Objective:To assess if microhaematuria and proleinuria as measured by reagent strips could estimate intensity of Schistosoma haematobium(S.haematobium) infection in endemic areas and evaluate their screening performan...Objective:To assess if microhaematuria and proleinuria as measured by reagent strips could estimate intensity of Schistosoma haematobium(S.haematobium) infection in endemic areas and evaluate their screening performance among children in Benue State,Nigeria.Methods:A lolal of 1124 urine samples were collected,screened for microhaematuria and proteinuria using reagent strips(Combi 9) and results were compared to filtration technique,the gold standard method.Results:A significant correlation was ohserved between microhaematuria(rho= 0.66. P【0.01).proteinuria(rho = 0.71.P【0.01) and intensity of.S.haematobium eggs.Proteinuria had sensitivity of 95.7%and specificity of 67.2%.while microhaematuria had sensitivity of 64.8%and specificity of 89.6%.The proportion of false positive diagnoses was higher in proleinuria(19.2%) than microliaematuria(6.0%).Conclusios:The findings suggest that use of urine reagent strips could potentially estimate intensity of.S.haematobium infection and their performance to screen urinary schistosomiasis agreed with previous observations.展开更多
Data items are usually replicated in modem dis- tributed data stores to obtain high performance and avail- ability. However, the availability-consistency and latency- consistency trade-offs exist in data replication, ...Data items are usually replicated in modem dis- tributed data stores to obtain high performance and avail- ability. However, the availability-consistency and latency- consistency trade-offs exist in data replication, thus system designers intend to choose weak consistency models, such as eventual consistency, which may result in stale reads. Since stale data items may lead to serious application semantic problems, we consider how to increase the probability of data recency which provides a uniform view on recent versions of data items for all clients. In this work, we propose HARP, a framework that can enhance data recency of eventually con- sistent distributed data stores in an efficient and highly avail- able way. Through detecting possible stale reads under fail- ures or not, HARP can perform reread operations to elim- inate stale results only when needed based on our analysis on write/read processes. We also present solutions on how to deal with some practical anomalies in HARP, including de- layed, reordered and dropped messages and clock drift, and show how to extend HARP to multiple datacenters. Finally we implement HARP based on Cassandra, and the experi- ments show that HARP can effectively eliminate stale reads, with a low overhead （less than 6.9%） compared with original eventually consistent Cassandra.展开更多
Starch is the major component in the wheat kernel, which is mainly composed of amylose and amylopectin. The wheat without amylose in its endosperm was called ＂waxy wheat＂. Waxy wheat can be used to adjust the amylos...Starch is the major component in the wheat kernel, which is mainly composed of amylose and amylopectin. The wheat without amylose in its endosperm was called ＂waxy wheat＂. Waxy wheat can be used to adjust the amylose content and improve the wheat-based food quality by adding to non-waxy wheat flour. In order to investigate the effect of waxy wheat flour on the quality of fresh and stale bread, waxy wheat flour was added into the flour of Canadian Spring Wheat 2 at 0.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, 20.0, 25.0, 30.0, and 35.0% to make breads. The physicochemical properties were adjusted to suitability by adding Yangmai 158 flour, and breads were evaluated for sensory quality, crumb firmness, loaf volume and weight loss over a period of 0, 2, 4, and 6 days. The result showed that the best total score of fresh bread was 82.9 by adding waxy flour at 7.0%, though no significant difference was found among blends with 0.0-15.0% of waxy flour. Breads with the addition of 22.0% waxy flour had lower firmness, and decreasing loss of weight. Waxy wheat flour blend at 15.0% was optimal in retarding staling without significant decreasing fresh bread quality in comparison to the control.展开更多
