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We report on the use of leaf diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for plant disease detection. A smartphone-operated, compact diffused reflectance spectrophotometer is used for field collection of leaf diffuse reflectance spectra to enable pre-symptomatic detection of the progression of potato late blight disease post inoculation with oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Neural-network-based analysis predicts infection with >96% accuracy, only 24 h after inoculation with the pathogen, and nine days before visual late blight symptoms appear. Our study demonstrates the potential of using portable optical spectroscopy in tandem with machine learning analysis for early diagnosis of plant diseases.

Neural networks have been widely used in color space conversion in the digital printing process. The shallow neural network easily obtains the local optimal solution when establishing multi-dimensional nonlinear mapping. In this paper, an improved high-precision deep belief network (DBN) algorithm is proposed to achieve the color space conversion from CMYK to L*a*b*. First, the PANTONE TCX color card is used as sample data, in which the CMYK value of the color block is used as input and the L*a*b* value is used as output; then, the conversion model from CMYK to L*a*b* color space is established by using DBN. To obtain better weight and threshold, DBN is optimized by a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed method has the highest conversion accuracy compared with Back Propagation Neural Network, Generalized Regression Neural Network, and traditional DBN color space conversion methods. It can also adapt to the actual production demand of color management in digital printing.

This study investigated the anti-inflammatory effects and possible underlying mechanisms of Salvia miltiorrhiza polysaccharides (SMP) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. The cytotoxicity of SMP was detected by the MTT method. The morphological change of RAW264.7 was observed by Diff-Quik staining. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to evaluate the production of cytokines in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells. The nitric oxide (NO) kit assay detected the NO release from LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells. Real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the transcriptions of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), inducible NO synthase (iNOS), and cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells. The protein expression of nuclear NF-κB was measured by Western blot. The results showed that the safe medication range of SMP was less than 3 mg/mL. Compared with the LPS model group, SMP (2, 1, and 0.5 mg/mL) improved the degree of cell deformation and reduced the amount of pseudopodia, and statistically reduced the secretions of cytokines in cells induced by LPS (P 0.01) at different time points. SMP significantly inhibited the mRNA transcriptions of TNF-α, IL-6, iNOS, and COX-2 and the protein expressions of NF-κB, p-p65, and p-IκBa. In conclusion, this study preliminarily proved the protective effect of SMP on LPS-induced RAW264.7 macrophage. Its mechanism might be related to inhibition of NF-κB signal pathway and the gene expressions and secretion of cytokines.

Hybrid App is mainly realized by calling each other by JavaScript (JS) and Native, so it implements the mechanism of ‘one development, multi operation’, so it can be called the real cross-platform development. The most striking difference of Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5) and JavaScript from WebApp is that they call the bottom function encapsulated by NativeApp. Hybrid App is characterized by cross-platform as it uses the browser as engine; it has the similar development costs while the far more development efficiency compared with NativeApp. This paper used HybridApp development mode to develop by taking Android platform as the example; with the help of online map service and query interface of MAP WORLD, the foreground show and map interaction were implemented by Openlayers map frame; users' information data was managed by Sqlite embedded database; the mobile devices information were acquired by calling each other by PhonedGap frame and mobile devices; functions like friends-positioning, enquiry POI and north arrow, etc., were realized in this App. This paper also elaborated the prospects and application value of Hybrid App in future mobile development.

Manganese oxides hollow spheres were synthesized by heating manganese carbonate precursors prepared by a one-step, solid-state method. Addition of sodium chloride (NaCl) and surfactant nonylphenyl ether (NP9), heating time and heating temperature played important roles in the synthesis process. The crystals were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). It was shown that the product was pure and crystallized very well.