From enfant terrible to problem-solver? Tracing the competing discourse to explain blockchain-related technological diffusion

Since the inception of blockchain-related technologies over a decade ago, investors’ uptake of the technologies has grown rapidly. But even with the advancement in standing from conceptual beginnings to real-world experimentation, mainstream adoption of the technologies in either organizational or individual contexts has yet to eventuate. To resolve this paradox, we examine progression of the technologies’ diffusion instead, and in the process, seek to uncover the underlying dynamics of sentiments at play. Diffusion involves multiple actions by different parties, with social discourses via diverse media playing an essential role. In demonstrating the interplay of support to resistance via media framing and the diffusion of innovation theory, findings from our paper contribute to the technology adoption literature. Understanding resistant behavior toward a new technology area could help resolve potential issues that may arise. This would hopefully lead to better technological implementation outcomes in future.     

Quantum effect of cooling down the environment temperature of mesoscopic LC circuit

We examine the quantum effect of cooling down the environment temperature of mesoscopic LC circuit, and find that the ground state of the circuit is no longer in the thermo vacuum state, but in a negative binomial state. We calculate energy of the circuit in this new state, which increases with the cooling of the environment.     

Generalized linear model based monitoring methods for high-yield processes

Emerge in technology brought well-organized manufacturing systems to produce high-quality items. Therefore, monitoring and control of products have become a challenging task for quality inspectors. From these highly efficient processes, produced items are mostly zero-defect and modeled based on zero-inflated distributions. The zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) and zero-inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) distributions are the most common distributions, used to model the high-yield and rare health-related processes. Therefore, data-based control charts under ZIP and ZINB distributions (i.e., Y-ZIP and Y-ZINB) are proposed for the monitoring of high-quality processes. Usually, with the defect counts, few covariates are also measured in the process, and the generalized linear model based on the ZIP and ZINB distributions are used to estimate their parameters. In this study, we have designed monitoring structures (i.e., PR-ZIP and PR-ZINB) based on the ZIP and ZINB regression models which will provide the monitoring of defect counts by accounting the single covariate. Further, proposed model-based charts are compared with the existing data-based charts. The simulation study is designed to access the performance of monitoring methods in terms of run length properties and a case study on the number of flight delays between Atlanta and Orlando during 2012–2014 is also provided to highlight the importance of the stated research.     

A low power and low phase-noise 91~96 GHz VCO in 90 nm CMOS

This paper reports a 94 GHz CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using both the negative capacitance (NC) technique and series-peaking output power and phase noise (PN) enhancement technique. NC is achieved by adding two variable LC networks to the source nodes of the active circuit of the VCO. NMOSFET varicaps are adopted as the required capacitors of the LC networks. In comparison with the conventional one, the proposed active circuit substantially decreases the input capacitance (C_in) to zero or even a negative value. This leads to operation (or oscillation) frequency (OF) increase and tuning range (TR) enhancement of the VCO. The VCO dissipates 8.3 mW at 1 V supply. The measured TR of the VCO is 91~96 GHz, close to the simulated (92.1~96.7 GHz) and the calculated one (92.2~98.2 GHz). In addition, at 1 MHz offset from 95.16 GHz, the VCO attains an excellent PN of – 98.3 dBc/Hz. This leads to a figure-of-merit (FOM) of ?188.5 dBc/Hz, a remarkable result for a V- or W-band CMOS VCO. The chip size of the VCO is 0.75 × 0.42 mm², i.e. 0.315 mm².     

低温条件下红砂岩动态力学性能试验研究

应用SHPB试验和分形方法研究饱水冻结红砂岩的动态力学性能和破碎分形特性,分析负温变化对红砂岩动态强度性能和变形破坏规律的影响,结合SEM扫描实验,探究应力波作用下饱水冻结红砂岩的微观破裂机制。研究结果表明,负温变化显著影响红砂岩的动态力学性能和分形特性,其中动态强度随温度降低(25~-40℃)呈先增大后减小的趋势,形似"几"字形,峰值应变则是先减小后增大,这与冻岩的静载试验结果迥然不同。经引入分形维数D,建立冻结红砂岩块度分形计算模型,经模型计算得到红砂岩在25,-5,-10,-20,-30,-40℃时的分形维数分别是2.37,2.12,2.29,2.35,2.41,2.44,这与试验筛分结果基本吻合。通过对红砂岩断口形貌的观察和分析,发现低温条件下红砂岩最终断口多发生于黏土胶结物上或其与矿物颗粒的交界处,常温条件下红砂岩断口形貌较为复杂,很难看出规律性,但在引入低温梯度后,由黏土胶结物和矿物颗粒组成的断口形貌会逐渐呈现出规律性,在对相应规律分析总结后推断,负温条件下胶结物的性质和断裂性能对红砂岩力学性能有着更为显著的影响。     