In order to consider the stress path dependency of soils,this paper decomposes any arbitrary stress path into several infinitesimal stress paths.Then the infinitesimal stress path is further transformed into the super...In order to consider the stress path dependency of soils,this paper decomposes any arbitrary stress path into several infinitesimal stress paths.Then the infinitesimal stress path is further transformed into the superposition of two parts,i.e..a constant stress ratio part and a constant mean stress part,which arc sufficiently close to the real stress path.T he plastic strain increments under the transformed paths arc determined separately,and then the plastic strain under any path is obtained.Based on the instantaneous loading line of normally consolidated soil,a reference state line is proposed to determine the overconsolidation ratio and creep time of soil.The overconsolidation ratio is introduced into the viscous How rule to obtain the viscous strain increment.The strcss-strain-timc relationship for triaxial compression condition is extended to 3D stress condition by the transformed stress method.The proposed model adopts only seven material parameters and each of them has a clear physical meaning.Comparisons with test results demonstrate that the model can not only reasonably predict the plastic strain under typical stress paths of excavation,but adequately capture the time-dependent behaviours of soils,including creep,stress relaxation and strain rate effect.展开更多
Objective This study is to obtain precise data on iron physiological requirements in Chinese children using single stable isotope tracertechnique.Methods Thirty boys(10.6±0.2 years)and 27 girls(10.4±0.2 year...Objective This study is to obtain precise data on iron physiological requirements in Chinese children using single stable isotope tracertechnique.Methods Thirty boys(10.6±0.2 years)and 27 girls(10.4±0.2 years)were received oral 6 mg ^(57)Fe each day for 5 consecutive days.Venous blood samples were subsequently drawn to examine the change of total iron concentration and ^(57)Fe abundance at day 0,14,28,60,90,180,360,450,540,630,720.The iron physiological requirement was calculated by iron loss combined with iron circulation rate once ^(57)Fe abundance stabilized in human body.Results The iron physiological requirement was significantly lower in boys than those values in girls(16.88±7.12 vs.18.40±8.81μg/kg per day,P<0.05).Correspondingly,the values were calculated as 722.46±8.43μg/day for boys and 708.40±7.55μg/day for girls,respectively.Considering nearly 10%iron absorption rate,the estimated average iron physiological requirement was 6.0 mg/day in boys and 6.2 mg/day in girls.Conclusion This study indicate that iron physiological requirement could require more daily iron intake in girls as compare with the values in boys having the same body weight.These findings would be facilitate to the new revised dietary reference intakes.展开更多
In this work,the problem of designing a robust control algor ithm for a DC-DC buck power converter is investigated.The applied solution is based on a recenly proposed eror-based version of the active disturbance rejec...In this work,the problem of designing a robust control algor ithm for a DC-DC buck power converter is investigated.The applied solution is based on a recenly proposed eror-based version of the active disturbance rejection control(ADRC)scheme,in which the unknown higher-order lerms of the reference signal are treated as additional components of the system"total disturbance".The motivation here is to provide a prac tical following of a reference voltage trajectory for the buck converler in specific cases where neither the analytical form of the desired signal nor its future values are known a priori,hence cannot be directly used for control synthesis.In this work.the application of the error-based ADRC results in a prac-tically appealing control technique,with compact struc ture.simplified control rule,and intwitive tuning(inherited from the conventional output-based ADRC scheme).Theoretical.numerical,and experimental results are shown to validate the efficacy of the error-based ADRC in buck converter control,followed by a discussion about the revealed theoretical and practical limitations of this approach.展开更多
The compressibility of stale waste is studied based on the investigation into the composition and properties of stale waste in the Chongqing City. Stale waste sampled at a landfill closed for over 8 a was analyzed ind...The compressibility of stale waste is studied based on the investigation into the composition and properties of stale waste in the Chongqing City. Stale waste sampled at a landfill closed for over 8 a was analyzed indoors for its natural density, natural water content, relative density, grain size distribution curve, uniformity coefficient and curvature coefficient. Indoor compression tests for the stale waste were performed to find out the void ratio and its dependence upon applied pressure, compressibility coefficient, constrained modulus and volume compressibility coefficient. From the experimental data, the curvature coefficient and the preconsolidation pressure of the stale waste were worked out. The results indicates that the stale waste is of high compressibility, which is different from the other kinds of common soil, and is underconsolidated soil. The measured compressibility parameters are applicable to settlement calculation of closed landfills.展开更多
