Law,liability and expert systems

This paper examines some of the possible legal implications of the production, marketing and use of expert systems. The relevance of a legally useful definition of expert systems, comprising systems designed for use both by laymen and professionals, is related to the distinctions inherent in the legal doctrine underlying provision of goods and provision of services. The liability of the sellers and users of, and contributors to, expert systems are examined in terms of professional malpractice as well as product liability. A recurring theme indicates that legislators may be inclined to restrict possibilities of liability suits in order to avoid disincentives to the creation of expert systems.     

Research and Design of Network Management Construction Based on Mobile AGENT

The technical characters of mobile agent （MA） originated in the distributional artificial intelligence domain is introduced. A network management construction based on agent （NMCA） is then proposed. The NMCA structure features are elaborated in detail. A prototype design of NMCA is given by using the jKQML programming. The establishment of NMCA platform will be helpful to reduce the correspondence load of network management and improves the efficiency and the expansion ability of network management systems.     

Partner violence before and after individually based alcoholism treatment for male alcoholic patients.

This study examined partner violence in the year before and the year after individually based, outpatient alcoholism treatment for 301 married or cohabiting male alcoholic patients and used a demographically matched nonalcoholic comparison sample. In the year before treatment, 56% of the alcoholic patients had been violent toward their female partner, 4 times the rate of 14% in the comparison sample. In the year after treatment, violence decreased significantly to 25% of the alcoholic sample but remained higher than in the comparison group. Among remitted alcoholics after treatment, violence prevalence of 15% was nearly identical to the comparison sample and half the rate among relapsed patients (32%). Thus, partner violence decreased after alcoholism treatment, and clinically significant violence reductions occurred for patients whose alcoholism was remitted after treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

In situ polymerization and characterization of polyester‐based polyurethane/nano‐silica composites

Polyester‐based polyurethane/nano‐silica composites were obtained via in situ polymerization and investigated by Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), or FTIR coupled with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR‐ATR), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), an Instron testing machine, dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and ultraviolet‐visible spectrophotometry (UV‐vis). FTIR analysis showed that in situ polymerization provoked some chemical reactions between polyester molecules and nano‐silica particles. FTIR‐ATR, TEM and AFM analyses showed that both surface and interface contained nano‐silica particles. Instron testing and DMA data showed that introducing nano‐silica particles into polyurethane enhanced the hardness, glass temperature and adhesion strength of polyurethane to the substrate, but also increased the resin viscosity. UV‐vis spectrophotometry showed that nano‐silica obtained by the fumed method did not shield UV radiation in polyurethane films. Copyright © 2003 Society of Chemical Industry     

硅表面上的纳米量子点的自组织生长

纳米半导体量子点以其所具有的新颖光电性质与输运特性正在受到人们普遍重视。作为制备高质量纳米量子点的工艺技术 ,自组织生长方法倍受材料物理学家的青睐。而如何制备尺寸大小与密度分布可控的纳米量子点更为人们所注目。因为这是关系到纳米量子点最终能否器件实用化的关键。文中以此为主线 ,着重介绍了各种 Si表面 ,如常规表面、氧化表面、台阶表面以及吸附表面上 ,不同纳米量子点的自组织生长及其形成机理 ,并展望了其未来发展前景     

非晶硅基薄膜的等离子体刻蚀光发射谱检测

本文研究了采用锁定放大相干检测技术的等离子体光发射谱检测系统。用该系统检测了仅用CF4作为刻蚀气体刻蚀非晶硅基薄膜的等离子体光发射谱。分析了检测结果和刻蚀机理。     

微机核子秤在大型尿素装置中的应用

介绍了大型尿素装置中微机核子秤的系统构成，测量原理、安装、调校及在调试过程中发现的问题。     

单晶空心叶片用AC-2陶瓷型芯的组织和性能研究

利用扫描电镜技术和X射线衍射技术研究了AC－2氧化铝基陶瓷型芯的微观结构和相组成，并测试了该型芯的室温和高温性能，结果表明AC－2型氧化铝基陶瓷型芯的综合性能优于AC－1型芯。     

基于双秘钥的高强度公钥密码体制的研究

该文研究双秘钥公开钥密码体制,它不同于一般的只有一个秘密密钥的公开钥密钥体制,而是使用两个秘密密钥。要攻破它必须同时解决两个数学难题(素因子分解和求离散对数),从而大大增加了破译难度。     

Pure perceptual-based sequence learning.

Learning a sequence of target locations when the sequence is uncorrelated with a sequence of responses and target location is not the response dimension (pure perceptual-based sequence learning) was examined. Using probabilistic sequences of target locations, the author shows that such learning can be implicit, is unaffected by distance between target locations, and is mostly limited to first-order transition probabilities. Moreover, the mechanism underlying learning affords processing of information at anticipated target locations and appears to be attention based. Implications for hypotheses of implicit sequence learning are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)