Review of Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists.

Reviews the book by Baruss (see record 2003-02669-000), which reviews the experimental and phenomenological research on alterations of consciousness, ranging from sleep and dreaming to mystical and near-death experience. The reviewer suggests there is a clear agenda announced by the book's subtitle, "An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists." In the view of Baruss, all too often in states of consciousness research a preoccupation with theory has kept investigators from full engagement with the actual data. The book provides readable and at times appropriately controversial discussions of empirical literature on dreaming and lucid dreams, daydreaming and fantasy proneness, hypnosis, dissociative identity disorder, shamanism and possession states, psychedelic drug research, parapsychology, trance-chanelling and mediumship, the alien abduction syndrome, classical mystical experience, out-of-body and near-death experiences, and recent attempts by MacDonald and others to assess individual differences in spirituality through multifactor questionnaires. However, the reviewer believes that the breadth of coverage of both recent and past research is too often highly selective, and that the author's rejection of theory is both questionable in itself and more illusion than reality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

用软件实现曼彻斯特编译码方法的研究

介绍了在测井仪器中如何用单片机软件编程将井下仪测试数据实现曼彻斯特编码、发送传输 ,及地面解码等方法 ;阐述了井下仪实现双极性曼彻斯特码差分化的技术原理 ,地面译码时同步识别、数据采集、数据串 /并转换等技术方法 ,以及该方法在实践中应用情况。实际应用表明 ,该技术传 /收数据稳定可靠 ,智能化程度高 ,大大地简化了仪器硬件电路 ,提高了仪器性能价格比 ,在生产测井领域具有良好的推广应用前景。     

利用信息融合方法的三维特征提取

本文提出了一种基于信息融合的物体三维特征的提取方法，该方法利用两幅互相配准的三维测距图像和灰度图像，来提取多面体的三维特征。首先，通过分析灰度图像中的灰度变化及测距图像中的测距值变化，分别求取各自图像中物体的特征点及特征边；然后，利用两配准图像之间的对应关系，求得所有特征点、面与多边形在三维测距图像中的三维表示；接着，通过分析三维测距图像中所测得的各候选平面上特定点与边处的曲率及法向，验证候选平面     

给水管网计算中的数据转换方法

在给水管网计算中,通过建立环-管段矩阵、环-节点矩阵以及输入节点流量、节点坐标等少量数据,通过计算和数据转换,便可求得经济管径、管段设计流量、节点水压值、水厂供水量、管网造价、年费用折算值等。采用该方法进行管网计算,可以减少40%～70%的计算时间。     

宽带自适应跳频控制器

本文叙述宽带自适应跳频控制器的原理及方案,频率集的配置、自适应跳频拒收门限及频点更新、跳频码序列及同步等。有效地组织宽带自适应跳频系统能避开大部分固定和半固定性质的单频连续波干扰,使得移动卫星通信系统中实现高可靠性的数据传输。     

一种实时心电图数据压缩算法

提出了一种实时心电图ＥＣＧ数据压缩算法。它是将自适应变门限算法与转折点算法相结合。自适应变门限算法是对ＡＺＴＥＣ算法的改进．它计算ＥＣＧ信号的几个统计参数来确定可变门限值。转折点算法是分析采样点的趋势并只存储每对连续的采样点中的一个。它保留信号的斜坡标志发生变化的峰点和谷点。本文算法兼有这两种算法的优点。这种算法在较高压缩比的情况下重建心电图信号失真较小．     

Transputer在高速雷达视频回波采集系统中的应用

介绍以ＴｒａｎｓｐｕｔｅｒＴ４２５单片高速并行计算机为中心控制环境，与高速Ａ／Ｄ（３５ＭＨｚ，８ｂｉｔ相结合构成的实时高速雷达回波采集系统。该系统的特点是：采集速度高，存贮量大；利用标准的Ｔｒａｎｓｐｕｔｅｒ链路实时完成处理器间的数据传输和通讯；系统采用并行Ｏｃｃａｍ语言编程。这样既充分发挥处理器的并行功能，又使数据采集和数据处理同步进行，这在实时信号采集与处理系统中具有特别重要的意义。     

高速网络协议：问题与答案

作者在本文中指出了吉比特网络的目标及其所带来的问题，采用了提出问题并回答问题（或说明可能答案）的方法来阐明。     

Qualitative representation of spatial knowledge in two-dimensional space

Various relation-based systems, concerned with the qualitative representation and processing of spatial knowledge, have been developed in numerous application domains. In this article, we identify the common concepts underlying qualitative spatial knowledge representation, we compare the representational properties of the different systems, and we outline the computational tasks involved in relation-based spatial information processing. We also describesymbolic spatial indexes, relation-based structures that combine several ideas in spatial knowledge representation. A symbolic spatial index is an array that preserves only a set of spatial relations among distinct objects in an image, called the modeling space; the index array discards information, such as shape and size of objects, and irrelevant spatial relations. The construction of a symbolic spatial index from an input image can be thought of as a transformation that keeps only a set of representative points needed to define the relations of the modeling space. By keeping the relative arrangements of the representative points in symbolic spatial indexes and discarding all other points, we maintain enough information to answer queries regarding the spatial relations of the modeling space without the need to access the initial image or an object database. Symbolic spatial indexes can be used to solve problems involving route planning, composition of spatial relations, and update operations.     

A semantic modeling approach for image retrieval by content

We introduce a semantic data model to capture the hierarchical, spatial, temporal, and evolutionary semantics of images in pictorial databases. This model mimics the user's conceptual view of the image content, providing the framework and guidelines for preprocessing to extract image features. Based on the model constructs, a spatial evolutionary query language (SEQL), which provides direct image object manipulation capabilities, is presented. With semantic information captured in the model, spatial evolutionary queries are answered efficiently. Using an object-oriented platform, a prototype medical-image management system was implemented at UCLA to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.