新疆膜下滴灌棉田暗管排盐的数值模拟与分析Ⅰ:模型与参数验证

新疆地区广泛应用膜下滴灌技术进行棉花种植,易在膜下浅层根区(0~40 cm)形成淡化区域,而深部根系层(40~60 cm)却始终处于积盐状态,具有较大的积盐和返盐隐患。为了更为便捷地探索节水、高效的暗管排盐模式,在开展蓄水淋洗条件下暗管(埋深60 cm、间距500 cm)排水、排盐田间试验和分析建立相应数值模型的基础上,利用HYDRUS软件和田间试验数据对所建立的数值模型和水盐运动参数进行了校验,结果表明模拟值与实测值之间整体吻合较好,剖面土壤含水量分布的最大均方根差(RMSE)和最小决定系数(R2)分别为0.025 cm~3/cm~3和0.88,含盐量分布的最大RMSE和最小R2分别为2.74 g/kg和0.93,基本在可接受范围之内。尽管剖面土壤脱盐率可达77.5%,但绝大部分盐分都被淋洗至暗管以下土层,暗管排盐量十分有限,仅占60 cm以上土体盐分总量的11.7%,因此有必要探索膜下滴灌棉田暗管排盐的改进模式或方法,以有效提高其排盐效率。本文所建立的数值模型和相关水盐运动参数可以较好地描述暗管排水、排盐过程中的土壤水盐动态,并进一步用于当地膜下滴灌棉田不同暗管排盐模式的数值模拟与分析,从而为新疆膜下滴灌棉田高效排盐模式的探索提供科学依据。     

新疆膜下滴灌棉田暗管排盐的数值模拟与分析Ⅱ:模型应用

为了降低新疆地区盐碱棉田根区土壤盐分含量,尤其是排走长期使用膜下滴灌技术造成的下部根系层(40~60 cm)累积盐分,针对当地实际情况设计了2种改进排盐模式,分别是淋洗防渗排盐模式(情景1)和暗管局部冲洗排盐模式(情景2),利用经过校验的模型和参数对不同模式下暗管排水、排盐动态过程进行模拟。情景1在暗管下方铺设一定宽度(L_f,分别设定为20、50、100、250和500 cm)的防渗材料以增加汇流面积,提高排水、排盐量;情景2先通过暗管直接供水湿润周围土壤,达到设定时间(T_i,分别设定为0.25~10 d的9种情形)后停止供水,然后再通过暗管进行排水、排盐,以期利用较小的冲洗定额达到排盐的目的。对情景1进行模拟时,以0~40 cm和40~60 cm土壤含盐量分别低于3 g/kg和6 g/kg作为结束淋洗的标准进行对比分析,结果表明:当暗管处于非饱和区域、下方无防渗处理(传统暗管排盐模式)时,其排盐率仅为9.8%,单方水的排盐效率约1.86 kg/m~3;在暗管下方进行防渗处理有利于增加暗管排盐量,排盐率可达11.9%~32.1%,排盐效率可提高至2.27~3.15 kg/m~3;然而,随着Lf增加,施工难度和成本均会大幅上升,尤其是当Lf100 cm,单方水排盐效率的提高程度却较为有限,因此建议Lf在100 cm以内。而采用暗管供水进行局部冲洗(情景2)时,即使在暗管下方进行防渗处理,其单方水的排盐效率最高也不超过0.6 kg/m~3,整体表现并不理想,在新疆地区使用不太现实。     

Efficient emulation of single-hop radio network with collision detection on multi-hop radio network with no collision detection

