An Image Retrieval Method Based on Visual Dictionary and Saliency Region

Xu Gongwen,Xu Lina,Li Xiaomei,Tang Xiaobing,Wang Xiaoyan,Xu Chunxiu 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Vol.9 No.7

An image retrieval method based on the combination of visual dictionary and region of saliency was proposed in this paper, which aims to increase the accuracy of image retrieval. The image is divided into sampled blocks and the low-level features are extracted from these image blocks. Then a variety of features vectors are taken as the input vector for learning its corresponding visual dictionary respectively by non-negative sparse coding. Spatial information is added into the sparse representations of image by proposing the saliency polling method, and the similarity measure between sparse representation vectors is defined as SED (Squared Euclidean Distance), which considering the same nonzero entries and Euclidean distance of vectors at the same time. Results of experiment carried on Corel and Caltech datasets showed that this method can effectively improve the accuracy of image retrieval compared with the methods of single visual dictionary.

Improving the thermoelectric properties of carbon nanotubes through introducing graphene nanosprings

Xiaoyan Xu,Huaping Xiao,Tao Ouyang,Jianxin Zhong 한국물리학회 2020 Current Applied Physics Vol.20 No.1

Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a typical one-dimensional nanomaterial containing sp2 hybridization states. In this paper, we investigate the ballistic thermoelectric performance of CNTs incorporating graphene nanosprings by using non-equilibrium Green's function. The calculations reveal that the thermoelectric figure of merit could be obviously improved by introducing graphene nanosprings, which is about ten times of that of pristine CNTs at 700 K. Such enhancement is mainly attributed to the remarkable suppression of phononic and electronic thermal conductance and improvement of Seebeck coefficient. In addition, compared to the zigzag graphene nanospring, introducing of the armchair case possesses better thermoelectric performance. The results presented in this paper indicate that embedding graphene nanospring is a viable method to optimize the thermoelectric performance of CNTs and could provide useful theoretical guidance for design and fabrication of CNTs-based thermoelectric devices

Erythritol production by Yarrowia lipolytica mutant strain M53 generated through atmospheric and room temperature plasma mutagenesis

Xiaoyan Liu,Jinshun Lv,Jiaxing Xu,Jun Xia,Benlin Dai,Xiangqian Xu,Jiming Xu 한국식품과학회 2017 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.26 No.4

Mutants of Yarrowia lipolytica with high erythritol production were generated through an atmospheric and room temperature plasma (ARTP) mutation system. Among these mutants, Y. lipolytica M53 exhibited the highest erythritol yield. In a batch culture, M53 produced 64.8 g/L erythritol from 100 g/L glycerol. The yields of byproducts (e.g. mannitol, arabitol, and a-ketoglutaric acid) were low, and the mechanisms underlying these changes were examined by measuring enzyme activities in the pentose phosphate pathway. Up to 145.2 g/L erythritol was produced by M53 from 200 g/L of glycerol, and erythritol accumulation was promoted by 3.7 mg/L of Cu2?, 10.15 mg/L of Mn2?, and 30.37 g/L of NaCl. Fed-batch cultivation of M53 in a 5-L fermentor produced 169.3 g/L erythritol with low levels of byproducts within 168 h. This finding confirmed the potential of M53 as an erythritol producer on a commercial scale.

Simple and Sensitive Electrochemical Sandwich-type Immunosensing of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin based on b-cyclodextrin Functionalized Graphene

Linfen Xu,Ling liu,Xiaoyan Zhao,Jinyu Lin,Shaohan Xu,Jinlian He,Debin Jiang,Yong Xia The Korean Electrochemical Society 2023 Journal of electrochemical science and technology Vol.14 No.1

The effective detection of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is considerably important for the clinical diagnosis of both of early pregnancy and nonpregnancy-related diseases. In this work, a simple and sensitive electrochemical sandwich-type immunosensing platform was designed by synthesizing b-cyclodextrin (CD) functionalized graphene (CD/GN) hybrid as simultaneously sensing platform and signal transducer coupled with rhodamine b (RhB) as probe. In brief, GN offers large surface area and high conductivity, while CD exhibits superior host-guest recognition capability, thus the primary antibody (Ab1) of HCG can be bound into the cavities of CD/GN to form stable Ab1/CD/GN inclusion complex; meanwhile, the secondary antibody (Ab2) and RhB can also enter into the cavities, producing RhB/Ab2/CD/GN complex. Then, by using Ab1/CD/GN as sensing platform and RhB/Ab2/CD/GN as signal transducer (in which RhB was signal probe), a simple sandwich-type immunosensor was constructed. Under the optimum parameters, the designed immunosensor exhibited a considerable low analytical detection of 1.0 pg mL^-1 and a wide linearity of 0.002 to 10.0 ng mL^-1 for HCG, revealing the developed sandwich-type electrochemical immunosensing platform offered potential real applications for the determination of HCG.

Evaluation of multi-lane transverse reduction factor under random vehicle load

Xiaoyan Yang,Jinxin Gong,Bohan Xu,Jichao Zhu 사단법인 한국계산역학회 2017 Computers and Concrete, An International Journal Vol.19 No.6

