Boehmeria nivea var.strigosa Zeng Y.Wu&Y.Zhao,a new variety of B.nivea(Urticaceae)from Southwest China,is here described based on evidence from morphology and molecular phylogeny.This new variety is mainly charact...Boehmeria nivea var.strigosa Zeng Y.Wu&Y.Zhao,a new variety of B.nivea(Urticaceae)from Southwest China,is here described based on evidence from morphology and molecular phylogeny.This new variety is mainly characterized by its green abaxial leaf blade,partly connate stipules,and densely patent strigose hairs on stems and potioles.The phylogenetic analysis based on rbc L,nrDNA and rbc L+nrDNA datasets,revealed that all individuals of B.nivea var.strigosa formed a monophyletic group.The conservation status of B.nivea var.strigosa is assessed as“Near Threatened”(NT)according to IUCN evaluation criteria.The discovery of this new variety is not only crucial for the taxonomy of ramie,but also provides reference for the exploration and utilization of ramie.展开更多
Functional electrical stimulation is a method of repairing a dysfunctional limb in a stroke patient by using low-intensity electrical stimulation.Currently,it is widely used in smart medical treatment for limb rehabil...Functional electrical stimulation is a method of repairing a dysfunctional limb in a stroke patient by using low-intensity electrical stimulation.Currently,it is widely used in smart medical treatment for limb rehabilitation in stroke patients.In this paper,the development of FES systems is sorted out and analyzed in a time order.Then,the progress of functional electrical stimulation in the field of rehabilitation is reviewed in details in two aspects,i.e.,system development and algorithm progress.In the system aspect,the development of the first FES control and stimulation system,the core of the lower limb-based neuroprosthesis system and the system based on brain-computer interface are introduced.The algorithm optimization for control strategy is introduced in the algorithm.Asynchronous stimulation to prolong the function time of the lower limbs and a method to improve the robustness of knee joint modeling using neural networks.Representative applications in each of these aspects have been investigated and analyzed.展开更多
This study proposed a lightweight but high-performance convolu-tion network for accurately classifying five upper limb movements of arm,involving forearm flexion and rotation,arm extension,lumbar touch and no reaction...This study proposed a lightweight but high-performance convolu-tion network for accurately classifying five upper limb movements of arm,involving forearm flexion and rotation,arm extension,lumbar touch and no reaction state,aiming to monitoring patient’s rehabilitation process and assist the therapist in elevating patient compliance with treatment.To achieve this goal,a lightweight convolution neural network TMCA-Net(Time Mul-tiscale Channel Attention Convolutional Neural Network)is designed,which combines attention mechanism,uses multi-branched convolution structure to automatically extract feature information at different scales from sensor data,and filters feature information based on attention mechanism.In particular,channel separation convolution is used to replace traditional convolution.This reduces the computational complexity of the model,decouples the convolution operation of the time dimension and the cross-channel feature interaction,which is helpful to the target optimization of feature extraction.TMCA-Net shows excellent performance in the upper limb rehabilitation ges-ture data,achieves 99.11%accuracy and 99.16%F1-score for the classification and recognition of five gestures.Compared with CNN and LSTM network,it achieves 65.62%and 89.98%accuracy in the same task.In addition,on the UCI smartphone public dataset,with the network parameters of one tenth of the current advanced model,the recognition accuracy rate of 95.21%has been achieved,which further proves the light weight and performance characteristics of the model.The clinical significance of this study is to accurately monitor patients’upper limb rehabilitation gesture by an affordable intelligent model as an auxiliary support for therapists’decision-making.展开更多
Wetting and spreading processes which involve surfactant solutions are widely used in numerous industrial and practical applications nowadays.The performance of different non-ionic surfactants may vary significantly a...Wetting and spreading processes which involve surfactant solutions are widely used in numerous industrial and practical applications nowadays.The performance of different non-ionic surfactants may vary significantly and so far superspreader solutions show the most promising spreading ability.The addition of trisiloxane surfactants to water was proven to enhance wetting,even on hydrophobic surfaces,on which conventional surfactants seem to have little or no effect.Although these extraordinary surfactants have been extensively studied over recent years,complete understanding of their underlying mechanisms and a suitable mathematical model are still lacking.Here we present a possible explanation for the impressive performance of trisiloxane,which is compared to wetting enhancement of a conventional surfactant.Additionally,we will explain why the hydrophobicity of the surface is a crucial factor for the spreading phenomenon.Light will be also shed on the effect of the pH of the solution to which surfactants are added.Finally,we will investigate long-term effects of the water environment on trisiloxane wetting ability and discuss if ageing may significantly affect their performance.展开更多
The aim of this study is to identify the influence of the dip angle of a pre-existing macrocrack on the lifetime and ultimate deformation of rock-like material. Prediction of lifetime has been studied for three groups...The aim of this study is to identify the influence of the dip angle of a pre-existing macrocrack on the lifetime and ultimate deformation of rock-like material. Prediction of lifetime has been studied for three groups of specimens under axial static compressive load levels. The specimens were investigated from 65% to 85% of UCS(uniaxial compressive strength) at an interval of 10% of UCS for the groups of specimens with a single modelled open flaw with a dip angle to the loading direction of 30°(first group), at an interval of 5% of UCS increment for the groups of specimens with single(second group), and double sequential open flaws with a dip angle to the loading direction of 60°(third group). This study shows that crack propagation in specimens with a single flaw follows the same sequences. At first, wing cracks appear, and then shear crack develops from the existing wing cracks. Shear cracking is responsible for specimen failure in all three groups. A slip is expected in specimens from the third group which connects two individual modelled open flaws. The moment of the slip is noticed as a characteristic rise in the axial deformation at a constant load level. It is also observed that axial deformation versus time follows the same pattern, irrespective of local geometry. Specimens from the first group exhibit higher axial deformation under different load levels in comparison with the specimens from the second and third groups.展开更多
