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To investigate the effect of recycled engine oil bottoms (REOB) as a compatibilizer on the properties of styrene–butadiene–styrene-modified bitumen (SBS-PMB), this paper studied the preparation method, properties, and micro-mechanism of composite modification of matrix bitumen with SBS and REOB. Firstly, a multi-factor orthogonal experiment determined the optimal preparation scheme of REOB/SBS composite-modified bitumen (REOB/SBS-PMB). Then, the high-temperature stability rheological properties, and anti-aging performance of REOB-PMB were studied by testing Brookfield viscosity, elasticity recovery, and dynamic shear rheology (DSR) and by short-term aging simulation (TFOT). Finally, the microstructure, fraction content, and SBS particle dispersion of 70# matrix bitumen (70-MB), SBS-PMB, and REOB/SBS-PMB were compared and analyzed by tests of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), rod-shaped thin-layer chromatography, and fluorescence microscopy to reveal the micro-mechanism of REOB improving SBS and bitumen compatibility. The research results showed that the mixing form of SBS and REOB in bitumen was mainly physical swelling and blending, with chemical changes also present that have a minor impact. The light fraction in REOB increased the flowability of bitumen, promoted the swelling of SBS, improved the compatibility between SBS and bitumen, and improved the high-temperature stability and rheological properties while reducing the impact of aging.

The current study was designed to evaluate the effect of different doses of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) on reproductive performance synchronized with prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) in Chinese Holstein dairy cows. The study was conducted on one hundred cyclic dairy cows. Cows were equally divided into five treatment groups. Each group (n=20) was administered with an injection of PMSG (Serum Gonadotrophin for Injection, SanSheng Pharmaceutical, China) at dose rate of 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, or 4 IU/kg BW, followed by an injection of PGF2α (Cloprostenol Sodium for Injection, SanSheng Pharmaceutical, China) 48 h later. Estrus was detected by a teaser bull three times daily after PGF2α administration. The cows were artificially inseminated 12 and 20 h after standing heat. On day 30 after artificial insemination, pregnancy rate was confirmed by transrectal ultrasonography while calving rate and multiple calvings were added up after successful parturition. There were no significant difference (P>0.05) in estrus response among all treatment groups. Similarly, interval from PMSG administration to estrus was decreased non-significantly (P>0.05) with the different doses of PMSG. Pregnancy rate was significantly lower (P0.05) among different regimens. The effects of PMSG dose on multiple calving was found to be statistically significant (P2.5 IU/kg) than in the lowest treatment group (2 IU/kg), however, later pregnancy rate was non-significant (P>0.05) in all groups. In summary, PMSG administration could successfully induce estrus and improve fertility of a dairy herd. Furthermore, low doses of PMSG aid in quick return of non-pregnant cows to subsequent next estrus.

With intensified contradiction between the rapid development of modern industry and the carrying capacity of natural environment, coordinating the relationship between economic benefits and ecologi...

In production industry ofAuricularia auricular, the varieties quality is most important impact factor on output. For evaluating the early quality of the edible fungus, 9 varieties ofAuricularia auricular (Au9, CF09, CF05, 29, 916, chang10, chang7, Au.Japanese and 8808) were cultured on the medium consists of potato dextrose agar (PDA) and sawdust to test their mycelium growth rate, endurance to high temperature, resistance to mildew, assimilation of nutriment, and resistance to drought. The result showed that the mycelium of Chang 10, CF09, 29 and Au.Japanese varieties had the eminent characteristics such as short lifespan, stronger assimilation of nutriment, and endurance to high temperature and steady growth. These four varieties are determined as superiority varieties ofAuricularia auricular in accordance with the research results.

