Fundamental methodological issues of syntactic pattern recognition

Fundamental open problems, which are frontiers of syntactic pattern recognition are discussed in the paper. Methodological considerations on crucial issues in areas of string and graph grammar-based syntactic methods are made. As a result, recommendations concerning an enhancement of context-free grammars as well as constructing parsable and inducible classes of graph grammars are formulated.     

Warm forming limits of rare earth-magnesium alloy ZEK100 sheet

Forming limit curves were developed for a rare earth-magnesium alloy, ZEK100-F, at temperatures between 25 and 350 °C in both the rolling (RD) and transverse directions (TD) of the sheet. ZEK100-F contains additions of zirconium (Zr) as a grain refining alloying element and a rare earth addition, neodymium (Nd), that promotes a weakened basal texture allowing enhanced slip activity at lower temperatures. Warm formability measurements were also performed on non-rare earth containing AZ31B-O to examine the relative performance of these two alloys. The ZEK100 material exhibited significantly better room temperature formability over AZ31B-O with a limiting dome height of 29 mm for ZEK100 compared to only 12 mm for the AZ31B-O. At elevated temperatures (250 °C) the difference in formability between the two alloys becomes less pronounced with a LDH of 40 and 36 mm for ZEK100 and AZ31B-O, respectively. What is particularly striking is the pronounced benefit of the rare earth alloyed material at intermediate temperatures, with an LDH of 37 mm at 150 °C which equals the LDH of AZ31B at 250 °C. Similar trends were determined in the measured forming limit curves reported here for the two alloys. The relative performance of the two alloys is largely attributed their initial textures. ZEK100-F also exhibits strongly anisotropic formability (RD versus TD) which can again be attributed to its’ initial texture.     

Planar Silicene: A New Silicon Allotrope Epitaxially Grown by Segregation

2D sheets of graphene‐like silicon, namely planar silicene, are synthesized. This new silicon allotrope is prepared on Au(111) thin films grown on a Si(111) substrate in the process of surface segregation. Owing to its almost perfectly flat geometry it shares the atomic structure with graphene rather than with low‐buckled silicene. Scanning tunneling microscopy measurements clearly display an atomically resolved planar silicene honeycomb lattice. Ab initio density functional theory calculations fully support the experimental findings and predict a pure sp² atomic configuration of Si atoms. The present work is the first experimental evidence of epitaxial planar silicene.     

新能源制氢电力电子变换器综述

新能源发电与氢能相结合是实现"碳达峰"与"碳中和"目标的重要途径之一,其中,电力电子变换器被广泛应用.为了实现电解制氢系统高效运行,要求电力电子变换器具有低压大电流能力、低输出电流纹波、高降压比及高可靠性等特点.文中首先分析了电解器模型,并对目前商业化电解器的特点及技术指标进行研究.然后,对新能源电解制氢系统,包括碱性电解器、质子交换膜电解器和固体氧化物电解器中的电力电子变换器进行了整理和分类,并对各类拓扑进行了分析和对比.同时,对电力电子变换器在新能源制氢中潜在的应用、存在的问题以及发展的方向进行了讨论和总结.     

Improved Water Resistance and Adhesive Performance of a Commercial UF Resin Blended with Glutaraldehyde

The influence of glutaraldehyde blend on the properties of a commercially available resin in moist conditions was investigated. A UF resin with very low water resistance was blended with glutaraldehyde prior to the thermosetting step and the adhesive performance of the modified adhesive systems was studied. Experiments were performed on birch two-layer co-oriented plywood. It was shown that blending a commercial glue-mix as sold with glutaraldehyde can be an effective way to improve water resistance of the glue without introducing additional –NH₂ moiety. It was also found that glutaraldehyde does not deteriorate properties of the glue in the dry state, while glue susceptibility to boiling water is markedly reduced.     

Optimization of the form of a building on an oval base

The aim of this work is to analyze the possibility of optimizing an abstract, symmetrical with respect to the north–south axis form of a building with vertical walls and windows, and constant volume and height. The external south partitions of the building are walls with whole windowpanes. The heat losses through walls, floors, roof and the gain of solar radiation through transparent partitions with respect to their direct correlation with the shape of building form are next taken into consideration. The gain of solar energy for the north part of the building have been disregarded.     

Hand radiographs preprocessing, image representation in the finger regions and joint space width measurements for image interpretation

In this paper, the first stage of studies concerning the computer analysis of hand X-ray digital images is described. The images are preprocessed and then skeletization of the fingers is carried out. Then, the interphapangeal and metacarpophalangeal joints are detected and contoured. Joint widths are also measured. The obtained results largely concur with those obtained by other authors—see Beier et al. [Segmentation of medical images combining local, regional, global, and hierarchical distances into a bottom-up region merging scheme, Proc. SPIE 5747 (2005) 546-555], Klooster et al. [Automatic quantification of osteoarthritis in hand radiographs: validation of a new method to measure joint space width, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 16 (1) (2008) 18-25], Ogiela et al. [Image languages in intelligent radiological palm diagnostics, Pattern Recognition 39 (2006) 2157-2165] and Ogiela and Tadeusiewicz [Picture languages in automatic radiological palm interpretation, Int. J. Appl. Math. Comput. Sci. 15 (2) (2005) 305-312].