A Novel Athermal 40-Channel DWDM Multi/Demultiplexer Based on the Combination of AWGs and Interleaver

An athermal 40-channel dense wavelength-division-multiplexing multi/demultiplexer using a novel combination technology is proposed. It consists of one 1times4 100- to 400-GHz spacing interleaver filter and four sub-arrayed-waveguide gratings (AWGs). The temperature-dependent wavelength shift of the combined device is successfully suppressed to 0.058 nm in the -20degC to 70degC temperature range. Moreover, the combined device's adjacent crosstalk (typically -35 dB) is much better than conventional AWGs (typically -25 dB).     

Emergy account for biomass resource exploitation by agriculture in China

On the basis of Odum's ecological economic measure of emergy as embodied solar energy, a system account of biomass resource exploitation by agriculture in China 2004 is developed in this paper, which supplements a former study on corresponding long-term historical trends during 1978 to 2000 (Chen et al., 2006. Emergy-based analysis of the Chinese agriculture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 115, 161–173). The aggregate fluxes and indicators for biomass resource exploitation in China 2004 are calculated and illustrated when compared with those for 2000 to elucidate the latest status of the Chinese agriculture as the exploitation sector for biomass resource. Data sources and algorithm are presented in detail as basic references for related analysis involving the ecological economy of biomass exploitation in agriculture.     

Model-based automated extraction of microtubules from electron tomography volume.

We propose a model-based automated approach to extracting microtubules from noisy electron tomography volume. Our approach consists of volume enhancement, microtubule localization, and boundary segmentation to exploit the unique geometric and photometric properties of microtubules. The enhancement starts with an anisotropic invariant wavelet transform to enhance the microtubules globally, followed by a three-dimensional (3-D) tube-enhancing filter based on Weingarten matrix to further accentuate the tubular structures locally. The enhancement ends with a modified coherence-enhancing diffusion to complete the interruptions along the microtubules. The microtubules are then localized with a centerline extraction algorithm adapted for tubular objects. To perform segmentation, we novelly modify and extend active shape model method. We first use 3-D local surface enhancement to characterize the microtubule boundary and improve shape searching by relating the boundary strength with the weight matrix of the searching error. We then integrate the active shape model with Kalman filtering to utilize the longitudinal smoothness along the microtubules. The segmentation improved in this way is robust against missing boundaries and outliers that are often present in the tomography volume. Experimental results demonstrate that our automated method produces results close to those by manual process and uses only a fraction of the time of the latter.     

A novel dynamic survivable routing in WDM optical networks with/without sparse wavelength conversion

In this paper, we study the dynamic survivable routing problem, both in optical networks without wavelength conversion and in optical networks with sparse wavelength conversion, and propose a novel hybrid algorithm for it based on the combination of mobile agents technique and genetic algorithms (GA). By keeping a suitable number of mobile agents in the network to cooperatively explore the network states and continuously report cycles (that are formed by two disjoint-link routes) into the routing tables, our new hybrid algorithm can promptly determine the first population of cycles for a new request based on the routing table of its source node, without the time consuming process associated with current GA-based lightpath protection schemes. We further improve the performance of our algorithm by introducing a more advanced fitness function that is suitable for both the above networks. Extensive simulation studies on the ns-2 network simulator show that our hybrid algorithm achieves a significantly lower blocking probability than the conventional survivable routing algorithms for all the cases we studied.     

浙江玩具业发展战略思考

近十年来,浙江玩具产业异军突起，逐渐成为一个玩具大省。但是,国内玩具界已进入一个群雄逐鹿的时代。浙江玩具业发展何去何从？本文从战略的高度,提出关键在于玩具业内人士把握良机,创建有中国特色、浙江特色的自主品牌．值得业界人士一读。[编者按]     

新疆重质混合原油研制高等级道路沥青

对利用新疆重质混合原油生产的减压渣油作为基质沥青制备高等级道路沥青进行了研究。考察了低硫石蜡基原油（A）和含硫环烷-中间基原油（B）的掺炼比对基质沥青四组分组成的影响，减压渣油软化点与基质沥青四组分组成的关系，以及添加剂对改进沥青性质的作用。由此得出原油（B）的合适掺炼量，减压渣油软化点的控制范围和优化的生产工艺条件，调合出了符合GB／T18150—2000和JTGF40—2004要求的高等级道路沥青。     

镁法海绵钛生产工艺中大型无隔板镁电解槽的节能实践

以镁法海绵钛生产工艺中大型无隔板镁电解槽的实际节能情况为例，探讨了在镁电解生产中的非生产耗电、生产耗电、漏电等因素造成的能量浪费，阐述了生产中粗镁直流电耗、电流效率、工作电压3者之间的关系，指出了影响电解槽工作电压的有关因素及降低电解槽工作电压的途径。     

常减压蒸馏装置阻垢剂进料管腐蚀与防护

通过对常减压蒸馏装置阻垢剂进料管的材质、性能、工作条件及腐蚀形貌、腐蚀产物的全面分析,找出了使进料管发生大面积腐蚀的腐蚀介质为环烷酸.并提出了减缓阻垢剂进料管环烷酸腐蚀的措施,主要包括选用更耐蚀的316或316 L材质以及改进三通结构等.     

开发井低渗透储层中长期产能预测

研究表明，某些低渗透储层具有启动压力梯度影响，即实际生产压差只有大于某个数值时，储层流体才能流动。针对此问题，从低速非达西渗流理论入手，给出了考虑启动压力影响的低速非达西储层的产能预测方法，并在F160-126等开发评价井上进行了应用，达到了准确评价低渗透非达西储层中长期产能、指导开发井生产的目的。     

板坯连铸涡流检测钢水液位系统的应用

介绍了新一代RAM型涡流传感钢水液位控制仪在莱钢板坯连铸机上的应用及其效果。