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A nutrition and activity management system is disclosed that monitors energy expenditure of an individual through the use of a body-mounted sensing apparatus. The apparatus is particularly adapted for continuous wear. The system is also adaptable or applicable to measuring a number of other physiological parameters and reporting the same and derivations of such parameters. A weight management embodiment is directed to achieving an optimum or preselected energy balance between calories consumed and energy expended by the user. An adaptable computerized nutritional tracking system is utilized to obtain data regarding food consumed, Relevant and predictive feedback is provided to the user regarding the mutual effect of the user's energy expenditure, food consumption and other measured or derived or manually input physiological contextual parameters upon progress toward said goal.

A process for preparing the H2-enriched gas by catalytic gasification of solid fuel features that the solid catalyst used also as the heat carrier is circulating through riser combustion reactor, solid catalyst storage tank, catalytic reforming reactor and pyrolyzing reactor. In said pyrolyzing reactor, the biomass or coal and the solid heat carrier (catalyst) take part in fast pyrolytic reaction. Its resultant and the water steam take part in catalytic decomposing and reforming reaction to generate H2-enriched gas or synthetic gas.

The invention discloses a latent heat recoverable multi-phase change sludge drying method and a latent heat recoverable multi-phase change sludge drying device, which are designed for solving the technical problems that the energy consumption is high, the latent heat of the sludge vapor cannot be recovered and reused, the dried tail gas pollutes the environment, the operating cost is high and the like in the conventional sludge drying technology. Due to the combination of a low-temperature vapor turntable dryer, a sludge waste vapor latent heat recover heat pump and a tail gas purification device, and the use of indirect phase change heat exchange for low-temperature vapor, the heat exchange is improved, and the loss of organic components of the sludge is low. The latent heat of the sludge drying tail gas is recovered by using the latent heat recover heat pump, and the recovered heat energy is reused for sludge drying. Therefore, the heat efficiency is improved, the operating cost is reduced, and the problems that the heat utilization ratio is low, the operating cost is high and the like in the sludge drying process are better solved. The dried products meet the requirement of baking light and energy-saving bricks and producing cement laminated products, and over 90 percent of heat value of the original sludge is maintained. Therefore, the resource utilization value of the sludge is maximized.

The invention provides a collateral-dredging lipid reduction product comprising active materials of black tea and a preparation method; the product consists of extracts of Anhua Red Tea and drug-food homologous substances; the preparation method of the invention produces a special and brand-new preparation method resulting from the formula specialty; the invention has the comprehensive functions of collateral dredging, lipid reduction, sugar reduction, decompression and weight reduction.

The present invention provides a power system for a vehicle The power system comprising a supercapacitor-like electronic battery that is connected to a battery charger. The battery charger provides energy to the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A heater is operatively connected to the supercapacitor-like electronic battery to provide energy to heat the supercapacitor-like electronic battery thereby lowering the internal impedance of the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A charging apparatus is operatively connected to the battery charger. A motor is operatively connected to the vehicle and the supercapacitor-like electronic battery. A feedback loop controller is operatively connected to the heater, the supercapacitor-like electronic battery and the motor.

A waste heat utilization device includes a refrigeration cycle having a compressor, a Rankine cycle using a condenser in common with the refrigeration cycle, and a control unit which controls operation of the refrigeration cycle and the Rankine cycle. The control unit performs a continuation control of the Rankine cycle, in which the Rankine cycle is continuously operated regardless of an operation state of the compressor, when a load of the refrigeration cycle is lower than a predetermined load. In contrast, the control unit performs an intermittent control of the Rankine cycle, in which the Rankine cycle is intermittently operated in accordance with the operation state of the compressor such that the mechanical energy recovered by the expansion unit is larger than a driving energy of the compressor.

