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Design Improvements and Validation of a Novel Fully 3D Printed Analogue Lumbar Spine Motion Segment

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2024年第3期21卷 1388-1396页

作者： Siril Teja Dukkipati Mark Driscoll Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Lab Department of Mechanical EngineeringMcGill University845 Sherbrooke St.W(163)MontréalQCH3A 0C3Canada Orthopaedic Research Lab Montreal General Hospital1650 Cedar Ave(LS1.409)MontréalQCH3G 1A4Canada

Spine biomechanical testing methods in the past few decades have not evolved beyond employing either cadaveric studies or finite element modeling ***,both these approaches may have inherent cost and time *** studies are the present gold standard for spinal implant design and regulatory approval,but they introduce significant variability in measurements across patients,often requiring large sample *** element modeling demands considerable expertise and can be computationally expensive when complex geometry and material nonlinearity are *** analogue spine models could complement these traditional methods as a low-cost and high-fidelity alternative.A fully 3D printable L-S1 analogue spine model with ligaments is developed and validated in this *** stiffness of the model under pure bending loading in flexion-extension,Lateral Bending(LB)and Axial Rotation(AR)is evaluated and compared against historical ex vivo and in silico ***,the effect of interspinous,intertransverse ligaments and the Thoracolumbar Fascia(TLF)on spinal stiffness is evaluated by systematic construction of the *** flexion,model Range of Motion(ROM)was 12.92±0.11°(ex vivo:16.58°,in silico:12.96°)at *** LB,average ROM was 13.67±0.12°at 7.5 Nm(ex vivo:15.21±1.89°,in silico:15.49±0.23°).Similarly,in AR,average ROM was 17.69±2.12°at 7.5Nm(ex vivo:14.12±0.31°,in silico:15.91±0.28°).The addition of interspinous and intertransverse ligaments increased both flexion and LB stiffnesses by approximately 5%.Addition of TLF showed increase in flexion and AR stiffnesses by 29%and 24%,*** novel model can reproduce physiological ROMs with high repeatability and could be a useful open-source tool in spine biomechanics.

关键词： Lumbar spine 3D printing Intervertebral disc Biomechanical testing Spine mechanics

Determining minimum sample size for the conditioned Latin hypercube sampling algorithm

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Pedosphere 2024年第3期34卷 530-539页

作者： Daniel D.SAURETTE Asim BISWAS Richard J.HECK Adam W.GILLESPIE Aaron A.BERG School of Environmental Sciences University of Guelph50 Stone Rd EastGuelph ON N1G 2W1(Canada) Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs1 Stone Rd WestGuelph ON N1G 2Y4(Canada) Geography Environment&GeomaticsUniversity of Guelph50 Stone Rd EastGuelph ON N1G 2W1(Canada)

In digital soil mapping(DSM),a fundamental assumption is that the spatial variability of the target variable can be explained by the predictors or environmental *** to adequately sample the predictors have been well documented,with the conditioned Latin hypercube sampling(cLHS)algorithm receiving the most attention in the DSM *** advances in sampling design,a critical gap remains in determining the number of samples required for DSM *** propose a simple workflow and function coded in R language to determine the minimum sample size for the cLHS algorithm based on histograms of the predictor variables using the Freedman-Diaconis rule for determining optimal bin *** preprocessing was included to correct for multimodal and non-normally distributed data,as these can affect sample size determination from the *** on a user-selected quantile range(QR)for the sample plan,the densities of the histogram bins at the upper and lower bounds of the QR were used as a scaling factor to determine minimum sample *** technique was applied to a field-scale set of environmental covariates for a well-sampled agricultural study site near Guelph,Ontario,Canada,and tested across a range of *** results showed increasing minimum sample size with an increase in the QR *** sample size increased from 44 to 83 when the QR increased from 50% to 95% and then increased exponentially to 194 for the 99%*** technique provides an estimate of minimum sample size that can be used as an input to the cLHS algorithm.

关键词： bin width digital soil mapping normal distribution quantile range sampling design

Nanozyme catalysis in a crowded environment:The impact of diffusion and surface shielding

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Nano Research 2024年第7期17卷 5795-5800页

作者： Vasily G.Panferov Juewen Liu Department of Chemistry Waterloo Institute for NanotechnologyWaterlooOntario N2L 3G1Canada

Nanozymes are widely used in various applications as nanosized catalysts for replacing *** accurate estimation of the catalytic activity of nanozymes in real conditions is *** this article,for the first time,we systematically studied the effect of macromolecular molecules co-existing in the real system on the oxidoreductase(peroxidase,oxidase,and catalase)-mimicking nanozymes made of a gold nanoparticle core and a platinum shell,Prussian Blue,Mn_(2)O_(3) and CoO *** were made with horseradish *** distinguished two main mechanisms of the negative impact of macromolecules on nanozyme catalysis—slowed diffusion and surface shielding of *** the first mechanism is typical for enzymes,the second one is specific only for *** the mechanisms is essential for developing approaches to reduce the unavoidable impact of macromolecules for various analytical and biomedical applications.

