Influence of host plants on the development, survivorship, and fecundity of the summer fruit tortrix moth, Adoxophyes orana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Li Guang‐wei,Wang Hui‐min,Yang Wen‐tao,Chen Xiu‐lin,Li Bo‐liao,Chen Yu‐xin 한국곤충학회 2021 Entomological Research Vol.51 No.10

The summer fruit tortrix moth Adoxophyes orana is a seriously damaged leaf roller pest for fruit trees. In this study, we evaluated the effect of five host plants (apple, Malus domestica B.; peach, Prunus persica var. nectarina; apricot, Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.; mulberry, Morus alba L.; and jujube, Ziziphus jujuba M.) on the development, survival, and fecundity of A. orana under laboratory conditions. Results showed that the development times of A. orana on jujube were significantly longer than those on the other four plants. The preimaginal survival rate was influenced by the host plants, which were fed during the larval stage, and with the highest on peach, followed by apple, apricot, and mulberry, and with the lowest on jujube. Adult females from larvae reared on apricot laid the greatest numbers of eggs (318.11 eggs per female), while that on apple, jujube, and mulberry was smaller, and no significant difference was observed among them. The highest intrinsic rate of increase (rm) was observed on peach and apricot; these two fruit trees were considered to be the most suitable host plant for A. orana because of the shorter developmental duration, higher survival rate, and the highest fecundity.

Research on the Vibration Band Gaps of Isolator Applied to Ship Hydraulic Pipe-Support based on the Theory of Phononic Crystals

WEI Zhendong,DU Jingmin,LIAO Lihui,Yang Gang,LI Baoren 유공압건설기계학회 2015 유공압건설기계학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2015 No.10

According to theory of phononic crystals (PCs), a ship hydraulic pipeline isolator with one-dimensional periodic composite structure is designed, which is composed of metal and rubber. The vibration of ship hydraulic pipeline can be suppressed by the band gaps (BGs) of the isolator. The band structure and frequency response function (FRF) of the isolator is figured out by the finite element method (FEM). To obtain the best frequency ranges and width of the BGs, the influences of various material, lattice constant and fineness ratio are considered, and the best structure parameters were also obtained. The results revealed that the isolator has axial vibration BGs with frequencies from 400 Hz to 10000 Hz, and the maximum vibration attenuation is up to 150 dB. The research provides a new technical method to control vibration of ship hydraulic pipeline.

Effects of electronic energy deposition on pre-existing defects in 6H-SiC

Liao, Wenlong,He, Huan,Li, Yang,Liu, Wenbo,Zang, Hang,Wei, Jianan,He, Chaohui Korean Nuclear Society 2021 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.53 No.7

Silicon carbide is widely used in radiation environments due to its excellent properties. However, when exposed to the strong radiation environment constantly, plenty of defects are generated, thus causing the material performance downgrades or failures. In this paper, the two-temperature model (2T-MD) is used to explore the defect recovery process by applying the electronic energy loss (Se) on the pre-damaged system. The effects of defect concentration and the applied electronic energy loss on the defect recovery process are investigated, respectively. The results demonstrate that almost no defect recovery takes place until the defect density in the damage region or the local defect density is large enough, and the probability of defect recovery increases with the defect concentration. Additionally, the results indicate that the defect recovery induced by swift heavy ions is mainly connected with the homogeneous recombination of the carbon defects, while the probability of heterogeneous recombination is mainly dependent on the silicon defects.

0346 Occupational Exposure to Lead and Cancer in Two Cohort Studies of Men and Women in Shanghai, China

Liao, Linda M,Friesen, Melissa C,Xiang, Yong-Bing,Cai, Hui,Koh, Dong-Hee,Ji, Bu-Tian,Yang, Gong,Li, Hong-Lan,Locke, Sarah J,Rothman, Nathaniel,Zheng, Wei,Gao, Yu-Tang,Shu, Xiao-Ou,Purdue, Mark P BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2014 Occupational and environmental medicine Vol.71 No.suppl1

