Constructing and applying higher order textons: Estimating breast cancer risk

Texture analysis based on textons is extended by introducing a method for computing textons of arbitrary order. First-, second- and third-order textons are applied to classify screening mammograms as to indicate a low or high risk of breast cancer. First-order textons are found to provide better estimates of breast cancer risk than other orders on their own but the combination of first- and second-order textons outperforms first-order textons alone and other combinations of two orders. Combining all three orders of textons does not improve classification. This example indicates that including higher-order textons has the potential to improve classification performance.     

Employing early model-based safety evaluation to iteratively derive E/E architecture design

ISO 26262 addresses development of safe in-vehicle functions by specifying methods potentially used in the design and development lifecycle. It does not indicate what is sufficient and leaves room for interpretation. Yet the architects of electric/electronic systems need design boundaries to make decisions during architecture evolutionary design without adding a risk of late changes. Correct selection of safety mechanisms from alternatives at early design stages is vital for time-to-market of critical systems. In this paper we present and discuss an iterative architecture design and refinement process that is centered around ISO 26262 requirements and model-based analysis of safety-related metrics. This process simplifies identification of the most sensitive parts of the architecture, selection of the best suitable safety mechanisms to reduce thereby failure rate on the system level and improve the metrics defined by the standard. To support the defined process we present the metamodels that can be integrated with existing DSL (domain-specific language) frameworks to extend them with information supporting further extraction of fault propagation behavior. We provide a framework for architecture model analysis and selection of safety mechanisms. We provide details on the model-based toolset that has been developed to support the proposed analysis and synthesis methods, and demonstrate its application to analysis of a steer-by-wire system model and selection of safety mechanisms for it.     

神华集团孙家沟选煤厂工艺流程及设备的评价

简述了孙家沟选煤厂工艺参数的选择和设计情况及投产后的运行效果,评价认为,该厂建设速度快,工艺流程合理,设备性能良好,产品质量合格、稳定。     

基于SOM和 PCA的闽江流域地表水水质综合评价

根据2014年1月至2015年11月闽江流域19个断面的水质月均值监测数据,采用自组织特征映射网络(SOM)和主成分分析(PCA)法研究了闽江流域水质时空变化特征,并用水质指数对闽江水质进行了综合评价。SOM分析将水质样本分为3个空间群组,其中水质变化周期分2个阶段:4—11月、12月至次年3月。PCA法分析表明,春冬季沙溪和富屯溪支流以及闽江下游福州城区河段营养盐水平偏高,在春夏季上游部分河段和下游闽江口有机污染水平偏高。水质指数评价结果显示,闽江流域整体水质较好,其中三大子流域及闽江下游水质评价从优至劣顺序为:富屯溪流域、建溪流域、沙溪流域、闽江下游流域。     

Relationship Between Interfacial Water Layer Adhesion Loss of Silicon/Glass Fiber-Epoxy Systems: A Quantitative Study

Water at the polymer/substrate interface is often the major cause of adhesion loss in coatings, adhesives, and fiber-reinforced polymer composites. This study critically assesses the relationship between the interfacial water layer and the adhesion loss in epoxy/siliceous substrate systems. Both untreated and silane-treated Si substrates and untreated and silane-treated E-glass fibers were used. Thickness of the interfacial water layer was measured on epoxy/Si systems by Fourier transform infrared-multiple total internal reflection (FTIR-MTIR) spectroscopy. Adhesion loss of epoxy/Si systems and epoxy/E-glass fiber composites was measured by peel adhesion and short-beam shear tests, respectively. Little water accumulation at the epoxy/Si substrate interface was observed for silane-treated Si substrates, but about 10 monolayers of water accumulated at the interface between the epoxy and the untreated Si substrate following 100 h of exposure at 24 °C. More than 70% of the initial epoxy/untreated Si system peel strength was lost within 75 h of exposure, compared with 20% loss after 600 h for the silane-treated Si samples. Shear strength loss in composites made with untreated E-glass fiber was nearly twice that of composites fabricated with silane-treated fiber after 6 months of immersion in 60 °C water. Further, the silane-treated composites remained transparent, but the untreated fiber composites became opaque after water exposure. Evidence from FTIR-MTIR spectroscopy, adhesion loss, and visual observation strongly indicated that a water layer at the polymer/substrate interface is mostly responsible for the adhesion loss of epoxy/untreated siliceous substrate systems and epoxy/untreated glass fiber composites and that FTIR-MTIR is a viable technique to reliably and conveniently assess the adhesion loss attributable to water sorption at the interface.     

