Shaking table study on seismic behavior of MSE wall with inclined backfill soils reinforced by polymeric geostrips

In this study, the seismic behavior of a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall with inclined backfill is investigated under sinusoidal acceleration excitations using a series of 1-g shaking table tests performed on the MSE model of 150 cm in height reinforced with polymeric geostrips. The effects of the stiffness of the reinforcement and slope angles of the backfill soil on the acceleration amplification factor (RMSA), the lateral displacement of the wall, the surface displacement of the backfill, the distribution of dynamic earth pressure along the height of reinforced wall and the strain distributions on the surfaces of the polymeric geostrips in three planes of the wall are investigated. The experimental results show that the dynamic earth pressure determined by traditional pseudo-static approaches leads to overestimated values. In addition, increasing the inclination angle of backfill soil results in the increase of surface settlement, lateral wall displacements, soil dynamic earth pressures, acceleration amplification factors and strains on the polymeric geostrip materials. The stiffness of the polymeric geostrip material has a negligible effect on the displacement, dynamic earth pressures and failure surface geometry.     

人工智能赋能在线实验教学行为分析

教学行为分析作是教学质量分析的重要组成部分，也是教学引导与反馈机制的重要依据。文章阐述了人工智能（AI）的含义及发展历程，重点分析总结了教学行为分析方法及AI在教学行为分析上的应用。文章以东南大学电工电子在线实验为研究平台，探索分析了AI技术在实验教学行为分析上的可行性，梳理了基于专家系统的在线实验分析系统的设计思路，充分探讨了“智能”教育在实验教学中的深刻内涵。     

Lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) clotting response may act as a plasma biomarker of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) parasitism: Implications for management and wound assessment

Sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) have decimated the Great Lakes fisheries over the past century, and their control is central to protecting native fish populations. Wounding data collected from host fish, including classifying wounds as Type A (penetrating the integument) or Type B (superficial), is an integral part of sea lamprey monitoring efforts and helps inform management decisions; however, wound assessment is subjective and error-prone. This study aimed to determine if protein biomarkers of parasitism could be quantified in host fish plasma to serve as a potential objective aide in current wound assessment practices. Male siscowet lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) were parasitized in a lab setting for four days, after which the sea lamprey was removed, host blood was collected, and the wound Type recorded. A second blood sample was collected from host fish with Type A wounds 7 months later. The plasma proteome was quantified using iTRAQ, and the relative abundances of 169 proteins were compared between parasitized and non-parasitized control fish. Three functional classes of proteins were modified by sea lamprey parasitism: immune response, lipid transport, and blood coagulation. A major finding was evidence of a concerted anticoagulation response in fish with Type A wounds, including changes in protein components and regulators of fibrin clot formation, some of which did not fully recover within 7 months. A modified clotting assay yielded a smaller thrombin-induced fibrin clot from parasitized fish, supporting the proteomic results. Therefore, measuring blood clottability could improve sea lamprey damage estimates by providing a more objective and quantitative index of parasitism than is offered by wounding data alone.     

对加快建设我国现代化天然气市场体系的战略思考

为了适应我国推动建设现代化市场体系、现代化经济体系和现代化能源体系的需求,应加快建设统一开放、竞争有序、体系完整、运维智慧的现代化天然气市场体系,以保障天然气市场在资源配置中的决定性作用。为此,根据国外天然气市场建设经验与启示,基于我国天然气市场发展的良好基础条件,集成创新提出了我国现代化天然气市场体系的架构,即由天然气产业链资源市场、要素市场、市场基础设施、市场结构、市场机制、市场制度(规则)和市场管理等7个子体系构成。进而提出了加快我国现代化天然气市场体系建设的政策建议:(1)切实推进天然气市场改革深化,为现代化市场体系建设提供组织保障;(2)强化天然气市场基础设施协同建设,推进市场智慧发展;(3)进一步理顺天然气价格体系,完善价格动态调整机制;(4)积极发展天然气科技与技术装备市场;(5)健全和完善天然气金融市场体系,规避市场风险;(6)健全天然气行业相关法律体系,保障公平开放透明的市场规则建立。结论认为:我国天然气市场已迎来大发展的新时代,应按照国家和市场化发展的要求,加快实现现代化天然气市场体系建设的目标,实现优质天然气清洁高效利用,以促进天然气市场在资源配置中发挥决定性作用。     

