Construction of Complex Co3O4@Co3V2O8 Hollow Structures from Metal–Organic Frameworks with Enhanced Lithium Storage Properties

A novel metal–organic‐framework‐engaged strategy is demonstrated for the preparation of multishelled Co₃O₄@Co₃V₂O₈ hybrid nanoboxes. This strategy relies on the unique reaction of zeolitic imidazolate framework‐67 with the vanadium source of vanadium oxytriisopropoxide. Benefitting from the synthetic versatility, a series of nanostructures can be realized including triple‐shelled and double‐shelled Co₃O₄@Co₃V₂O₈ nanoboxes and single‐shelled Co₃V₂O₈ nanoboxes. When evaluated as electrode materials for lithium‐ion batteries, these unique hollow structures demonstrate remarkable lithium storage properties. For example, the triple‐shelled Co₃O₄@Co₃V₂O₈ nanoboxes retain a high capacity of 948 mAh g^?1 after 100 cycles at 100 mA g^?1.     

Modeling and performance analyses of evaporators in frozen-food supermarket display cabinets at low temperatures

This paper presents modeling and experimental analyses of evaporators in “in situ” frozen-food display cabinets at low temperatures in the supermarket industry. Extensive experiments were conducted to measure store and display cabinet relative humidities and temperatures, and pressures, temperatures and mass flow rates of the refrigerant. The mathematical model adopts various empirical correlations of heat transfer coefficients and frost properties in a fin-tube heat exchanger in order to investigate the influence of indoor conditions on the performance of the display cabinets. The model is validated with the experimental data of “in situ” cabinets. The model would be a good guide tool to the design engineers to evaluate the performance of supermarket display cabinet heat exchangers under various store conditions.     

Modelling of the thermodynamic properties of the water–ammonia mixture by three different approaches

This paper deals with the modelling of the thermodynamic properties of the water–ammonia refrigerant mixture. Three different approaches are formulated and compared. The first is an empirical approach based on a free enthalpy model of the mixture considered as the resultant of the properties of its pure components and of an excess term corresponding to the deviation to the ideal solution concept. Secondly, a semi-empirical approach based on the PATEL and TEJA cubic equation of state is considered. Finally, a theoretical approach formulated as PC-SAFT (perturbed chain statistical associating fluid theory) equation of state is treated. A comparison of these three methods proves the superiority of PC-SAFT in predicting and extrapolating the thermodynamic properties of the water–ammonia system up to very high temperatures and pressures.     

Twin screw oil-free wet compressor for compression–absorption cycle

The performance of a twin screw compressor operating under wet (two-phase) compression conditions in an ammonia–water compression absorption heat pump cycle is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The paper reports on the influence of the location of liquid intake or, depending what applies, injection angle and mass flow rate of the injected liquid on compressor performance. Labyrinth seals separate the oil-free process side from oil lubricated bearing housing. Labyrinth seals leakage is modelled and its impact on performance is theoretically and experimentally investigated. The need for liquid injection from the discharge side to obtain acceptable performance is discussed based on experimental results.     

一个新的基于radix-8的标量乘算法

椭圆曲线标量乘是椭圆曲线密码系统中最关键、最耗时的运算,因此如何快速高效实现标量乘运算是研究的重点。目前常见的标量乘算法有:double-and-add算法,NAF算法,MOF算法等,但它们都是基于radix-2编码表示的,无论采用何种编码,倍点运算的次数都不变,减少的只是点加(或点减)运算的次数。提出一个基于radix-8表示的新的编码方法,及一个基于radix-8表示的标量乘算法,通过用八倍点运算代替倍点运算,且编码是从左到右(即从最高位向最低位)进行,编码和主计算可以合并,提高实现效率并节省内存空间。实验结果表明,该算法较经典的double-and-add算法能够提高效率30%以上。     

基于FPGA的DVB-ASI信号接收的实现

DVB-ASI(Digtal Video Broadcasting-Asynchronous Serial Interface)信号是一种高速的异步串行信号,在对其接收时常会出现误码率过高,解码困难等情况。以往DVB-ASI信号的接收常采用专用的通信接收处理芯片,成本较高,本文采用芯片为altera公司的EP2C8Q208C8,其中采用多重相位技术和过采样实现了时钟的恢复,有效地降低了误码率。然后对采样的数据进行字对齐,8B/10B解码,字同步,经过包同步后输出符合MPEG-2标准的TS(Transport Stream)流。系统的所占资源为610个LE,占芯片总资源的7.4%,工作频率为135MHZ。     

