Utilizing sensor data to model students’ creativity in a digital environment

While creativity is essential for developing students’ broad expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, many students struggle with various aspects of being creative. Digital technologies have the unique opportunity to support the creative process by (1) recognizing elements of students’ creativity, such as when creativity is lacking (modeling step), and (2) providing tailored scaffolding based on that information (intervention step). However, to date little work exists on either of these aspects. Here, we focus on the modeling step. Specifically, we explore the utility of various sensing devices, including an eye tracker, a skin conductance bracelet, and an EEG sensor, for modeling creativity during an educational activity, namely geometry proof generation. We found reliable differences in sensor features characterizing low vs. high creativity students. We then applied machine learning to build classifiers that achieved good accuracy in distinguishing these two student groups, providing evidence that sensor features are valuable for modeling creativity.     

Thermal conductance measurements of bolted copper to copper joints at sub-Kelvin temperatures

We have measured the thermal contact conductance of several demountable copper joints below 1 K. Joints were made by bolting together either two flat surfaces or a clamp around a rod. Surfaces were gold plated, and no intermediate materials were used. A linear dependence on temperature was seen. Most of the measured conductance values fell into a narrow range: 0.1-0.2 W K⁻¹ at 1 K. Results in the literature for similar joints consist of predictions based on electrical resistance measurements using the Wiedemann-Franz law. There is little evidence of the validity of this law in the case of joints. Nevertheless, our results are in good agreement with the literature predictions, suggesting that such predictions are a reasonable approximation.     

酸化返出液中分离出的原油脱水时电脱水器跳闸原因及对策

海上油井酸化后,油井返排液沉降分离得到含酸原油,后者进入电脱水器后常引起电脱水器跳闸。其原因是含酸原油(油包水型乳状液)的电导率过高,超过了电脱水器的安全工作电导率κw。对于现场所用的电脱水器,由设计参数计算出κw=0.43μS/cm。从某海上油田3口油井酸化后不同时间的返排液共取样40份,随机选出13份,沉降分离后得到13份含酸原油样,测得电导率范围在0.03～10000μS/cm。认为原油的含水率(应<18%)不是引起跳闸的原因,跳闸的主因是含酸原油的高电导率。研制了一种油溶性的碱性添加剂,其化学成份是碱金属、碱土金属氧化物或氢氧化物,以浓溶液形式加入含酸原油中,可使电导率降至κw以下。加入量由实验确定。表2参2。     

Children's Physiological Indices of Empathy and Their Socioemotional Adjustment: Does Caregivers' Expressivity Matter?

Relations of heart rate and skin conductance reactions to mildly evocative empathy-inducing slides with socioemotional functioning were examined for 154 children (mean age = 9 years, 5 months). In addition, maternal expressivity was tested as a moderator of these relations. Parents and teachers rated children's socioemotional functioning, and a behavioral measure of children's regulation was obtained. Boys who exhibited higher skin conductance and higher heart rate to slides depicting negative emotions were better regulated, less emotionally intense, and better adjusted than their peers. Furthermore, boys' regulation and adjustment were positively related to such physiological responding to negative slides if maternal negative expressivity was relatively low or moderate, but not high. Fewer findings were obtained for girls or for positive slides. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Transport properties in a mixed inorganic ion exchanger—zirconium phosphomolybdate—in comparison to its single salt counterparts

Amorphous inorganic ion exchangers zirconium phosphate, zirconium molybdate and zirconium phosphomolybdate have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, TGA, FTIR and surface area measurements. The protonic conductivity in these materials were determined at various temperatures and compared. It was found that the mixed material zirconium phosphomolybdate showed maximum conductivity at all temperatures.     

NiMnFeO_4的制备与性能研究

采用 (NH4) 2 C2 O4为沉淀剂 ,基于共沉淀法制备了NiMnFeO4NTC热敏陶瓷 ,用TG、XRD、SEM、电导率测量等方法对前驱体、氧化物粉体及NTC陶瓷样品的进行了表征。结果表明 ,用此种方法制备的NTC陶瓷 ,其结构均匀、致密 ;烧结后经随炉冷却的样品 ,在 15 0℃老化 10 0 0h后 ,电阻漂移小于 1% ;而在 115 0℃下淬火的样品在同样的条件下 ,电阻漂移大于 4 %。     

铁电薄膜存储器底电极Pt/Ti的制备及性能研究

应用射频磁控溅射方法 ,在Si基片上采用不同的溅射工艺制备了铁电薄膜底电极Pt/Ti,并分析了在不同温度下退火后材料的电导率性能和粘结力性能 ,从理论和实验上分析了不同的溅射工艺和退火处理对底电极性能的影响。     

对苯二酚-甲醛有机气凝胶的结构测试及性能研究

首次用溶胶-凝胶法和CO2超临界干燥技术制备了对苯二酚-甲醛有机气凝胶,并经高温碳化处理得到其碳气凝胶,测得气凝胶的比表面积由碳化前的375.28 M2/G增大到碳化后的468.66 M2/G,碳气凝胶的孔径集中分布在15NM以内。观察到其表观形貌,以及碳气凝胶中存在微晶结构。研究了不同反应物配比对凝胶性能的影响,并发现碳气凝胶具有良好导电性。     

单周控制光伏并网系统的最大功率控制研究

单周控制的单级全桥光伏并网系统具有容量大、效率高、成本低等优点.但现有基于单周控制的光伏电池最大功率跟踪存在着难以搜索最大功率点、难以稳定工作在最大功率点以及搜索精度差等缺点.针对以上不足,提出了基于增量电导的光伏电池最大功率跟踪算法,该算法将光伏电池输出功率引入到单周控制的输入量中,同时优化了光伏电池输出电压的给定量.该算法在硬件上实现简单,仿真和实验结果表明该算法能够准确跟踪光伏电池最大功率点,并具有较高的精度和稳定性.     

水平矩形管内气液两相流界面波特性

<正>气液两相流中界面波的存在对传热、传质、阻力特性及稳定性都有很大影响。前人有关界面波的研究大多偏重于两相流中界面波的类型及其转变,而对其特征参数变化规律(如振幅、波长、频率和速度等)的研究则很少。但界面波对气液两相流流动阻力和流动结构影响机理的深入研究必须以了解界面波的各特性参数为前提,同时界面波有关特性参数的深入研究也可为气液两相流的数学理论化提供实验基础。 本文以气、水为工质,系统研究了水平矩形管内气液两相流的界面波特性。根据界面波在时域、幅域内的不同特征区别出了各种类型的波并给出了相应的波形和流型图。着重研究了界面波各特征量随气液两相流量变化的变化规律。