The signal detection in chaotic background has gradually become one of the research focuses in recent years. Previous research showed that the measured signals were often unavoidable to be contaminated by the chaotic noise, such as the radar signal detection from sea clutter wave,signal source extraction from chaotic secure communication and ECG/EEG abnormal signal detection,etc.At present,there are two methods to detect the target signal from the chaotic background.One is to detect the target signals by using the difference in geometric structure between the chaotic signal and the target signal,and the other is to regard the chaotic signal as the noise,and the target signal is extracted from the chaotic background by the time frequency analysis method,such as wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition. The first kind of method can detect the target signal well,but it needs to characterize the chaotic system and reconstruct the phase space,which is difficult in the practical applications.The second kind of method does not need to reconstruct the chaotic phase space and can effectively extract the target signal from the chaotic background.However,the wavelet transform lacks adaption and how to select the optimal wavelet basis and decomposition layers is a difficult problem.In the empirical mode decomposition there exists the mode mixing that is very sensitive to the noise.The synchrosqueezed wavelet transform (SST) effectively improves the mixing of mode by compressing the continuous wavelet coefficients in the frequency direction,but also it has good robustness to noise.Therefore,the SST can extract the harmonic signal well from the chaotic background.In the present algorithm of abstracting harmonic signal from chaotic background by SST,the harmonic signals are extracted by using single accumulation frequency range SST (SAFR-SST) based on wavelet ridge detection.If the target signal is stable harmonic signal,whose frequency does not change with time,the SAFR-SST method can have a high abstraction precision.But if the target signal is the non-stable harmonic signal whose frequency changes with time,the SAFR-SST method is not enough nor can obtain high abstraction precision.In order to overcome the shortcomings of the SST in extracting the non-stationary harmonic signal from the chaotic background, an improved SST extracting method is proposed which is based on the adaptive optimal cumulative frequency range. Firstly,the formulas of calculating the adaptive cumulative frequency range in SST extraction are deduced according to the relationship between the wavelet coefficient of non-stationary harmonic and the interval of supporting wavelet bases.Then,the optimal values of the parameters in the adaptive cumulative frequency range formula are calculated by the minimum energy error criterion according to the integrity and orthogonality of the intrinsic mode types function.Finally,the SST adaptive extraction of the non-stationary harmonic signal is realized according to the SST inverse transform.In experiment,the different types of non-stationary harmonics are extracted from the Lorenz and Duffing chaotic background.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively extract the non-stationary harmonic from the noisy chaotic background.Compared with the classical SST method with single cumulative frequency range,the proposed method has good performance in both mean square error and correlation coefficient.And when the chaotic background contains different-intenity Gauss white noises,the proposed method can also effectively abstract the non-stationary harmonic from the chaos and noise interference.So,the proposed method has a good practice value.

In this paper, we proposed a new mixed variable step size ELMS algorithm (MVSS-ELMS) which combined the mean square error and the correlation of the error to modify the step size. The approach is general in the sense that it not only retains the benefits of ELMS algorithm lower steady-state error, but also improves the system convergence speed. In comparison, the new approach performance is much better than VSS-ELMS algorithm and VFSS-ELMS algorithm in the convergence speed and anti-noise capacity. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through computer simulations.

Extracting the harmonic signal from the chaotic interference background is very important for theory and practical application. The wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) have been widely applied to harmonic extraction from chaotic interference, but because the wavelet and EMD both present the mode mixing and are sensitive to noise, the harmonic signal often cannot be precisely separated out. The synchrosqueezing wavelet transform (SST) is based on the continuous wavelet transform, through compressing the time-frequency map of wavelet transform in the frequency domain, the highly accurate time-frequency curve is obtained. The time-frequency curve of SST which does not exist between cross terms, can better improve the mode mixing. The SST has also good robustness against noise. When the signal is a mixed strong noise, the SST can still obtain the clear time-frequency curve and approximate invariant decomposition results. In this paper, the SST is applied to the multiple harmonic signal extraction from chaotic interference background, and a new harmonic extracting method is proposed based on the SST. First, the signal obtained by mixing chaotic and harmonic signals is decomposed into intrinsic mode type function (IMTF) by the SST. Then using the Hilbert transform the frequency of each IMTF is analyzed, and the harmonic signals are separated from the mixed signal. Selecting the Duffing signal as the chaotic interference signal, the extracting ability of the proposed method for multiple harmonic signals is analyzed. The different harmonic extraction experiments are conducted by using the proposed SST method for different frequency intervals and different noise intensity multiple harmonic signals. And the experimental results are compared with those from the classical EMD method. When the chaotic interference signal is not contained by noise, the harmonic signal extraction effect is seriously affected by the frequency interval between harmonic signals. If the harmonic frequency interval between harmonic signals is relatively narrow, each harmonic signal cannot be accurately extracted by the EMD method. However, the harmonic extraction precision of SST method is not seriously influenced by the change of harmonic frequency interval, and when the frequency interval between harmonic signals is small the SST method can still accurately extract each harmonic signal from chaotic interference. When the noise contains a chaotic interference signal, the harmonic extraction effect of EMD method significantly decreases with noise intensity increasing. When the noise level reaches 80%, the extracted harmonic signal from the EMD method is seriously distorted, the correlation coefficient of the extracted harmonic signal with original harmonic signal is only about 0.6. With the increase of noise intensity, the harmonic extraction effect of SST method has also a declining trend. But as the noise intensity is within 120%, the harmonic extraction effect of SST method does not greatly change and the extracted harmonic signal precision is still higher, which shows that the harmonic extraction method based on the SST has good robustness against noise. The comprehensive experimental results show that the proposed SST method has high extracting precision for multiple harmonic signals of different frequency intervals, and the SST method has better robustness against Gauss white noise. The extracted results of harmonic signal are better than those from the classical empirical mode decomposition method.

