Effect of Interventions for Improving Lumbar Motor Control on Low Back Pain in Sedentary Office Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trials

Objective: To clarify the effect of intervention with dynamic motor control exercise (DMCE) for the lumbar region on low back pain in sedentary office workers (SOWs). Methods: The participants comprised 32 SOWs with low back pain who were randomly categorized into two groups: the DMCE group and the normal trunk exercise (NTE) group. Both groups performed each exercise for three days per week for 8 weeks. The primary endpoints were evaluated for the lumbar and hip flexion angles during trunk forward bending, effect of low back pain on activities of daily living (using the Oswestry Disability Index), and intensity of low back pain (using the Visual Analog Scale) pre- and post-intervention. The extent of changes was calculated by subtracting the pre-intervention value from the post-intervention value and was compared between the two groups using an unpaired t-test. Results: The extent of changes in the lumbar flexion and hip flexion angles at 10° of trunk forward bending were significantly greater in the DMCE group than in the NTE group, and no significant differences were noted between the two groups at other angles of trunk forward bending. The extent of changes in the Oswestry Disability Index and the Visual Analog Scale scores were significantly greater in the DMCE group than in the NTE group. Conclusion: DMCE is effective in improving motor control in the lumbar region and hip joints, thereby ameliorating low back pain in SOWs.     

混沌状态下永磁同步发电机的故障诊断——LMI法研究

本文以永磁同步风力发电机为研究对象, 在两相同步旋转坐标系下建立了永磁同步发电机的数学模型. 应用时间尺度和线性仿射变换建立了系统混沌模型, 验证了系统在某些参数和工作条件下会出现混沌运动. 随后在考虑系统不确定性的情况下设计了故障观测器, 在系统发生故障时, 通过所设计的故障观测器能对混沌状态下永磁同步发电机的故障做出准确估计. 仿真结果表明基于线性矩阵不等式方法的故障观测器能够对系统故障做出快速准确的诊断. 关键词： 永磁同步发电机 混沌 非线性不确定系统 故障诊断     

Studies on controllability of directed networks with extremal optimization

Almost all natural, social and man-made-engineered systems can be represented by a complex network to describe their dynamic behaviors. To make a real-world complex network controllable with its desired topology, the study on network controllability has been one of the most critical and attractive subjects for both network and control communities. In this paper, based on a given directed–weighted network with both state and control nodes, a novel optimization tool with extremal dynamics to generate an optimal network topology with minimum control nodes and complete controllability under Kalman’s rank condition has been developed. The experimental results on a number of popular benchmark networks show the proposed tool is effective to identify the minimum control nodes which are sufficient to guide the whole network’s dynamics and provide the evolution of network topology during the optimization process. We also find the conclusion: “the sparse networks need more control nodes than the dense, and the homogeneous networks need fewer control nodes compared to the heterogeneous” (Liu et al., 2011  [18]), is also applicable to network complete controllability. These findings help us to understand the network dynamics and make a real-world network under the desired control. Moreover, compared with the relevant research results on structural controllability with minimum driver nodes, the proposed solution methodology may also be applied to other constrained network optimization problems beyond complete controllability with minimum control nodes.     

Fluorinated Eu‐Doped SnO2 Nanostructures with Simultaneous Phase and Shape Control and Improved Photoluminescence

Fluorinated Eu‐doped SnO₂ nanostructures with tunable morphology (shuttle‐like and ring‐like) are prepared by a hydrothermal method, using NaF as the morphology controlling agent. X‐ray diffraction, field‐emission scanning electron microscopy, high‐resolution transmission electron microscopy, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and energy dispersive spectroscopy are used to characterize their phase, shape, lattice structure, composition, and element distribution. The data suggest that Eu³⁺ ions are uniformly embedded into SnO₂ nanocrystallites either through substitution of Sn⁴⁺ ions or through formation of Eu‐F bonds, allowing for high‐level Eu³⁺ doping. Photoluminescence features such as transition intensity ratios and Stark splitting indicate diverse localization of Eu³⁺ ions in the SnO₂ nanoparticles, either in the crystalline lattice or in the grain boundaries. Due to formation of Eu‐F and Sn‐F bonds, the fluorinated surface of SnO₂ nanocrystallites efficiently inhibits the hydroxyl quenching effect, which accounts for their improved photoluminescence intensity.     

