On the uniqueness of some helical flows of a second grade fluid

Summary The uniqueness of some helical flows of a second grade fluid, between two infinite circular cylinders, is proved. Initially, the fluid is at rest and flow is produced by the motion of the cylinders. Finally, the special case of a flow in a circular cylinder is considered.     

Thermal degradation of cinnamoylated poly(vinyl alcohol)

Thermogravimetry and pyrolysis in combination with gas chromatography and infrared spectroscopy were the experimental techniques applied to the thermal degradation of cinnamoylated poly(vinyl alcohol) samples, constituted from vinyl alcohol-vinyl cinnamate photocrosslinkable copolymers. The thermal decomposition products include gases, liquids and solids. The gases are formed from saturated and unsaturated volatile hydrocarbons C₁? C₄, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The liquid fraction includes aromatic hydrocarbons and some oxygenated organic compounds. The solid product identified in the greatest amount was cinnamic acid. The content in the thermal decomposition products varies considerably both with copolymer composition and temperature.     

Heat transfer at spherical thin film solidification

Summary A mathematical model for the solidification process of a melted film coating a spherical particle plunged in an immobile fluid is presented. This model may be used in order to determine temperature distribution in the vicinity of the particle. The results obtained using a melted sulphur thin film cooled with air are consistent with the data available in literature.     

Well-Known and Novel Serum Biomarkers for Risk Stratification of Patients with Non-ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy encompasses a wide spectrum of myocardial disorders, characterized by left ventricular dilatation with systolic impairment and increased risk of sudden cardiac death. In spite of all the therapeutic progress that has been made in recent years, dilated cardiomyopathy continues to be an important cause of cardiac transplant, being associated with an enormous cost burden for health care systems worldwide. Predicting the prognosis of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy is essential to individualize treatment. Late gadolinium enhancement-cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, microvolt T-wave alternans, and genetic testing have emerged as powerful tools in predicting sudden cardiac death occurrence and maximizing patient’s selection. Despite all these new diagnostic modalities, additional tests to complement or replace current tools are required for better risk stratification. Therefore, biomarkers are an easy and important tool that can help to detect patients at risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Additionally, identifying potential biomarkers involved in dilated cardiomyopathy can provide us important information regarding the diagnostic, prognostic, risk stratification, and response to treatment for these patients. Many potential biomarkers have been studied in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, but only a few have been adopted in current practice. Therefore, the aim of our review is to provide the clinicians with an update on the well-known and novel biomarkers that can be useful for risk stratification of patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.     

充填浮选柱捕集区气含率的试验研究

通过冷模试验方法考察了充填浮选柱捕集区的气含率，经试验数据回归分析，气含率εｇ＝０．０９６Ｊｇ０．９１（Ｈｃ／Ｄ）－０．１８。并结合漂移通量的理论，确定充填浮选柱的捕集区为近似均匀鼓泡流。     

Effect of the use of mineral filler on the properties of concrete

Engineers of the concrete technology are increasingly concerned with the material passing through a sieve of the size under 0.149 mm. Materials called very fine aggregate or mineral filler may affect the performance of concrete in an either positive or a negative way. Discussions on aggregate containing very fine material are vitally important. Washing the aggregate residue has been the sole way to solve this matter to date. This is mainly based on the debatable opinion that materials of this kind are regarded as clay material. The goal of the study was to determine how the content of mineral filler might affect properties of concrete. Two types of aggregates with different amounts of cement and mineral filler were used. Basically, mineral filler replaced sand. The effect of applying different amounts of mineral filler on concrete was then determined. The addition of 7-10% of mineral filler to fine aggregate (0-2 mm) was found to considerably improve the properties of concrete.     

用新型碳分子筛分析永久气体

本文介绍一种新型气相色谱固定相——碳分子筛(KMS),其最大的优点是在常温下,单柱即可同时分离分析H_2、O_2、N_2、CO、CH_4、CO_2六种混合气体,柱子的保留值重现性好,峰形对称,柱效高。本文求得了在H_2和Ar作载气时KMS对上述六种气体的定性定量特性,配气的定量结果总的平均相对误差为3.67％。同时这种碳分子筛原料易得,制作简单,成本便宜。     

Two CEGAR-based approaches for the safety verification of PLC-controlled plants

In this paper we address the safety analysis of chemical plants controlled by programmable logic controllers (PLCs). We consider a specification of the control program of the PLCs, extended with the specification of the dynamic plant behavior. The resulting hybrid models can be transformed to hybrid automata, for which advanced techniques for reachability analysis exist. However, the hybrid automata models are often too large to be analyzed. We propose two counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) approaches to keep the size of the hybrid models moderate.     

Limitations of a Mapping Algorithm with Fragmentation Mimics (MAFM) when modeling statistical data sources based on measured packet network traffic

Knowing the estimation of a statistical process’s parameters for measured network traffic is very important as it can then be further used for the statistical analyses and modeling of network traffic in simulation tools. It is for this reason that different estimation methods are proposed that allow estimations of the statistical processes of network traffic. One of them is our own histograms comparison (EMHC) based method that can be used to estimate statistical data-length process parameters from measured packet traffic. The main part of EMHC method is Mapping Algorithm with Fragmentation Mimics (MAFM).     

一种基于人工免疫技术的存储异常检测系统

绝大部分认证子系统无法保证账户的真实性,它会将冒用盗窃账户的入侵者视为‘合法’用户。为了过滤这类非法用户,存储安全子系统必须进行访问行为诊断。为了增强存储预警能力,提出一种基于人工免疫的异常检测方案来监控用户的访问行为。若一个访问请求违反了访问控制规则,它就被视为‘异己’,从而给存储安全子系统提供一些警告提示。本方案(Storage Anomaly Detection System,SADS)针对存储层的入侵检测,并关注读/写数据请求,同时与网络入侵检测系统协同构筑了两层检测体系。仿真结果显示,SADS能达到相当高的检测率和较低的误警率,验证了方案可行性。而开销测试表明,SADS子模块的时间开销是可接受的(如对3MB的数据,其开销控制在11.6%以内)。