A changing society and problems of method: a politically committed research type

This essay examines a politically engaged research genre, which follows the biography of the author who founded two journals: one on mathematical models published in English (Quality and Quantity) and one on politically committed social and economic research published in Italian (Inchiesta). The research considered focuses on Italy in the 1950s, the research by Lazarsfeld in Vienna in the 1920s and in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, and post-1968 politically committed research in Italy. The analysis of such politically committed types of research (all very different from one another in terms of the interpretative model of reality, the methods used and the relations with the tendering party and the people observed) allows one to understand how this kind of research can be performed with very different methods—all of which do, however, seek to modify reality on the grounds of the research results. The metaphor of the crystal and the flame presented by Italo Calvino in order to 8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8220.gif" alt="ldquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0">classify facts and ideas and styles and feelings8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8221.gif" alt="rdquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"> can also be used to visualise the polarity (and the difficulty/impossibility of contact) that has always been present in sociology between two different tendencies: towards a discipline that offers the most abstract and objective interpretative model of reality possible with the use of mathematical models (the crystal), and, instead, towards a discipline in which an interpretative model of reality is central, one that produces a social change and in which the qualitative and quantitative methods utilised are at the service of this change (the flame). This polarity thus allows us to separate first and foremost all the politically committed research performed by others for different purposes (market research, research to verify some theoretical hypotheses, etc.) but the same polarity also lies within the politically committed research. We can, indeed, identify a type of politically committed research in an area that has, at one extreme, research tending towards the utmost 8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8220.gif" alt="ldquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0">objectivity8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8221.gif" alt="rdquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"> and 8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8220.gif" alt="ldquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0">scientific quality8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8221.gif" alt="rdquo" align="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"> of the results and where the co-ordinators try to have all the information on the subjects maintaining the greatest possible distance (the subjects must not know they are being observed); at the other extreme, there is a type of research in which the coordinator completely involves the subjects in the gathering of information that will serve to realise a piece of research whose political aims are explicitly shared. For the identification of a sufficiently articulated typology it has been important to consider five dimensions of politically committed research: (a) the characteristics of the research coordinator (his/her belonging to the type and the academic/non-academic professional status) and his/her interpretative model of reality (b) some general characteristics of the research (the tender and funding, the topic choice, the aims, the contributions to the sociological theory, the duration); (c) the research coordinator8v9e343y7v/xxlarge8217.gif" alt="rsquo" align="BASELINE" BORDER="0">s relations with the political actors (the intensity of the relations, the political use of the research); (d) the relations of the research co-ordinator with the research subjects; (e) the methodological choices (the basic strategies, the methods used, the use of mathematical procedures). The research that exemplifies this typology is all politically committed to the left and was realised in different times and contexts. I start by considering a kind of politically engaged research (co-research) that appeared in Italy in the 1950s; I then analyse two types of politically engaged research realised in Austria at the end of the 1920s and one in the United States in the 1950s; there then follow two kinds of research realised in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States and a further two kinds realised in Italy in the 1970s and early 1980s. In order to have other kinds of research please refer to the two Journals of which I am the editor: one is an English language journal of mathematical models (Quality and Quantity, International Journal of Methodology, founded in 1966 and published today by Kluwer of Amsterdam), and a politically engaged review (Inchiesta, founded in 1971 and still published today by Dedalo of Bari).     

改进YOLOv8的水面小目标检测算法

针对水面目标检测中的噪声干扰和小目标的漏检问题,提出一种改进YOLOv8的水面小目标检测算法YOLOv8-WSSOD (YOLOv8-water surface small object detection).首先,为降低水面复杂环境在主干网络下采样过程中产生的噪声干扰,提出基于BiFormer双层路由注意力机制构建的C2fBF (C2f-BiFormer)模块,在特征提取过程中保留细粒度的上下文特征信息;其次,针对水面小目标的漏检问题,新增一个更小的检测头,提升网络对小目标的感知力,并在Neck端引入GSConv和Slim-neck,减轻模型复杂度并保持精度;最后,使用MPDIoU损失函数解决CIoU损失函数的局限性,以提高模型检测准确率.实验结果表明,相较于原始YOLOv8算法,该算法在水面小目标上平均准确率mAP@0.5提升了4.6%, mAP@0.5:0.95提升了2.2%,并且改进后的算法检测速度达到86f/s,能有效实现对水面小目标快速、准确的检测.     

HDAC8-Selective Inhibition by PCI-34051 Enhances the Anticancer Effects of ACY-241 in Ovarian Cancer Cells

HDAC6 is overexpressed in ovarian cancer and is known to be correlated with tumorigenesis. Accordingly, ACY-241, a selective HDAC6 inhibitor, is currently under clinical trial and has been tested in combination with various drugs. HDAC8, another member of the HDAC family, has recently gained attention as a novel target for cancer therapy. Here, we evaluated the synergistic anticancer effects of PCI-34051 and ACY-241 in ovarian cancer. Among various ovarian cancer cells, PCI-34051 effectively suppresses cell proliferation in wild-type p53 ovarian cancer cells compared with mutant p53 ovarian cancer cells. In ovarian cancer cells harboring wild-type p53, PCI-34051 in combination with ACY-241 synergistically represses cell proliferation, enhances apoptosis, and suppresses cell migration. The expression of pro-apoptotic proteins is synergistically upregulated, whereas the expressions of anti-apoptotic proteins and metastasis-associated proteins are significantly downregulated in combination treatment. Furthermore, the level of acetyl-p53 at K381 is synergistically upregulated upon combination treatment. Overall, co-inhibition of HDAC6 and HDAC8 through selective inhibitors synergistically suppresses cancer cell proliferation and metastasis in p53 wild-type ovarian cancer cells. These results suggest a novel approach to treating ovarian cancer patients and the therapeutic potential in developing HDAC6/8 dual inhibitors.     

基于ATmega8的DDS信号发生器的设计

本文介绍了由AVR单片机ATmega8控制DDS芯片AD9832开发的一种高频率精度信号发生器,着重讨论了DDS技术的基本工作原理、特点,以及ATmega8控制系统的硬件结构和基于BASCOM-AVR的软件设计流程图。此外,还对ATmega8和BASCOM-AVR的特点进行了介绍。