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Abstract Background Excessive intraoperative bleeding remains a challenge in limb surgeries. The exsanguination tourniquet ring has emerged as a potential solution for effective exsanguination and hemostasis. This study aims to evaluate its efficacy and safety compared to the conventional exsanguination and hemostasis approach (pneumatic tourniquet combined with Esmarch bandage). Methods This randomized controlled trial evaluates the exsanguination tourniquet ring’s effectiveness and safety versus the conventional approach in 220 participants undergoing various limb surgeries. Allocation included experimental and control groups, assesses through efficacy (including intraoperative and total blood loss, hemoglobin levels, and exsanguination and hemostasis effectiveness) and safety (adverse event occurrence) indicators. Results The experimental group (n = 110) utilizes the exsanguination tourniquet ring, while the control group (n = 110) employs the conventional approach. As for intraoperative blood loss, the experimental group is non-inferior to the control group (p-value

Abstract The family of coinage-metal-based cyclic trinuclear complexes exhibits abundant photophysical properties, promising for diverse applications. However, their utility in biochemistry is often hindered by large particle size and strong hydrophobicity. Meanwhile, the investigation into multi-photon excited luminescence within this family remained undocumented, limiting their potential in bio-imaging. Herein, we unveil the multi-photon excited luminescent properties of pyrazolate-based trinuclear gold(I) clusters, facilitated by excimeric gold(I)···gold(I) interactions, revealing a nonlinear optical phenomenon within this family. Furthermore, to address issues of poor biocompatibility, we employ electrospinning coupled with hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin as the matrix to fabricate a flexible, durable, transparent, and red emissive film with a photoluminescence quantum yield as high as 88.3%. This strategy not only produces the film with sufficient hydrophilicity and stability, but also achieves the downsizing of trinuclear gold(I) clusters from microscale to nanoscale. Following the instantaneous dissolution of the film in the media, the released trinuclear gold(I) nanoparticles have illuminated cells and bacteria through a real-time, non-toxic, multi-photon bio-imaging approach. This achievement offers a fresh approach for utilizing coinage-metal-based cyclic trinuclear complexes in biochemical fields.

Abstract Efficiently converting solar energy into chemical energy remains a formidable challenge in artificial photosynthetic systems. To date, rarely has an artificial photosynthetic system operating in the open air surpassed the highest solar-to-biomass conversion efficiency (1%) observed in plants. In this study, we present a three-dimension polymeric photocatalyst achieving a solar-to-H2O2 conversion efficiency of 3.6% under ambient conditions, including real water, open air, and room temperature. The impressive performance is attributed to the efficient storage of electrons inside materials via expeditious intramolecular charge transfer, and the fast extraction of the stored electrons by O2 that can diffuse into the internal pores of the self-supporting three-dimensional material. This construction strategy suppresses the interlayer transfer of excitons, polarizers and carriers, effectively increases the utilization of internal excitons to 82%. This breakthrough provides a perspective to substantially enhance photocatalytic performance and bear substantial implications for sustainable energy generation and environmental remediation.

It is commonly believed that the atmosphere is decoupled from the solid Earth. Thus, it is difficult for the seismic wave energy inside the Earth to propagate into the atmosphere, and atmospheric pressure wave signals excited by earthquakes are unlikely to exist in atmospheric observations. An increasing number of studies have shown that earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis can perturb the Earth's atmosphere due to various coupling effects. However, the observations mainly focus on acoustic waves with periods of less than 10 min and inertial gravity waves with periods of greater than 1 h. There are almost no clear observations of gravity waves that coincide with observations of low-frequency signals of the Earth's free oscillation frequency band within 1 h. This paper investigates atmospheric gravity wave signals within 1 h of surface-atmosphere observations using the periodogram method based on seismometer and microbarometer observations from the global seismic network before and after the July 29, 2021 MW8.2 Alaska earthquake in the United States. The numerical results show that the atmospheric gravity wave signals with frequencies similar to those of the Earth's free oscillations 0S2 and 0T2 can be detected in the microbarometer observations. The results confirm the existence of atmospheric gravity waves, indicating that the atmosphere and the solid Earth are not decoupled within this frequency band and that seismic wave energy excited by earthquakes can propagate from the interior of the Earth to the atmosphere and enhance the atmospheric gravity wave signals within 1 h.

