Effect of Nano Potassium Fertilizer on Cucumber Amino Acid Component,Volatile Metabolite Components and GLN Family Genes Expression

Wireless Personal Communications - To investigate the effect of nano-potassium silicate on the expression of glutamine (GLN) family gene, amino acid (AAs) componentand volatile metabolites (VMs)...     

5G价值面,BSS/OSS融合的下一站

随着移动通信与互联网技术的发展,传统通信业务已由单一的语音通信,发展为多元化、个性化的融合信息服务,通信产业价值链结构从以运营商为中心的模式向以用户体验为中心的模式转变。互联网与内容提供商以“内容驱动”为理念,灵活快速地迭代产品并响应用户需求,市场份额快速提升,这导致运营商在产业价值链中逐渐被“管道化”。在数字化转型过程中,运营商通过重构、抽象5G网络功能,实现了网络按需编排、灵活适配和快速部署的能力,并基于业务支撑系统（business support system,BSS）/运营支撑系统（operation support system,OSS）(BO)融合与以用户为中心的运营模式增强用户体验,以期实现在产业价值链中地位和价值的提升。在回顾通信产业价值链发展的基础上,分析了运营商价值提升所面临的挑战,提出了一种基于5G网络嵌入式服务的5G价值面体系架构,给出了典型应用场景,并为运营商5G价值面的演进提供了路径建议,助力运营商驶向BO融合的下一站。     

Research on the properties of ZnO1-xSx thin films modified by sulfur doping for CIGS solar cells

ZnO1-xSx thin films modified by sulfur doping were prepared on glass substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) for studying the effect of thiourea concentration on the thin film properties. The obtained ZnO1-xSx thin films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which shows the surfaces of ZnO1-xSx thin films deposited under the thiourea concentration of 0.14 M are more compact. X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement shows that the ZnO1-xSx thin films with hexagonal crystal structure had strong diffraction peaks and better crystallinity. The optical transmittance of the ZnO1-xSx thin films with 0.14 M thiourea concentration is above 80% in the wavelength range of 300—900 nm. According to the measurement results from spectrophotometer, the ZnO1-xSx band gap energy value Eg varies nonlinearly with different S/(S+O) ratio x, and increases with the increase of x. There is a band gap value of 2.97 eV in the ZnO1-xSx thin films deposited under 0.14 M thiourea concentration. Therefore, the thin films have better structural, optical and electric properties, and are more suitable for the buffer layers of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells.     

Focusing enhanced broadband metalens via height optimization

Metalenses are two-dimensional planar metamaterial lenses, which have the advantages of high efficiency and easy integration. Based on the method of spatial multiplexing, a metalens with a wide working waveband is designed by arranging TiO2 nanopillars under the resonance phase regulation. In addition, choosing an assistant metalens with optimized heights is effective to enhance metalens’s focusing, which is also illustrated in this paper. The metalens, designed with numerical aperture (NA) of 0.72 and center working wavelength of 600 nm, achieves the working waveband of 550—660 nm, the focus point’s size of below 420 nm, and the focusing efficiency of more than 30%.     

Implementation and decoding method of OCC system based on MIMO

The application of high-frame-rate cameras as well as the complex image processing techniques will lead to a series of problems, such as high system cost and long transmission delay. In this paper, we introduce narrow-band filtering technology to reduce the impact of optical noise and reduce the complexity of image processing from the physical level. We also introduce multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology into the optical camera communication (OCC) system to increase system transmission rate, and propose a light emitting diode (LED) array decoding algorithm based on the directional projection method to reduce the system delay. By accumulating the target pixel values in each row and column of the image, the proposed method then determines the position and boundary of the detected target to distinguish the target area from the background. Experimental results indicate that the communication distance can reach up to 5.5 m without error bits detected. When the LED array at the transmitter of this system flashes at a frequency of 12 Hz, the transmission rate can reach 126.32 bit/s.     

An improved U-Net for cell confluence estimation

Cell confluence is an important metric to determine the growth and the best harvest time of adherent cells. At present, the evaluation of cell confluence mainly relies on experienced labor, and thus it is not conducive to the automated cell culture. In this paper, we proposed an improved U-Net algorithm (called DU-Net) for the segmentation of adherent cells. First, the general convolution was replaced by the dilated convolution to expand the receptive fields for feature extraction. Then, the convolutional layers were combined with the batch normalization layers to reduce the dependence of the network on initialization. As a result, the segmentation accuracy and F1-score of the proposed DU-Net for adherent cells with low confluence (<50%) reached 96.94% and 93.87%, respectively, and for those with high confluence (≥50%), they reached 98.63% and 98.98%, respectively. Further, the paired t-test results showed that the proposed DU-Net was statistically superior to the traditional U-Net algorithm.     

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer with fixed and adaptive modulation

Activating Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) in Radio-Frequency (RF) to provide on-demand energy supply to widely deployed Internet of Everything devices is a key to the next-generation energy self-sustainable 6G network. However, Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) in the same RF bands is challenging. The majority of previous studies compared SWIPT performance to Gaussian signaling with an infinite alphabet, which is impossible to implement in any realistic communication system. In contrast, we study the SWIPT system in a well-known Nakagami-m wireless fading channel using practical modulation techniques with finite alphabet. The attainable rate-energy-reliability tradeoff and the corresponding rationale are revealed for fixed modulation schemes. Furthermore, an adaptive modulation-based transceiver is provided for further expanding the attainable rate-energy-reliability region based on various SWIPT performances of different modulation schemes. The modulation switching thresholds and transmit power allocation at the SWIPT transmitter and the power splitting ratios at the SWIPT receiver are jointly optimized to maximize the attainable spectrum efficiency of wireless information transfer while satisfying the WPT requirement and the instantaneous and average BER constraints. Numerical results demonstrate the SWIPT performance of various fixed modulation schemes in different fading conditions. The advantage of the adaptive modulation-based SWIPT transceiver is validated.     

改进的多尺度形状模板匹配算法

针对形状模板匹配算法在目标发生尺度变化时匹配效率低的问题,提出一种改进的多尺度形状模板匹配算法。离线过程中,针对参考点和多尺度模板与目标的匹配不适应情况,提出一种新的参考点选取方法;在线过程中,采用一种优先匹配策略,确定该尺度层存在最佳模板的期望值,并依此判断该尺度层模板参与匹配的必要性;基于选取的最优参考点和优先匹配策略实现目标的高效匹配。实验结果显示,与经典算法相比,所提算法的平均匹配时间分别为NCC算法、SSDA算法的0.81%、2.25%;且当目标发生平移、旋转和尺度等复杂变化时,依然可以实现目标的精确匹配。