Influence of thermal boundary conditions on natural convection in a square enclosure partially heated from below

Natural convection in air-filled 2D square enclosure heated with a constant source from below and cooled from above is studied numerically for a variety of thermal boundary conditions at the top and sidewalls. Simulations are performed for two kinds of lengths of the heated source, i.e., a small and a large source corresponding to 20% and 80% of the total length of the bottom wall, respectively. The Rayleigh number varied from 10³ to 10⁷. Results are presented in the form of streamline and isotherm plots as well as the variation of the Nusselt number and maximum temperature at the heat source surface. Comparisons among the different thermal configurations considered are reported.     

Effect of surfactant replacement therapy on the outcome of premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome

Lung surfactant replacement has been tested clinically in recent years. In this study the outcome of 31 premature infants with moderate to severe neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) treated with surfactant was compared to that of 74 prematures with RDS treated conventionally by positive pressure ventilation and supportive care. The groups were well matched for gestational age, birthweight, sex, and Apgar scores at 1 and 5 min. Surfactant treatment resulted in a significant decrease in mortality--from 36.6% in the untreated group to 12.9% in the surfactant-treated group (P < 0.04). This improvement in survival was seen also in prematures with a birthweight < 1,000 g; in the untreated group mortality was 57.6% compared to 23.5% in the treated group (P < 0.05). The incidence of pneumothorax was lower in the treated group--42% vs. 13% (P < 0.01). Surfactant treatment resulted in a trend of more survivors without bronchopulmonary dysplasia or intraventricular hemorrhage, even though surfactant therapy did not change the incidence of either.     

基于CFD分析技术的水力优化设计方法在云南绿水河二级电站机组改造项目中的应用

云南绿水河二级电站高水头混流式水轮发电机组,由于受到当时的技术水平限制,自1969年设备投运后问题较多,电站进行了多次技术改造,但机组仍然存在机组效率低下、汽蚀和泥沙磨损问题,同时由于转轮的过流能力有限,远没有充分利用现有水力资源,本次电站改造的目标是提效增容,充分利用水力资源,改善汽蚀性能和解决泥沙磨损问题,保证机长期安全稳定运行,改造范围是对2号、3号和4号机组进行全面改造.电站改造采用基于CFD技术的水力优化设计方法的核心技术对电站存在的问题进行了针对性设计,给出了行之有效的全面解决方案,成功地完成了电站改造目标.     

Stable feature selection based on instance learning,redundancy elimination and efficient subsets fusion

Neural Computing and Applications - Feature selection is frequently used as a preprocessing step to data mining and is attracting growing attention due to the increasing amounts of data emerging...     

Blowtooth: a provocative pervasive game for smuggling virtual drugs through real airport security

In this paper, we describe a pervasive game, Blowtooth, in which players use their mobile phones to hide virtual drugs on nearby airline passengers in real airport check-in queues. After passing through airport security, the player must find and recover their drugs from the innocent bystanders, without them ever realising they were involved in the game. The game explores the nature of pervasive game playing in environments that are not, generally, regarded as playful or “fun”. This paper describes the game’s design and implementation as well as an evaluation conducted with participants in real airports. It explores the players’ reactions to the game through questionnaire responses and in-game activity. The technologies used in Blowtooth are, intentionally, simple in order for the enjoyment of the game to be reliant more on the physical environment rather than the enabling technologies. We conclude that situating pervasive games in unexpected and challenging environments, such as international airports, may provide interesting and unique gaming experiences for players. In addition, we argue that pervasive games benefit most from using the specific features and nature of interesting real-world environments rather than focusing on the enabling technologies.     

