Modern Teaching and Training in Metallurgical Engineering

This contribution deals with advanced educational technologies needed to equip customers from higher education institutions, research and industry with efficient tools supporting their work and operating new skills‐training methods. The challenges are reducing the training costs, improving quality and increasing the number of graduates in engineering departments. The concept of a Virtual Lab based on the combination of various teaching methods and tools is presented. Principles of mathematisation in metallurgical education and training are discussed. An example of online course designed in the form of Virtual Lab is demonstrated.     

Evaluation codes at singular points of algebraic differential equations

We use the special geometry of singular points of algebraic differential equations on the affine plane over finite fields to study the main features and parameters of error correcting codes giving by evaluating functions at sets of singular points. In particular, one gets new methods to construct codes with designed minimum distance. This work was partially supported by MCyT BFM2001-2251.     

D-side: A facility and workforce planning group multi-criteria decision support system for Johnson Space Center

“To understand and protect our home planet, to explore the universe and search for life, and to inspire the next generation of explorers” is NASA's mission. The Systems Management Office at Johnson Space Center (JSC) is searching for methods to effectively manage the Center's resources to meet NASA's mission. D-Side is a group multi-criteria decision support system (GMDSS) developed to support facility decisions at JSC. D-Side uses a series of sequential and structured processes to plot facilities in a three-dimensional (3-D) graph on the basis of each facility's alignment with NASA's mission and goals, the extent to which other facilities are dependent on the facility, and the dollar value of capital investments that have been postponed at the facility relative to the facility's replacement value. A similarity factor rank orders facilities based on their Euclidean distance from Ideal and Nadir points. These similarity factors are then used to allocate capital improvement resources across facilities. We also present a parallel model that can be used to support decisions concerning allocation of human resources investments across workforce units. Finally, we present results from a pilot study where 12 experienced facility managers from NASA used D-Side and the organization's current approach to rank order and allocate funds for capital improvement across 20 facilities. Users evaluated D-Side favorably in terms of ease of use, the quality of the decision-making process, decision quality, and overall value-added. Their evaluations of D-Side were significantly more favorable than their evaluations of the current approach.     

Automatic processing of psychological distance: Evidence from a Stroop task.

A picture-word version of the Stroop task was used to test the automatic activation of psychological distance by words carrying various senses of psychological distance: temporal (tomorrow, in a year), social (friend, enemy), and hypotheticality (sure, maybe). The pictures implied depth, with the words appearing relatively close to or distant from the observer. The participants classified the spatial distance of words faster when the word's implicit psychological distance matched its spatial distance (e.g., a geographically close word was classified faster when it was "friend" than when it was "enemy"). The findings are consistent with the idea that psychological distance is accessed automatically, even when it is not directly related to people's current goals, and suggest that psychological distance is an important dimension of meaning, common to spatial distance, temporal distance, social distance, and hypotheticality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

High‐error approximate dictionary search using estimate hash comparisons

A method for finding all matches in a pre‐processed dictionary for a query string q and with at most k differences is presented. A very fast constant‐time estimate using hashes is presented. A tree structure is used to minimize the number of estimates made. Practical tests are performed, showing that the estimate can filter out 99% of the full comparisons for 40% error rates and dictionaries of up to four million words. The tree is found to be efficient up to a 50% error rate. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

单片机在超声测距系统中的一种应用

为提高人们在测量距离时的方便性和准确性,现介绍一种基于单片机控制的超声测距系统的构成、工作原理和硬软件设计,利用该系统及其设计方法可以作为机器人的辅助视觉系统,也可用于其他的检测系统中.     

凸轮机构推程、回程运动角的最佳匹配及其求解方法

在推程、回程运动角之和 Φ0 +Φ′0 =C(定值 )的情况下 ,必存在某一对推程、回程运动角的最佳匹配 Opti-m um{ Φ0 ,Φ′0 } ;当选用该最佳匹配时 ,对心式直动从动杆盘形凸轮基圆半径 r0 取得最小值 r0 min。本文在揭示出上述事实的基础上 ,研究解决了当选取最佳匹配 Optim um{ Φ0 ,Φ′0 }时 ,按许用压力角 [α]条件求解对心式直动从动杆盘形凸轮基圆半径最小值 r0 min的解析法。     

采矿爆破地震安全距离与设计参数的应用研究

依据爆破安全规程给出了实际检测资料的处理方法。根据爆破设计和检测数据拟合结果的差异性，讨论了爆破地震安全距离S随设计经验参数K、α值的变化规律和范围，得出K取最大值，α取最小值能够最大限度保证现场建筑物安全的结论。     

山东智慧旅游研究

文章对山东旅游行业的发展现状进行了调查、归纳和总结,提出了山东智慧旅游发展的思路和重点,并从山东旅游行业四个主要应用群体（旅游管理部门、景区、酒店和旅行社）出发,提出了山东智慧旅游解决方案。