Rapid Prototyping and Tooling of Custom-Made Tracheobronchial Stents

Rapid prototyping (RP) and rapid tooling (RT) techniques can be applied to the field of medicine primarily because of their ability to produce customised profiles and geometries in relatively short lead times. In this paper, the process by which these techniques can be applied for the production of customised tracheobronchial stents for the purpose of maintaining patency in an occluded respiratory tract is described. A comparison of RP systems was carried out to establish the preferred RP method to produce the master model. The vacuum casting RT process was then used to produce the stent.     

A new method of preform design in hot forging by using electric field theory

The preform design in metal forging plays a key role in improving product quality, such as ensuring defect-free property and proper metal flow. In industry, preforms are generally designed by the iterative trial-and-error approach. This approach, however, leads not only to the increase of significant tool cost but also to the extended down-time of the production equipment. It is thus necessary to reduce time and man power through an effective method of preform design. In this paper, the equi-potential lines designed in the electric field are introduced to find an appropriate preform shape. The equi-potential lines generated between two conductors of different voltages show similar trends for the minimum work paths between the undeformed shape and the deformed shape. Based on this similarity, the equi-potential lines obtained by the arrangement of the initial and final shapes are utilized for the design of the preform, and then the artificial neural network is used to find the range of initial volume and potential value of the electric field.     

月光之丽、变彩之奇的月光石

根据所藏月光石的光薄片鉴定研究，阐述了月光石的美学特征和产生原因。介绍了月光石的产出特征和相应的月光石文化，同时介绍了我国关于“和氏壁”属性与月光石关系的研究历史及现状。     

水库调水调沙回顾与展望--兼论小浪底水库运用方式研究

作者简要回顾了三门峡、恒山水库调度方式和小浪底工程设计、“八五”攻关和专题研究之运用方式以及碛口、三门峡、小浪底水库联合调度方式等。提出小浪底水库调度应坚持“多年调节泥沙 ,相机排沙”运用方式 ;调控库容应大一些 ,同时要有灵活性 ;充分利用天然大水过程排沙 ,必要时也可相机造峰 ;注重水库联合调水调沙运用及有关技术问题研究     

Electromagnetic interference mitigation by using a spread-spectrumapproach

We investigate a new technique, referred to as spread-spectrum clock generation (SSCG), for reducing the level of radiated emission from devices with digital clock signals. To calculate the radiated emissions from such devices, we model the radiating geometry and compute the radiated field at a multitude of frequencies by using NEC-4, which is an electromagnetic field solver based on the method of moments (MoM). We consider a variety of modulating profiles for the spread spectrum clock and demonstrate that by using a frequency deviation of only 1%, we can achieve from 10 to 30 dB reduction in the radiated emission levels     

Dynamic sectorization of microcells for balanced traffic in CDMA:genetic algorithms approach

With the increase of cellular users, traffic hot spots and unbalanced call distributions are common in wireless networks. As a solution to this problem, code-division multiple-access techniques enable a base transceiver station to connect microcells with optical fibers and to control the channels by sectorizing the microcells. To solve the load balancing among microcells, we dynamically sectorize the microcells depending on the time-varying traffic. The microcell sectorization problem is formulated as an integer linear programming that minimizes the blocked and handoff calls in the network. In the proposed sectorization, proper, connected, and compact sectors are considered to keep the handoffs as small as possible while satisfying the channel capacity at each sector. Three genetic algorithms (GAs) are proposed to solve the problem: standard GA, grouping GA, and parallel GA. Computational results show that the proposed GAs are highly effective. All three GAs illustrate outstanding performance for small size problems. The parallel GA, which is based on the operators used in grouping GA, demonstrates excellent solution quality in a reasonable time     

50 nm MOSFETs with side-gates for induced source/drain extension

50 nm long MOSFETs with side-gates were optimised in terms of the side-gate length and successfully fabricated with conventional MOS technology. The simulated and fabricated 50 nm long MOSFET shows a reasonable subthreshold swing of 81 mV/dec and a low drain induced barrier lowering of 77 mV     

Rate-driven key frame selection using temporal variation of visualcontent

A simple and fast method to select the assigned number of key frames in a video shot is presented. The algorithm selects the key frames so that the temporal variation of visual content within a video shot is equally distributed to each key frame. Simulation results on a real video sequence are shown to be in agreement with the human visual perception     

二次加热和冷却方式对过共晶铝硅合金半固态组织的影响

过共晶Al 17%Si 4.5 %Cu 0 .5 %Mg合金通过Sr优化变质处理获得初晶硅细小且有α枝晶的显微组织。在固液两相区保温 ,结合金相分析研究组织的转变规律 ,结果表明 :共晶硅经历着熔断、粒状化和粗化的过程 ,初晶硅有长大的趋势 ;随着保温时间的延长 ,共晶体不断熔化成液相 ,液相体积分数逐渐增加 ,直至液相薄膜包围着α相 ,α相由不规则形状向球状转化 ,α相的粗化和合并几乎同时进行 ,最终获得非常理想的半固态组织。从形状系数和等效直径两个方面评价了近球形α相的特征。