The Flynn Effect and U.S. Policies: The Impact of Rising IQ Scores on American Society Via Mental Retardation Diagnoses.

Over the last century, IQ scores have been steadily rising, a phenomenon dubbed the Flynn effect. Because of the Flynn effect, IQ tests are periodically renormed, making them harder. Given that eligibility for mental retardation (MR) services relies heavily on IQ scores, renormed tests could have a significant impact on MR placements. In longitudinal IQ records from 9 sites around the country, students in the borderline and mild MR range lost an average of 5.6 points when retested on a renormed test and were more likely to be classified MR compared with peers retested on the same test. The magnitude of the effect is large and affects national policies on education, social security, the death penalty, and the military. This paper reports the perceptions of professionals as they relate to IQ score fluctuations in normal, borderline, and/or MR populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Determination of gust action stress cycle counts for fatigue checking of line-like steel structures

The classical spectral analysis of structural response to a gusty wind is applied to the prediction of fatigue damage as expressed by the rate of accumulation of Miner's quotient, using the rainflow algorithm to establish stress-range cycle counts. A general solution in chart form is given for the effect of the broad-band (quasi-static) part of the response spectrum, together with an algebraic formulation for its combination with the effect of narrow-band (quasi-resonant) response.A procedure for integration of the long-term expectation of Miner's quotient is indicated. It is concluded that quasi-static response alone is unlikely to pose a serious fatigue problem. With generally anticipated levels of dynamic response, fatigue damage is greatly increased, but can be controlled at acceptable levels by care to avoid features especially sensitive to fatigue.     

FACTORS AFFECTING THE SOIL MICROBIAL QUALITY MEASUREMENTS OF BIOMASS QUOTIENT AND RESPIRATION QUOTIENT

The soil microbial biomass quotient (expressed as a percentage of the total soil organic carbon) and the specific rate of carbon-dioxide production by soil microbes (respiration quotient) are often used as indicators of stress on soil microbial populations. A low biomass quotient or a high respiration quotient is considered to be an indication of stress from, for example, toxicity from metals in sewage sludge applied to soils. These metabolic quotients are affected by a wide variety of other factors such as the biodegradability of soil organic-carbon amendments, plant inputs of organic carbon into soils, natural variations in microbial population sizes with depth, and in the rhizosphere of plants. These variations could be sufficiently large to make interpretation of changes in biomass quotient and respiration quotient, as a response to stress, problematical.     

Heat loss and thermoelectric generator design

With the object of evaluating its importance to thermoelectric generator design, heat loss is introduced into the standard thermoelectric generator design theory. The theory for both the constant hot and cold junction temperatures model and the constant heat input model are so modified. The modification is first order and, therefore, is limited to small leg heat-transfer coefficients. Numerical results using representative properties show that significant differences can exist between the optimum geometry and performance of a generator idealized as lossless and those of a generator designed by the modified theory. The largest differences occur with the constant heat input model.     

临床常见六种脉象信号特征研究

提出以时域特征和模态能量商特征相结合进行脉象信号识别的方法。首先根据脉象信号的波形特征,计算脉象信号的h1,h3,h4,h3/h1,h4/h1,t1,t,k时域特征参数;然后对脉象信号进行EMD分解,计算6种脉象信号的模态能量商。通过临床200例脉象信号的采集和分析计算,获得临床上常见脉象信号的典型时域特征,确定弦脉的模态能量商R1,滑脉、沉脉、细脉、缓脉、平脉的R值依次降低,且R1。实验结果表明:时域特征和模态能量商特征相结合的方法可实现临床常见脉象信号的识别。     

一种适合于复杂电磁环境下短波跳频信号的检测方法

分析短波波段复杂电磁环境下跳频信号检测存在的难点,并根据短波通信信号的特点,提出一种时间、频谱和幅度关联的检测方法,称之为时频幅三维关联法.文章主要结合商空间粒度分析理论,提出改进的覆盖聚类算法,并对截获的海量复杂数据进行预处理,消除了噪声,然后运用时频幅三维关联法,排除定频信号、突发信号等.实验结果说明该方法能够有效地检测出跳频信号,验证了方法的实效性.     

基于商拓扑结构的序列构成和预测

对多变量时间序列进行分析有利于更好地了解各时间序列的特性。根据相关性的时间序列在商空间模型中,可依据信息相关性,该文综合利用多个相关序列提供的信息对其中一个序列进行了预测,通过商空间理论的分解和合成法减小信息不完备产生的影响,从而获得更多准确信息和规则。     

多部图的匹配算法研究

本文给出了一个多部图的商匹配问题的定义,提出了求解多部图商匹配问题的一个算法。该算法使用圈与割集中偶图的交相结合的方法,利用求二部图的最大匹配算法,求解多部图的最大商匹配问题。     

基于属性粒度商空间的本体形式化与检验

针对传统的本体形式化过程中从一个本体层次空间跳转到另一个本体层次空间存在的问题,将粒度计算思想引入本体建模领域,利用属性粒度商空间理论构建本体形式化模型,定义模型的各个部分,在此基础上对基于属性粒度商空间的本体形式化模型进行检验,验证该模型可以较好地满足本体层次之间的跳转及推理关系。     

基于空间纹理相似性的图像角点特征匹配算法

本文针对传统图像角点特征匹配算法的匹配速度慢且准确率低等问题,提出一种基于空间纹理相似性的图像角点特征匹配算法。首先,计算图像目标上角点对应的空间距离矩阵;然后,通过计算图像角点的空间距离矩阵在对应角点邻域LBP特征向量上的瑞利商,将角点在图像灰度特征空间内的度量问题转换为纹理特征空间内幅值的度量问题;最后,根据角点对应的瑞利商的大小,实现不同图像间的角点特征匹配。对不同条件下采集的图像进行角点特征匹配,得到的匹配结果表明本文算法不仅能够很好的适应图像光照、几何变化,得到的匹配正确率较高,同时与传统算法相比本文算法在运行时间上也有大幅度的降低,当处理特征数量较小时平均降低48ms,而匹配特征数量较多时能够降低2408ms。