电力系统自动化发展方向分析

计算机技术、控制技术及信息技术的发展,电力系统自动化面临着空前的变革,多媒体技术、智能控制技术将迅速进入电力系统自动化领域。     

A tale of two Great Lakes conferences: Urging global collaboration on our largest freshwater resources

Scientific meetings and conferences are a part of the scientific process, and can facilitate collaboration, idea-sharing, and harmonization of research and management. The success of a conference can be measured using many criteria, including consistency and reoccurrence of the meetings, credibility by participation of reputable professionals, and attendance by a diverse community. In the interest of increasing the success of large-lake, freshwater science, policy, and management, this comment focuses on two recent conferences attended by the authors: the 60th annual meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, in Detroit, U.S.A., and the African Great Lakes Conference, in Entebbe, Uganda. By our measures of success, we suggest that to make a larger impact on research, policy, and management of global, large, freshwater lakes that each conference can improve, either through greater diversity of experts from the global freshwater research community, or by consistently reoccurring on a regular basis.     

有轨电车车载储能系统研究

有轨电车车载储能系统是当前的业内热点。对有轨电车车载储能系统进行了研究,分析了有轨电车车载储能系统的容量配置、拓扑结构选择,论述了有轨电车车载储能系统的能量管理策略,并介绍了有轨电车车载储能系统的应用情况。     

基于“校企协同”的制冷空调课程体系的构建

从制冷空调企业的现状出发,利用校企协同、产教融合的创新组织模式,整合暖通行业、企业和学校的资源优势,构建一套“协同创新”的制冷空调课程体系,从根本上提高建环专业学生工程素养和创新能力,以满足暖通行业、企事业单位对具有实践及创新能力的高素质应用型技术人才需求。     

快递分拣机器人控制系统的设计

为提高快递分拣效率,设计了一种基于OpenMV机器视觉模块的快递分拣机器人控制系统。在这一控制系统中,通过机器视觉技术实现快递件的轮廓识别、定位、扫码及分类,将STM32单片机作为运动控制核心,外接传感器感知机器人的状态,基于串口与机器视觉模块双向通信,实现对放置在地面的快递件进行自动分拣。通过制作样机验证了设计的合理性与可行性。     

Relative contributions of nearshore and wetland habitats to coastal food webs in the Great Lakes

Hydrologic linkages among coastal wetland and nearshore areas allow coastal fish to move among the habitats, which has led to a variety of habitat use patterns. We determined nutritional support of coastal fishes from 12 wetland-nearshore habitat pairs using stable isotope analyses, which revealed differences among species and systems in multi-habitat use. Substantial (proportions?>?0.30) nutrition often came from the habitat other than that in which fish were captured. Nearshore subsidies to coastal wetlands indicate wetlands are not exclusively exporters of energy and materials; rather, there is reciprocity in the mutual energetic support of nearshore and wetland food webs. Coastal wetland hydrogeomorphology influenced the amount of multi-habitat use by coastal fishes. Fishes from systems with relatively open interfaces between wetland and nearshore habitats exhibited less nutritional reliance on the habitat in which they were captured, and higher use of resources from the adjacent habitat. Comparisons of stable isotope analyses of nutrition with otolith analyses of occupancy indicated nutritional sources often corresponded with habitat occupancy; however, disparities among place of capture, otolith analyses, and nutritional analyses indicated differences in the types of support those analyses inform. Disparities between occupancy information and nutritional information can stem from movements for support functions other than foraging. Together, occupancy information from otolith microchemistry and nutritional information from stable isotope analyses provide complementary measures of the use of multiple habitats by mobile consumers. This work underscores the importance of protecting or restoring a diversity of coastal habitats and the hydrologic linkages among them.