenging than other manufacturing systems. This paper applies a stochastic colored Petri net (CPN) to design and analyze multi-purpose plants. A simple approach is proposed to determine the utilization of shared resources and to reduce the equipment’s idle times. Three scenarios are presented to describe the proposed model. Generally, according to desire of a decision maker, different scenarios can be considered in the model to achieve to the expected design or plant configuration. The main characteristics of the proposed model are flexibility, the easiness of practical application and the simulation of the model in an easy way.展开更多
The demand for more efficient power generation is not only a prominent subject for environmental reasons but for economic reasons as well. Continuing growth in population contributes to more and more consumption of fr...The demand for more efficient power generation is not only a prominent subject for environmental reasons but for economic reasons as well. Continuing growth in population contributes to more and more consumption of fresh water, demanding less expensive desalination production, especially in the regions with little or no natural fresh water. Multigeneration desalination power plants may provide solutions to these issues through advanced and efficient designs that are capable of supplying fresh water and power to remote or arid regions of the world. This paper examines the flexibility and versatility of multigeneration systems to showcase the myriad of combinations that are available to accommodate any specific application. It also proposes a specific design for a multi-stage flash desalination system that is powered directly by the exhaust gases of a natural gas micro-turbine capable of producing around 1 MW of electrical power. The performance characteristics, the fresh water produced per kW and the overall plant efficiency, are numerically investigated and compared with previous designs that were analyzed on a larger scale. It is determined that the multigeneration system can produce 56,891 gallons of fresh water per day and an estimated 4.07 tons of salt per day and that a small scale multi-generation desalting systems is feasible.展开更多
The method of principal component analysis was applied to systematical research on the soil multi-media environment, including soil, surface water, ground water, waterbody sediment and agricultural crops, as well as p...The method of principal component analysis was applied to systematical research on the soil multi-media environment, including soil, surface water, ground water, waterbody sediment and agricultural crops, as well as pollution-inducing wastewater, mullock (or waste ore) and slag in the periphery of a large-sized Pb-Zn mining and smelting plant in a karst area of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The results revealed that soils in the area studied have been heavily polluted by Cd, Zn, Pb and Hg, and the levels of these metals in the samples of agricultural crop greatly exceed the standards. The above-mentioned pollutants exist in all soil-multi-media environments. The mullock, slag, wastewater, surface water, ground water, soil, and agricultural crops constitute a composite ecological chain. Therefore, the improper disposal of mullock and slag, and the use of polluted wastewater for agricultural irrigation are the main causes of soil pollution. Heavy metals in the soil have three transition progresses: point (improved soil with slag, ground water inflow plot), linear (river transition) and non-point transition (regional pollution by slag) patterns, and the tailing yard is the most important locus for heavy metals to release into the environment.展开更多
Based on systematic analysis, an Integrated Plant Maintenance System (IPMS)is proposed in this paper to cope with challenges in plant maintenance. The characteristics of theIPMS are summarized and the necessity of its...Based on systematic analysis, an Integrated Plant Maintenance System (IPMS)is proposed in this paper to cope with challenges in plant maintenance. The characteristics of theIPMS are summarized and the necessity of its modeling is set forth. Based on the analysis andcomparison among structured, object-oriented and multi-agent modeling frameworks, a multi-agentmodeling framework is selected in this paper as a theoretical guidance and together with the Troposmethod for modeling, the system model of an integrated plant maintenance system is constructed. Thesystem model developed in this paper provides a guidance template for the Baling company in itsstepwise implementation of the IPMS.展开更多
Realistic modelling and interactive rendering of forestry and landscape is a challenge in computer graphics and virtual reality.Recent new developments in plant growth modelling and simulation lead to plant models fai...Realistic modelling and interactive rendering of forestry and landscape is a challenge in computer graphics and virtual reality.Recent new developments in plant growth modelling and simulation lead to plant models faithful to botanical structure and development,not only representing the complex architecture of a real plant but also its functioning in interaction with its environment.Complex geometry and material of a large group of plants is a big burden even for high performances computers,and they often overwhelm the numerical calculation power and graphic rendering power.Thus,in order to accelerate the rendering speed of a group of plants,software techniques are often developed.In this paper,we focus on plant organs,i.e.leaves,flowers,fruits and inter-nodes.Our approach is a simplification process of all sparse organs at the same time,i.e.,Level of Detail(LOD),and multi-resolution models for plants.We do explain here the principle and construction of plant simplification.They are used to construct LOD and multi-resolution models of sparse organs and branches of big trees.These approaches take benefit from basic knowledge of plant architecture,clustering tree organs according to biological structures.We illustrate the potential of our approach on several big virtual plants for geometrical compression or LOD model definition.Finally we prove the efficiency of the proposed LOD models for realistic rendering with a virtual scene composed by 184 mature trees.展开更多
