Effects on the crystallite growth behavior of LaPO4 nanopowders and its mechanical properties

The effects of pH of the reaction solution and the concentration of phosphoric acid on the crystal growth behavior of LaPO₄ crystallites were investigated and the mechanical properties of rare-earth phosphates were compared. As a result, the concentration of phosphoric acid of 10% was beneficial to the crystal growth of LaPO₄ nanocrystalline. When the pH value of the reaction solution was 2, the size of LaPO₄ crystallites increased gradually with the increasing reaction temperature, and the smallest crystallite size of 43.27 nm was obtained after heat-treatment at 1000 °C. Simultaneously, the activation energy for crystal growth of LaPO₄ nanocrystalline was relatively lower (26.82 kJ mol⁻¹). With the decreasing radii of rare-earth ions, the hardness, Young's modulus and fracture toughness of the bulk rare-earth phosphates exhibited a reduced tendency, resulted from the increase of porosity under the same preparation process.     

Reversible data hiding based on RSBEMD coding and adaptive multi-segment left and right histogram shifting

By leveraging the secret data coding using the remainder storage based exploiting modification direction (RSBEMD), and the pixel change operation recording based on multi-segment left and right histogram shifting, a novel reversible data hiding (RHD) scheme is proposed in this paper. The secret data are first encoded by some specific pixel change operations to the pixels in groups. After that, multi-segment left and right histogram shifting based on threshold manipulation is implemented for recording the pixel change operations. Furthermore, a multiple embedding policy based on chess board prediction (CBP) and threshold manipulation is put forward, and the threshold can be adjusted to achieve adaptive data hiding. Experimental results and analysis show that it is reversible and can achieve good performance in capacity and imperceptibility compared with the existing methods.     

An investigation into the cause of loss of containment from the supply of mini-bulk lubricants

An Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) was punctured during its handling, releasing oil onto soil at an environmentally-sensitive region of Australia. The telehandler did not pierce the plastic of the IBC directly (as was expected) but rather one of the tynes had caught on the underside of the metal base plate, despite numerous controls being in place at time of spill, revealing a previously unreported mechanism for a fluid spill from handling of petroleum hydrocarbons. The diverse investigation team used a root cause analysis (RCA) technique to identify the underlying cause: the inspection process was inadequate with contributing factors of not using a spotter and design of IBC did not anticipate conditions. Engineering controls were put in place as part of the change management process to help prevent spills from occurring from piercing from telehandler tynes on the current project site.     

A Novel Beam Search to Improve Neural Machine Translation for English-Chinese

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Although NMT based systems have gained their popularity in commercial translation applications, there is still plenty of room for improvement. Being the most popular search algorithm in NMT, beam search is vital to the translation result. However, traditional beam search can produce duplicate or missing translation due to its target sequence selection strategy. Aiming to alleviate this problem, this paper proposed neural machine translation improvements based on a novel beam search evaluation function. And we use reinforcement learning to train a translation evaluation system to select better candidate words for generating translations. In the experiments, we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods. CASIA corpus and the 1,000,000 pairs of bilingual corpora of NiuTrans are used in our experiments. The experiment results prove that the proposed methods can effectively improve the English to Chinese translation quality.     

洞庭湖区三口水系生态基流研究

近年来大型水利工程的建设与运行、洞庭湖区三口水系分流量的持续减少和三口水系地区水资源的不合理利用,导致三口水系的生态流量严重不足。基于洞庭湖区三口水系的主要水文站2003—2018年逐日平均流量和1973—2002年逐月平均流量数据,提出一种综合考虑不同水文学法的生态基流确定方法,得出逐月和全年的生态基流推荐值,并分析其保证率和影响因素。结果表明:新江口站、沙道观站、弥陀寺站、康家岗站和管家铺站的全年生态基流分别为208.18、49.44、75.39、2.52、93.94 m³/s,全年生态基流保证率分别为84.83%、37.52%、51.88%、21.84%、42.60%;各水文站汛期的生态基流最高值均出现在7月份,8月份、9月份和6月份依次递减,汛期的生态基流及其保证率明显高于非汛期。研究提出的方法和计算结果可为洞庭湖区三口水系的水生态修复提供参考。     

基于混成自动机理论的间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联环流抑制方法

针对间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行环流突出、抑制困难的问题,论文提出运用混成自动机理论抑制间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联环流。论文首先详细分析间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行的混成特征和环流产生原理,得出逆变器输出电压与环流大小的数学关系。然后深入研究运用混成自动机理论建模与控制实现间歇性电源并网多逆变器并联运行环流控制的原理、方法,根据开关器件工作状态与逆变器输出电压的关系设计多逆变器并联环流混成控制器。最后,通过Matlab仿真平台进行仿真验证。仿真结果表明,本文所设计的环流控制器与相应的环流抑制方法的正确性与可行性,采用混成自动机模型能够实现较好的环流控制效果,能有效抑制多并联逆变器间的环流。     

考虑客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标抢修重构模型

随着大规模风电以及能量枢纽接入配电网,配电网故障后抢修重构面临新挑战,提出一种考虑客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标多故障抢修重构模型。通过对配电网用电客户多因素精准画像,确定权重,建立兼顾客户画像和能量枢纽的配电网多目标抢修重构模型,提出一种改进NSGA-II算法以适应对模型求解,从而获得Pareto解集,并利用模糊最大满意度进行决策。算例仿真表明所提模型正确有效,与传统模型相比更加精细而客观。     

高比例可再生能源渗透下多虚拟电厂多时间尺度协调优化调度

考虑可再生能源出力、电力负荷和电价等一系列不确定性因素,提出了高比例可再生能源渗透下的多虚拟电厂日内两阶段优化调度模型。该模型通过对多虚拟电厂中运行设备小时级时间尺度和分钟级时间尺度的协调优化,达到分级消除系统中随机和扰动因素的影响,实现高比例可再生能源的安全消纳。并且在多虚拟电厂优化调度模型中,借助Markowitz均值-方差理论,提出利润函数的风险刻画,准确描述不确定性的影响。最后,通过算例分析,说明所提出模型可有效降低决策风险和不确定性因素的影响。     

基于知识图谱的公路工程领域GIS应用研究现状

为洞悉我国公路工程领域地理信息系统（Geographic Information System,GIS）应用研究的现状及热点,以2010—2020年中国知网（CNKI）数据库中的相关文献为数据源,综合运用COOC、GIGO、SPSS与UCINET等软件,通过聚类树状图分析、因子分析与多维尺度分析对公路工程领域GIS研究的高频关键词进行研究主题归类;采用社会网络分析法对公路工程领域GIS研究的关键词进行共现网络图谱绘制与中心性分析,以直观揭示其研究热点与结构. 研究结果表明:公路工程领域GIS研究的热点关键词为路线设计、边坡地质灾害易发性评价、滑坡监测和路面管理系统等;研究主题主要可分为GIS多样化研究及应用、公路交通网与地质灾害评价、公路管理信息化与可视化3大类.