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UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Antibiotic Resistance Control: Efficiency, Influencing Factors, and Energy Consumption

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Engineering 2024年第6期37卷 27-39页

作者： Jiarui Han Wanxin Li Yun Yang Xuanwei Zhang Siyu Bao Xiangru Zhang Tong Zhang Kenneth Mei Yee Leung department of Civil and Environment Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong 999077China department of Civil Engineering The University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution and department of Chemistry City University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China

Antibiotic resistant bacteria(ARB)with antibiotic resistance genes(ARGs)can reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of antibiotics and thus threaten human *** United Nations Environment Programme considers antibiotic resistance the first of six emerging issues of *** oxidation processes(AOPs)that combine ultraviolet(UV)irradiation and chemical oxidation(primarily chlorine,hydrogen peroxide,and persulfate)have attracted increasing interest as advanced water and wastewater treatment *** integrated technologies have been reported to significantly elevate the efficiencies of ARB inactivation and ARG degradation compared with direct UV irradiation or chemical oxidation alone due to the generation of multiple reactive *** this study,the performance and underlying mechanisms of UV/chlorine,UV/hydrogen peroxide,and UV/persulfate processes for controlling ARB and ARGs were reviewed based on recent *** affecting the process-specific efficiency in controlling ARB and ARGs were discussed,including biotic factors,oxidant dose,UV fluence,pH,and water matrix *** addition,the cost-effectiveness of the UV-based AOPs was evaluated using the concept of electrical energy per *** UV/chlorine process exhibited a higher efficiency with lower energy consumption than other UV-based AOPs in the wastewater matrix,indicating its potential for ARB inactivation and ARG degradation in wastewater *** studies are required to address the trade-off between toxic byproduct formation and the energy efficiency of the UV/chlorine process in real wastewater to facilitate its optimization and application in the control of ARB and ARGs.

关键词： Advanced oxidation processes Ultraviolet/chlorine Ultraviolet/hydrogen peroxide Ultraviolet/persulfate Antibiotic resistant bacteria Antibiotic resistance genes

Quantization and Event-Triggered Policy Design for Encrypted Networked Control

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IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 2024年第4期11卷 946-955页

作者： Yongxia Shi Ehsan Nekouei the department of Electrical Engineering City University of Hong KongHong KongChina

This paper proposes a novel event-driven encrypted control framework for linear networked control systems(NCSs),which relies on two modified uniform quantization policies,the Paillier cryptosystem,and an event-triggered *** to the fact that only integers can work in the Pailler cryptosystem,both the real-valued control gain and system state need to be first quantized before *** is dramatically different from the existing quantized control methods,where only the quantization of a single value,e.g.,the control input or the system state,is *** handle this issue,static and dynamic quantization policies are presented,which achieve the desired integer conversions and guarantee asymptotic convergence of the quantized system state to the ***,the quantized system state is encrypted and sent to the controller when the triggering condition,specified by a state-based event-triggered strategy,is *** doing so,not only the security and confidentiality of data transmitted over the communication network are protected,but also the ciphertext expansion phenomenon can be ***,by tactfully designing the quantization sensitivities and triggering error,the proposed event-driven encrypted control framework ensures the asymptotic stability of the overall closedloop ***,a simulation example of the secure motion control for an inverted pendulum cart system is presented to evaluate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

关键词： Cyber-security encrypted control event-triggered control(ETC) networked control systems(NCSs) semi-homomorphic encryption

Integrated bound-state-in-the-continuum photon-pair source

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Photonics Research 2024年第6期12卷 1322-1327页

作者： FAN YE YUE QIN CHENFEI CUI XIANKAI SUN HON KI TSANG department of Electronic Engineering The Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina

Integrated photon-pair sources based on spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC)in novel high-χ^((2))materials are used in quantum photonic systems for quantum information processing,quantum metrology,and quantum ***,the need for extensive fabrication process development and optimization of dry-etching processes significantly impedes the rapid exploration of different material platforms for low-loss quantum photonic ***,bound states in the continuum(BICs)have emerged as a promising approach for realizing ultralow-loss integrated photonic circuits without requiring an etching *** realizations of BIC photonic circuits have,however,been limited primarily to the classical ***,we explore the BIC phenomena in the quantum regime and show that the etchless BIC platform is suitable for use in integrated entangled photon-pair sources based on the SPDC process in high-χ^((2))*** lithium niobate as an example,we demonstrate photon-pair generation at telecommunication wavelengths,attaining a maximum internal generation rate of 3.46 MHz,a coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 5773,and an experimental two‐photon interference visibility of 94%.Our results demonstrate that the BIC platform can be used for quantum photonic circuits,and this will enable the rapid exploration of different emergingχ^((2))materials for possible use in integrated quantum photonics in the future.

