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Unmanned Underwater Vehicle(UUV) needs to keep its position and attitude steady when operating a near-surface task. However, the wave force and high damping characteristic brings great challenge to near-surface stabilization. To overcome these difficulties, firstly, we design a sliding mode controller with residuals to form a close-loop system driven by compensating error. Then, based on robust optimal control theorem a compensator is designed after a full exploitation of wave force frequency and thruster characteristics. Simulation results reveals its good performance in wave force compensation. Tuning principles of the handcrafted parameters are also summarized.

How to play the role of the college training base in the process of talent training? In this paper, the national comprehensive training base of Suzhou Vocational University was taking as an example. It has been proposed that the talent training mode and three layer practical framework for the comprehensive training base of IoT. Practice teaching curriculum system is constructed through the multi-mode, threedimensional integration and layered progressive. Practical application shows that, through training of the system, application ability of students has been improved significantly in the skills competition, field work and social service. The ability of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship has been improved effectively.

An equipment comprehensive utilization index considering power system security and operating mode was provided, and a distribution system expansion planning method based on this index was proposed. The expansion planning method takes “effective use of existing and additional equipment resources” as the guiding ideology, and makes full use of the historical operation data to realize the distribution system expansion planning. The planning model and the solving process using improved particle swarm algorithm are provided in the paper. An actual case study is used to verify the effectiveness of the method.

The riparian zones of reservoirs associated with regulated rivers in China experience annual fluctuations in water level of up to 30 m that may vary in timing from year to year. Few plant species can tolerate such hydrological perturbation but short-lived riparian annuals might be evolutionarily pre-adapted to such conditions. This study investigated plasticity of life history in four annual species: one typically associated with free-flowing rivers (Panicum bisulcatum) and three that colonize reservoir margins (Cyperus michelianus, Fimbristylis miliacea and Eclipta prostrata). We found that all four species produced non-dormant seeds that survived prolonged submergence; germination percentage was independent of the time of exposure by receding waters. Although growth was reduced as a result of shorter growing seasons, all four species completed their life cycles and produced seeds before winter. In addition, P. bisulcatum and C. michelianus allocated biomass to seed production, at the expense of roots and stems, in response to later establishment. All species responded to later establishment with a reduced vegetative growth period before seed production. C. michelianus, F. miliacea and E. prostrata could also delay the onset of flowering time by up to 2 months. P. bisulcatum, a plant that can flower only after exposure to short days, consequently had a fixed flowering time and could accommodate delayed establishment only with a progressively shorter period of vegetative growth. This lower flexibility might explain its absence from reservoir margins. The conceptual framework presented here offers a tool to predict the establishment of vegetation under hydrological disturbance in riparian environments and thereby provides insights into improved restoration practice.

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the predominant pathological type of esophageal carcinoma in Asia. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of 19-22-nucleotide non-coding RNAs acting on target mRNAs that function as either oncogenes or anti-oncogenes. It has been confirmed that miR-373 expression varies among different tumor types. However, its mechanism is still unclear in ESCC. In our current study, we found that miR-373 expression was upregulated in ESCC tissues compared with matched adjacent normal tissues, as well as in the plasma of ESCC patients compared with that of healthy volunteers. Overexpression of miR-373 in ECA109 cells enhanced proliferation, G1-phase cell proportion, migration, and invasion. On the other hand, suppression of miR-373 in KYSE410 cells decreased proliferation, G1-phase cell proportion, migration, and invasion and also improved cell apoptosis. Moreover, we found that TIMP3, which was reported to suppress invasion and metastasis of ESCC, was a direct target of miR-373. Overexpression of miR-373 in ECA109 caused a reduction of TIMP3 mRNA and protein, whereas suppression of miR-373 in KYSE410 led to an increase of TIMP3 mRNA and protein. Introducing TIMP3 in miR-373 over-expressed cells or knocking down TIMP3 in miR-373 suppressed cells could partially abrogate the effect of miR-373 on migration and invasion. Therefore, these results prove that as an oncogene, miRNA-373 would be an important and reliable biomarker for ESCC diagnosis and treatment by targeting TIMP3.