Household energy consumption versus income and relative standard of living: A panel approach

Our fundamental premise is that energy consumption at the household level is a key indicator of standard of living. We employ state-of-the-art panel cointegration techniques to evaluate the nature of the relationship between income measures and energy consumption measures for seven East Indian Ocean countries. The general finding is that income and household electricity consumption are not cointegrated. Given this finding, we conclude that standard of living measures that rely on income measures and do not include household-level energy consumption information will necessarily miss important indications of both levels and changes of standard of living.     

K0.9Li0.1（Ta0.5Nb0.5）O3晶体压电应变系数的测量

用准静态ｄ＿（３３）测量仪和干涉法相结合。测量了Ｋ＿（０．９）Ｌｉ＿（０．１）（Ｔａ＿（０．５）Ｎｂ＿（０．５）Ｎｂ＿（０．５））Ｏ＿３晶体的压电应变系数。结果为：ｄ＿（３３）＝８６．０，ｄ＿（３３）＝一２９．５，ｄ＿（１５）＝１１２．９×１０￣（－１２）Ｃ／Ｎ．     

33m跨钢管屋架吊装施工

33m跨钢管屋架吊装工程由于准备充分、方案科学、组织工作到位 ,在短时间内吊装成功     

33UH高矫顽力烧结NdFeB材料的制备

针对永磁电机对磁钢的特殊要求，通过采用重稀土取代轻烯土，减少氧含量且低温长时间细晶粒液相烧结技术制备33UH高矫顽力烧结NdFeB材料，经测试其静态性能指标同时达到Br≥1.15T(11.5kG),Hcj≥200kA/m(25.0kOe),(BH)max≥256kJ/m^3(32MGOe).     

Proinflammatory Interleukin-33 Induces Dichotomic Effects on Cell Proliferation in Normal Gastric Epithelium and Gastric Cancer

Interleukin (IL)-33 is a member of the interleukin (IL)-1 family of cytokines linked to the development of inflammatory conditions and cancer in the gastrointestinal tract. This study is designed to investigate whether IL-33 has a direct effect on human gastric epithelial cells (GES-1), the human gastric adenocarcinoma cell line (AGS), and the gastric carcinoma cell line (NCI-N87) by assessing its role in the regulation of cell proliferation, migration, cell cycle, and apoptosis. Cell cycle regulation was also determined in ex vivo gastric cancer samples obtained during endoscopy and surgical procedures. Cell lines and tissue samples underwent stimulation with rhIL-33. Proliferation was assessed by XTT and CFSE assays, migration by wound healing assay, and apoptosis by caspase 3/7 activity assay and annexin V assay. Cell cycle was analyzed by means of propidium iodine assay, and gene expression regulation was assessed by RT-PCR profiling. We found that IL-33 has an antiproliferative and proapoptotic effect on cancer cell lines, and it can stimulate proliferation and reduce apoptosis in normal epithelial cell lines. These effects were also confirmed by the analysis of cell cycle gene expression, which showed a reduced expression of pro-proliferative genes in cancer cells, particularly in genes involved in G0/G1 and G2/M checkpoints. These results were confirmed by gene expression analysis on bioptic and surgical specimens. The aforementioned results indicate that IL-33 may be involved in cell proliferation in an environment- and cell-type-dependent manner.     

挤压后硼酸铝晶须增强铝复合材料表面的腐蚀特征

利用原于力显微镜观察了挤压态Al18B4O33 w／pure Al复合材料早期腐蚀过程中表面形貌的变化特征．研究了沿与挤压方向成不同角度截取的Al18B4O33 w／pure Al复合材料在3．5％NaCl溶液中的腐蚀规律．结果表明：晶须与基体的界面是腐蚀易于发生的地方．点蚀首先在晶须的端部产生，随后沿着晶须与基体的界面扩展．挤压后沿与挤压方向成不同角度截取的Al18B4O33 w／pure Al复合材料表面腐蚀坑的深度存在差别．     

硼酸铝晶须的试验研究

利用固体粉末法在不同的加热温度制备出硼酸铝晶须。ＳＥＭ分析其形貌，ＴＥＭ确定其结构，并对晶须形成机理和影响因素进行了研究。     

A high quality and small shadow size visual secret sharing scheme based on hybrid strategy for grayscale images

Many secret sharing schemes for digital images have been developed in recent decades. Traditional schemes typically must deal with the problem of computational complexity, and other visual secret sharing schemes come with a higher transmission cost and storage cost; that is, each shadow size is m times as big as the original secret image. The new (2,n) secret sharing scheme for grayscale images proposed in this paper is based a combination of acceptable image quality using block truncation coding (BTC), high compression ratio discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and good subjective performance of the vector quantization (VQ) technique. Experimental results confirm that our proposed scheme not only generates a high quality reconstructed original image but also generates small, random-like grayscale shadows.     

On the decoding of binary cyclic codes with the Newton identities

We revisit in this paper the concept of decoding binary cyclic codes with Gröbner bases. These ideas were first introduced by Cooper, then Chen, Reed, Helleseth and Truong, and eventually by Orsini and Sala. We discuss here another way of putting the decoding problem into equations: the Newton identities. Although these identities have been extensively used for decoding, the work was done manually, to provide formulas for the coefficients of the locator polynomial. This was achieved by Reed, Chen, Truong and others in a long series of papers, for decoding quadratic residue codes, on a case-by-case basis. It is tempting to automate these computations, using elimination theory and Gröbner bases.Thus, we study in this paper the properties of the system defined by the Newton identities, for decoding binary cyclic codes. This is done in two steps, first we prove some facts about the variety associated with this system, then we prove that the ideal itself contains relevant equations for decoding, which lead to formulas.Then we consider the so-called online Gröbner basis decoding, where the work of computing a Gröbner basis is done for each received word. It is much more efficient for practical purposes than preprocessing and substituting into the formulas. Finally, we conclude with some computational results, for codes of interesting length (about one hundred).     

Stabilizing composite control for a class of linear systems modeled by singularly perturbed Ito differential equations

In this paper, the problem of robust H_∞ control is investigated for sampled-data systems with probabilistic sampling. The parameter uncertainties are time-varying norm-bounded and appear in both the state and input matrices. For the simplicity of technical development, only two different sampling periods are considered whose occurrence probabilities are given constants and satisfy Bernoulli distribution, which can be further extended to the case with multiple stochastic sampling periods. By applying an input delay approach, the probabilistic sampling system is transformed into a continuous time-delay system with stochastic parameters in the system matrices. By linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach, sufficient conditions are obtained, which guarantee the robust mean-square exponential stability of the system with an H_∞ performance. Moreover, an H_∞ controller design procedure is then proposed. An illustrative example is included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.