The overall carbonation of MgO-admixed soil provides not only an efficient and environmentally friendly technique for improving soft ground but also a permanently safe solution for CO_(2) sequestration.To evaluate the...The overall carbonation of MgO-admixed soil provides not only an efficient and environmentally friendly technique for improving soft ground but also a permanently safe solution for CO_(2) sequestration.To evaluate the carbon sequestration potential and promote the carbonation application in soil improvement,a laboratory-scale model investigation is designed under pressurized carbonation considering the influences of MgO dosage and CO_(2) ventilation mode(way).The temperature,dynamic resilience modulus,and dynamic cone penetration(DCP)were tested to assess the carbonation treatment effect.The physical,strength,and microscopic tests were also undertaken to reveal the evolution mechanisms of CO_(2) migration in the MgO-carbonated foundation.The results indicate that the temperature peaks of MgO-treated foundation emerge at w20 h during hydration,but occur at a distance of 0e25 cm from the gas source within 6 h during carbonation.The dynamic resilience moduli of the model foundation increase by more than two times after carbonation and the DCP indices reduce dramatically.As the distance from the gas inlet increases,the bearing capacity,strength,and carbon sequestration decrease,whereas the moisture content increases.Compared to the end ventilation,the middle ventilation produces a higher carbonation degree and a wider carbonation area.The cementation and filling of nesquehonite and dypingite/hydromagnesite are verified to be critical factors for carbonation evolution and enhancing mechanical performances.Finally,the overall carbonation model is described schematically in three stages of CO_(2) migration.The outcomes would help to facilitate the practical application of CO_(2) sequestration in soil treatment.展开更多
Introduction Cancer is an attractive target of gene therapy and currently represents the disease in most clinical trials[1]. Strategies for cancer gene therapy include: (1) stimulation of immune responses to tumor cel...Introduction Cancer is an attractive target of gene therapy and currently represents the disease in most clinical trials[1]. Strategies for cancer gene therapy include: (1) stimulation of immune responses to tumor cells,(2) delivery of specific enzymes展开更多
Blindness provides an unparalleled opportunity to study plasticity of the nervous system in humans.Seminal work in this area examined the often dramatic modifications to the visual cortex that result when visual input...Blindness provides an unparalleled opportunity to study plasticity of the nervous system in humans.Seminal work in this area examined the often dramatic modifications to the visual cortex that result when visual input is completely absent from birth or very early in life（Kupers and Ptito,2014）.More recent studies explored what happens to the visual pathways in the context of acquired blindness.This is particularly relevant as the majority of diseases that cause vision loss occur in the elderly.展开更多
Mobile devices and social networks provide communication opportunities among the young generation,which increases vulnerability and cybercrimes activities.A recent survey reports that cyberbullying and cyberstalking c...Mobile devices and social networks provide communication opportunities among the young generation,which increases vulnerability and cybercrimes activities.A recent survey reports that cyberbullying and cyberstalking constitute a developing issue among youngsters.This paper focuses on cyberbullying detection in mobile phone text by retrieving with the help of an oxygen forensics toolkit.We describe the data collection using forensics technique and a corpus of suspicious activities like cyberbullying annotation from mobile phones and carry out a sequence of binary classification experiments to determine cyberbullying detection.We use forensics techniques,Machine Learning(ML),and Deep Learning(DL)algorithms to exploit suspicious patterns to help the forensics investigation where every evidence contributes to the case.Experiments on a real-time dataset reveal better results for the detection of cyberbullying content.The Random Forest in ML approach produces 87%of accuracy without SMOTE technique,whereas the value of F1Score produces a good result with SMOTE technique.The LSTM has 92%of validation accuracy in the DL algorithm compared with Dense and BiLSTM algorithms.展开更多
Non-isotropy is evident for flows with large streamline curvature. Algebraic stress model can fairly simulate non-isotropy of turbulence. Some flow situations were investigated with a well developed ASM model. The cal...Non-isotropy is evident for flows with large streamline curvature. Algebraic stress model can fairly simulate non-isotropy of turbulence. Some flow situations were investigated with a well developed ASM model. The calcu- lated results show that the distributions of Reynolds stresses in different directions are obviously different. The non-isotropy of the flow is evident. The effect of streamline curvature on the flow feature of submerged water jet restricted by solid boundaries were studied, and its application in the design of energy dissipators of free trajectory jet type was disscused.展开更多
基金funding provided by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41902286)the Open Fund for the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering(Grant No.SKLGME021029)the CRSRI Open Research Program(Grant No.CKWV20221015/KY).
