基于Hg~(2+)诱导DNA双链形成的汞离子检测试纸条研制

Hg2+能特异性地与2个胸腺嘧啶碱基(T)共价结合,介导T-T错配形成稳定的T-Hg2+-T结构。基于DNA修饰的纳米金探针研制了一种可检测水溶液中Hg2+浓度的层析试纸条。试纸条包含1条控制线和2条测试线,检测结果在5 min内可见,裸眼可见检测灵敏度为100 nmol/L。金标条阅读仪分析结果在10 nmol/L~10μmol/L范围内具有良好的线性关系,且对常见二价重金属离子Cu2+,Ni2+,Mg2+,Zn2+,Pb2+具有很好的选择性。该试纸条灵敏特异、快捷简单、操作方便、成本低廉,在环境监测和食品安全的现场快速检测中具有很好的应用前景。     

MEMS气体流量传感器的简易流量测试装置

为了完成所研制的MEMS气体流量传感器样品的流量测试与标定,设计制作了一种由标准流量发生器和传感器信号读出与数据采集电路组成的简易流量测试装置。标准流量发生器由注射器和可更换的砝码组成,利用不同的砝码配重,在注射器出气口产生合适的恒定气体流速。通过理论分析和Ansys有限元数值仿真,验证了简易标准流量发生器的可行性。传感器信号读出与数据采集电路基于内建多路A/D转换器的单片机实现,具有传感器加热电阻器的恒温控制、流量信号的数字检测和显示的功能。采用该简易流量测试装置对自行研制的MEMS气体流量传感器进行了流量测试与标定,获得了待测器件的标定参数、传感器流量测量的绝对误差和相对误差。     

超声波传感器在沙子料位检测中的应用

为提高混凝土的质量,配比很重要,其中沙子精确计量是关键因素之一。提出并设计了超声波系统测量沙子料位;为保证测量精度,采取自动增益控制电路和温度补偿。经实验证明:该方法简单、可行,为沙子质量的检测提供了一种新的参考方法。     

一种基于SBL和APIT的混合定位算法

由于子区域分割粒度的限制,基于阶次序列的定位算法(Sequence-based localization,SBL)存在边缘区域节点定位误差较大和不能保证平均定位误差性能的问题。针对这些问题,提出了一种基于SBL和APIT的混合定位算法,利用APIT信标三角形切割SBL算法子区域,减小子区域面积,实现了分割粒度的细化。通过预先进行系统训练,优化了混合算法的加权系数,进一步提升了算法的定位精度。仿真结果表明,相比于原算法,所提出的混合算法有效地提升了边界区域节点的定位精度,其平均定位误差降低了17.9%,使基于阶次序列的定位算法的定位精度得到了有效改善。     

纳米SiO_2粒子在环氧树脂中的分散工艺研究

研究了纳米SiO2在环氧树脂中的均匀分散工艺,探讨了超声波振荡和超声波分散时间对纳米SiO2/EP复合材料力学性能的影响,确定了最佳分散工艺。SEM表明,采用高剪切与超声波复合分散工艺比高剪切工艺的分散效果好;测试了复合材料的力学性能,进一步证明纳米SiO2具有增韧增强作用。     

用磷石膏生产建筑材料的新进展

针对湿法磷酸副产的磷石膏在建筑材料中的应用及其国内外进展，介绍了用磷石膏制高强度砌块的中间试验流程，并指出在磷石膏中搀入其他材料，采用特殊复合工艺，可生产出新型功能性建筑材料，如石膏基导电材料和石膏基磁性材料等这不仅拓展了石膏的用途，又可获得巨大的经济效益。     

Visual learning and classification of human epithelial type 2 cell images through spontaneous activity patterns