关键词： process quantum continuum

Cooperative Target Fencing of Multiple Vehicles for a General Target with Connectivity Preservation and Collision Avoidance

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Journal of Systems Science & Complexity 2024年第1期37卷 136-151页

作者： PAN Zini CHEN Ben M department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina

In this paper,the authors study the cooperative target-fencing problem for n-dimensional systems and a target with a general *** using the velocity of the vehicles,a position feedback control law is proposed to fence the general target into the convex hull formed by the ***,the dynamics of each vehicle is described by a double-integrator *** potential functions are designed to guarantee connectivity preservation of the communication network and collision avoidance among the *** proposed approach can deal with a target whose trajectory is any twice continuously differentiable function of *** effectiveness of the result is verified by a numerical example.

关键词： Multi-agent systems networked systems target fencing

Metal/covalent organic frameworks for aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries

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Science China Chemistry 2024年第1期67卷 247-259页

作者： Hu hong Xun Guo Jiaxiong Zhu Zhuoxi Wu Qing Li Chunyi Zhi department of Materials Science and Engineering City University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China

Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)have become one of the most successful energy storage systems due to their high operating voltage,high energy density,and long cycle ***,with the widespread use of LIBs in recent decades,lithium resources are at risk of being ***,it is necessary to find a substitute for LIBs to meet the needs of future large-scale energy storage *** of their competitiveness,low cost,and high safety,aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries(ARZIBs)are regarded as promising components in the post-lithium-ion-battery *** the tunable composition,ordered porous channels,and controllable structure of metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)and covalent organic frameworks(COFs),these frameworks are viewed as potential materials for developing high-performance *** this review,we focus on the recent developments in the applications of MOF-/COF-based materials in ARZIBs,including in electrode materials,anode modifications,separators,and solid *** then focus on the critical factors and optimization techniques of MOF-/COF-based materials that affect the performance of ***,we conclude with some projections for the expansion of ARZIBs containing MOF-/COF-based materials.

关键词： metal/covalent organic frameworks aqueous zinc-ion batteries electrode materials anode modifications separators electrolytes

Extended wet sieving method for determination of complete particle size distribution of general soils

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Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2024年第1期16卷 242-257页

作者： Shengnan Ma Yi Song Jiawei Liu Xingyu Kang Zhongqi Quentin Yue department of Civil Engineering The University of Hong KongHong KongChina

The traditional standard wet sieving method uses steel sieves with aperture?0.063 mm and can only determine the particle size distribution(PSD)of gravel and sand in general *** paper extends the traditional method and presents an extended wet sieving *** extended method uses both the steel sieves and the nylon filter cloth *** apertures of the cloth sieves are smaller than 0.063 mm and equal 0.048 mm,0.038 mm,0.014 mm,0.012 mm,0.0063 mm,0.004 mm,0.003 mm,0.002 mm,and 0.001 mm,*** extended method uses five steps to separate the general soil into many material sub-groups of gravel,sand,silt and clay with known particle size *** complete PSD of the general soil is then calculated from the dry masses of the individual material *** extended method is demonstrated with a general soil of completely decomposed granite(CDG)in hong kong,*** silt and clay materials with different particle size ranges are further examined,checked and verified using stereomicroscopic observation,physical and chemical property *** results further confirm the correctness of the extended wet sieving method.

