秀故事——电梯人讲述自己的故事：我没有回老家过年

一个平凡的电梯工用最朴实的语言讲述着他对电梯最不平凡的爱……[编者按]     

南瓜膳食纤维对高脂血症大鼠的降血脂作用

目的：本研究探讨酶法提取的南瓜不溶性膳食纤维（insoluble dietary fiber,IDF）和可溶性膳食纤维（soluble dietary fiber,SDF）的降血脂作用。方法：通过建立高血脂大鼠模型,以南瓜膳食纤维含量为2.5%、5%和10%的复合饲料分别喂养4周,计算粪便脂肪含量、脏体比、肝脏脂肪含量等指标,测定其血清总胆固醇（total cholesterol,TC）、甘油三酯（triglyceride,TG）、高密度脂蛋白胆固醇（high densitylipoprotein cholesterol,HDL-C）和低密度脂蛋白胆固醇（low density lipoprotein cholesterin,LDL-C）水平,计算动脉硬化指数（atherogenic index,AI）,同时进行肝脏病理组织学检查。结果：南瓜膳食纤维能增加大鼠的排便量、粪便含水量和粪脂含量,并降低肝脏脂肪含量,在一定程度上改善高脂饮食所致的肝脏脂肪化。与高脂模型组相比,南瓜膳食纤维组大鼠血清TC、TG和LDL-C水平显著降低（P<0.05）,HDL-C水平显著提高（P<0.05）;且不溶性膳食纤维的效果优于可溶性膳食纤维。结论：南瓜膳食纤维具有良好的降血脂作用。     

基于非线性度变换的NPID在SVC中的应用分析

分析静止无功补偿器(Static Var Compensator,SVC)控制系统的组成和补偿原理,将非线性度变换NPID控制方法引入SVC控制系统.仿真试验表明该方法在SVC应用中可以明显提高系统的响应速度,加速系统稳定.     

Effects of the feeling of invulnerability and the feeling of control on motivation to participate in experience-based analysis,by type of risk

Experience-based analysis (EBA) refers to a set of safety-management practices consisting of detecting, analyzing, and correcting the individual, material, and organizational causal factors of accidents in order to prevent their reoccurrence. Unfortunately, these practices do not always garner the adherence of employees. This article presents a study that examines the impact of risk perceptions on agents’ motivation to participate in EBA in various production sectors. The study was conducted at two sites, a chemical factory and a nuclear power plant, by means of a questionnaire administered to 302 employees. The results indicated that the feeling of control was not only positively linked to the feeling of invulnerability, but that these two factors were negatively linked to risk perception. In addition, the actors in both production sectors were more motivated to participate in EBA of accidents linked to the core processes of their industry (which were more accurately perceived) than in EBA of ordinary accidents (accidents not specific to chemical or nuclear processes). Moreover, the agents’ feeling of invulnerability and feeling of control both reduced EBA motivation for ordinary accidents to a greater extent than for chemical and radiation-related accidents. Recommendations are made in view of encouraging agents to get more involved in EBA.     

Novel Tunnel‐Contact‐Controlled IGZO Thin‐Film Transistors with High Tolerance to Geometrical Variability

Thin insulating layers are used to modulate a depletion region at the source of a thin‐film transistor. Bottom contact, staggered‐electrode indium gallium zinc oxide transistors with a 3 nm Al₂O₃ layer between the semiconductor and Ni source/drain contacts, show behaviors typical of source‐gated transistors (SGTs): low saturation voltage (V_{D_SAT} ≈ 3 V), change in V_{D_SAT} with a gate voltage of only 0.12 V V^?1, and flat saturated output characteristics (small dependence of drain current on drain voltage). The transistors show high tolerance to geometry: the saturated current changes only 0.15× for 2–50 µm channels and 2× for 9‐45 µm source‐gate overlaps. A higher than expected (5×) increase in drain current for a 30 K change in temperature, similar to Schottky‐contact SGTs, underlines a more complex device operation than previously theorized. Optimization for increasing intrinsic gain and reducing temperature effects is discussed. These devices complete the portfolio of contact‐controlled transistors, comprising devices with Schottky contacts, bulk barrier, or heterojunctions, and now, tunneling insulating layers. The findings should also apply to nanowire transistors, leading to new low‐power, robust design approaches as large‐scale fabrication techniques with sub‐nanometer control mature.     

Ruthenium‐Catalyzed O‐Allylation of Phenols from Allylic Chlorides via Cationic [Cp*(η3‐allyl)(MeCN)RuX][PF6] Complexes

The [Cp*(MeCN)₃Ru(II)][PF₆] complex is an efficient catalyst precursor for the O‐allylation of phenols with allylic chlorides in the presence of K₂CO₃ under mild conditions. This ruthenium precursor affords branched allyl aryl ethers according to a regioselective reaction, which contrasts with the uncatalyzed nucleophilic substitution from the same substrates. Stable (η³‐allyl)Ru(IV) cationic complexes resulting from the reaction of [Cp*(MeCN)₃Ru][PF₆] with allylic halides were identified as intermediate catalytic species. An X‐ray structure determination of the complex [Cp*(MeCHCHCH₂)(MeCN)RuBr][PF₆] disclosed an (endo‐trans‐MeCHCHCH₂) allylic ligand. The structural information obtained from the study of Cp*(allyl)Ru(IV) complexes indicated that electronic effects at the coordinated allylic ligand likely account for the better regioselectivity obtained from cinnamyl chloride as compared to aliphatic allylic chlorides.     

A Novel Application-specific Instruction-set Processor Design Approach for Video Processing Acceleration

Application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) provide a good alternative for video processing acceleration, but the productivity gap implied by such a new technology may prevent leveraging it fully. Video processing SoCs need flexibility that is not available in pure hardware architectures, while pure software solutions do not meet video processing performance constraints. Thus, ASIP design could offer a good tradeoff between performance and flexibility. Video processing algorithms are often characterized by intrinsic parallelism that can be accelerated by ASIP specialized instructions. In this paper, we propose a new approach for exploiting sequences of tightly coupled specialized instructions in ASIP design applicable to video processing. Our approach, which avoids costly data communications by applying data grouping and data reuse, consists of accelerating an algorithm’s critical loops by transforming them according to a new intermediate representation. This representation is optimized and loop parallelism possibilities are also explored. This approach has been applied to video processing algorithms such as the ELA deinterlacer and the 2D-DCT. Experimental results show speedups up to 18 (on the considered applications, while the hardware overhead in terms of additional logic gates was found to be between 18 and 59%.

A Novel Application-specific Instruction-set Processor Design Approach for Video Processing Acceleration

Application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) provide a good alternative for video processing acceleration, but the productivity gap implied by such a new technology may prevent leveraging it fully. Video processing SoCs need flexibility that is not available in pure hardware architectures, while pure software solutions do not meet video processing performance constraints. Thus, ASIP design could offer a good tradeoff between performance and flexibility. Video processing algorithms are often characterized by intrinsic parallelism that can be accelerated by ASIP specialized instructions. In this paper, we propose a new approach for exploiting sequences of tightly coupled specialized instructions in ASIP design applicable to video processing. Our approach, which avoids costly data communications by applying data grouping and data reuse, consists of accelerating an algorithm’s critical loops by transforming them according to a new intermediate representation. This representation is optimized and loop parallelism possibilities are also explored. This approach has been applied to video processing algorithms such as the ELA deinterlacer and the 2D-DCT. Experimental results show speedups up to 18 (on the considered applications, while the hardware overhead in terms of additional logic gates was found to be between 18 and 59%.