The newly developed bioaerosol single particle mass spectrometer (Bio-SPAMS) has been innovatively designed for its optical sizing system. The first laser beam in the previous single particle mass spectrometer was spl...
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The newly developed bioaerosol single particle mass spectrometer (Bio-SPAMS) has been innovatively designed for its optical sizing system. The first laser beam in the previous single particle mass spectrometer was split into near distance double beams, similar to the design of APS (Aerodynamic Particle Sizer) and SBS-LIBS (Single Beam Splitting-Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). All the particles focused by the aerodynamic lens can be sized and got number concentration statistic. However, due to the imperfect beam quality and the large scattering intensity of the large-sized particles, there may be some noise in the scattered signals, particle diameter measured by this sizing system was often larger than actual value if the same trigger threshold was set. In this study, when measuring PSL microspheres with diameters of 1.9, 3.1, and 4.9 mu m, the identification rates of the fixed threshold algorithm were only 75.25%, 55.26%, and 0.27%, respectively. To address such issue, we developed a dynamic threshold waveform recognition algorithm based on field programmable gate array (FPGA), which could process the photoelectric signals collected by a photomultiplier tube (PMT) in real time. The algorithm can dynamically adjust the trigger threshold of the collected scattered signals and accurately calculate the interval time between the near distance double beam. For PSL microspheres with diameters of 1.9, 3.1, and 4.9 mu m, the accuracy of the dynamic threshold algorithm increased by 19.09%, 25.72%, and 88.20%, respectively. This algorithm effectively solves the problem of particle sizing deviation, and improves the particle size measurement accuracy of the bioaerosol mass spectrometer in a wide particle size range from 0.3-6 mu m.
In the paper, the chemical ingredient of potash glasswork and baryta glasswork is known from the archaic Chinese glassworks. The class, ornamentation and pigment of glasswork are known both without and with rotting. T...
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In the paper, the chemical ingredient of potash glasswork and baryta glasswork is known from the archaic Chinese glassworks. The class, ornamentation and pigment of glasswork are known both without and with rotting. The chemical ingredient percentage before rotting is predicted. Thus, the chemical ingredient is subclassified. The relativity of the chemical ingredient between the different classes of glasswork is found.
Purpose: We developed an open-source, rule-based algorithm to automate cause of death coding for analyzing mortality in understudied populations, such as people experiencing homelessness, and dynamic public health cri...
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Purpose: We developed an open-source, rule-based algorithm to automate cause of death coding for analyzing mortality in understudied populations, such as people experiencing homelessness, and dynamic public health crises including overdoses and climate-related deaths. Methods: Death categories of immediate public health concern were selected and keyword lists representing each category were developed in consultation with a domain expert. A rule-based keyword matching algorithm was built to assign death records into the selected death categories. The algorithm was trained on death certificate data from five counties across the United States. A case study applying the algorithm to deaths among people experiencing homelessness in Clark County, NV from 2015 to 2018 (N = 646) tested the accuracy of the program against a manual coder. Results: There was strong agreement between the algorithm and the manual coder in the all-cause identification (kappa 0.905) and mutually exclusive sorting (kappa 0.853) methods. Our findings illustrate the algorithm's ability to accurately classify death certificates into useful categories. Conclusion: This open-source, customizable algorithm may be utilized by researchers, journalists, and others to conduct mortality analyses with publicly available death certificate data, bridging gaps in existing mortality tracking efforts.
Efficient and accurate insulator defect detection is essential for maintaining the safe and stable operation of transmission ***,the detection effectiveness is adversely impacted by complex and changeable environmenta...
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Efficient and accurate insulator defect detection is essential for maintaining the safe and stable operation of transmission ***,the detection effectiveness is adversely impacted by complex and changeable environmental backgrounds,particularly under extreme weather that elevates accident ***,this research proposes a high-precision intelligent strategy based on the synthetic weather algorithm and improved YOLOv7 for detecting insulator defects under extreme *** proposed meth-odology involves augmenting the dataset with synthetic rain,snow,and fog algorithm ***,the original dataset undergoes augmentation through affine and colour transformations to improve model's generalisation performance under complex power inspection *** achieve higher recognition accuracy in severe weather,an improved YOLOv7 algorithm for insulator defect detection is proposed,integrating focal loss with SIoU loss function and incorporating an optimised decoupled head *** results indicate that the synthetic weather algorithm processing significantly improves the insulator defect detection accuracy under extreme weather,increasing the mean average precision by 2.4%.Furthermore,the authors’improved YOLOv7 model achieves 91.8%for the mean average precision,outperforming the benchmark model by 2.3%.With a detection speed of 46.5 frames per second,the model meets the requirement of real-time detection of insulators and their defects during power inspection.
