Parallel processing of the sex and familiarity of faces.

78 undergraduates were asked to rate photographs of faces as male or female and familiar or unfamiliar under a total of 4 conditions in 2 experiments. Results from Exp I indicate that faces whose sex was difficult to classify were no harder to judge as familiar than those whose sex was easy to classify. In Exp II this result was replicated and extended to a situation where the familiarity judgment was contingent on the sex judgment. Findings support the view that analyses of the face's sex and its identity proceed in parallel, rather than in hierarchical, order as claimed by H. Ellis (1986). (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

使用Xilinx FPGA产品加速数据包处理

下一代网络架构是以10千兆以太网成熟发展和工业面向40千兆及100千兆发展为兴起的.聚集的网络为可升级的开放平台处理数据流创造了新挑战.在聚集的下一代架构基础中,常见部件包括高性能的兆兆位转换和在应用层持续增长的复杂性和迅速成长的应用中能够处理几十千兆数据流的可编程的内容处理器.CloudShield已经设计出新的一系列可编程数据包处理器,能够检验、分类,调试和复制数据包,集成与应用层的动态交互.     

Arsenic accumulation and metabolism in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

The use of arsenic (As) contaminated groundwater for irrigation of crops has resulted in elevated concentrations of arsenic in agricultural soils in Bangladesh, West Bengal (India), and elsewhere. Paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the main agricultural crop grown in the arsenic-affected areas of Bangladesh. There is, therefore, concern regarding accumulation of arsenic in rice grown those soils. A greenhouse study was conducted to examine the effects of arsenic-contaminated irrigation water on the growth of rice and uptake and speciation of arsenic. Treatments of the greenhouse experiment consisted of two phosphate doses and seven different arsenate concentrations ranging from 0 to 8 mg of As L(-1) applied regularly throughout the 170-day post-transplantation growing period until plants were ready for harvesting. Increasing the concentration of arsenate in irrigation water significantly decreased plant height, grain yield, the number of filled grains, grain weight, and root biomass, while the arsenic concentrations in root, straw, and rice husk increased significantly. Concentrations of arsenic in rice grain did not exceed the food hygiene concentration limit (1.0 mg of As kg(-1) dry weight). The concentrations of arsenic in rice straw (up to 91.8 mg kg(-1) for the highest As treatment) were of the same order of magnitude as root arsenic concentrations (up to 107.5 mg kg(-1)), suggesting that arsenic can be readily translocated to the shoot. While not covered by food hygiene regulations, rice straw is used as cattle feed in many countries including Bangladesh. The high arsenic concentrations may have the potential for adverse health effects on the cattle and an increase of arsenic exposure in humans via the plant-animal-human pathway. Arsenic concentrations in rice plant parts except husk were not affected by application of phosphate. As the concentration of arsenic in the rice grain was low, arsenic speciation was performed only on rice straw to predict the risk associated with feeding contaminated straw to the cattle. Speciation of arsenic in tissues (using HPLC-ICP-MS) revealed that the predominant species present in straw was arsenate followed by arsenite and dimethylarsinic acid (DMAA). As DMAA is only present at low concentrations, it is unlikely this will greatly alter the toxicity of arsenic present in rice.     

The effect of acrylamide-co-vinylpyrrolidinone copolymer on the depression of talc in mixed nickel mineral flotation

Copolymers of acrylamide and vinylpyrrolidinone with varying compositions have been synthesised and employed to depress talc in a model flotation system with process plant operation conditions. Adsorption isotherms indicated that the hydrophilic acrylamide homopolymer has a very low affinity for the hydrophobic talc surface, whereas vinylpyrrolidinone homopolymer strongly adsorbs onto the talc surface. Micro-flotation experiments revealed that the copolymer system can induce stronger talc depression than the homopolymer variants, with the most effective copolymer depressant having 25-30% vinylpyrrolidinone incorporation. The copolymer system is observed to have inherited the strong talc affinity of vinylpyrrolidinone polymer and the strong hydrophilic property from polyacrylamide. This combined effect facilitates the desired strong talc depression in single mineral flotation. However, this copolymer system has similar adsorption affinity on both the talc and pentlandite, hence depressing both talc and pentlandite in the mixed mineral flotation system. This research shows that a sufficient hydrophobic balance on the polymer is necessary for the adsorption and subsequent depression for talc. However, polymer with high adsorption selectivity is required to be a successful synthetic talc depressant for mixed mineral system.     

在路上：柯达DPS分析日

2009年7月20～21日，柯达在其美国的代顿工厂迎来了DPS（数字印刷解决方案）分析日。本刊专栏作者Andy和Julie亲临现场，为我们发来精彩报道，深入解读柯达的未来发展。     

用于蛋白快速分离的1-mm内径的高效聚合物整体材料

多年来,整体技术已经成功地从概念阶段发展到表征良好且可重复的商用阶段。不同的整体柱化学材料,包括阴离子交换剂、阳离子交换剂和在ProSwift线性整体柱的反相功能基团,均可用于多种蛋白质的分离。与更大尺寸的色谱柱相比,1-mm内径的色谱柱在灵敏度提高和使用方便二者间达到了很好的协调。由于背压较小,这些整体柱可以在高动力学流速下运行,从而可以在标准的分析型色谱仪器上使用,而不需要微柱或者毛细管柱高效液相色谱系统。     

The reading grade level of common measures in child and adolescent clinical psychology.

The purpose of this article is to provide easily accessible readability information for 49 parent- and 35 child- and adolescent-report measures commonly used by clinicians and researchers. There is a great deal of variability in reading ability required across measures. The majority of parent-report measures (65%) required reading ability above the 8th grade level. The average child-/adolescent-report measure required reading ability above the 6th grade level. Given the potential contribution of readability to a measure's reliability, validity, and overall utility, examining and accounting for readability should be a more common practice in test construction and administration (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Improving Quality of Crane-Lorry Assignments With Constraint Programming

The ability to maximize service quality while minimizing cost is very important to service-oriented businesses, such as lorry leasing. Very often, the ability to consistently offer higher quality service is the main differentiating factor between a business and its competitors. For lorry leasing businesses, service quality and cost are directly related to how resources-vehicles, cranes, and drivers-are allocated to jobs. The ability to assign the right combination of resources is crucial to daily operations. This paper presents how we modeled this assignment problem as a constraint-satisfaction problem (CSP) and implemented using constraint programming (CP) with an algorithm that we call the crane-lorry optimizing engine (CLOE). CLOE was implemented for the largest crane-lorry company in Hong Kong. Furthermore, plans are generated within seconds compared to close to an hour if done manually. All necessary constraints and criteria are considered systematically. We have experimented with many different types of search heuristics and have analyzed their effects on plan quality. We have found that by considering both the experience of the crane-lorry-driver combination and maximizing on the order assignment, we were able to generate plans that were significantly better than those produced by human planners, and within a substantially shorter time. Although the use of constraint-based assignment techniques is still limited in the vehicle leasing industry, we hope our combination of automated assignment with Internet portal technology that streamlines business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-to-employee communications can excite interest in this area