Global Post-epidemic Recovery: The Impact of Role Modeling on Employees' Proactive Behavior

Wenjie Yang,최명철,Xiaoteng Wang,김한얼 국제문화기술진흥원 2023 International Journal of Advanced Culture Technolo Vol.11 No.4

With the end of global COVID-19 epidemic, hospital staff are likely to be "physically and mentally exhausted" after three years of grueling work in the fight against the epidemic. At this point, it is especially important to enable them to continue to maintain their previous proactive work behavior. This study focuses on 400 employees of various types in three-A grade hospitals in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, through the proactive motivation model. Statistical software SPSS 25.0 and AOMS 22.0 were used to analyze the survey data to test whether role modeling in hospital management can have an impact on employees' proactive behaviors, in addition to verifying the mediating role of transactional psychological contract. The results of this study show that: First, role modeling of hospital leaders has a positive effect on employees' proactive behavior and a negative effect on their transactional psychological contract; Second, transactional psychological contract has a negative effect on employees’ proactive behavior; Third, the transactional psychological contract mediates the effect between role modeling of leaders and employees' proactive behavior. The results of this research add to the F-path of proactive motivation model, and provide enlightenments and implications for hospital management.

An Adaptive Fault-tolerant Control Method for Robot Manipulators

Wenjie Zhang,Xiaohui Yang,Zhenghong Xu,Wei Zhang,Li Yang,Xiaoping Liu 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2021 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.19 No.12

This paper presents a new method for adaptive continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (ACNFTSMC) based on a novel structure-improved extended state observer (SIESO) for fault-tolerant control (FTC). In response to the initial peaking phenomenon in traditional ESO (TESO), which can severely degrade the accuracy and stability of the control system, The SIESO is designed to replace TESO to estimate the lump disturbances/faults. Besides, to address the problem of the unknown estimation error of ESO, an adaptive technique is applied to compensate for the observation error in real-time. To guarantee fast convergence and chattering-free, the CNFTSMC method is employed. Afterward, the stability and rapid convergence of the control system is demonstrated using Lyapunov theory. Finally, the simulation results verify the superiority of the proposed control strategy compared to the other existing advanced control techniques.

Design and Implementation of a High Power Three-Level T-Type Inverter for a Photovoltaic System

Yang Xuan,Mofan Tian,Xiaomei Song,Wenjie Chen,Xu Yang 전력전자학회 2015 ICPE(ISPE)논문집 Vol.2015 No.6

Nowadays, the grid-connected photovoltaic systems are an important part of the renewable energy sources, and their performance is getting more and more important. Many reported researches focused on the traditional NPC topology. However, few researches were about the T-type NPC inverter. In this paper, a high power three-phase T-type neutral point clamped grid connected photovoltaic inverter prototype is designed and implemented. The design and implementation procedure of the inverter is discussed in detail. Experimental results showed that the output power of the proposed inverter could reach up to 100kW with unit power factor, while the total harmonic distortion of the grid current was less than 3%. And the total efficiency of the system is measured as 95.6%. The experimental results demonstrated the T-type NPC inverter can operate with a good performance.

Bacterial Community Structure and Function Shift in Rhizosphere Soil of Tobacco Plants Infected by Meloidogyne incognita

Wenjie Tong(Wenjie Tong),Junying Li(Junying Li),Wenfeng Cong(Wenfeng Cong),Cuiping Zhang(Cuiping Zhang),Zhaoli Xu(Zhaoli Xu),Xiaolong Chen(Xiaolong Chen),Min Yang(Min Yang),Jiani Liu(Jiani Liu),Lei Yu 한국식물병리학회 2022 Plant Pathology Journal Vol.38 No.6