This invention is of particular use to patients with Diabetes Mellitus. It uses alkyl analogs of the methyl pyruvate (MP) family to provide energy and improve insulin and glucose homeostasis via accelerated intracellular delivery of protons and ATP from each MP. The energy upregulates cellular cross talk and networking resulting in a surge of ATP enabling NADH (via glycolysis) that enables pancreatic islet cells to obtain increased ATP allowing excess insulin manufacture. This process improves cellular respiration and expedites protein, lipid and hormone manufacture. The increased energy also enables telomeres and delays Hayflick limit. Instead of cellular repair, silence, or apoptosis, energy is allocated for cell / organ function. This invention curbs inflammation and ROS by idealizing cellular respiration and diminishing hyperglycemia. In turn a reduction of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), lessened target RNA and nucleic acid toxins, i.e., diminished HbA1c occurs. By decreased drain of cellular energy, genomic function improves.

A method and system limiting specific consumption of an aircraft by matching sizing of a power supply to actual power needs of a cabin pressure control system. The method optimizes overall efficiency of energy supplied onboard an aircraft including, in an environment near the cabin, at least one main power-generating engine, sized to serve as a single pneumatic energy-generating source for the cabin and as an at most partial propulsive, hydraulic, and / or electric energy-generating source for the rest of the aircraft. The method minimizes power differential between a nominal point of the power sources when the sources are operating, and a sizing point of non-propulsive energy contributions of the sources when the main engine has failed, by equally dividing power contributions of the main engines and the main power generator under nominal operating conditions and in an event of failure of a main engine.

A waste heat utilization device includes a refrigeration cycle having a compressor, a Rankine cycle using a condenser in common with the refrigeration cycle, and a control unit which controls operation of the refrigeration cycle and the Rankine cycle. The control unit performs a continuation control of the Rankine cycle, in which the Rankine cycle is continuously operated regardless of an operation state of the compressor, when a load of the refrigeration cycle is lower than a predetermined load. In contrast, the control unit performs an intermittent control of the Rankine cycle, in which the Rankine cycle is intermittently operated in accordance with the operation state of the compressor such that the mechanical energy recovered by the expansion unit is larger than a driving energy of the compressor.

The invention relates to a range extended electric vehicle power system adopting a planetary gear two speed transmission. The range extended electric vehicle power system adopting the planetary gear two speed transmission is characterized in that a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is connected with a shell of a double clutch transmission device; a first clutch of the double clutch transmission device is connected with a planetary gear mechanism through a transmission shaft; a second clutch of the double clutch transmission device is connected with a rotor of a first motor; a rotor of a second motor is connected with any one component of a sun wheel, a planetary carrier and a gear ring of the planetary gear mechanism; power is output by the set second component of the sun wheel, the planetary carrier and the gear ring; and two gear shifts are realized by controlling the motion state of the set third component of the sun wheel, the planetary carrier and the gear ring. A vehicle is mainly driven by the second motor when running at low speed, so that low-speed and low-load work of an engine is avoided and the economy and the emission performance of the whole vehicle are improved. The vehicle is driven by the power system through parallel operation when running at high speed, so that the energy transfer efficiency is high and the driving range of the vehicle is further prolonged on the basis of guaranteeing the power performance of the whole vehicle.

The invention features immunoconjugates for impeding weight gain and treating obesity in a subject. The immuno-conjugates comprise particular ghrelin polypeptides and a suitable carrier moiety.

The invention relates to an urban venous industrial park. Municipal solid waste is divided into old home appliances, construction waste, household waste, food waste, sludge, faeces and other biomass waste by a household waste separating system; the household waste is divided into dry waste and wet waste by a dry and wet separation device; the old home appliances, the construction waste and the dry waste are treated by a fossil waste processing system so as to form glass, plastic, metal, refuse derived fuel and recycled materials, and additionally, the fossil waste processing system is respectively connected with a generating system and a heating system; and the wet waste, the food waste, the sludge, the faeces and the other biomass waste are treated by a biomass waste processing system so as to form recycled water, biological carbon soil, methane gas and carbon dioxide. According to the urban venous industrial park, a resource-product-renewable resource closed-loop mode is realized, and the waste is changed into valuables and is recycled.