Summary This paper presents an efficient randomized emulation ofsingle-hop radio networkwith collision detection onmulti-hop radio networkwithout collision detection. Each step of the single-hop network is emulated by rounds of the multi-hop network and succeeds with probability 1–. (n is the number of processors,D the diameter and the maximum degree). It is shown how to emulate any polynomial algorithm such that the probability of failure remains . A consequence of the emulation is an efficient randomized algorithm for choosing a leader in a multi-hop network. Reuven Bar-Yehuda was born in Iran, on July 17th 1951. Received B.A., M.Sc., and D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1978, 1980, and 1983, respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the Technion. From 1984 to 1986, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Computer Science Dept. at the Duke Univesity His research interests include computational geometry, VLSI, graph algorithms and distributed algorithms. Oded Goldreich was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, on February 4th 1957. Received B.A., M.Sc., and D.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1980, 1982, and 1983, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Technion. From 1983 to 1986, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. His research interests include cryptography and related areas, relation between randomness and algorithms, and distributed computation. Alon Itai was born in Scotland, on December 12th 1946. Received B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1969. M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1971 and 1976. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Technion. His research interests include randomized and distributed algorithms, computational learning theory and performance evaluation.The second author was partially supported by grant No. 86-00301 from the United States—Israel Bi-national Science Foundation BSF), Jerusalem, Israel.     

Dynamic stills and clip trailers

We propose a method for generating visual summaries of video. It reduces browsing time, minimizes screen-space utilization, while preserving the crux of the video content and the sensation of motion. The outputs are images or short clips, denoted as dynamic stills or clip trailers, respectively. The method selects informative poses out of extracted video objects. Optimal rotations and transparency supports visualization of an increased number of poses, leading to concise activity visualization. Our method addresses previously avoided scenarios, e.g., activities occurring in one place, or scenes with non-static background. We demonstrate and evaluate the method for various types of videos.     

Study of core-shell platinum-based catalyst for methanol and ethylene glycol oxidation

A Ru_core-Pt_shell, XC72-supported catalyst was synthesized in a two-step process: first, by deposition of Ru on XC72 by the polyol process and then by deposition of Pt on the XC72-supported Ru, with NaBH₄ as reducing agent. The structure and composition of this core-shell catalyst were determined by EDS, XPS, TEM and XRD. Electrochemical characterization was determined with the use of cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The methanol and ethylene glycol oxidation activities of the core-shell catalyst were studied at 80 °C and compared to those of a commercial catalyst. It was found to be significantly better (in terms of A g⁻¹ of Pt) in the case of methanol oxidation and worse in the case of ethylene glycol oxidation. Possible reasons for the lower ethylene glycol oxidation activity of the core-shell catalyst are discussed.     

The effect of irrigation level and harvest mechanization on virgin olive oil quality in a traditional rain‐fed ‘Souri’ olive orchard converted to irrigation

BACKGROUND: Olive trees are generally grown under rain‐fed conditions. Since yield response to application of water in the growing season may be considerable, irrigation is increasingly introduced to existing, mature orchards. An additional feature of modernization of olive cultivation is mechanical harvesting. To investigate the effect of irrigation level on the quality of virgin olive oil (VOO) produced from cv. Souri, six regimes, ranging from deficit to excess, were applied to trees in a mature, traditional orchard as it was converted to irrigation. Furthermore, in order to investigate the effect of damage incurred during harvest, oil quality of hand‐picked fruit was compared to that of mechanically harvested olives. RESULTS: Data were collected from two consecutive growing seasons. Increased irrigation quantity increased the free acidity level of the oil and decreased the total phenol content of VOO, while the peroxide level of the oil was not affected. Oil of hand‐picked fruits had lower free acidity, higher polyphenol content and slightly lower peroxide level compared to the oil of mechanically harvested olives. CONCLUSION: Fruits from irrigated trees demonstrated an apparent sensitivity to mechanical wounding that subsequently led to increased free acidity, increased peroxide level and decreased total phenol content in oil. Management of irrigated orchards including method and timing of harvest and oil extraction techniques should consider these results in order to optimize production of high‐quality oil. Copyright © 2008 Society of Chemical Industry     

