预加重与MMSE 结合的语音增强方法

基于语音周期性的特点,提出了一种预加重的MMSE语音增强的改进算法.首先,算法在尽量保留语音信息基础上对带噪语音预加重,使信噪比提高.预加重过程将根据带噪语音信号的周期性的强弱对信号动态加权.处理结果再作为MMSE语音增强的输入并将有利于提高最终的去噪效果.     

基于PLC的碱回收蒸发工段控制系统的设计

根据某造纸厂碱回收蒸发工段的工艺流程和控制要求,从系统硬件组态和软件设计两方面探讨了Simatic S7-300在碱回收蒸发过程中的应用;针对蒸发工段的出效浓黑液浓度难以控制的特点,提出了黑液浓度基于串级控制策略;利用WinCC组态软件实现上位机监控,模拟现场画面,显示所需监控的现场设备.经过运行表明,该系统调节准确,稳定了黑液浓度,降低了能耗,同时节约了设备投资.     

基于田口法的潜油电机槽型优化研究

潜油电机作为潜油电泵机组的重要组成部分,其性能指标尤为重要。由于潜油电机细长的结构特征,导致在槽型设计方面不同于普通的异步电动机。 基于田口法,在保证潜油电机定转子外形尺寸、温升条件、机械强度不变的情况下,通过确定6个槽型优化因子(定子斜肩角、定子槽高、定子槽宽、转子斜肩角、转子槽高和转子槽宽)与4个优化目标(电机效率、功率因数、最大转矩倍数及启动转矩倍数),建立潜油电机槽型优化目标正交矩阵,降低了仿真次数。借助于有限元法与电磁设计相结合的场路分析方法,得出不同设计方案的性能指标。通过统计学方法确定各优化因子对优化目标的影响关系和影响程度,确定最终优化方案。最后,以143系列210 kW的潜油电机为例,对其槽型进行优化设计,验证该方法的可行性。     

基于矩量法的螺旋天线设计

螺旋天线具有宽波束、圆极化等特性。以往的轴向螺旋天线多为端射式,辐射方向单一。为弥补这一不足,提出了一种新型的中馈轴向螺旋天线。基于RWG(Rao-Wihon-Glisson)边元的矩量法,采用MATLAB仿真计算出中馈螺旋天线的方向图、反射系数、增益等重要参数。又利用高频结构仿真软件(HFSS)对所设计的中馈螺旋天线进行了仿真。通过两种方法仿真得到的结果吻合较好,仿真结果的正确性得到了验证。实验结果表明:中馈轴向螺旋天线不仅具有以往轴向螺旋天线所具备的定向性好和高增益等优点,还具有两个反向且强度相同的辐射方向,同时天线增益可以达到8dB以上,半功率波束宽度可达33°。这种天线可以应用到多边通信及中继通信等领域。     

Predicting recidivism with the Psychopathy Checklist: Are factor score composites really necessary?

In two previous studies on general and violent recidivism (Walters & Heilbrun, 2010; Walters, Knight, Grann, & Dahle, 2008), the summed composite antisocial facet of the Psychopathy Checklist displayed incremental validity relative to the other 3 facets (interpersonal, affective, lifestyle), whereas the other 3 facets generally failed to demonstrate incremental validity relative to the antisocial facet. Because summed composite scores do not account for ordinal item distributions, the 6 Walters et al. (2008) samples were reanalyzed with factor score composites derived from a 4-factor confirmatory factor analysis. The results, however, showed little change from what had been obtained earlier with summed composite scores. Two additional samples not previously included in any incremental validity analyses of the Psychopathy Checklist evidenced a 3-factor structure, with the lifestyle and antisocial facets merged into a single factor. This single factor displayed incremental validity relative to the interpersonal and affective facets, but the reverse was not true regardless of whether summed composite scores or factor score composites were used. A comparison of zero-order correlations from all 8 samples revealed that the antisocial summed composite score predicted significantly better than the summed composite scores for the other 3 facets and that a superordinate factor failed to improve on the performance of either the antisocial summed composite score or the antisocial factor score composite. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Efficient wavefunction propagation by minimizing accumulated action

This paper presents a new technique to calculate the evolution of a quantum wavefunction in a chosen spatial basis by minimizing the accumulated action. Introduction of a finite temporal basis reduces the problem to a set of linear equations, while an appropriate choice of temporal basis set offers improved convergence relative to methods based on matrix exponentiation for a class of physically relevant problems.     

Correlation of electron and proton-irradiation-induced damage in InP solar cells

The measured degradation of epitaxial shallow homojunction n⁺p InP solar cells under 1-MeV electron irradiation is correlated with that measured under 3-MeV proton irradiation based on ‘displacement damage dose’. The measured data are analyzed as a function of displacement damage dose from which an electron-to-proton dose equivalency ratio is determined which enables the electron and proton degradation data to be described by a single degradation curve. It is discussed how this single curve can be used to predict the cell degradation under irradiation by any particle energy. The degradation curve is used to compare the radiation response of InP and GaAs/Ge cells on an absolute damage energy scale. The comparison shows InP to be inherently more resistant to displacement damage deposition than the GaAs/Ge.     

