Review of Elements of episodic memory.

Reviews the book, Elements of episodic memory by Endel Tulving (1983). Those of us who have followed Tulving's investigations in the somewhat fragmented form of journal articles are very grateful to have his ideas encapsulated, elaborated, and elegantly expounded in his Elements of episodic memory. Tulving spends the initial third of the book driving home the evidence that the distinction between episodic and semantic memory is not just that episodic is time-lagged and semantic is not: it is more far-ranging, and his new work on amnesia is leading to the conclusion that for some forms of this disorder either type of memory may be attacked but not necessarily both. The first vista that opens from Tulving's vantage point is that "systems" and "schemata" are collections of connections that derive a certain autonomy from being only loosely connected to other collections. The second vista that emerges is a psychology in which the use of numbers is rich and strange. A third vista that opens up is shielded at first by a spectre of opposition. The spectre seizes on the passage on "free radicals," in which Tulving claims that certain thoughts cannot be unambiguously assigned to either episodic or semantic memory. Perhaps the most heartening aspect of this book is that Tulving could never have written this monograph without the foundations of his experiments. It is a great relief to see experimentation validated in so invigorating a form. Nevertheless, the most difficult chapters of the book, on recognition and recall, are built on experimental findings that are not yet properly understood. I am glad Tulving did not delay in writing this book until he felt more secure about the questions raised in these last chapters: the work thereby remains a challenge rather than a fait accompli. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Soft-spring nonlinear vibrations of antisymmetrically laminated rectangular plates

This paper deals with the effects of initial geometric imperfections and in-plane boundary conditions on the large-amplitude vibration behavior of angle- and cross-ply rectangular thin plates. It is found that the presence of imperfection amplitudes of the order of only half the total laminated-plate thickness may significantly raise the vibration frequencies and change the large-amplitude vibration behavior from the well-known hard-spring to soft-spring behavior. The effects of fibre angles and bending-stretching coupling for angle-ply plates and Young's moduli ratios and number of layers for antisymmetric cross-ply plates are examined.     

电子束和接触式曝光机的混合曝光技术

Ⅰ线光致抗蚀剂可以同时实用电子束和光学系统曝光，在50kV加速电压下，其曝光剂量为50-100μC/cm^2，曝光后在0.7%NaOH溶液内显影1分钟。其灵敏度比PMMA快5倍，分辩率为0.5μm。采用两方法制备CaAsPHEMT：一种用Ⅰ线光致抗蚀剂，对源、漏及栅全部都采用电子束曝光，制备了0.5μm栅长的GaAs PHEMT；另一种将源、漏及栅分割成两部分，其中精细部分由电子束曝光，其余部分由光学系统曝光，用这种方法制备了0.25μm栅长的GaAs PHEMT。Ⅰ     

Use of weibull statistics to quantify property variability in TiAl alloys

Tensile experiments have been performed on specimens of four different investment-cast TiAl-based alloys with variations in casting conditions. The average ductilities obtained in these experiments vary between approximately 0.8 to 2.0 pct plastic strain to failure in tension. By using the three-parameter form of the Weibull relation, with the 0.2 pct offset yield strength as the minimum failure strength, the resulting variability in the data can be quantified and is found to be similar for those alloys with similar microstructural scale (grain size). Large variations in lamellar volume fraction, segregation, and phase distribution have a minor influence on property variability, compared to changes in the scale of the grain structure caused by either variations in cooling rate during casting or the addition of grain refiners.     

用化学腐蚀制备多孔硅太阳电池减反射膜的研究

采用HF HNO3溶液化学腐蚀 ,在硅片上制备减反射效果优良的多孔硅太阳电池减反射膜 ,借助原子力显微镜 (AFM)和X光电子谱 (XPS)对其表面形貌和成分进行观察 ,发现该膜与电化学阳极腐蚀得到的多孔硅具有相似性 ,其主要成分为非化学配比的硅的氧化物SiOx(X <2 )。采用带积分球的光度分光计 ,测得形成多孔硅减反射膜后 ,硅片表面反射率大大下降 ,,在波长 330～ 80 0nm范围反射率只有 1 5～ 2 9%。研究指出这种强减反射作用 ,与多孔硅具有合适的折射率及其多孔特性的光陷阱作用有关     

水蒸汽喷射泵系统实用设计软件的开发

本文在Turboc环境下开发了多级蒸汽喷射泵系统的设计软件，该软件包括了压缩比优化分配、单级喷射泵结构尺寸设计和冷凝器的结构尺寸设计等内容，使设计人员能够根据具体的工艺条件，快速地完成多级喷射泵系统的设计，对于提高多级喷射泵系统的工作稳定性、节省能源具有实际意义。     

亚洲电力改革:孰是孰非?

电力市场化是全球电力工业都在热烈讨论和积极探索的热点课题 ,在中国电力市场化改革的今天 ,尤其具有重要的理论和实践意义。 2 0 0 2年 5月 1 3日至 1 8日 ,由清华港大深圳电力系统研究所主办的“电力市场新进展高级研讨会”在深圳清华大学研究院举行。在研讨会上 ,与会专家分别就电力市场研究和实践中的若干问题发表了演讲。本刊将主要内容摘录、汇编成文 ,奉献给大家 ,以便广大读者对电力市场的研究动态有比较全面的了解。在此 ,衷心感谢参加“电力市场新进展研讨会”的各位专家给予的大力支持和帮助 ,特别感谢香港大学 /浙江大学文福拴博士、香港大学严正博士在本文的摘编过程中提供的技术指导和具体帮助。     

Insiders, outsiders, and efficiency in a National Science Foundation panel.

Assessed the efficiency of the peer review system during 3 National Science Foundation panel meetings held in 1982 and 1983. During these meetings, nearly 200 proposals received almost 1,400 reviews from "insiders" (panel members) and "outsiders" (ad hoc reviewers). Although the ratio of ad hoc time to panelist time was about 2:1, ad hoc reviewers' quantitative ratings had scant independent influence on final proposal ratings. Nevertheless, it may be that ad hoc reviewers provided crucial qualitative information, acting more as expert witnesses than as judges. The outcome of about a third of the proposals (the very good and the very poor) could be reliably predicted by independent panelist assessments that occurred before the panel meetings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Control of free-radical emulsion polymerization of methyl methacrylate by oxygen injection. II. Experimental study

Oxygen injection has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated as an effective control measure for limiting the rate of heat release and altering the rate of polymerization in emulsion processes. A detailed mathematical model has been previously developed to describe the system behavior with and without oxygen injection. A simple lab scale apparatus was constructed and run extensively. Only trace quantities of oxygen are needed to inhibit the reaction completely. The facile response makes this method attractive for fast temperature control. However, because of the rapid penetration of dissolved oxygen into the polymer particles, growing radical chains are terminated prematurely, lowering product molecular weights. To minimize this detrimental effect, pulsed oxygen control is used and extensive experimental work was performed to determine the effects of controller set points on molecular weight. Moderate oxygen flows and moderate set point temperatures are found to give the optimal response without significant lowering of the final molecular weight. Injected quantities agree well with the order-of-magnitude sparging calculations needed to completely stop initiation. However, complete agreement between model simulations and experimental results was not reached due to an unmeasured loss of monomer from the reactor. Chain transfer to monomer is found to be important in modeling the polymer molecular weight. It has, however, a negligible effect on the reaction rate.