Two earthquakes greater than Mw 5.5 occurred in Dingri County, Tibet, between 2020 and 2025. Whether a triggering relationship exists between them remains debated. Therefore, in this study, we examine the kinematic mechanisms of the two events and se...
Investigating relationships between temporally- and spatially-related continental earthquakes is important for a better understanding of the crustal deformation, the mechanism of earthquake nucleation and occurrence, and the triggering effect between...
Increasingly stringent regulations aimed at protection of the natural environment have stimulated the search for new synthetic methodologies in organic and medicinal chemistry having no or minimum harmful effect. An interesting approach is the use of...
Multi-wavelength photoplethysmography (MW-PPG) sensing technology has been known to be superior to signal-wavelength photoplethysmography (SW-PPG) sensing technology. However, limited by the availability of sensing detectors, many prior studies can o...
Currently, rational curves such as the Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) play a significant role in both shape representation and shape reconstruction. NURBS weights are often real in nature and are referred to as challenging to assign, with the...
The wind turbine wakes impact the efficiency and lifespan of the wind farm. Therefore, to improve the wind plant performance, research on wind plant control is essential. The actuator line model (ALM) is proposed to simulate the wind turbine efficien...
Menyuan, China, experienced a Mw 6.7 earthquake on 8 January 2022. This study combines GNSS and InSAR data to analyze how fault activity affects earthquake hazard assessment through fault inversion. A time-dependent version of DEFNODE (TDEFNODE) is d...
4,4′-substituted-2,2′-((hexahydro-1H-benzo[d]imidazole-1,3(2H)-diyl)bis(methylene))bisphenols (1a–d) and 2,6-bis{[3-(2-hydroxy-5-substitutedbenzyl)octahydro-1H-benzimidazol-1-yl]methyl}-4-substitutedphenols (2a–b) were synthes...
An earthquake of Mw6.4 hit the coastal zone of Albania on 26 November 2019, at 02:54:11 UTC. It was intensively felt at about 34 km away, in Tirana City, where damages and lives lost occurred. To emphasize a pre-seismic geomagnetic signature before t...
Microwave-induced oxidation and UV/TiO2 photocatalytic technologies are widely used for organic wastewater treatment. Furthermore, the combination of these technologies (MW/UV/TiO2) result in a new advanced oxidation process. As a green and efficient...
Wind energy in the deep-sea area is more abundant and the capacity of wind turbines can be made larger. Therefore, the research on deep-sea floating offshore wind turbines will be the primary strategy for wind energy exploitation in the future. The s...
The 660 MW ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler, which is the maximum capacity and largest scale boiler in the world has entered construction stage in China. This study established a full-scale dynamic simulation model of the 66...
In the last decade, the real time ground–based geomagnetic observations realized in correlation with the Vrancea seismicity in Romania, together with supplementary studies related to some earthquakes (Mw9.0 Tohoku, Japan on 11 March 2011 and Mw...
A very strong earthquake of magnitude Mw8.2 struck the coastal zone of Alaska (USA), on 29 July 2021. This earthquake was felt around the Gulf of Alaska, on a wide offshore area belonging to USA and Canada. In order to identify an anomalous geomagnet...
We calculate the thermal expansivity of ice I for the monatomic mW model using the quasi-harmonic approximation. It is found that the original mW model is unable to reproduce the negative thermal expansivity experimentally observed at low temperature...
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Progressive synaptic dysfunction underlies declines in cognition, daily functioning, and the development of neurops...
On 23 January 2024, the Mw 7.0 Wushi earthquake occurred along the Maidan Fault at the boundary between the southwestern Tianshan Mountains and the Tarim Basin. This event, together with its subsequent aftershocks, provides a valuable opportunity to...
This paper presents the design and an analysis of a surface PM vernier generator (SPMVG) for MW-scale direct-drive (DD) wind turbine application. An SPMVG has the advantage of higher torque density; however, especially at higher power ratings with in...
Although offshore wind turbines are essential for renewable energy, their construction and design are quite complex when environmental factors are taken into account. It is quite difficult to examine their behavior under rare but dangerous natural ev...
The full exploitation of offshore wind resources can essentially satisfy the massive energy demand. The realization and application of ultra-high-power offshore wind turbines are crucial to achieving full use of deep-sea wind energy and reducing the...
On 28 August 2009, the northern margin of the Qaidam basin in the Tibet Plateau was ruptured by an Mw 6.3 earthquake. This study utilizes the Envisat ASAR images from descending Track 319 and ascending Track 455 for capturing the coseismic deformatio...
Precursory earth tidal triggering is believed to influence earthquake timing preferentially when a region is critically stressed. However, whether and how the recurrence of aftershocks after a giant earthquake is affected by tidal triggering remains...
In order to study the dynamic characteristics of the 660 MW ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler when the main fuel trip (MFT) and boiler trip (BT) are triggered, a dynamic simulation model of the 660 MW ultra-supercritical circ...
Blue cone monochromatism (BCM) is an X-linked recessive cone dysfunction disorder caused by mutations in the OPN1LW/OPN1MW gene cluster, encoding long (L)- and middle (M)-wavelength-sensitive cone opsins. Here, we report on the unusual clinical prese...
