Evaluation of Woven Fabrics for Comfort Properties in Children’s Summer Wear

This paper evaluates the comfort properties of eightkinds of woven fabric commonly used for children'ssummer wear in Hong Kong,China.Due to the expan-sion of children's wear market and the quality require-ment for parents,objective and subjective measurementsare the main methods used to evaluate the chosen fabricsfor garment deslgners and consumers as reference. Objective measurement was carried out through ex-periments by means of the Kawabata Evaluation Systemfor Fabrics(KES-F).Experimental tests on fabrics in-clude compression,surface,bending,air permeability,thermal and tensile.Subjective measurement was con-ducted by a market research on consumers' opinions onfabrics for children's summer wear in the form of ques-tionnaire survey.These two ways of measurement onfabrics were analyzed and compared. It was found that Fabric Sample 6 which is com-posed of polyester and cotton fibre has the best perfor-mance in terms of its comfort properties.Besides,Sam-ple 4 composes of rayon and cotton fibre also ha     

Subjective and Objective Measurements to select Fabric for Child Patients' Garment

This paper studies on fabrics suitable for child patients'garment in the hospital environment in Hong Kong,China.Subjective measurement was carried out by questionnaire survey to consult medical staff on hospital requirement about fabric criteria for child patients' garment. On the other hand, objective measurement was conducted by performing laboratory tests on fabrics,which were sourced from commercial fabric market. Both measurements are evaluated according to the results on those fabric criteria in order to determine the most suitable kind of fabric for the end purpose. As a result of the comparison, it was found that T/C 1 scores the highest index. Therefore, it will be suggested for manufacturing child patients' garment to evaluate the fabric suitability to meet the wearers' requirement through hospital trial.     

具有可变形剪切连接件的连续复合梁的结构行为

对原型双跨复合梁的结构行为给出了详细的有限元研究．由于基本上认为剪切连接件是非刚性的,在高等有限元模型中采用弹簧单元可以将它们的非线性荷载一滑移性质考虑在内．对各种原型双跨复合梁进行了参数研究,并提出了主要的研究结果．主要的结构参数包括剪切连接件在正弯矩和负弯矩区域内的变形韧性和变形程度．总共比较和讨论了9个具有不同类型和剪切件数目的复合梁的结构行为,对目前的设计缺陷进行了鉴定．由于提出的有限元模型对详细调查复合梁的结构行为非常有效,有效地利用所提出的模型将对更具有改善结构精度和效率的细化设计准则的发展有帮助．     

Entrepreneurship Measurement and Comparison: Holistic Acceptability Global Entrepreneurship Index

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity - The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute annually publishes the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) to show entrepreneurship of each...     

A general approach to single-nucleotide polymorphism discovery

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant form of human genetic variation and a resource for mapping complex genetic traits. The large volume of data produced by high-throughput sequencing projects is a rich and largely untapped source of SNPs (refs 2, 3, 4, 5). We present here a unified approach to the discovery of variations in genetic sequence data of arbitrary DNA sources. We propose to use the rapidly emerging genomic sequence as a template on which to layer often unmapped, fragmentary sequence data and to use base quality values to discern true allelic variations from sequencing errors. By taking advantage of the genomic sequence we are able to use simpler yet more accurate methods for sequence organization: fragment clustering, paralogue identification and multiple alignment. We analyse these sequences with a novel, Bayesian inference engine, POLYBAYES, to calculate the probability that a given site is polymorphic. Rigorous treatment of base quality permits completely automated evaluation of the full length of all sequences, without limitations on alignment depth. We demonstrate this approach by accurate SNP predictions in human ESTs aligned to finished and working-draft quality genomic sequences, a data set representative of the typical challenges of sequence-based SNP discovery.     

基于静音检测的ITU-T G.729算法

提出了一种能够提高ITU－TG．729算法性能的静音检测技术，该技术的引入不仅可以降低G．729的语音通讯平均传输出特率，而且可以大量节省G．729压缩和解压过程的实际运算量，通过在不同的噪声背景下的性能分析，该静音检测技术的引入不会对G．729算法的合成语音质量产生明显的影响。     

Human Genome Variation 2006: emerging views on structural variation and large-scale SNP analysis

The eighth annual Human Genome Variation Meeting was held in September 2006 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. The meeting highlighted recent advances in characterization of genetic variation, including genome-wide association studies and structural variation.     

Recommendations of the 2006 Human Variome Project meeting

Lists of variations in genomic DNA and their effects have been kept for some time and have been used in diagnostics and research. Although these lists have been carefully gathered and curated, there has been little standardization and coordination, complicating their use. Given the myriad possible variations in the estimated 24,000 genes in the human genome, it would be useful to have standard criteria for databases of variation. Incomplete collection and ascertainment of variants demonstrates a need for a universally accessible system. These and other problems led to the World Heath Organization-cosponsored meeting on June 20-23, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, which launched the Human Variome Project. This meeting addressed all areas of human genetics relevant to collection of information on variation and its effects. Members of each of eight sessions (the clinic and phenotype, the diagnostic laboratory, the research laboratory, curation and collection, informatics, relevance to the emerging world, integration and federation and funding and sustainability) developed a number of recommendations that were then organized into a total of 96 recommendations to act as a foundation for future work worldwide. Here we summarize the background of the project, the meeting and its recommendations.     

活性染料废水对环境污染程度的预测

近年来,公众对保护环境的意识不断提高,因而令政府更关注环境污染的问题。为了保障市民的健康及保护生态环境,香港政府便制订了更严格的环保法例及废水排放标准,因此在染色时,厂商不但需要考虑染色成本及产品的坚牢度,更要考虑染料的环境属性,从而减低染色废水对环境的污染及符合政府制订的排放标准。如果能对染料的环境属性预先进行评估,那么染色废水对环境污染的程度便可于染色前预测得到,从而可于染色前选择一些污染度较低的染料进行染色。但由于不同染料类别的废水有不同的特性,因此,在这研究内,我们便选择了活性染料作为分析对象。