An energy balancing system is provided that ensures continuous energy output to compensate for energy fluctuations commonly associated with wind power generation. The flexible energy balancing system employs a base load high-pressure steam boiler that is associated with one or more steam turbine generators. The steam turbine generators are also associated with one or more heat recovery steam generators whose temperature is controlled by the exhaust from combustion turbine generators and the base load high-pressure steam boiler. The energy balancing system can be selectively tuned to quickly compensate for energy fluctuations associated with wind power generation.

A fluorescent lamp electronic ballast includes a power factor correction flyback circuit and an inverter ballast circuit. The power factor correction flyback circuit is composed of a rectifier connected to a DC to DC flyback converter. The flyback converter includes a flyback transformer connected to a diode / capacitor combination. The flyback transformer is switched during operation to produce a flyback waveform that is rectified by the diode and results in a DC output at the capacitor. The inverter ballast circuit receives the DC output and converts the DC output to an AC signal for operating the flourescent lamp.

The invention discloses a rapid switch method based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and link quality indicator (LQI) in a wireless sensor network, mainly solving the problems of low switch judgment precision and long time delay in the traditional switch process. The method is implemented by the following steps: 1) adopting an R value obtained by weighting and compounding the RSSI andLQI as a system preset parameter; 2) utilizing the R value for subnet selection, and reducing interactive times of scanning time delay and signalling by rapidly restoring a pre-adding flow especiallywhen pre-addition fails; 3) predicating geographic positions when in pre-switch, determining a subnet covering the position of a mobile node the next moment, and reducing the scanned subnet amount and switch time delay; and 4) utilizing a progressive judgment rule so as to avoid false switch and ping-pong effect. The method can effectively balance network capability, prolongs network life, and issuitable for the sensor network field which has high requirements on switch performance and is sensitive to switch time delay.

The invention provides a WSAN data collection method based on a bee colony algorithm. A technical scheme used is a WSAN node data collection algorithm oriented to sensor-actor collaboration, and an implementation process comprises establishing a cluster partition model, determining whether an actor node changes a data collection residing site or not according to energy consumption conditions of network related nodes, simultaneously introducing an inducing factor to determine a moving direction of the actor node, and solving an optimal residing position through an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. Finally, a proxy node is selected according to a node load quantization parameter value to be used as a temporary data storage terminal, and a data sending rate of the nodes in the network is adjusted adaptively. Compared with the prior art, the method provided by the invention effectively balances energy of the nodes in the WSAN, improves stability of the network, and promotes comprehensive utilization efficiency of network resource.

The invention discloses a construction method of an urban venous industry park system. The construction method comprises the steps of garbage sorting: sorting urban household garbage composed of biomass garbage and fossil garbage, and sorting construction garbage and old household electrical appliances out of household garbage; biomass separation treatment: carrying out bag breaking and dry-wet separation on the sorted household garbage, so as to form dry garbage and wet garbage; and garbage energy conversion: carrying out anaerobic digestion on wet garbage and sludge to form biogas, nitrogen-containing filtrate and biological carbon soil, purifying biogas to form natural gas, purifying the nitrogen-containing filtrate through a nitrogen-containing digestion liquid to form recycled water and biological carbon soil, utilizing recycled water and biological carbon soil to cultivate trees in pots, breaking, disassembling and sorting / separating construction garbage, the old household electrical appliances and dry garbage to obtain renewable energy and renewable materials, and preparing renewable energy into fuel through garbage derived fuel. According to the construction method, the close-loop mode of resources-products-renewable resources is achieved, and household and industrial garbage is changed into treasure and is circularly utilized.

The invention relates to a topology management method based on an event-driven wireless sensor network. The method comprises the following steps that when sensing that an event occurs, a node enters apre-activated state from a dormant state, and conducts first-stage redundancy determination according to the position of a neighbor node and a sensing range, the node determined to be redundant returns to the dormant state, and other nodes compete for a cluster head, and completes a clustering operation; the cluster head sends an activation signal to a relay node on a path according to a routingtable, meanwhile, member nodes in the cluster, before sending the sensing data to the cluster head, carryes out second-stage redundancy determination, the node determined to be redundant maintains a pre-activation state, and the other member nodes in the cluster send the sensing data to the cluster head; the cluster head carries out fusion processing on the sensing data and then transmits the sensing data to a base station according to the path in the routing table; and when a target moves to a cluster edge, a prediction clustering mechanism is triggered. According to the method, the high real-time performance and reliability of data can be ensured, and the network energy consumption is reduced.

