Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays important roles in environmental ecosystems. While many studies have explored the characteristics of aged biochar, limited information is available about the properties of DOM derived from aged biochar. In this st...
Fly ash derived from the incineration of garbage is known to contain hazardous materials that can affect the growth of plants and animals and pose a threat to human health. In this study, we explored how treatment of fly ash leachate with microalgae...
The relationship between CDOM (Chromophoric dissolved organic matter) and the bacterial community was investigated in ice-covered Baiyangdian Lake. The results showed that environmental parameters significantly differed in Baiyangdian Lake, whereas a...
In the past few years, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with electromagnetic vector sensor (EMVS) array, or called EMVS-MIMO radar, has attracted extensive attention in target detection. Unlike the traditional scalar sensor-based MIMO rada...
Direct sewage discharge can cause severe damage to the water environment of the river. However, the impacts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the discharge on the original pattern of DOM and the distribution of heavy metals (HMs) in the river are...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a central role in the global carbon cycle. The Huma River Basin (HRB) in China is affected by humic substances in its forests with high background values. DOM in the HRB was studied using spectroscopic techniques...
Ultrasonic wave-sensing technology has been applied for the health monitoring of composite structures, using normal fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors with a high-speed wavelength interrogation system of arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) filters; howeve...
Algal organic matter (AOM) released from microalgae has high potential effects for water treatment. In response to the complex problem of algal-laden water treatment, this study investigated the characteristics of AOM of Microcystis aeruginosa under...
Seasonal hydrological variation can reorganize fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in floodplain lakes; yet, its expression in Poyang Lake remains uncertain. We assessed campaign differences in FDOM composition by comparing 32 excitation&ndas...
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in aquatic environments, soils, and beach sediments, demonstrating a remarkable ability to adsorb dissolved organic matter (DOM). Although there are methods for extracting DOM from water, the approaches for directly...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in salt lake brines comprises organic compounds dissolved in high-salinity aquatic systems. With complex composition and diverse sources, DOM significantly influences biogeochemical cycles, mineral formation, and resour...
The variability in the quality of water that runs along the course of a river, flowing out of a mountain pass, through an agricultural oasis and into a lake, has been a key topic of research in recent years. In this study, the characteristics of diss...
This study investigated the spatio-temporal distribution of dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition and its sources before and after degradation in the Shili River watershed in Jiujiang (China). Spatio-temporal variation of riverine DOM water samp...
To identify the influences of anthropogenic activities on the composition, spatial distribution, sources, and transformation mechanism of sedimentary fulvic acid (FA) fractions from different reaches of an urban river were tracked via excitation-emis...
With the improvement of coal-mining mechanizations and the intensification of human activities, the organic matter pollution of mine water is becoming severe. In this study, the chemical compositions of the influents and effluents from 15 mine water...
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) represents the most readily available and crucial carbon source for soil microorganisms, influencing their community structure, nutrient cycling, and metabolic functions. However, the interplay between functional genes...
This study investigated the impact of effluent organic matter (EfOM) from wastewater effluent on the properties of organic matter in receiving water and the efficiency of its removal using photocatalysis. The organic matter is characterized using flu...
In order to explore the effects of the composition and structure of soil’s dissolved organic matter (DOM) and its electron transfer capacity (ETC) on the bioavailability of the potential toxic elements chromium (Cr), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd)...
Conventional tillage, a soil preparation practice used to produce a fine seedbed, can disturb the soil profile by promoting soil compaction and soil organic matter (SOM) degradation. In contrast, conservation tillage, such as no-till, has the potenti...
MATLAB programing language is one of the most popular scientific computing tools, especially for solving linear algebra problems. LU factorization is an essential component for the direct solution of linear equations systems. This paper studied a coa...
Genetic expression analysis is a principal tool to explain the behavior of genes in an organism when exposed to different experimental conditions. In the state of art, many clustering algorithms have been proposed. It is overwhelming the amount of bi...
(1) Background: Transcription factors (TFs) are main regulators of eukaryotic gene expression. The cooperative binding to genomic DNA of at least two TFs is the widespread mechanism of transcription regulation. Cooperating TFs can be revealed through...
In hope of developing a method for oil spill detection in laser remote sensing, a series of refined and crude oil samples were investigated using time-resolved fluorescence in conjunction with parallel factors analysis (PARAFAC). The time resolved em...
(1) Background: The widespread application of ChIP-seq technology requires annotation of cis-regulatory modules through the search of co-occurred motifs. (2) Methods: We present the web server Motifs Co-Occurrence Tool (Web-MCOT) that for a single Ch...
This paper elucidates a close connection between two well-known facts that until now have seemed independent: (i) the quality control (“proofreading”) of the emerging amino acid sequence, occurring during the normal, elongation-factor-dep...
