Faculty and Student Attitudes Toward Community Service: A Comparative Analysis

The Humanitarian Engineering initiative, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines, is creating a program that will support engineering students in understanding their responsibility for solving community development problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, data has been collected on faculty and student attitudes using the ‘Community Service Attitudes Scale,” developed and validated by Shiarella, McCarthy, and Tucker. During the fall 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty members responded to this instrument. Statistically significant differences were found between the attitudes of students and faculty, males and females, and among different age groupings with respect to service activities. A general finding was that faculty displayed better attitudes toward community service than the students.     

一种网络服务自动部署方法

为满足网络服务使用者对网络服务部署的功能性和非功能性需求,运用Petri网的方法进行了互联网动态多变环境下的网络服务自动部署的研究,建立了一种基于Petri网的网络服务部署网模型,从形式化的角度描述了网络服务功能的部署情况,提出了一种按照服务质量来选择最优网络服务部署的算法。仿真的结果表明,与目前常用的固定部署算法和随机部署算法相比,按照该方法得到的网络服务部署能最好地满足服务使用者对服务的非功能性方面的需求。     

Name‐Based Autoconfiguration for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

In a mobile ad hoc network, difficulties exist in supporting address autoconfiguration and naming resolution due to the lack of centralized servers. This letter presents a novel approach, called name‐based autoconfiguration (NBA), which uses host names to determine IP addresses and provides address autoconfiguration and name resolution as a single protocol.     

计算机配色技术应用于木材染色初探

介绍了计算机测色配色系统的原理,研究了建立木材染色基础数据库的方法,提出了注意事项,并分析了自动配色过程中产生色差的原因及解决方法。     

Impact of QOS requirements on video coding for ATM networks

The broadband integrated services digital networks (B-ISDN) based on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology can support a wide range of applications such as voice, video, still images, and data. Compression techniques increase the effective bandwidth utilization, but the bursty and asynchronous nature of the traffic can still lead to congestion in the network, and degradation of image quality and quality of service (QOS). Some of the features to provide better coding schemes for ATM networks are layered coding, resynchronization, buffering, interleaved schemes, constrained bit rate due to buffers, encapsulation with the RTP or AAL1 for clock recovery, lapped transforms, motion compensation, and optimal bit allocation for coders based on wavelet transforms. We review various techniques forimage and video coding such as transforms, motion compensation, vector quantization, and subband coding. We outline the impact of the cell loss ratio (CLR), delay and cell delay variation (CDV) on video coding: blocking effects, loss of frame synchronization, motion vectors, and vector quantization codewords. The open problems include tuning coding parameters to the available QOS provided by the network.     

Computational study of transport processes in a single-screw extruder for non-newtonian chemically reactive materials

A numerical study of the transport phenomena arising in a single-screw extruder channel is carried out. A non-Newtonian fluid is considered, using a power law model for the variable viscosity. Chemical reaction kinetics are also included. Finite difference computations are carried out to solve the governing set of partial differential equations for the velocity, temperature and species concentration fields, over a wide range of governing parameters for the case of a tapered screw channel. The numerical treatment for this combined heat and mass transfer problem is outlined. A marching procedure in the down-channel direction is adopted and the validity of the scheme for practical problems discussed. For large viscous dissipation, the material heats up considerably due to the prevailing shear field, affecting the viscosity significantly, and results in large changes in the pressure development at the end of the channel. The rate of reaction controls the mass diffusion rate which in turn affects viscosity and the flow significantly. The dimensionless throughput,q _v , is one of the most important parameters in the numerical solution. The dimensionless pressure variation is very sensitive toq _v , and orders of magnitude changes are possible for small variations inq _v . Schemes for dealing with other important effects such as back flow, heat transfer by conduction in the barrel, and the effect of the die are also outlined. A list of symbols is given at the end of the paper This is publication No. F-10544-4-91 of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station supported by State Funds and the Center for Advanced Food Technology (CAFT). The Center for Advanced Food Technology is a New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Center. This work was also supported in part by the US Army Research Office.     

话音ATM交换的实现─—ATM论坛电路仿真系列建议

近年来，随着ATM主干网络的建设和发展，研究ATM对现有通信业务的支持方式和适配技术是目前ATM技术研究的热点之一。话音ATM交换在降低话音通信成本和简化网络操作环境等方面提供了大量的技术手段，并且支持在单一网络环境中的多种综合业务传输。ATM论坛制定了电路仿真系列建议，话音ATM交换的技术已经基本成熟。文章通过对话音ATM交换在实现和优化方面的技术进行分析，并提出一种基于NativeModeATM的话音通信方式。     

有耗介质中电磁波传播的时域有限差分法

在推导有耗介质中Maxwell方程差分格式的基础上,详细讨论了时域有限差分法（FDTD）中主要参数的取值原则。对总场边界条件进行了改进,使入射波的泄漏很小,且不用对总场区的4个角点单独处理。讨论了简便的PML条件,避免了Berenger完全匹配层中场分裂过程。采用文中所介绍的方法,对地下有耗介质的理论模型进行了FDTD正演模拟,模拟结果可以反映地下有耗介质的有用信息,验证了该模拟技术的正确性和可靠性。     

水头差压力转换提水技术研究

本文阐述了一项水能利用的新技术：通过密闭容器将水的落差转换成压力气体，再通过压力气体去压缩另一密闭容器内的水。进而实现提水的目的。实验、计算和分析显示，这是一种切实可行的提水新技术。