Root-knot nematode disease is a widespread and catastrophic disease of tobacco. However, little is known about the relationship between rhizosphere bacterial community and root-knot nematode disease. This study used 16S rRNA gene sequencing and PICRUSt to assess bacterial community structure and function changes in rhizosphere soil from Meloidogyne incognita-infected tobacco plants. We studied the rhizosphere bacterial community structure of M. incognita-infected and uninfected tobacco plants through a paired comparison design in two regions of tobacco planting area, Yuxi and Jiuxiang of Yunnan Province, southwest China. According to the findings, M. incognita infection can alter the bacterial population in the soil. Uninfested soil has more operational taxonomic unit numbers and richness than infested soil. Principal Coordinate Analysis revealed clear separations between bacterial communities from infested and uninfested soil, indicating that different infection conditions resulted in significantly different bacterial community structures in soils. Firmicutes was prevalent in infested soil, but Chloroflexi and Acidobacteria were prevalent in uninfested soil. Sphingomonas, Streptomyces, and Bradyrhizobium were the dominant bacteria genera, and their abundance were higher in infested soil. By PICRUSt analysis, some metabolism-related functions and signal transduction functions of the rhizosphere bacterial community in the M. incognita infection-tobacco plants had a higher relative abundance than those uninfected. As a result, rhizosphere soils from tobacco plants infected with M. incognita showed considerable bacterial community structure and function alterations.

Changes in plant anthocyanin levels in response to abiotic stresses: a meta-analysis

Yan Wenjie,Li Juanjuan,Lin Xinyue,Wang Lina,Yang Xiaoxiao,Xia Xiangyu,Zhang Yuxin,Yang Shaoyu,Li Hongbing,Deng Xiping,Ke Qingbo 한국식물생명공학회 2022 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.16 No.5

Anthocyanins are small molecule antioxidants that play important roles in plant response and resistance to abiotic stresses. Their levels increase when plants are exposed to abiotic stress. However, the general response patterns and magnitude of anthocyanin increase, and how they confer resistance to abiotic stresses, are difficult to evaluate because of the influence of experimental variables. In this study, changes in plant anthocyanin content under different abiotic stresses and the effect of anthocyanin overproduction on various physiological indicators were investigated through meta-analysis derived from 1039 datasets of 102 studies. Results showed that among the different stress types, heavy metals, especially copper (Cu) and mercury (Hg), induced the most significant synthesis of anthocyanins. Among the different types of drought treatments, mannitol caused anthocyanin content in plants to increase by 2.4-fold, which was more significant than that of polyethylene glycol and natural drought. Furthermore, UV stress led plant anthocyanins to increase 1.3-fold in C4 plants, which was higher than that in C3 plants. In addition, anthocyanins increased the most when the applied stresses were low and moderate, and of short duration. Moreover, plants overexpressing genes encoding MYB transcription factors increased anthocyanin content by 5.8-fold and significantly improved plant stress tolerance. Among the 21 physiological indicators, glutathione and proline levels increased the most in transgenic plants overproducing anthocyanins when exposed to abiotic stress. Taken together, this meta-analysis indicates that anthocyanins enhance stress tolerance by improving the antioxidant, metal-chelating, and osmoregulatory abilities of the plant. The results presented here can help guide future applications of anthocyanins as plant growth regulators in dryland agriculture and breeding for plant stress tolerance.

The supply chain model of new nuclear power plant programme

YANG Guang,HUANG WenJie,LEI Linli 인하대학교 정석물류통상연구원 2009 인하대학교 정석물류통상연구원 학술대회 Vol.2009 No.10

Considering the life cycle of nuclear power plant(NPP) and high qualification required equipment, the identification of the scope on NPP supply chain, the assessment of some of the most valuable elements of supply chain and the clarification of the "pinch points" are of vital importance for ensuring the scheduled construction and sound operation of new nuclear programmes. Based on the analysis of the structure of new nuclear power build programme"s supply chain and the generalization of its elements, a supply chain model is developed. Finally, with a brief view of "pinch points" in China"s NPP industry, some counter measures for security and stabilization of the supply chains are proposed.

