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Clothing thermal and wet comfort relates to the heat and moisture transport properties of clothing as one of the most important factors in determining whether or not a garment is desirable to customers. It is important to develop winter textiles by optimally combined technology of hygroscopic heat generation and moisture management to maintain warm dry skin for the active wearer. In this work, six multilayer hygroscopic and exothermic fabrics made up of different functional yarn compositions were designed and fabricated based on ergonomic principles. Their thermal wet comfort properties were investigated compared with seven plain knitted fabrics. Air permeability, moisture management characteristics, thermal physiological properties, and hygroscopic heat generation performances were used to assess thermal and wet comfort properties. Their correlations with yarn composition were explored. Multilayer knitted fabrics with a designed knitted structure and wettability gradient demonstrated evenly hygroscopic exothermic properties and excellent directional moisture transport performances. This has the potential to reduce the phenomena of high temperature and heat concentration following moisture absorption The fabric made up of profiled polyester and a low proportion of cotton blend as an inner layer and a high proportion of modified polyacrylate and viscose blend as a middle layer was verified to have superior moisture management characteristics and evenly hygroscopic exothermic properties.

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a class of polyhydroxysteroid plant hormones; they play important roles in the development and stress resistance of plants. The research on BRs has mainly been carried out in angiosperms, but in ferns-research is still limited to the physiological level and is not in-depth. In this study

An interesting bioluminescent fungus growing on dead bamboo stems was collected from bamboo forests in the East Khasi and West Jayantia Hills Districts of Meghalaya, Northeast India. Both morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of nrITS and nrLSU regions showed that the bioluminescent fungus belongs to the genus Roridomyces and is a new species to science, as well as the first report of the genus, Roridomyces, in India. Full descriptions, colour photographs, phylogenetic trees to show the position of the novel bioluminescent taxon, and comparisons with its morphologically and phylogenetically similar species are provided.

The pace of economic society and globalization is accelerating, and the energy shortage and environmental pollution is increasing relatively. In order to comprehensive utilizing energy, this paper constructs an Integrated Energy System (IES) with electricity and gas in and electricity, cooling, and heat out, and solves the optimal configuration of this energy system through a two-stage planning optimization model. First, the two-stage planning optimization model based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is established, and the capacity configuration plan of energy device is solved by the first stage. Then, Rayleigh probability distribution model is used to describe the uncertainty of wind power output, and two device reliability indicators are proposed to be added to the constraints. Finally, the objective function of the second stage is solved to obtain the optimal operation plan, and the planning optimal results of IES is obtained by repeated iterations of the two stages. Considering the energy storage devices, the Industrial and Living-official scenarios of IES are simulated and the results show that the proposed model is available to different scenarios and can reduce the costs of the energy system effectively and make sure the energy supply reliably.

Scientific and reasonable evaluation system and method of technical economy are helpful to improve the technical economy of integrated energy system (IES). This paper analyzes the energy flow of the school integrated energy system (SIES), and constructs the techno-economic evaluation index system of the SIES from three aspects: technology, economy and environment. The evaluation index includes qualitative analysis index and quantitative analysis index. The techno-economic evaluation model of the SIES based on the G1-anti-entropy weight-TOPSIS method is constructed. The evaluation model reflects the subjectivity and objectivity of evaluation. It also overcomes the problem that the AHP method needs consistency test and high sensitivity of entropy weight method leads to the failure of index. Finally, a case study is conducted on a school in northeast China. The results of the analysis verify the feasibility of the evaluation index system and evaluation method. The evaluation system and evaluation method proposed in this paper can provide reference for the selection of SIES construction and operation plan.