联吡啶钌配合物对末端炔烃的催化

以6,6＇-二甲基-2,2＇-联吡啶为配体合成了二水合氯化顺一二氯·二（6,6＇-二甲基-2,2＇联吡啶）合钌（Ⅲ）配合物,进一步用三氟甲基磺酸银脱氯得到三（三氟甲基）磺酸顺一二水·二（6,6＇-二甲基-2,2＇联吡啶）合钌（Ⅲ）配合物．研究了后者对1-己炔、苯乙炔和丙炔酸乙酯环三聚反应的催化作用．实验结果显示环三聚产物具有区域选择性：产物只有1,2,4一三取代苯与1,3,5-三取代苯两种同分异构体,且主要为1,2,4一三取代苯．催化机理研究表明,三（三氟甲基）磺酸顺一二水·二（6,6＇-二甲基-2,2＇联吡啶）合钌（Ⅲ）中的两个水分子配体首先被两分子炔烃取代生成π-炔基配合物,然后通过氧化偶联反应得到钌杂环戊二烯配合物;第三个炔烃分子经由插入反应或双烯加成反应生成钌杂环庚三烯或7一钌杂双环[2．2．1]-2,5-庚二烯中间体,随后发生还原消除反应得到三取代苯．     

邻近高耸建筑对小区风环境的影响试验研究

风环境是评价人居生活质量好坏的重要指标,随着国民经济的快速发展,越来越多的高耸楼宇应运而生,这些楼宇会较大程度地改变已有小区的风环境,给小区居民正常生活带来困扰,而当前对该问题的针对性研究还十分匮乏。以长沙通用时代国际社区为研究背景,利用大尺度风洞（10 m×3 m×21 m）对新增高耸建筑后的小区风环境进行了全方位、多工况试验研究,并基于超越概率法对有无新增高耸建筑小区风环境舒适度与危险度进行定量评估。结果表明：城市小区平均风剖面与湍流度剖面指数值要远高于规范值,表明城市小区具有较大的地表粗糙度。新增高耸建筑会显著改变其邻近区域风环境,如高耸建筑对通用时代小区100、200、300 m范围内平均风速分别造成了25%、6%和2%的加速作用,在增加高耸建筑后小区风环境舒适度与危险度超越概率最大值分别增加了2倍和6倍。     

A module‐integrated isolated solar micro‐inverter without electrolytic capacitors

This paper presents a module‐integrated isolated solar micro‐inverter. The studied grid‐tied micro‐inverters can individually extract the maximum solar power from each photovoltaic (PV) panel and transfer to the AC utility system. A harmonic suppression technique is used to reduce the DC‐bus capacitance. Electrolytic capacitors are not needed in the studied solar micro‐inverter. High conversion efficiency, high maximum power point tracking accuracy and long lifespan can be achieved. The operation principles and design considerations of the studied PV inverter are analyzed and discussed. A laboratory prototype is implemented and tested to verify its feasibility. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Design and implementation of a high‐efficiency LiFePO4 battery charger for electric vehicle applications

This letter studies and implements a high‐efficiency LiFePO₄ battery charger. The modular design can satisfy the requirements of series/parallel charging for electric vehicle applications. A CC‐CC‐CV charging scheme is also realized to meet the characteristics of LiFePO₄ battery stacks. A 2 kW laboratory prototype is built and tested. The experimental results are shown to verify the feasibility of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Color‐edge detection based on discrimination of noticeable color contrasts

Color‐edge detection is an important research task in the field of image processing. Efficient and accurate edge detection will lead to higher performance of subsequent image processing techniques, including image segmentation, object‐based image coding, and image retrieval. To improve the performance of color‐edge detection while considering that human eyes are ultimate receiver of color images, the perceptually insignificant edges should avoid being over‐detected. In this article, a color‐edge detection scheme based on the perceptual color contrast is proposed. The perceptual color contrast is defined as the visible color difference across an edge in the CIE‐Lab color space. A perceptual metric for measuring the visible color difference of a target color pixel is defined by utilizing the associated perceptually indistinguishable region. The perceptually indistinguishable region for each color pixel in the CIE‐Lab color space is estimated by the design of an experiment that considers the local property due to local changes in luminance. Simulation results show that the perceptual color contrast is effectively defined and the color edges in color images are detected while most of the perceptually insignificant edges are successfully suppressed through the proposed color‐edge detection scheme. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 19, 332–339, 2009     

Lower-error and area-efficient antilogarithmic converters with bit-correction schemes

In this article, we have proposed fast lower-error and area-efficient antilogarithmic converters. By employing new approximation schemes with two-region shift-and-add operations, our proposed converters can perform high-speed conversions from logarithmic numbers to binary numbers. Synthesis results show that our proposed converters can achieve time savings of over 32.5% and can save 42.3% of the area used compared with previously proposed methods. In addition, the percent error ranges for various logarithmic number system (LNS)-based operations used by our proposed logarithmic processor are lower than those of previous methods. Our proposed converters can be applied to LNS-based processors to ease the tremendous computation overhead and boost the performance.     