A Novel Interleaving Control Scheme for Boost Converters Operating in Critical Conduction Mode

Yang, Xu,Ying, Yanping,Chen, Wenjie The Korean Institute of Power Electronics 2010 JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS Vol.10 No.2

Interleaving techniques are widely used to reduce input/output ripples and to increase the power capacity of boost converters operating in critical conduction mode. Two types of phase-shift control schemes are studied in this paper, the turn-on time shifting method and the turn-off time shifting method. It is found that although the turn-off time shifting method exhibits better performance, it suffers from sub-harmonic oscillations at high input voltages. To solve this problem, an intensive quantitative analysis of the sub-harmonic oscillation phenomenon is made in this paper. Based upon that, a novel modified turn off time shifting control scheme for interleaved boost converters operating in critical conduction mode is proposed. An important advantage of this scheme is that both the master phase and the slave phase can operate stably in critical conduction mode without any oscillations in the full input voltage range. This method is implemented with a FPGA based digital PWM control platform, and tests were carried out on a two-phase interleaved boost PFC converter prototype. Experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and performance of the proposed phase-shift control scheme.

Meta-analysis of the effect of melatonin application on abiotic stress tolerance in plants

Yang Xiaoxiao,Ren Jianhong,Li Juanjuan,Lin Xinyue,Xia Xiangyu,Yan Wenjie,Zhang Yuxin,Deng Xiping,Ke Qingbo 한국식물생명공학회 2023 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.17 No.1

Melatonin is a hormone-like substance that promotes plant growth and development and alleviates stress levels. Although the physiological roles of melatonin and the underlying mechanisms have been qualitatively reviewed in plants, we do not fully understand when and how to apply melatonin to maximize its benefits. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to quantitatively evaluate the effect of melatonin on abiotic stress tolerance in plants and to determine the number of parameters modulated by melatonin. Melatonin significantly alleviated the growth inhibition induced by drought stress compared with other abiotic stresses, including salt, cold, heat, nitrogen deficit, and heavy metal toxicity, mainly owing to higher photosynthesis efficiency and antioxidant enzyme activity. Furthermore, melatonin modulated plant growth in a concentration-dependent manner and was more effective when applied to plants under moderate drought stress at an early stage via root irrigation. In addition, the impact of melatonin was greater in monocots than in dicots. Moreover, endogenous melatonin levels could be significantly increased via transgenic strategies. Among melatonin biosynthesis-related gene members, ASMT has tended to have the most influence on melatonin content in plants. In light of the rapidly developing genome editing technology, quantitatively increasing endogenous melatonin level in plant would be quite useful for moderating climatic conditions and combating desertification. Taken together, our results provide guidelines for melatonin application in crops plants for improving productivity under ongoing climate change.

Modeling and analysis of electromagnetic radiation from solar cell in photovoltaic generation system

Wenjie Chen,Yiming Duan,Lei Guo,Yang Xuan 전력전자학회 2015 ICPE(ISPE)논문집 Vol.2015 No.6

Recently, the negative effect of leakage current in the DC side of photovoltaic (PV) generation system has been widely reported. Due to the large area of PV array, it becomes a secondary noise source that generates radiation emission. This paper presents a detailed analysis of near field radiation of photovoltaic panels. A novel antenna model is proposed to study this phenomenon. In contrast with other literature, the novelty of this paper reveals that radiation emission should be divided into two categories: low-frequency emission and high-frequency emission. It is proven that near field distribution of PV panel is frequency related and high-frequency near-field emission can differ dramatically from low-frequency condition. These proposed concepts have been verified experimentally with in-circuit tests in a 100 kVA PV generation system.

Re: Comments on “A Case of MELAS With the m.3243A>G Variant of the MT-TL1 Gene Mimicking Acute Intermittent Porphyria”: The Authors Respond

Wenjie Cai,Xiang Han,Shilin Yang 대한신경과학회 2022 Journal of Clinical Neurology Vol.18 No.5