In high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection, the number of SAR samples seriously affects the performance of the algorithms based on deep learning. In this paper, aiming at the application requirements of high-resolution ship dete...
Modern multi-MW wind generators have used multi-level converter structures as well as parallel configuration of a back to back three-level neutral point clamped (3L-NPC) converters to reduce the voltage and current stress on the semiconductor devices...
Offshore wind energy is an attractive renewable energy source due to its advantages. However, the chaotic marine environment makes the analysis of offshore wind energy extremely difficult. Furthermore, studying the behavior of wind turbines under rar...
The 22 August 1902 Mw 7.7 Atushi earthquake is the most disastrous seismic event in the southwestern Tian Shan. However, the spatial distribution of surface rupture zones as well as the geometric feature of surface deformation remain unclear, and the...
Certain combinations of common variants in exon 3 of OPN1LW and OPN1MW, the genes encoding the apo-protein of the long- and middle-wavelength sensitive cone photoreceptor visual pigments in humans, induce splicing defects and have been associated wit...
We analyzed ascending and descending Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to map the coseismic displacement field resulting from the 24 September 2019 Mirpur earthquake in Pakistan. Though moderate in magnitude (Mw 5.8), this earthquake caused severe damage and si...
To meet the Chinese government’s energy-saving and emission-reduction policies, flexible peak regulation is necessary for traditional coal-fired boilers. Flexible peaking leads to large changes in boiler load, which affects the safety of the bo...
Recently, several countries have made commitments to move to a net-zero emission by the year 2050 in a response to climate change. Among various renewable energy systems to realize the target, wind energy system has been gaining much attention as a f...
The 1000 MW Francis turbine unit at the Baihetan hydropower station is the maximum capacity unit in the world at present, and it has adopted the runner type with long and short blades. For this ultra-high output Francis turbine, especially with the b...
The highly homologous OPN1LW/OPN1MW gene cluster poses substantial challenges for molecular diagnosis. We retrospectively enrolled 12 male patients from 10 unrelated Chinese families with clinically suspected X-linked cone-opsin disorder, all of whom...
In this paper, a 1000 MW Francis turbine was used to study the influences of uneven clearance distribution caused by various radial installation deviations on the hydraulic thrust of a runner under the rated operating condition with steady-state CFD...
Based on the 10 MW OO-Star semi-submersible floating platform, this study proposes internal and external heave plates to enhance its stability and explores their influence on the platform’s hydrodynamic characteristics. The platform’s str...
Characterizing the coseismic slip behaviors of earthquakes could offer a better understanding of regional crustal deformation and future seismic potential assessments. On 18 December 2023, an Mw 6.0 earthquake occurred on the Lajishan–Jishishan...
Accurate performance prediction for large offshore wind turbines requires a principled treatment of uncertainty in both the wind resource and the rotor design parameters. In the present work, we develop a surrogate-based, multi-level uncertainty quan...
An innovative multi-absorber 1 MW wave energy converter (WEC), Nankun, is proposed for efficient wave energy extraction. It comprises a semi-submersible floating platform, a wave energy capture mechanism, a hydraulic energy conversion system, and a m...
On 4 December 2025, nearly two years after the 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi earthquake, an Mw 5.8 event struck the nearby county of Aheqi, southwestern Tianshan. Owing to the subparallel strikes of both nodal planes and the interspersed hypocenter locations amo...
The coseismic slip on the main fault related to the 2017 Iran-Iraq Mw7.3 earthquake has been investigated by previous studies using DInSAR (differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar) ground deformation measurements. However, DInSAR observ...
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The wake produced by a utility-scale wind turbine invested by a laminar, uniform inflow is analyzed by means of two different modal decompositions, the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), in its sparsity-pr...
Stress may induce apparent resistivity changes. Clarifying the deformation process of the source media is critical for determining the correlations between resistivity variations and earthquake occurrence. In this study, the stress state of a medium...
Wind turbines and floating platform upsizing are major trends in the current offshore wind development. However, harsh environmental conditions increase the risk of anchor dragging and mooring failure when deploying large offshore floating wind turbi...
Focusing on the investigation of a 3 MW wind-turbine gearbox, this paper’s aim is to address the challenge of turbine shutdown due to the internal oil temperature exceeding its limits. Additionally, there is the difficulty in measuring the inte...
To ensure the safe and stable operation of a 10 MW floating wind turbine concrete platform under harsh sea conditions, the fluid–structure coupling theory was used to apply wind, wave, and current loads to a concrete semi-submersible floating p...
The 1000 MW hydro-generator unit has huge geometrical dimensions and requires high installation accuracy. The control of its installation deviation will directly affect the installation quality and operational performance of the unit and the rotor ec...
The Nyainrong microcontinent carries key information about the ongoing evolution of the central Tibetan Plateau. The 2021 Mw 5.7 Nagqu earthquake is the largest instrumentally recorded event inside this microcontinent, which provides an ideal opportu...
The large dimensions of the 1000 MW hydroelectric generator sets require high mounting accuracy. Small deviations can lead to asymmetry, which in turn triggers unbalanced magnetic pulls and moments. Therefore, symmetry is a central challenge in the i...
This paper focuses on a 1000 MW Francis turbine and conducts a numerical analysis of the entire flow passage using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) under steady-state conditions. Building upon prior research, we further investigate the impact of an...
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