Perspective:Societally connected multimedia across cultures

The advance of the Internet in the past decade has radically changed the way people communicate and col- laborate with each other. Physical distance is no more a barrier in online social networks, but cultural differences (at the individual, community, as well as societal levels) still govern human-human interactions and must be con- sidered and leveraged in the online world. The rapid de-ployment of high-speed Internet allows humans to interact using a rich set of multimedia data such as texts, pictures, and videos. This position paper proposes to define a new research area called ’connected multimedia’, which is the study of a collection of research issues of the super-area social media that receive little attention in the literature. By connected multimedia, we mean the study of the social and technical interactions among users, multimedia data, and devices across cultures and explicitly exploiting the cultural differences. We justify why it is necessary to bring attention to this new research area and what benefits of this new research area may bring to the broader scientific research community and the humanity.     

A note on circle packing

The problem of packing circles into a domain of prescribed topology is considered. The circles need not have equal radii. The Collins-Stephenson algorithm computes such a circle packing. This algorithm is parallelized in two different ways and its performance is reported for a triangular, planar domain test case. The implementation uses the highly parallel graphics processing unit (GPU) on commodity hardware. The speedups so achieved are discussed based on a number of experiments.     

砷化镓材料中EPR“As_(Ga)”的退火行为

本文比较了中子辐照。压缩变形和原生LEC砷化镓等三种不同来源样品的EPR“As_(Ga)”的Hamiltonian参数。并系统地研究了EPR“As_(Ga)”的浓度和低温光猝灭行为随退火温度的变化,从而进一步验证了EPR“As_(Ga)”的本性,即除孤立As_(Ga)反位原子外,还可能包括As_(Ga)的一些空位络合物。这些不同本性的EPR“As_(Ga)”缺陷及其它有关的缺陷在样品热处理过程中可能相互转化。按照物理化学中Le Chatlier原理,缺陷的原始浓度和晶体内部应变能似应是引起这些转化反应的重要因素。     

Analysis of nonlinear electrical circuits using bernstein polynomials

In electrical circuit analysis, it is often necessary to find the set of all direct current (d.c.) operating points (either voltages or currents) of nonlinear circuits. In general, these nonlinear equations are often represented as polynomial systems. In this paper, we address the problem of finding the solutions of nonlinear electrical circuits, which are modeled as systems of n polynomial equations contained in an n-dimensional box. Branch and Bound algorithms based on interval methods can give guaranteed enclosures for the solution. However, because of repeated evaluations of the function values, these methods tend to become slower. Branch and Bound algorithm based on Bernstein coefficients can be used to solve the systems of polynomial equations. This avoids the repeated evaluation of function values, but maintains more or less the same number of iterations as that of interval branch and bound methods. We propose an algorithm for obtaining the solution of polynomial systems, which includes a pruning step using Bernstein Krawczyk operator and a Bernstein Coefficient Contraction algorithm to obtain Bernstein coefficients of the new domain. We solved three circuit analysis problems using our proposed algorithm. We compared the performance of our proposed algorithm with INTLAB based solver and found that our proposed algorithm is more efficient and fast.     

Some investigations on fuzzy P + fuzzy I + fuzzy D controller for non-stationary process

The paper addresses the adaptive behaviour of parallel fuzzy proportional plus fuzzy integral plus fuzzy derivative (FP+FI+FD) controller. The parallel FP+FI+FD controller is actually a non-linear adaptive controller whose gain changes continuously with output of the process under control. Two non-stationary processes, whose characteristics change with time, are considered for simulation study. Simulation is performed using software LabVIEW TM . The set-point tracking response of parallel FP+FI+FD is compared with conventional parallel proportional plus integral plus derivative (PID) controller, tuned with the Ziegler-Nichols (Z-N) tuning technique. Simulation results show that conventional PID controller fails to track the set-point and becomes unstable as the process changes its characteristic with time. But the parallel FP+FI+FD controller shows considerably much better set-point tracking response and does not deviate from steady state. Also, a huge spike is observed in the output of PID controller as the reference set-point and process parameters are changed, while the FP+FI+FD controller gives spike free control signal.     

Unusual W-shaped Galvanic Cell Model of ISCC of α-brass in Neutral Mattsson''''s Solution

Intergranular stress corrosion cracking(ISCC) of α-brass in neutral Mattsson's solutionwas found to be controlled by an unusual"W"-shaped galvanic cell whose cathode is thegrain boundary oxide film (G.B.0. film) andsurface film and the anode is fresh metal atthe cracked tip on both sides of the G.B.0.film. Redox reactions involved in the cellhave been proposed here. According to thismdel, initidtion of ISCC is caused by therupturing of surface film along grain boundaries,thus forming a galvanic cell. Propagation ofISCC resulted from alternate advances of G.B.0.film and dissolution on both sides of G.B.0.film caused by the effect of electrochemicalreaction. This work developed an effective approachto investigate the embrittlement process atthe tip of the crack, by increasing the lengthof the embrittlement region through constantstrain test and distinguishing the morphologyand the nature of the corrosion products byoptical microscopy and scanning electronmicroscopy (SEH).     

非饱和水力传导系数的简易实验室测量方法

本文描述一种采用常规的实验装置在短时间内测量土层非饱和水力传导率的简易方法,称为"向上入渗法".这一方法基于在控制压力的条件下测量土的吸水量,从而来估算土层在湿润状态下的水力传导系数.将其结果与恒定加水量法、小增量压力变化法、一步法以及杰克逊理论模型的计算结果进行了比较.采用向上入渗法与采用恒定加水量法的结果很接近,但稍大于一步法而小于杰克逊理论模型的结果.这种测定方法限定负压值约为一米.     

计算机模拟扫描电镜颗粒边缘粗糙度外貌特征

各种石英颗粒表面特征的发育与否,是任何扫描电镜分析重建地质环境的基础,对于在石英颗粒表面获得的许多可见特征来说,虽然已有许多"清单"(Krinsley和Donahue,1968:Cater,1984),但是,专门检测技术的有效性还是一个争论的问题.由这类分析获得的最为重要的物理参数之一是边缘磨蚀,因为圆度值是一种发现于石英砂颗粒的主要形态特征.例如,1984年Goudie和Bull发现两类非洲沉积物之间的主要差异是,在深度风化剖面中总体缺乏边缘磨蚀颗粒,并以此为基础建立了该研究区的斜坡     

试析中专计算机教学中如何提高学生能力水平

在以往中专计算机教学中比较重视理论知识,而忽视了对学生实际操作能力的培养,导致中专计算机专业毕业生在社会中就业中没有足够的竞争力。所以加强中专教学中学生能力的培养是非常必要的。本文主要对如何加强中专计算机教学中学生的创新能力、抽象思维能力、自学能力以及应用能力进行了深入的分析。