<P><B>Objectives</B></P><P>Epidemiologic studies of occupational lead exposure have suggested increased risks of cancers of the brain, kidney, lung, meninges, and stomach; however, the totality of the evidence is inconsistent. To clarify whether lead is a carcinogen, we investigated the relationship between occupational lead exposure and risks of these five cancer sites in two prospective cohort studies in Shanghai, China.</P><P><B>Method</B></P><P>Annual job/industry-specific estimates of lead fume and lead dust exposure were derived from a statistical model that combined expert ratings of lead intensity with inspection measurements collected by the Shanghai Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The job/industry estimates were applied to the lifetime work histories of subjects from the Shanghai Women’s Health Study (73 363 participants) and the Shanghai Men’s Health Study (61 379 participants) to estimate cumulative exposure to lead dust and lead fume. Cohort-specific relative hazard rate ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using Cox proportional hazards regression models and then pooled using a random effects meta-analysis model.</P><P><B>Results</B></P><P>We observed a statistically significant increased risk of meningioma among individuals with estimated occupational exposure to lead dust or fumes (RR=2.4, 95% CI:1.1–5.0), and in particular among those with an above-median cumulative exposure to dust or fumes (RR=3.1, 95% CI:1.3–7.4). We observed suggestive associations with lead exposure for cancers of the kidney (RR=1.4, 95% CI:0.9–2.3) and brain (RR=1.8, 95% CI:0.7–4.8), and null findings for cancers of the lung and stomach.</P><P><B>Conclusions</B></P><P>Our findings provide additional evidence that occupational lead exposure increases risk of meningioma.</P>

CHARACTERIZATION AND MORPHOLOGY CONTROL OF POLY(p-PHENYLENEDIAMINE) MICROSTRUCTURES IN DIFFERENT pH

SI-WEI YANG,FANG LIAO 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2011 NANO Vol.6 No.6

A novel and shape-controlled synthesis method for uniformly-shaped poly(p-phenylenediamine)(PpPD) microparticles was developed using (NH_4)_2S_2O_8 (APS) as an oxidant. The results demonstrated that the morphologies of PpPD varied from nanofibers to nanospheres and nestlike microspheres by tuning the pH of solution. Tiny pH change leads to the significant change in product morphology. The structure of microspheres is similar to graphene which was first discovered. Further study showed that the PpPD nanofibers were dimer. The difference in the structure of PpPD nanofibers and nanospheres (microspheres) resulted in different solubility in water. The nanosized oligomer crystallites served as starting templates for the nucleation of PpPD nanofibers. Further growth of nanofibers was proceeded by the self-organization of phenazine units or their blocks located at the ends of the PpPD chains.

The Inventory and Statistics of Potential Large-scale Landslide Areas in Southern Taiwan

( Kuo-wei Li ),( Chien-yu Lin ),( Jyh-jong Liao ),( Yi-wen Pan ),( Keng-hao Kang ),( Che-ming Yang ) 대한지질공학회 2019 대한지질공학회 학술발표회논문집 Vol.2019 No.2

This study produced an inventory of the 2,523 potential large-scale landslide areas (PLSLAs) in southern Taiwan. These PLSLAs were delineated using LiDAR DEM of 1m resolution after the 2009 Typhoon Morakot by other institutes. Using the inventory, we conducted a statistical analysis of the important geologic and geomorphologic factors possibly related to a PLSLA. The statistical analyses reveal that, among the 2,523 PLSLAs, (1) 82% of elevation are between 750 and 2,750 m, (2) 79% of the area are between 10 and 40 hectares, (3) 76% of the slope height are between 200 and 600 m, (4) 86% of the slope are between 25 and 40 degrees and (5) 83 percent of stream order are less than 3. Rock formations of these PLSLAs range from Oligocene to Miocene; 67% of the strata are slate, and 12% are interbedded of sandstone and shale. This study selected 24 medium to high risk cases of the 2,523 PLSLAs, and interpreted the micro-geomorphological features from 1m LiDAR DEM. The following three patterns were present: (1) PLSLA with clear features of gravitational slope deformation in slope height more than 500 m condition, (2) PLSLA with the relic of paleo landslides induced by gravitational buckling, toppling, or plane sliding, (3) PLSLA with river bank erosion on slope toe and head-cut erosion induced by gully development. Based on statistics, the stream order of the PLSLAs with gravitational slope deformation usually would exceed 3; 83% of PLSLAs are the areas also with paleo large-scale landslide.

Evolution of Multi-temporal Landslides at Luhu, Miaoli County, Taiwan

( Che-ming Yang ),( Keng-hao Kang ),( Kuo-wei Li ),( Hui-jung Wang ),( Ching-ping Hsiao ),( Jyh-jong Liao ),( Yii-wen Pan ) 대한지질공학회 2019 대한지질공학회 학술발표회논문집 Vol.2019 No.2