Background: Children with complex chronic conditions have a high need for health and social care resources. Many parents explore parallel resources such as alternative therapies, associations, psychological support, private medical consultations, and...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a powerful observation system capable of delivering high-resolution imagery under variable sea conditions to support target detection and tracking, such as for ships. However, conventional optical target detection mo...
Multi-modal fusion can exploit complementary information from various modalities and improve the accuracy of prediction or classification tasks. In this paper, we propose a parallel, multi-modal, factorized, bilinear pooling method based on a semi-te...
In this article, we focus on the acceleration of a chemical reaction simulation that relies on a system of stiff ordinary differential equation (ODEs) targeting heterogeneous computing systems with CPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Spe...
We aim to accelerate the linear equation solver for crack growth simulation based on the phase field model. As a first step, we analyze the properties of the coefficient matrices and prove that they are symmetric positive definite. This justifies the...
Soil-dissolved organic matter (DOM) drives the carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles in agroecosystems. Despite many studies on DOM dynamics, hardly any attention has been directed toward DOM quality, particularly DOM composition. The aim of this study...
Fractional-order calculus and derivative is extended from integral-order calculus and derivative. This paper investigates a nonlinear robust control problem using fractional order and operator theory. In order to improve the tracking performance and...
The back-projection (BP) algorithm is completely accurate in the imaging principle, but the computational complexity is extremely high. The single-precision arithmetic used in the traditional graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration scheme has low...
Nowadays, parallel mechanisms are widely used in many fields because of their excellent structural performance. In order to improve the comprehensive performance of 6-UPS parallel mechanism, this article proposes a multi-objective optimization design...
Knowledge proficiency refers to the extent to which students master knowledge and reflects their cognitive status. To accurately assess knowledge proficiency, various pedagogical theories have emerged. Bloom’s cognitive theory, proposed in 1956...
The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) solutions improve power generation efficiency, quickly stabilizing the output waveform of photovoltaic (PV) systems under variable operating conditions. Along with new algorithms, improved and adjusted methods...
There has been increased interest in assessing the quality and usefulness of short versions of the Raven’s Progressive Matrices. A recent proposal, composed of the last twelve matrices of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM-LS), has been dep...
We present a survey of results concerning Lempel–Ziv data compression on parallel and distributed systems, starting from the theoretical approach to parallel time complexity to conclude with the practical goal of designing distributed algorithms with...
The preparation and characterization by LCMS of a library of 55 fluorescence- quenched peptides is described. The peptides bear a terminal anthranilamide fluorophore and a penultimate 2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine quencher, and will be used to probe the...
Fund investment, as a type of financial investment in the capital market, is designed to attract more social capital towards the green environmental protection sector and foster a harmonious relationship between economic development, social advanceme...
Shor’s factoring algorithm is one of the most anticipated applications of quantum computing. However, the limited capabilities of today’s quantum computers only permit a study of Shor’s algorithm for very small numbers. Here, we sho...
The widespread use of biochar in soil remediation has heightened interest in the role of its derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) in soil nutrient dynamics. However, how pyrolysis temperature shapes the characteristics of DOM released from sludge b...
Elucidating the compositions, sources and mixing processes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) is crucial for a gaining deeper understanding of the coastal carbon cycle and global carbon budget. Hangzhou Bay (HZB), a vital estuary in China, receives fr...
To establish a quantitative mapping relationship between macro- and micro-parameters in the PFC2D parallel bonding model, and in view of the inherent complexity of the mutual validation process between laboratory experiments and parameter calibration...
Topographic factors are critical for influencing vegetation distribution patterns, and studying the interactions between them can enhance our understanding of future vegetation dynamics. We used the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Norma...
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Identification of delay barriers to care is essential for an effective and efficient healthcare service delivery. In this study, we described the delay in care among parents of the patients seeking treatment for dengue. We also examined the factors a...
In this paper, the interactions between two parallel cracks are investigated experimentally and numerically. Finite element models have been established to obtain the stress intensity factors and stress distributions of the parallel cracks with diffe...
A novel piezoceramic stack-based smart aggregate (PiSSA) with piezoceramic wafers in series or parallel connection is developed to increase the efficiency and output performance over the conventional smart aggregate with only one piezoelectric patch....
To improve the thermal management performance of lithium-ion batteries under high discharge rates and complex operating conditions, a bidirectional parallel bionic flow-channel cooling plate is proposed, with agricultural electric forklifts taken as...
A method is proposed to comprehensively study the eddy and circulating current losses of stator winding wound by multiple parallel strands, to further improve the power density of stator iron coreless permanent magnet brushless DC (PMBLDC) motors. An...
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