Alcohol consumption detection through behavioural analysis using intelligent systems

We describe in this paper a new methodology for blood alcohol content (BAC) estimation of a subject. Rather than using external devices to determine the BAC value of a subject, we perform a behaviour analysis of this subject using intelligent systems. We monitor the user’s actions in an ordinary task and label those data to various measured BAC values. The obtained data-set is then used to train learning systems to detect alcoholic consumption and perform BAC estimation. We obtain good results on a mono-user base, and lower results with multiple users. We improve the results by combining multiple classifiers and regression algorithms.     

Dynamics of fluid circulation in coupled free and heterogeneous porous domains

Fluid flow in coupled free and porous domain, particularly when the porous medium is heterogeneous, is encountered in many hydro-environmental conditions, e.g., leakage from underground pipe, combined groundwater lake-subsurface interactions. One of the most difficult problems in the study of coupled flow behaviour has been the development of a universally applicable modelling scheme for combining the flow regimes. This is because the free/porous interfacial properties (e.g., shear-stress; velocity slip) that govern the coupled flow behaviour are difficult to determine experimentally under hydro-environmental conditions. On the other hand, the implications of various forms of heterogeneity in the porous media properties can be very different on the fluid-flow behaviour. Difficulties may also arise in direct coupling of the model equations that govern the fluid flow in the individual regions (e.g., Navier-Stokes for free-flow region and the Darcy's equation for the porous flow region). Consequently, models of coupled free and porous flow for hydro-environmental conditions are not very well developed at the moment. While there are some indications that fluids in coupled free and porous domains may circulate (i.e., development of flow cells), there is a lack of appropriate 3D analysis on how heterogeneities in porous media may affect such flow patterns. In this paper, we aim to analyse how porous media heterogeneity affects the dynamics of flow circulation in the porous side of a coupled free and porous domain. For this purpose, we analyse flow patterns in several model domains made up of two porous layers with differing permeabilities. The governing model equations are discretised and solved using the standard finite volume method on a staggered cell-centred mesh. The temporal discretisation is done using the explicit method. An in-house graphical user interface (GUI) has been created specifically to aid in the visualisation of otherwise complex flow patterns. The GUI contains many post-processing options and provides a comprehensive tool for the analysis of hydrodynamics and contaminant motion (not discussed in this paper) in coupled free and porous flow domains. This GUI is described in this paper briefly. The effects of altering the aspect ratio (i.e., multi-scale) of the domain on the coupled flow pattern have also been discussed.     

Factors influencing the efficacy of an interfacial modifier for the interface in an immiscible polymer blend

The modification of the interface in immiscible polymer blends is critical in order to optimize physical properties. Despite the great commercial importance of polymer blends, many aspects of the emulsification process remain unclear In this paper, it will be shown that an emulsification curve can be used to estimate the influence of the architecture molar mass of styrene/hydrogenated butadiene block copolymer interfacial modifiers on the emulsifion of polystyrene/ethylene-propylene rubber blends under melt processing conditions. An expression for eing the critical amount of copolymer to saturate the interface, as well as aspects concerning the localisation of the modifier in the blend system will also be addressed.     

Augment low-field intra-operative MRI with preoperative MRI using a hybrid non-rigid registration method

Background

Preoperatively acquired diffusion tensor image (DTI) and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) have been proved to be effective in providing more anatomical and functional information; however, the brain deformation induced by brain shift and tumor resection severely impairs the correspondence between the image space and the patient space in image-guided neurosurgery.

Method

To address the brain deformation, we developed a hybrid non-rigid registration method to register high-field preoperative MRI with low-field intra-operative MRI in order to recover the deformation induced by brain shift and tumor resection. The registered DTI and BOLD are fused with low-field intra-operative MRI for image-guided neurosurgery.

Results

The proposed hybrid registration method was evaluated by comparing the landmarks predicted by the hybrid registration method with the landmarks identified in the low-field intra-operative MRI for 10 patients. The prediction error of the hybrid method is 1.92 ± 0.54 mm, and the compensation accuracy is 74.3 ± 5.0%. Compared to the landmarks far from the resection region, those near the resection region demonstrated a higher compensation accuracy (P-value = .003) although these landmarks had larger initial displacements.

Conclusions

The proposed hybrid registration method is able to bring preoperatively acquired BOLD and DTI into the operating room and compensate for the deformation to augment low-field intra-operative MRI with rich anatomical and functional information.     