Optimization by random search with jumps

We give a random optimization (RO) algorithm to optimize a real‐valued function of n real variables. During the optimization process, interpolation points are examined to follow valleys, and jumps to new starting points are executed to avoid numerous iterations in local minima. Convergence with probability one to the global minimum of a function is proved. The proposed RO method is a simple, derivative‐free and computationally moderate algorithm, with excellent performance compared to other RO methods. Seven functions, which are commonly used to test the performance of optimization methods, are used to evaluate the performance of the RO algorithm given here. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Decreased Expression of Plakophilin-2 and αT-Catenin in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Potential Markers for Diagnosis

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a hereditary disease of the heart muscle. Clinical challenges remain, however, in identifying patients with ARVC in the early or concealed stages with subtle clinical manifestations. Therefore, we wanted to identify potential targets by immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis in comparison with controls. Pathogenic mutations were identified in 11 of 37 autopsied patients with ARVC. As observed from IHC analysis of the RV, expression of αT-catenin and plakophilin-2 is significantly decreased in autopsied patients with ARVC as compared to controls, and the decreased expression is consistent in patients with and without pathogenic mutations. Furthermore, ARVC specimens demonstrated a reduced localization of αT-catenin, desmocollin-2, desmoglein-2, desmoplakin, and plakophilin-2 on intercalated discs. These findings have been validated by comparing RV specimens obtained via endomyocardial biopsy between patients with ARVC and those without. The pathogenic mutation was present in 3 of 5 clinical patients with ARVC. In HL-1 myocytes, siRNA was used to knockdown CTNNA3, and western blotting analysis demonstrated that the decline in αT-catenin expression was accompanied by a significant decline in the expression of plakophilin-2. The aforementioned effect was directed towards protein degradation rather than mRNA stability. Plakophilin-2 expression decreases concurrently with the decline in CTNNA3 expression. Therefore, the expression of αT-catenin and plakophilin-2 could be potential surrogates for the diagnosis of ARVC.     

A new point contact surface acoustic wave transducer for measurement of acoustoelastic effect of polymethylmethacrylate

A new acoustic transducer and measurement method have been developed for precise measurement of surface wave velocity. This measurement method is used to investigate the acoustoelastic effects for waves propagating on the surface of a polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) sample. The transducer uses two miniature conical PZT elements for acoustic wave transmitter and receiver on the sample surface; hence, it can be viewed as a point- source/point-receiver transducer. Acoustic waves are excited and detected with the PZT elements, and the wave velocity can be accurately determined with a cross-correlation waveform comparison method. The transducer and its measurement method are particularly sensitive and accurate in determining small changes in wave velocity; therefore, they are applied to the measurement of acoustoelastic effects in PMMA materials. Both the surface skimming longitudinal wave and Rayleigh surface wave can be simultaneously excited and measured. With a uniaxial-loaded PMMA sample, both acoustoelastic effects for surface skimming longitudinal wave and Rayleigh waves of PMMA are measured. The acoustoelastic coefficients for both types of surface wave motions are simultaneously determined. The transducer and its measurement method provide a practical way for measuring surface stresses nondestructively.     

CFD simulation of particle segregation in a rotating drum. Part I: Eulerian solid phase kinetic viscosity

Although the Eulerian approach coupling the kinetic theory of granular flow is usually used to study granular flows with relative lower solid fractions, it can be used to study relative denser granular flows if appropriate solid phase kinetic viscosity values were adopted. A granular bed surface fitting (BSF) method is proposed to determine the appropriate solid phase kinetic viscosities of the granular flows in a rotating drum. The specularity coefficient is also used to address the interaction between particles and the drum wall. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosity increases with decreasing of particle sizes and drum rotational speeds. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosity and the specularity coefficient follow a power-law relationship with 0.6–1.1 as the exponent of the specularity coefficient. The BSF solid phase kinetic viscosities for the particles of two different sizes are used to study particle segregation in a rotating drum. The core thickening segregation mechanism and the segregation band formations are well predicted.