Effects of qufeng xuanfei formula in guinea pig model of airway hyperergy.

This work aimed to clarify the potential regulating effects of Qufeng Xuanfei formula (QFXF) on airway neurogenic inflammation and its underlying target signal pathway. Guinea pig model of airway hyperergy (AHR) was used. The relative susceptibility of major proteins to airway neurogenic inflammation was assessed using Western blot immunoassay followed by being separated by SDS-PAGE.

Using Machine Learning Methods to Provision Virtual Sensors in Sensor-Cloud.

The advent of sensor-cloud technology alleviates the limitations of traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in terms of energy, storage, and computing, which has tremendous potential in various agricultural internet of things (IoT) applications. In the sensor-cloud environment, virtual sensor provisioning is an essential task. It chooses physical sensors to create virtual sensors in response to the users' requests.

Patrol detection for replica attacks on wireless sensor networks.

Replica attack is a critical concern in the security of wireless sensor networks. We employ mobile nodes as patrollers to detect replicas distributed in different zones in a network, in which a basic patrol detection protocol and two detection algorithms for stationary and mobile modes are presented. Then we perform security analysis to discuss the defense strategies against the possible attacks on the proposed detection protocol.

[Research and application advances on vegetative filter strip].

Water resources have been increasingly polluted, while vegetative filter strip (VFS) is accepted as one of the best management practices to reduce water body pollution, especially non-point source pollution. A vegetative filter strip is a vegetated strip of land, which separates the runoff and pollutant contributing areas from surface water bodies and allows the runoff and associated pollutants to be attenuated before reaching surface waters via infiltration, adsorption, uptake, decay, filtering, and deposition. In this paper, the research and application advances on VFS were reviewed, including the history, structure, mechanisms of pollution control, design, management, and cost effectiveness of VFS.