As the potential risks on human and aquatic animal exposed to the glucocorticoids in environment, it is essential to detect anti-epidemic pharmaceutical in real water samples. In this work, a core-shell shape, magnetic suspension particle sorbents of Fe3O4@oleic acid@polydopamine (Fe3O4@OA@PDA) were synthesized for magnetic dispersive solid phase microextraction (MDSPME), which possessed considerable dispersibility in water samples and extracted three glucocorticoids through hydrogen bonding with high detection sensitivity. The adsorption process of MDSPME was investigated by thermodynamic and kinetic theory, which demonstrated that the kinetic processes of adsorption were in accordance with the quasi second order kinetic model, and the adsorption isotherm was in accordance with the Freundich model. Combined with high performance liquid chromatography-Ultraviolet spectrophotometer detector, the proposed method had a linear range of 5–200 μg/L with an ultra-low detection limit down to 0.5–1.1 μg/L. The Green Analytical Greenness Metric (AGREE) software was employed to evaluate the greenness of the analytical method. This work presented an effective strategy for creating ultrasensitive and cost-effective probe for detection in anti-epidemic drugs.

The Earth's Free Core Nutation (FCN) causes Earth tides and forced nutation with frequencies close to the FCN that exhibit resonance effects. High-precision superconducting gravimeter (SG) and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) provide good observation techniques for detecting the FCN parameters. However, some choices in data processing and solution procedures increase the uncertainty of the FCN parameters. In this study, we analyzed the differences and the effectiveness of weight function and ocean tide corrections in the FCN parameter detection using synthetic data, SG data from thirty-one stations, and the 10 celestial pole offset (CPO) series. The results show that significant discrepancies are caused by different computing options for a single SG station. The stacking method, which results in a variation of 0.24–5 sidereal days (SDs) in the FCN period (T) and 103-104 in the quality factor (Q) due to the selection of the weighting function and the ocean tide model (OTM), can effectively suppress this influence. The statistical analysis results of synthetic data shows that although different weight choices, while adjusting the proportion of diurnal tidal waves involved, do not significantly improve the accuracy of fitted FCN parameters from gravity observations. The study evaluated a series of OTMs using the loading correction efficiency. The fitting of FCN parameters can be improved by selecting the mean of appropriate OTMs based on the evaluation results. Through the estimation of the FCN parameters based on the forced nutation, it was found that the weight function P1 is more suitable than others, and different CPO series (after 2009) resulted in a difference of 0.4 SDs in the T and of 103 in the Q. We estimated the FCN parameters for SG (T = 430.4 ± 1.5 SDs and Q = 1.52 × 104 ± 2.5 × 103) and for VLBI (T = 429.8 ± 0.7 SDs, Q = 1.88 × 104 ± 2.1 × 103).

Abstract The lung immune response consists of various cells involved in both innate and adaptive immune processes. Innate immunity participates in immune resistance in a nonspecific manner, whereas adaptive immunity effectively eliminates pathogens through specific recognition. It was previously believed that adaptive immune memory plays a leading role during secondary infections; however, innate immunity is also involved in immune memory. Trained immunity refers to the long‐term functional reprogramming of innate immune cells caused by the first infection, which alters the immune response during the second challenge. Tissue resilience limits the tissue damage caused by infection by controlling excessive inflammation and promoting tissue repair. In this review, we summarize the impact of host immunity on the pathophysiological processes of pulmonary infections and discuss the latest progress in this regard. In addition to the factors influencing pathogenic microorganisms, we emphasize the importance of the host response.