关键词： molecular crowding biosensors nanoparticles

Reinforcement Learning in Process Industries:Review and Perspective

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IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 2024年第2期11卷 283-300页

作者： Oguzhan Dogru Junyao Xie Om Prakash Ranjith Chiplunkar Jansen Soesanto Hongtian Chen Kirubakaran Velswamy Fadi Ibrahim Biao Huang Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of AlbertaEdmontonT6G 1H9Canada IEEE

This survey paper provides a review and perspective on intermediate and advanced reinforcement learning(RL)techniques in process industries. It offers a holistic approach by covering all levels of the process control hierarchy. The survey paper presents a comprehensive overview of RL algorithms,including fundamental concepts like Markov decision processes and different approaches to RL, such as value-based, policy-based, and actor-critic methods, while also discussing the relationship between classical control and RL. It further reviews the wide-ranging applications of RL in process industries, such as soft sensors, low-level control, high-level control, distributed process control, fault detection and fault tolerant control, optimization,planning, scheduling, and supply chain. The survey paper discusses the limitations and advantages, trends and new applications, and opportunities and future prospects for RL in process industries. Moreover, it highlights the need for a holistic approach in complex systems due to the growing importance of digitalization in the process industries.

关键词： Process control process systems engineering reinforcement learning

^(4)He monolayer on graphene:a quantum Monte Carlo study

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Communications in Theoretical Physics 2024年第9期76卷 149-157页

作者： S Yu M Boninsegni Department of Physics University of AlbertaEdmontonAlbertaT6G 2H5Canada

We revisit the problem of adsorption of a single^(4)He layer on graphene,focusing on the commensurate(C_(1/3))crystalline phase,specifically on whether it may possess a nonzero superfluid response,and on the existence of superfluid phases,either(metastable)liquid or vacancy-doped *** make use of canonical quantum Monte Carlo simulations at zero and finite temperature,based on a realistic microscopic model of the *** results confirm the absence of any superfluid response in the commensurate crystal,and that no thermodynamically stable uniform phase exists at lower *** evidence of a possibly long-lived,metastable superfluid phase at C_(1/3)coverage is ***,the results of ground-state projection methods and finite-temperature simulations are entirely consistent.

关键词： superfluidity low-dimensional systems quantum Monte Carlo helium supersolids

Postbiotics from Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation stabilize microbiota in rumen liquid digesta during grain-based subacute ruminal acidosis(SARA) in lactating dairy cows

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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2024年第5期15卷 2059-2080页

作者： Junfei Guo Zhengxiao Zhang Le Luo Guan Ilkyu Yoon Jan C.Plaizier Ehsan Khafipour Department of Animal Science University of ManitobaWinnipegMB R3T 2N2Canada Present Address:College of Food and Biological Engineering Jimei UniversityXiamenFujian 361021China Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition DepartmentUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonAB T6G 2R3Canada Faculty of Land and Food Systems University of British ColumbiaVancouverBC V6T 1Z4Canada Diamond V Cedar RapidsIA 52404United States Present Address:Cargill Animal Nutrition 15407 McGinty Road WestWayzataMN 55391USA

Background Subacute ruminal acidosis(SARA)is a common metabolic disorder of high yielding dairy cows,and it is associated with dysbiosis of the rumen and gut microbiome and host *** study evaluated the impact of two postbiotics from Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation products(SCFP)on rumen liquid associated microbiota of lactating dairy cows subjected to repeated grain-based SARA challenges.A total of 32 rumen cannulated cows were randomly assigned to 4 treatments from 4 weeks before until 12 weeks after *** groups included a Control diet or diets supplemented with postbiotics(SCFPa,14 g/d Original XPC;SCFPb-1X,19 g/d Nutri Tek;SCFPb-2X,38 g/d Nutri Tek,Diamond V,Cedar Rapids,IA,USA).Grain-based SARA challenges were conducted during week 5(SARA1)and week 8(SARA2)after parturition by replacing 20%DM of the base total mixed ration(TMR)with pellets containing 50%ground barley and 50%ground *** DNA from rumen liquid samples was subjected to V3–V416S r RNA gene amplicon *** of rumen microbiota were compared among treatments and SARA *** Both SARA challenges reduced the diversity and richness of rumen liquid microbiota,altered the overall composition(β-diversity),and its predicted functionality including carbohydrates and amino acids metabolic *** SARA challenges also reduced the number of significant associations among different taxa,number of hub taxa and their composition in the microbial co-occurrence *** with SCFP postbiotics,in particular SCFPb-2X,enhanced the robustness of the rumen *** SCFP supplemented cows had less fluctuation in relative abundances of community members when exposed to SARA *** SCFP supplementation promoted the populations of lactate utilizing and fibrolytic bacteria,including members of Ruminococcaceae and Lachnospiraceae,and also increased the numbers of hub taxa during non-SARA and SARA *** with S