Electrical oscillation generation with current-induced resistivity switching in VO2 micro-channel devices

We report large amplitude modulation waveforms as large as ~ 10 V using vanadium dioxide micro-channel devices operating under current-controlled conditions. The self-sustained electrical oscillations were generated by controlling the applied current in the negative differential resistance region of the investigated devices. An appropriate value of internal capacitance was achieved as parasitic capacitance in the device structure to stabilize the electrical oscillations. This eliminates the need of an external pulsed source or any external passive component connected to the micro-channel devices. Amplitude and frequency of the oscillation were tuned by illuminating the device micro-channel with an external laser. An equivalent circuit model was developed to simulate the waveforms. A good agreement between experiment and simulation was verified.     

风洞模型加速度负反馈振动主动控制方法研究

针对尾撑式风洞模型强方向性振动问题,基于异位配置加速度负反馈控制器对风洞模型振动主动控制方法进行研究。首先,通过模态分析得到系统低阶模态振动的强方向性并基于系统特性设计了具有结构耦合性的内嵌压电陶瓷作动器的风洞模型振动主动控制系统。然后,基于异位配置NAF控制器分别设计了针对第二阶模态和前两阶模态的单模态NAF控制算法和双模态NAF控制算法。最后,进行了实验验证,结果表明:双模态NAF控制算法控制效果较好,前两阶模态阻尼比分别提高近13倍和近40倍,镇定时间分别缩短近11s和近26s。     

负浮力水下航行器概念设计及动力学仿真

提出一种基于负浮力设计思想的水下航行器，其原理是在运动时通过在固定机翼上产生的流体升力来平衡其负浮力。建立其空间六自由度动力学模型，并用龙格-库塔数值方法进行仿真求解和动力学行为分析。分析结果表明，与传统中性浮力自主水下航行器相比，负浮力水下航行器具有负载能力强、容积利用率高、升阻比大的优点。     

滇西龙陵平达花岗岩体成岩时代及其地球化学特征

滇西龙陵平达地区的花岗岩体要是加里东运动早期以及燕山—喜山期岩浆活动形成的岩浆响应。通过应用实验仪器ME-XRF26dX射线荧光光谱仪、ME-MS81电感耦合等离子体质谱完成对花岗岩样品的主量元素、稀土元素以及微量元素的测定。在该研究区内,岩性以花岗岩、花岗闪长岩为主,SiO_2含量平均70.9%,Al_2O_3含量13.8%～18.2%,K_2O含量3.39%～5.83%,Na_2O平均含量2.48%,显现出"富硅、高铝—钠、高镁—钾",高钾钙碱性系列的特点,属于过铝质花岗岩;稀土元素总量偏高,平均137×10~(-6),轻重稀土元素比值在1.52～8.2,分馏较为强烈,轻稀土含量介于32×10~(-6)～197×10~(-6),相对富集,重稀土范围为14.4×10~(-6)～65.8×10~(-6),相对亏损,Eu显现出明显的负异常特征,曲线向右倾;同时Sr=0.1×10~(-6)～136×10~(-6),Yb平均1.9×10~(-6),符合低Sr低Yb的特征,即花岗岩在低或者中等压力下形成,可能为碰撞作用有关的钙碱性花岗岩。结合前人的研究成果,对该区晚中生代花岗岩开展系统的岩相学、矿物学、锆石U-Pb测年等研究,为未来整个龙陵地区花岗岩体的研究工作提供参考。     

负泊松比可变弧角曲边内凹蜂窝结构的力学性能

在环形蜂窝结构的基础上，提出了一种具有负泊松比效应的可变弧角曲边内凹蜂窝结构。分析了刚架结构的弯曲内力，利用能量法给出了曲边内凹蜂窝结构的横/纵向等效弹性模量和等效泊松比的解析公式。当弧角为180°时，所提出的曲边内凹蜂窝结构可退化为已有的环形蜂窝结构。所得解析解、已有理论解和有限元结果三者有较好的吻合度，表明了所提出方法的有效性。基于所得解析解讨论了微结构几何参数对等效弹性模量和等效泊松比的影响，研究结果表明：等效弹性模量受弧角的影响显著；等效泊松比受弧角、竖直壁板长度和两竖直壁板间宽度的影响较为明显，而受连接部分长度的影响不明显。