With the continuous development of China's economy and the improvement of residents' living standards, it also brings increasing costs of labor and rent. In addition, the impact of the pandemic on the entity industry has brought opportunities for the development of new retail models. Based on the booming development of artificial intelligence, big data, and mobile payment in the new era, the new retail industry using artificial intelligence technology has shown outstanding performance in the market. Among them, intelligent vending machines have emerged in the new retail model. In order to provide users with a good shopping experience, the product detection speed and accuracy of intelligent vending machines must be high enough. We adopt Faster R-CNN, a mature object detection algorithm in deep learning, to solve the commodity settlement scenario of intelligent vending machines.

Earthquake prediction remains a challenging and difficult task for scientists all over the world. The tidal triggering of earthquakes is being proven by an increasing number of investigations, most of which have shown that earthquakes are positively correlated with tides, and thus, tides provide a potential tool for earthquake prediction, especially for imminent earthquakes. In this study, publications concerning the tidal triggering of earthquakes were compiled and analyzed with regard to global earthquakes, which were classified into three main types: tectonic, volcanic, and slow earthquakes. The results reveal a high correlation between tectonic earthquakes and tides (mainly for semidiurnal and diurnal tides; 14-day tides) before and after the occurrence of significant earthquakes. For volcanic earthquakes, observations of volcanoes on the seafloor and land indicate that volcanic earthquakes in near-shore volcanic areas and mid-ocean ridges have a strong correlation with tidal forces, mostly those with semidiurnal and diurnal periods. For slow earthquakes, the periodicity of the tremor duration is highly correlated with semidiurnal and diurnal tides. In conclusion, the tidal triggering of these three types of earthquakes makes a positive contribution to earthquake preparation and understanding the triggering mechanism, and thus, the prediction of these types of earthquakes should be investigated. However, there are still several inadequacies on this topic that need to be resolved to gain a definitiveanswer regarding the tidal triggering of all earthquakes. The main inadequacies are discussed in this paper from our point of view.

Abstract The rectangular packing problem is an NP-complete combinatorial optimization problem. This problem occurs widely in social production scenarios, with steel plate cutting being one example. The cutting scheme for the rectangular packing problem needs to be improved because, without the globally optimal solution, there are many unnecessary edges in the steel cutting process. Based on a practical roll-fed disc shearing steel plate optimization problem, this paper explores a generalized packing method for rectangles of special dimensions and abstractly condenses complex quantitative relationships to establish a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model. An innovative algorithm design based on a genetic algorithm is established to plan the cutting scheme in a high-speed and efficient way. The outcome is a utilization rate of up to 92.73% for raw materials and a significant reduction in labor, providing a guide for practical production and processing tasks. The advantages and disadvantages of the model and algorithm are discussed, and it is concluded that this rectangular packing method has strong universality and generalization ability, allowing rectangular packing tasks with large data volumes to be completed within a short time.

Resistance and tolerance are two important strategies employed by the host immune response to defend against pathogens. Multidrug-resistant bacteria affect the resistance mechanisms involved in pathogen clearance. Disease tolerance, defined as the ability to reduce the negative impact of infection on the host, might be a new research direction for the treatment of infections. The lungs are highly susceptible to infections and thus are important for understanding host tolerance and its precise mechanisms. This review focuses on the factors that induce lung disease tolerance, cell and molecular mechanisms involved in tissue damage control, and the relationship between disease tolerance and sepsis immunoparalysis. Understanding the exact mechanism of lung disease tolerance could allow better assessment of the immune status of patients and provide new ideas for the treatment of infections.