关键词： Postbiotics Rumen microbiota Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation products SARA

Ensemble Wind Power Prediction Interval with Optimal Reserve Requirement

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Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy 2024年第1期12卷 65-76页

作者： Hamid Rezaie Cheuk Hei Chung Nima Safari the Saskatchewan Power Corporation(SaskPower) ReginaSaskatchewanCanada the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Human Biology University of TorontoTorontoON M5S 3G4Canada the Alberta Electric System Operator(AESO) CalgaryAlbertaCanada

Wind power prediction interval(WPPI)models in the literature have predominantly been developed for and tested on specific case ***,wind behavior and characteristics can vary significantly across ***,a prediction model that performs well in one case might underperform in *** address this shortcoming,this paper proposes an ensemble WPPI framework that integrates multiple WPPI models with distinct characteristics to improve *** important and often overlooked factor is the role of probabilistic wind power prediction(WPP)in quantifying wind power uncertainty,which should be handled by operating *** reserve in WPPI frameworks enhances the efficacy of *** this regard,the proposed framework employs a novel bi-layer optimization approach that takes both WPPI quality and reserve requirements into *** analysis with different real-world datasets and various benchmark models validates the quality of the obtained WPPIs while resulting in more optimal reserve requirements.

关键词： Ensemble model linear programming operating reserve optimal reserve requirement prediction interval probabilistic prediction renewable integration uncertainty representation wind power prediction(WPP)

Sustainable ammonia synthesis:An in-depth review of non-thermal plasma technologies

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Journal of Energy Chemistry 2024年第9期96卷 1-38页

作者： Vahid Shahed Gharahshiran Ying Zheng Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Thompson Engineering BuildingWestern UniversityLondonON N6A 5B9Canada

Ammonia serves both as a widely used fertilizer and environmentally friendly energy source due to its high energy density,rich hydrogen content,and emissions-free ***,it offers convenient transportation and storage as a hydrogen *** dominant method used for large-scale ammonia production is the Haber-Bosch process,which requires high temperatures and pressures and is ***,non-thermal plasma offers an eco-friendly alternative for ammonia synthesis,gaining significant *** enables ammonia production at lower temperatures and pressures using plasma *** review provides insights into the catalyst and reactor developments,which are pivotal for promoting ammonia efficiency and addressing existing *** first,the reaction kinetics and mechanisms are introduced to gain a comprehensive understanding of the reaction pathways involved in plasma-assisted ammonia ***,the enhancement of ammonia synthesis efficiency is discussed by developing and optimizing plasma reactors and effective *** effect of other feeding sources,such as water and methane,instead of hydrogen is also ***,the challenges and possible solutions are outlined to facilitate energy-saving and enhance ammonia efficiency in the future.

关键词： Nitrogen fixation Ammonia synthesis NH_(3) Non-thermal plasma Ni Ru catalyst

Communication-less Management Strategy for Electric Vehicle Charging in Droop-controlled Islanded Microgrids

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Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy 2024年第4期12卷 1227-1238页

作者： Abdullah Azhar Al-Obaidi Mohammed Zaki El-Sharafy Hany E.Z.Farag Saifullah Shafiq Ali Al-Awami Independent Electricity System Operator(IESO) MississaugaCanada Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science York UniversityTorontoCanada University of Queensland StLucia QLD 4067Australia Department of Electrical Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum&MineralsDhahranSaudi Arabia

Adopting high penetration levels of electric vehicles(EVs)necessitates the implementation of appropriate charging management systems to mitigate their negative impacts on pow-er distribution ***,most of the proposed Ev charging management techniques rely on the availability of high-bandwidth communication *** techniques are far from realization due to①the lack of utility-grade communica-tion systems in many cases such as secondary(low-voltage)pow-er distribution systems to which EVs are connected,rural ar-eas,remote communities,and islands,and②existing fears and concerns about the data privacy of EV users and cyber-physical *** these cases,appropriate local control schemes are needed to ensure the adequate management of EV charging without violating the grid operation ***,this paper introduces a new communication-less management strategy for EV charging in droop-controlled islanded *** proposed strategy is autonomous,as it is based on the measurement of system frequency and local bus *** proposed strategy implements a social charging fairness policy during periods when the microgrid distributed genera-tors(DGs)are in short supply by allocating more system capaci-ty to the EVs with less charging in the ***,a novel communication-less EV load shedding scheme is incorpo-rated into the management strategy to provide relief to the mi-crogrid during events of severe undervoltage or underfrequency occurrences due to factors such as high loading or DG *** simulations demonstrate the superiority of the pro-posed strategy over the state-of-the-art controllers in modulat-ing the EV charging demand to counteract microgrid instability.

关键词： Charging battery management communication-less control droop control electric vehicle islanded microgrid