The transition energies and electric dipole (E1) transition rates of the K, L, and M lines in neutral Np have been theoretically determined from the MultiConfiguration Dirac—Fock (MCDF) method. In the calculations, the contributions from Breit interaction and quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects (vacuum polarization and self-energy), as well as nuclear finite mass and volume effects, are taken into account. The calculated transition energies and rates are found to be in good agreement with other experimental and theoretical results. The accuracy of the results is estimated and discussed. Furthermore, we calculated the transition energies of the same lines radiating from the decaying transitions of the K-, L-, and M-shell hole states of Np ions with the charge states Np1+ to Np6+ for the first time. We found that for a specific line, the corresponding transition energies relating to all the Np ions are almost the same; it means the outermost electrons have a very small influence on the inner-shell transition processes.

The air microbial species and quantities in a wood mill in Harbin, China were measured using sedimentation plate method. Results showed that the microbial quantity in the air at the workshop without depurator (54939cfu•m^(-3)) was 2.1 times that of the workshop with depurator (25768cfu•m^(-3)). The depurator could purify air microorganisms at the workshop, with a purifying rate of 53.1%, but it did not reach the standards of clean air. Comparatively the depurator is effective in reducing the quantity of air actinomyces, and some kinds of air actinomyces, such as Scabies, Cinereas and Hygroscopicas, can be clean out, but it is not very effective to bacteria and fungi. It is suggested that more effective and feasible methods should be developed for purifying air microorganisms at the workshop in the future.

According to the characteristics of empirical mode decomposition and denoise of independent component analysis, an adaptive denoising method of chaotic signal is proposed based on independent component analysis and empirical mode decomposition. First, the chaotic signal is decomposed into a set of intrinsic mode functions by empirical mode decomposition; then, the multi-dimensional input vectors are constructed based on the translation invariant empirical mode decomposition, and the noise of each intrinsic mode function is removed through the constructed multi-dimensional input vectors and the independent component analysis; finally, the denoisied chaotic signal is obtained by accumulating and reconstructing all the processed intrinsic mode functions. Both the chaotic signal generated by Lorenz map with different level Gaussian noises, and the observed monthly series of sunspots are respectively used for noise reduction using the proposed method. The results of numerical experiments show that the proposed method is efficient. It can better correct the positions of data points in phase space and approximate the real chaotic attractor trajectories more closely．

The radiative and Auger decay processes of K-shell ionized Np ions are studied theoretically using the flexible atomic code (FAC). Relativistic effects, Breit interaction, QED corrections and nuclear finite mass and volume effects are considered systematically. The resulting calculated K x-rays and Auger spectra of Np are compared with the measured spectra emitted after the electron-capture (EC)-decay of mass-separated 237Pu. The general consistency between theory and experiment is good; the relative intensities and relative positions of the peaks in the measured spectra are reproduced with good accuracy, in spite of the existence of different ways to produce the primary K-shell vacancy, enabling identification of the observed structure in the experimental spectra. We find that most of the radiative transition rates are greater than the Auger transition rates, and the latter decrease rapidly with the transfer of initial vacancies to the outer shell.

Laser-induced breakdown plasma is produced by using Q-switched Nd: YAG laser operating at 532 nm, which interacts with the Al alloy sample target in air. The spectral lines in the 230—440 nm wavelength range have been identified, and based on the calibration-free method, the mass concentration of Al alloy are obtained, which is in good agreement with the standard value of the sample.

In this paper, the Ne 1s photoelectron spectrum and the corresponding Auger decay processes have been investigated theoretically by using the GRASP92, RATIP and the recently developed RERR06 codes based on the multi-configuration Dirac-Fock method. Good overall agreement was found between the present calculations and the previous theoretical and experimental results. By analyzing the Auger decay processes of the photoionization satellite state Ne+1s-12p-1（1,3Ｐ）3p, it was found that the spectator Auger decay is the dominant decay mode and the Auger intensity of the Ne+1s-12p-1（1Ｐ）3p is greater than that of the Ne+1s-12p-1（3Ｐ）3p as a whole. Meanwhile, the relative populations of the final ions Ne+, Ne2+and Ne3+produced by the photoionization satellite state Ne+1s-12p-1（1,3Ｐ）3p were predicted to be 0.02, 0.58 and 0.41, respectively.