The tidal Love numbers of the Moon are a set of nondimensional parameters that describe the deformation responses of the Moon to the tidal forces of external celestial bodies. They play an important role in the theoretical calculation of the Moon’s tidal deformation and the inversion of its internal structure. In this study, we introduce the basic theory for the theoretical calculation of the tidal Love numbers and propose a new method of solving the tidal Love numbers: the spectral element method. Moreover, we explain the mathematical theory and advantages of this method. On the basis of this new method, using 10 published lunar internal structure reference models, the lunar surface and lunar internal tidal Love numbers were calculated, and the influence of different lunar models on the calculated Love numbers was analyzed. Results of the calculation showed that the difference in the second-degree lunar surface Love numbers among different lunar models was within 8.5%, the influence on the maximum vertical displacement on the lunar surface could reach ±8.5 mm, and the influence on the maximum gravity change could reach ±6 μGal. Regarding the influence on the Love numbers inside the Moon, different lunar models had a greater impact on the Love numbers h2 and l2 than on k2 in the lower lunar mantle and core.

The rapid development of mobile device applications put tremendous pressure on edge nodes with limited computing capabilities, which may cause poor user experience. To solve this problem, collaborative cloud-edge computing is proposed. In the cloud-edge computing, an edge node with limited local resources can rent more resources from a cloud node. According to the nature of cloud service, cloud service can be divided into private cloud and public cloud. In a private cloud environment, the edge node must allocate resources between the cloud node and the edge node. In a public cloud environment, since public cloud service providers offer various pricing modes for users’ different computing demands, the edge node also must select the appropriate pricing mode of cloud service; which is a sequential decision problem. In this stydy, we model it as a Markov decision process and parameterized action Markov decision process, and we propose a resource allocation algorithm cost efficient resource allocation with private cloud (CERAI) and cost efficient resource allocation with public cloud (CERAU) in the collaborative cloud-edge environment based on the deep reinforcement learning algorithm deep deterministic policy gradient and P-DQN. Next, we evaluated CERAI and CERAU against three typical resource allocation algorithms based on synthetic and real data of Google datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that CERAI and CERAU can effectively reduce the long-term operating cost of collaborative cloud-side computing in various demanding settings. Our analysis can provide some useful insights for enterprises to design the resource allocation strategy in the collaborative cloud-side computing system.

Summary: Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are highly promising to be applied in light-emitting, chemosensing, and other cutting-edge domains. Herein, we successfully fabricate high-quality full-color CQDs under unprecedentedly low temperature and pressure (85°C, 1.88 bar). Stable and narrow fluorescent emissions ranging from blue to green and red light were realized by simple amine engineering, which were further mixed into white-light CQDs with the absolute photoluminescent quantum yield reaching 19.2%. The average mass yield of the CQDs reached 69.0%. The optical performances demonstrated that the CQDs possessed uniform luminescent centers and dominant radiative decay channels. Component analysis further suggested that dehydrated condensation between carboxyl and amine groups directed the growth of the CQDs. By utilizing the CQDs, full-color light-emitting diodes and logic gate sensors were developed. This study paves an important step for promoting the application of CQDs by providing an energy-efficient, safe, and productive synthetic strategy.

Interdisciplinary research promotes the emergence of scientific innovation. Researchers want to find interdisciplinary research in their research field. However, the number of scientific papers published today is increasing, and completing this task by hand is time-consuming and laborious. A neural network is a machine learning model that simulates the connection mode of neurons in the human brain. It is an important application of bionics in the artificial intelligence field. This paper proposes an approach to discovering interdisciplinary research automatically. The method generates an IRD-BERT neural network model for discovering interdisciplinary research based on the pre-trained model BERT. IRD-BERT is used to simulate the domain knowledge of experts, and author keywords can be projected into vector space by this model. According to the keyword distribution in the vector space, keywords with semantic anomalies can be identified. Papers that use these author keywords are likely to be interdisciplinary research. This method is applied to discover interdisciplinary research in the deep learning research field, and its performance is better than that of similar methods.

