Farmers' preferences for adopting on-farm concentration of raw milk: Results from a discrete choice experiment in Germany

Milk concentrates are used in the manufacturing of dairy products such as yogurt and cheese or are processed into milk powder. Processes for the nonthermal separation of water and valuable milk ingredients are becoming increasingly widespread at farm level. The technical barriers to using farm-manufactured milk concentrate in dairies are minimal, hence the suspicion that the practice of on-farm raw milk concentration is still fairly uncommon for economic reasons. This study, therefore, set out to investigate farmers' potential willingness to adopt a raw milk concentration plant. The empirical analysis was based on discrete choice experiments with 75 German dairy farmers to identify preferences and the possible adoption of on-farm raw milk concentration. The results showed that, in particular, farmers who deemed the current milk price to be insufficient viewed on-farm concentration using membrane technology as an option for diversifying their milk sales. We found no indication that adoption would be impeded by a lack of trustworthy information on milk processing technologies or capital.     

疫情下电磁场理论课程的网络教学

本文主要总结了新冠疫情期间作者的电磁场理论课程在线教学经验。对比分析了录播和直播的优缺点后,选择录播教学方式。基于超星网络教学平台,展示了录播网络教学的具体措施,包括网上答疑和学习效果检查以及在线批改作业等。给出了网络教学可以为线下教学继续使用的方法和手段,为疫情结束后的正常教学提供了新的网络教学补充措施。     

Probabilistic learning on manifolds (PLoM) with partition

The probabilistic learning on manifolds (PLoM) introduced in 2016 has solved difficult supervised problems for the “small data” limit where the number N of points in the training set is small. Many extensions have since been proposed, making it possible to deal with increasingly complex cases. However, the performance limit has been observed and explained for applications for which N is very small and for which the dimension of the diffusion-map basis is close to N. For these cases, we propose a novel extension based on the introduction of a partition in independent random vectors. We take advantage of this development to present improvements of the PLoM such as a simplified algorithm for constructing the diffusion-map basis and a new mathematical result for quantifying the concentration of the probability measure in terms of a probability upper bound. The analysis of the efficiency of this extension is presented through two applications.     

条形药包爆破震动场的试验研究

通过时条形药包周围实测爆破震动数据采用数值计算方法进行处理，作出了条形药包周围的爆破震动场，使我们对条形药包的爆破地震效应有了全面的认识，从而在实际工程爆破中能够有针对性地进行安全防护。分析研究认为：条形药包周围的震动场由一系列同心椭圆形等震线组成。在爆破近区由于位置因素的影响，等震线的长轴与药包轴线重合；在远区的震动主要受波动干涉作用的影响，致使长轴与药包轴线垂直，因此不能采用集中药包的计算方法。     

某福利院一起肠炎沙门菌食源性疾病的调查分析

目的 对某福利院一起肠炎沙门菌食源性疾病进行调查和溯源,为研究相关食源性疾病提供参考。方法采用流行病学、食品卫生学和脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)同源性分析等方法,分析本次食源性疾病事件。结果 确认本次事件中病例23名,患病率5.65%(23/407)；现场采集病例肛拭子15份和厨房工作人员肛拭子3份、留样菜品3份、水果2份以及冰棒1份,其中从11份病例肛拭子中检出肠炎沙门菌,PFGE结果显示11株肠炎沙门菌的DNA条带图谱相似性为96.4%,聚类分析为同一型,结合流行病学调查,初步判断菌株来自同一克隆系。结论 综合流行病学、食品卫生学和实验室检测结果,确定为一起肠炎沙门菌引起的食源性疾病,福利院应加强对特殊人群的饮食安全管理,制定相应的食源性疾病突发事件应急处理预案,防止此类事故再发生。     

Flash joining of alumina ceramics under a small current density

The ceramic joining using electric field (E-field) has garnered significant research attention due to the decreased joining barrier and enhanced reliability. However, the underlying mechanism of E-field assisted joining remains unclear. Herein, we report the rapid joining of alumina ceramics using a small current. Moreover, the E-field is applied in both perpendicular and parallel directions to the faying surfaces, demonstrating a significant difference in terms of joint strength. These results indicate that the E-field generates defects and promotes the joining process by facilitating ionic diffusion.     

