Herb Ephedra (Ma Huang in Chinese) and Ramulus Cinnamomi (Gui Zhi in Chinese) are traditional Chinese herbs, often used together to treat asthma, nose and lung congestion, and fever with anhidrosis. Due to the adverse effects of ephedrine, clinical use of Ma Huang is restricted. However, Gui Zhi extract has been reported to decrease spontaneous activity in rats and exert anti-inflammatory and n...

The effective noise reduction schemes in ultrasonic inspection have shown significant role for detection of flaws in materials. This paper presents the comparative result of noise reducing schemes based on Hilbert-Huang transform and Wavelet transform. The basic principle of HHT scheme includes two parts which are empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithm and a sum of intrinsic mode function...

The dynamics of modern interconnected power system is characterized by low frequency oscillations (LFOs) which are produced as results of various disturbances such as changes in loads, tripping of lines, faults, and other discrete events. A data driven empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method is applied to the detection of low frequency oscillation modes from disturbed trajectory with its stro...

The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) was a method pioneered by Huang et al [8] as an alternative technique to the traditional Fourier and wavelet techniques for studying signals. It decomposes a signal into several components called intrinsic mode functions (IMF), which have shown to admit better behaved instantaneous frequencies via Hilbert transforms. In this paper we propose an alternative...

Detection of failures in induction motors is one of the most important concerns in industry. An unexpected fault in the induction motors can cause a loss of financial resources and waste of time that most companies cannot afford. The contribution of this paper is a fusion of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) methodologies for detection of multiple...

A co-location pattern is a set of spatial features frequently located together in space. A frequent pattern is a set of items that frequently appears in a transaction database. Since its introduction, the paradigm of frequent pattern mining has undergone a shift from candidate generation-and-test based approaches to projection based approaches. Co-location patterns resemble frequent patterns in...

Three new species of Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) are described from China, Coccobius bimaculatus Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov., Coccobius jinshanensis Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov. and Coccobius leptocerus Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov. Coccobius abdominis Huang 1994 and Coccobius furviflagellatus Huang 1994, originally described in Chinese, are redescribed in English an...

Quasi-subfield polynomials were introduced by Huang et al. together with a new algorithm to solve the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) over finite fields of small characteristic. In this paper we provide both quasi-subfield polynomial families and theorem limiting their existence. Our results do not allow derive any speedup for ECDLP compared previous approaches.

It is an important issue to study the prediction precision of Particulate Matter 2.5, PM2.5 (28 μg/m3), concentration change. The concentration of PM2.5 is influenced by many factors, and its change is characterized by non-linearity and randomness. This paper establishes a prediction model of PM2.5 concentration change to fit the nonlinear and random trend by combining Auto-Regressive Integrate...