Effect of sodium bicarbonate and magnesium oxide in an alfalfa-based total mixed ration fed to early lactating dairy cattle

Forty-eight lactating Holstein cows were fed a total mixed ration of 57% concentrate and 43% forage (dry basis) for 12 wk postpartum. Treatments consisted of 1) no added buffers, 2) .4% MgO, 3) .8% NaHCO3, and 4) .8% NaHCO3 plus .4% MgO of the total ration DM. Body weight, DM intake, and milk yield and composition were unaffected by treatment. Gross efficiency of milk production was decreased by the addition of NaHCO3 or MgO. Buffer supplementation had no effect on ruminal volatile fatty acid concentration or blood chemistries.     

Nuclear fuel considerations for the 21 century

There are many external influences that may control the path that nuclear power deployment follows. In the next 50 years several events may unfold. Fear of the consequences of the greenhouse effect may produce a carbon tax that would make nuclear power economically superior very quickly. This, in turn, would increase the rate at which uranium reserves diminish due to the increased rate of nuclear power deployment. However, breakthroughs in the extraction of uranium from the sea or deployment of fast breeder reactors would greatly extend the uranium reserves and, as well, utilize the thorium cycle.On the other hand, carbon sequestering technology breakthroughs could keep fossil fuels dominant for the remainder of the century. Nuclear power may only then continue, as today, in a lesser role or even diminish. Fusion power or new developments in solar power could completely displace nuclear power as we know it today.Even more difficult to predict is when the demand for mobile fuel for transportation will develop such that hydrogen and hydrogen rich fuel cells will be in common use. When this happens, nuclear power may be the energy source of choice to produce this fuel from water or methane. In a similar vein, the demand for potable and irrigation water may be another driver for the advent of increased deployment of nuclear power.With all these possibilities of events that could happen it appears impossible to predict with any certainty which path nuclear power deployment may take. However, it is necessary to define a strategy that is flexible enough to insure that when a technology is needed, it is ready to be deployed.For the next few decades there will be an evolutionary improvement in the performance of uranium oxide and mixed uranium oxide-plutonium oxide (MOX) LWR fuels. These improvements will be market driven to keep the cost of fuel and the resulting cost of nuclear power electricity as competitive as possible. The development of fuels for accelerator transmutation and for reactor transmutation with inert matrix fuels is in its infancy. A great deal of research has been initiated in a number of countries, which has been summarized in recent conferences. In Europe the work on these fuels is directed at the same problem as their utilization of MOX; namely to reduce the inventory of separated plutonium, minor actinides, and Long Lived Fission Products (LLFP). In the United States there is no reprocessing and thus no inventory of separated civilian plutonium. However, in the United States there is a resistance to a permanent spent fuel repository and thus accelerator transmutation presents a possible alternative. If nuclear power does have a long-term future, then the introduction of the fast reactor is inevitable. Included in the mission of the fast reactors would be the elimination of the inventory of separated plutonium while generating useful energy. The work that is ongoing now on the development of fuel concepts for assemblies that contain actinides and LLFP would be useful for fast reactor transmutation.There is still a great deal of work required to bring the fast breeder reactor option to maturity. Fortunately there is perhaps a fifty-year period to accomplish this work before fast breeders are necessary. With regard to fast reactor fuel development, future work should be considered in three stages. First, all the information obtained over the past forty years of fast reactor fuel development should be completely documented in a manner that future generations can readily retrieve and utilize the information. Fast reactor development came to such an abrupt halt world-wide that a great deal of information is in danger of being lost because most of the researchers and facilities are rapidly disappearing. Secondly, for all of the existing fast reactor fuels, and this includes, oxides, carbides, nitrides, and metallic fuels, the evolutionary work was far from being completed. Although mixed oxide fuels were probably the furthest advanced, there were many concepts for improved claddings and advanced fabrication methods that were never fully explored. Finally, with such an extended period before fast reactors are needed there is ample time for truly innovative fuels to be developed that are capable of performing over a wide range of conditions and coolants.     

The nootropic correction of disorders in learning and memory processes induced by extreme exposures

Experiments on rats demonstrated that the low-intensity electromagnetic field (12.6 cm, 2375 MHz, power density 1 mW/cm2), motion sickness, and electroconvulsive shock provoked the retrograde amnesia in the passive avoidance test. The oxyracetam (100 mg/kg, i.p.), aniracetam (50 mg/kg, i.p.), nooglutil (50 mg/kg, i.p.), meclofenoxate (50 mg/kg, i.p.), pyracetam (200 mg/kg, i.p.), and GABA (200 mg/kg, i.p) prevented the memory-impairing effect of all these extreme factors. On the contrary, the N-acetylglycinamide, semax, and other nootropic drugs were effective only under one or two extreme conditions.