正确选择电源管理方案，提升系统性能并延长电池寿命

有了无线技术,用户就真正实现了"网络随行".然而无线设备无法长时间连接固定电源,因此如果仅靠电池供电的话,很快就能把电池电量消耗完.无论采用何种化学技术,电池都只能存储有限的电量,当电量耗尽时均需要替换或充电.加强对电源管理问题的重视可有助于延长电池的寿命.基站等一些不用依靠电池的无线系统必须在兼顾能源效率的前提下,才能实现高性能指标.     

针对微控制器应用的MIPS32 M4K内核影子寄存器

RISC架构为微控制器领域带来了许多优势,例如与CISC架构相比,它对程序编译器更加友好,而且在硅面积方面也非常经济。     

Storage of green coffee in hermetic packaging injected with CO2

The objective of this study was to evaluate the physical, chemical, and sensory qualities of green coffee beans (Coffea arabica L.) during storage in different types of packaging. Coffee was stored from October 2008 to September 2009 in a warehouse of the Agriculture Society Ltda. (SAAG) in Santana da Vargem, southern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The treatments in the factorial design consisted of two types of packaging (hermetic big bags with the injection of up to 60% CO₂ in a controlled atmosphere; similar bags but without the injection of CO₂ in a modified atmosphere) and three sampling positions in the bags (high, medium, and low). At 3-month intervals during a 12-month period, grains were analyzed to determine their water content, color, electrical conductivity, potassium lixiviation, and content of sugars. Sensory analysis was also conducted at these sampling times. The storage of green coffee beans in hermetic big bags on a commercial scale under modified and controlled atmospheric conditions is viable over a 12-month period. The coffee packed in big bags maintained its quality and exhibited an intensification of the green coloration of the grains during storage. Sensory analysis of coffee beans stored in a controlled atmosphere showed that the medium sampling position yielded the best ratings. The results of this analysis demonstrated that this storage technique can potentially increase the effectiveness of methods used to preserve the sensory quality of coffee beans.     

A data‐centric framework for debugging highly parallel applications

Contemporary parallel debuggers allow users to control more than one processing thread while supporting the same examination and visualisation operations of that of sequential debuggers. This approach restricts the use of parallel debuggers when it comes to large scale scientific applications run across hundreds of thousands compute cores. First, manually observing the runtime data to detect error becomes impractical because the data is too big. Second, performing expensive but useful debugging operations becomes infeasible as the computational codes become more complex, involving larger data structures, and as the machines become larger. This study explores the idea of a data‐centric debugging approach, which could be used to make parallel debuggers more powerful. It discusses the use of ad hoc debug‐time assertions that allow a user to reason about the state of a parallel computation. These assertions support the verification and validation of program state at runtime as a whole rather than focusing on that of only a single process state. Furthermore, the debugger's performance can be improved by exploiting the underlying parallel platform because the available compute cores can execute parallel debugging functions, while a program is idling at a breakpoint. We demonstrate the system with several case studies and evaluate the performance of the tool on a 20 000 cores Cray XE6. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

主轴技术进步促进提高生产率、可靠性、性能和设计寿命

更高速和更可靠的主轴是机床工业的主要发展趋势。机床需要完成多种工作任务并要频繁更换刀具。在这种情况下，主轴必须更快和更频繁地加速度和减速度，使主轴／轴承系统承受热载荷。此外，现在主轴要暴露在最为恶劣和不利环境下。     

All‐Natural,Degradable, Rolled‐Up Straws Based on Cellulose Micro‐ and Nano‐Hybrid Fibers

Among all the plastic pollution, straws have brought particularly intricate problems since they are single use, consumed in a large volume, cannot be recycled in most places, and can never be fully degraded. To solve this problem, replacements for plastic straws are being developed following with the global trend of plastic straw bans. Nevertheless, none of the available degradable alternatives are satisfactory due to drawbacks including poor natural degradability, high cost, low mechanical performance, and poor water stability. Here, all‐natural degradable straws are designed by hybridizing cellulose nanofibers and microfibers in a binder‐free manner. Straws are fabricated by rolling up the wet hybrid film and sealed by the internal hydrogen bonding formed among the cellulose fibers after drying. The cellulose hybrid straws show exceptional behaviors including 1) excellent mechanical performance (high tensile strength of ≈70 MPa and high ductility with a fracture strain of 12.7%), 2) sufficient hydrostability (10× wet mechanical strength compared to commercial paper straw), 3) low cost, and 4) high natural degradability. Given the low‐cost raw materials, the binder‐free hybrid design based on cellulose structure can potentially be a suitable solution to solve the environmental challenges brought by the enormous usage of plastics straws.     

Transfer learning by mapping and revising boosted relational dependency networks

Machine Learning - Statistical machine learning algorithms usually assume the availability of data of considerable size to train the models. However, they would fail in addressing domains where...     

Facial beauty analysis based on features prediction and beautification models

This paper studies facial beauty analysis by using feature-based computer models in prediction and beautification. In order to assess the facial beauty index, a facial beauty prediction model is established, which can quickly and effectively estimate beauty indexes for new images. In the facial beautification model, we mainly achieve three functions: (1) propose an effective method to adjust the positions of the landmark points to beautify the facial geometry; (2) improve the multi-level median filtering method to perform facial skin beautification; and (3) design a method to achieve average facial beautification. Experimental results showed that the proposed models can significantly analyze the facial attractiveness of face images.     

Volatile Production by Buds and Corollas of Two Sympatric, Confamilial Plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

We used solid-phase microextraction of headspace samples followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify and quantify the major volatile compounds produced by the buds and corollas of Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae), and we compared them to a sympatric, confamilial plant species, Polemonium foliosissimum. The two species have distinct floral morphologies and pollinators, but share a common predispersal seed predator that oviposits under the calyces of buds. Ipomopsis aggregata buds emitted fewer compounds than the corollas. The buds of I. aggregata were dominated by -pinene and, to a lesser extent, -pinene. The corollas of I. aggregata emitted a mixture of 10 compounds. Like the buds, I. aggregata corollas produced relatively high concentrations of -pinene as well as caryophyllene. In addition, the emission of four terpenoids, three esters, and one ketone added to the volatile bouquet of the corollas. Polemonium foliosissimum buds also emitted fewer compounds than the corollas. The buds of P. foliosissimum were dominated by -pinene and, to a lesser extent, -pinene. The corollas of P. foliosissimum were also dominated by -pinene along with three terpenoids, three alcohols, one ester, and two aldehydes. Comparing I. aggregata and P. foliosissimum, bud samples from both species produced considerable amounts of - and -pinene. Ipomopsis aggregata emitted more -pinene than -pinene, while P. foliosissimum emitted more -pinene. The corollas of the two species, however, differed in their volatile bouquet. The partition of volatiles between I. aggregata and P. foliosissimum buds and corollas and differences in volatile production between I. aggregata and P. foliosissimum are consistent with selection pressures exerted by organisms interacting with these plants.