Archiving the web using page changes patterns: a case study

A pattern is a model or a template used to summarize and describe the behavior (or the trend) of data having generally some recurrent events. Patterns have received a considerable attention in recent years and were widely studied in the data mining field. Various pattern mining approaches have been proposed and used for different applications such as network monitoring, moving object tracking, financial or medical data analysis, scientific data processing, etc. In these different contexts, discovered patterns were useful to detect anomalies, to predict data behavior (or trend) or, more generally, to simplify data processing or to improve system performance. However, to the best of our knowledge, patterns have never been used in the context of Web archiving. Web archiving is the process of continuously collecting and preserving portions of the World Wide Web for future generations. In this paper, we show how patterns of page changes can be useful tools to efficiently archive Websites. We first define our pattern model that describes the importance of page changes. Then, we present the strategy used to (i) extract the temporal evolution of page changes, (ii) discover patterns, to (iii) exploit them to improve Web archives. The archive of French public TV channels France Télévisions is chosen as a case study to validate our approach. Our experimental evaluation based on real Web pages shows the utility of patterns to improve archive quality and to optimize indexing or storing.     

Robust H ∞ control of uncertain nonlinear switched systems using constructive method

This paper focuses on the problem of robust H _?? control of nonlinear switched systems with parameter uncertainty via the multiple Lyapunov functions (MLFs) approach. The uncertain parameters are assumed to be in a known compact set and are allowed to enter the system nonlinearly. Based on the explicit construction of Lyapunov functions, which avoids solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) inequalities, sufficient conditions for the solvability of the robust H _?? control problem of cascade nonlinear switched systems are derived under some switching signal. Then, the result is extended to solve the robust H _?? control problem of nonlinear switched systems in strict feedback form. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated through a simulation example.     

高压动态无功补偿装置运行试验系统的研究

为验证动态无功补偿装置的性能,本文通过分析装置工作原理,提出了一种高压动态无功补偿装置运行试验系统,采用10 kV电源经有载调压器作为试验主电源;通过多组变压器变换满足多种电压等级的高压无功补偿装置的试验需求;设计陪试无功补偿装置与被试品进行互补的工作原理,在达到对试品进行试验考核的同时降低了试验对电网的冲击及实验室进线电源的需求.通过试验验证,该试验系统具有SVC及SVG运行性能的考核能力.     

Curcumin Prevents Cerebellar Hypoplasia and Restores the Behavior in Hyperbilirubinemic Gunn Rat by a Pleiotropic Effect on the Molecular Effectors of Brain Damage

Bilirubin toxicity to the central nervous system (CNS) is responsible for severe and permanent neurologic damage, resulting in hearing loss, cognitive, and movement impairment. Timely and effective management of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia by phototherapy or exchange transfusion is crucial for avoiding permanent neurological consequences, but these therapies are not always possible, particularly in low-income countries. To explore alternative options, we investigated a pharmaceutical approach focused on protecting the CNS from pigment toxicity, independently from serum bilirubin level. To this goal, we tested the ability of curcumin, a nutraceutical already used with relevant results in animal models as well as in clinics in other diseases, in the Gunn rat, the spontaneous model of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Curcumin treatment fully abolished the landmark cerebellar hypoplasia of Gunn rat, restoring the histological features, and reverting the behavioral abnormalities present in the hyperbilirubinemic rat. The protection was mediated by a multi-target action on the main bilirubin-induced pathological mechanism ongoing CNS damage (inflammation, redox imbalance, and glutamate neurotoxicity). If confirmed by independent studies, the result suggests the potential of curcumin as an alternative/complementary approach to bilirubin-induced brain damage in the clinical scenario.     

一种针对信息网格RBAC模型私有权限问题的有效解决方案*

针对信息网格RBAC(Role-Based Access Control)模型中由于继承关系产生的子角色不能拥有私有权限的问题进行了研究,并分析了当前提出的使用私有角色和深度指示符这两种解决方法.通过分析得出这两种方法分别存在角色膨胀和组合爆炸的缺点.在此基础上,提出了一种带有权限传播深度的新解决方法,即角色中的每个权限分别具有公有和私有属性以及权限传播深度,同时提供了一个算法求解每个角色的权限集.