Using Hazard Functions to Assess Changes in Processing Capacity in an Attentional Cuing Paradigm.

Processing capacity-defined as the relative ability to perform mental work in a unit of time-is a critical construct in cognitive psychology and is central to theories of visual attention. The unambiguous use of the construct, experimentally and theoretically, has been hindered by both conceptual confusions and the use of measures that are at best only coarsely mapped to the construct. However, more than 25 years ago, J. T. Townsend and F. G. Ashby (1978) suggested that the hazard function on the response time (RT) distribution offered a number of conceptual advantages as a measure of capacity. The present study suggests that a set of statistical techniques, well-known outside the cognitive and perceptual literatures, offers the ability to perform hypothesis tests on RT-distribution hazard functions. These techniques are introduced, and their use is illustrated in application to data from the contingent attentional capture paradigm. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Demands on Attention and the Role of Response Priming in Visual Discrimination of Feature Conjunctions.

This study examined how response mapping of features within single- and multiple-feature targets affects decision-based processing and attentional capacity demands. Observers judged the presence or absence of 1 or 2 target features within an object either presented alone or with distractors. Judging the presence of 2 features relative to the less discriminable of these features alone was faster (conjunction benefits) when the task-relevant features differed in discriminability and were consistently mapped to responses. Conjunction benefits were attributed to asynchronous decision priming across attended, task-relevant dimensions. A failure to find conjunction benefits for disjunctive conjunctions was attributed to increased memory demands and variable feature-response mapping for 2- versus single-feature targets. Further, attentional demands were similar between single- and 2-feature targets when response mapping, memory demands, and discriminability of the task-relevant features were equated between targets. Implications of the findings for recent attention models are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Evaluation of Desulphurization Flux in CaO‐Al2O3‐BaO‐CeO2‐MgO System

The flux of the CaO‐Al₂0₃‐BaO‐CeO₂‐MgO system as a desulphurization flux containing no fluorine for the secondary metallurgy process was evaluated in this study. The flux composition was designed using the eutectic compositions of the binary systems. The melting and desulphurization abilities of the fluxes were evaluated by measuring their liquidus temperatures and the distribution ratios of sulphur between the fluxes and the carbon‐saturated iron or stainless steel. The lowest liquidus temperature of 1325°C was obtained by adding 5.7 mass% MgO to the 80mass%A‐20mass%B flux. (A: 12CaO‐7Al₂O₃, B: BaCeO₃+12mass%Al₂O₃). The distribution ratios of sulphur and sulphide capacities of the fluxes in this study were higher than those of the commercial product of calcium aluminate flux. This means that the CaO‐Al₂O₃‐BaO‐CeO₂‐MgO fluxes developed in this study have higher desulphurization and melting abilities compared with the commercial product of calcium aluminate flux.     

Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Doped LiFePO4 as Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

LiFePO4 cathode material was synthesized by a solid-state reaction using doping several elements (Nb5 ,Zr4 ). The starting materials were mixed with a high-efficient sander and treated thermally under flowing N2. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission gun electron microscopy (FEG), and their electrochemical performance was investigated in the term of cycling behavior. Room temperature discharge capacity about 140.6 mA·h·g-1 was obtained at C/5 rate.     

蓝牙网络的带宽容量分析

目前,无线个人域网(WPAN)的发展已经吸引了人们的特别关注,其中的蓝牙技术就是一种新兴的WPAN技术。蓝牙是一种短距离的无线通信技术,它的带宽资源非常有限,因此合理利用蓝牙网络的带宽以及有效地分配带宽资源就成为了目前蓝牙网络发展的一个重要方面。该文在介绍蓝牙网络、比较蓝牙网络与IEEE802.11无线局域网(WLAN)的基础上,对蓝牙网络的容量进行了定量分析,并分析了其网络模型,给出了链路的容量条件。此外,还分析了无线网络在资源分配时所使用的流量模型。这两个模型的相同之处就在于都可以通过凸形优化问题来解决容量的分配。     

嵌入式设备中一种大容量存储系统的软件设计

该文结合工程实践,提出了一个采用NORFlash和NANDFlash混合设计的大容量、低成本存储系统的解决方案,并结合具体的开发环境,描述了该存储系统支撑软件的体系结构,最后给出了驱动软件的详细设计与实现方法。     

内蒙古东部区主要作物降水利用率与生产潜力研究

2000～2002年在内蒙古东部区四盟市开展了主要作物降水利用率与生产潜力的研究。经过3年的调查研究,建立了大豆、玉米等六大主栽作物的降水生产潜力模型,分析讨论了各地区不同作物降水资源的利用现状。     

Nonlinear bending response of functionally graded plates subjected to transverse loads and in thermal environments

Nonlinear bending analysis is presented for a simply supported, functionally graded rectangular plate subjected to a transverse uniform or sinusoidal load and in thermal environments. Material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent, and graded in the thickness direction according to a simple power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. The governing equations of a functionally graded plate are based on Reddy's higher-order shear deformation plate theory that includes thermal effects. Two cases of the in-plane boundary conditions are considered. A mixed Galerkin-perturbation technique is employed to determine the load-deflection and load-bending moment curves. The numerical illustrations concern nonlinear bending response of functional graded rectangular plates with two constituent materials. The influences played by temperature rise, the character of in-plane boundary conditions, transverse shear deformation, plate aspect ratio and volume fraction distributions are studied.     

Analysis of rectangular laminated composite plates via FSDT meshless method

A meshless approach based on the reproducing kernel particle method is developed for the flexural, free vibration and buckling analysis of laminated composite plates. In this approach, the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) is employed and the displacement shape functions are constructed using the reproducing kernel approximation satisfying the consistency conditions. The essential boundary conditions are enforced by a singular kernel method. Numerical examples involving various boundary conditions are solved to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method. Comparison of results with the exact and other known solutions in the literature suggests that the meshless approach yields an effective solution method for laminated composite plates.     

间隙对磁流体密封水介质的影响规律

为提供磁流体密封水的应用技术支持,研制了磁流体密封的试验装置,提出了新的试验方法来验证和解释理论分析和推导的正确性。试验中采用不同的密封间隙,以确定磁流体密封能力与密封间隙之间的关系。试验结果表明,磁流体的密封能力随密封级数的增加而提高;在一定范围内随密封间隙的增大而减小;密封间隙在0.05-0.20 mm时,效果较好,同时密封级数有一个最佳值;但是在特别小的时候,与所有文献报道不同的是密封能力不是提高而是在减小。