Cerebral blood flow relationships associated with a difficult tone recognition task in trained normal volunteers

Tone recognition is partially subserved by neural activity in the right frontal and primary auditory cortices. First we determined the brain areas associated with tone perception and recognition. This study then examined how regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in these and other brain regions correlates with the behavioral characteristics of a difficult tone recognition task. rCBF changes were assessed using H2(15)O positron emission tomography. Subtraction procedures were used to localize significant change regions and correlational analyses were applied to determine how response times (RT) predicted rCBF patterns. Twelve trained normal volunteers were studied in three conditions: REST, sensory motor control (SMC) and decision (DEC). The SMC-REST contrast revealed bilateral activation of primary auditory cortices, cerebellum and bilateral inferior frontal gyri. DEC-SMC produced significant clusters in the right middle and inferior frontal gyri, insula and claustrum; the anterior cingulate gyrus and supplementary motor area; the left insula/claustrum; and the left cerebellum. Correlational analyses, RT versus rCBF from DEC scans, showed a positive correlation in right inferior and middle frontal cortex; rCBF in bilateral auditory cortices and cerebellum exhibited significant negative correlations with RT These changes suggest that neural activity in the right frontal, superior temporal and cerebellar regions shifts back and forth in magnitude depending on whether tone recognition RT is relatively fast or slow, during a difficult, accurate assessment.     

Applications of the finite difference techniques to the compensatedVIP 3 dB directional coupler

A new and simple compensated structure for a vertically installed planar (VIP) 3 dB directional coupler has been studied theoretically as well as experimentally by combining an improved 2-D-general finite difference (2-D-GFD) design procedure with a three-dimensional finite difference time domain (3-D-FDTD) method. The obtained full wave analysis results agree well with the measured ones. The investigations have shown that with this planar compensated structure, a better performance of the VIP coupler in the L-band can be realized by only using the same kind of dielectric substrate for its vertical and horizontal one     

A high-current and high-temperature 6H-SiC thyristor

A 6H-SiC thyristor has been fabricated and characterized. A forward breakover voltage close to 100 V and a pulse switched current density of 5200 A/cm² have been demonstrated. The thyristor is shown to operate under pulse gate triggering for turn-on and turn-off, with a rise time of 43 ns and a fall time of less than 100 ns. The forward breakover voltage is found to decrease by only 4% when the operating temperature is increased from room temperature to 300°C. It is found that anode ohmic contact resistance dominates the device forward drop at high current densities     

Microstructures of high-J c melt-textured YBa2Cu3O7−x /Ag superconductors

Silver has been previously added to the melt-textured YBa₂Cu₃O_7?x in order to increase the critical current density (J _c ) of these materials. However, the effect of this addition on theJ _c is presently unclear. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of silver on both critical current density and the microstructure of the melt-textured YBa₂Cu₃O_7?x superconductors by means of X-ray diffraction, optical polarized microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TheJ _c of the MTG YBCO/Ag samples is more than 10⁴A/cm² under the 5 kOe magnetic field. It has been shown that as the concentration of silver increases, the fraction of the 211 phase dispersed within the 123 matrix decreases. Therefore, theJ _c slightly decreases. These results, together with the effect of the 211 phase, dislocations, and other structure defects on flux pinning, are described in this paper.     

岩心PI值试验研究及应用

主要论述了在多功能采油化学用剂评价仪上进行的岩心ＰＩ值试验的步骤，现象及结论。重点考察了岩心ＰＩ值与渗透率、流量及注入截面面积的关系；平行管岩心复合ＰＩ值和其中单管岩心ＰＩ值的关系。     

各种状态的液体通过核孔膜的规律

介绍了液体通过核孔膜规律方面取得的新认识，包括：（１）纯净液体通过核孔膜的规律；（２）核孔膜测定液体粘滞系数的各种方法；（３）各种物质溶液浓度的核孔膜测定；（４）液相混合物快速分离和化学分离；（５）流体中固体微粒对核孔膜的堵塞及其公式；（６）用核孔膜滤除液中各各斩规律。     

Fe－Cu包埋团簇的制备及其微观结构的研究

基于溅射－气体－聚集（ＳＧＡ）形成团簇的原理，提出了蒸发－气体－聚集（ＥＧＡ）共沉积方法，并在方华膜载网上成功地制备了Ｆｅ－Ｃｕ纳米磁性包理团簇样品。ＴＥＭ／ＥＤ分析表明，样品中Ｆｅ团簇被Ｃｕ原子所包裹，形成了以Ｆｅ团簇为芯，Ｃｕ膜为壳的良好的芯－壳式包埋结构。当衬底温度由２５℃变化到２００℃时，样品形貌由弥散状过渡到集团状，直至形成大的块状；其结构也相应的由Ｆｅ－Ｃｕ多晶共存变化为一种不规则的单晶形态。