The gravitational lensing wave effect generated by a microlensing field embedded in a lens galaxy is an inevitable phenomenon in strong lensed gravitational waves(SLGWs).This effect presents both challenges and opport...
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The gravitational lensing wave effect generated by a microlensing field embedded in a lens galaxy is an inevitable phenomenon in strong lensed gravitational waves(SLGWs).This effect presents both challenges and opportunities for the detection and appli-cation of ***,investigating this wave effect requires computing a complete diffraction integral over each microlens in the *** is extremely time-consuming due to the large number of microlenses(10^(3)-10^(6)).Therefore,simply adding all the microlenses is ***,the complexity of the time delay surface makes the lens plane resolution a crucial factor in controlling numerical *** this paper,we propose a trapezoid approximation-based adaptive hierarchical tree algo-rithm to meet the challenges of calculation speed and *** find that this algorithm accelerates the calculation by four orders of magnitude compared to the simple adding method and is one order of magnitude faster than the fixed hierarchical tree algorithm proposed for electromagnetic *** importantly,our algorithm ensures controllable numerical errors,increasing confidence in the *** with our previous work(***.66,239511,2023),this paper addresses all numerical issues,including integral convergence,precision,and computational time1).Finally,we conducted a population study on the microlensing wave effect of SLGWs using this algorithm and found that the microlensing wave effect cannot be ignored,especially for Type II SLGWs(from saddle position of the time delay surface)due to their intrinsic geometric structures and their typical intersection with a denser microlensing ***,more than 33%(11%)of SLGWs have a mismatch larger than 1%(3%)compared to the unlensed ***,we found that the mismatch between signal pairs in a doubly imaged GW is generally larger than 10^(−3),and 61%(25%)of signal pairs have a mismatch larger than 1%(3%).Theref
Residential load scheduling in smart power grids (SPGs), especially those incorporating renewable energy sources (RESs), storage battery, and demand response (DR) faces significant challenges due to the limitations of...
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Residential load scheduling in smart power grids (SPGs), especially those incorporating renewable energy sources (RESs), storage battery, and demand response (DR) faces significant challenges due to the limitations of traditional optimization algorithms. These challenges include premature convergence, high computational costs, imbalanced exploration and exploitation, lack of adaptability, and sensitivity to parameters. Such issues make it difficult to effectively manage energy consumption, alleviate peak loads, and reduce energy costs while maintaining user comfort. To address these challenges, we propose an improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm that enhances exploration and exploitation balance through inertia weight adjustment, velocity damping, and the inclusion of crossover and mutation strategies. These enhancements prevent premature convergence and allow for faster, more accurate convergence to optimal solutions. The proposed IPSO is integrated into a power usage scheduler (PUS) for optimal residential load scheduling under an adaptive pricing scheme considering photovoltaic (PV) and storage battery, focusing on reducing peak energy usage, rebound peaks, energy costs, and user discomfort. The effectiveness of the IPSO-based PUS is demonstrated through a comparison with other optimization algorithms such as genetic optimization algorithm (GOA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and wind-driven optimization (WDO). Results show that the IPSO algorithm consistently outperforms these alternatives in terms of energy consumption, peak energy alleviation, cost reduction, and grid stability, while also achieving faster execution times and superior convergence rates. This work provides a robust solution for residential load scheduling, offering significant insights and practical benefits for energy optimization in SPGs.
Aiming at solving the production scheduling problems in flexible manufacturing systems including the flexible job shop scheduling (FJSP) and distributed flexible job shop scheduling (DFJSP) with operation outsourcing,...
