Retinal optic disc localization using convergence tracking of blood vessels

Optic disc localization is of great diagnostic value related to retinal diseases, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. However, the detection process is quite challenging because positions of optic discs vary from image to image, and moreover, pathological changes, like hard exudates or neovascularization, may alter optic disc appearance. In this paper, we propose a robust approach to accurately detect the optic disc region and locate the optic disc center in color retinal images. The proposed technique employs a kernelized least-squares classifier to decide the area that contains optic disc. Then connected-component labeling and lumination information are used together to find the convergence of blood vessels, which is thought to be optic disc center. The proposed method has been evaluated over two datasets: the Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction (DRIVE), and the Non-fluorescein Images for Vessel Extraction (NIVE) datasets. Experimental results have shown that our method outperforms existing methods, achieving a competitive accuracy (97.52 %) and efficiency (1.1577s).     

Fabrication of ZnS/C microsphere composites with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption properties

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - For electromagnetic wave-absorbing materials, organic-derived carbon materials and metal sulfides are highly preferred. In this paper, ZnS/C...     

有机膜精确调控传质的新型溶析结晶及过程强化

溶析结晶是一种环保、高效的结晶方法,在温敏性、低溶解度物系的晶体生产领域具有不可替代的重要作用。但是,传统溶析结晶过程中溶液过饱和度的时空均一性差,传质调控为微米级尺度,容易爆发成核,是亟待解决的关键问题。本文提出利用聚醚砜（PES）中空纤维膜,为溶析剂与结晶溶液之间的传质提供均匀稳定的界面,实现结晶溶液与溶析剂的精确混合和结晶过程强化,开发了一种新型的溶析结晶传质调控技术。溶析剂在压力差驱动下均匀渗透通过有机膜,在结晶溶液一侧的膜外表面形成溶析剂液膜层,通过表面液膜的不断更新,将传统溶析结晶的毫米级宏观混合转变为亚微米级尺度的微观混合,实现过饱和度的均匀分布。同时,这层液膜的存在,避免了结晶溶液直接接触膜表面,有效地解决了异相成核附着导致膜污染的问题。实验中,对壳程流速做出周期性改变后,渗透通量可即时发生一致的线性响应变化,证实有机膜调控传质过程的精确性和灵敏性。PES膜重复使用多次后,渗透通量仍可以保持稳定。相比传统的滴加式溶析结晶,在相同的溶析剂传质速率下,有机膜调控过程制备的晶体产品,形貌更加规整、粒径分布更集中。因此,在溶析剂精确传质和抗污染方面,有机膜调控的溶析结晶过程均表现出良好的性能,为药物、大分子结晶的高效工业化制备开拓了新的思路。     

改性粉煤灰对燃煤电厂脱硫废水中氯离子的吸附性能

为了将"以废治废"的理念融入实际工业应用中,开展对燃煤电厂固体废弃物粉煤灰改性后在不同条件下进行脱硫废水的吸附实验研究.结果表明,改性粉煤灰的最佳投加量为25 g/L,此时对废水中Cl-的去除率最大,为56％;在45°C和pH为5的条件下,粉煤灰对Cl-的吸附量最大,在反应约280 min时达到吸附平衡.该吸附过程为吸...     

Synthesis of N-halamine-functionalized silica-polymer core-shell nanoparticles and their enhanced antibacterial activity

N-halamine-functionalized silica-polymer core-shell nanoparticles with enhanced antibacterial activity were synthesized through the encapsulation of silica nanoparticles as support with polymeric N-halamine. The as-synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDX), dynamic light scattering (DLS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). These N-halamine-functionalized silica-polymer core-shell nanoparticles displayed powerful antibacterial performance against both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, and their antibacterial activities have been greatly improved compared with their bulk counterparts. Therefore, these N-halamine-functionalized silica-polymer core-shell nanoparticles have the potential for various significant applications such as in medical devices, healthcare products, water purification systems, hospitals, dental office equipment, food packaging, food storage, household sanitation, etc.     

降水沉降对竖向受荷单桩的影响研究

通过有限元分析,研究地下水位下降对摩擦桩和端承桩的受力性状,揭示出桩侧负摩阻力的发展规律,并对下拉荷载产生的原因给予分析,提出设计中应预先考虑水位变化影响的重要性,由降水引起的桩顶附加沉降和下拉荷载应进行详细计算。     

A novel hollow fiber membrane-assisted antisolvent crystallization for enhanced mass transfer process control

Herein, a novel hollow fiber membrane-assisted antisolvent crystallization (MAAC) was proposed to enhance the mass transfer control over the antisolvent crystallization. A polyethersulfone membrane module was introduced as the key device for antisolvent transfer and solution mixing. An antisolvent liquid film layer was formed on the membrane surface and mixed with the solution. The liquid film also prevented the membrane from directly contacting with crystallization solution. By controlling both the shell side flow velocity and the antisolvent transfer, the antisolvent permeation rate achieved sensitive, stable, and accurate control during long-term and repeated utilization. The interfacial mass transfer rate of MAAC was 0.66 mg cm⁻² s⁻¹, which was only 1/50 that of conventional droplet antisolvent crystallization. MAAC also provided crystal products with better morphologies and narrower size distributions than the conventional process. The stable performances of MAAC in terms of its accurate antisolvent mass transfer and antifouling capabilities were also highlighted. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 65: 734–744, 2019     

Study on the performance of NaBH4 using Ru-Co/CNTs catalyst to catalyze alcoholysis to produce hydrogen

Abstract

Ru-Co/CNTs catalysts are prepared by microwave-assisted heating electroless plating using Carbon nanotubes as Carrier. The structure of the catalyst was analyzed by TEM, XRD, EDS and TGA, and the performance of the catalytic alcoholysis of sodium borohydride was tested. At 25 oC, the carbon nanotube diameter is 10-20?nm, the catalyst dosage is 20?mg, the sodium borohydride concentration is 5?wt.%, and the sodium hydroxide concentration is 7?wt.%, the maximum rate of catalytic hydrogen production reaches the maximum value. At the same time, the activation energy is calculated to be 34.35?kJ · mol-1, which is much lower than the activation energy of spontaneous alcoholysis of sodium borohydride (63.0?kJ/mol).     

D-xylose-derived carbon microspheres modified by CuFe2O4 nanoparticles with excellent microwave absorption properties

In this work, we studied the preparation and microwave absorption properties of D-xylose-derived carbon materials modified by CuFe₂O₄ nanoparticles and discussed the influence of the addition amount of carbon materials. It was prepared with a simple hydrothermal method, and various methods are used to characterize its microscopic morphology, chemical structure and microwave absorption properties.Results show that the modification of copper ferrite nanoparticles is effective in mitigating polarization and magnetic losses, enhancing the microwave absorption properties of the samples and absorption curves of the composite materials change from a single peak to double peaks. Comparing all samples it can be concluded that the effective absorption bandwidth of CuFe₂O₄ composite materials containing carbon microspheres (CuFe₂O₄/CMs-0.3) is 6.24 GHz. The minimum reflection loss (RL) is???50.4 dB at 14.64 GHz. The thickness of the above corresponds to 2.5 mm. This work not only provides a reference method for the preparation of microwave absorbing materials but also contributes to the understanding of absorption mechanisms.