Calcium phosphates grown on bacterial cellulose template

Bacterial cellulose membranes were employed as templates for calcium phosphates deposition by successive immersion in solutions of Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O and (NH₄)₂HPO₄, under ultrasonication. During the wet chemical reaction, mineral phases were loaded on bacterial cellulose fibrils, leading to precursor hybrid composites. These were subjected to a lyophilisation procedure in order to preserve the 3D porous aspect and afterwards to a thermal treatment with the aim of removing the polymeric phase and generating well crystallized structures. Different types of morphologies were achieved by varying the heating rate, as well as the calcination temperature and period. The as-prepared samples and the final ones were investigated from compositional and structural point of view through X-ray diffraction and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and morphologically concerning by scanning electron microscopy. The magnetic properties were also evaluated in order to demonstrate the suitability of the obtained materials for the development of magnetic scaffolds dedicated to hard tissue applications.     

A simplified expression for the hard-sphere dimer fluid radial distribution function

Recently, in our laboratory a closed form expression for the correlation function of the hard-sphere dimer fluid obtained from Wertheims multidensity Ornstein-Zernike integral equation theory with Percus-Yevick approximation was presented by Kim et al. [2001]. However, it is difficult to apply its expression to perturbation theory and vapor-liquid equilibria calculations, since it is of very complex form. In this work, we present a simplified expression for the first shell of the radial distribution function (RDF) of the hard-sphere dimer fluid using a series expansion of the analytical expression. The expansion is carried out in terms of both the packing fraction and the radial distance. Expressions are also obtained for the coordination number and its first and second derivatives as functions of radial distance and packing fraction. These expressions, which are useful in perturbation theory, are simpler to use than those obtained from the starting equation, while giving good agreement with the original expression results. Then we present an simplified equation of state for the square-well dimer fluid of variable well width (λ) based on Barker-Henderson perturbation theory using its expression for the radial distribution function of the hard-sphere dimer fluid, and test its expression with NVT and Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation data [Kim et al., 2001].     

Numerical simulation of slider dynamics during slider–disk contact

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of pico slider in contact with the disk was calculated. The analysis model consists of a simplified suspension model, an air bearing model, and a slider–disk contact model. The contact model consists of two elements. One is surface roughness model measured by Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and the other is micro-waviness model. The dynamic behaviors of the tri-pad slider are calculated at several rotation speeds to investigate slider vibration modes during slider–disk contact. The slider oscillation frequency depends on the rotation speed and it saturates about twice as much as eigen frequency of air bearing pitch mode.     

原木板材的窑式干燥

本文综述了canterbury大学近年来关于新西兰木材窑式干燥的研究。有些硬木单纯窑式干燥是困难的,但利用太阳能窑式风干则有可能;轮回操作可以减小干燥应力从而减小产品性能的退化程度。种植生产为主的软木干燥较容易,从经济考虑应采用高温干燥,以减少干燥时间。高温操作时对流传递显得相当重要。实验表明,当空气流过板面时,不同点处的传质系数有显著差异。湿分在木板中移动的模型可假定为:随着干燥进行蒸发面向中心退缩。但心材和边材的行为有所不同:边材中的水份可在相邻脉管间迁移,但在心材中则不可能。正是这种差异导致干燥时间和干燥温度曲线不同。     

沥青基高比表面积活性碳的物理及化学结构

本文用ＡＳＡＰ２０００吸附仪测定了吸附性能优异的沥青基高比表面积新型活性碳（ＰＨＡＣ）的ＢＥＴ比表面积、用ＢＪＨ和ＤＲＳ法分析了其孔隙结构参数，用ＸＰＳ测定了ＰＨＡＣ的表面元素组成及含氧官能团，对ＰＨＡＣ的表面形态结构进行了ＳＥＭ和ＴＥＭ观察。研究表明：ＰＨＡＣ具有高度发达且均匀的微孔结构，其表面含有一定量的Ｃ－Ｏ－Ｃ、Ｃ－ＯＨ、Ｃ＝Ｏ、Ｏ＝Ｃ－Ｏ等多种类型的含氧官能团。     

全国计算机等级考试上机考试的实践与思考

从系统管理员的角度出发,对全国计算机等级考试上机考试进行探讨和分析。提出一套上机考试系统环境的配置方法,对考试中出现的常见问题进行分析、提供对策。     

不同防毒技术在计算机实验室的比较研究

详细介绍杀毒软件技术和还原保护技术的特点及发展现状．从投入成本、软件系统资源占用率、功能稳定性、数据恢复效率和部署简易性等方面,对两类技术在计算机实验室内应用的适应性展开比较研究,得出还原保护技术更适合在实验室内得到大规模应用这一结论,指出它在病毒防护工作中的不足和仍需补充研究的方向。     

Comparing ANN and GMM in a voice conversion framework

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) for design of voice conversion system using line spectral frequencies (LSFs) as feature vectors. Both the ANN and GMM based models are explored to capture nonlinear mapping functions for modifying the vocal tract characteristics of a source speaker according to a desired target speaker. The LSFs are used to represent the vocal tract transfer function of a particular speaker. Mapping of the intonation patterns (pitch contour) is carried out using a codebook based model at segmental level. The energy profile of the signal is modified using a fixed scaling factor defined between the source and target speakers at the segmental level. Two different methods for residual modification such as residual copying and residual selection methods are used to generate the target residual signal. The performance of ANN and GMM based voice conversion (VC) system are conducted using subjective and objective measures. The results indicate that the proposed ANN-based model using LSFs feature set may be used as an alternative to state-of-the-art GMM-based models used to design a voice conversion system.     

生产过程中的小波阈值信号去噪方法

在工业生产过程中,由于设备所收集到的混合信号中包含大量的背景噪声信号,而这些背景噪声信号会影响到异响有用信号的提取。因此,为对收集的信号进行消噪,提出了小波阈值去噪中估计小波系数的软阈值和硬阈值方法,结合硬阈值和软阈值方法各自的特点,采用了几种改进的方案,分别是多项式插值法,软、硬阈值折衷法和模平方处理方法。最后给出了数值试验,结果说明,改进的小波阈值方法都得到了较好的去噪效果,为工业生产过程优化信号提取提供了依据。