生物工程及其在化学工业中的应用

生物工程是近年来崛起的一门综合性的高新科学技术，也是当代新技术革命中最为活跃的领域。文章简要地介绍和评述了生物工程的主要内容及其在化学工业中应用的概况及发展趋势。     

生物质转化的共性问题研究——生物质科学与工程学的建立与发展

生物质资源的高值转化是研究热点。由于现有的生物质利用技术存在的技术单一,缺乏系统性理论指导等问题,导致原料利用率低,经济效益差,难以实现工业化生产,迫切需要建立新的理论体系。通过深入分析生物质转化过程中的共性问题,在综合多学科知识的基础上,提出了生物质科学与工程学这一理念,从生物质原料工程学,生物质转化过程工程学和生物质产品工程学三方面对生物质利用技术进行了全面、系统的研究,为生物质类可再生资源的高值化利用提供了新的研究思路。     

大同煤矿集团煤化工发展战略的思考

从大同煤矿集团的资源优势出发，探讨了集团煤化工的发展战略。对煤炭洗选后的洗煤和中煤的利用提出了建议，认为工程建设宜分为两期进行，在第1期工程中，煤化工基地的起动项目应为甲醇及其系列产品的投资建设，在此基础上再拓展产品范围，进而完成第1、2期工程。     

Polarity as a criterion in protein design

Hypothetical proteins can be tested computationally by determiningwhether or not the designed sequence-structure pair has thecharacteristics of a typical globular protein. We have developedsuch a test by deriving quantities with approximately constantvalue for all globular proteins, based on empirical analysisof the exposed and buried surfaces of 128 structurally knownproteins. The characteristic quantities that best appear tosegregate badly designed or deliberately misfolded proteinsfrom their properly folded natural relatives are the polar fractionof side chains on the protein surface and, independently, inthe protein interior. Three of the seven hypothetical structurestested here can be rejected as having too many polar side-chaingroups in the interior or too few on the protein surface. Inaddition, a recently designed nutritional protein is identifiedas being very much unlike globular proteins. These database-derivedcharacteristic quantities are useful in screening designed proteinsprior to experiment and may be useful in screening experimentallydetermined (X-ray, NMR) protein structures for possible errors.     

高压大流量地下水隧道开挖超前帷幕注浆参数研究

锦屏水电站锦屏山隧道开挖中面临高压大流量地下水、且富水地段长(约占隧道全长的40%)的难题。为安全、可靠地进行隧道施工,以注浆材料的适应性、超前帷幕注浆的参数及工艺为研究对象,对浆液做了大量配合比试验,分析其流动性、物理力学性能和凝结时间。研究结果表明:用纯水泥进行单液浆帷幕注浆,其可注性好,可大大地提高注浆加固效果;纯水泥+双液浆对局部小的渗漏水具有很好的封堵效果。对于低于2 MPa的压力水,注浆压力取2~3倍的静水压力;对于高于5 MPa的压力水,注浆压力取净水压力加2~3 MPa。对于在2~5 MPa之间的压力水,注浆压力可灵活选取,但不宜超过7 MPa,注浆应采用孔内循环灌注的方式。地下水发生在断层破碎带时,超前帷幕注浆宜采用全断面帷幕;若出水段以溶蚀裂隙、断层、管道为主宜采用有针对性的局部超前帷幕注浆。该技术成功解决了锦屏山隧道高压大流量地下水封堵的难题,对富水地层地下隧洞施工具有重要参考价值。     

