子午加速轴流通风机最佳毂比的计算

在分析子午加速风机空气动力有关方程的基础上,通过上机计算,求解出了子午加速风机的最佳毂比。试验证实,按本文所述方法进行设计的等环量流型的叶轮,与按通常方法选择通风机毂比所设计出的叶轮相对比,在各种工况下,叶轮效率都有所提高,文中也给出了在不同设计参数时按本法所应选择的最佳毂比。     

Mutations in Rab3a alter circadian period and homeostatic response to sleep loss in the mouse

Rab3a is the most abundant Rab (ras-associated binding) protein in the brain and has a regulatory role in synaptic vesicle trafficking. Mice with a targeted loss-of-function mutation in Rab3a have defects in Ca(2+)-dependent synaptic transmission: the number of vesicles released in response to an action potential is greater than in wildtype mice, resulting in greater synaptic depression and the abolishment of CA3 mossy-fiber long term potentiation. The effect of these changes on behavior is unknown. In a screen for mouse mutants with abnormal rest-activity and sleep patterns, we identified a semidominant mutation, called earlybird, that shortens the circadian period of locomotor activity. Sequence analysis of Rab3a identified a point mutation in the conserved amino acid (Asp77Gly) within the GTP-binding domain of this protein in earlybird mutants, resulting in significantly reduced levels of Rab3a protein. Phenotypic assessment of earlybird mice and a null allele of Rab3a revealed anomalies in circadian period and sleep homeostasis, providing evidence that Rab3a-mediated synaptic transmission is involved in these behaviors.     

液压系统自动建模与仿真软件的研制

基于液压大系统“灰箱”建模原理与方法 ,研究开发了适用于液压大系统的自动建模与仿真软件。本文重点介绍了“灰箱”建模法的特点并应用研究软件对 15KJ电液锤液压系统进行了仿真计算     

High critical current density and enhanced irreversibility field in superconducting MgB2 thin films

The discovery of superconductivity at 39 K in magnesium diboride offers the possibility of a new class of low-cost, high-performance superconducting materials for magnets and electronic applications. This compound has twice the transition temperature of Nb3Sn and four times that of Nb-Ti alloy, and the vital prerequisite of strongly linked current flow has already been demonstrated. One possible drawback, however, is that the magnetic field at which superconductivity is destroyed is modest. Furthermore, the field which limits the range of practical applications-the irreversibility field H*(T)-is approximately 7 T at liquid helium temperature (4.2 K), significantly lower than about 10 T for Nb-Ti (ref. 6) and approximately 20 T for Nb3Sn (ref. 7). Here we show that MgB2 thin films that are alloyed with oxygen can exhibit a much steeper temperature dependence of H*(T) than is observed in bulk materials, yielding an H* value at 4.2 K greater than 14 T. In addition, very high critical current densities at 4.2 K are achieved: 1 MA cm-2 at 1 T and 105 A cm-2 at 10 T. These results demonstrate that MgB2 has potential for high-field superconducting applications.     

A color based face detection system using multiple templates

A color based system using multiple templates was developed and implemented for detecting human faces in color images. The algorithm consists of three image processing steps. The first step is human skin color statistics. Then it separates skin regions from non-skin regions. After that, it locates the frontal human face(s) within the skin regions. In the first step, 250 skin samples from persons of different ethnicities are used to determine the color distribution of human skin in chromatic color space in order to get a chroma chart showing likelihoods of skin colors. This chroma chart is used to generate, from the original color image, a gray scale image whose gray value at a pixel shows its likelihood of representing the skin. The algorithm uses an adaptive thresholding process to achieve the optimal threshold value for dividing the gray scale image into separate skin regions from non skin regions. Finally, multiple face templates matching is used to determine if a given skin region represents a frontal human face or not. Test of the system with more than 400 color images showed that the resulting detection rate was 83%, which is better than most color-based face detection systems. The average speed for face detection is 0.8 second/image (400 x 300 pixels) on a Pentium 3 (800MHz) PC.     

Homocysteine increases the synthesis of adrenomedullin in vascular fibroblasts of rats

Homocysteine (Hcy), a highly reactive sulfur- containing amino acid, is an intermediate product of methionine metabolism. Elevation of plasma Hcy has been widely studied as an independent risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis, etc.[1]. Inherited hyperhomocysteinemia cases usually suffer from occlusion or thrombosis in arteries and large veins before the age of 20. Hyperhomocysteinemia significantly reduces the survival rate[2] and dilatation functi…     

Nitric oxide produced by cumulus cells stimulates maturation of mouse oocytes

The effect of sodium nitroprusside (SNP), a donor of nitric oxide, on meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes was studied by injecting N^w-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) intra-peritoneal (ip), a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, or culturing oocytes in the medium supplemented with L-NAME or hypoxanthine (HX) to arrest the spontaneous oocyte maturation in vitro. The results showed that the inhibitory effect of L-NAME by injecting 10 mg/kg ip on extrusion of the first polar body only could be reversed by injecting 2.5 mg/kg SNP with L-NAME simultaneously (P < 0.05). Half an hour later ten mice died when given 10 mg/kg SNP ip. The treatment of some concentrations of SNP (10^–7, 10^–6, 10^–5mol/L) significantly stimulated meiotic maturation to metaphase Ⅱ stages in cumulus enclosed oocytes in the presence of HX. However, other concentrations of SNP (10^–8, 10^–4, 10^–3 mol/L) had no effect on HX-arrested oocyte meiotic maturation. The optimal concentration of SNP on CEOs had no effect on DOs. The dose of 10^–3 mol/LL-NAME demonstrated a significant suppression in formation of PB₁, but not in GVBD. This inhibition was reversed by the addition of SNP. These results indicated that the physiological levels of NO produced by cumulus cells could stimulate meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes both in vivo and in vitro.     

无轴承同步电机旋转惯性振动抑制模型

给出无轴承电机的互感模型,据此导出了同步旋转惯性振动抑制力模型.该模型不仅适用于具有凸极型转子结构的无轴承同步电机,还适用于具有圆柱型转子结构的无轴承同步电机.给出同步旋转坐标系下的2极浮控4极无轴承电机的电感模型,据此导出适用于该种磁极配置无轴承电机的同步旋转惯性振动抑制力通用模型.仿真结果验证了所导出的旋转惯性振动抑制力模型的有效性.     

V-BLAST-based demodulate-and-forward two-way relaying： protocol design and the detection

We propose a novel vertical Bell Laboratories layered space-time (V-BLAST) based two-way relaying protocol that comprises two user terminals and one multi-antenna demodulate-and-forward (DMF) relay station. We consider the situation when these two user terminals employ different modulation types and investigate its detection techniques. The key feature of the detection techniques is that we quantify decision reliability at the relay station by introducing a so-called normalized correlation coefficient (CORR), rather than having full confidence in demodulation at the relay station. With the assistance of the normalized correlation coefficient, we develop detection methods at both the relay station and user terminals. In particular, we propose a CORR-based ordering algorithm at the relay station which can be applied to detection for general V-BLAST architectures. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the CORR-based ordering algorithm over the conventional signal-to-noise based ordering algorithm. Finally, we demonstrate overall error-performance of the V-BLAST-based DMF two-way relaying protocol via simulations.     

Highlights of recent advances in functional coordination polymers made in China

Coordination polymers (or metal-organic frameworks, MOFs), as one of the essences of crystal engineering and coordination chemistry, have attracted considerable atten-tion from chemists,