In vivo analysis of environmental organic pollutants and endogenous metabolites has great impacts on understanding their environmental behavior and exposure risks. This calls for the development of convenient and reliable analytical methods with either high specificity or wide coverage of target compounds in complex matrixes. Different from traditional solvent extraction, solid-phase microextraction (SPME) has emerged as an integrated sample preparation technique by combining sampling, extraction, and cleanup into one step, which exerts great potential on in vivo sampling due to its high sensitivity and low invasiveness. In this view, the design principles of SPME fibers for in vivo sampling, novel SPME fibers, and devices over recent years are summarized for the guidance of SPME fiber design. The applications of in vivo SPME on monitoring uptake, translocation, and degradation of environmental organic pollutants in organisms, as well as non-target metabolomics in environmental toxicology and clinical analysis based on mass spectrometry, are described. SPME fiber directly coupled with mass spectrometry for in vivo analysis has been introduced. The practical limitations and prospects of further research are also discussed. We conceive that in vivo SPME will promote the development of environmental analysis and toxicity assessment in a high-efficiency and high-throughput manner.

A coupled linear ultrasonic motor (LUSM) based on an eccentric constraint was proposed. Two pieces of oblique piezoelectric ceramics were arranged at each end of the elastomer, and the polarization direction of the ceramics was vertically upward. Using the tilting characteristics of the piezoelectric ceramics, the two ends of the fixed piezoelectric ceramics formed an eccentric restraint on the motor, providing conditions for the motor to generate coupled modes. When the elastomer of the motor generated the coupling vibration, the motion trajectories of the driving feet ends were oblique straight lines, and the oblique straight-line motion trajectories of the upper and lower driving feet ends were in opposite directions, driving the upper and lower sliders to run simultaneously. The stator parameters were optimized by using ANSYS to obtain larger amplitudes for the ends of the driving feet in both X and Z directions. The structure and operation principle of the motor are explained in detail. A prototype was fabricated to study the arrangement scheme with fixed constraints at the ends of the motor. The frequency–velocity characteristics, voltage–velocity characteristics, and mechanical characteristics of the motor were tested. The no-load speed and maximum output power were measured to be 45.9 mm/s and 3.24 mW.

Background: Some patients discharged automatically are classified as terminal discharge, while their clinical outcome is survival, disrupting the results of clinical research. Methods: The data of this study were taken from inpatients admitted to the ICU of the First Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China from 2008-2017. We collected the data regarding medications used over the three days before discharge from the group of patients who survived and the group of patients who died, and the outcomes of all patients were recalculated by three classification algorithms (AdaBoosting, Pearson correlation coefficient, observed to expected ratio-weighted cosine similarity). Our basic assumption is that if the classification result is death but the actual in-hospital outcome is survival, the associated patient was likely terminally discharged. Results: The coincidence rate of the outcomes calculated by the AdaBoosting algorithm was 98.1%, the coincidence rate calculated by the Pearson correlation coefficient was 61.1%, and the coincidence rate calculated by the observed to expected ratio-weighted cosine similarity was 93.4%. When the three classification methods were combined, the accuracy reached 98.56%. Conclusion: The combination of clinical rules and classification methods has a synergistic effect on judgments of patients’ discharge outcomes, greatly saving time on manual retrieval and reducing the negative influence of statistics or rules.

Earthquakes perturb both the ocean bottom topography due to displacements of sea floor and the geoid due to mass redistribution, which induces the relative sea level (RSL) change. However, the relative global mean sea level (GMSL) change is zero in that sea water mass is conserved. But the absolute GMSL change is not zero because earthquakes displace total ocean mass with respect to the Earth's center of mass (CM) which remains unchanged after an earthquake. This displacement, i.e. the absolute GMSL change, may be detectable by altimetry since the satellites are orbiting around CM. In this paper, we proposed a method to estimate co-seismic absolute GMSL change caused by earthquakes based on the point dislocation theory for a spherically symmetric, non-rotating, elastic and isotropic (SNREI) Earth. This change can be directly connected to the perturbation of ocean bottom topography. We first computed co-seismic displacements as well as the change in geo-potential and solved the sea level equation to validate the insignificance of the oceans' feedback, i.e. the loading effect due to RSL change, to co-seismic displacements. The results imply that the loading effect due to RSL change is negligible on displacements while is considerable on geoid. We then computed the absolute GMSL change caused by co-seismic vertical and horizontal displacements by making use of the integrated Green's function method. The numerical results show that a large earthquake may raise the absolute GMSL by magnitude of sub-millimeter and the recent three large events cause GMSL to rise about one millimeter, in which the contribution from horizontal displacement is non-negligible. Keywords: Point dislocation theory, SNREI earth, Sea level equation, Absolute GMSL, Ocean bottom topography

