铸铁坩锅抗铝融蚀等离子喷涂技术

针对提高化铝用铸铁坩埚抗融蚀寿命的实际问题,选用价格较低、耐高温、抗融蚀性好的Ａｌ２Ｏ３陶瓷材料作为坩埚内壁的工作层,采用等离子喷涂技术来提高其抗融蚀性。但由于Ａｌ２Ｏ３陶瓷涂层的致密性差、结合强度及抗热震寿命低等缺点,不适宜化铝坩埚在７２０℃长时间加温,且液铝呈搅拌行为的工作条件下使用。本文在Ａｌ２Ｏ３喷涂粉末中加入１３％ＴｉＯ２,促使涂层的组织结构发生变化,提高了涂层的结合强度,改善了涂层的致     

复合稀土氧化物-钼-铼金属陶瓷阴极的次级发射性能

研究了复合稀土氧化物-钼-铼金属陶瓷阴极的二次电子发射系数和抗暴露大气性能,对发射后的表面进行了表面分析,并与单元、复合稀土-钼金属陶瓷阴极进行了对比.研究结果表明:加入微量铼的复合稀土氧化物-钼金属陶瓷阴极的二次电子发射系数可提高8%,其最大次级发射系数δm为2.65,且具有较好的抗暴露大气性能.     

Towards the generation of dialogue acts in socio-affective ECAs: a corpus-based prosodic analysis

We present a corpus-based prosodic analysis with the aim of uncovering the relationship between dialogue acts, personality and prosody in view to providing guidelines for the ECA Greta’s text-to-speech system. The corpus used is the SEMAINE corpus, featuring four different personalities, further annotated for dialogue acts and prosodic features. In order to show the importance of the choice of dialogue act taxonomy, two different taxonomies were used, the first corresponding to Searle’s taxonomy of speech acts and the second, inspired by Bunt’s DIT++, including a division of directive acts into finer categories. Our results show that finer-grained distinctions are important when choosing a taxonomy. We also show with some preliminary results that the prosodic correlates of dialogue acts are not always as cited in the literature and prove more complex and variable. By studying the realisation of different directive acts, we also observe differences in the communicative strategies of the ECA depending on personality, in view to providing input to a speech system.     

Direction prediction for avoiding occlusion in visual surveillance

Occurrence of occlusion while providing visual surveillance leads to anarchy as the track of the subject under motion may be lost. This often results into the failure of the surveillance system. The approach of predicting motion of moving subjects and hence the chances of their mutual occlusion gives an upper hand to surveillance system to take in-time necessary action towards mitigation of loss of track during dynamic occlusion. Direction of motion of a moving subject plays a major role while studying its motion. Direction along with the velocity of a subject in a 3D plane completely describes the motion of any subject. This article proposes a model‘-based approach for direction prediction of a moving subject in a 3D global plane as acquired in a 2D camera plane. The proposed approach uses the eight discrete directions of motion as proposed in and models different directions. The proposed direction prediction method is experimentally verified with six different classifiers, i.e. regression analysis, simple logistic regression, MLP, k-NN, SVM and Bays classifier over existing as well as self-acquired databases. The initial simulation results are motivating as the overall accuracies achieved through different classifiers are of the range of 87–94 \(\%\), which advocates the suitability of the said approach.     

Signage Versus Environmental Affordances: Is the Explicit Information Strong Enough to Guide Human Behavior During a Wayfinding Task?

This study aims to explore how people behave when they have to find a location within a complex building and are confronted with situations where directional signage (i.e., explicit information) is in opposition to environmental affordances that naturally direct users towards a specific path, creating a situation with conflicting information (e.g., a brighter corridor vs. a darker corridor but with a directional sign indicating to follow the darker one). A virtual reality–based methodology was used and a between‐subject design was considered. Thus, participants were given the tasks of finding three publicly accessible central points in a virtual hotel and confronted with a two forced‐choice task of local scenes in which environmental variables (i.e., corridor width and brightness) and signage varied systematically, in two experimental conditions (i.e., neutral and signage). For the signage condition, signs were inserted to explicitly point in the opposite direction than that implicitly suggested by the environmental affordances, creating situations with conflicting information. Results indicate that environmental variables were able to direct people indoors acting as environmental affordances. Users preferred to follow the wider and brighter paths. However, when directional signage pointed in the opposite direction of the paths preferred by the participants, most of them complied with signage.