胶粘耐磨涂层的制备与抗冲蚀磨损性能研究

研制了一种应用于水力机械元件和设备的抗冲蚀磨损的胶粘耐磨涂层。分析了涂层的制备工艺，检测了涂层的各项性能，研究了耐磨涂层的抗冲蚀磨损性能。研究发现：底部涂层与基体间的相互吸附、涂层间的相互扩散、偶联剂的共价键连接和机械互锁，均能使涂层与涂层之间、底层与基体之间在界面处形成牢固结合，有利于提高耐磨涂层的整体抗冲蚀磨损性能。     

Feature extraction of the first difference of EMG time series for EMG pattern recognition

This paper demonstrates the utility of a differencing technique to transform surface EMG signals measured during both static and dynamic contractions such that they become more stationary. The technique was evaluated by three stationarity tests consisting of the variation of two statistical properties, i.e., mean and standard deviation, and the reverse arrangements test. As a result of the proposed technique, the first difference of EMG time series became more stationary compared to the original measured signal. Based on this finding, the performance of time-domain features extracted from raw and transformed EMG was investigated via an EMG classification problem (i.e., eight dynamic motions and four EMG channels) on data from 18 subjects. The results show that the classification accuracies of all features extracted from the transformed signals were higher than features extracted from the original signals for six different classifiers including quadratic discriminant analysis. On average, the proposed differencing technique improved classification accuracies by 2–8%.     

聚合物材料脆韧转变判据及影响因素分析

综述了聚合物共混增韧机理包括弹性体增韧、刚性粒子增韧、弹性体与刚性粒子协同增韧等研究进展；着重介绍了临界基体层厚度、损伤竞争准数、分子链参数、临界界面黏结条件、临界特征长度等几种源于单一粒子填充的脆韧转变判据，并分析其在复合粒子填充改性聚合物中的适用性。此外，还结合增韧机理和脆韧转变判据讨论了基体性能、分散相状态及相间界面黏结强度等因素对复合体系韧性的影响，提出寻找合适的复合分散相、适当调整复合粒子的结构比例、改善相间界面黏结以及设计最佳断裂路径仍将是今后努力的方向。     

Molecular dynamics studies of a model polymer-catalyst-carbon interface

Classical molecular dynamics simulations are performed to obtain insights into structural and dynamical behavior of water and O₂ transport through a model polymer membrane, and at the interface of such hydrated polymer with graphite-supported nanocatalyst platinum particles. Water clustering is observed near the membrane hydrophilic sites constituted by sulfonic groups, which due to their affinity with platinum, are located near the metallic surface. It is found that the diffusion of water through the model hydrated polymer membrane depends strongly on the level of membrane hydration due to contribution from various mechanisms whose relative weights change with the degree of hydration. Possible scenarios for O₂ diffusion are also analyzed.     

基于VB6.0的红外甲烷检测仪串行通信的实现

针对煤矿安全生产中存在的瓦斯爆炸问题,该文以MSP430系列单片机为核心,设计了红外甲烷检测仪.其中着重介绍了检测仪的串行通信,编写了串行通信程序,使检测仪能实现与PC机的数据通信功能,并使用VB6.0编写了人机交互界面,以方便用户及时观察和处理数据,实现对检测仪的校准、复位和阈值设置等操作功能.实验结果表明,编写的串行通信程序能实现检测仪与PC的数据通信功能,检测仪能快速、准确地检测出甲烷气体的浓度,具有较高的实用价值.     

Preparation and characterization of a model system for the study of monolayers and multilayers of vanadia supported on titania

A model system for the study of structural and chemical properties of monolayers and multilayers of vanadium oxide immobilized on titania is presented. Investigation of the planar oxide-oxide interface by XP, UV and IS spectroscopy indicated that vanadium immobilized by a single impregnation step exists as an incomplete heterogeneous layer containing well dispersed V⁴⁺ species. Increase of the vanadia loading by multiple impregnations led to vanadia agglomerates with higher apparent oxidation state of the vanadium. TD spectroscopy with O₂ and CO₂ as probe molecules revealed that the chemical reactivity of the vanadia surface species depends on their structure. The surface containing well-dispersed vanadia species exchanged oxygen more easily and showed pronounced interactions with CO₂.