34,355 research outputs found
Development and initial tests of an urban comfort monitoring system
No full textThe paper presents a newly developed low-cost measurement system for outdoor
comfort monitoring. The solution is based on IoT (Internet of Things) technologies and is cloudconnected. The system is able to collect physical environment data, and includes a movable GPS
monitoring station as well as the subjective thermal sensation of pedestrians via a devoted app.
The cloud interface promptly elaborates the received data to calculate outdoor thermal comfort
indices such as UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index), MRT (mean radiant temperature), and
ET (effective temperature). The system is conceived for supporting both fixed and traveling
measurements, and to support correlation studies between monitored environmental variables
and personal comfort sensations to promote the local adaptation of comfort indices. Results from
early testing are also reported
Effects of Cracks and Geometric Parameters on the Flow in Shale
No full textIn recent years, shale oil/gas has become increasingly important in global energy. The natural pores of shale are mainly of micro-nano sizes and have the cross-scale characteristics, which makes the traditional method difficult and impractical in studying the seepage of shale. In order to obtain the characteristics of seepage of the crack-pore-throat system, the lattice Boltzmann method and dimensional analysis were used to study the seepage in an idealized crack-pore network. The influences of the geometric factors, including crack location, crack opening, and interval between two vertical neighbor throats and boundary conditions on the seepage were studied. The results show that the slip boundary conditions enhance the seepage rate. The enhancement with slip coefficients is nonuniform. The total flux is nearly equal when the crack is near either the inlet or outlet, but larger than that when the crack is located in the middle of the model. The flux ratio between the main throats when the crack is located near the outlet is the greatest. When the crack is near the outlet, the water channel is the largest possible while it is not easy to form when the crack is in the middle. With increase in the opening ratio of the crack-to-throat, the total flow of the system increases. The increase degree decreases with the increasing opening ratio. When the opening ratio is greater than 9, the increase in flux becomes very small. If the crack-pore-throat system is very uniform or even symmetric, the flow rate in the vertical throat/crack is very small. Hence, it is not beneficial to the gas/oil production and gas/oil displacement
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605231187953 - Supplemental material for Mitofusin-2 gene polymorphisms and metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease: a case-control study in a Chinese population
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605231187953 for Mitofusin-2 gene polymorphisms and metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease: a case-control study in a Chinese population by Xiwei Yuan, Mengmeng Hou, Yiqi Wang, Siyu Zhang, Lu Li, Yingjun Mi, Huijuan Du, Songhao Yu and Yuemin Nan in Journal of International Medical Research</p
Supplementary_Table_1 – Supplemental material for Polymorphisms of a novel long non-coding RNA RP11-108K3.2 with colorectal cancer susceptibility and their effects on its expression
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Table_1 for Polymorphisms of a novel long non-coding RNA RP11-108K3.2 with colorectal cancer susceptibility and their effects on its expression by Danjie Jiang, Mingjuan Jin, Ding Ye, Yingjun Li, Fangyuan Jing, Xiaocong Zhang, Qilong Li and Kun Chen in The International Journal of Biological Markers</p
Low-temperature microwave-assisted hydrothermal fabrication of RGO/MnO2-CNTs nanoarchitectures and their improved performance in supercapacitors
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Reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/birnessite-type manganese dioxide (MnO2) nanoarchitectures were fabricated by a rapid microwave-assisted hydrothermal route at low temperature (60 degrees C). Graphene oxide (GO) reduced in the presence of poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were introduced as conductors to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) electroactive nanoarchitectures. The microstructures of the nanoarchitectures were systematically characterized by SEM, TEM, and BET. The optimized nanoarchitectures were found to exhibit superior electrochemical performance. Their specific capacitance value reached 304 F g(-1) at 1 A g(-1) and even remained as high as 250 F g(-1) at 10 A g(-1) in 1 M Na2SO4 electrolyte. A negligible decline (2.5%) of the initial capacity was observed after 1200 cycles at 4 A g(-1).</p
†Chuchinolepididae Zhang 1978
No full textFamily †Chuchinolepididae Zhang 1978, spelling in prevailing recent practice †Chuchinolepidae Zhang 1978a: 296 (family) † Chuchinolepis Zhang 1978 [family name also seen as †Chuchinolepididae; author also seen as Chang] †Qujinolepidae Zhang 1978b: 173 (family) † Qujinolepis Zhang 1978 [family name sometimes seen as † Qujinolepididae] †Procondylolepidae Zhang 1984: 82 (family) † Procondylolepis Zhang 1984Published as part of Laan, Richard Van Der, 2018, Family-group names of fossil fishes, pp. 1-167 in European Journal of Taxonomy 466 on page 27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.466, http://zenodo.org/record/555755
An enhanced author name dataset for PubMed/MEDLINE
No full text<p>The incompleteness of author names is a well-known issue in the MEDLINE database. It was since 2002, the full author name has been systematically indexed in MEDLINE. Although many full author names have been added to MEDLINE, we still found a significant number of abbreviated names in papers published after 2002.</p>
<p>Here we built an enhanced author name dataset for MEDLINE, called EAN, achieved by linking the whole PubMed to other large literature databases and conducting a large-scale name comparison and restoration with obtained multi-sources author names. Our evaluation shows that more than 90% of author names in EAN are complete as compared to the ratio of ~60% in MEDLINE.</p>
An enhanced author name dataset for PubMed/MEDLINE
No full text<p>The incompleteness of author names is a well-known issue in the MEDLINE database. It was since 2002, the full author name has been systematically indexed in MEDLINE. Although many full author names have been added to MEDLINE, we still found a significant number of abbreviated names in papers published after 2002.</p>
<p>Here we built an enhanced author name dataset for MEDLINE, called EAN, achieved by linking the whole PubMed to other large literature databases and conducting a large-scale name comparison and restoration with obtained multi-sources author names. Our evaluation shows that more than 90% of author names in EAN are complete as compared to the ratio of ~60% in MEDLINE.</p>
Astragalus wui M. Idrees & Z. Y. Zhang 2021, nom. nov.
No full textAstragalus wui M. Idrees & Z.Y. Zhang, nom. nov. Replaced name:— Astragalus sylvaticus Y.H. Wu (2015: 718), nom. illeg., non A. sylvaticus (Pall.) Willd. (1802: 1300). Type:— CHINA. Xinjiang: Yecheng Country, Sukepiya, in border forest, alt. 3000 m, 15 Aug. 1987, Exped. Qinghai-Tibet Wu Yuhu 1067 (holotype: QTPMB, not seen). Etymology:—The specific epithet honours Prof. Dr. Wu Yuhu (Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining, China), author of the replaced name, who first described this new species.Published as part of Idrees, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhiyong, 2021, Astragalus wui, a new replacement name for A. sylvaticus Y. H. Wu (Galegeae, Papilionoideae, Fabaceae), pp. 210-211 in Phytotaxa 524 (3) on page 210, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.524.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/564936
Professor Zhang Weihua's Clinical Experience in the Application of Yongquan Acupoint
No full textSummarizing Professor Zhang Weihua's understanding of the bidirectional regulation function of Yongquan Point and his clinical application experience, the author believes that Yongquan is a meeting place of Yin and Yang qi, and both Yin and Yang qi are rooted here, which can be used to balance Yin and Yang, and proposes that Yongquan is the key point of bidirectional regulation, which has the functions of bidirectional regulation, bidirectional lifting, bidirectional replenishing. At the same time, Professor Zhang believes that Yongquan point should be combined with the corresponding stimulation method in the treatment of different diseases, which provides a new idea for the clinical treatment of some difficult diseases
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