基金the Local Government chairmen of Katsina-Ala and Buruku Areas and their respective education authorities for granting permission before commencement of the research
文摘Objective:To assess if microhaematuria and proleinuria as measured by reagent strips could estimate intensity of Schistosoma haematobium(S.haematobium) infection in endemic areas and evaluate their screening performance among children in Benue State,Nigeria.Methods:A lolal of 1124 urine samples were collected,screened for microhaematuria and proteinuria using reagent strips(Combi 9) and results were compared to filtration technique,the gold standard method.Results:A significant correlation was ohserved between microhaematuria(rho= 0.66. P【0.01).proteinuria(rho = 0.71.P【0.01) and intensity of.S.haematobium eggs.Proteinuria had sensitivity of 95.7%and specificity of 67.2%.while microhaematuria had sensitivity of 64.8%and specificity of 89.6%.The proportion of false positive diagnoses was higher in proleinuria(19.2%) than microliaematuria(6.0%).Conclusios:The findings suggest that use of urine reagent strips could potentially estimate intensity of.S.haematobium infection and their performance to screen urinary schistosomiasis agreed with previous observations.
基金This work was supported partly by the National High-tech Research and Development Program （863 Program） of China （2015AA01A202）, and partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 61370057 and 61421003）.
文摘Data items are usually replicated in modem dis- tributed data stores to obtain high performance and avail- ability. However, the availability-consistency and latency- consistency trade-offs exist in data replication, thus system designers intend to choose weak consistency models, such as eventual consistency, which may result in stale reads. Since stale data items may lead to serious application semantic problems, we consider how to increase the probability of data recency which provides a uniform view on recent versions of data items for all clients. In this work, we propose HARP, a framework that can enhance data recency of eventually con- sistent distributed data stores in an efficient and highly avail- able way. Through detecting possible stale reads under fail- ures or not, HARP can perform reread operations to elim- inate stale results only when needed based on our analysis on write/read processes. We also present solutions on how to deal with some practical anomalies in HARP, including de- layed, reordered and dropped messages and clock drift, and show how to extend HARP to multiple datacenters. Finally we implement HARP based on Cassandra, and the experi- ments show that HARP can effectively eliminate stale reads, with a low overhead （less than 6.9%） compared with original eventually consistent Cassandra.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,2001AA241033 and 2006AA100102)Yunnan Provincial Education Department Scientific Research Program,China (08Y0166)
文摘Starch is the major component in the wheat kernel, which is mainly composed of amylose and amylopectin. The wheat without amylose in its endosperm was called ＂waxy wheat＂. Waxy wheat can be used to adjust the amylose content and improve the wheat-based food quality by adding to non-waxy wheat flour. In order to investigate the effect of waxy wheat flour on the quality of fresh and stale bread, waxy wheat flour was added into the flour of Canadian Spring Wheat 2 at 0.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, 20.0, 25.0, 30.0, and 35.0% to make breads. The physicochemical properties were adjusted to suitability by adding Yangmai 158 flour, and breads were evaluated for sensory quality, crumb firmness, loaf volume and weight loss over a period of 0, 2, 4, and 6 days. The result showed that the best total score of fresh bread was 82.9 by adding waxy flour at 7.0%, though no significant difference was found among blends with 0.0-15.0% of waxy flour. Breads with the addition of 22.0% waxy flour had lower firmness, and decreasing loss of weight. Waxy wheat flour blend at 15.0% was optimal in retarding staling without significant decreasing fresh bread quality in comparison to the control.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.U1839201,51778026,51421005&51538001).
