Aristotle Said “Happiness is a State of Activity” — Predicting Mood Through Body Sensing with Smartwatches

We measure and predict states of Activation and Happiness using a body sensing application connected to smartwatches. Through the sensors of commercially available smartwatches we collect individual mood states and correlate them with body sensing data such as acceleration, heart rate, light level data, and location, through the GPS sensor built into the smartphone connected to the smartwatch. We polled users on the smartwatch for seven weeks four times per day asking for their mood state. We found that both Happiness and Activation are negatively correlated with heart beats and with the levels of light. People tend to be happier when they are moving more intensely and are feeling less activated during weekends. We also found that people with a lower Conscientiousness and Neuroticism and higher Agreeableness tend to be happy more frequently. In addition, more Activation can be predicted by lower Openness to experience and higher Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Lastly, we find that tracking people’s geographical coordinates might play an important role in predicting Happiness and Activation. The methodology we propose is a first step towards building an automated mood tracking system, to be used for better teamwork and in combination with social network analysis studies.     

水溶性La_(0.88)Sr_(0.12)MnO_3纳米粒子的非水相合成

采用纳米微乳液法,以三嵌段共聚物聚氧乙烯-聚氧丙烯-聚氧乙烯(PEO-PPO-PEO)为表面活性剂,乙酰丙酮镧(III),乙酰丙酮锰(III)和乙酰丙酮锶(II)为前驱体,1,2-十六烷二醇为还原剂成功合成了水溶性La0.88Sr0.12MnO3纳米粒子.FT-IR分析证实该纳米粒子表面存在PEO-PPO-PEO分子,XRD和TEM分析表明该纳米粒子基本上呈球形、粒径分布窄、结晶度高,VSM测试表明该纳米粒子室温下显示软铁磁性.纳米粒子在水中快速和高效的分散收集过程,表明该纳米粒子具有良好的水溶性和磁操控性.     

Early SIV and HIV infection promotes the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis in cDCs

Classical dendritic cells (cDCs) play a pivotal role in the early events that tip the immune response toward persistence or viral control. In vitro studies indicate that HIV infection induces the dysregulation of cDCs through binding of the LILRB2 inhibitory receptor to its MHC-I ligands and the strength of this interaction was proposed to drive disease progression. However, the dynamics of the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis in cDCs during early immune responses against HIV are yet unknown. Here, we show that early HIV-1 infection induces a strong and simultaneous increase of LILRB2 and MHC-I expression on the surface of blood cDCs. We further characterized the early dynamics of LILRB2 and MHC-I expression by showing that SIVmac251 infection of macaques promotes coordinated up-regulation of LILRB2 and MHC-I on cDCs and monocytes/macrophages, from blood and lymph nodes. Orientation towards the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis starts from the first days of infection and is transiently induced in the entire cDC population in acute phase. Analysis of the factors involved indicates that HIV-1 replication, TLR7/8 triggering, and treatment by IL-10 or type I IFNs increase LILRB2 expression. Finally, enhancement of the LILRB2/MHC-I inhibitory axis is specific to HIV-1 and SIVmac251 infections, as expression of LILRB2 on cDCs decreased in naturally controlled chikungunya virus infection of macaques. Altogether, our data reveal a unique up-regulation of LILRB2 and its MHC-I ligands on cDCs in the early phase of SIV/HIV infection, which may account for immune dysregulation at a critical stage of the anti-viral response.     

文化线路遗产旅游体验影响因素研究——以丝绸之路为例

通过文献分析法以及访谈法拟定和选取了文化线路遗产旅游体验测评的潜变量和相应的测量变量,并基于陕西,甘肃两地丝绸之路世界遗址点景区的游客调研数据对丝绸之路文化线路遗产旅游体验评价维度进行验证性因子分析,构建了丝绸之路旅游体验影响因素的二阶五因素结构模型。结果显示:影响丝绸之路文化线路遗产旅游体验的因素并非是由资源主导,而是综合因素共同导向;遗产地旅游设施服务水平、遗产资源品质、遗产解说、活动参与感知以及遗产地环境氛围均显著影响旅游者体验质量,且以旅游设施服务能力的影响程度最大。     

一种新型的烟片复烤机加湿方法

传统KG型烟片复烤机加湿效果差,加湿喷嘴容易堵塞与损坏,回潮效率低,回潮区温度超标,严重浪费蒸汽与水.采用新型气水二流体雾化喷嘴,在喷孔外端加装调节帽,实现二次雾化.回潮效果明显提高(达到4%以上),回潮区温度可控制在70℃左右,节约蒸汽30%以上.     