关键词： Particle size distribution(PSD) General soil Silt Clay Wet sieving Physical and chemical properties

Characterization of a smog chamber for studying formation of gas-phase products and secondary organic aerosol

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Journal of Environmental Sciences 2024年第2期136卷 570-582页

作者： Qi Yuan Zhuozhi Zhang Meng Wang Kin Fai Ho Tao Wang Shuncheng Lee department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityKowloonHong KongChina School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong KongShatinHong KongChina

Smog chambers provide a potent approach to explore the secondary organic aerosol formation under varied *** study describes the construction and characterization of a new smog chamber facility for studying the formation mechanisms of gas-phase products and secondary organic aerosol from the photooxidation of volatile organic *** chamber is a 5.4 m^(3) Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene(FEP)Teflon reactor with the potential to perform photooxidation experiments at controlled temperature and relative *** characterizations were conducted for evaluation of stability of environmental parameters,mixing time,background contamination,light intensity,and wall losses of gases and *** photolysis rate of NO_(2)(J_(NO2))ranged from(1.02-3.32)×10^(-3)sec^(-1),comparable to the average J_(NO2)in ambient *** wall loss rates for NO,NO_(2),and O_(3)were 0.47×10^(-4),0.37×10^(-4),and 1.17×10^(-4)min^(-1),while wall loss of toluene was obsoletely found in a 6 hr *** particle number wall loss rates are(0.01-2.46)×10^(-3)min^(-1)for 40-350 nm with an average lifetime of more than one day.A series of toluene photooxidation experiments were carried out in absence of NO_xunder dry *** results of the simulation experiments demonstrated that the chamber is well designed to simulate photolysis progress in the atmosphere.

关键词： Smog chamber Gas-phase oxidation Chamber characterization Chemical mechanism

Quantitative and qualitative subgenomic RNA profiles of SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory samples: A comparison between Omicron BA.2 and non-VOC-D614G

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Virologica Sinica 2024年第2期39卷 218-227页

作者： Zigui Chen Rita Way Yin Ng Grace Lui Lowell Ling Agnes S.Y.Leung Chit Chow Siaw Shi Boon Wendy C.S.Ho Maggie Haitian Wang Renee Wan Yi Chan Albert Martin Li David Shu Cheong Hui Paul Kay Sheung Chan department of Microbiology Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina department of Medicine and Therapeutics Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina department of Paediatrics Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases Faculty of MedicineThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants are notorious for their transmissibility,but little is known about their subgenomic RNA(sgRNA)*** study applied RNA-seq to delineate the quantitative and qualitative profiles of canonical sgRNA of 118 respiratory samples collected from patients infected with Omicron BA.2 and compared with 338 patients infected with non-variant of concern(non-VOC)-D614G.A unique characteristic profile depicted by the relative abundance of 9 canonical sgRNAs was reproduced by both BA.2 and non-VOCD614G regardless of host gender,age and presence of ***,such profile was lost in samples with low viral load,suggesting a potential application of sgRNA pattern to indicate viral activity of individual patient at a specific time point.A characteristic qualitative profile of canonical sgRNAs was also reproduced by both BA.2 and *** presence of a full set of canonical sgRNAs carried a coherent correlation with crude viral load(AUC¼0.91,95%CI 0.88–0.94),and sgRNA ORF7b was identified to be the best surrogate marker allowing feasible routine application in characterizing the infection status of individual *** potentials in using sgRNA as a target for vaccine and antiviral development are worth pursuing.

关键词： Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 Non-VOC-D614G RNA-seq Subgenomic RNA(sgRNA)

Data-driven Static Equivalence with Physics-informed Koopman Operators

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CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 2024年第1期10卷 432-438页

作者： Wei Lin Changhong Zhao Maosheng Gao C.Y.Chung department of Electrical Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong SARChina department of Information Engineering The Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina School of Electrical Engineering Chongqing UniversityChongqing 400044China

With deployment of measurement units,fitting static equivalent models of distribution networks(DNs)by linear regression has been recognized as an effective method in power flow analysis of a transmission *** volatility of measurements caused by variable distributed renewable energy sources makes it more difficult to accurately fit such equivalent *** tackle this challenge,this letter proposes a novel data-driven method to improve equivalency accuracy of DNs with distributed energy *** letter provides a new perspective that an equivalent model can be regarded as a mapping from internal conditions and border voltages to border power *** mapping can be established through 1)Koopman operator theory,and 2)physical features of power flow equations at the root node of a *** of the proposed method is demonstrated on the IEEE 33-bus and IEEE 136-bus test systems connected to a 661-bus utility system.

关键词： Data-driven distribution network Koopman operator theory static equivalent model