The invention discloses a multifunctional distributed power supply grid-connection device based on a nine-switch-tube inverter. When a power grid operates normally, one output port of the NSI is connected to a power distribution network through a grid-connection transformer, electric energy generated by a micro-source is inverted into an alternating current meeting grid-connection conditions, and DC bus voltage of a current transformer is kept stable; the other output port of the NSI is connected to a power grid in a parallel manner, and a harmonic current compensation value is added to a current loop to improve power grid electric energy quality; and when the power grid has fault, low-voltage ride through of a distributed power supply is realized through coordinative cooperation between the two output ports of the NSI. Compared with a back-to-back inverter structure, the device not only can save three switch tubes and reduce system cost, but also can carry out compensation on the power quality problem of the power distribution network, thereby realizing LVRT of the distributed power supply under the fault state of the power distribution network and improving operation safety and stability of the power grid after the distributed power supply is accessed.

In general, this invention relates to nucleic acid and amino acid sequences involved in fat metabolism regulation and the use of these sequences as targets for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity and obesity-related diseases. In addition, the invention relates to screening methods for identifying modulators of body fat metabolism and the development of treatments for obesity and obesity-related diseases.

The invention relates to a method for instantly adjusting energy balance of aluminium electrolytic tank according to alumina feeding quantity which is adapted for automatic charging aluminium cell comprising, when the aluminum oxide charging quantity varies, adjusting the tank voltage instantaneously, in waiting effect cycle and artificial stop charging stage, lowering the tank voltage below the initialized voltage of the electrolytic tank, during insufficient charging cycle, lowering the tank voltage below the initialized voltage of the electrolytic tank by another value, during excess charging cycle, increasing the tank voltage above the initialized voltage of the electrolytic tank.

In a switched-mode buck power converter, superior regulation with excellent transient response is provided when per-cycle energy demand is determined and balanced with per-cycle inductive energy supply to control per-cycle inductive energy charging. Such per cycle inductive energy calculation is improved through the prediction of pedestal energy during operating periods of Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM). Further, recovery from severe transients sometimes straddles multiple chopping cycles. Such recovery is best obtained by preserving energy balance information from one or more un-recovered chopping cycles, to be used to restore energy balance in subsequent cycles. Significant improvement over prior art converters may be obtained even when the energy balance data used for control and recovery are imprecise approximations of true energy demand and supply.This invention provides control circuitry and a method for using energy balance information to better control a buck converter, with the further improvements of pedestal energy prediction and extension of energy balance over multiple chopping cycles, and for using said circuitry and methods to maintain stability and recover from transients more reliably than in the prior art.

The invention discloses feed for soft-shelled turtles. The feed for the soft-shelled turtles is prepared from, by weight, 30-40 parts of wheat bran, 30-40 parts of soybean meal, 20-30 parts of earthworm powder, 20-30 parts of shrimp meal, 10-14 parts of shell powder, 5-7 parts of gingko leaves, 8-12 parts of hawthorns, 6-8 parts of kelp, 1-3 parts of montmorillonite powder, 2-3 parts of monocalcium phosphate, 8-12 parts of vegetable oil, 0.1-0.3 part of vitamin E, 30-40 parts of soybean curb residues and 40-50 parts of water. The feed for the soft-shelled turtles is scientific and reasonable in formula and can increase the growth speed of the soft-shelled turtles; no chemical substance such as antibiotics and hormone is added, the culturing benefits are increased, and the environmental pollution is reduced.