两种改进的非线性方程组四阶迭代求解法

文章基于两点Gauss型求积公式,分别结合梯形积分公式和Adomian分解法构造了两种牛顿型迭代格式.借助泰勒展开式,文章证明了这两种迭代格式都具有四阶收敛,并通过数值实验例子验证这两种迭代格式的有效性.     

基于Dempster-Shafer证据理论的矿山遥感分类

本文分析了矿山用地的特点,利用Dempster-Shafter证据理论用信任区间表示判决结果的特点,计算地类不确定性分布图,以CBV为最大划分像元归属类别原则对遥感图像上的矿山用地进行分类.实验结果表明,D-S证据理论用于矿山用地分类的精度高于最大似然方法的精度.     

EVOKE: A Value-Driven Concept Selection Method for Early System Design

The development of new technologically advanced products requires the contribution from a range of skills and disciplines, which are often difficult to find within a single company or organization. Requirements establishment practices in Systems Engineering (SE), while ensuring coordination of activities and tasks across the supply network, fall short when it comes to facilitate knowledge sharing and negotiation during early system design. Empirical observations show that when system-level requirements are not available or not mature enough, engineers dealing with the development of long lead-time sub-systems tend to target local optima, rather than opening up the design space. This phenomenon causes design teams to generate solutions that do not embody the best possible configuration for the overall system. The aim of this paper is to show how methodologies for value-driven design may address this issue, facilitating early stage design iterations and the resolution of early stage design trade-offs. The paper describes how such methodologies may help gathering and dispatching relevant knowledge about the ‘design intent’ of a system to the cross-functional engineering teams, so to facilitate a more concurrent process for requirement elicitation in SE. The paper also describes EVOKE (Early Value Oriented design exploration with KnowledgE maturity), a concept selection method that allows benchmarking design options at sub-system level on the base of value-related information communicated by the system integrators. The use of EVOKE is exemplified in an industrial case study related to the design of an aero-engine component. EVOKE’s ability to raise awareness on the value contribution of early stage design concepts in the SE process has been further verified with industrial practitioners in ad-hoc design episodes.     

The expansion of GPCR transactivation-dependent signalling to include serine/threonine kinase receptors represents a new cell signalling frontier

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling is mediated through transactivation-independent signalling pathways or the transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors and the recently reported activation of the serine/threonine kinase receptors, most notably the transforming growth factor-β receptor family. Since the original observation of GPCR transactivation of protein tyrosine kinase receptors, there has been considerable work on the mechanism of transactivation and several pathways are prominent. These pathways include the “triple membrane bypass” pathway and the generation of reactive oxygen species. The recent recognition of GPCR transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors enormously broadens the GPCR signalling paradigm. It may be predicted that the transactivation of serine/threonine kinase receptors would have mechanistic similarities with transactivation of tyrosine kinase pathways; however, initial studies suggest that these two transactivation pathways are mechanistically distinct. Important questions are the relative importance of tyrosine and serine/threonine transactivation pathways, the contribution of transactivation to overall GPCR signalling, mechanisms of transactivation and the range of cell types in which this phenomenon occurs. The ultimate significance of transactivation-dependent signalling remains to be defined but it appears to be prominent and if so will represent a new cell signalling frontier.     

“零被引专利”就没有价值吗?——“零被引专利”在科学论文中的应用分析

 分析前人对零被引的研究成果发现，"零被引"的定义可能存在一定的局限，即只考察同类数据库中的引用情况。分析CSTPCD 2009-2012年的科技论文与引文发现，期刊论文引用了大量的技术专利。存在专利数据库中的"零被引专利"在科技论文中却有较高的引用次数。以其中1件"零被引专利"CN 01134280.3为例，从技术内容解读、10篇施引文献及其内容分析，展示了该项技术发明影响的研究主题，并通过文献调研解析了该项研究成果的工业化应用。基于钱学森的"基础科学-技术科学-工程科学"理论，探讨了使用较高科技论文引用次数的"零被引专利"及较高专利引用次数的"零被引论文"定量分析技术科学的可能性。