Current coronavirus pandemic has endangered mankind life. The reported cases are increasing exponentially. Information of plant protein subcellular localization can provide useful clues to develop antiviral drugs. To ...Current coronavirus pandemic has endangered mankind life. The reported cases are increasing exponentially. Information of plant protein subcellular localization can provide useful clues to develop antiviral drugs. To cope with such a catastrophe, a CNN based plant protein subcellular localization predictor called “pLoc_Deep-mPlant” was developed. The predictor is particularly useful in dealing with the multi-sites systems in which some proteins may simultaneously occur in two or more different organelles that are the current focus of pharmaceutical industry. The global absolute true rate achieved by the new predictor is over 95% and its local accuracy is about 90%?-?100%. Both have substantially exceeded the?other existing state-of-the-art predictors. To maximize the convenience for most?experimental scientists, a user-friendly web-server for the new predictor has been established?at?http://www.jci-bioinfo.cn/pLoc_Deep-mPlant/, by which the majority of experimental?scientists can easily obtain their desired data without the need to go through the?mathematical details.展开更多
Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have i...Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have investigated automated rice panicle counting. This paper describes a novel method for automatically and nonintrusively determining rice panicle numbers during the full heading stage by analyzing color images of rice plants taken from multiple angles. Pot-grown rice plants were transferred via an industrial conveyer to an imaging chamber. Color images from different angles were automatically acquired as a turntable rotated the plant. The images were then analyzed and the panicle number of each plant was determined. The image analysis pipeline consisted of extracting the i2 plane from the original color image, segmenting the image, discriminating the panicles from the rest of the plant using an artificial neural network, and calculating the panicle number in the current image. The panicle number of the plant was taken as the maximum of the panicle numbers extracted from all 12 multi-angle images. A total of 105 rice plants during the full heading stage were examined to test the performance of the method. The mean absolute error of the manual and automatic count was 0.5, with 95.3% of the plants yielding absolute errors within ± 1. The method will be useful for evaluating rice panicles and will serve as an important supplementary method for high-throughput rice phenotyping.展开更多
建立一种采用液相色谱法同时测定亚麻荠植株中8种酚酸和黄酮化合物含量的方法,并探讨亚麻荠植株醇提物的体外抗氧化活性。试验确定采用体积分数75%乙醇回流提取样品,选用Angilent Eclipse XDB plus C_(18)柱为色谱柱。结果表明:8种化合...建立一种采用液相色谱法同时测定亚麻荠植株中8种酚酸和黄酮化合物含量的方法,并探讨亚麻荠植株醇提物的体外抗氧化活性。试验确定采用体积分数75%乙醇回流提取样品,选用Angilent Eclipse XDB plus C_(18)柱为色谱柱。结果表明:8种化合物的标准曲线回归方程线性关系良好,相关系数均大于0.999;8种化合物的加标回收率为95.26%~102.61%,建立的方法可以对不同产地的亚麻荠植株样品进行区分。抗氧化试验表明,亚麻荠植株醇提取物对羟基自由基与DPPH自由基具有较好的清除能力。展开更多
With the global warming and sea level rising, it is widely recognized that there is an increasing tendency of typhoon occurrence frequency and intensity. The defenses code against typhoon attacks for nuclear power pla...With the global warming and sea level rising, it is widely recognized that there is an increasing tendency of typhoon occurrence frequency and intensity. The defenses code against typhoon attacks for nuclear power plant should be calibrated because of the increasing threat of typhoon disaster and severe consequences. This paper discusses the probabilistic approach of definitions about "probable maximum typhoon" and "probable maximum storm surge" in nuclear safety regulations of China and has made some design code calibrations by use of a newly proposed Double Layer Nested Mtdti-objective Probability Model (DLNMPM).展开更多
文摘Since the 1970s, the studies on the geography of enterprise have become increasingly concerned with the spatial evolution of an enterprises in the West developed countries. However, little attention has so far been given to the spatial evolution of an enterprise in China. With China's ongoing economy and political reforms, a number of fundamental changes of enterprise behavior have occurred. These changes have certainly important influences on the evolution of industrial location. Therefore, there is a need for examining the spatial evolution of an enterprise in China. The purpose of the paper is to review the mapjor models of both the growth,and associated spatial evolution of an enterprise, with an illustrative case study of the HeaVy Automobile Enterprise Group of China. The paper is organized by three parts. The first examines the spoilal groWth and location adjustment of multi-plant enterprise. The second reviews mapjor models of the spatial evolution of an enterprise. And the third analyzes the spatial evolution, over a period of time, of a representative sample of the Heavy Automobile Enterprise Group of China, and illustrates the findings with case studies. It is suggested that the models of spatial evolution of an enterprise would provide more evidence about micro-mechanism for evolution of micro- regional economic systems.
