Field-Induced Multiscale Polarization Configuration Transitions of Mesentropic Lead-Free Piezoceramics Achieving Giant Energy Harvesting Performance

The development of high-performance (K,Na)NbO₃ (KNN)-based lead-free piezoceramics for next-generation electronic devices is crucial for achieving environmentally sustainable society. However, despite recent improvements in piezoelectric coefficients, correlating their properties to underlying multiscale structures remains a key issue for high-performance KNN-based ceramics with complex phase boundaries. Here, this study proposes a medium-entropy strategy to design “local polymorphic distortion” in conjunction with the construction of uniformly oversize grains in the newly developed KNN solid-solution, resulting in a novel large-size hierarchical domain architecture (≈0.7 µm wide). Such a structure not only facilitates polarization rotation but also ensures a large residual polarization, which significantly improves the piezoelectricity (≈3.2 times) and obtains a giant energy harvesting performance (W_out = 2.44 mW, P_D = 35.32 µW mm⁻³, outperforming most lead-free piezoceramics). This study confirms the coexistence of multiphase through the atomic-resolution polarization features and analyzes the domain/phase transition mechanisms using in situ electric field structural characterizations, revealing that the electric field induces highly effective multiscale polarization configuration transitions based on T–O–R sequential phase transitions. This study demonstrates a new strategy for designing high-performance piezoceramics and facilitates the development of lead-free piezoceramic materials in energy harvesting applications.     

Shaping Luminescent Properties of Yb3+ and Ho3+ Co‐Doped Upconverting Core–Shell β‐NaYF4 Nanoparticles by Dopant Distribution and Spacing

At the core of luminescence color and lifetime tuning of rare earth doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs), is the understanding of the impact of the particle architecture for commonly used sensitizer (S) and activator (A) ions. In this respect, a series of core@shell NaYF₄ UCNPs doped with Yb³⁺ and Ho³⁺ ions are presented here, where the same dopant concentrations are distributed in different particle architectures following the scheme: YbHo core and YbHo@…, …@YbHo, Yb@Ho, Ho@Yb, YbHo@Yb, and Yb@YbHo core–shell NPs. As revealed by quantitative steady‐state and time‐resolved luminescence studies, the relative spatial distribution of the A and S ions in the UCNPs and their protection from surface quenching has a critical impact on their luminescence characteristics. Although the increased amount of Yb³⁺ ions boosts UCNP performance by amplifying the absorption, the Yb³⁺ ions can also efficiently dissipate the energy stored in the material through energy migration to the surface, thereby reducing the overall energy transfer efficiency to the activator ions. The results provide yet another proof that UC phosphor chemistry combined with materials engineering through intentional core@shell structures may help to fine‐tune the luminescence features of UCNPs for their specific future applications in biosensing, bioimaging, photovoltaics, and display technologies.     

绿色计算：内涵及趋势

绿色计算是推动科技进步和社会可持续发展的一种新型计算模式,已成为国际竞争的焦点和制高点,关系到国家政治、经济和社会安全。绿色计算涉及系统结构、系统软件、并行分布式计算及计算机网络,它以保证计算系统的高效、可靠及提供普适化服务为前提,以计算系统的低耗为目标,面向新型计算机体系结构和包括云计算在内的新型计算模式,通过构建能耗感知的计算系统、网络互联环境和计算服务体系,为日益普适的个性化、多样化信息服务方式提供低耗支撑环境。     

Modeling organizational performance indicators

Performance measurement and analysis is crucial for steering the organization to realize its strategic and operational goals. Relevant performance indicators and their relationships to goals and activities need to be determined and analyzed. Current organization modeling approaches do not reflect this in an adequate way. This paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting a framework for modeling performance indicators within a general organization modeling framework.     

Strategy, networks and systems in the global translation services market

The globalisation of markets has led to an increased demand for language translation services that support and enable communication between economic partners. For example, technical documents, software systems, business documents and web sites all need to be translated into multiple languages for individual national markets, and the information that they contain changes periodically. This paper sets out a theoretical framework that describes the architectures of business processes within and between separate firms that are used to support the delivery and management of services. This is done by coordinating the fit between externally generated problem complexity, from customers, and the internally generated complexity of different potential network configuration solutions. The theoretical framework is an architecture of how complexity is generated and managed at the different structural levels and across the different processual stages of an industry. A case study of thebigword, a major international translation services company, illustrates how the framework is applied in practice. The case study analyses the implementation of an electronic market platform which enables the coordination of the different stakeholders involved in the translation services market. These stakeholders include translators, translation services companies and their clients in a global business network.     

徽商文化在建筑与装饰设计中的体现

本文介绍了徽商形成的原因,分析了徽商文化的基本特征,重点论述在徽商私宅建筑与装饰的几种典型设计形式中体现出徽商文化影响的痕迹,并指出徽商中"贾而好儒"的思想是形成徽州建筑与装饰设计中典型形式出现的深层次原因。     

徽州古村落旅游品牌视觉形象现状的调查与分析

本文是针对当前皖南地区的徽州古村落旅游形象系统现状的调研报告,调演中选择了当前皖南地区几个最具代表性的徽州古村落聚集地:宏村、西递、潜口、歙县等,从它们的旅游品牌的视觉形象入手,通过对徽州古村落旅游品牌视觉形象的相关设计进行实地考查、调研,探究影响徽州古村落旅游品牌形象设计的相关因素,然后结合相关理论与营销实际进行深入分析,抓出主要问题,为后续的徽州古村落旅游品牌形象规划设计找到最佳的切入点并提供科学的依据。     

Hardware assisted watermarking for multimedia

Digital media offer several distinct advantages over analog media, such as high quality, ease of editing, and ease of processing operations such as compression and high fidelity copying. Digital data is commonly available through digital TV broadcast, CD, DVD, and computing devices such as personal computers. The ease by which a digital media object can be duplicated and distributed has led to the need for effective digital rights management tools. Digital watermarking is one such tool. Watermarking is the process of embedding extra data called a watermark into a multimedia object, like image, audio, or video, such that the watermark can later be detected or extracted in order to make an assertion regarding the object. During the last decade, numerous software based watermarking schemes have appeared in the literature and watermarking research has attained a certain degree of maturity. But hardware based watermarking systems have evolved more recently only and they are still at their infancy. The goal of hardware assisted watermarking is to achieve low power usage, real-time performance, reliability, and ease of integration with existing consumer electronic devices. In this paper, we survey the hardware assisted solutions proposed in the literature for watermarking of multimedia objects. The survey is preceded by an introduction to the background issues involved in digital watermarking.