Abstract-When using ultra-wide band (UWB) radar to detect targets in various conditions, identifying whether the target buried under building debris or in bad visibility conditions is a human or an animal is crucial. This paper presents the application of the wavelet entropy (WE) method to distinguish between humans and animal targets through brick wall and in free space at a certain distance. In the study, WE, WE change, and WE of the related range points were estimated for the echo signals from five humans and five dogs. Our findings indicate that the entropy or degree of disorder in the energy distribution of the human target was much lower than that of the dog, and the waveform of the human's entropy was smoother than that of the dog. In addition, the body micro motions of humans are much more ordered than those of dogs. WE can be employed as a quantitative measure for recognizing invisible targets and may be a useful tool in the UWB radar's practical applications.
Abstract-The physiological parameters monitoring of human target are considered to be a meaningful and challenging task in non-lineof-sight (NLOS) scenes such as rescue of trapped survivors in postdisaster. In this paper, a new method based on developed adaptive line enhancer (DALE) is proposed to monitor vital signs via ultra-wideband (UWB) radar with centre frequency of 400 MHz. The validity of this new method is proved by means of two experiments with different positions of human target. The good results demonstrate that this new method can be used for vital sign monitoring including respiration and heartbeat through the obstacle. Furthermore, the motion responses due to respiration and heartbeat in different body positions are also discussed.
With the application and promotion of large-scale biogas project, economic analysis and evaluation of large-scale biogas project are particularly important. However, the benefits of biogas project embodied in the economic, social, ecological, and many other aspects have dispersion, which leads to production decisions in a gray state and investment in conformity. In this paper, the biogas project in Zhuangda village, Zhaozhou County, Heilongjiang province is taken as an example, the supply and demand of funds in project operation are analyzed quantitatively by using system dynamics theory so as to study the economics of biogas project comprehensively, which can provide scientific guidance for evaluating the construction and operation of large and medium-scale biogas project objectively and lay a solid theoretical foundation for the commercial operation in biogas industry.
High-concentration anaerobic fermentation of dairy manure was investigated using an anaerobic batch reactor under laboratory conditions at 20°C. Daily average productive rate of CODVFA was used as response functions, and three factors (temperature, liquid concentration, and retention time) were selected as input variables in the process of hydrolysis and acidogenesis of dairy manure. The study used a central composite rotatable orthogonal experimental design. The influential regularities of every parameter on every index were analyzed with a single-parameter method. The ranges of temperature, liquid concentration and retention time were 25°C to 35°C, 6% to 10%,and 2 to 12 days respectively. Experimental results showed that daily average productive rate of CODVFA was greatly influenced by temperature, with retention time a secondary influence, and liquid concentration having the least influence.
The key rate-limiting step of methane production by dry anaerobic fermentation with straw as main materials is acidication phase, and carbon nitrogen ratio (mC/mN) is major factor in affecting microbial fermentation performance. In this study, a batch test was carried out to investigate the effect of different mC/mN ratio on acidogenic fermentation performance by means of a new medium-temperature complex microbial community LZF-12 with high efficent lignocellulosic degration, which straw and peptone were sole carbon and nitrogen respectively in reaction system. The results showed that flora growth of LZF-12 increased graduately along with the dicrease of mC/mN ratio, especially that the mC/mN ratio reached 5.0, the growth rate of microbial flora was obviously better than that of other mC/mN ratio, and pH revealed similar change trend that finial pH was between 6-7 along with different mC/mN ratio. Analysis of straw weightlessness revealed that substrate degradation rate achieved above 70% at the condition of diffenent mC/mN ratio, and fermentation was typically acetate-type, which main liquid end production were volatile fatty acid (VFA) comprising 90% acetate, butyate and a small amount of ethanol and propionate. This work presents important analysis of fermentation property together with carbon nitrogen scale applicable for biodegradation process of cellulose by complex microbial community LZF-12, and is benefical to technological optimization of dry anaerobic straw fermentation.
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