Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning.

Humans appear to reason using two processing styles: System 1 processes that are quick, intuitive, and effortless and System 2 processes that are slow, analytical, and deliberate that occasionally correct the output of System 1. Four experiments suggest that System 2 processes are activated by metacognitive experiences of difficulty or disfluency during the process of reasoning. Incidental experiences of difficulty or disfluency--receiving information in a degraded font (Experiments 1 and 4), in difficult-to-read lettering (Experiment 2), or while furrowing one's brow (Experiment 3)--reduced the impact of heuristics and defaults in judgment (Experiments 1 and 3), reduced reliance on peripheral cues in persuasion (Experiment 2), and improved syllogistic reasoning (Experiment 4). Metacognitive experiences of difficulty or disfluency appear to serve as an alarm that activates analytic forms of reasoning that assess and sometimes correct the output of more intuitive forms of reasoning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Advanced on-board processing for user oriented communication systems

The continuing improvement of RF components, particularly in the field of spot-beam antennas, combined with the steady progress in digital technology, leads us to consider the advantages of a satellite system able to provide full connectivity to ground stations operating at different data rates. For low data rates, two different access methods: continuous TDM and Multi-carrier TDMA, are compared for earth-stations operating at 2Mb/s. The two methods are compared from the point of view of efficiency and adaptability in a non-uniform load environment. Some control criteria are proposed for the Multi-carrier system. Both methods are particularly suited for small users.     

Interference effects from grammatically unavailable constituents during sentence processing.

Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption was observed when items occurring between a head and a dependent overlapped with either (or both) syntactic or semantic features of the dependent. Effects of syntactic interference occur in the earliest online measures in the region where the retrieval of a long-distance dependent occurs. Semantic interference effects occur in later online measures at the end of the sentence. Both effects endure in offline comprehension measures, suggesting that interfering items participate in incorrect interpretations that resist reanalysis. The data are discussed in terms of a cue-based retrieval account of parsing, which reconciles the fact that the parser must violate the grammar in order for these interference effects to occur. Broader implications of this research indicate a need for a precise specification of the interface between the parsing mechanism and the memory system that supports language comprehension. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

一种实用的内插FFT信号处理方法

基于信号样本可以重建信号频谱包络,本文提出一种简单、实用的内插方法,将此方法的有效性和FFT的优越性结合起来应用于细化频率分辨率,以适应需要获取信号较多频谱信息的应用场合。     

广义de Bruijn多计算机互连网络

（ｄ，ｍ）ｄｅ Ｂｒｕｉｊｎ多计算机系统互连网络限制网络的规模必须为ｄ＾ｍ。本文把（ｄ，ｍ）ｄｅ Ｂｒｕｉｊｎ网络推广到了任意顶点情形，提出了广义ｄｅ Ｂｒｕｉｊｎ网络，研究了广义ｄｅ Ｂｒｕｉｊｎ网络的自路由性质，设计了路由算法，研究了广义ｄｅ Ｂｒｕｉｊｎ网络顶点度的性质和容错特性。     

Research on resolution between multi-component LFM signals in the fractional Fourier domain

When the initial frequencies and chirp rates of multi-component linear frequency modulation (LFM or chirp) signals are close,the signals may not be distinguished in the fractional Fourier domain (FRFD).Consequently,some signals cannot be detected.In this paper,first,the spectral distribution characteristics of a continuous LFM signal in the FRFD are analyzed,and then the spectral distribution characteristics of a LFM signal in the discrete FRFD are analyzed.Second,the critical resolution distance between the peaks of two LFM signals in the FRFD is deduced,and the relationship between the dimensional normalization parameter and the distance between two LFM signals in the FRFD is also deduced.It is discovered that selecting a proper dimensional normalization parameter can increase the distance.Finally,a method to select the parameter is proposed,which can improve the resolution ability of the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT).Its effectiveness is verified by simulation results.     

基于森林火灾平台的红外图像识别技术研究

森林火灾探测一直是森林资源保护工作中的老大难问题。早期的火灾探测技术多是基于火灾的烟雾和温度特征的,但其判别标准过于单一,误报率较高。随着计算机技术的发展和红外探测器的发明,出现了基于红外图像处理的森林火灾防护技术,该技术主要对红外探测器获得的森林现场的红外图像进行一定的处理后识别图像中是否有火灾出现。本文的主要工作是进行红外图像增强算法的研究,通过对各种算法的描述和仿真实验结果分析,提出一种相对较适合森林背景红外图像的处理算法一将基于频域处理的提升小波变换与直方图修正结合起来的红外图像增强算法。     

A note on circle packing

The problem of packing circles into a domain of prescribed topology is considered. The circles need not have equal radii. The Collins-Stephenson algorithm computes such a circle packing. This algorithm is parallelized in two different ways and its performance is reported for a triangular, planar domain test case. The implementation uses the highly parallel graphics processing unit (GPU) on commodity hardware. The speedups so achieved are discussed based on a number of experiments.