InfServer:一个基于分布计算环境的智能推理服务软件

介绍了一个基于分布计算环境的智能推理服务条件ＩｎｆＳｅｖｅｒ。     

Engineering metal-impurity nanodefects for low-cost solar cells

As the demand for high-quality solar-cell feedstock exceeds supply and drives prices upwards, cheaper but dirtier alternative feedstock materials are being developed. Successful use of these alternative feedstocks requires that one rigorously control the deleterious effects of the more abundant metallic impurities. In this study, we demonstrate how metal nanodefect engineering can be used to reduce the electrical activity of metallic impurities, resulting in dramatic enhancements of performance even in heavily contaminated solar-cell material. Highly sensitive synchrotron-based measurements directly confirm that the spatial and size distributions of metal nanodefects regulate the minority-carrier diffusion length, a key parameter for determining the actual performance of solar-cell devices. By engineering the distributions of metal-impurity nanodefects in a controlled fashion, the minority-carrier diffusion length can be increased by up to a factor of four, indicating that the use of lower-quality feedstocks with proper controls may be a viable alternative to producing cost-effective solar cells.     

SoPC技术在体外反搏控制系统中的应用

研究了一种基于SoPC的体外反搏控制系统,通过SoPC技术将数据采集控制模块、中央处理器、VGA控制器等单元集成到一块FPGA芯片上,该系统具有性能高、抗干扰性强、可重构、易扩展等优点。同时采用了数字信号处理和硬件电路相结合的方法进行基线矫正和自动增益调节,提高系统的适用性。系统很好地完成了对体外反搏装置的控制,同时也推进了体外反搏系统向微型化、家庭化的方向发展。     

Tightly Secure Public-Key Cryptographic Schemes from One-More Assumptions

Journal of Computer Science and Technology - A tightly secure cryptographic scheme refers to a construction with a tight security reduction to a hardness assumption, where the reduction loss is a...     

Nitric Oxide Signalling in Descending Vasa Recta after Hypoxia/Re-Oxygenation

Reduced renal medullary oxygen supply is a key factor in the pathogenesis of acute kidney injury (AKI). As the medulla exclusively receives blood through descending vasa recta (DVR), dilating these microvessels after AKI may help in renoprotection by restoring renal medullary blood flow. We stimulated the NO-sGC-cGMP signalling pathway in DVR at three different levels before and after hypoxia/re-oxygenation (H/R). Rat DVR were isolated and perfused under isobaric conditions. The phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitor sildenafil (10⁻⁶ mol/L) impaired cGMP degradation and dilated DVR pre-constricted with angiotensin II (Ang II, 10⁻⁶ mol/L). Dilations by the soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activator BAY 60-2770 as well as the nitric oxide donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 10⁻³ mol/L) were equally effective. Hypoxia (0.1% O₂) augmented DVR constriction by Ang II, thus potentially aggravating tissue hypoxia. H/R left DVR unresponsive to sildenafil, yet sGC activation by BAY 60-2770 effectively dilated DVR. Dilation to SNP under H/R is delayed. In conclusion, H/R renders PDE5 inhibition ineffective in dilating the crucial vessels supplying the area at risk for hypoxic damage. Stimulating sGC appears to be the most effective in restoring renal medullary blood flow after H/R and may prove to be the best target for maintaining oxygenation to this vulnerable area of the kidney.     

Erythropoietin in Optic Neuropathies: Current Future Strategies for Optic Nerve Protection and Repair

Erythropoietin (EPO) is known as a hormone for erythropoiesis in response to anemia and hypoxia. However, the effect of EPO is not only limited to hematopoietic tissue. Several studies have highlighted the neuroprotective function of EPO in extra-hematopoietic tissues, especially the retina. EPO could interact with its heterodimer receptor (EPOR/βcR) to exert its anti-apoptosis, anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation effects in preventing retinal ganglion cells death through different intracellular signaling pathways. In this review, we summarized the available pre-clinical studies of EPO in treating glaucomatous optic neuropathy, optic neuritis, non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and traumatic optic neuropathy. In addition, we explore the future strategies of EPO for optic nerve protection and repair, including advances in EPO derivates, and EPO deliveries. These strategies will lead to a new chapter in the treatment of optic neuropathy.     

Design, analysis, and implementation of an agent driven pull-based distributed video-on-demand system

The problem of employing multiple servers to serve a pool of clients on a network based multimedia service is addressed. We have designed and practically implemented a prototype system employing multiple servers to render a long duration movie to the customers. We have employed a multiple server retrieval strategy proposed in the literature [39] to realize this system. In the system, server coordination, client behavior and service facilities are completely controlled by an Agent based approach in which we have used the recent Jini technology. Several issues, ranging from data retrieval from individual server, behavior of the underlying network infrastructure, to client management and resource (client buffers) management, are considered in this implementation. We describe in detail our experiences in this complete design process of every module in the software architecture, its purpose, and working style. Further, the system is shown to be robust amidst unpredictable failures, i.e., in the event of server crashes. The load balancing capability is built-in as a safe guard measure to assure a continuous presentation. We present a comprehensive discussion on the software architecture to realize this working system and present our experiences. A system comprising a series of Pentium III PCs on a fast Ethernet network is built as a test-bed. Through this prototype, a wider scope of research challenges ahead are highlighted as possible extensions. Bharadwaj Veeravalli Member, IEEE & IEEE-CS, received his BSc in Physics, from Madurai-Kamaraj Uiversity, India in 1987, Master's in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1991 and PhD from Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1994. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 1996. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) division, at The National University of Singapore, Singapore, as a tenured Associate Professor. His main stream research interests include, Multiprocessor systems, Cluster/Grid computing, Scheduling in parallel and distributed systems, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, and Multimedia computing. He is one of the earliest researchers in the field of divisible load theory. He has published over 75 papers in high-quality International Journals and Conferences. He had secured several externally funded projects. He has co-authored three research monographs in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Databases, and Multimedia systems, in the years 1996, 2003, and 2005, respectively. He had guest edited a special issue on Cluster/Grid Computing for IJCA, USA journal in 2004. He has been recently invited to contribute to Multimedia Encyclopedia, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. He is currently serving the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on SMC-A and International Journal of Computers & Applications, USA, as an Associate Editor. He had served as a program committee member and as a session chair in several International Conferences. Long Chen received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnic University, P. R. China, in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and the M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Delaware, United States. His research interests include multimedia systems, distributed system, network security, and computer architecture.     

大功率拖动电机降压起动特性技术

针对拖动电机的广泛使用,分析其起动特性,阐述其降压起动中起动时间、起动负荷计算整定的必要性及重要性,研究得出一种可广泛使用的计算大功率拖动电机起动电压、起动负荷转矩及起动时间的方法,并介绍此方法的应用效果.     

HJ-1星多光谱影像火烧迹地信息提取研究——以百色市为例

为识别火烧迹地等地类,以广西百色市为研究区,采用HJ-1星多光谱影像数据近红外波段光谱值、林火发生前后两时相各自NDVI值以及NDVI变化值,基于先验知识和统计分析构建决策树分类模型,通过与传统最大似然分类提取结果的比较分析,表明基于多特征的决策树模型能够有效地对HJ-1星多光谱遥感数据进行火烧迹地等地类提取,在研究区并具有良好的推广性。     

山区城市WCDMA的网络规划与仿真设计

山区城市具有市区地势低平,周边高的地理特征,而相应也具有复杂的无线传播环境,研究无线网络规划一般原则的基础上,针对山区城市进行WCDMA的网络规划仿真设计,并对仿真结果进行了分析.