Thanks, but I'm used to better: A relative rank model of gratitude.

We argue that more help does not necessarily lead to more gratitude. Rather, gratitude depends on how a given instance of help compares with the help that a person is used to receiving. Participants read vignettes detailing an event in which 11 different friends either lent them varying amounts of money or spent varying amounts of time providing help. The amount of gratitude elicited by a given amount of help (e.g., a loan of ￡36 [about $56] or 49 min help) differed substantially depending on how this amount ranked among the help they were getting from their other friends. Comparison across four experimental conditions suggested that these judgments operated via the same general cognitive mechanisms used to judge other social events and psychophysical stimuli (as outlined by range frequency theory). Although more help does lead to more gratitude, people appear to be sensitive to how that help compares with what others are providing, and experienced gratitude depends on these relative judgments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Deficits in emotion-regulation skills predict alcohol use during and after cognitive–behavioral therapy for alcohol dependence.

Objective: As emotion regulation is widely considered to be a primary motive in the misuse of alcohol, our aim in the study was to investigate whether deficits in adaptive emotion-regulation skills maintain alcohol dependence (AD). Method: A prospective study investigated whether emotion-regulation skills were associated with AD and whether these skills predicted alcohol use during and after treatment for AD. Participants were 116 individuals treated for AD with cognitive–behavioral therapy. Emotion regulation and severity of AD symptoms were assessed by self-report. Alcohol use during treatment was assessed by Breathalyzer and urine analysis for ethyl glucuronide; alcohol use during the 3-month follow-up interval was assessed by self-report. Results: Pretreatment emotion-regulation skills predicted alcohol use during treatment, and posttreatment emotion-regulation skills predicted alcohol use at follow-up, even when controlling for other predictors potentially related to emotion regulation. Among a broad range of specific emotion-regulation skills, the ability to tolerate negative emotions was the only skill that negatively predicted subsequent alcohol consumption when controlling for the other skills. Individuals in the AD sample reported significantly larger deficits in emotion-regulation skills than did those in a nonclinical control sample but significantly less than did those in a sample of individuals exclusively meeting criteria for major depressive disorder. Conclusions: Enhancement of general emotion-regulation skills, especially the ability to tolerate negative emotions, appears to be an important target in the treatment of AD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Noisy speech emotion recognition using sample reconstruction and multiple-kernel learning

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in noisy environment is a vital issue in artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, the reconstruction of speech samples removes the added noise. Acoustic features extracted from the reconstructed samples are selected to build an optimal feature subset with better emotional recognizability. A multiple-kernel (MK) support vector machine (SVM) classifier solved by semi-definite programming (SDP) is adopted in SER procedure. The proposed method in this paper is demonstrated on Berlin Database of Emotional Speech. Recognition accuracies of the original, noisy, and reconstructed samples classified by both single-kernel (SK) and MK classifiers are compared and analyzed. The experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and robust when noise exists.     

Facilitation of Gene Transfection and Cell Adhesion by Gelatin‐Functionalized PCL Film Surfaces

Efficient local gene transfection on a tissue scaffold is of crucial importance in facilitating tissue repair and regeneration. In this work, the gelatin‐functionalized polycaprolactone (PCL) film surfaces are prepared via surface‐initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of glycidyl methacrylate. The resultant covalent attachment of gelatin could enhance the cell‐adhesion and local gene transfection properties. The gelatin‐functionalized PCL film surfaces exhibit excellent cell‐adhesion ability to both adherent and suspension cells. The attached adherent cells demonstrate the characteristic elongated morphologies with good spreading capability, while the attached suspension cells can maintain the original status of the round morphologies without spreading. More importantly, the gelatin coupled on the PCL surface could be used to absorb the cationic vector/plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (pDNA) complexes via electrostatic interaction. The local gene transfection property on the immobilized cells is dependent on both the density of the immobilized cells and the loading types of pDNA complexes. The transfection efficiency of different assemble methods of pDNA complex was compared. With the pre‐ and post‐loading sandwich‐like gene transfection, the gelatin‐functionalized PCL film surface can substantially enhance the transfection properties to different cell lines. The present study is very useful to spatially control local gene delivery within PCL‐based tissue scaffolds.     

Delocalized Electron Accumulation at Nanorod Tips: Origin of Efficient H2 Generation

Photocatalytic hydrogen (H₂) evolution requires efficient electron transfer to catalytically active sites in competition with charge recombination. Thus, controlling charge‐carrier dynamics in the photocatalytic H₂ evolution process is essential for optimized photocatalyst nanostructures. Here, the efficient delocalization of electrons is demonstrated in a heterostructure consisting of optimized MoS₂ tips and CdS nanorods (M‐t‐CdS Nrs) synthesized by amine‐assisted oriented attachment. The heterostructure achieves photocatalytic H₂ activity of 8.44 mmol h^?1 g^?1 with excellent long‐term durability (>23 h) without additional passivation under simulated solar light (AM 1.5, 100 mW cm^?2). This activity is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of pure CdS Nrs. The impressive photocatalytic H₂ activity of M‐t‐CdS Nrs reflects favorable charge‐carrier dynamics, as determined by steady‐state PL and time‐correlated single photon counting correlation analysis at low temperature. The MoS₂ cocatalysts precisely located at the end of the CdS Nrs exhibit ultrafast charge transfer and slow charge recombination via spatially localized deeper energy states, resulting in a highly efficient H₂ evolution reaction in lactic acid containing an electrolyte.     

基于LS-SVM的情感语音识别

提出了一种基于LS-SVM的情感语音识别方法。即先提取实验中语音信号的基频,能量,语速等参数为情感特征,然后采用LS-SVM方法对相应的情感语音信号建立模型,进行识别。实验结果表明,利用LS-SVM进行基本情感识别时,识别率较高。     

基于SVM的语音情感识别研究

随着计算机技术的发展,人们对和谐人机交互的要求不断提高,这就要求计算机能理解说话人的情感信息,即能进行语音情感识别。本文提出了一种基于支持向量机（SVM）的语音情感识别方法,主要对人类的6种基本情感：高兴、惊奇、愤怒、悲伤、恐惧、平静进行研究。首先对自建语音情感数据库的情感语句提取特征,然后运用序列前向选择（SFS）算...     

FDDI及其网络规划设计

从参考模型等方面阐述了FDDI标准，讨论了FDDI的主要组网方式，并以实例阐述了网络的规划设计。     

2,6-二氨基-3,5-二硝基吡啶-1-氧化物晶体形貌的MD模拟

为探讨溶剂对炸药晶体形貌的影响机制和溶剂的选择依据,采用附着能(AE)模型预测2,6-二氨基-3,5-二硝基吡啶-1-氧化物(ANPyO)在真空的晶体形貌,确定其主要生长晶面;并运用分子动力学(MD)模拟研究ANPyO晶面与溶剂N,N-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)的相互作用及其本质,进而通过修正的AE模型预测其在DMF中的晶体形貌。结果表明:ANPyO在真空中的晶体形状接近椭圆,主要生长晶面为(110)、(100)、(11-2)及(10-1)面。溶剂与晶面间存在较强相互作用,径向分布函数分析表明相互作用能主要包括范德华作用,库仑作用和氢键。在溶剂DMF中,晶面的修正附着能绝对值顺序为(110)(11-2)(10-1)(100),ANPyO晶体形貌接近片状,与已有实验结果一致。此外,DMF分子在ANPyO晶面的扩散系数研究结果表明,扩散系数与修正附着能绝对值成线性关系,晶体生长形貌亦受溶剂扩散能力的影响。