基于高斯伪谱方法的混沌系统最优控制

针对混沌系统最优控制问题,提出一种基于高斯伪谱方法的数值求解新算法. 首先在勒让德-高斯点上构造Lagrange插值多项式并近似表示混沌系统最优控制中的状态变量和控制变量;接着将连续空间的最优控制问题转化为非线性规划问题;然后通过序列二次规划（SQP）算法获得最优解;最后对三个典型混沌系统的仿真实验结果表明,新方法能有效和快速地实现混沌系统的最优控制. 关键词： 混沌系统 最优控制 高斯伪谱法 非线性规划     

A low-temperature high-pressure apparatus with a temperature control system

Abstract

A low-temperature high-pressure apparatus was designed using commercial cryogenic equipment. Pressures up to 1 GPa and temperatures down to 40 K can be obtained in a volume of up to 30 cm³. The apparatus is of the piston-cylinder type with a piston diameter of 45 mm, and the pressure can be varied at all temperatures, An adaptive temperature control system keeps the temperature inside the pressure cylinder constant to within ±0.1 K.     

Die Strahlensterilisation zur Bekämpfung von Pflanzensehädlingen in der Landwirtsehaft

Eines der wichtigstcn Probleme der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion ist der Schutz der Pflanzen vor Schadlingen, Erkrankungen und Unkraut. An der Lösung dieses äußerst wichtigen und gleichzeitig kompliziortcn Problems arbeiten viele Wissenschaftler und Praktiker, und es wurden auf diesem Gebiet bedeutende Erfolge erziclt.

Die Amvendung verschiedener Bekampfungsmethoden (agrotechnischer, biologischer,chemiseherusw.)führt zueiner wesentlichen Verringerung der Verluste, die der Lantlwirtschaft durch Scbädlinge zngefügt werden.

Ungeachtet desscn, daß auf dem Gebiet des Pflanzensehutzes große Fortschritte gemacht wurden, sind die Ernteverluste durch Schädlinge in der Landwirtschaft noch groß. So gehen der Landwirtschaft unseres Landes allein bei 8 Hauptkulturen jährlich Produkte im Wert von einigen Milliarden Rubel verloren. Nach statistischen Angaben der FAO der UNO vernichten Insekten und Nagetiero im Weltmaßstab jährlich eine solche Menge an Getreide, die zur Ernährung von 200 Millionen enschen fiber em Jahr ausreichen würde.

Daraus folgt, daß der Schutz der Pflanzen vor Schädlingen, Krankhcitcn und Unkraut eine der wichtigsten Quellen für die Ertragssteigerung landivirtschaftlicher Kulturen ist.     

Growth of interfacial debonding in notched two-dimensional unidirectional composite under stress and displacement controls

A simplified calculation method for study of the growth of interfacial debonding between elastic fiber and elastic matrix ahead of the notch-tip in composites under displacement and stress controlled conditions was presented based on the shear lag approach in which the influences of residual stress and frictional shear stress at the debonded interface were incorporated. The calculation method was applied to a model two-dimensional composite. An outline is given of the difference and similarity in the growing behavior of the debonding between the displacement and stress controls, and of the influences of the residual stresses, frictional shear stress, the nature of the final cut component (fiber or matrix) and sample length on the debonding behavior.     

Performance characteristics between horizontally and vertically oriented electrodes EHD ESP for collection of low-resistive diesel particulates

The novel electrohydrodynamically-assisted electrostatic precipitator (EHD ESP) was developed to suppress particle reentrainment for collection of low resistive diesel particulates. The collection efficiency was compared between vertically and horizontally oriented electrodes of the EHD ESP using 400 cc diesel engine. The particle size dependent collection efficiency was evaluated for the particle size ranging in 20 to 5000 nm using a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) and a particle counter (PC). Both horizontally and vertically oriented EHD ESP showed an excellent suppression of particle reentrainment. However, the horizontally oriented electrode EHD ESP showed significantly improved for the particle size of 300–500 nm in comparison with vertically oriented electrode EHD ESP, resulting in more than 90% collection efficiency for all particle size range. The EHD ESP has high potential especially for highly concentrated marine diesel engine emission control.