A deep-seated landslide took place in Luhu, Miao-Li, Taiwan during intermittent rainfall in April 2018; initially, there were successive rock falls and gully erosion then leaded to a deep-seated landslide failure eventually. This study aims to understand the failure mechanism and the process of deep-seated failure. The study site is a steep anaclinal slope consisting of the Miocence Shihti Formation with thick sandstone, interbedded of sandstone and shale. We collected multi-temporal ortho-images and digital elevation (surface) models from 1980 to 2019 for geological investigation, geomorphological interpretation and numerical simulation. The images reveal several slope failures at 1998, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2018 with various volume and failure types. The study area contains three sub-regions: the north, the northwest and the southwest slopes. The slope failure occurred repeatedly inside the north and the northwest slopes in the early stage. Gully erosion in the southwest slope progressed to a landslide on April 5, 2018 first and expanded to cover the deep-seated landslide failure in the northwest slope eventually; the slope failure resulted in a natural dam. After the landslide, several open cracks appeared near to the crown. The estimated maximum thickness, area and volume of the deep-seated landslide are ~60 m, 65,000 m2 and ~2 Mm3, respectively. Based on these results, we also performed a series of numerical simulation using the software RAMMS to interpret the run out and the deposition of this landslide case.

A New Support Vector Machine Model Based on Improved Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Fault Diagnosis of Oil-immersed Transformers

Zhang, Yiyi,Wei, Hua,Liao, Ruijin,Wang, Youyuan,Yang, Lijun,Yan, Chunyu The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers 2017 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.12 No.2

Support vector machine (SVM) is introduced as an effective fault diagnosis technique based on dissolved gases analysis (DGA) for oil-immersed transformers with maximum generalization ability; however, the applicability of the SVM is highly affected due to the difficulty of selecting the SVM parameters appropriately. Therefore, a novel approach combing SVM with improved imperialist competitive algorithm (IICA) for fault diagnosis of oil-immersed transformers was proposed in the paper. The improved ICA, which is proved to be an effective optimization approach, is employed to optimize the parameters of SVM. Cross validation and normalizations were applied in the training processes of SVM and the trained SVM model with the optimized parameters was established for fault diagnosis of oil-immersed transformers. Three classification benchmark sets were studied based on particle swarm optimization SVM (PSOSVM) and IICASVM with four multiple classification schemes to select the best scheme for transformer fault diagnosis. The results show that the proposed model can obtain higher diagnosis accuracy than other methods. The comparisons confirm that the proposed model is an effective approach for classification problems.

Radiation stability and radiolysis mechanism of hydroxyurea in HNO3 solution: Alpha, beta, and gamma irradiations

Qin Yilin,Liao Wei,Lan Tu,Li Fengzhen,Li Feize,Yang Jijun,Liao Jiali,Yang Yuanyou,Liu Ning 한국원자력학회 2022 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.54 No.12

Hydroxyurea (HU) is a novel salt-free reductant used potentially for the separation of U/Pu in the advanced PUREX process. In this work, the radiation stability of HU were systematically investigated in solution by examining the effects of the type of rays (a, b, and g irradiations), the absorbed dose (10 e50 kGy), and the HNO3 concentration (0e3 mol L1 ). The influence degree on HU radiolysis rates followed the order of the absorbed dose > the ray type > the HNO3 concentration, but the latter two had moderate effects on HU radiolysis products where NH4 þ and NO2 were found to be the most abundant ones, suggesting that the differences of a, b, and g rays should be considered in the study of irradiation effects. The radiolysis mechanism was explored using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and it proposed the dominant radiolysis paths of HU, indicating that the radiolysis of HU was mainly a free radical reaction among $H, eaq e , H2O, intermediates, and the radiolytic free radical fragments of HU. The results reported here provide valuable insights into the mechanistic understanding of HU radiolysis under a, b, and g irradiations and reliable data support for the application of HU in the reprocessing of spent fuel.

Energy efficiency characteristic analysis of tri‑coil PT symmetric MC‑WPT systems

Zhi-Juan Liao,Qi-Wei Zhu,Wen Ren,Chen-Yang Xia,Xu Liu 전력전자학회 2023 JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS Vol.23 No.9

The parity-time (PT) symmetric magnetic coupling wireless power transfer (MC-WPT) system has received a great deal of attention since it was proposed. Its transmission efficiency has been greatly improved when compared with previous research. The operational amplifier (OA) is a typical construction method for PT symmetric MC-WPT systems. On this basis, to achieve a higher transmission efficiency and a longer effective power transmission distance at the same time, this paper constructs an OA-based tri-coil PT symmetric MC-WPT system. The analytical expressions of its singularity, PT symmetric state, and PT symmetric broken state are obtained. Then a complete set of parameter design criteria for the tri-coil PT symmetric system is derived. The transmission efficiency and resonant frequency of two-coil and tri-coil system are simulated on MATLAB software, and the simulation results are consistent with the theoretical analysis results. Finally, an experimental device is constructed to further verify the correctness of the theory. This paper demonstrates that the effective power transmission distance of the tri-coil PT symmetric MC-WPT system is more than twice that of the two-coil PT symmetric MC-WPT system, which can achieve a good balance between transmission efficiency and transmission distance.