Cognitive engineering based knowledge representation in neural networks

A model of a human neural knowledge processing system is presented that suggests the following. First, an entity in the outside world lends to be locally encoded in neural networks so that the conceptual information structure is mirrored in its physical implementation. Second, the knowledge of problem solving is implemented in a quite implicit way in the internal structure of the neural network (a functional group of associated hidden neurons and their connections to entity neurons) not in individual neurons or connections. Third, the knowledge system is organized and implemented in a modular fashion in neural networks according to the local specialization of problem solving where a module of neural network implements an inter-related group of knowledge such as a schema, and different modules have similar processing mechanisms, but differ in their input and output patterns. A neural network module can be tuned just as a schema structure can be adapted for changing environments. Three experiments were conducted to try to validate the suggested cognitive engineering based knowledge structure in neural networks through computer simulation. The experiments, which were based on a task of modulo arithmetic, provided some insights into the plausibility of the suggested model of a neural knowledge processing system.     

超稠油生产重交通道路石油沥青工艺探讨

超稠油的密度大、粘度高、轻油收率低、酸值高，沥青组成分布不合理，生产沥青困难。探索合适的超稠油生产沥青的加工工艺，不但可以解决超稠油加工困难问题，而且增加了生产道路沥青产品的原料资源。试验及生产证明，采用调和、预处理-蒸馏等工艺加工超稠油能够生产出合格的重交通道路石油沥青产品。     

The thermal behavior of mechanically activated galena by thermogravimetry analysis

The thermal decompositions of mechanically activated and nonactivated galenas were studied by thermogravimetry analysis (TGA) at the heating rate of 10 K min⁻¹ in argon. Results indicate that the initial temperature of thermal decomposition (abbreviated as T _di) in the TGA curves for different galenas decreases gradually with increased grinding time. The specific granulometric surface area (S _G), the structural disorder, and the content of elemental sulfur of mechanically activated galenas were analyzed by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) laser particle-size analyzer, XRD analysis, and the gravimetric method, respectively, which shows that the specific granulometric surface area of mechanically activated galenas remains almost constant after a certain grinding time, but the lattice distortions (ε) rise, the crystallite sizes (D) decrease, and the elemental sulfur contents of mechanically activated galenas increase with increased grinding time. The results imply that the decrease of the initial temperature of thermal decomposition in the TGA curves for mechanically activated galenas is mainly caused by the increase of lattice distortions, and the formation of new dangling bonds resulted from the production of elemental sulfur of mechanically activated galenas with increased grinding time. Finally, the differences in the thermal-decomposition reactivity between nonactivated and mechanically activated galenas were also discussed.     

A quantitative relationship between per capita GDP and scientometric criteria

There exists a quantitative relationship, which can be expressed as G=kF(lgP)N, where G is per capita GDP, F gross expenditure on R&D as % of GDP, P patent applications, N Internet users per 10,000 inhabitants, and k a constant ranging from 0.4 to 1.2 in most countries. The mechanism of the relationship is explained in the paper.     

暖通空调计算机辅助广义设计模式探讨

本文在研究人类设计技能模型的基础上，建立暖通空调广义设计过程模式，提出暖通空调广义设计过程及其CAD系统的信息模型，并以此为基础建立了暖通空调广义CAD系统的框架。     

关于询价招标订购文件的名称

根据Requisition的词义和询价、招标、订购文件的意义，建议将不能准确表达意思的中文译词“请购”改成“询购”。     

On the relationship between parity space and approaches to fault detection

Parity space approach and H₂ approach are two important fault detection approaches. This paper studies the relationship between these two approaches, which reveals frequency domain characteristics of the optimal solution of the parity space approach on the one side and provides a numerical solution of the H₂-optimal design of residual generators on the other side.     

Sites of alcohol and volatile anaesthetic action on GABA(A) and glycine receptors

Volatile anaesthetics have historically been considered to act in a nonspecific manner on the central nervous system. More recent studies, however, have revealed that the receptors for inhibitory neurotransmitters such as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine are sensitive to clinically relevant concentrations of inhaled anaesthetics. The function of GABA(A) and glycine receptors is enhanced by a number of anaesthetics and alcohols, whereas activity of the related GABA rho1 receptor is reduced. We have used this difference in pharmacology to investigate the molecular basis for modulation of these receptors by anaesthetics and alcohols. By using chimaeric receptor constructs, we have identified a region of 45 amino-acid residues that is both necessary and sufficient for the enhancement of receptor function. Within this region, two specific amino-acid residues in transmembrane domains 2 and 3 are critical for allosteric modulation of both GABA(A) and glycine receptors by alcohols and two volatile anaesthetics. These observations support the idea that anaesthetics exert a specific effect on these ion-channel proteins, and allow for the future testing of specific hypotheses of the action of anaesthetics.     

信息理解系统的结构及理解过程

主要讨论消息理解的基本模式及其信息理解系统，并且讨论了二类消息的语义理解例以及理解客观度．     

Complex variable formulations for usual and hypersingular integral equations for potential problems — with applications to corners and cracks

This paper first presents an unified discussion of real and complex boundary integral equations (BIEs) for two-dimensional potential problems. Relationships between real and complex formulations, for both usual and hypersingular BIEs, are discussed. Potential problems in bounded as well as in unbounded domains are of concern in this work. Quantities of particular interest are derivatives of the primary field that exhibit discontinuities across corners, as well as stress intensity factors at the tips of mode III cracks. The latter problem in an application of a recent generalization of the well-known Plemelj-Sokhotsky formulae. Numerical implementations and results for interior problems in bounded domains, as well as for crack problems in unbounded domains, are presented and discussed.C. Y. Hui is supported by the Material Science Center at Cornell University, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (DMR-MRL program). S Mukherjee acknowledges partial support from NSF grant number ECS-9321508 to Cornell University.