双调制步进扫描红外光谱技术用于聚氨酯薄膜动态拉伸实验

将步进扫描多调制傅里叶红外光谱技术用于聚氨酯薄膜动态拉伸的流变光谱性质研究。讨论了步进扫描干涉仪的工作原理、包括相调制在内的多调制频率与数字采集实验设置及数字信号处理方法。得到聚氨酯薄膜在100Hz频率、1.0λ振幅的相调制作用下，相对于5Hz拉伸频率的同相位（In-phase)和正交相位（Quadrature)的红外吸收光谱。     

On the steady motions of a flat domain wall in a ferromagnet

A new derivation is presented of Walker's exact solution to Gilbert equation, a solution which mimicks the travelling-wave motion of a flat domain wall at 180^°. It is shown that a process during which the working of the applied magnetic field exactly compensates dissipation (the Walker condition) exists both under the constitutive circumstances considered in the standard Gilbert equation and when either the internal free-energy or the dissipation, or both, are generalized by the introduction of higher-gradient terms; but that such a process cannot solve the generalized Gilbert equation. It is also shown that, when dry-friction dissipation is considered and a suitable magnetic field is applied, the associated Gilbert equation has a Walker-type solution mimicking a flat wall, at 90^° this time, which however does not satisfy the Walker condition. Received 16 November 2001     

无创血液成分检测中基于VIP分析的波长筛选

自变量筛选是定量光谱分析领域的研究热点,简便且高效的自变量筛选方法不但可以降低分析计算量,提高分析精度,同时还可以减轻对仪器光谱分辨能力的依赖,降低分析成本。波长筛选也是光谱法无创血液成分检测研究的重要环节。动态光谱理论为血液无创检测提供了极佳的思路,但长期局限于使用宽带光源和高分辨率的光谱仪器,分析中需要大量波长限制了动态光谱法的进一步发展。为了去除冗余信息,使检测走向低成本化和集成化,提出了基于变量投影重要性(variable importance in projection,VIP)分析的波长筛选方法。通过分析PLS模型中各维自变量对因变量的解释能力,从而剔除重要性较低的变量保留解释能力强的波长。以232例受试者的临床实验数据为基础,以血红蛋白含量为分析对象,经投影重要性分析后将波长数由586降至64,波长筛选后血红蛋白预测模型的测试集平均相对误差(MREP)为1.82%,使用了极少的波长便可得到满意的结果;结合Bootstrap方法对模型进行显著性检验后验证了波长变量的解释能力。首次指出了使用动态光谱法检测血红蛋白的敏感波长带。基于投影重要性分析的波长筛选迈出了动态光谱走向实用的重要一步,为实现低成本在线分析打下了基础,同时也为其他领域的光谱分析提供了重要的参考和新的思路。     

高精度动态光纤应变传感研究

传统的光纤应变传感技术无法在满足高精度和强环境适应性的同时实现稳定的动态应变传感.为了解决该问题,本文将光干涉原理应用于光纤应变传感,设计了一种强环境适应性的基于干涉结构的高精度光纤应变传感系统,基于扫频干涉信号的互相关系数,该系统可以稳定地探测应变.本文还提出一种动态探测算法,该算法弥补了系统只能探测较小应变的缺陷,大大提升了实际应变的探测范围,同时还实现了动态的应变检测;采用三次样条插值算法,提升了小应变探测的精度.理论分析和仿真模拟表明,在加入白噪声的信号信噪比为15dB时,插值后的探测精度是未插值探测精度的2.3倍,插值后本系统探测结果的最大误差只有约9nε.     

General expression of the calibration curve for the CR-39 radon track detectors

The CR-39 detectors are widely used as passive radon dosimeters, as well as in physics laboratories or for industrial applications. For what concerns radon monitoring, the calibration curve which is usually adopted corresponds to a linear relation between the actual etched track density and the track density counted by an automatic acquisition system. This linear calibration provides very accurate radon exposure assessments in a restricted range of etched track density, however it neglects the effect of the tracks overlapping that becomes as relevant as the track density increases. In the present work the mathematical expression of the area covered by a set of uniformly distributed tracks is deduced. This result allows then to infer the probability that the system acquires the right track density, providing a general calibration curve for a solid state radon track detector. The process of track production and reading routine is also simulated adopting a Monte Carlo approach, showing that the obtained results are in agreement with the function proposed as calibration curve. Moreover, a linear dependence between the track average area and the rate parameter of the calibration curve has been observed. Finally a semi-empirical correlation based on the previous results is proposed.     

