The Effect of Transportation and Housing Subsidies on Urban Sprawl

This paper analyses theoretically the effect of transportation and housing subsidies on urban sprawl,modal choice decisions and urban spatial structure using a spatial general equilibrium model in a monocentric city with two transport modes. Our analysis shows that public transit subsidy leads to urban shrink,whilst subsidizing automobile and housing make the city sprawl. We also find the effects of the other factors on urban sprawl,such as households income and demand,rural land rent,the income tax rate,the total fixed cost of public transit and automobile and the travelling marginal cost of public transit and automobile. Furthermore,this paper also studies how to maximize the urban-area-wide spatial equilibrium utility level.     

A framework for personalized adaptive user interest prediction based on topic model and forgetting mechanism

User interest is not static and changes dynamically. In the scenario of a search engine, this paper presents a personalized adaptive user interest prediction framework. It represents user interest as a topic distribution, captures every change of user interest in the history, and uses the changes to predict future individual user interest dynamically. More specifically, it first uses a personalized user interest representation model to infer user interest from queries in the user’s history data using a topic model; then it presents a personalized user interest prediction model to capture the dynamic changes of user interest and to predict future user interest by leveraging the query submission time in the history data. Compared with the Interest Degree Multi-Stage Quantization Model, experiment results on an AOL Search Query Log query log show that our framework is more stable and effective in user interest prediction.     

Generation of Linear and Parabolic Concentration Gradients by Using a Christmas Tree-Shaped Microfluidic Network

This paper describes a simple method of generating concentration gradients with linear and parabolic profiles by using a Christmas tree-shaped microfluidic network.The microfluidic gradient generator consists of two parts:a Christmas tree-shaped network for gradient generation and a broad microchannel for detection.A two-dimensional model was built to analyze the flow field and the mass transfer in the microfluidic network.The simulating results show that a series of linear and parabolic gradient profiles were generated via adjusting relative flow rate ratios of the two source solutions(R_L~2≥0.995 and _PR~2≥0.999),which could match well with the experimental results(R_L~2≥0.987 and _PR~2≥0.996).The proposed method is promising for the generation of linear and parabolic concentration gradient profiles,with the potential in chemical and biological applications such as combinatorial chemistry synthesis,stem cell differentiation or cytotoxicity assays.     

黑果腺肋花楸组培繁殖培养基筛选

以黑果腺肋花楸茎尖和嫩叶为外植体,在MS培养基中加入不同种类与用量的生长调节剂,筛选黑果腺肋花楸组织培养繁殖培养基.结果表明:黑果腺肋花楸愈伤组织诱导效果较好的培养基为MS+6-BA 3.0 mg/L+NAA 0.5 mg/L;不定芽诱导效果较好的培养基为MS+6-BA 1.0 mg/L+NAA 0.1 mg/L;不定根诱导效果较好的培养基为1/2 MS+IBA 0.05 mg/L;以泥炭土、松针、砂砾(2∶1∶1)为基质时,组培苗移栽成活率较高(成活率96%).     

三七多糖的微波辅助提取工艺

采用正交试验法优化了三七多糖的微波提取工艺,采用激光粒度分析法探讨了提取机理,分析了多糖的单糖组成,并测定了多糖的溶解性。三七多糖的较佳微波辅助提取工艺条件为微波处理时间8min、浸泡时间60min、液固比30mL/g、粒度200目。微波辅助提取的多糖提取率(21.0mg/g)显著高于传统提取(12.7mg/g)。三七多糖的Molish反应呈阳性,多糖酸水解产物的薄层色谱呈现出3个斑点,分别与葡萄糖、半乳糖和阿拉伯糖相对应。微波辅助提取对三七多糖的提取效果明显优于传统提取,其机理可能是微波处理促进了三七样品的水化和溶胀过程,使样品结构变得松散、膨胀,从而促进了多糖从样品中扩散和溶出。三七多糖主要由葡萄糖、半乳糖和阿拉伯糖3种单糖构成,pH值对其溶解性影响较大。     