文摘Designing of a multi-purpose plant as one of the well-known manufacturing systems is more challenging than other manufacturing systems. This paper applies a stochastic colored Petri net (CPN) to design and analyze multi-purpose plants. A simple approach is proposed to determine the utilization of shared resources and to reduce the equipment’s idle times. Three scenarios are presented to describe the proposed model. Generally, according to desire of a decision maker, different scenarios can be considered in the model to achieve to the expected design or plant configuration. The main characteristics of the proposed model are flexibility, the easiness of practical application and the simulation of the model in an easy way.
文摘The demand for more efficient power generation is not only a prominent subject for environmental reasons but for economic reasons as well. Continuing growth in population contributes to more and more consumption of fresh water, demanding less expensive desalination production, especially in the regions with little or no natural fresh water. Multigeneration desalination power plants may provide solutions to these issues through advanced and efficient designs that are capable of supplying fresh water and power to remote or arid regions of the world. This paper examines the flexibility and versatility of multigeneration systems to showcase the myriad of combinations that are available to accommodate any specific application. It also proposes a specific design for a multi-stage flash desalination system that is powered directly by the exhaust gases of a natural gas micro-turbine capable of producing around 1 MW of electrical power. The performance characteristics, the fresh water produced per kW and the overall plant efficiency, are numerically investigated and compared with previous designs that were analyzed on a larger scale. It is determined that the multigeneration system can produce 56,891 gallons of fresh water per day and an estimated 4.07 tons of salt per day and that a small scale multi-generation desalting systems is feasible.
基金support by Guangxi Scientific and Technological Brainstorm Project (Guikegong 0779011)
文摘The method of principal component analysis was applied to systematical research on the soil multi-media environment, including soil, surface water, ground water, waterbody sediment and agricultural crops, as well as pollution-inducing wastewater, mullock (or waste ore) and slag in the periphery of a large-sized Pb-Zn mining and smelting plant in a karst area of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The results revealed that soils in the area studied have been heavily polluted by Cd, Zn, Pb and Hg, and the levels of these metals in the samples of agricultural crop greatly exceed the standards. The above-mentioned pollutants exist in all soil-multi-media environments. The mullock, slag, wastewater, surface water, ground water, soil, and agricultural crops constitute a composite ecological chain. Therefore, the improper disposal of mullock and slag, and the use of polluted wastewater for agricultural irrigation are the main causes of soil pollution. Heavy metals in the soil have three transition progresses: point (improved soil with slag, ground water inflow plot), linear (river transition) and non-point transition (regional pollution by slag) patterns, and the tailing yard is the most important locus for heavy metals to release into the environment.
基金theHunanProvince(China)DemonstrationProgramforInformatizationinManufactureun derGrantNo. Hnmie A 070,andHunanProvinceScienceandTechnologyDepartmentPlanProjectunderGrantNo.03GKY3057
文摘Based on systematic analysis, an Integrated Plant Maintenance System (IPMS)is proposed in this paper to cope with challenges in plant maintenance. The characteristics of theIPMS are summarized and the necessity of its modeling is set forth. Based on the analysis andcomparison among structured, object-oriented and multi-agent modeling frameworks, a multi-agentmodeling framework is selected in this paper as a theoretical guidance and together with the Troposmethod for modeling, the system model of an integrated plant maintenance system is constructed. Thesystem model developed in this paper provides a guidance template for the Baling company in itsstepwise implementation of the IPMS.
基金This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China projects No. 60073007, 60473110, 30371157 by National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China under Grant No. 2006AA01Z301+1 种基金 by the French National Research Agency within project NATSIM ANR-05-MMSA-45 and by LIAMA funding with the project GreenLab.