This paper aims to study energy consumption in a house. Home energy managementsystem (HEMS) has become very important, because energy consumption of aresidential sector accounts for a significant amount of total energ...This paper aims to study energy consumption in a house. Home energy managementsystem (HEMS) has become very important, because energy consumption of aresidential sector accounts for a significant amount of total energy consumption.However, a conventional HEMS has some architectural limitations among dimensionalvariables reusability and interoperability. Furthermore, the cost of implementation inHEMS is very expensive, which leads to the disturbance of the spread of a HEMS.Therefore, this study proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) based HEMS with lightweightphotovoltaic (PV) system over dynamic home area networks (DHANs), which enablesthe construction of a HEMS to be scalable reusable and interoperable. The study suggestsa technique for decreasing cost of energy that HEMS is using and various perspectives insystem. The method that proposed is K-NN (K-Nearest Neighbor) which helps us toanalyze the classification and regression datasets. This paper has the result from the datarelevant in October 2018 from some buildings of Nanjing University of InformationScience and Technology.展开更多
Eruptive fires are one of the main causes of human losses in forest fire fighting. The sudden change in fire behaviour due to a fire eruption is extremely dangerous for fire-fighters because it is unpredictable. Very ...Eruptive fires are one of the main causes of human losses in forest fire fighting. The sudden change in fire behaviour due to a fire eruption is extremely dangerous for fire-fighters because it is unpredictable. Very little literature is available to support either modelling or occurrence prediction for this phenomenon. In this study, an unsteady physical model of fire spread is detailed, which describes the initiation and development of eruptive fires with an induced wind sub-model. The latter phenomenon is proposed as the mainspring of fire eruptions. Induced wind is proportional to the rate of spread and the rate of spread is in a non-linear relationship with induced wind. This feedback can converge or diverge depending on the conditions. The model allows both explaining why an eruption can occur and predicting explicitly its occurrence according to meteorological conditions, topographic parameters, fuel bed properties and fire front width. The model is tested by comparing its results to a set of experiments carried out at laboratory scale and during an outdoor wildfire, the Kornati accident.展开更多
The effect of the courtyard on moderating the hush climate and improving the thermal environment of the courtyard style cave dwelling, and the interaction amongst the ambient, the courtyard and its surrounding cave ro...The effect of the courtyard on moderating the hush climate and improving the thermal environment of the courtyard style cave dwelling, and the interaction amongst the ambient, the courtyard and its surrounding cave rooms were investigated. A field measurement was carried out in such a typical dwelling in the winter. The results presented in this paper prove the ability of this dwelling to transform an extreme winter environment outside cave rooms into a better outdoor community space and will be helpful for modern architects to seek a low cost housing solution with concern for sustainable development.展开更多
In May 2022,the world witnessed the re-emergence of the zoonotic disease monkeypox.While this was not the first epidemic of this disease,what differentiated the outbreak was the rapid global spread and increase of cas...In May 2022,the world witnessed the re-emergence of the zoonotic disease monkeypox.While this was not the first epidemic of this disease,what differentiated the outbreak was the rapid global spread and increase of cases,which led the WHO to declare monkeypox a global health emergency.Although the disease spreads mainly through inadequately cooked meat of various rodent species,this virus also shows droplet,respiratory,sexual,and even vertical transmission.Monkeypox further multiplies in lymphoproliferative organs and presents with a classical smallpox-like rash,fever,headache,and muscle aches.Diagnosis is confirmed with a polymerase-chain-reaction test and is managed largely supportively with possible usage of some antivirals and immunoglobulins.Moreover,some pre-exposure and postexposure prophylactic vaccines have been developed.This paper aims to conduct an in-depth review of the historical epidemics,transmission,pathophysiology,clinical presentation,and management of the monkeypox disease.展开更多
Summary What is already known about this topic?People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events,such as the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)crisis,to express awareness,take action,and...Summary What is already known about this topic?People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events,such as the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)crisis,to express awareness,take action,and work through concerns.展开更多
文摘Boehmeria nivea var.strigosa Zeng Y.Wu&Y.Zhao,a new variety of B.nivea(Urticaceae)from Southwest China,is here described based on evidence from morphology and molecular phylogeny.This new variety is mainly characterized by its green abaxial leaf blade,partly connate stipules,and densely patent strigose hairs on stems and potioles.The phylogenetic analysis based on rbc L,nrDNA and rbc L+nrDNA datasets,revealed that all individuals of B.nivea var.strigosa formed a monophyletic group.The conservation status of B.nivea var.strigosa is assessed as“Near Threatened”(NT)according to IUCN evaluation criteria.The discovery of this new variety is not only crucial for the taxonomy of ramie,but also provides reference for the exploration and utilization of ramie.