设计院一定要拥有技术开发技术

阐述了设计院拥有技术和开发技术的重要性及获取技术的途径，并详细介绍了设计人员能够开展的技术开发工作。     

Global software testing under deadline pressure: Vendor-side experiences

ContextIn the era of globally-distributed software engineering, the practice of global software testing (GST) has witnessed increasing adoption. Although there have been ethnographic studies of the development aspects of global software engineering, there have been fewer studies of GST, which, to succeed, can require dealing with unique challenges.ObjectiveTo address this limitation of existing studies, we conducted, and in this paper, report the findings of, a study of a vendor organization involved in one kind of GST practice: outsourced, offshored software testing.MethodWe conducted an ethnographically-informed study of three vendor-side testing teams over a period of 2 months. We used methods, such as interviews and participant observations, to collect the data and the thematic-analysis approach to analyze the data.FindingsOur findings describe how the participant test engineers perceive software testing and deadline pressures, the challenges that they encounter, and the strategies that they use for coping with the challenges. The findings reveal several interesting insights. First, motivation and appreciation play an important role for our participants in ensuring that high-quality testing is performed. Second, intermediate onshore teams increase the degree of pressure experienced by the participant test engineers. Third, vendor team participants perceive productivity differently from their client teams, which results in unproductive-productivity experiences. Lastly, participants encounter quality-dilemma situations for various reasons.ConclusionThe study findings suggest the need for (1) appreciating test engineers’ efforts, (2) investigating the team structure’s influence on pressure and the GST practice, (3) understanding culture’s influence on other aspects of GST, and (4) identifying and addressing quality-dilemma situations.     

A framework for variable content document generation with multiple actors

ContextAdvances in customization have highlighted the need for tools supporting variable content document management and generation in many domains. Current tools allow the generation of highly customized documents that are variable in both content and layout. However, most frameworks are technology-oriented, and their use requires advanced skills in implementation-related tools, which means their use by end users (i.e. document designers) is severely limited.ObjectiveStarting from past and current trends for customized document authoring, our goal is to provide a document generation alternative in which variants are specified at a high level of abstraction and content reuse can be maximized in high variability scenarios.MethodBased on our experience in Document Engineering, we identified areas in the variable content document management and generation field open to further improvement. We first classified the primary sources of variability in document composition processes and then developed a methodology, which we called DPL – based on Software Product Lines principles – to support document generation in high variability scenarios.ResultsIn order to validate the applicability of our methodology we implemented a tool – DPLfw – to carry out DPL processes. After using this in different scenarios, we compared our proposal with other state-of-the-art tools for variable content document management and generation.ConclusionThe DPLfw showed a good capacity for the automatic generation of variable content documents equal to or in some cases surpassing other currently available approaches. To the best of our knowledge, DPLfw is the only framework that combines variable content and document workflow facilities, easing the generation of variable content documents in which multiple actors play different roles.     

A language-independent approach to the extraction of dependencies between source code entities

ContextSoftware networks are directed graphs of static dependencies between source code entities (functions, classes, modules, etc.). These structures can be used to investigate the complexity and evolution of large-scale software systems and to compute metrics associated with software design. The extraction of software networks is also the first step in reverse engineering activities.ObjectiveThe aim of this paper is to present SNEIPL, a novel approach to the extraction of software networks that is based on a language-independent, enriched concrete syntax tree representation of the source code.MethodThe applicability of the approach is demonstrated by the extraction of software networks representing real-world, medium to large software systems written in different languages which belong to different programming paradigms. To investigate the completeness and correctness of the approach, class collaboration networks (CCNs) extracted from real-world Java software systems are compared to CCNs obtained by other tools. Namely, we used Dependency Finder which extracts entity-level dependencies from Java bytecode, and Doxygen which realizes language-independent fuzzy parsing approach to dependency extraction. We also compared SNEIPL to fact extractors present in language-independent reverse engineering tools.ResultsOur approach to dependency extraction is validated on six real-world medium to large-scale software systems written in Java, Modula-2, and Delphi. The results of the comparative analysis involving ten Java software systems show that the networks formed by SNEIPL are highly similar to those formed by Dependency Finder and more precise than the comparable networks formed with the help of Doxygen. Regarding the comparison with language-independent reverse engineering tools, SNEIPL provides both language-independent extraction and representation of fact bases.ConclusionSNEIPL is a language-independent extractor of software networks and consequently enables language-independent network-based analysis of software systems, computation of design software metrics, and extraction of fact bases for reverse engineering activities.