Efficient screen-space approach to high-quality multiscale ambient occlusion

We present a new screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) algorithm that improves on the state-of-the-art SSAO methods in both performance and quality. Our method computes ambient occlusion (AO) values at multiple image resolutions and combines them to obtain the final, high-resolution AO value for each image pixel. It produces high-quality AO that includes both high-frequency shadows due to nearby, occluding geometry and low-frequency shadows due to distant geometry. Our approach only needs to use very small sampling kernels at every resolution, thereby achieving high performance without resorting to random sampling. As a consequence, our results do not suffer from noise and excessive blur, which are common of other SSAO methods. Therefore, our method also avoids the expensive, final blur pass commonly used in other SSAO methods. The use of multiple resolutions also helps reduce errors that are caused by SSAO’s inherent lack of visibility checking. Temporal incoherence caused by using coarse resolutions is solved with an optional temporal filtering pass. Our method produces results that are closer to ray-traced solutions than those of any existing SSAO methods, while running at similar or higher frame rates than the fastest ones.     

Investigation on the explosive welding mechanism of corrosion-resisting alu-minum and stainless steel tubes through finite element simulation and experi-ments

To solve the difficulty in the explosive welding of corrosion-resistant aluminum and stainless steel tubes, three technologies were proposed after investigating the forming mechanism through experiments. Then, a 3D finite element model was established for systematic simulations in the parameter determination. The results show that the transition-layer approach, the coaxial initial assembly of tubes with the top-center-point the detonation, and the systematic study by numerical modeling are the key technologies to make the explosive welding of LF6 aluminum alloy and 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel tubes feasible. Numerical simulation shows that radial contraction and slope collision through continuous local plastic deformation are necessary for the good bonding of tubes. Stand-off distances between tubes (D1 and D2) and explosives amount (R) have effect on the plastic deformation, moving velocity, and bonding of tubes. D1 of 1 mm, D2 of 2 mm, and R of 2/3 are suitable for the explosive welding of LF6-L2-1Cr18Ni9Ti three-layer tubes. The plastic strain and moving velocity of the flyer tubes in-crease with the increase of stand-off distance. More explosives (R2/3) result in the asymmetrical distribution of plastic strain and non-bonding at the end of detonation on the tubes.     

图像重建中的非常稀疏循环矩阵

测量矩阵是压缩传感理论的关键要素之一。针对目前大部分工作中所用的高斯等随机测量矩阵独立随机变元过多,不利于物理实现的问题,引入稀疏带状和稀疏列的概念,形成稀疏带状随机、托普利兹和循环矩阵以及稀疏列随机、循环矩阵,随机变元个数减少约三分之一。采用通用的模拟实验方法,验证此类稀疏矩阵对于真实图像的重建效果及对0-1信号的成功重建概率均与随机高斯矩阵相当。     

Application-Oriented Flow Control: Fundamentals, Algorithms and Fairness

This paper is concerned with flow control and resource allocation problems in computer networks in which real-time applications may have hard quality of service (QoS) requirements. Recent optimal flow control approaches are unable to deal with these problems since QoS utility functions generally do not satisfy the strict concavity condition in real-time applications. For elastic traffic, we show that bandwidth allocations using the existing optimal flow control strategy can be quite unfair. If we consider different QoS requirements among network users, it may be undesirable to allocate bandwidth simply according to the traditional max-min fairness or proportional fairness. Instead, a network should have the ability to allocate bandwidth resources to various users, addressing their real utility requirements. For these reasons, this paper proposes a new distributed flow control algorithm for multiservice networks, where the application's utility is only assumed to be continuously increasing over the available bandwidth. In this, we show that the algorithm converges, and that at convergence, the utility achieved by each application is well balanced in a proportionally (or max-min) fair manner     

Modeling and simulation for a drop-impact analysis of multi-layered printed circuit boards

Multi-layered printed circuit boards (PCBs) contain a multi-layered structure that is suitable for high-speed and high-frequency applications. Hence, they are used extensively in electronic packaging assemblies for high-density applications. However, numerous composite parts and complex material properties of multi-layer PCBs complicate the reliability simulation of PCB model. This paper deals with a finite element analysis intended to describe numerically the behavior of multi-layered multi-materials PCB model (combination of metallic and composite plies) in the drop-impact performance. Through the comparison of physical drop test results, the fully multi-layered model illustrates higher accuracy if compared with that of the traditional simplified isotropic model and orthotropic model. The effects of material properties for the multi-layer PCB under drop-impact shock have also been investigated.     

无线网络中的跨层设计

随着网络的不断发展，跨层设计越来越多的受到了关注。本文首先介绍了传统网络层次的缺陷和跨层设计在下一代网络中的重要性，然后阐述了目前此项研究中已有的跨层设计方法，最后对各种方法的优缺点进行总结和比较并提出了跨层设计的难度和待解决的问题。     

消息中间件JMS接口的设计与实现

Java消息服务(JMS)是SUN公司提出的旨在统一各种消息中间件系统接口的规范,它包含点对点(PTP)和发布/订阅(Pub/Sub)两种消息模型,提供可靠消息传输、事务和消息过滤等机制。在对消息中间件InforBroker进行探索的基础上,基于JMS规范设计并实现了InforBroker的JMSAPI,使应用程序可以通过这个标准接口对InforBroker系统进行访问。     

Friendship Jealousy in Young Adolescents: Individual Differences and Links to Sex, Self-Esteem, Aggression, and Social Adjustment.

Children's vulnerability to jealousy surrounding their best friends was explored in 2 studies. Study 1 involved 94 adolescents who reported on their friendship jealousy on a newly created measure. Results indicated that the jealousy measure had sound psychometric properties and produced individual differences that were robust over time and free from socially desirable responding. As expected, girls and adolescents with low self-worth reported the greatest friendship jealousy. Study 2 involved 399 young adolescents and extended the measurement of self-report jealousy to a broader age range. In addition, Study 2 included assessments of jealousy provided by friends and other peers. Self- and peer-reported jealousy were only modestly associated and had somewhat distinct correlates. Structural modeling revealed that young adolescents' reputation for friendship jealousy was linked to behaving aggressively and to broader peer adjustment difficulties. Both self- and peer-reported jealousy contributed to loneliness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

数控绘图系统中的绘图基本算法

简要介绍了数控绘图系统中不同算法处理系统的反应速度，较详细地讨论了直线与圆算法处理等实际问题。并给出了不同算法相应的处理方法。     

一个基于XML的教案制作工具的设计

学习资源共享对于电子教案制作有着重要意义。文章给出了一个基于XML的以学习资源共享为核心的教案制作工具的设计。介绍了组成教案的几种学习资源组件,描述了这些学习资源组件之间的关系,以及XML在实现这些学习资源组件上的作用。给出了教案设计制作方式。另外还给出了工具的系统框架。