High-temperature hydrothermal systems in West Yunnan Province, China

There are more than 660 thermal springs in West Yunnan Province, 30 of which are high-temperature hydrothermal systems with reservoir temperatures above 150°C.All thermal springs in West Yunnan are under the control of the tectonics, most of them being distributed at anticlinoria of metamorphic rocks and granites. This paper discusses the relationship between thermal areas and tectonics, the correlation between thermal springs in West Yunnan and North Thailand, and the geothermal prospects in West Yunnan.     

Simulation of programmable logic controller

The development and test of a PLC control program takes time, increases equipment down-time, and might damage hardware due to program errors. All of these problems can be eliminated if there is a computer simulation system for testing control programs off line. This paper presented a new method, called Direct Sequential Method, for simulating PLCs. This method resolves a ladder logic sequentially by applying a series of logic deductions. This simulation system has been implemented in C and tested successfully.     

Surgical navigation by autostereoscopic image overlay of integral videography

This paper describes an autostereoscopic image overlay technique that is integrated into a surgical navigation system to superimpose a real three-dimensional (3-D) image onto the patient via a half-silvered mirror. The images are created by employing a modified version of integral videography (IV), which is an animated extension of integral photography. IV records and reproduces 3-D images using a microconvex lens array and flat display; it can display geometrically accurate 3-D autostereoscopic images and reproduce motion parallax without the need for special devices. The use of semitransparent display devices makes it appear that the 3-D image is inside the patient's body. This is the first report of applying an autostereoscopic display with an image overlay system in surgical navigation. Experiments demonstrated that the fast IV rendering technique and patient-image registration method produce an average registration accuracy of 1.13 mm. Experiments using a target in phantom agar showed that the system can guide a needle toward a target with an average error of 2.6 mm. Improvement in the quality of the IV display will make this system practical and its use will increase surgical accuracy and reduce invasiveness.     

A Study of the Compatibility Between Asphalt and SBS

In this article, the compatibilities between different components of a base asphalt and styrene butadiene styrene (SBS) have been analyzed from microscopic structures. Specifically, the asphalt was separated into three components: saturates, aromatics, and resins, by Solvent Recycled Absorption Chromatography Separation Technology (SRACST). The compatibilities between these different components and the polymer were compared with the help of Fluorescence Microscope (FM) with which the existing state of the polymer SBS in these different components could be examined obviously. The modified effects indicated that aromatics could cause SBS swollen and, resins dissolved SBS better than saturates, though both the two components could partially dissolve SBS and the two mixtures presented two immiscible phase systems. In order to further investigate the compatibility between aromatics and SBS, from macroscopic properties, an additive rich in aromatics was added to the SBS/asphalt mixture, and the result was satisfactory.     

Chosen plaintext attack on a cryptosystem with discretized skew tent map

An encryption system with discretized skew tent map has been proposed recently by N. Masuda . However, there is a fundamental weakness with this chaotic cryptographic scheme. In this paper, a chosen plaintext attack requiring only two plaintexts is proposed. An improved version of this attack that narrows the key space need to be searched is also suggested. The test results demonstrate that this encryption cryptosystem is easily broken under the proposed chosen plaintext attack.     

四坐标数控加工原理及算法研究

本文对四坐标数控加工原理和算法作了详细介绍，尤其对四坐标加工的刀轴矢量算法进行了研究，提出了用垂直于回转轴的平面与刀具运动方向和前导角形成的圆锥面求交，生成刀轴矢量的方法，该方法具有立意新颖、思路清晰，性能可靠，易于在微机上实现等特点，对复杂曲面零件的加工编程，具有重要的实用价值。     

机载雷达空时二维信号处理自适应权值训练的距离分段递推算法

本文针对机载预警雷达的杂波环境，分析了杂波数据的非平稳性，由此提出在距离上分段实现空时二维自适应处理（STAP）的方法，并通过分析杂波于空间的距离来确定分段的方法。在同时考虑实时性和处理器性能的前提下，给出了一种自适应权值计算的递推算法。理论分析和计算机仿真结果均表明，本文提出的分段递推算法是有效的。     

木寡糖的研究进展

木寡糖可以从多种多样含木聚糖的原材料中通过化学法或酶法制得，然后再利用物理化学方法精制。作为食物配料，木寡糖具有许多有利的技术特性，并且具有调节肠功能的能力，能导致生物前效应。除了对肠功能的作用外，其他关于木寡糖的生物活性也作了相关综述，包括木寡糖在生物合成配置方面的作用以及他们的技术特性和市场前景。