Evaluating the impact of CASE: an empirical comparison of retrospective and cross-sectional survey approaches

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two methods of assessing the productivity and quality impact of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Fourth Generation Language (4GL) technologies: (1) by the retrospective method; and (2) the cross-sectional method. Both methods involve the use of questionnaire surveys. Developers' perceptions depend on the context in which they are expressed and this includes expectations about the effectiveness of a given software product. Consequently, it is generally not reliable to base inferences about the relative merits of CASE and 4GLs on a cross-sectional comparison of two separate samples of users. The retrospective method that requires each respondent to directly compare different products is shown to be more reliable. However, there may be scope to employ cross-sectional comparisons of the findings from different samples where both sets of respondents use the same reference point for their judgements, and where numerical rather than verbal rating scales are used to measure perceptions.     

烧结工艺对液相合成（SrPb）TiO3基陶瓷热敏特性影响的研究

本文在液相合成（ＳｒＰｂ）ＴｉＯ３粉的基础上，研究了升温速率、保温时间、烧结温度及降温方式对（ＳｒＰｂ）ＴｉＯ３基陶瓷的Ｖ型ＰＴＣ热敏特性的影响。实验表明：升温速率对其热敏特性影响不大，保温时间和烧结温度的作用是一致的，具有一最佳范围。而降浊方式对材料的热敏特性影响较大。综合各因素的影响，本配方中，样品的烧结制度定为：以２００℃／ｈ的速率升温，在１２５０℃保温１ｈ，炉冷至９５０℃，保温０．５ｈ，再     

Presupposition failure — A comedy of errors

Presuppositions of utterances are the pieces of information you convey with an utterance no matter whether your utterance is true or not. We first study presupposition in a very simple framework of updating propositional information, with examples of how presuppositions of complex propositional updates can be calculated. Next we move on to presuppositions and quantification, in the context of a dynamic version of predicate logic, suitably modified to allow for presupposition failure. In both the propositional and the quantificational case, presupposition failure can be viewed as error abortion of procedures. Thus, a dynamic assertion logic which describes the preconditions for error abortion is the suitable tool for analysing presupposition.     

大系统分散鲁棒容错控制的进展及主要成果

综述了近２０年来关联大系统分散鲁棒容错控制的研究动态及取得的主要成果。说明了统一地研究分散鲁棒容错控制的必要性。在分散控制、鲁棒控制和容错控制研究领域内，分析了各种设计方法的主导思想及实质；指出了这些研究成果的意义与存在的问题。文中着重论述了分散、鲁棒、容错控制研究方法的发展途径。     

仿生矿化的研究Ⅰ．文石型碳酸钙的合成

在聚乙二醇（ＰＥＯ）存在下，ＣａＣｌ２和Ｎａ２ＣＯ３反应生成了类似红鲍鱼壳的含有ＰＥＯ的碳酸钙──高聚物复合材料。Ｘ－衍射和电镜照片显示，它有两种微观结构：外层为文石型和方解石型结构，内层为针状文石型结构。热重分析表明，该材料中含有３％左右ＰＥＯ。结果说明，聚合物对碳酸钙晶核的形成和晶体的生长有很大影响，并对其形成机理进行了初步探讨。     

我国放射性物质运输概况

本文介绍了我国放射性物质运输概况(除台湾省外)。目前,全国放射性物质货包的年运输最约10万件,总放射性活度为1.8PBq,运输的放射性同位素主要是~(131)I、~(32)P 和~(198)Au 等。承运人员的年剂量当量是相当低的,一般小于5mSv。由于十分重视放射性物质的安全运输,所以没有发生过严重事故。文中还讨论了放射性物质运输中的防护问题。     

Modeling and CW operation of a quasi-three-level 946 nm Nd: YAG laser

A model is developed for an end-pumped quasi-three-level laser with population in the lower laser level at equilibrium such as for transitions to the manifolds⁴I9/2in Nd³⁺,⁴I15/2in Er³⁺,⁵I8in Ho³⁺and³H6in Tm³⁺. It is shown that the effect of residual lower laser level population on laser operation can be treated as a saturable loss. Room temperature operation on the⁴F3/2-⁴I9/2transition in Nd:YAG under CW dye laser pumping has been demonstrated with a threshold as low as 11.5 mW incident power and a slope efficiency of 7 percent with 0.3 percent output coupling. Performance is limited by the low output coupling and diffraction loss.     

A novel cyclic process using CaSO<Subscript>4</Subscript>/CaS pellets for converting sulfur dioxide to elemental sulfur without generating secondary pollutants: Part I. Feasibility and kinetics of the reduction of sulfur dioxide with calcium-sulfide pellets

Certain new sulfide-smelting processes and coal-gasification processes generate high-strength sulfur dioxide streams, for which a new process for converting sulfur dioxide to elemental sulfur needs to be developed because no process exists that is generally and economically applicable to the treatment of such streams. A thermodynamic and experimental investigation to develop a new process for converting sulfur dioxide to elemental sulfur by a cyclic process involving calcium sulfide and calcium sulfate without generating secondary pollutants was carried out. In this process, the starting raw material, calcium sulfate, is reduced by a suitable reducing agent, such as hydrogen, to produce calcium sulfide, which is used to reduce sulfur dioxide to elemental sulfur vapor and calcium sulfate. The latter is, in turn, reduced to regenerate calcium sulfide. In this Part I, detailed experimental results are presented on the kinetics of the reaction between sulfur dioxide and calcium-sulfide pellets, which produces elemental sulfur and calcium sulfate. The experiments were carried out at temperatures between 1023 and 1088 K and sulfur-dioxide partial pressures between 9 and 60 kPa by the use of a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) technique. The rate of this reaction was demonstrated by the conversion of 40 pct calcium-sulfide pellets obtained from the hydrogen reduction of fresh calcium sulfate in 10 minutes at 1073 K under a sulfur-dioxide partial pressure of 43 kPa. The reactivity decreased somewhat during the first three cycles but remained largely unchanged thereafter up to the tenth cycle. This characteristic of the pellets is important because the solids must be reusable for repeated cycles to avoid generating secondary pollutants. A pore-blocking model was found to fit the reaction rate. The reaction is first order with respect to sulfur-dioxide partial pressure and has an activation energy of 101 to 134 kJ/mol (24 to 32 kcal/mol) for calcium-sulfide pellets reacted and regenerated several different times. Sulfur dioxide-containing streams from certain sources, such as the regenerator off-gas from an integrated-gasification, combined-cycle, desulfurization unit and new sulfide-smelting plants, contain much higher partial pressures of SO₂. In these cases, the rate of the first reaction is expected to be proportionally higher than in the test conditions reported in this article. The reduction kinetics of calcium-sulfate pellets with hydrogen gas is reported in the accompanying Part II.     

地壳应力场和密度场资料在油气检测中的应用

依据卫星轨道摄动测量结果反演的地壳区域构造应力场和密度场资料，可圈定油气区域构造圈闭和储集油气的低密度层。计算绘制了闽江口扇形洲区域构造应力场和密度卫星遥感图，图上显示出东海近海闽浙中拗陷含油气带与温东丽水油气构造带相接，敖江口官岭与闽江口川石储岛沥青苗等迹象都在此范围内，在闽江口扇形洲东部沿海沙泥沉积区，邻区东海宽长带深厚海沙软泥沉积区及本区北部罗源湾，用大地电磁CSAMT检测到1000－3000m深度范围内的低阻率地层，与本区卫星遥感图图低密度场相符。