Public Displays of Play: Studying Online Games in Physical Settings

As research on virtual worlds gains increasing attention in educational, commercial, and military domains, a consideration of how player populations are ‘reassembled’ through social scientific data is a timely matter for communication scholars. This paper describes a large‐scale study of virtual worlds in which participants were recruited at public gaming events, as opposed to through online means, and explores the dynamic relationships between players and contexts of play that this approach makes visible. Challenging conventional approaches to quantitatively driven virtual worlds research, which categorizes players based on their involvement in an online game at a particular point in time, this account demonstrates how players' networked gaming activities are contingent on who they are playing with, where, and when.     

A New Risk Assessment Approach for Cloud Consumer

The cloud computing introduces several changes in technology that have resulted a new ways for cloud providers to deliver their services to cloud consumers mainly in term of security risk assessment, thus, adapting a current risk assessment tools to cloud computing is a very difficult task due to its several characteristics that challenge the effectiveness of risk assessment approaches. Consequently, there is a need of risk assessment approach adapted to cloud computing. With such an approach, the cloud consumers can be guaranteed the effectiveness of data security and the cloud providers can win the trust of their cloud consumers. This paper requires the formalization of risk assessment method for conventional system as fundamental steps towards the development of flexible risk assessment approach regarding cloud consumers.     

全参考图像质量评价综述

图像质量评价是图像处理领域内一项很有意义的研究课题。客观图像质量评价方法可分为全参考评价方法、半参考评价方法和无参考评价方法, 目前全参考评价方法较为成熟, 而半参考和无参考评价方法则处于初级阶段, 远远达不到参考评价方法所能达到的效果。对全参考评价方法进行综述。首先简要地介绍了各种类型的评价方法, 其次详细地介绍了PSNR、SSIM、MSSIM、IFC、VIF、FSIM等几种典型的全参考图像质量评价方法, 然后在LIVE和TID2008数据库上进行实验, 对这几种全参考方法进行对比、分析, 最后探讨图像质量评价研究的发展趋势。     

基于GTST-MLD的复杂网络风险评估方法

针对复杂信息系统复杂程度高、互影响性与互依赖性强,现有风险评估方法难以适应大规模网络安全风险评估与应用实践的需要的问题,研究了基于GTST-MLD的适合复杂信息系统的风险要素分析方法和整体风险评估方法,包括研究事故互依赖关系模型,进行风险要素建模以及风险传导分析,以提高针对复杂信息系统的风险评估能力和分析水平。结果证明,模型对复杂信息系统安全特性的目标、功能、结构、行为等因素予以综合,实现在更高的系统功能层面上对系统安全性的分析研究,为复杂信息系统的量化风险评估提供了可靠的量化分析手段。     

Gasoline composition determined by H NMR spectroscopy

A fast and simple ¹H NMR spectroscopic method was developed for the concentration measurement of aromatic, olefinic and aliphatic fractions in gasoline samples. Simultaneously, individual components such as benzene, methyl tert-butyl ether and several dienes could be determined. The method relies on only a few, well-established assumptions about the molecular compositions and is therefore applicable to a broad range of gasolines. It is well suited for laboratories with high sample throughput since measurement time is short and all concentrations are determined within one NMR experiment. The method was applied to commercial gasolines and samples used in European round robin tests. Comparisons of NMR and round robin test results showed excellent agreement.