A process for creating a laser braze weld joint between a current collector and a terminal pin in the construction of electrochemical cells is described. The laser braze welding process utilizes a laser weld instrument to create a braze-like joint between two work pieces. The weld joint is created by controlling the amount of laser heat and energy imparted to the work pieces through proper control and positioning of the laser beam with respect to the work pieces. Preferably, the method is used to bond the terminal pin to the cathode current collector. This method of attachment is suitable for either primary or secondary cells, particularly those powering implantable biomedical devices.

The invention provides a feed for a gosling. The feed comprises, by weight, 40 to 45% of ground yellow corn, 45 to 50% of ground wheat, 8 to 12% of ground barley, 3 to 7% of fine wheat bran, 3 to 7% of whole meal, 1 to 3% of a dehydrated greenfeed, 28 to 35% of bean cake powder, 0.8 to 1.4% of stone flour, 1 to 1.5% of calcium phosphate, 0.3 to 0.7% of salt and 0.8 to 1.2% of a composite premix. The feed for the gosling provided by the invention has the following technical effects: the feed has proper energy and protein content for the gosling, each kilo of the feed contains 2766 MJ of metabolizable energy and 22% of crude protein, the energy and the protein are balanced, and the feed has the characteristics of high quality and a low price.

The application discloses an interplanting method for potato and garlic in organic sorghum land comprising following steps: potato variety selection and potato seed preparation; garlic variety selection and garlic seed preparation; organic sorghum straw harvest and plant ash preparation; soil preparation, reapplying base fertilizer and excavating drainage ditch; the row ratio of potato to garlic; planting potato; ridging for potato; interplanting garlic; harvesting potato and weeding, fertilizing and earthing for garlic; later-period management; harvesting young garlic shoot; harvesting garlic. By means of the method, the target of maintaining land with land is achieved; the Hongyingzi organic sorghum land system energy balance is kept; the soil organic matter content is greatly increased; soil is effectively fertilized; the yield of organic sorghum is increased without increasing other production cost.

The invention provides an Oncorhynchus mykiss forage. The Oncorhynchus mykiss forage comprises 18-24 parts of fishmeal, 35-45 parts of meat and internal organs of fish, 5-7 parts of a shell-fish paste, 20-25 parts of cottonseed meal, 3-5 parts of wheat flour, 2-3 parts of vinasse, 1-2 parts of multiple vitamins and 2-3 parts of corn oil. The Oncorhynchus mykiss forage has the advantages of carrying of nutrient components suitable for adult Oncorhynchus mykiss, balanced energy and proteins, and high forage conversion rate.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a dynamic clustering target tracking method and device for a wireless sensor network. By adopting the method and device, the technical problem that when a cluster member sends detection information to a cluster head node in a wireless sensor network application, the network power consumption is increased due to node retransmission can be solved, and the technical problem of how to optimize a cluster head selection strategy and further optimize the power consumption of tracking cluster domains can also be solved.

A fluorescent lamp electronic ballast includes a power factor correction flyback circuit and an inverter ballast circuit. The power factor correction flyback circuit is composed of a rectifier connected to a DC to DC flyback converter. The flyback converter includes a flyback transformer connected to a diode / capacitor combination. The flyback transformer is switched during operation to produce a flyback waveform that is rectified by the diode and results in a DC output at the capacitor. The inverter ballast circuit receives the DC output and converts the DC output to an AC signal for operating the flourescent lamp.

The invention provides an Oncorhynchus mykiss fingerling forage. The Oncorhynchus mykiss fingerling forage comprises 55-65 parts of Peruvian fishmeal, 8-12 parts of soybean meal, 2-8 parts of wheat bran, 8-12 parts of barley flour, 2-8 parts of corn flour, 2-8 parts of powdered Leaf of Japanese Pagoda tree, 2-8 parts of beer yeast, 2-4 parts of soybean oil, 0.5-1.5 parts of mineral matters, 0.05-0.15 parts of multiple vitamins and 4-6 parts of phosphatide. The Oncorhynchus mykiss fingerling forage has the advantages of carrying of nutrient components suitable for Oncorhynchus mykiss fingerlings, balanced energy and proteins, and high forage conversion rate.