Relationship of the different Ca sites in the matrix with luminescence properties of orange‒red emitting Li0.04Ca0.96-xSiO3:Smx phosphors

Li_0.04Ca_0.96-xSiO₃:Sm_x orange?red emitting phosphors were synthesized using the sol-gel method. X-ray diffraction, Rietveld refinement of XRD patterns, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and ?uorescence spectrophotometry were used to characterize the crystal structure, sites of cationic Ca and luminescence properties of the prepared phosphors. The relationship of the different Ca sites in the matrix with the luminescence properties was analysed. The results indicate that the prepared phosphors reveal a β-CaSiO₃ phase with a monoclinic crystal structure and space Group P21/a. As the Sm³⁺ concentration increases, the unit cell volume of phosphors and the Ca–O band lengths of different Ca sites decrease due to substitution of Ca²⁺ by smaller Sm³⁺ ions. By excitation at 404 nm, Li_0.04Ca_0.96-xSiO₃:Sm_x phosphors exhibit warm orange?red light, corresponding to the electron transitions from ⁴G_5/2 → ⁶H_5/2 (567 nm), ⁴G_5/2 → ⁶H_7/2 (605 nm) and ⁴G_5/2 → ⁶H_9/2 (651 nm) of Sm³⁺. The concentration quenching phenomenon appears at Sm³⁺ concentrations beyond 0.02. The refinement results demonstrate that three cationic Ca sites, named Ca1, Ca2 and Ca3, exist in the β-CaSiO₃ host lattice. The Ca²⁺ ions at Ca1 and Ca2 sites are coordinated with six oxygen ions, leading to the same coordination number (CN). The Ca²⁺ ion located at Ca3 site has seven coordination numbers. The Ca1 site possesses a smaller lattice distortion and better symmetry than those of Ca2 and Ca3 sites. However, the Ca3 site exhibits the largest lattice distortion and poor symmetry. The Sm³⁺ present in symmetric Ca1 sites in the matrix illustrates the strong emission intensity, long luminescence lifetimes and good thermal stability.     

Various density light field image coding based on distortion minimization interpolation

In recent years, the light field (LF) as a new imaging modality has attracted wide interest. The large data volume of LF images poses great challenge to LF image coding, and the LF images captured by different devices show significant differences in angular domain. In this paper we propose a view prediction framework to handle LF image coding with various sampling density. All LF images are represented as view arrays. We first partition the views into reference view (RV) set and intermediate view (IV) set. The RVs are rearranged into a pseudo sequence and directly compressed by a video encoder. Other views are then predicted by the RVs. To exploit the four dimensional signal structure, we propose the linear approximation prior (LAP) to reveal the correlation among LF views and efficiently remove the LF data redundancy. Based on the LAP, a distortion minimization interpolation (DMI) method is used to predict IVs. To robustly handle the LF images with different sampling density, we propose an Iteratively Updating depth image based rendering (IU-DIBR) method to extend our DMI. Some auxiliary views are generated to cover the target region and then the DMI calculates reconstruction coefficients for the IVs. Different view partition patterns are also explored. Extensive experiments on different types LF images also valid the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Simultaneously achieving high energy-storage density and power density under low electric fields in NBT-based ceramics

Aiming at the problem that power density and energy density are difficult to obtain simultaneously under low field, a novel composition (1-x)Na_0·5Bi_0·5TiO₃-xBaZn_1/3Ta_2/3O₃((1-x)NBT-xBZT) was designed and fabricated via solid-state methods. With the addition of BZT, the crystal lattice, structural symmetry, grain size, and dense degree were all increased proved by XRD, Raman, and Archimedes drainage method et al. Because of the enhancement of relaxor behavior, the x=0.10 sample displayed a high permittivity ε_r of 2871±15% and a low dielectric loss tan δ ≤ 0.025 in the wide temperature range of 60–400 ^oC. This ceramic also showed maximum recoverable energy density W_d (2.07 J/cm³) with high efficiency η (71.5%) under a low field of 150 kV/cm. Moreover, pulse discharge testing proved that this ceramic possessed both a significant discharge energy density W_D (0.96 J/cm³) and a record high power density P_D (108.54 MW/cm³). This work provided a promising material for high power and energy applications.