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Aiming at solving the production scheduling problems in flexible manufacturing systems including the flexible job shop scheduling (FJSP) and distributed flexible job shop scheduling (DFJSP) with operation outsourcing, which are two kinds of typical NP-hard problems, the general mathematical model with two optimization objectives including minimizing the total costs as well as makespan are developed. Then, an innovative discrete water source cycle algorithm (IDWCA) inspired by the water cycle process is proposed to address the model. In the IDWCA, the operators including evaporation mixing, precipitation, local mixing, modification of water source composition and water source loss are designed to search for optimization solutions. Finally, 15 FJSP comparison experiments and 45 DFJSP comparison experiments with different scales are provided to verify the comprehensive performance of the IDWCA, in which the IDWCA, the original water cycle algorithm (OWCA), and the two general meta-heuristic algorithms genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are involved. Compared with OWCA, GA and PSO, IDWCA performs significantly better in all FJSP experiments, while it performs better in 43 out of 45 DFJSP experiments, and its advantages are more significant in solving the medium-scale and large-scale problems. In addition, the evolutionary curves of the above algorithms indicate that the IDWCA has the better convergence speed and results than that of OWCA, GA and PSO. Therefore, the developed mathematical model and IDWCA are effective in solving the studied FJSP and DFJSP, the proposed algorithm enriches the theoretical researches on meta-heuristic algorithms and production scheduling.
Transportation infrastructure has often been the target of terrorist attacks, and mitigation of the risk of toxic gas attacks is a challenging task in the design of indoor emergency evacuation systems. Considering mul...
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Transportation infrastructure has often been the target of terrorist attacks, and mitigation of the risk of toxic gas attacks is a challenging task in the design of indoor emergency evacuation systems. Considering multiple emergency response modes, we propose an agent-based risk assessment model and its algorithm to integrate gas diffusion and pedestrian movement data for emergency response, quickly assessing average individual exposure risk. We assessed the exposure status of individuals with respect to their emergency response actions following a toxic gas attack in an airport terminal. The results indicate that in the event of a general gas attack on an airport terminal, ventilation must be immediately ceased along with early evacuation. In areas with a shelter-in-place environment, the ventilation mode and shelter-in-place time should be determined based on the concentration of indoor and outdoor gases. In areas with nerve gas exposure and high population density, a new exit must be established at evacuation bottlenecks, and pedestrians must be guided to evacuate while promptly closing ventilation. These results offer suggestions and strategies for emergency response and decision-making in airport terminals during such incidents.
To address the deficiency and predict the adsorption performance in different adsorbents, this study proposes a new optimizer linked to the machine learning (ML) model considering the performance of the adsorption pro...
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To address the deficiency and predict the adsorption performance in different adsorbents, this study proposes a new optimizer linked to the machine learning (ML) model considering the performance of the adsorption process. The main goal is to predict adsorption under different process conditions with different adsorbents and provide a unified framework, leading to the prediction of adsorption phenomena instead of traditional isotherm models. This research focuses on predicting the adsorbed amount of O2 and N2 on several carbon-based adsorbents using the ML approach linked to the grey wolf optimizer algorithm (GWO). Experimental isotherm data (dataset 1344) on adsorbent type, temperature, pressure, gas type, and adsorption capacity of the process adsorption were used as input and output datasets. The best algorithm was Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS), a two-layer network from a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) method applying 28 neurons. The new MLP-GWO network would have the best mean square error (MSE) efficiencies of 0.00037, while the R2 (r-squared) was 0.9934. The new ML-generated model can accurately predict the adsorption process behaviour of different carbon-based adsorbents under various process conditions. The results of this research have the potential to assist a wide range of gas separation industries.
Feature detection is one of the hot topics in the weather radar research community. This study employed a convective-stratiform classification algorithm to detect features in polarimetric radar variables and Quantitat...
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Feature detection is one of the hot topics in the weather radar research community. This study employed a convective-stratiform classification algorithm to detect features in polarimetric radar variables and Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE) retrieval during a heavy precipitation event in Crossville, Tennessee, during warm-season convection. Analysis of polarimetric radar variables revealed that strong updrafts, mixed-phase precipitation, and large hailstones in the radar resolution volume during the event were driven by the existence of supercell thunderstorms. The results of feature detection highlight that the regions with convective-stratiform cores and strong-faint features in the reflectivity field are similar to those in the rainfall field, demonstrating how the algorithm more effectively detects features in both fields. The results of the estimates, accounting for uncertainty during feature detection, indicate that an offset of +2 dB overestimated convective features in the northeast in both the reflectivity and rainfall fields, while an offset of -2 dB underestimated convective features in the northwest part of both fields. The results highlight that convective cores cover a small area with high rainfall exceeding 50 mmh-1, while stratiform cores cover a larger area with greater horizontal homogeneity and lower rainfall intensity. These findings are significant for nowcasting weather, numerical models, hydrological applications, and enhancing climatological computations.
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