Academic trajectories of newcomer immigrant youth.

Immigration to the United States presents both challenges and opportunities that affect students' academic achievement. Using a 5-year longitudinal, mixed-methods approach, we identified varying academic trajectories of newcomer immigrant students from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico. Latent class growth curve analysis revealed that although some newcomer students performed at high or improving levels over time, others showed diminishing performance. Multinomial logistic regressions identified significant group differences in academic trajectories, particularly between the high-achieving youth and the other groups. In keeping with ecological–developmental and stage–environment fit theories, School Characteristics (school segregation rate, school poverty rate, and student perceptions of school violence), Family Characteristics (maternal education, parental employment, and household structure), and Individual Characteristics (academic English proficiency, academic engagement, psychological symptoms, gender, and 2 age-related risk factors, number of school transitions and being overaged for grade placement) were associated with different trajectories of academic performance. A series of case studies triangulate many of the quantitative findings as well as illuminate patterns that were not detected in the quantitative data. Thus, the mixed-methods approach sheds light on the cumulative developmental challenges that immigrant students face as they adjust to their new educational settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Broadband MIMO Antenna System for 5G Operations in Mobile Phones

A broadband 8‐antenna multiple‐input and multiple‐output (MIMO) system working for 5G new radio N77 (3.3‐4.2 GHz) in mobile terminals is proposed. In particular, each antenna element/unit consists of a monopole‐type meandered branch and an inverted U‐shaped self‐isolated antenna branch; and the antenna unit is fed by the meandered branch. The antenna unit has two resonances generated separately by each branch of the antenna unit. Since the monopole couples strongly with the self‐isolated antenna element that has the inherent self‐isolation characteristics, quite good isolation for the broadband 8‐antenna MIMO system can be obtained. The results such as antenna efficiency, radiation patterns, envelope correlation coefficient, and channel capacity are also presented.     

Orientationability analyses of a special class of the Stewart–Gough parallel manipulators using the unit quaternion representation

This paper addresses the orientation-singularity and orientationability analyses of a special class of the Stewart–Gough parallel manipulators whose moving and base platforms are two similar semi-symmetrical hexagons. Employing a unit quaternion to represent the orientation of the moving platform, an analytical expression representing the singularity locus of this class of parallel manipulators in a six-dimensional Cartesian space is obtained. It shows that for a given orientation, the position-singularity locus is a cubic polynomial expression in the moving platform position parameters, and for a given position, the orientation-singularity locus is an analytical expression but not a polynomial directly with respect to the mobile platform orientation parameters. Further inspection shows that for the special class of parallel manipulators, there must exist a nonsingular orientation void in the orientation space around the orientation origin for each position in the position-workspace. Therefore, a new performance index referred to as orientationability is introduced to describe the orientation capability of the special class of manipulators at a given position. A discretization algorithm is proposed for the computation of the orientationability of the special class of manipulators. Moreover, effects of the design parameters and position parameters on the orientationability are investigated in details. Based on the orientationability performance index, another novel performance index referred to as practical orientationability is presented which represents the practical orientation capability of the manipulator at a given position. The practical orientationability not only can satisfy all the kinematic demands and constraints of such class of manipulators, but also can guarantee that the manipulator is nonsingular.     

Velocity and turbulence characteristics in an open channel with multi-row staggered vegetation patches

A staggered distribution of vegetation is very common in nature,which might significantly affect the flow structure.To investigate its impact,three rows of stag...     

基于LCC理论的软件项目多目标权衡

传统的软件项目成本模型只反映出与工作量有关的费用,对于因质量不足而引起的成本无法度量.将全寿命周期成本(LCC)理论应用于软件项目成本计算,按照分部分项方法建立了软件项目的完全成本模型.在软件项目工期-成本二维权衡模型的基础上,通过设置多级指标体系对软件项目质量进行量化,从而将软件质量纳入权衡目标,在此基础上构建了软件项目工期、成本、质量的多目标权衡离散模型,运用改进的禁忌搜索算法求解模型,以可视化三维曲面输出帕累托非劣解,最后分析了项目决策者获得项目最佳实施模式的途径.     

浅析建立企业标准体系必须结合企业自身实际情况

目前，很多企业已经建立了GB／T19001、GB／T28001、GB／T24001管理体系，为了在更大的范围和更深的层次上提高企业的管理水平，一些企业还在寻求更多管理体系的认证或确认，还有些企业在寻求不同管理体系的整合和提高，按照GB／T15496、GB／T15497、GB／T15498和GB／T19273的2003版标准建立的企业标准体系也是规范企业所有的管理工作的有效手段。对于有管理经验积累的企业而言，管理体系的运行在一定时期后，企业标准化水平会得到一定提高。但是，如何不断提高运行的有效性与更好地协调各管理体系的兼容性，是摆在我们面前的一个新课题。笔者结合本公司建立企业标准体系的实践经验，阐述了建立企业标准体系，实现企业管理水平持续改进必须要结合企业自身实际情况。     

A mathematical model to analyze heat and mass transfer characteristics of a CPL evaporator porous wick

A capillary pumped loop (CPL), because of its high power thermal transport character, has been developed as an attractive system for the thermal discharge of electronic chips with high power loads, especially on spacecrafts. A working fluid having relatively larger heat of evaporation, methanol for example, may transfer significant heat flux. In this paper a new mathematic model is constructed, in which the most important character is the treatment or the unsaturated region of the evaporator porous wick. Numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer in the evaporator porous wick is carried out with a new three‐layer model. The importance of unsaturated layer to simulate the present problem is clear. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 34(4): 209–218, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.20066     

Adaptive switching mean filter using conditional morphological noise detector

The adaptive switching mean (ASM) filter is proposed to remove impulse noise. The filter first identifies the corrupted pixels using conditional morphological noise detection and then removes the detected impulses using the adaptive mean filter. Simulation results indicate that the ASM filter can suppress impulse noise effectively while preserving the details in the image very well, thus providing better restoration performance than many other switching-based filters.     

面向移动互联网的EGGSN

为应对移动互联网带来的新挑战,移动核心网需要引入增强技术.在对增强技术研究的基础上提出了面向移动互联网的核心网解决方案——EGGSN,接着介绍了EGGSN的架构、技术实施方案,最后对EGGSN的组网优劣势进行了分析.