This paper presents the two-, three-, and four-lane transverse reduction factor based on FEA method, probability theory, and the recently actual traffic flow data. A total of 72 composite girder bridges with various spans, number of lanes, loading mode, and bridge type are analyzed with time-varying static load FEA method by ANSYS, and the probability models of vehicle load effects at arbitrary-time point are developed. Based on these probability models, in accordance to the principle of the same exceeding probability, the multi-lane transverse reduction factor of these composite girder bridges and the relationship between the multi-lane transverse reduction factor and the span of bridge are determined. Finally, the multi-lane transverse reduction factor obtained is compared with those from AASHTO LRFD, BS5400, JTG D60 or Eurocode. The results show that the vehicle load effect at arbitrary-time point follows lognormal distribution. The two-, three-, and four-lane transverse reduction factors calculated by using FEA method and probability respectively range between 0.781 and 1.027, 0.616 and 0.795, 0.468 and 0.645. Furthermore, a correlation between the FEA and AASHTO LRFD, BS5400, JTG D60 or Eurocode transverse reduction factors is made for composite girder bridges. For the two-, three-, and four-lane bridge cases, the Eurocode code underestimated the FEA transverse reduction factors by 27%, 25% and 13%, respectively. This underestimation is more pronounced in short-span bridges. The AASHTO LRFD, BS5400 and JTG D60 codes overestimated the FEA transverse reduction factors. The FEA results highlight the importance of considering span length in determining the multi-lane transverse reduction factors when designing two-lane or more composite girder bridges. This paper will assist bridge engineers in quantifying the adjustment factors used in analyzing and designing multi-lane composite girder bridges.

Domain Adaptation Image Classification Based on Multi-sparse Representation

( Xu Zhang ),( Xiaofeng Wang ),( Yue Du ),( Xiaoyan Qin ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2017 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.11 No.5

Generally, research of classical image classification algorithms assume that training data and testing data are derived from the same domain with the same distribution. Unfortunately, in practical applications, this assumption is rarely met. Aiming at the problem, a domain adaption image classification approach based on multi-sparse representation is proposed in this paper. The existences of intermediate domains are hypothesized between the source and target domains. And each intermediate subspace is modeled through online dictionary learning with target data updating. On the one hand, the reconstruction error of the target data is guaranteed, on the other, the transition from the source domain to the target domain is as smooth as possible. An augmented feature representation produced by invariant sparse codes across the source, intermediate and target domain dictionaries is employed for across domain recognition. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Antibiotic resistance, biochemical typing, and PFGE typing of Bifidobacterium strains commonly used in probiotic health foods

Xu, Feili,Wang, Junping,Guo, Yunchang,Fu, Ping,Zeng, Huawei,Li, Zhigang,Pei, Xiaoyan,Liu, Xiumei,Wang, Shuo 한국식품과학회 2018 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.27 No.2

This study firstly analyzed the antibiotic resistance, biochemical typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing of 45 Bifidobacterium strains commonly used in health foods. Most strains were resistant to antibiotics but their antibiotic resistance rates were not high: Fos (56.52%), TET (43.48%), CRO (21.74%), AMC (15.22%), GEN (13.04%), RIF (10.87%), CHL (8.7%), CTX (6.52%), VAN (4.35%), and ERY (4.35%). The 45 strains could be divided into 14 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types, of which the strain numbers of six pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types were more than one. All the Bifidobacterium strains could be divided into nine types by API50CHL biochemical identification. The same species displayed same biochemical typings, expect for B. animalis. Furthermore, the results confirmed that the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis-type strains had closer antibiotic resistance patterns, and the same biochemical-type strain also had similar antibiotic resistance patterns.

Tourism Distribution Centre

Xu Jufeng,Zhao Xiaoyan 세계문화관광학회 2009 Conference Proceedings Vol.10 No.0

In the development of the city at all levels in China, a fast transport system has not yet built integrity in the outer suburban district. The rapid development of tourism, a huge urban population and tourist on the urban infrastructure and tourism services system form a great challenge. In order to solve the problem of FIT (Freed Individual Tourist) traveling in China's large cities, Shanghai first established "Shanghai Tour Bus Center "model, which has now been proved to be applicable to China's current system of large cities, consistent with their tourism development needs. Some other cities have followed up to build" tourism distribution centre", but a careful comparison showed that there are still large differences in the system and operation mechanism in these "tourism distribution centre," although the name is the same. There are also different in the actual operation effects. We analyze and compare the similarities and differences among Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing and several other cities of tourism distribution centre in the structure, mechanism & operation effect, and explore the essence of tourism distribution centre characteristics and mechanism.

Automatic Data Distribution in Large-scale OLTP Applications

Xiaoyan Wang,Xu Fan,Jinchuan Chen,Xiaoyong Du 보안공학연구지원센터 2014 International Journal of Database Theory and Appli Vol.7 No.4

Diversity and Functions of Endophytic Fungi Associated with Roots and Leaves of Stipa purpurea in an Alpine Steppe at Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

( Xiaoyan Yang ),( Hui Jin ),( Lihong Xu ),( Haiyan Cui ),( Aiyi Xin ),( Haoyue Liu ),( Bo Qin ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2020 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.30 No.7

Stipa purpurea is a unique and dominant herbaceous plant species in the alpine steppe and meadows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). In this work, we analyzed the composition and diversity of the culturable endophytic fungi in S. purpurea according to morphological and molecular identification. Then, we investigated the bioactivities of these fungi against plant pathogenic fungi and 1- aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase (ACCD) deaminase activities. A total of 323 fungal isolates were first isolated from S. purpurea, and 33 fungal taxa were identified by internal transcribed spacer primers and grouped into Ascomycota. The diversity of endophytic fungi in S. purpurea was significantly higher in roots as compared to leaves. In addition, more than 40% of the endophytic fungi carried the gene encoding for the ACCD gene. The antibiosis assay demonstrated that 29, 35, 28, 37 and 34 isolates (43.9, 53.1, 42.4, 56.1, and 51.5%) were antagonistic to five plant pathogenic fungi, respectively. Our study provided the first assessment of the diversity of culturedepending endophytic fungi of S. purpurea, demonstrated the potential application of ACCD activity and antifungal activities with potential benefits to the host plant, and contributed to high biomass production and adaptation of S. purpurea to an adverse environment.