Background free oscillations (BFOs), observed even during seismically quiet periods, have been widely recognized. Although atmospheric or/and oceanic disturbances are suggested to be the possible excitation sources, there still exist some unknown uncertainties regarding their contribution. Note that most studies used seismometer records to explore the excitation mechanism of BFOs, while only a few used superconducting gravimeter (SG) records just for detection purposes. In view of the high precision, the wide measurement range and the increase of SGs distributed worldwide, this paper aims to further explore the excitation mechanism of BFOs by combining recent gravity records at several low-noise SG stations, rather than traditional seismometer records. We first analyzed gravity records at each station to ensure the detection of BFOs from spectrograms and averaged power spectra. On the basis of the BFOs detection, annual variations of the modal energy in the averaged spectrograms stacked over all stations and over different years were calculated. By comparing them with those derived from atmospheric/oceanic observations, we proved qualitatively that the atmospheric disturbance is the major excitation source of BFOs while the oceanic disturbance plays a relatively minor role below 5 mHz for the whole period considered; however, the excitation of BFOs could be mainly attributed to the oceanic disturbance for a certain period. It is necessary to further quantitatively estimate the modal energy excited by these disturbances, but as a supplementary means of seismic exploration, the results in this paper are expected to be helpful for understanding BFOs.

We accurately retrieved tidal gravimetric parameters using long-term continuous tidal gravity measurements recorded by superconducting gravimeters (SGs) at stations in Lhasa, Lijiang, and Wuhan, China. We used these results to investigate the influences of the special tectonic setting on regional tidal deformation. We accurately evaluated scale factors of SGs with high precision better than 0.06%. We carefully removed the effects of barometric pressure and oceanic loading from tidal gravity observations. We did not observe any obvious differences in amplitude factors for main tidal gravity waves for the stations in Lhasa and Lijiang. In the plateau area, we found the amplitude factor to be about 0.34% larger than that in the plain (Wuhan). Our study shows for the first time that the main reason for such tidal gravity anomalies can be explained by the influence of the special tectonic setting in the Tibetan Plateau.

Bearings always suffer from surface defects, such as scratches, black spots, and pits. Those surface defects have great effects on the quality and service life of bearings. Therefore, the defect detection of the bearing has always been the focus of the bearing quality control. Deep learning has been successfully applied to the objection detection due to its excellent performance. However, it is difficult to realize automatic detection of bearing surface defects based on data-driven-based deep learning due to few samples data of bearing defects on the actual production line. Sample preprocessing algorithm based on normalized sample symmetry of bearing is adopted to greatly increase the number of samples. Two different convolutional neural networks, supervised networks and unsupervised networks, are tested separately for the bearing defect detection. The first experiment adopts the supervised networks, and ResNet neural networks are selected as the supervised networks in this experiment. The experiment result shows that the AUC of the model is 0.8567, which is low for the actual use. Also, the positive and negative samples should be labelled manually. To improve the AUC of the model and the flexibility of the samples labelling, a new unsupervised neural network based on autoencoder networks is proposed. Gradients of the unlabeled data are used as labels, and autoencoder networks are created with U-net to predict the output. In the second experiment, positive samples of the supervised experiment are used as the training set. The experiment of the unsupervised neural networks shows that the AUC of the model is 0.9721. In this experiment, the AUC is higher than the first experiment, but the positive samples must be selected. To overcome this shortage, the dataset of the third experiment is the same as the supervised experiment, where all the positive and negative samples are mixed together, which means that there is no need to label the samples. This experiment shows that the AUC of the model is 0.9623. Although the AUC is slightly lower than that of the second experiment, the AUC is high enough for actual use. The experiment results demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of the proposed unsupervised networks.

