Determination of alcohols and volatile organic acids in anaerobic bioreactors for H2 production by near infrared spectroscopy

In recent years, near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been investigated as a tool for monitoring anaerobic digesters, but several adversities in its application have been reported. This study proposes the application of NIR for the determination of alcohols and volatile organic acids from H₂ production bioreactors and evaluates different approaches to optimize the prediction models. Partial least squad (PLS) models were developed using samples from anaerobic batch reactors fed with crude glycerol for wastewater treatment. The analytes predicted were: methanol, ethanol, 1-butanol, acetic, propanoic, butyric, isocaproic and total volatile organic acids (VFA). The optimization of the predictive capacity of the models was achieved through the orthogonal signal correction (OSC) preprocessing and the selection of variables performed by the genetic algorithm (GA). The application of the proposed models were based on the following figures of merit: accuracy, precision, linearity, limits of detection and quantitation, measurement interval, sensitivity, selectivity, signal-to-noise ratio and bias. Despite the low selectivity (maximum of 0.12%), the models presented high sensitivity [γ^?1 = 0.19 (mg L^?1)^?1], low LOQ (1 mg L^?1) and correlation between reference and predicted values (r) at least 0.93, except for propanoic acid (r_pred = 0.85). The F-test revealed that the selection of variables by GA significantly improved the accuracy and linearity of the prediction models for methanol, acetic acid, isocaproic acid and VFA. NIR spectroscopy has proved to be a powerful tool for monitoring H₂ production bioreactors since provides fast, low cost and multicomponent information.     

潘家口水库流域土地利用变化的水文响应分析

以潘家口水库流域为研究区域,采用SWAT分布式水文模型定量评估土地利用变化对流域径流过程的影响。相对于1980年土地利用情景,2006年土地利用变化主要表现为耕地减少,林地和草地面积增大,而水域和城镇用地变化相对较小。利用3个水文站1986年1月至1999年12月的月径流实测数据进行模型的校准和验证。在不同土地利用情景下,对流域的天然径流过程进行模拟分析,模拟结果显示,与1980年土地利用情景相比,2006年土地利用情景下的多年平均径流减少11%;对于不同典型水文年份而言,土地利用变化对枯水年的影响最大,对丰水年和平水年的影响相当;土地利用变化对年径流的影响主要表现为汛期径流减少。潘家口水库流域水资源涵养能力有所增加。模拟研究土地利用变化对潘家口水库流域径流的影响对合理规划土地利用和流域水资源的综合管理具有现实意义。     

Isolation improvement in dual-band astroid shaped MIMO DRA for LTE and ISM applications

This article presents the design of a novel astroid shaped dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) constructed from PTFE Teflon material with a dielectric constant of ε_r = 2.1 and a loss tangent tan δ = 0.0002 on an FR4 grounded substrate for LTE and ISM band applications. Inverted Omega ?-shaped feed along with asymmetric E-shaped dual metallic strips in the partial ground is used to obtain dual-band characteristics. A light weight, cost-effective plastic material is used to design the antenna. An isolation of 26.5 dB and 24.6 dB is achieved in the two frequency bands 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz respectively by modifying the ground plane. Metallic strips and stubs in the ground are used to enhance the isolation in the proposed MIMO system. The obtained impedance bandwidths in both the bands are 14.5% and 13%. The performance of the MIMO system is characterized by the envelope correlation coefficient and diversity gain. Good agreement is found between simulated and measured results.     

Design of Tri-Band MIMO Antenna with Improved Isolation using DGS and Vias

Wireless Personal Communications - An antenna which is used for multipurpose like WiMAX, RADAR altimeter and X-band applications proposed. A tri-band multiple-input–multiple-output antenna...     

木梁抗弯性能试验研究

通过对四根矩形截面杨木梁的受弯静力试验,研究了杨木梁的抗弯强度与抗弯弹性模量等主要抗弯性能。测得木梁在两点集中荷载作用下的跨中应变和挠度数据,分析了荷载与挠度及应变的关系,计算了杨木的抗弯强度与抗弯弹性模量。通过进行木材基本力学性能试验,确定了杨木顺纹抗拉、压强度与弹性模量,横纹抗压强度与弹性模量。试验结果为后期的木梁与木柱、梁—土坯组合墙体有限元数值分析提供了试验依据。     

Vertical transmission of hepatitis E virus

Little is known about vertical transmission of hepatitis E virus from infected mothers to their infants. We studied eight babies born to mothers infected with hepatitis E in third trimester. One baby was icteric at birth with elevated transaminases and four babies had anicteric hepatitis. Two babies were born with hypothermia and hypoglycaemia and died within 24 h; one had massive hepatic necrosis. Hepatitis E virus RNA was detected by PCR in cord or birth blood samples of five infants. Six infants had evidence of hepatitis E infection. We conclude that hepatitis E virus is commonly transmitted from infected mothers to their babies with significant perinatal morbidity and mortality.     

