Flame spread over the surface of thermal insulation materials in different environments

Experiments were conducted in a plateau area in Lhasa and a plain area in Hefei China to investigate the flame spread characteristics on thermal insulation materials under different environmental conditions (pressure and oxygen concentration).Molded polystyrene foam (EPS) and extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) samples were placed horizontally on a small-scale flame spread experimental bench.Changes in the average length of the pool fire,flame spread speed,average flame height,and length of preheating zone were used to determine the effect of the plateau and plain environments on flame spread characteristics.These parameters were all larger in Hefei than in Lhasa,which indicates the fire hazard in Hefei will be higher than that in Lhasa if insulation materials of the same size are used.     

Development of cryogenically-cooled low noise amplifier for mobile base station receivers

A new circuit model for designing and manufacturing an S-band low noise amplifier(LNA) with the software,Advanced Design System(ADS),is introduced in this paper.The proposed model involves shunted impedance at the grid to achieve a stable LNA without measuring the S-parameters of transistors at low temperatures.The LNA was measured over the operation band of 2.2-2.3 GHz,which has input and output standing wave ratios below 1.2.The noise figure of the manufactured LNA was about 0.2 dB and the gain was above 22 dB,which indicated that our LNA worked well at 77 K.     

Effects of sample width on flame spread over horizontal charring solid surfaces on a plateau

Experiments were conducted on the Tibetan Plateau to investigate the effects of sample width (W) on flame spread over horizontal charring solid surfaces. The results show that the rate of spread is influenced by the combined effects of convection heat transfer and flame radiation. Moreover, two different regimes depending on sample width were found in flame spread behavior. The rate of spread decreased with width in the convective regime (W≤3 cm) but increased in the radiative regime (W>3 cm). Similar results were observed in comparative experiments conducted on a plain in Hefei, with the rate of spread reaching its minimum value at W=4 cm rather than 3 cm.     

小鼠四倍体半克隆胚胎发育研究

半克隆(Semi-Cloned)胚胎是通过注射体细胞核到未去核的卵母细胞中产生的。在半克隆胚胎中,体细胞被用来作为精子的替代物。然而,由于异常的染色体分离,构建的半克隆胚胎在激活后形成了非整倍体而导致胚胎发育受到严重影响,不能发育到期。本研究通过抑制小鼠半克隆胚胎在激活过程中染色体数目减半,避免非整倍体胚胎形成,研究四倍体半克隆(TetraploidSemi-cloned,TSC)胚胎的发育和体细胞核的掺入对胚胎发育的影响。结果显示,TSC胚胎的体外发育率显著高于二倍体半克隆胚胎,与正常受精卵及孤雌激活对照无显著性差异,但TSC胚胎的细胞数在桑椹胚和囊胚期比正常二倍体受精胚胎和孤雌激活胚胎少。通过Oct-4染色发现,TSC胚胎囊胚期内细胞团(InnerCellMass,ICM)细胞很少或者没有。移植63个四倍体半克隆胚胎到3只假孕母鼠体内,得到20个胎盘,但没有得到胎儿。组蛋白乙酰化和DNA甲基化检测显示,部分TSC胚胎在囊胚期没有形成正常受精胚胎在ICM和滋养外胚层(Trophectoderm,TE)之间的差异分布。TSC胚胎的基因表达不依赖于细胞分裂次数而依赖于发育时间。虽然TSC胚胎避免了二倍体半克隆胚胎形成非整倍体现象,但由于TSC胚胎没有ICM细胞或ICM细胞很少,所以只能形成胎盘而不能形成胎儿。本实验第一次较为全面地研究了TSC胚胎的发育,同时也为研究体细胞核再程序化、基因打靶技术提供了一种新的途径。     

基于压缩感知思想的图像分块压缩与重构方法

压缩感知理论在数据获取、数据存储/传输、数据分析和处理方面有很大优势,成为近年来的研究热点.考虑到大多数图像信号信息分布有差异,编码端,在对图像分块的基础上,融合熵估计和边缘检测方法计算各图像块的信息含量,再从两个不同的角度进行分类采样:依据信息量多少将图像块分为平滑、过渡和纹理3类,使用不同的采样率采样;依据信息量的分布特征,采用不同的采样率分配策略进行采样.在解码端,根据不同类型的图像块构造不同的线性算子进行重构,再运用改进的迭代阈值算法去除块效应和噪声.实验证明,算法在提升图像重构质量的同时缩短了重构时间,并且对纹理边缘多的图像的重构效果较其他方法理想.     

Development of X-band high temperature superconducting filters

A synthesized design method is proposed to design microstrip band-pass filters. The impact of the box structure to the filter performance is considered besides the structure of microstrip. An X-band high temperature superconducting (HTS) microstrip filter for deep space network is designed using this method. The six-pole microstrip band-pass filter at frequency of 9500 ± 500 MHz is realized using TBCCO HTS thin film grown on 0.5 mm thick LaAlO3 substrate. The filter shows very high rejection of 90 dB in the...     

Development of high-temperature superconducting filters operating at temperatures above 90 K

This paper represents the development of a high temperature superconducting （HTS） filter, the highest operating temperature of which is up to 93 K. The filter is designed for S band with 4% fractional bandwidth and fabricated using thallium-barium-calcium-copper oxide （TI2Ba2CaCu2O8） thin films. At 93 K, the measurements of the filter show that the insertion loss in the passband is less than 0.22 dB, the return loss is better than 20 dB, and the out-of-band rejection is more than 80 dB. The analysis on the characteristics of the filter operating at different temperatures shows that the filter can work well at temperatures around 90 K. The temperature of 93 K is the highest among the previous reports for HTS filters. The result reported in this paper is significant for HTS filters to be used in the field of microwave communication requiring high sensitivity.