Abstract In order to verify the time variability of free core nutation (FCN) period, global superconducting gravimeter (SG) observations were analyzed based on synthetic test data. The gravity data series were synthesized to check the detectability of resonance variation caused by FCN period change. The tests indicate that the discrepancy between the FCN periods determined by SG and VLBI observations is caused by the high correlation between the FCN parameter and the amplitude factor of the ψ1 wave. The K1 wave is more sensitive to the FCN period change than other diurnal waves. The limit of the standard deviation of the K1 wave is found for more precisely observing the FCN period change. Tidal parameters of diurnal waves estimated from long series of 20 global SG stations were analyzed. A common variation trend is found in the amplitude factor of both K1 and ψ1 waves in all 8 stations above the limit, which indicates the FCN period may be not so stable in time. Furthermore, the variation in the K1 and ψ1 waves constrains the FCN period change to between 2.5 and 4 sidereal days, which also agrees with the possible variation from the current VLBI and SG observations.

On 8 August 2017, a surface wave magnitude (Ms) 7.0 earthquake occurred at the buried faults extending to the north of the Huya fault. Based on the coseismic deformation field obtained from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data and a series of finite fault model tests, we propose a brand-new two-fault model composed of a main fault and a secondary fault as the optimal model for the Jiuzhaigou earthquake, in which the secondary fault is at a wide obtuse angle to the northern end of the main fault plane. Results show that the dislocation distribution is dominated by sinistral slip, with a significant shallow slip deficit. The main fault consists of two asperities bounded by an aftershock gap, which may represent a barrier. In addition, most aftershocks are located in stress shadows and appear a complementary pattern with the coseismic high-slip regions. We propose that the aftershocks are attributable to the background tectonic stress, which may be related to the velocity-strengthening zones.

By combining the seismogenic environment, seismic recurrence periods of strong historical earthquakes, precise locations of small⁻moderate earthquakes, and Coulomb stress changes of moderate⁻strong earthquakes, we analyze the potential locking status of a seismically quiet segment of Xianshuihe fault between Daofu County and Kangding City (SDK). The interseismic surface velocities between 1999 and 2017 are obtained from updated global positioning system (GPS) observations in this region. After removing the post-seismic relaxation effect caused by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake that occurred around the fault segment, the observed velocities reveal a pronounced symmetric slip pattern along the SDK trace. The far field slip rate is 7.8 ± 0.4 mm/a, and the fault SDK is confirmed to be in an interseismic silent phase. The optimal locking depth is estimated at 7 km, which is perfectly distributed on the upper edge of the relocated hypocenters. A moment deficit analysis shows cumulative seismic moment between 1955 and 2018, corresponding to an Mw 6.6 event. Finally, based on a viscoelastic deformation model, we find that moderate⁻strong earthquakes in the surrounding area increase the Coulomb stress level by up to 2 bars on the SDK, significantly enhancing the future seismic potential.

This research tests OSG-057 superconducting gravimeter (SG) performance in Lhasa in terms of noise levels in the seismic (2 min to 1 h), sub-seismic (1 to 6 h), and tidal (above 6 h) bands. Based on the Seismic Noise Magnitude (SNM) and Sub-Seismic Noise Magnitude (SSNM), 0.867 and 2.608 respectively, and compared to the noise levels of other SGs in the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP)/International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS), it is concluded that the instrument-site combination in Lhasa has low noise and good quality in both the seismic and sub-seismic bands. The seismic and sub-seismic band results were confirmed by large signal-to-noise ratio amplitude spectra observations below 1 milliHertz (mHz) obtained from OSG-057 data record residuals after the 4/11/2012 M8.6 Sumatra earthquake, and by background free Earth oscillation observations (‘hum’), although very weak. Using the ETERNA Earth Tide Analysis program in the tidal band, it was found that the OSG-057 performs well due to the low average noise amplitudes and small standard deviations. Knowledge of the noise levels of the OSG-057 SG in Lhasa in different frequency bands provides a necessary precondition and reference for its applications to both global and regional geodynamical researches.

