Effect of stimulation rate on phoneme recognition by nucleus-22 cochlear implant listeners

This study investigated the effect of pulsatile stimulation rate on medial vowel and consonant recognition in cochlear implant listeners. Experiment 1 measured phoneme recognition as a function of stimulation rate in six Nucleus-22 cochlear implant listeners using an experimental four-channel continuous interleaved sampler (CIS) speech processing strategy. Results showed that all stimulation rates from 150 to 500 pulses/s/electrode produced equally good performance, while stimulation rates lower than 150 pulses/s/electrode produced significantly poorer performance. Experiment 2 measured phoneme recognition by implant listeners and normal-hearing listeners as a function of the low-pass cutoff frequency for envelope information. Results from both acoustic and electric hearing showed no significant difference in performance for all cutoff frequencies higher than 20 Hz. Both vowel and consonant scores dropped significantly when the cutoff frequency was reduced from 20 Hz to 2 Hz. The results of these two experiments suggest that temporal envelope information can be conveyed by relatively low stimulation rates. The pattern of results for both electrical and acoustic hearing is consistent with a simple model of temporal integration with an equivalent rectangular duration (ERD) of the temporal integrator of about 7 ms.     

具线性退化特征场对角型方程组Goursat问题的奇性形成机制

For an inhomogeneous quasilinear hyperbolic system of diagonal form, under the assumptions that the system is linearly degenerate and the C^1 norm of the boundary data is bounded, we show that the mechanism of the formation of singularities of C^1 classical solution to the Goursat problem with C^1 compatibility conditions at the origin must be an ODE type. The similar result is also obtained for the weakly discontinuous solution with C^0 compatibility conditions at the origin.     

某一类控制系统中发生的指数偏差现象

我们考虑在某类控制系统中,以Lyapunov指数作为观测量,远离给定遍历测度的那些周期测度.对于这类周期测度的数量关于周期的指数增长率,我们将用测度熵在某个集合上的上界给出它的一个上限控制.     

Maple packages for computing Hirota’s bilinear equation and multisoliton solutions of nonlinear evolution equations

The Hirota method for generating Hirota’s bilinear equation and constructing soliton solutions of nonlinear evolution equations is discussed and illustrated. Two Maple programs Bilinearization and Multisoliton are presented to automatically calculate Hirota’s bilinear equations for nonlinear evolution equations and to compute their N-soliton solutions for N = 1, 2 or 3, respectively. Different kinds of examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the packages.     

串列加速器头部电极改进方案

通过改变头部电极的局部形状来改善头部电场, 运用Poisson程序计算几种可能形状下表面电场的分布, 并以此给出最佳的改进方案.     

纳米TiO_2∶Zn薄膜电极紫外光电特性研究

采用sol-gel法制备了Zn2 掺杂的锐钛矿相纳米TiO2薄膜电极.通过光电流作用谱和电流-电位(I-U)曲线研究了掺杂不同浓度Zn2 的TiO2薄膜电极的光电特性.由光电流作用谱可知,Zn2 的掺杂可显著影响薄膜电极的光电流大小,且掺杂的最佳浓度与薄膜晶粒尺度有关.在320nm单色光照射下,掺杂浓度(摩尔浓度)为0.1%的薄膜电极光电流最大,与未掺杂的本征薄膜电极相比增幅达40%.I-U曲线表明,光照下,随电极电位由正到负逐渐降低,不同掺杂浓度的TiO2薄膜电极中均出现了阳极电流向阴极电流转换的现象,且Zn2 掺杂浓度可影响电极阳极电流的初始电位.另外,无光照的暗态下,各薄膜在负电位区域观察到了相似的随电位降低而迅速增大的阴极暗电流.     

Carbon nanotube emitters and field emission triode

Based on our study on field emission from multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), we experimentally manufactured field emission display (FED) triode with a MWNTs cold cathode, and demonstrated an excellent performance of MWNTs as field emitters. The measured luminance of the phosphor screens was 1.8 × 103 cd/m2 for green light. The emission is stable with a fluctuation of only 1.5% at an average current of 260 μA.     

真空紫外光激发下掺Pr3+铝酸盐的自陷激子对Pr3+发光的影响

研究了SrAl12 O19:Pr3+和Y3Al5O12(YAG):Pr3+在20K,77K和300K的真空紫外(VUV)光谱,二者除了表现出Pr3+特有的发射性质外,还产生了一种特殊的发射现象,即自陷激子(STE)发射,并且其随着稀土离子浓度和温度的降低而增强.还着重讨论了自陷激子对Pr3+发光的影响.     

C72,La2@C72几何结构和电子性质的计算研究

采用密度泛涵理论(density functional theory,DFT)中的广义梯度近似(generally gradient approximation,GGA)对富勒烯C72和内掺金属La富勒烯La2@C72三种同分异构体的几何结构和电子结构进行研究.发现在C72的三种同分异构体中,满足独立五边形规则(isolated-pentagon-rule,IPR)的C72(D6d)结构最为稳定;在La2@C72三种同分异构体中,有着两对两两相邻五元环(twofused-pentagon)的La2@C72(#10611)结构最为稳定,而满足IPR的La2@C72(D6d)的结构变成了最不稳定结构.从能级图和态密度图分析得知,笼子稳定性的变化与La原子的原子轨道与C72原子轨道之间的杂化有关.Mulliken电荷分析得知,La2@C72(#10611)的两个La原子共转移了约3个电子给C72,并且,它们几乎分布在整个C笼上,形成的电子结构为La23+@C3-72.净自旋分析得知,La2@C72(#10611)中La原子磁性完全淬灭.