In this article, we review recent atomistic computational techniques to study the electronic structure aspects and chemistry
of energetic materials at high-pressure and/or high temperature. While several mechanisms have been proposed for the initial
events of energetic materials at high-pressure, we explore the validity of a proposed shear-induced local metallization via
molecular bond bending in the insensitive explosive TATB. We study the effect of high-stress (both uniform and uniaxial) on
the electronic energy band-gap and the first chemical event of a prototypical energetic material, that of nitromethane. We
also determine chemical reactions rate laws and decomposition mechanisms from a quantum-based molecular dynamics simulation
of HMX, a widely used explosive material, at conditions of high density and temperature similar to that encounter under detonation.
Finally, we review a new multi-scale computational tool recently developed to model the shock-induced chemistry of energetic
materials at the atomistic level, and report its applicability to shocked solid nitromethane.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Generation effect (generated words are better memorized than read words) of anagrams, rhymes, and associates of target words was examined in young, elderly, and very old subjects. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that only young subjects benefit from the generation effect in a free-recall test when the rule is of a phonological nature. Experiments 3, 4, and 5 showed that the generation effect of rhymes was due to a resources-dependent self-initiated process. Experiments 4 and 5 showed that in a divided-attention situation, generation effect of rhymes is not significant in young subjects, but that the generation effect of semantic associates remains significant for both groups (Experiment 5). The results are discussed within the environmental support framework and the transfer-appropriate processing framework. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献
The coarse acquisition performance of a direct sequence spread-spectrum receiver is analyzed when a linear prediction filter is used for narrowband interference suppression. We show that once an appropriate matching strategy is identified, the linear prediction filter can provide favorable performance when narrowband interference is present over a considerable range of both interference power and bandwidth. In addition, the presence of the filter dramatically improves the performance over the case where there is no filter, except when the interference bandwidth and the power are both small (i.e., when the processing gain provides sufficient interference immunity without the filter). If long spreading sequences are used with moderately sized observation windows, the acquisition performance can be severely degraded when a parallel acquisition scheme is used due to the linear predication filter. We show, however, that a slower serial receiver will provide reliable performance.This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under contract ONR N00014-91-J-1234, the Army Research Office under contract ARO DAAL03-91-0071, and the NSF Center for Ultra-High Speed Circuits and Systems (ICAS). 相似文献
We present an adaptive video transmission scheme for use in a code-division multiple-access network, which incorporates efficient bandwidth allocation among source coding, channel coding, and spreading under a fixed total bandwidth constraint. We derive the statistics of the received signal, as well as a theoretical bound on the packet drop rate at the receiver. Based on these results, a bandwidth allocation algorithm is proposed at the packet level, which incorporates the effects of both the changing channel conditions and the dynamics of the source content. Detailed simulations are done to evaluate the performance of the system, and the sensitivity of the system to estimation error is presented. 相似文献
This study examines the extent to which variations in consumers' sensory assessments of food arise from the inability to report accurately sensory perceptions, from confusion regarding the criteria by which to assess samples, or from differences in their oral breakdown of the products.
Twenty consumers assessed the tenderness of a range of 8 hot, freshly roasted meat samples using Time Intensity (TI). Overall a significant correlation was found between the maximum recorded intensity (Imax) of their TI curves and single sensory scores given by a trained panel. Correlation was significant for only 42% of the consumers individually. Significant correlations were found between the amount of masticatory muscle activity undertaken during chewing (measured using electromyography) and Imax for all but 2 of the consumers. Thus subjects' perceptions were accurately described by their chewing work, suggesting between subject differences in perception arose from differences in the way chewing work was applied to break down the samples. The sensory input from the masticatory muscles may represent the major determinant of perceived tenderness of meat. 相似文献
With the advent of Next Generation Network (NGN), services that are currently provided by multiple specific network-centric
architectures. NGN provides AAA (Anytime, Anywhere and Always on) access to users from different service providers with consistent
and ubiquitous provision of services as necessary. This special issue of NGN includes pervasive, grid, and peer-to-peer computing
to provide computing and communication services at anytime and anywhere. In fact, the application of NGN includes digital
image processing, multimedia systems/services, and so on. Here we focus on the digital image processing technology in NGN
environments. Low-contrast structure and heavy noise in NGN environments can be found in many kinds of digital images, which
makes the images vague and uncertainly, especially in x-ray images. As result, some useful tiny characteristic are weakened—which
are difficult to distinguish even by naked eyes. Based on the combination of no-linear grad-contrast operator and multi-resolution
wavelet analysis, a kind of image enhancement processing algorithm for useful tiny characters is presented. The algorithm
can enhance the tiny characters while confine amplifying noise. The analysis of the results shows that local regions of the
image are enhanced by using the concept of the grad contrast to make image clearer adaptively. Experiments were conducted
on real pictures, and the results show that the algorithm is flexible and convenient. 相似文献
This study uses a hostage negotiation setting to demonstrate how a team of strategic police officers can utilize specific coping strategies to minimize uncertainty at different stages of their decision-making in order to foster resilient decision-making to effectively manage a high-risk critical incident. The presented model extends the existing research on coping with uncertainty by (1) applying the RAWFS heuristic (Lipshitz and Strauss in Organ Behav Human Decis Process 69:149–163, 1997) of individual decision-making under uncertainty to a team critical incident decision-making domain; (2) testing the use of various coping strategies during “in situ” team decision-making by using a live simulated hostage negotiation exercise; and (3) including an additional coping strategy (“reflection-in-action”; Schön in The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. Temple Smith, London, 1983) that aids naturalistic team decision-making. The data for this study were derived from a videoed strategic command meeting held within a simulated live hostage training event; these video data were coded along three themes: (1) decision phase; (2) uncertainty management strategy; and (3) decision implemented or omitted. Results illustrate that, when assessing dynamic and high-risk situations, teams of police officers cope with uncertainty by relying on “reduction” strategies to seek additional information and iteratively update these assessments using “reflection-in-action” (Schön 1983) based on previous experience. They subsequently progress to a plan formulation phase and use “assumption-based reasoning” techniques in order to mentally simulate their intended courses of action (Klein et al. 2007), and identify a preferred formulated strategy through “weighing the pros and cons” of each option. In the unlikely event that uncertainty persists to the plan execution phase, it is managed by “reduction” in the form of relying on plans and standard operating procedures or by “forestalling” and intentionally deferring the decision while contingency planning for worst-case scenarios. 相似文献
With the increasing growth of multimedia applications over the networking in recent years, users have put forward much higher requirements for multimedia quality of experience (QoE) than before. One of the representative requirements is the image quality. Therefore, the image quality assessment ranging from two-dimension (2D) image to three-dimension (3D) image has been getting much attention. In this paper, an efficient objective image quality assessment metric in block-based discrete cosine transform (DCT) coding is proposed. The metric incorporates properties of human visual system (HVS) to improve its validity and reliability in evaluating the quality of stereoscopic image. This is fulfilled by calculating the local pixel-based distortions in frequency domain, combining the simplified models of local visibility properties embodied in frequency domain, which consist of region of interest (ROI) mechanism (visual sensitivity), contrast sensitivity function (CSF) and contrast masking effect. The performance of the proposed metric is compared with other currently state-of-the-art objective image quality assessment metrics. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed metric is highly consistent with the subjective test scores. Moreover, the performance of the metric is also confirmed with the popular IRCCyN/IVC database. Therefore, the proposed metric is promising in term of the practical efficiency and reliability for real-life multimedia applications. 相似文献