On blowing trumpets to the tulips: To prove or not to prove the null hypothesis--Comment on B?sch, Steinkamp, and Boller (2006).

The H. B?sch, F. Steinkamp, and E. Boller (see record 2006-08436-001) meta-analysis reaches mixed and cautious conclusions about the possibility of psychokinesis. The authors argue that, for both methodological and philosophical reasons, it is nearly impossible to draw any conclusions from this body of research. The authors do not agree that any significant effect at all, no matter how small, is fundamentally important (B?sch et al., 2006, p. 517), and they suggest that psychokinesis researchers focus either on producing larger effects or on specifying the conditions under which they would be willing to accept the null hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

西安脉冲堆稳态堆芯脉冲运行安全性分析及新堆芯布置方案设计

通过对堆芯安全参数的理论计算,分析了西安脉冲堆稳态堆芯布置脉冲运行的可行性.在原设计稳态堆芯的基础上,给出两种新的堆芯布置方案,计算了两种设计方案的堆芯物理参数、安全参数和孔道参数.该项工作对今后简化例料程序、提高特定孔道参数、降低燃料元件破损事故发生概率具有一定的意义.     

开放式多媒体应用平台OMAP5910双核程序装载方法

基于对开放式多媒体应用平台OMAP5910的开发和应用,本文讨论了OMAP5910中TMS320C55xDSP核与ARM925核的程序装载方法。     

随机参数结构频率响应函数的分析

用Monte—Carlo法对一个和两个自由度随机结构的频响函数统计特性进行了研究。数值计算结果表明，对于单自由系统，考虑质量和刚度的随机将削弱频响函数的峰值；而在2个自由度的体系中，质量和刚度的小变异，会给频响函数带来大的突变，这是按照灵敏度的方法所不能预示的，也是试验测试中应该引起注意的。     

常州行政中心冰蓄冷中央空调系统

介绍了常州行政中心所采用的冰蓄冷中央空调系统设计方案和特点,以及实际运行的节能效果;指出蓄能技术具有经济、环保的优点,值得应用和推广.     

An Improved Chua's Circuit and Its Use in Hyperchaotic Circuit

An improved implementation of Chua's circuit using dual output current conveyor is presented. The present proposal offers the advantages of low component count, current mode processing, availability of current across inductor and availability of voltage across inductor in form of current. The application of present circuit in designing low hardware inductorless hyperchaotic circuit is also presented. The paper concludes with a discussion of advantages of present proposal of Chua's circuit and inductorless hyper chaotic circuit thus designed over their earlier counterparts. The designs are adequately supported by SPICE simulation results. Patent pending.     

基于FPGA的PRBS伪随机序列的实现与研究

首先描述了伪随机序列的原理特性和生成方法，然后分析应用FPGA来实现伪随机序列的原理，并且详细讲述PRBs数据流的产生和检测的实现方法，利用FPGA器件的特殊结构，非常有效地节约了逻辑资源。然后利用仿真软件对设计进行了实现和验证。对于如何检测伪随机序列，提出两种不同的检测方法，做出比较并分析其利弊，最后指出伪随机序列的使用范畴。     

基于数值模拟的激光热负荷光强分布设计

激光活塞热负荷模拟实验需将高斯光束调制成按特定光强分布的多个同心光环,为此提出了基于有限元(FE)分析的激光热负荷光强分布反求设计思想。应用最初设计的整形器对有限元模型进行校核,在合理的范围内调整边界条件参数和活塞材料热物性参数,使模拟结果与实验结果吻合;对于校核后的有限元模型,通过调整光强分布和加载条件以接近目标温度场,从而获得整形器优化设计方案。基于上述方法可实现由目标温度场反求设计出光场分布。研究表明,采用数值模拟方法进行研究,可大幅度缩短整形器设计周期、降低设计费用,并起到虚拟实验的作用,从而提高了热负荷实验的可控性和可预见性。     

Turbo码中交织器的综合性能分析与设计

在Turbo码理论中,交织器占有重要地位。论文分析了Turbo码的编译码方案,阐明了交织器在Turbo码设计中的重要作用,提出了几种交织器的设计实现方法,并在仿真的基础上对其性能进行了分析。     

Dynamic self-assembly in living systems as computation

Biochemical reactions taking place in living systems that map different inputs to specific outputs are intuitively recognized as performing information processing. Conventional wisdom distinguishes such proteins, whose primary function is to transfer and process information, from proteins that perform the vast majority of the construction, maintenance, and actuation tasks of the cell (assembling and disassembling macromolecular structures, producing movement, and synthesizing and degrading molecules). In this paper, we examine the computing capabilities of biological processes in the context of the formal model of computing known as the random access machine (RAM) [Dewdney AK (1993) The New Turing Omnibus. Computer Science Press, New York], which is equivalent to a Turing machine [Minsky ML (1967) Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ]. When viewed from the RAM perspective, we observe that many of these dynamic self-assembly processes – synthesis, degradation, assembly, movement – do carry out computational operations. We also show that the same computing model is applicable at other hierarchical levels of biological systems (e.g., cellular or organism networks as well as molecular networks). We present stochastic simulations of idealized protein networks designed explicitly to carry out a numeric calculation. We explore the reliability of such computations and discuss error-correction strategies (algorithms) employed by living systems. Finally, we discuss some real examples of dynamic self-assembly processes that occur in living systems, and describe the RAM computer programs they implement. Thus, by viewing the processes of living systems from the RAM perspective, a far greater fraction of these processes can be understood as computing than has been previously recognized.