In this article, we review recent atomistic computational techniques to study the electronic structure aspects and chemistry
of energetic materials at high-pressure and/or high temperature. While several mechanisms have been proposed for the initial
events of energetic materials at high-pressure, we explore the validity of a proposed shear-induced local metallization via
molecular bond bending in the insensitive explosive TATB. We study the effect of high-stress (both uniform and uniaxial) on
the electronic energy band-gap and the first chemical event of a prototypical energetic material, that of nitromethane. We
also determine chemical reactions rate laws and decomposition mechanisms from a quantum-based molecular dynamics simulation
of HMX, a widely used explosive material, at conditions of high density and temperature similar to that encounter under detonation.
Finally, we review a new multi-scale computational tool recently developed to model the shock-induced chemistry of energetic
materials at the atomistic level, and report its applicability to shocked solid nitromethane.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Generation effect (generated words are better memorized than read words) of anagrams, rhymes, and associates of target words was examined in young, elderly, and very old subjects. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that only young subjects benefit from the generation effect in a free-recall test when the rule is of a phonological nature. Experiments 3, 4, and 5 showed that the generation effect of rhymes was due to a resources-dependent self-initiated process. Experiments 4 and 5 showed that in a divided-attention situation, generation effect of rhymes is not significant in young subjects, but that the generation effect of semantic associates remains significant for both groups (Experiment 5). The results are discussed within the environmental support framework and the transfer-appropriate processing framework. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献
The coarse acquisition performance of a direct sequence spread-spectrum receiver is analyzed when a linear prediction filter is used for narrowband interference suppression. We show that once an appropriate matching strategy is identified, the linear prediction filter can provide favorable performance when narrowband interference is present over a considerable range of both interference power and bandwidth. In addition, the presence of the filter dramatically improves the performance over the case where there is no filter, except when the interference bandwidth and the power are both small (i.e., when the processing gain provides sufficient interference immunity without the filter). If long spreading sequences are used with moderately sized observation windows, the acquisition performance can be severely degraded when a parallel acquisition scheme is used due to the linear predication filter. We show, however, that a slower serial receiver will provide reliable performance.This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under contract ONR N00014-91-J-1234, the Army Research Office under contract ARO DAAL03-91-0071, and the NSF Center for Ultra-High Speed Circuits and Systems (ICAS). 相似文献
We present an adaptive video transmission scheme for use in a code-division multiple-access network, which incorporates efficient bandwidth allocation among source coding, channel coding, and spreading under a fixed total bandwidth constraint. We derive the statistics of the received signal, as well as a theoretical bound on the packet drop rate at the receiver. Based on these results, a bandwidth allocation algorithm is proposed at the packet level, which incorporates the effects of both the changing channel conditions and the dynamics of the source content. Detailed simulations are done to evaluate the performance of the system, and the sensitivity of the system to estimation error is presented. 相似文献
This study examines the extent to which variations in consumers' sensory assessments of food arise from the inability to report accurately sensory perceptions, from confusion regarding the criteria by which to assess samples, or from differences in their oral breakdown of the products.
Twenty consumers assessed the tenderness of a range of 8 hot, freshly roasted meat samples using Time Intensity (TI). Overall a significant correlation was found between the maximum recorded intensity (Imax) of their TI curves and single sensory scores given by a trained panel. Correlation was significant for only 42% of the consumers individually. Significant correlations were found between the amount of masticatory muscle activity undertaken during chewing (measured using electromyography) and Imax for all but 2 of the consumers. Thus subjects' perceptions were accurately described by their chewing work, suggesting between subject differences in perception arose from differences in the way chewing work was applied to break down the samples. The sensory input from the masticatory muscles may represent the major determinant of perceived tenderness of meat. 相似文献
The study's objective was to examine whether there is evidence that colonoscopic polypectomy reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer. The records of all patients who underwent colonoscopic polypectomy by a single surgeon between 1974 and 1991 were reviewed. Patients with colorectal cancer diagnosed at the initial colonoscopy, with a history of colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease or familial adenomatous polyposis or with only hyperplastic polyps were excluded. There were 1008 remaining patients, of whom 645 have attended at least one follow-up colonoscopic examination, and these 645 patients from the basis of the study, because the incidence of cancer is known exactly in this group. The mean period of follow up was 4.4 years and the mean number of follow-up colonoscopic examinations was 2.2. There was a total of 2847 person-years of colonoscopic follow up. The expected incidence of cancer, age and sex adjusted, is calculated using Australian epidemiological figures. The observed incidence of cancer was 3 cases (all asymptomatic) per 2847 person-years, which is indistinguishable from the general population's risk of 3.75 cases per 2847 person-years. Analysis of previous publications suggests that patients with adenomas are at an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer of about 2.5 times the general population's risk. If correct, then the observed incidence of 3 cases per 2847 person-years is less than the expected incidence of 9.4 cases per 2847 person-years. This analysis suggests colonoscopic polypectomy does reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer. 相似文献
With the advent of Next Generation Network (NGN), services that are currently provided by multiple specific network-centric
architectures. NGN provides AAA (Anytime, Anywhere and Always on) access to users from different service providers with consistent
and ubiquitous provision of services as necessary. This special issue of NGN includes pervasive, grid, and peer-to-peer computing
to provide computing and communication services at anytime and anywhere. In fact, the application of NGN includes digital
image processing, multimedia systems/services, and so on. Here we focus on the digital image processing technology in NGN
environments. Low-contrast structure and heavy noise in NGN environments can be found in many kinds of digital images, which
makes the images vague and uncertainly, especially in x-ray images. As result, some useful tiny characteristic are weakened—which
are difficult to distinguish even by naked eyes. Based on the combination of no-linear grad-contrast operator and multi-resolution
wavelet analysis, a kind of image enhancement processing algorithm for useful tiny characters is presented. The algorithm
can enhance the tiny characters while confine amplifying noise. The analysis of the results shows that local regions of the
image are enhanced by using the concept of the grad contrast to make image clearer adaptively. Experiments were conducted
on real pictures, and the results show that the algorithm is flexible and convenient. 相似文献
The miscibility of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) and (trifluoroethyl methacrylic ester-MMA) copolymers (MMA-MATRIFE) with poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and VDF copolymers was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) as a function of the fluorinated copolymer crystallinity and fluoroalkyl methacrylic ester content in the methacrylic copolymer. Miscibility limits were found identical whatever be the blend preparation technique, although solution mixing induced some polymer fractionation, thus giving slightly higher blend glass transition temperature. The miscibility domain widths are reduced when using MMA-MATRIFE copolymers as compared to PMMA-containing blends and miscibility limits are dependent on the MATRIFE content in the methacrylic copolymer. Moreover, PVDF or VDF copolymer melting enthalpy decrease is associated to a partial dissolution of the semi-crystalline polymer in PMMA or MMA-MATRIFE copolymer above the total miscibility limit. The evolution of dynamic moduli as a function of blends composition confirms the miscibility limits determined by DSC. The Flory-Huggins interaction parameters were determined through the melting point depression analysis and compared to correlate the intensity of inter- or intra-molecular interactions between the polymers to the postulated ‘acidity’ of hydrogen atoms in various VDF-containing polymers. The interaction parameter χ12 increases with the fluoroalkyl methacrylic ester content, corresponding to a prevalence of intra-molecular on inter-molecular interactions in these blends. Similarly, PVDF offers higher χ12 values as compared to VDF-TFE or particularly to VDF-TrFE copolymers. These results highlight the importance of the nature of fluorinated polymers and of the inter- or intra-molecular character of dipolar interactions on both, copolymer miscibility and interaction parameter values. 相似文献