基金This work has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmer under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No.701697,Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.17ZDA092)Basic Research Programs(Natural Science Foundation)of Jiangsu Province(BK20180794)+1 种基金333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project of Jiangsu Province(BRA2018332)the PAPD fund.
文摘Functional electrical stimulation is a method of repairing a dysfunctional limb in a stroke patient by using low-intensity electrical stimulation.Currently,it is widely used in smart medical treatment for limb rehabilitation in stroke patients.In this paper,the development of FES systems is sorted out and analyzed in a time order.Then,the progress of functional electrical stimulation in the field of rehabilitation is reviewed in details in two aspects,i.e.,system development and algorithm progress.In the system aspect,the development of the first FES control and stimulation system,the core of the lower limb-based neuroprosthesis system and the system based on brain-computer interface are introduced.The algorithm optimization for control strategy is introduced in the algorithm.Asynchronous stimulation to prolong the function time of the lower limbs and a method to improve the robustness of knee joint modeling using neural networks.Representative applications in each of these aspects have been investigated and analyzed.
基金funding from the Key Laboratory Foundation of National Defence Technology under Grant 61424010208,National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41911530242 and 41975142)5150 Spring Specialists(05492018012 and 05762018039)+3 种基金Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.17ZDA092)333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project of Jiangsu Province(BRA2018332)Royal Society of Edinburgh,UK and China Natural Science Foundation Council(RSE Reference:62967_Liu_2018_2)under their Joint International Projects funding scheme and basic Research Programs(Natural Science Foundation)of Jiangsu Province(BK20191398 and BK20180794).
文摘This study proposed a lightweight but high-performance convolu-tion network for accurately classifying five upper limb movements of arm,involving forearm flexion and rotation,arm extension,lumbar touch and no reaction state,aiming to monitoring patient’s rehabilitation process and assist the therapist in elevating patient compliance with treatment.To achieve this goal,a lightweight convolution neural network TMCA-Net(Time Mul-tiscale Channel Attention Convolutional Neural Network)is designed,which combines attention mechanism,uses multi-branched convolution structure to automatically extract feature information at different scales from sensor data,and filters feature information based on attention mechanism.In particular,channel separation convolution is used to replace traditional convolution.This reduces the computational complexity of the model,decouples the convolution operation of the time dimension and the cross-channel feature interaction,which is helpful to the target optimization of feature extraction.TMCA-Net shows excellent performance in the upper limb rehabilitation ges-ture data,achieves 99.11%accuracy and 99.16%F1-score for the classification and recognition of five gestures.Compared with CNN and LSTM network,it achieves 65.62%and 89.98%accuracy in the same task.In addition,on the UCI smartphone public dataset,with the network parameters of one tenth of the current advanced model,the recognition accuracy rate of 95.21%has been achieved,which further proves the light weight and performance characteristics of the model.The clinical significance of this study is to accurately monitor patients’upper limb rehabilitation gesture by an affordable intelligent model as an auxiliary support for therapists’decision-making.
文摘Wetting and spreading processes which involve surfactant solutions are widely used in numerous industrial and practical applications nowadays.The performance of different non-ionic surfactants may vary significantly and so far superspreader solutions show the most promising spreading ability.The addition of trisiloxane surfactants to water was proven to enhance wetting,even on hydrophobic surfaces,on which conventional surfactants seem to have little or no effect.Although these extraordinary surfactants have been extensively studied over recent years,complete understanding of their underlying mechanisms and a suitable mathematical model are still lacking.Here we present a possible explanation for the impressive performance of trisiloxane,which is compared to wetting enhancement of a conventional surfactant.Additionally,we will explain why the hydrophobicity of the surface is a crucial factor for the spreading phenomenon.Light will be also shed on the effect of the pH of the solution to which surfactants are added.Finally,we will investigate long-term effects of the water environment on trisiloxane wetting ability and discuss if ageing may significantly affect their performance.