Response regulator output in bacterial chemotaxis

Chemotaxis responses in Escherichia coli are mediated by the phosphorylated response-regulator protein P-CheY. Biochemical and genetic studies have established the mechanisms by which the various components of the chemotaxis system, the membrane receptors and Che proteins function to modulate levels of CheY phosphorylation. Detailed models have been formulated to explain chemotaxis sensing in quantitative terms; however, the models cannot be adequately tested without knowledge of the quantitative relationship between P-CheY and bacterial swimming behavior. A computerized image analysis system was developed to collect extensive statistics on freeswimming and individual tethered cells. P-CheY levels were systematically varied by controlled expression of CheY in an E.coli strain lacking the CheY phosphatase, CheZ, and the receptor demethylating enzyme CheB. Tumbling frequency was found to vary with P-CheY concentration in a weakly sigmoidal fashion (apparent Hill coefficient approximately 2.5). This indicates that the high sensitivity of the chemotaxis system is not derived from highly cooperative interactions between P-CheY and the flagellar motor, but rather depends on nonlinear effects within the chemotaxis signal transduction network. The complex relationship between single flagella rotation and free-swimming behavior was examined; our results indicate that there is an additional level of information processing associated with interactions between the individual flagella. An allosteric model of the motor switching process is proposed which gives a good fit to the observed switching induced by P-CheY. Thus the level of intracellular P-CheY can be estimated from behavior determinations: approximately 30% of the intracellular pool of CheY appears to be phosphorylated in fully adapted wild-type cells.     

Correlation Between the Total Morphology of an Epoxy System and Some of its Properties

Due to the ever growing use of epoxy resins for structural applications, more information is required about their structure-properties relationship. Much work was done on this subject by us and by others, but many questions still remain unanswered. Some problems which require more detailed studies are the influence of factors like compositional changes in the resin (ratio of prepolymer-curing agent), postcuring and cooling of the polymerized resin from temperatures above T_g to room temperature, on physical properties of the product.     

Pattern Matching for Sets of Segments

In this paper we present algorithms for a number of problems in geometric pattern matching where the input consists of a collection of orthogonal segments in the plane. Such collections arise naturally from problems in mapping buildings and robot exploration. We propose a new criterion for segment similarity called the coverage measure, and present efficient algorithms for maximizing it between sets of axis-parallel segments under translations. In the general case, we present a procedure running in time O(n³ log² n), and for the case when all segments are horizontal, we give a procedure that runs in time O(n² log² n). Here n is the number of segments. In addition, we show that an -approximation to the Hausdorff distance between two sets of horizontal segments under vertical translations can be computed in time O(n^3/2 max(poly(log M, log n, 1/))). Here, M denotes the ratio of the diameter to the closest pair of points in the sets of segments (where pairs of points lie on different segments). These algorithms are significant improvements over the general algorithm of Agarwal et al. that required time O(n⁴ log²     

Deblocking of block-transform compressed images using weighted sums of symmetrically aligned pixels.

A new class of related algorithms for deblocking block-transform compressed images and video sequences is proposed in this paper. The algorithms apply weighted sums on pixel quartets, which are symmetrically aligned with respect to block boundaries. The basic weights, which are aimed at very low bit-rate images, are obtained from a two-dimensional function which obeys predefined constraints. Using these weights on images compressed at higher bit rates produces a deblocked image which contains blurred "false" edges near real edges. We refer to this phenomenon as the ghosting effect. In order to prevent its occurrences, the weights of pixels, which belong to nonmonotone areas, are modified by dividing each pixel's weight by a predefined factor called a grade. This scheme is referred to as weight adaptation by grading (WABG). Better deblocking of monotone areas is achieved by applying three iterations of the WABG scheme on such areas followed by a fourth iteration which is applied on the rest of the image. We refer to this scheme as deblocking frames of variable size (DFOVS). DFOVS automatically adapts itself to the activity of each block. This new class of algorithms produces very good subjective results and PSNR results which are competitive relative to available state-of-the-art methods.