A Multi-band Multi-slot MIMO Antenna with Enhanced Isolation

Communication fields are growing rapidly in the recent era, so transmitting the multimedia contents through an open channel becomes a challenging task. The multimedia contents that are transmitted through this channel are highly prone to vulnerabilities and attacks. Therefore, secure and efficient data communication is considered as a major concern in the multimedia communication systems. So, major efforts are taken by researchers to safeguard the originality of each image. In a conventional system, the secure image communication process was achieved by compressing the content first, and then encryption is performed over the compressed data. Even though it met the required security and compression ratio, but some applications may require the reverse system. In this method, the encryption process is conducted prior to compression to improve the privacy of user data. Moreover, the initial concentration is given for improving content privacy rather than concentrating on size reduction. This paper proposes a reversed system that uses block based perceptual encryption algorithm for encryption and vector quantization (VQ) with hybrid Lloyd–Buzo–Gray (LBG)-Adaptive Deer Hunting Optimization (ADHO) algorithm (VQ-LBG-ADHO) for compression. So, the content secrecy gets improved. The involvement of this adaptive optimization method enhances the performance of VQ in the compression process. This method highly concentrates on secure communication, so the reverse process is followed in this method. It not only improves the image secrecy, however, it further enhances the image quality. The performance of this secure communication process is compared with state-of-the-art algorithms, and the results reveal that the proposed method outperforms the other existing methods.

     

一种有效预防点击欺诈的算法

网络广告中,点击欺诈愈演愈烈,已经成为阻碍网络广告业健康发展的一大顽疾。针对网络广告业发展所面临的困境,对预防点击欺诈进行了研究,提出一种基于浏览时间和点击频率,并与验证码相结合的算法。该算法能有效屏蔽类似于木马点击器软件的点击欺诈,有效屏蔽浏览者偶然的无意识的无效点击,显著降低人工点击欺诈的效率,同时也不会让真正的潜在客户流失。     

中国风力发电中长期展望的计量经济分析

截至2011年底,中国风电总装机容量达6 236万kW,居世界第1位,中国风电开发受到世界各国的关注。因此,适当地了解中国风力发电未来的发展趋势以及存在的相关问题和解决对策,对中国和世界的可持续发展及低碳社会的实现都具有一定的意义。文章采用计量经济分析方法,阐明中国风电开发剧增的机制,并对4个方案进行了模拟分析,得出综合对策方案是比较理想的选择。从2021年开始,中国将取消风电价格补贴,届时风电可以与火力发电相竞争,与其他能源发电共同发展。     

Design of novel compact eight-element lotus shaped UWB-MIMO antenna with triple-notch characteristics on hollow substrate

The design of novel compact two-element and eight-element lotus shaped multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system employing pattern diversity with enhanced isolation characteristics is presented. The proposed two-element antenna system is arranged rotationally on a square-hollow substrate resulting in an eight-element MIMO antenna system employing pattern diversity. The developed eight-element MIMO antenna system resonates in the frequency range 3.1 to 14.6 GHz housing the complete UWB band with triple band-notch characteristics at 3.7–4.5 GHz (C-band satellite down link [3.7–4.2 GHz]), 5.1–5.9 GHz (WLAN) and 6.8–8.25 GHz (X-band satellite down link (7.25–7.75 GHz) and up link (7.9–8.4 GHz)) bands. The antenna system gives element-to-element isolation of more than 25 dB in the majority of the operating band with a peak gain of 6.8 dBi and a maximum 90% efficiency. The important MIMO metrics like ECC (envelope correlation coefficient), DG (diversity gain), total active reflection coefficient (TARC), channel capacity losses (CCL) and MEG (mean effective gain) are presented for both two-element and eight-element to estimate the performance the proposed antennas in multi-antenna environments. The both two- and eight-element designs are fabricated and the measured results of those are well agreed with simulation results.