文摘The aim of this study is to identify the influence of the dip angle of a pre-existing macrocrack on the lifetime and ultimate deformation of rock-like material. Prediction of lifetime has been studied for three groups of specimens under axial static compressive load levels. The specimens were investigated from 65% to 85% of UCS(uniaxial compressive strength) at an interval of 10% of UCS for the groups of specimens with a single modelled open flaw with a dip angle to the loading direction of 30°(first group), at an interval of 5% of UCS increment for the groups of specimens with single(second group), and double sequential open flaws with a dip angle to the loading direction of 60°(third group). This study shows that crack propagation in specimens with a single flaw follows the same sequences. At first, wing cracks appear, and then shear crack develops from the existing wing cracks. Shear cracking is responsible for specimen failure in all three groups. A slip is expected in specimens from the third group which connects two individual modelled open flaws. The moment of the slip is noticed as a characteristic rise in the axial deformation at a constant load level. It is also observed that axial deformation versus time follows the same pattern, irrespective of local geometry. Specimens from the first group exhibit higher axial deformation under different load levels in comparison with the specimens from the second and third groups.
文摘This paper aims to study energy consumption in a house. Home energy managementsystem (HEMS) has become very important, because energy consumption of aresidential sector accounts for a significant amount of total energy consumption.However, a conventional HEMS has some architectural limitations among dimensionalvariables reusability and interoperability. Furthermore, the cost of implementation inHEMS is very expensive, which leads to the disturbance of the spread of a HEMS.Therefore, this study proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) based HEMS with lightweightphotovoltaic (PV) system over dynamic home area networks (DHANs), which enablesthe construction of a HEMS to be scalable reusable and interoperable. The study suggestsa technique for decreasing cost of energy that HEMS is using and various perspectives insystem. The method that proposed is K-NN (K-Nearest Neighbor) which helps us toanalyze the classification and regression datasets. This paper has the result from the datarelevant in October 2018 from some buildings of Nanjing University of InformationScience and Technology.
文摘Eruptive fires are one of the main causes of human losses in forest fire fighting. The sudden change in fire behaviour due to a fire eruption is extremely dangerous for fire-fighters because it is unpredictable. Very little literature is available to support either modelling or occurrence prediction for this phenomenon. In this study, an unsteady physical model of fire spread is detailed, which describes the initiation and development of eruptive fires with an induced wind sub-model. The latter phenomenon is proposed as the mainspring of fire eruptions. Induced wind is proportional to the rate of spread and the rate of spread is in a non-linear relationship with induced wind. This feedback can converge or diverge depending on the conditions. The model allows both explaining why an eruption can occur and predicting explicitly its occurrence according to meteorological conditions, topographic parameters, fuel bed properties and fire front width. The model is tested by comparing its results to a set of experiments carried out at laboratory scale and during an outdoor wildfire, the Kornati accident.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (59638210).
文摘The effect of the courtyard on moderating the hush climate and improving the thermal environment of the courtyard style cave dwelling, and the interaction amongst the ambient, the courtyard and its surrounding cave rooms were investigated. A field measurement was carried out in such a typical dwelling in the winter. The results presented in this paper prove the ability of this dwelling to transform an extreme winter environment outside cave rooms into a better outdoor community space and will be helpful for modern architects to seek a low cost housing solution with concern for sustainable development.
文摘In May 2022,the world witnessed the re-emergence of the zoonotic disease monkeypox.While this was not the first epidemic of this disease,what differentiated the outbreak was the rapid global spread and increase of cases,which led the WHO to declare monkeypox a global health emergency.Although the disease spreads mainly through inadequately cooked meat of various rodent species,this virus also shows droplet,respiratory,sexual,and even vertical transmission.Monkeypox further multiplies in lymphoproliferative organs and presents with a classical smallpox-like rash,fever,headache,and muscle aches.Diagnosis is confirmed with a polymerase-chain-reaction test and is managed largely supportively with possible usage of some antivirals and immunoglobulins.Moreover,some pre-exposure and postexposure prophylactic vaccines have been developed.This paper aims to conduct an in-depth review of the historical epidemics,transmission,pathophysiology,clinical presentation,and management of the monkeypox disease.
文摘Summary What is already known about this topic?People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events,such as the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)crisis,to express awareness,take action,and work through concerns.