文摘The overall carbonation of MgO-admixed soil provides not only an efficient and environmentally friendly technique for improving soft ground but also a permanently safe solution for CO_(2) sequestration.To evaluate the carbon sequestration potential and promote the carbonation application in soil improvement,a laboratory-scale model investigation is designed under pressurized carbonation considering the influences of MgO dosage and CO_(2) ventilation mode(way).The temperature,dynamic resilience modulus,and dynamic cone penetration(DCP)were tested to assess the carbonation treatment effect.The physical,strength,and microscopic tests were also undertaken to reveal the evolution mechanisms of CO_(2) migration in the MgO-carbonated foundation.The results indicate that the temperature peaks of MgO-treated foundation emerge at w20 h during hydration,but occur at a distance of 0e25 cm from the gas source within 6 h during carbonation.The dynamic resilience moduli of the model foundation increase by more than two times after carbonation and the DCP indices reduce dramatically.As the distance from the gas inlet increases,the bearing capacity,strength,and carbon sequestration decrease,whereas the moisture content increases.Compared to the end ventilation,the middle ventilation produces a higher carbonation degree and a wider carbonation area.The cementation and filling of nesquehonite and dypingite/hydromagnesite are verified to be critical factors for carbonation evolution and enhancing mechanical performances.Finally,the overall carbonation model is described schematically in three stages of CO_(2) migration.The outcomes would help to facilitate the practical application of CO_(2) sequestration in soil treatment.
基金supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health and a research grant from the National Science Foundation
文摘Introduction Cancer is an attractive target of gene therapy and currently represents the disease in most clinical trials[1]. Strategies for cancer gene therapy include: (1) stimulation of immune responses to tumor cells,(2) delivery of specific enzymes
基金supported by National Institutes of Health Contracts P30-EY008098 and T32-EY017271-06(BethesdaMD)+14 种基金United States Department of Defense DM090217(ArlingtonVA)Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Grant(Fort WorthTX)Eye and Ear Foundation(PittsburghPA)Research to Prevent Blindness(New YorkNY)Aging Institute Pilot Seed GrantUniversity of Pittsburgh(PittsburghPA)Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Ocular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative OphthalmologyLouis J.Fox Center for Vision RestorationUniversity of Pittsburgh and UPMC(PittsburghPA)
文摘Blindness provides an unparalleled opportunity to study plasticity of the nervous system in humans.Seminal work in this area examined the often dramatic modifications to the visual cortex that result when visual input is completely absent from birth or very early in life（Kupers and Ptito,2014）.More recent studies explored what happens to the visual pathways in the context of acquired blindness.This is particularly relevant as the majority of diseases that cause vision loss occur in the elderly.
文摘Mobile devices and social networks provide communication opportunities among the young generation,which increases vulnerability and cybercrimes activities.A recent survey reports that cyberbullying and cyberstalking constitute a developing issue among youngsters.This paper focuses on cyberbullying detection in mobile phone text by retrieving with the help of an oxygen forensics toolkit.We describe the data collection using forensics technique and a corpus of suspicious activities like cyberbullying annotation from mobile phones and carry out a sequence of binary classification experiments to determine cyberbullying detection.We use forensics techniques,Machine Learning(ML),and Deep Learning(DL)algorithms to exploit suspicious patterns to help the forensics investigation where every evidence contributes to the case.Experiments on a real-time dataset reveal better results for the detection of cyberbullying content.The Random Forest in ML approach produces 87%of accuracy without SMOTE technique,whereas the value of F1Score produces a good result with SMOTE technique.The LSTM has 92%of validation accuracy in the DL algorithm compared with Dense and BiLSTM algorithms.
文摘Non-isotropy is evident for flows with large streamline curvature. Algebraic stress model can fairly simulate non-isotropy of turbulence. Some flow situations were investigated with a well developed ASM model. The calcu- lated results show that the distributions of Reynolds stresses in different directions are obviously different. The non-isotropy of the flow is evident. The effect of streamline curvature on the flow feature of submerged water jet restricted by solid boundaries were studied, and its application in the design of energy dissipators of free trajectory jet type was disscused.
