The Avenue of Sphinxes： Restoration of a Legend

The redevelopment of historic cities is often challenged by intricate--and in many cases contradictory--missions. From one side, there is the urge to comprehensively preserve cultural resources. At the same time, opportunities of economic growth should be made available and needs of contemporary living maintained and nourished. The main aim of this paper is to reconcile probable incompatibilities between such missions through promoting ＂sensitive＂ redevelopment approaches in historic cities. The paper focuses on the city of Luxor, Egypt with its immensely capturing yet quite undermined legend： the Avenue of Sphinxes. In Luxor, the injection of nonintrusive interventions presents itself as a highly potential candidate in protecting and enhancing the experience of the avenue while meeting contemporary needs of living. Adopting less sensitive development approaches can lead the quality of experiencing the whole city to be worsened for the increasing numbers of tourists and locals.     

Non-invasive and rapid analysis for observation of internal structure of press-coated tablet using X-ray computed tomography

Background: Since the internal structure of a tablet can be measured without destruction of the sample by X‐ray computed tomography (CT), it could be applied to quality control of tablets during the manufacturing process. Aim: A novel, fast, noninvasive tablet observation method was developed to evaluate the internal structure of commercial press-coated tablets by using X-ray CT. Method: Thirty-two CT image slices of four kinds of commercial press-coated tablets (tablets A, B, C, and D) were measured 300 m interval between edges of the tablet by using an X-ray CT. The thinnest layer thickness of the tablets and distance between centers of gravity (DCG) of tables were calculated. Results: The order of the TLT of the tablets was tablet B > tablet C > tablet D > tablet A. The result indicated that the order of DCG was tablet A > tablet D > tablet C > tablet B. Noninvasive observation of the internal structure of commercial, press-coated tablets by X-ray CT has been demonstrated to be useful in quality control of production. Conclusion: The internal structure of press-coated tablets could be observed without pretreatment, without destruction, and very rapidly by X‐ray CT.     

基于DTW算法的非侵入式家居负荷行为识别方法

随着电力负荷监测在生产和生活中的广泛应用,非侵入式负荷识别技术得到发展,具有很好的发展前景。针对非侵入式家用电器负荷的行为识别存在识别特征量难以优化,识别算法收敛性差等问题,提出了一种基于特征匹配度的家居负荷的行为识别方法。将家用负荷开、关时的暂态波形和功率变化值作为特征量,运用DTW算法计算测试模板与参考模板之间的相似度,有效的识别出家庭用电的各项负荷数据,并且通过三种案例来模拟负荷的识别过程,验证了算法的可行性。     

Oxygen determination in oxygen-supersaturated drinking waters by NMR relaxometry

In recent years, a rising number of different table waters supersaturated with oxygen have hit the market with claims of both positive health effects and an increase in athletic performance. In addition to research on the correctness of these claims and their possible physiological reasons, the appearance of oxygen supersaturation as a marketing promise also creates a need for appropriate analytical techniques allowing a rapid and reliable determination of oxygen contents in such waters. Here, we present NMR relaxometry as a possible analytical tool for such studies. NMR relaxation in oxygen supersaturated water is not only of interest in the context of monitoring the oxygen content in such drinking water products, but also might offer some interesting possibilities in medical and environmental science MRI applications. As a contact-less measuring method, NMR relaxometry avoids disturbance of the measurement due to outgassing. The method was applied in the concentration range from 10 mg l(-1) to over 100 mg l(-1) dissolved oxygen. In addition to freshly sampled drinking waters, also oxygen losses during storage of the water in open drinking vials was studied.     

Time-lapse analysis of laser phase shift for noninvasive discrimination of human normal cells and malignant tumor cells

Time-lapse analysis of phase shift using phase-shifting laser microscopy (PLM) revealed that the laser phase shifts of primary normal human prostate epithelial cells (PRECs) and human prostatic carcinoma epithelial cell line (PC-3) cells during the mitotic phase were markedly higher than those in the interphase. The phase shift of PC-3 cells during the interphase was markedly lower than that of PRECs throughout the cell cycle. In conclusion, it was proposed that adherent PC-3 cancer cells could be noninvasively discriminated from normal adherent PRECs by the periodical measurement of phase shift using PLM during culture.     

近红外光谱无创血糖测量的极限检测浓度研究

检测极限浓度综合了光子传输的微观过程信息、漫反射光的统计性质和仪器设备的系统性能,降低检测极限浓度是无创伤血糖浓度测量的目标所在。通过分析血糖浓度变化对光学参数的两种作用及其对光传播的影响,针对皮肤中葡萄糖主要分布真皮层的特点,引入有效信噪比的概念,推导了血糖检测极限浓度与光源检测器之间距离、有效仪器信噪比之间的关系。针对不同个体在表皮和真皮厚度的差异,用蒙特卡洛方法研究了其对检测极限浓度的影响,讨论了光学测头设计的方案和适应性。结果表明,通过选择合适的光源检测器之间距离,来自真皮层的有效信号能超过50%;假定仪器信噪比为10000,可获得满足FDA要求的血糖检测极限浓度。     

Noninvasive data analysis: a web of information granules

The study is concerned with a development of information granules and their use in data analysis. The design of information granules exploits a concept of overshadowing meaning that, we retain a given level of membership to a given concept unless faced with a contrary evidence. A detailed algorithm is provided and illustrated through a number of numerical studies. The idea of noninvasive data analysis is then introduced and discussed from a standpoint of a minimal level of structural dependencies to be used in the model.     

Noninvasive measurement of viscosity from damping of capillary waves

Capillary waves are surface waves on fluids with wavelengths in the millimeter range. The determination of viscosity from the damping of capillary waves is of great practical importance as it affords the possibility of measuring the viscosity of fluids noninvasively. In this paper a noncontact method for generation and detection of capillary waves on fluid is described. A miniature laser interferometer is employed to measure noninvasively the wave amplitude and its attenuation with a resolution of about 10 nm. As a test case, the attenuation data for capillary waves on pure water are used to obtain the kinematic viscosity of water as a function of temperature. The results compare favorably with the most reliable published data on the subject.     

主成分分析——近红外漫反射光谱法对去痛片的非破坏性分析

用主成分分析研究了去痛片的近红红漫反应光谱，对标准化后的数据进行主成分分析可减小颗粒大小的变化所产生的散射的影响，第二主成分得分对第一主成分得分做图，可将合格样品同不合格样品区分开来，进行主成分回归分析，对去痛片含量较高组分进行预测，结果良好。