Novel tin‐coupled star‐shaped medium vinyl butadiene rubber. I. Arm number and its effect on properties

To achieve low rolling resistance, high wet grip, and favorable overall performance, star‐shaped medium vinyl butadiene rubber (S‐MVBR) was designed and prepared by “core‐first” method, where novel multifunctional organolithium containing Sn atom as initiator, THF as structure regulator, and carbon–hydrogen compound as solvent. The results showed that coupling reaction between SnCl₄ and dilithium is stoichiometrical, and this method has much higher efficiency than the “arm‐first” method. When dilithium is composed of 4–10 repeating units, the average arm number of S‐MVBR is conveniently controlled between 3 and 5 by initiator functionality, which can be easily regulated by the mole ratio of active lithium of dilithium short chain to Cl^? in SnCl₄. As Sn coupling decreases numbers of noncrosslinking free ends, S‐MVBR has lower rolling resistance, dynamic heating and higher wet grip than linear MVBR. Meanwhile, mechanical properties and processing properties are improved. And the formation of multiarm structure has little effect on viscosity. S‐MVBR with arm number of 3.8 has optimal overall performance. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 104: 3917–3923, 2007     

Content-aware optimization on rate-distortion and network traffic for scalable video multicast networks

This paper aims to optimize the content-aware prioritization of scalable video multicast, which is coupled with multipath streaming and network coding based routing. It constructs multiple layer distribution meshes for the scalable video stream to minimize the total video distortion at all the receivers, determines the base layer meshes with minimum costs to maintain application-layer QoS and the layer synchronization of SVC streaming, and improves the network throughput by encouraging path-overlapping transmissions and thus allowing bandwidth sharing among different receivers for the same video layer by utilizing network coding. The targeted problem is formulated into a minimization programming in which the quality variation between layers, the transmission cost of the base layer, as well as the efficient resource utilization are jointly considered. By decomposition and dual approach, the global convex problem is solved by a two-level decentralized iterative algorithm. The implementation of the distributed algorithm is discussed with regard to the communication overhead, and the convergence performance is validated by numerical experiments. Packet-level simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm could approximately achieve the maximum flow rates determined by Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem and benefit the overall received video quality.     

Algorithms for invariant long-wave infrared face segmentation: evaluation and comparison

This paper presents two methods for automatic segmentation of images of faces captured in long wavelength infrared, allowing a wide range of face rotations, expressions and artifacts (such as glasses and hats). We also present the validation of segmentation results using a recognition method to show the impact of the segmentation accuracy on the recognition. The paper presents two different approaches (one aimed at real-time performance and the other at high accuracy) and compares their performance against three other previously published methods. The proposed approaches are based on statistical modeling of pixel intensities and active contour application, although several other image processing operations are also performed. Experiments were performed on a total of 893 test images from four public available databases. The obtained results improve on previous existing methods up to 29.5 % for the first measure error (E ₁) and up to 34.7 % for the second measure (E ₂), depending on the method and database. Regarding the computational time, our proposals improve up to 63.32 % when compared with the other proposals. We also present the validation of the various segmentation methods that are presented by applying a face recognition method.     

矿山工程设计可靠性研究

本文讨论了矿山工程设计中地质储量、矿山工程建设、工艺系统、露天矿投资等的可靠性计算方法,据此可对矿山能否达到设计规模及预期效益作出评价,从而可采取相应对策。     

用两个形状指数表征粉煤灰颗粒形貌的研究

引用两个形状指数表征颗粒形状的概念,即先将颗粒形状近似为椭圆,再将椭圆图像分离:以圆为基准的颗粒宏观形状指数δ;以光滑椭圆为基准的颗粒轮廓凹凸度,即微观形状指数ζ。分析和发展了近似椭圆模型。并运用图像分析仪对粉煤灰、水泥样品进行实验。结果表明,粉煤灰颗粒的两个形状指数δ和ζ都大于水泥颗粒。证明粉煤灰颗粒的球形度、表面光滑度优于水泥,而且,随着粒径增大,δ和ζ呈下降趋势,表明磨制颗粒越粗。(?)粒形状越不规则。文中还运用近似椭圆模型再现了颗粒的模拟图像。     

浅谈当前环境保护工作现状及对策

随着经济的飞速发展,我国的环境状况在不断恶化。就目前的环境现状、环境污染问题和环境保护工作现状进行了详细分析和阐述,并对环境保护工作提出参考和建议。     

小型农田水利规划设计要点

对农田水利规划设计的重要性进行了阐述,并分析、研究了小型农田水利规划设计的要点和标准,希望可以为我国水利工程建设提供一定的借鉴。     

RBM学习方法对比

随着深度学习在模型、算法与理论上的突破性进展,以玻尔兹曼机为基础的各类深度模型近年来在目标识别与自然语言处理等诸多领域得到广泛应用。概述了玻尔兹曼机的相关概念,分析了受限玻尔兹曼机模型所具有的优势。对RBM中的学习方法进行了详细的描述,对应用最为广泛的受限玻尔兹曼机的几种典型学习算法进行了对比,并指出学习算法的研究在未来仍将是深度学习中的一项核心问题。     

我国水合肼和ADC发泡剂生产现状及需碱量预测

介绍了我国水合肼和ＡＤＣ发泡剂的生产现状，预测了这两种产品所需的耗碱量。