In this paper, the calibration factor of the superconducting gravimeter 057 (SG057) at the Lhasa station is accurately determined for the first time with a frequency-domain approach and the data recorded by the LaCoste Romberg Earth Tides No. 20 (LCR-ET20) gravimeter which is installed nearby SG057. The advantage of the frequency-domain approach is that it eliminates the influence of different gravimeter drifts on the determination of the calibration factor. The determined calibration factor of SG057 is (-77.7358 ± 0.0409) × 10-8 m s-2 V-1, and the relative accuracy is about 0.5‰. The newly determined calibration factor has been calculated with the Wuhan international tidal gravity reference values (ITGRVs) based on the data recorded by LCR-ET20 at the Wuhan station before it was installed at the Lhasa station. A high-precision synthesized gravity tide is achieved at the Lhasa station with accurate tidal parameters and theoretical tidal parameters for the long tidal waves from the Dehant-Defraigne-Wahr (DDW) earth tide model. The synthesized gravity tide can be used for tidal gravity corrections of future gravity measurements in the Tibetan area. The linear gravimeter drift of SG057 is estimated by gravity records without the effects of land uplift, atmosphere and polar motion yielding a rate of 6.8 × 10-8 m s-2 yr-1.

The tidal and nontidal gravity change characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau region were investigated using the continuous gravity measurements recorded with a superconducting gravimeter (SG) installed in Lhasa from December 8, 2009 to September 30, 2011. The results indicated that the precision of the tidal gravity observations with the SG in Lhasa was very high. The standard deviation of the harmonic analysis for the gravity tides was 0.498 nm s-2, and the uncertainties of amplitude factors in the four main tidal waves (i.e., O1, K1, M2 and S2) were better than 0.002%. In addition, the diurnal gravity tide observations clearly revealed a pattern of nearly diurnal resonance. As a result, it is affirmed that the station should act as a local tidal gravity reference in the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions. The load effects of oceanic tides are so weak that the resulting perturbation in the gravimetric factors is less than 0.6%. However, the load effects of the local atmosphere on either the tidal or the nontidal gravity observations are significant, although no seasonal variations have been found. After removing the atmospheric effects, the standard deviation of the harmonic analysis for the gravity tides decreased obviously from 4.160 to 0.498 nm s-2. Having removed the load effects of oceanic tides and local atmosphere, it is found that the tidal gravity observations are significantly different from those expected theoretically, which may be related to active tectonic movement and extremely thick crust in the Tibetan Plateau region. In addition, the Earth¡¦s free oscillations excited by 2011 Tohoku-Oki Mw 9.0 Earthquake were successfully detected.

On December 18, 2023, the MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake occurred in the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, causing heavy casualties and property damage in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces. In this study, we integrate space imaging geodesy, finite fault inversion, and back-projection methods to decipher its rupture property, including fault geometry, coseismic slip distribution, rupture direction, and propagation speed. The results reveal that the seismogenic fault dips to the southwest at an angle of 29°. The major slip asperity is dominated by reverse slip and is concentrated within a depth range of 7-16 km, which explains the significant uplift near the epicenter observed by both the Sentinel-1 ascending and descending InSAR data. Moreover, the teleseismic array waveforms indicate a northwest propagating rupture with an overall slow rupture velocity of ~1.91 km/s (AK array) or 1.01 km/s (AU array). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]