文摘Realistic modelling and interactive rendering of forestry and landscape is a challenge in computer graphics and virtual reality.Recent new developments in plant growth modelling and simulation lead to plant models faithful to botanical structure and development,not only representing the complex architecture of a real plant but also its functioning in interaction with its environment.Complex geometry and material of a large group of plants is a big burden even for high performances computers,and they often overwhelm the numerical calculation power and graphic rendering power.Thus,in order to accelerate the rendering speed of a group of plants,software techniques are often developed.In this paper,we focus on plant organs,i.e.leaves,flowers,fruits and inter-nodes.Our approach is a simplification process of all sparse organs at the same time,i.e.,Level of Detail(LOD),and multi-resolution models for plants.We do explain here the principle and construction of plant simplification.They are used to construct LOD and multi-resolution models of sparse organs and branches of big trees.These approaches take benefit from basic knowledge of plant architecture,clustering tree organs according to biological structures.We illustrate the potential of our approach on several big virtual plants for geometrical compression or LOD model definition.Finally we prove the efficiency of the proposed LOD models for realistic rendering with a virtual scene composed by 184 mature trees.
文摘Current coronavirus pandemic has endangered mankind life. The reported cases are increasing exponentially. Information of plant protein subcellular localization can provide useful clues to develop antiviral drugs. To cope with such a catastrophe, a CNN based plant protein subcellular localization predictor called “pLoc_Deep-mPlant” was developed. The predictor is particularly useful in dealing with the multi-sites systems in which some proteins may simultaneously occur in two or more different organelles that are the current focus of pharmaceutical industry. The global absolute true rate achieved by the new predictor is over 95% and its local accuracy is about 90%?-?100%. Both have substantially exceeded the?other existing state-of-the-art predictors. To maximize the convenience for most?experimental scientists, a user-friendly web-server for the new predictor has been established?at?http://www.jci-bioinfo.cn/pLoc_Deep-mPlant/, by which the majority of experimental?scientists can easily obtain their desired data without the need to go through the?mathematical details.
基金supported by grants from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2013AA102403)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30921091, 31200274)+1 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-10-0386)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2013PY034, 2014BQ010)
文摘Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have investigated automated rice panicle counting. This paper describes a novel method for automatically and nonintrusively determining rice panicle numbers during the full heading stage by analyzing color images of rice plants taken from multiple angles. Pot-grown rice plants were transferred via an industrial conveyer to an imaging chamber. Color images from different angles were automatically acquired as a turntable rotated the plant. The images were then analyzed and the panicle number of each plant was determined. The image analysis pipeline consisted of extracting the i2 plane from the original color image, segmenting the image, discriminating the panicles from the rest of the plant using an artificial neural network, and calculating the panicle number in the current image. The panicle number of the plant was taken as the maximum of the panicle numbers extracted from all 12 multi-angle images. A total of 105 rice plants during the full heading stage were examined to test the performance of the method. The mean absolute error of the manual and automatic count was 0.5, with 95.3% of the plants yielding absolute errors within ± 1. The method will be useful for evaluating rice panicles and will serve as an important supplementary method for high-throughput rice phenotyping.
文摘建立一种采用液相色谱法同时测定亚麻荠植株中8种酚酸和黄酮化合物含量的方法,并探讨亚麻荠植株醇提物的体外抗氧化活性。试验确定采用体积分数75%乙醇回流提取样品,选用Angilent Eclipse XDB plus C_(18)柱为色谱柱。结果表明:8种化合物的标准曲线回归方程线性关系良好,相关系数均大于0.999;8种化合物的加标回收率为95.26%~102.61%,建立的方法可以对不同产地的亚麻荠植株样品进行区分。抗氧化试验表明,亚麻荠植株醇提取物对羟基自由基与DPPH自由基具有较好的清除能力。
基金supported by the Nationam Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50679076)Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters of China(Grant No.20060120)
文摘With the global warming and sea level rising, it is widely recognized that there is an increasing tendency of typhoon occurrence frequency and intensity. The defenses code against typhoon attacks for nuclear power plant should be calibrated because of the increasing threat of typhoon disaster and severe consequences. This paper discusses the probabilistic approach of definitions about "probable maximum typhoon" and "probable maximum storm surge" in nuclear safety regulations of China and has made some design code calibrations by use of a newly proposed Double Layer Nested Mtdti-objective Probability Model (DLNMPM).