文摘In order to consider the stress path dependency of soils,this paper decomposes any arbitrary stress path into several infinitesimal stress paths.Then the infinitesimal stress path is further transformed into the superposition of two parts,i.e..a constant stress ratio part and a constant mean stress part,which arc sufficiently close to the real stress path.T he plastic strain increments under the transformed paths arc determined separately,and then the plastic strain under any path is obtained.Based on the instantaneous loading line of normally consolidated soil,a reference state line is proposed to determine the overconsolidation ratio and creep time of soil.The overconsolidation ratio is introduced into the viscous How rule to obtain the viscous strain increment.The strcss-strain-timc relationship for triaxial compression condition is extended to 3D stress condition by the transformed stress method.The proposed model adopts only seven material parameters and each of them has a clear physical meaning.Comparisons with test results demonstrate that the model can not only reasonably predict the plastic strain under typical stress paths of excavation,but adequately capture the time-dependent behaviours of soils,including creep,stress relaxation and strain rate effect.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 81330066]
文摘Objective This study is to obtain precise data on iron physiological requirements in Chinese children using single stable isotope tracertechnique.Methods Thirty boys(10.6±0.2 years)and 27 girls(10.4±0.2 years)were received oral 6 mg ^(57)Fe each day for 5 consecutive days.Venous blood samples were subsequently drawn to examine the change of total iron concentration and ^(57)Fe abundance at day 0,14,28,60,90,180,360,450,540,630,720.The iron physiological requirement was calculated by iron loss combined with iron circulation rate once ^(57)Fe abundance stabilized in human body.Results The iron physiological requirement was significantly lower in boys than those values in girls(16.88±7.12 vs.18.40±8.81μg/kg per day,P<0.05).Correspondingly,the values were calculated as 722.46±8.43μg/day for boys and 708.40±7.55μg/day for girls,respectively.Considering nearly 10%iron absorption rate,the estimated average iron physiological requirement was 6.0 mg/day in boys and 6.2 mg/day in girls.Conclusion This study indicate that iron physiological requirement could require more daily iron intake in girls as compare with the values in boys having the same body weight.These findings would be facilitate to the new revised dietary reference intakes.
基金This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.21620335).
文摘In this work,the problem of designing a robust control algor ithm for a DC-DC buck power converter is investigated.The applied solution is based on a recenly proposed eror-based version of the active disturbance rejection control(ADRC)scheme,in which the unknown higher-order lerms of the reference signal are treated as additional components of the system"total disturbance".The motivation here is to provide a prac tical following of a reference voltage trajectory for the buck converler in specific cases where neither the analytical form of the desired signal nor its future values are known a priori,hence cannot be directly used for control synthesis.In this work.the application of the error-based ADRC results in a prac-tically appealing control technique,with compact struc ture.simplified control rule,and intwitive tuning(inherited from the conventional output-based ADRC scheme).Theoretical.numerical,and experimental results are shown to validate the efficacy of the error-based ADRC in buck converter control,followed by a discussion about the revealed theoretical and practical limitations of this approach.
基金Application and Foundation Research Fund of Chongqing Construction Committee,2001.
文摘The compressibility of stale waste is studied based on the investigation into the composition and properties of stale waste in the Chongqing City. Stale waste sampled at a landfill closed for over 8 a was analyzed indoors for its natural density, natural water content, relative density, grain size distribution curve, uniformity coefficient and curvature coefficient. Indoor compression tests for the stale waste were performed to find out the void ratio and its dependence upon applied pressure, compressibility coefficient, constrained modulus and volume compressibility coefficient. From the experimental data, the curvature coefficient and the preconsolidation pressure of the stale waste were worked out. The results indicates that the stale waste is of high compressibility, which is different from the other kinds of common soil, and is underconsolidated soil. The measured compressibility parameters are applicable to settlement calculation of closed landfills.
