引黄灌区农业面源污染影响因子敏感性评价

农田排水沟渠系统作为农田面源排放和下游受纳水体的过渡带,对于农田径流来说是汇,而对于下游受纳水体是源.氮、磷污染物在排水沟渠输送过程中的迁移特征是农业面源污染防治的核心内容之一.本研究在总结国内外有关研究成果的基础上,通过监测试验、数据拟合和敏感分析来确定水深、流速、水温、pH值、溶解氧浓度等五个主要因子对排水沟渠中氮、磷污染物迁移转化作用及其影响情况.研究表明,在实现沟渠中氮、磷污染物的最大截留率时,在其他条件相同的情况下,流速和水深起重要作用,影响程度最高.     

湿陷性黄土地区海绵城市建设湿陷性风险模拟评估研究

在湿陷性黄土地区开展雨水集中下渗的海绵城市建设面临着湿陷变形的风险,以黄土湿陷性较为严重的西咸新区空港新城临空产业区为例,采用数值模拟的方法模拟了研究区湿陷性黄土在不同设计降雨情况下的雨水集中入渗后的湿陷情况。应用GAST模型计算雨洪过程,并将降雨量下渗过程作为边界条件输入Midas GTS/NX软件来模拟黄土基础变形情况。通过分析5个典型黄土区因降雨下渗导致的湿陷量,发现其等级为Ⅱ级及以上,其中最严重情况下的雨水下渗深度为5.02~6.51 m,总湿陷量和自重湿陷量分别为468.18~1015.56 mm和88.99~239.03 mm,湿陷等级为Ⅲ级。可见局部集中下渗会导致较高的湿陷风险,故建议在湿陷性黄土地区海绵城市建设中应进行量化评估并合理规避湿陷风险。     

Interaction behavior of nitrogen in liquid niobium

The kinetics and mechanism of absorption/desorption of nitrogen in liquid Nb were investigated in the temperature range of 2470 °C to 2670 °C in samples levitated in a N₂/Ar stream with various nitrogen partial pressures. The nitrogen solution reaction in liquid Nb was found to be exothermic, with the standard enthalpy and entropy of solution of −236.4 ± 23.3 kJ/mol and −-5.3 ± 8.3 J/K · mol, respectively. Above the threshold flow rate of the N₂/Ar stream, the absorption process was determined to be second order with respect to nitrogen concentration, indicating that the rate-controlling step is either the adsorption of nitrogen molecules on the liquid surface or dissociation of adsorbed nitrogen molecules into surface-adsorbed atoms. The desorption process was found to be second order as well. At lower flow rates, however, the absorption rate was found to depend on the gas-phase mass transfer rate. The rate equation for nitrogen absorption in the range of 2470 °C to 2670 °C is given by with the value ofQ calculated to be −327.2 ± 20.6 kJ/mol, while nitrogen desorption at 2670 °C follows the relation      

Simple systolic arrays for discrete cosine transform

in this paper, simple 1-D and 2-D systolic array for realizing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) fo an input sequence are presented. The proposed arrays are obtained by a simple modified DFT (MDFT) and an inverse DFT (IDFT) version of the Goertzel algorithm combined with Kung's approach. The 1-D array requiresN cells, one multiplier and takesN clock cycles to produce a completeN-point DCT. The 2-D array takes N clock cycles, faster than the 1-D array, but the area complexity is larger. A continuous flow of input data is allowed and no idle time is required between the input sequences.     

A two-stage adaptive multi-fidelity surrogate model-assisted multi-objective genetic algorithm for computationally expensive problems

Surrogate model-assisted multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGA) show great potential in solving engineering design problems since they can save computational cost by reducing the calls of expensive simulations. In this paper, a two-stage adaptive multi-fidelity surrogate (MFS) model-assisted MOGA (AMFS-MOGA) is developed to further relieve their computational burden. In the warm-up stage, a preliminary Pareto frontier is obtained relying only on the data from the low-fidelity (LF) model. In the second stage, an initial MFS model is constructed based on the data from both LF and high-fidelity (HF) models at the samples, which are selected from the preliminary Pareto set according to the crowding distance in the objective space. Then the fitness values of individuals are evaluated using the MFS model, which is adaptively updated according to two developed strategies, an individual-based updating strategy and a generation-based updating strategy. The former considers the prediction uncertainty from the MFS model, while the latter takes the discrete degree of the population into consideration. The effectiveness and merits of the proposed AMFS-MOGA approach are illustrated using three benchmark tests and the design optimization of a stiffened cylindrical shell. The comparisons between the proposed AMFS-MOGA approach and some existing approaches considering the quality of the obtained Pareto frontiers and computational efficiency are made. The results show that the proposed AMFS-MOGA method can obtain Pareto frontiers comparable to that obtained by the MOGA with HF model, while significantly reducing the number of evaluations of the expensive HF model.

     

Combining teacher-Led and technology-assisted instruction to improve phoneme blending to read words for elementary students with disabilities

Technology-assisted instruction has potential for helping students improve their reading skills. In the current studies, PowerPoint software was used to supplement teacher-led reading instruction for elementary-aged students with disabilities who struggled with phoneme blending to read words. The effectiveness of the intervention was assessed using two multiple probe design studies across sets of words based on an onset-rime (word family) strategy. In Study 1, teacher-led instruction was paired with technology-assisted instruction for all intervention sessions for three students in first and second grade. In Study 2, teacher-led instruction occurred between baseline and technology-assisted intervention sessions for three students in third and fourth grade. During the initial instruction sessions, participants recorded their own voices onto PowerPoint slides so that their technology-assisted instruction included self-modelling. Results of both studies indicated that technology-assisted instruction can be effective for helping students learn how to blend phonemes to read words; however, performance varied and there were limitations in each study that should be addressed in future research. Relevant implications for classroom instruction are emphasized.     

Land‐use dynamic discovery based on heterogeneous mobility sources

Nowadays, cities are the most relevant type of human settlement and their population has been endlessly growing for decades. At the same time, we are witnessing an explosion of digital data that capture many different aspects and details of city life. This allows detecting human mobility patterns in urban areas with more detail than ever before. In this context, based on the fusion of mobility data from different and heterogeneous sources, such as public transport, transport‐network connectivity and Online Social Networks, this study puts forward a novel approach to uncover the actual land use of a city. Unlike previous solutions, our work avoids a time‐invariant approach and it considers the temporal factor based on the assumption that urban areas are not used by citizens all the time in the same manner. We have tested our solution in two different cities showing high accuracy rates.     

High-performance simulations of turbulent boundary layer flow using Intel Xeon Phi many-core processors

The Journal of Supercomputing - Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows have increasing importance because they not only provide fundamental understanding of turbulent flows but also...     

Poisson Shot Noise Removal by an Oracular Non-Local Algorithm

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision - In this paper, we address the problem of denoising images obtained under low-light conditions for the Poisson shot noise model. Under such conditions,...     

Contact printing pressure uniformization in roll-to-roll process using individual drive cross-coupled torque control

Microsystem Technologies - Printed electronics such as solar cells, RFIDs, and display panels can be made using printed electronic technology by printing viscous liquids having various properties...