Publications by authors named "Zechao Hu"

To suppress the significant vibration line spectra of piping systems under multi-frequency harmonic excitations, a novel dynamic vibration absorber (NDVA) is designed. The NDVA integrates numerous independent resonant units within a finite space through an ingenious structural design and possesses rich frequency regulation characteristics. A vibration model of the piping system equipped with the NDVA is established, and the approximate equivalent parameters of both the piping and the resonant units are inverted based on the frequency response function (FRF) test results.

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Shafting alignment is crucial for marine propulsion systems and may affect the safety and stability of ship operations. Air spring vibration isolation systems (ASVISs) for marine shafting can help control the shafting alignment state by actively adjusting air spring pressures while effectively reducing the mechanical noise. However, how to accurately control the alignment state of marine shafting with air spring vibration isolation system remains a challenge.

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A 90-day feeding trial was conducted to assess the effects of black soldier fly larvae meal (BSFLM) as a replacement for soybean meal (SM) on growth performance and flesh quality of grass carp. A total of 420 grass carp (299.93 ± 0.

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Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) aims to provide the most similar images to a given query. Feature extraction plays an essential role in retrieval performance within a CBIR pipeline. Current CBIR studies would either uniformly extract feature information from the input image and use it directly or employ some trainable spatial weighting module which is then used for similarity comparison between pairs of query and candidate matching images.

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Understanding particle size distribution and size-resolved gas-particle partitioning of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) is important for characterizing their fate in atmosphere. However, the size-resolved gas-particle partitioning characteristics of SVOCs has not been adequately considered. To address this issue, the present study collected gaseous and size-fractioned particulate samples both in and outside of schools, offices, and residences in three districts of different urbanization levels in a megacity, Guangzhou, South China during two seasons.

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Glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β) plays a crucial role in regulating lipid metabolism, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and apoptosis in mammals, however, its gene structure and function is little known about in fish. Here, its two paralogs, grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) GSK-3β1 and GSK-3β2 were isolated and characterized, encoding peptides of 421 and 457 amino acids, respectively. These two paralogs may have originated from the teleost-specific genome duplication (TSGD) event.

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