Identifying the presence of anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) in human epithelial type 2 (HEp-2) cells via the indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) protocol is commonly used to diagnose various connective tissue diseases in clinical pathology tests. As it is a labour and time intensive diagnostic process, several computer aided diagnostic (CAD) systems have been proposed. However, the existing CAD systems suffer from numerous shortcomings due to the selection of features, which is commonly based on expert experience. Such a choice of features may not work well when the CAD systems are retasked to another dataset. To address this, in our previous work, we proposed a novel approach that learns a set of filters from HEp-2 cell images. It is inspired by the receptive fields in the mammalian's vision system, since the receptive fields can be thought as a set of filters for similar shapes. We obtain robust filters for HEp-2 cell classification by employing the independent component analysis (ICA) framework. Although, this approach may be held back due to one particular problem; ICA learning requires a sufficiently large volume of training data which is not always available. In this paper, we demonstrate a biologically inspired solution to address this issue via the use of spontaneous activity patterns (SAP). The spontaneous activity patterns, which are related to the spontaneous neural activities initialised by the chemical release in the brain, are found as the typical stimuli for the visual cell development of newborn animals. In the classification system for HEp-2 cells, we propose to model SAP as a set of small image patches containing randomly positioned Gaussian spots. The SAP image patches are generated and mixed with the training images in order to learn filters via the ICA framework. The obtained filters are adopted to extract the set of responses from a HEp-2 cell image. We then employ regions from this set of responses and stack them into “cubic regions”, and apply a classification based on the correlation information of the features. We show that applying the additional SAP leads to a better classification performance on HEp-2 cell images compared to using only the existing patterns for training ICA filters. The improvement on classification is particularly significant when there are not enough specimen images available in the training set, as SAP adds more variations to the existing data that makes the learned ICA model more robust. We show that the proposed approach consistently outperforms three recently proposed CAD systems on two publicly available datasets: ICPR HEp-2 contest and SNPHEp-2.     

What you get is what you see: revisiting the evaluator effect in usability tests

Usability evaluation is essential to user-centred design; yet, evaluators who analyse the same usability test sessions have been found to identify substantially different sets of usability problems. We revisit this evaluator effect by having 19 experienced usability professionals analyse video-recorded test sessions with five users. Nine participants analysed moderated sessions; 10 participants analysed unmoderated sessions. For the moderated sessions, participants reported an average of 33% of the problems reported by all nine of these participants and 50% of the subset of problems reported as critical or serious by at least one participant. For the unmoderated sessions, the percentages were 32% and 40%. Thus, the evaluator effect was similar for moderated and unmoderated sessions, and it was substantial for the full set of problems and still present for the most severe problems. In addition, participants disagreed in their severity ratings. As much as 24% (moderated) and 30% (unmoderated) of the problems reported by multiple participants were rated as critical by one participant and minor by another. The majority of the participants perceived an evaluator effect when merging their individual findings into group evaluations. We discuss reasons for the evaluator effect and recommend ways of managing it.     

Boundary feedback stabilization of the telegraph equation: Decay rates for vanishing damping term

We study a semilinear mildly damped wave equation that contains the telegraph equation as a special case. We consider Neumann velocity boundary feedback and prove the exponential stability of the closed loop system. We show that for vanishing damping term in the partial differential equation, the decay rate of the system approaches the rate for the system governed by the wave equation without damping term. In particular, this implies that arbitrarily large decay rates can occur if the velocity damping in the partial differential equation is sufficiently small.     

Evidence for non-site-isolation in ZSM-5 from ion-exchange and catalytic studies

Ion exchange of HZSM-5 samples with alkali metal cations, using metal chloride solutions, results in partially exchanged zeolites, MHZSM-5, M = Li, Na, K or Cs. The degree of exchange is found to increase with increasing ionic radius of the cations. The catalytic properties of the alkalized zeolites were evaluated using the reaction conditions under which the catalytic activity of the HZSM-5 samples in terms of n-hexane cracking is proportional to the aluminium content. From the residual catalytic activity exhibited by the Na-, K- and CsHZSM-5 samples it is concluded that each of the larger Na⁺, K⁺ and Cs⁺ ions is influencing more than one AlO ₄ ^– tetrahedron, implying that the aluminium sites in ZSM-5 are not isolated. The ion-exchange results are then interpreted in terms of non-isolated aluminium sites. The ion-exchange and catalytic properties of the zeolites as a function of aluminium content are also discussed.