Optical coherence tomography based imaging of dental demineralisation and cavity restoration in 840 nm and 1310 nm wavelength regions

In this paper, a study of in-house built optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with a wavelength of 840 nm for imaging of dental caries, progress in demineralisation and cavity restoration is presented. The caries when imaged with the 840 nm OCT system showed minute demineralisation in the order of 5 μm. The OCT system was also proposed to study the growth of lesion and this was demonstrated by artificially inducing caries with a demineralisation solution of pH 4.8. The progress of carious lesion to a depth of about 50–60 μm after 60 hours of demineralisation was clearly observed with the 840 nm OCT system. The tooth samples were subjected to accelerated demineralisation condition at pH of approximately 2.3 to study the adverse effects and the onset of cavity formation was clearly observed. The restoration of cavity was also studied by employing different restorative materials (filled and unfilled). In the case of restoration without filler material (unfilled), the restoration boundaries were clearly observed. Overall, results were comparable with that of the widely used 1310 nm OCT system. In the case of restoration with filler material, the 1310 nm OCT imaging displayed better imaging capacity due to lower scattering than 840 nm imaging.     

Consortium GARR and the European National Research and Education Networks Optical Infrastructure Developments

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GARR is engineering its next generation of the Italian Research and Education Network (GARR-X), which will exploit a countrywide optical infrastructure based on DWDM equipment and advanced multi-domain services. The trend is common in all National Research and Education Networks [1 TERENA NREN Compendium. http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium ISSN 1569-4496 [Google Scholar]] in Europe and worldwide. NRENs are relying more and more on direct use of optical equipment to fulfill the researchers' requirements. These hybrid networks are built to provide services on a multi-domain environment both at the circuit and at the IP layer for researchers in, for example, radio astronomy (eVLBI [2 European Very Long Baseline Interferometry http://www.evlbi.org [Google Scholar]]), GRID computing (EGEE [3 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE http://public.eu-egee.org [Google Scholar]], LHC [4 The Large Hadron Collider http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc [Google Scholar]]), high-performance computing (DEISA [5 The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications http://www.deisa.org [Google Scholar]]). This article outlines the status and issues of ongoing research activities in GARR [6 http://www.garr.it/garr-b-home-engl.shtmlConsortium GARR, the Italian NREN [Google Scholar]] and NRENs to provide, manage, and evolve dedicated optical-based networks for providing multi-domain end-to-end services. The research is performed mainly in the framework of the European Commission co-funded project GÉANT2 [7 The pan-European R&E network http://www.geant2.net [Google Scholar]].     

Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy to Biochemical,Food, and Agricultural Processes

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Integrated investigations on infrared spectroscopic characteristics of metabolites and on applications of infrared spectroscopy to foodstuff production, food processing, and tasting are described. As the important metabolites, saccharides, which play very important roles in various functions, located in the central position of the metabolic pathways, were selected, and the spectral features of the saccharides and related materials are discussed. Additionally, the applications of spectral analysis to the monitoring of the enzyme reaction and the sugar metabolic processes, which are the main materials in food processing, are described. Furthermore, the studies on the spectroscopic measurements during the cultivation of agricultural products as foodstuffs and in the tasting as the final quality evaluation of foods are represented. These results suggest that infrared spectroscopy could be very effective for evaluating foodstuff production and the tasting of the processed foods and that the applied topics should provide fundamental information about the spectral behavior of the metabolites and bioproducts.     

Four-dimensional scheduling for uplink dynamic bandwidth allocation in OFDM-PON

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing passive optical network (OFDM-PON) has been considered a promising access solution to meet the variable bandwidth demand. In this paper, a novel scheduling for dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) at medium access control (MAC) layer is proposed for uplink transmission of OFDM-PON. In order to utilize the bandwidth efficiently, scheduling in four dimensions is adopted in the proposed DBA algorithm. Four dimensions stand for frequency domains, time domains, modulation formats and power allocations. The algorithm is quite flexible. Simulation results and analysis show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently utilize the OFDM bandwidth and make the system highly energy-efficient.     

Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Aged Filled Rubbers

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It is well known that the macromolecular structure and the microstructure of the fillers play an important role in the mechanical properties of filled rubbers. This paper focuses on the dependence of the complex modulus of aged natural rubber vulcanizates on the filler network and polymer structure. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) at 30°C, 50°C, and 70°C on the aged rubbers with/without prestrain showed the Payne effect, i.e., a storage modulus drop with increasing amplitude, and the appearance of a loss tangent maximum at strain of about a few percent. The storage modulus increased with the aging time at 70°C, 24 < 72 < 240 hr, in the case of nonprestrain. When the prestrain was applied, strain‐induced crystallization was generated that enhanced the storage modulus. As time passed, the prestrain relaxed and the crystalline structures began to disappear. After 72 hr, the crystalline structures had almost disappeared, and they had only a weak effect. Consequently, there existed a higher modulus for an aging time of 24 hr than 72 hr at testing temperatures of 30°C and 50°C. It was concluded that the storage modulus was determined by the postvulcanization, strain‐induced crystallization, aging, and relaxing time.