Spatial and functional relationships between air conduits and blood capillaries in the pulmonary gas exchange tissue of adult and developing chickens

The documented data regarding the three-dimensional structure of the air capillaries (ACs), the ultimate sites of gas exchange in the avian lung is contradictory. Further, the mode of gas exchange, described as cross-current has not been clearly elucidated. We studied the temporal and spatial arrangement of the terminal air conduits of the chicken lung and their relationship with the blood capillaries (BCs) in embryos as well as the definitive architecture in adults. Several visualization techniques that included corrosion casting, light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopy were used. Two to six infundibulae extend from each atrium and give rise to numerous ACs that spread centrifugally. Majority of the ACs are tubular structures that give off branches, which anastomose with their neighboring cognates. Some ACs have globular shapes and a few are blind-ending tapering tubes. During inauguration, the luminal aspects of the ACs are characterized by numerous microvillus-like microplicae, which are formed during the complex processes of cell attenuation and canalization of the ACs. The parabronchial exchange BCs, initially inaugurated as disorganized meshworks, are reoriented via pillar formation to lie predominantly orthogonal to the long axes of the ACs. The remodeling of the retiform meshworks by intussusceptive angiogenesis essentially accomplishes a cross-current system at the gas exchange interface in the adults, where BCs form ring-like patterns around the ACs, thus establishing a cross-current system. Our findings clarify the mode of gas exchange in the parabronchial mantle and illuminate the basis for the functional efficiency of the avian lung.     

漏电保护器投运难题的解决方案

分析剩余电流动作保护装置的常见故障,编制常见故障排查口袋书,采取简单易懂、能按图索骥的快速查找方法,破解剩余电流动作保护装置投运难题.     

A method for diagnosis of current faults in antenna arrays using neural networks

A method for detection of faulty elements in antenna arrays from far‐field radiation pattern is presented. The proposed technique finds variation of current from correct values in the faulty elements. A step wise approach is proposed to determine magnitude and phase of current excitation and location of faulty element using neural networks. The results with radial basis function neural network and probabilistic neural network are compared. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2009.     

Effects of Hall current and two temperatures in transversely isotropic magnetothermoelastic with and without energy dissipation due to ramp-type heat

The present article is concerned with the investigation of disturbances in a homogeneous transversely isotropic thermoelastic rotating medium with two temperatures, in the presence of the combined effects of Hall currents and magnetic field. The formulation is applied to the thermoelasticity theories developed by Green-Naghdi theories of type-II and type-III. Laplace and Fourier transform techniques are applied to solve the problem. The analytical expressions of displacements, stress components, temperature change, and current density components are obtained in the transformed domain. A numerical inversion technique has been applied to obtain the results in the physical domain. Numerical simulated results are depicted graphically to show the effect of Hall current and two temperatures on resulting quantities. Some special cases are also deduced from the present investigation.     

基于混合聚类的城市道路多时段控制研究*

多方案控制具有简单实用、可靠性好,稳定性高,性价比高等的优点,在城市交通控制中得到了广泛应用。本研究在利用指数平滑异同移动平均法对缺失交通数据进行修补的基础上,运用快速聚类与系统聚类相结合的混合聚类方法对交通数据进行分析,并以经典的Silhouttte评价指标作为聚类终止条件,同时兼顾/考虑了交通数据时序性,消除聚类结果中的三类“奇异点”,最后利用交通信号配时软件SYNCHRO制定了相应时段的控制方案。相关的案例分析显示,优化后的多时段控制方案可以更好地适应交通流的波动,车均延误减少9.79%,其中时序性考虑可以有效改善控制方案频繁切换对交通流的扰动,避免其负效应对混合聚类改善效果的影响。     

Towards inverse modeling of turbidity currents: The inverse lock-exchange problem

A new approach is introduced for turbidite modeling, leveraging the potential of computational fluid dynamics methods to simulate the flow processes that led to turbidite formation. The practical use of numerical flow simulation for the purpose of turbidite modeling so far is hindered by the need to specify parameters and initial flow conditions that are a priori unknown. The present study proposes a method to determine optimal simulation parameters via an automated optimization process. An iterative procedure matches deposit predictions from successive flow simulations against available localized reference data, as in practice may be obtained from well logs, and aims at convergence towards the best-fit scenario. The final result is a prediction of the entire deposit thickness and local grain size distribution. The optimization strategy is based on a derivative-free, surrogate-based technique. Direct numerical simulations are performed to compute the flow dynamics. A proof of concept is successfully conducted for the simple test case of a two-dimensional lock-exchange turbidity current. The optimization approach is demonstrated to accurately retrieve the initial conditions used in a reference calculation.     

Web日志挖掘与上网行为习惯分析

本文以某校校园网Web日志挖掘为例,首先阐述如何进行Web挖掘,其次运用该理论分析该校Web日志得到用户上网行为习惯,并给出合理化建议,最后引出进一步探索的方向,为以后工作奠定基础。本文采用的挖掘方法具有通用性和实用性,对于类似时序序列趋势分析都可参考本文。     

Bacteria foraging optimization for protein sequence analysis on the grid

Scientific applications such as protein sequence analysis require a coordination of resources. This is due to hundreds and hundreds of protein sequences being deposited into data banks by the research community which results in an extensive database search when one wants to find a similar protein sequence. This search becomes easier and the time taken is reduced when it is conducted in a grid environment implemented using the Globus tool kit. This paper proposes the use of Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO) for finding similar protein sequences in the existing databases. Usage of BFO further reduces the time taken by a resource to execute the user’s requests. Also, the resources utilized in the proposed method are better balanced compared to the existing scheduling algorithms. Also, it is found that the number of tasks executed is more compared to the existing algorithms even though there is a fall in the execution of tasks as the number of resources increases which might be due to network failure etc. The proposed BFO has been compared with the existing First Come First Serve (FCFS) and Minimum Execution Time (MET) scheduling algorithms and it has been found that the proposed BFO performs well compared to the existing algorithms in terms of makespan, resource utilization and minimization in the case of non-execution of client requests.     

电解法合成高铁酸钠的实验研究

通过改变传统电极设置位置,评定影响电解效率的各因素以实现电流效率的最大化.在简化电解装置的同时,不影响电流效率的提高.实验结果表明,将传统左右式设置电极改为上下式设置电极,阴极距液面2cm,阳极距底面4cm,电流密度2mA/cm2,NaOH浓度14mol/L,温度60℃,电解1.5h,并加入搅拌的情况下电流效率最大达到58%.