Gradient Boundary Detection for Time Series Snapshot Construction in Sensor Networks

In many applications of sensor networks, the sink needs to keep track of the history of sensed data of a monitored region for scientific analysis or supporting historical queries. We call these historical data a time series of value distributions or snapshots. Obviously, to build the time series snapshots by requiring all of the sensors to transmit their data to the sink periodically is not energy efficient. In this paper, we introduce the idea of gradient boundary and propose the gradient boundary detection (GBD) algorithm to construct these time series snapshots of a monitored region. In GBD, a monitored region is partitioned into a set of subregions and all sensed data in one subregion are within a predefined value range, namely, the gradient interval. Sensors located on the boundaries of the subregions are required to transmit the data to the sink and, then, the sink recovers all subregions to construct snapshots of the monitored area. In this process, only the boundary sensors transmit their data and, therefore, energy consumption is greatly reduced. The simulation results show that GBD is able to build snapshots with a comparable accuracy and has up to 40 percent energy savings compared with the existing approaches for large gradient intervals.     

Accurate Depth of Field Simulation in Real Time

We present a new post processing method of simulating depth of field based on accurate calculations of circles of confusion. Compared to previous work, our method derives actual scene depth information directly from the existing depth buffer, requires no specialized rendering passes, and allows easy integration into existing rendering applications. Our implementation uses an adaptive, two‐pass filter, producing a high quality depth of field effect that can be executed entirely on the GPU, taking advantage of the parallelism of modern graphics cards and permitting real time performance when applied to large numbers of pixels.     

Terahertz Interferometer That Senses Vibrations Behind Barriers

A terahertz sensor that measures vibrations behind optically opaque barriers (cardboard, plastic, wool, cotton) is described and demonstrated. Using interferometric techniques, submicrometer displacements can be resolved. Measured spectral response agrees with commercial vibrometer     

10Gbit/s甚短距离传输系统接收模块研究

本文研究了符合OIF—VSR4—01．0规范的甚短距离（VSR）并行光传输系统转换器集成电路，实现了接收部分转换器集成电路中帧同步、8B／10B解码、12路通道去斜移、检错纠错等模块的设计。在Altera的Stratix GX系列的FPGA上实现了接收部分转换器集成电路。仿真分析的结果表明所设计的各个模块能正确的实现接收部分转换器集成电路的功能，给出了仿真结果。     

A Comment on "The Exchanged Hypercube'

We address and analyze the problems existing on the exchanged hypercube proposed by Loh et al., an interconnection network obtained by systematically removing links from a hypercube. By taking the wrong number of links, the exchanged hypercube suffers from two problems. Necessary modifications on the exchanged hypercube, including the incremental expandability and the ratio of the number of links in EH(s, t) to that of an (s+t+1)-dimensional hypercube, are made     

Monolithic Catalysts with Low Noble-Metal Content for Exhaust Purification of Small Gasoline Engines

A series of low noble-metal coment monolithic catalysts for exhaust purification of small gasoline engines was investigated, and it was found that the Pt/Rh-OSM/Al2O3 （where OSM was oxygen storage material） catalyst with Ce0.5Zr0.5-MnOx（3%MnOx） OSM held low light-off temperature for CO, HC, and NO; quite wide three-way window, and outstanding thermal stability. The catalyst could efficiently comrol exhaust emission of small gasoline engines.     

具有厚大断面的大型球墨铸铁铸件的生产

首先通过电炉—LF精炼炉—VD精炼炉—包内球化的工艺路线获得了足够的优质铁液,然后通过选取合适的分型面、设置合理的浇注系统、设计专用的冷铁、安放足够大的保温冒口和上表面加大加工余量来去除夹渣等措施,成功生产了具有厚大断面的大型球墨铸铁铸件。     

分偏移距动校正方法的改进

在地震资料处理中，速度分析和动校正对资料品质的影响很大。由于动校正速度是随偏移距变化而变化的，而常规速度分析并没有考虑这一因素，动校正效果往往不是很理想，从而影响资料的叠加和成像效果。分偏移距动校方法是在不同偏移距上采用不同的速度进行动校正。但由于是在不同偏移距组上分别独立进行速度分析和动校正，因此不能将不同偏移距组的同一反射同相轴校正到同一to层位上。这样就需要进行繁琐的后续处理，而且还会降低同相轴的连续性和平滑性。为此，对该方法进行了一些改进，即固定to在不同的分偏移距段进行速度扫描，段与段之间的衔接问题采用平滑处理解决。理论模型分析表明，采取上述改进措施后，动校正效果得到了一定提高，改善了同相轴的连续性和平滑性。