热等静压技术的发展及应用

在介绍热等静压技术和设备发展的基础上，对其在提高铸件质量以及拓展高速钢、双炼钢和超级双炼钢、高性能陶瓷等新型材料应用领域方面的作用，进行了较全面的阐述。并预计，因热等静压技术所具有的优势，在今后几年其应用增长可达到每年递增15％-20％的水平，且随着其在铝加工工艺中应用的拓展，年增长率可望达到25％。     

Structural features of an arabinan fragment isolated from the water-soluble fraction of dehulled rapeseed

A water-soluble polysaccharide fraction was prepared from dehulled rapeseed meal (winter rapeseed variety Casino). Further purification yielded two major fractions having a high content of arabinose and galactose residues, with Ara/Gal ratios of 5.4 (G1) and 1.8 (G2). The Ara/Gal ratio of the high molecular weight fraction G1 was stable over the whole gel filtration peak, indicating that the arabinose and galactose residues are part of the same polysaccharide. The high molecular weight fraction G1 was studied further by methylation analysis and several NMR techniques. Structural studies showed G1 to consist mainly of arabian fragments, which have terminal alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl groups with anomeric carbons bound (1-->5) (A) or (1-->2) (B), and 2,5-substituted arabinosyl residues with anomeric carbons bound (1-->5) (D) or (1-->2) (C) to adjacent arabinosyl residues. The A:B:C:D ratios were 2:1:1:1 according to results from NMR and methylation analysis.     

Out-of-Field Hippocampus from Partial-Body Irradiated Mice Displays Changes in Multi-Omics Profile and Defects in Neurogenesis

The brain undergoes ionizing radiation exposure in many clinical situations, particularly during radiotherapy for brain tumors. The critical role of the hippocampus in the pathogenesis of radiation-induced neurocognitive dysfunction is well recognized. The goal of this study is to test the potential contribution of non-targeted effects in the detrimental response of the hippocampus to irradiation and to elucidate the mechanisms involved. C57Bl/6 mice were whole body (WBI) or partial body (PBI) irradiated with 0.1 or 2.0 Gy of X-rays or sham irradiated. PBI consisted of the exposure of the lower third of the mouse body, whilst the upper two thirds were shielded. Hippocampi were collected 15 days or 6 months post-irradiation and a multi-omics approach was adopted to assess the molecular changes in non-coding RNAs, proteins and metabolic levels, as well as histological changes in the rate of hippocampal neurogenesis. Notably, at 2.0 Gy the pattern of early molecular and histopathological changes induced in the hippocampus at 15 days following PBI were similar in quality and quantity to the effects induced by WBI, thus providing a proof of principle of the existence of out-of-target radiation response in the hippocampus of conventional mice. We detected major alterations in DAG/IP3 and TGF-β signaling pathways as well as in the expression of proteins involved in the regulation of long-term neuronal synaptic plasticity and synapse organization, coupled with defects in neural stem cells self-renewal in the hippocampal dentate gyrus. However, compared to the persistence of the WBI effects, most of the PBI effects were only transient and tended to decrease at 6 months post-irradiation, indicating important mechanistic difference. On the contrary, at low dose we identified a progressive accumulation of molecular defects that tended to manifest at later post-irradiation times. These data, indicating that both targeted and non-targeted radiation effects might contribute to the pathogenesis of hippocampal radiation-damage, have general implications for human health.     

Hydrogenation of Citral Over a Polymer Fibre Catalyst

A polymer-supported Pd catalyst was investigated in hydrogenation of citral (3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal), which is a stereoisomer with an isolated and a conjugated double bond as well as a carbonyl group. The catalyst was a fibrous polymer-supported catalyst modified with functional groups and immobilized metals. A comparison of the polymer-supported catalyst with conventional catalysts was made.     

Modeling War as a Business Process with the Assistance of Service Oriented Architecture

The pace of war is increasing since militaries are adopting the ideas of NCW （network centric warfare）. Therefore, the process of war has to be modeled into the BP （business process） in order to benefit from available resources in real-time. There is an increasing need to automate command and control tools utilized in military operations because of the versatility and increase d tempo of operations. Operations can be commanded and orchestrated with the assistance of SOA （service oriented architecture）. SOA is currently seen as a technology that can satisfy these needs of NCO （network centric operations）. The BPs are chains of logic that request SOA services. This paper argues that in the case of a military setting, in order to achieve maximum impact with minimal effort （cf. downsizing）, military operations need to be modeled as BPs （e.g., a dismounted company attack）. This asks for using a RM （resource manager）, a scheduler and a BSS （battle secure scheduler） in allocating the requested services （e.g., processing a fire support order）. In the future, a single FFW （future force warrior）, an essential performer in military operations, can benefit from the BPs approach via enhanced performance, improved SA （situational awareness） and with decreased instances of fratricide. This introduced model examines war as a business process with the assistance of SOA and discusses how a business process--like orchestration of systems and services can improve the overall performance in given military settings.     

Increasing profit by improving gas handling systems

The availability of a smelter’s gas handling systems is crucial to the profitability of the plant. In new projects, the best technical and economic result is achieved if the gas handling systems are integrated into the process. This integration requires close cooperation between the smelter process designer and the gas handling designer. In modernization projects, environmentally, economically, and technically feasible solutions can be found, and smelter productivity can be increased when imagination and new technology are applied.     

Physical Violence Detection Based on Distributed Surveillance Cameras

Mobile Networks and Applications - In recent years, physical violence detection has become a research hotspot in the area of human activity recognition. With the improvement and full coverage of...     

Animating with style: defining expressive semantics of motion

Actions performed by a virtual character can be controlled with verbal commands such as ‘walk five steps forward’. Similar control of the motion style, meaning how the actions are performed, is complicated by the ambiguity of describing individual motions with phrases such as ‘aggressive walking’. In this paper, we present a method for controlling motion style with relative commands such as ‘do the same, but more sadly’. Based on acted example motions, comparative annotations, and a set of calculated motion features, relative styles can be defined as vectors in the feature space. We present a new method for creating these style vectors by finding out which features are essential for a style to be perceived and eliminating those that show only incidental correlations with the style. We show with a user study that our feature selection procedure is more accurate than earlier methods for creating style vectors, and that the style definitions generalize across different actors and annotators. We also present a tool enabling interactive control of parametric motion synthesis by verbal commands. As the control method is independent from the generation of motion, it can be applied to virtually any parametric synthesis method.     

Training linear ranking SVMs in linearithmic time using red-black trees

We introduce an efficient method for training the linear ranking support vector machine. The method combines cutting plane optimization with red-black tree based approach to subgradient calculations, and has O(ms + mlog (m)) time complexity, where m is the number of training examples, and s the average number of non-zero features per example. Best previously known training algorithms achieve the same efficiency only for restricted special cases, whereas the proposed approach allows any real valued utility scores in the training data. Experiments demonstrate the superior scalability of the proposed approach, when compared to the fastest existing RankSVM implementations.     

Expert system for open-loop power control of wireless local area networks

This paper considers an embedded fuzzy expert system for non-feedback uplink power control of wireless local area networks (WLANs). The main idea is to minimize the transmission power of the nodes while keeping the transmission errors at an acceptable level. In the developed method, receivers collect signal strength values which are used by the control systems to define an acceptable transmission power level. The functionality of the proposed solution is demonstrated with simulations, which prove that the use of the expert system to open-loop systems can significantly decrease transmission power, increase energy efficiency and decrease interference to adjacent access points and associated nodes.