Forecasting based on sectoral energy consumption of GHGs in Turkey and mitigation policies

Recently, global warming and its effects have become one of the most important themes in the world. Under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has agreed to an 8% reduction in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2008–2012. The GHG emissions (total GHG, CO₂, CO, SO₂, NO₂, E (emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds)) covered by the Protocol are weighted by their global warming potentials (GWPs) and aggregated to give total emissions in CO₂ equivalents. The main subject in this study is to obtain equations by the artificial neural network (ANN) approach to predict the GHGs of Turkey using sectoral energy consumption. The equations obtained are used to determine the future level of the GHG and to take measures to control the share of sectors in total emission. According to ANN results, the maximum mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) was found as 0.147151, 0.066716, 0.181901, 0.105146, 0.124684, and 0.158157 for GHG, SO₂, NO₂, CO, E, and CO₂, respectively, for the training data with Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) algorithm by 8 neurons. R² values are obtained very close to 1. Also, this study proposes mitigation policies for GHGs.     

Lipid peroxides, glutathione, gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase activities in several tissues of rats following water-immersion stress

The effects of water-immersion restraint (WIR) stress on lipid peroxide, glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (gamma-GT) activities in several tissues of rats were investigated. Hepatic and intestinal lipid peroxide levels were increased significantly in the WIR stress group. In both tissues, GSH levels were significantly decreased and gamma-GCS activity was significantly increased. In addition, gamma-GT activities remained unchanged in both tissues following WIR stress. However, lipid peroxide and GSH levels did not change in the stomach and brain in the WIR stress group compared to the control group. These results suggest that lipid peroxidation, but not the depression of GSH synthesis and/or the increase of GSH breakdown may be a factor in hepatic and intestinal GSH reduction following WIR stress.     

ZrO_2与40Cr钢钎焊中的缓冲层

本试验研究了ＺｒＯ２与４０Ｃｒ钢在加入缓冲层前后的钎焊连接，结果表明：插入缓冲层Ｃｕ和Ｔｉ可以提高接头强度。对每一种缓冲层，存在一最佳厚度，对应的钎焊强度最大。此最佳厚度对Ｃｕ为０．４ｍｍ左右，对Ｔｉ为１ｍｍ左右。作者认为这是由缓冲层的力学性能和热膨胀系数对残余应力释放产生的两种相反影响而造成的。钎焊时，缓冲层Ｃｕ和Ｔｉ向钎料中均有程度不同的溶解，但不影响钎料对ＺｒＯ２的浸润和反应结合。ＺｒＯ２－４０Ｃｒ钢连接的所有接头均断在陶瓷的近缝区，其断裂方式有三种。     

溶胶-凝胶法制备(Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉及表征

采用溶胶－凝胶法成功地合成了（Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉，并利用FTIR技术对凝胶的形成过程及350℃，1．5h煅烧获得的粉体材料进行了表征。实验以TG－DSC分析作为拟定煅烧温度的依据，以XRD作为煅烧产物的分析手段，最佳煅烧温度为600℃，所合成的（Sr,Pb)TiO3纳米晶粉的平均晶粒尺寸约为21nm，属钙钛矿型立方顺电相结构。     

多用户MIMO系统低复杂度收发联合波束成形方案

基于多用户多输入多输出(MIMO)有限反馈系统提出了一种收发联合波束成形方法。该方法在发送端采用每个用户酉速率控制(PU2RC)波束成形技术,在接收端采用基于信干噪比(SINR)最大化的天线合并算法。天线合并算法利用用户SINR的广义Rayleigh熵特性寻找最佳的天线合并矢量。仿真结果表明,该方法能充分利用信道信息,不仅改善了传统PU2RC系统的和速率性能,相对于已有的迫零(ZF)联合波束成形方法,对信道状态信息的量化误差的敏感性更低,用户选择算法的复杂度更低,且低速率反馈条件下和速率性能更优。     

CFAR processing with switching exponential smoothers for nonhomogeneous environments

Conventional constant false alarm rate (CFAR) methods use a fixed number of cells to estimate the background variance. For homogeneous environments, it is desirable to increase the number of cells, at the cost of increased computation and memory requirements, in order to improve the estimation performance. For nonhomogeneous environments, it is desirable to use less number of cells in order to reduce the number of false alarms around the clutter edges. In this work, we present a solution with two exponential smoothers (first order IIR filters) having different time-constants to leverage the conflicting requirements of homogeneous and nonhomogeneous environments. The system is designed to use the filter having the large time-constant in homogeneous environments and to promptly switch to the filter having the small time constant once a clutter edge is encountered. The main advantages of proposed Switching IIR CFAR method are computational simplicity, small memory requirement (in comparison to windowing based methods) and its good performance in homogeneous environments (due to the large time-constant smoother) and rapid adaptation to clutter edges (due to the small time-constant smoother).     

Electrical properties of monoazacrown ether-substituted phthalocyanines

D.c. conductivities of polycrystalline monoazacrown ether-substituted phthalocyanines (M=2H, Ni, Zn, Pb, Cu) and diphthalocyanine (M=Lu) are measured as Au-MPc-Au sandwiches to be of the order 10^–10–10^–12 S m^–1. Chemical doping with oxidants (e.g. NOBF₄) and enhancing the stacking of planar phthalocyanine moieties through the formation of alkali metal adducts with sodium and potassium ions leads to increase in conductivity of the order 10¹–10². The low conductivity and the diamagneticity of the bis(phthalocyaninato)-lutetium can be ascribed to the lack of radical nature in LuH(Pc)₂. For the a.c. conductivities, lead and lutetium complexes form a group with higher conductivities and the rest show lower conductivity. The conduction activation energies calculated from Arrhenius plots exhibit the lowest value (0.40 eV) for the lutetium compound.Part of this work was presented at NATO-ASI on Semiconductor Materials and Processing Technologies, Erice, Sicily, 1–13 July 1991.     

超声波检测混凝土结构抗冻性的方法研究

依据固体结构动弹模与表面波速度的关系，采用超声波检测混凝土冻融试件的动弹模，并与共振法测出的动弹模进行对比，总结出其内在相关规律，建立起预报混凝土动弹模的回归主程，由测得的波速计算出相应的动弹模，再利用动弹模之比评估出混凝土结构的抗冻性。初步试验和研究表明，此方法研究思路切实可行，符合混凝土冻融特性的基本变化规律，能够实现从度件测试向结构检测的发展，可供混凝土耐久性检测工程参考。