一种新型冷轧辊用钢的组织演变

本文以一种新型冷轧辊用钢为研究对象,借助金相显微镜和扫描电子显微镜分析了试验钢在正火、球化退火、淬火、回火过程中的组织演变,研究了碳化物的成分变化和溶解析出行为。结果显示,试验钢正火后得到马氏体+部分颗粒状和少量块状碳化物的显微组织;球化退火后的显微组织为铁素体基体上分布有大量颗粒状碳化物+少量块状碳化物,球化退火组织评定为为2~3级;淬火后的组织为马氏体+部分颗粒状和少量块状碳化物;三次回火后的组织为回火马氏体+部分颗粒状和少量块状碳化物。试验钢中的块状碳化物在整个热处理过程中始终存在,1100℃以下奥氏体化时只发生边缘部分的少量溶解。颗粒状碳化物主要为M23C6型,在热处理过程中存在明显的溶解和析出行为,1100℃以下奥氏体化时部分溶解。     

δ掺杂对磁纳米结构中电子输运性质的影响

建立铁磁条调制下含有δ掺杂的磁纳米结构模型,计算不同δ掺杂位置及高度时电子的透射几率及自旋极化率,重点研究了该纳米结构中电子的自旋输运性质。结果表明,该磁纳米结构中可实现较显著的自旋极化效应,且δ掺杂的位置及高度均会对其中的电子输运性质产生影响。因此,理论上可以通过控制δ掺杂的位置及高度来获得实际需要的自旋极化强度,有助于新型自旋电子学器件的开发。     

Synthesis and luminescence properties of Mn4+-dopant Ca14Zn6Ga10−xAlxO35 solid solution

Mn~(4+)-activated oxide phosphors,owing to their desirable spectral features,eco-friendly and low cost,are emerging as a new class of non-rare-earth red phosphors for warm white LEDs.However,these phosphors possess low photoluminescence quantum efficiency excited by blue chip currently.Herein we report an isostructural solid solution of Ca_(14)Zn_6Ga_(10-x)Al_xO_(35):0.15Mn~(4+)(0≤x≤10)synthesized by a traditional solidstate reaction route.The microstructure and luminescent performance of this red-emitting phosphor are investigated in detail with the aids of X-ray diffraction,diffuse reflection spectra,photoluminescence spectra/decay/QE,and temperature-dependent PL/QE measurements.Blue shift of energy peaks of~4A_2→~4T_1and~4A_2→~4T_2transition is illustrated by the Tanabe–Sugano diagram and the configurational coordinate diagram.The crystal field strength(Dq)and the Racah parameters(B and C)are carefully calculated to estimate the nephelauxetic effectβrespectively.Particularly we achieve external and internal quantum efficiencies as high as26.1%and 40.3%for Ca_(14)Zn_6Ga_6Al_4O_(35):0.15Mn~(4+)excited by 466 nm,the highest one ever reported in Mn~(4+)activated oxide phosphors under the similar condition.     

Damage evolution and failure mechanism of thermal barrier coatings under Vickers indentation by using acoustic emission technique

Acoustic emission(AE) technique was adopted to monitor the damage evolution of air plasma-sprayed(APS) yttria-partially-stabilized zirconia(YSZ) thermal barrier coatings(TBCs) during instrumented indentation testing, and then the failure mechanisms were investigated by cluster analysis and wavelet transform methods.The results of cluster analysis showed that there were three classes associated with distinct failure types for the 8YSZ coatings under Vickers indentation. Based on wavelet transform, these three clusters could be clearly distinguished from their dominant frequency bands, which were concentrated on levels A5(0–156.25 kHz), D5(156.25–312.5 kHz) and D4(312.5–625 kHz), respectively. Thus, the failure mechanism of 8YSZ coatings under Vickers indentation could be clarified by the distribution of different failure types in indentation depth. To sum up, as indentation load increases, the 8YSZ coatings can accommodate the indenter by elastic or little plastic deformation, microcracks propagation and then debonding at the splat boundaries. By comparing the distribution of AE signals induced by different failure types in indentation depth for samples with different thermal exposure time, it can be inferred that thermal exposure treatment can accelerate the degradation of APS 8YSZ TBCs.     

Nanoengineering of amino - functionalized mesoporous silica nanospheres as nanoreactors

Selective functionalization of mesoporous silica nanospheres (MSNs) is crucial for nanoengineering of MSNs. Herein, we have combined “surface-protected etching strategy” and “cationic surfactant assisted etching strategy” to prepare functionalized MSNs with externally attached amino groups. The externally attached NH2 groups endow the catalysts with excellent catalytic performance for nitroaldol reaction between nitromethane and benzaldehyde. In addition, those NH2-MSNs can also be used to support gold nanoparticles, which display very good catalytic performance for reduction of 4-nitrophenol. It can be envisioned that the synthesis protocol developed in this work could also be extended to nanoengineered MSNs, which provides opportunities for nanoreactors design.