Assessing the impact of pulsed-irradiation procedures on the thermally transferred OSL signal in quartz

Thermally transferred optically stimulated luminescence (TT-OSL) dating protocols have been suggested as a means of extending the age range of luminescence dating. Several studies demonstrate that TT-OSL signals increase with large radiation doses (>2000 Gy) and yet, few studies report older TT-OSL ages (>400 Gy) in agreement with independent absolute age control. In one such study, agreement with independent chronology was only achieved for the old samples by implementing a pulsed-irradiation procedure. Pulsed-irradiation is suggested to compensate for dose rate dependent competition effects by dividing the laboratory irradiation into discrete irradiation steps interspersed with heat treatments. However, every inter-step heat treatment has the potential to anneal part of the TT-OSL dating signal. This study compares constant- and pulsed-irradiation TT-OSL protocols and investigates the degree of partial thermal annealing. The results suggest that almost all of the difference in outcome between constant- and pulsed-irradiation protocols can be explained by partial annealing of the TT-OSL signal rather than by competition effects. Partial annealing distorts the laboratory dose response curve but has no impact on the natural signal, resulting in unreliable equivalent dose estimates. This means that pulsed-irradiation procedures may not be viable for TT-OSL dating measurements. Future studies implementing pulsed-irradiation procedures should carefully consider the extent to which inter-step thermal treatments partially anneal the signal.     

细菌视紫红质高分辨图象存储中吸收和散射现象的实验研究

本文利用细菌视紫红质变种材料BR_D96N的基态和M态实现了图象的高分辨存储.实验研究了该样品的吸收特性;在此基础上分析了散射光对BR膜图象质量的影响,并通过合理的控制激发光强和激发时间在BR膜样品上得到分辨率为800lp/mm的高分辨图象.     

Comparison and bounds for functionals of future lifetimes consistent with life tables

We derive a new crossing criterion of hazard rates to identify a stochastic order relation between two random variables. We apply this crossing criterion in the context of life tables to derive stochastic ordering results among three families of fractional age assumptions: the family of linear force of mortality functions, the family of quadratic survival functions and the power family. Further, this criterion is used to derive tight bounds for functionals of future lifetimes that exhibit an increasing force of mortality with given one-year survival probabilities. Numerical examples illustrate our findings.     

Cosmic history of the Bragin pallasite: evidence from the fission-track analysis

Chronology is rather a weak point in the investigation of pallasites, the stony-iron meteorites. No chronological data are known for the Bragin pallasite. Our attempt to reconstruct its cosmic history was based on the interpretation of fission-track analysis data. To apply this method only uranium-rich phosphates can be used. Extremely rare grains of stanfieldite were extracted from the silicate sawing residue and from the pallasite sample directly.

The researches pursued by us made it possible to find two populations of fossil tracks in stanfieldite grains. The tracks of these populations strongly differed both in size, shape and character of distribution. The first population, consisting of short (L2–6 μm instead of L8–12 μm for induced fission tracks), round-shaped tracks irregularly distributed, as we suppose, suffered an intense heating process, which caused a significant amount of partial annealing. The second population, consisting of longer (L8–12 μm), rhombic-shaped tracks homogeneously distributed, occurred after this thermal event. Only the second population track density was used for the fission-track age calculation.

After correction of the fossil track density, consisting of the second population tracks, for other possible track sources, the revealed tracks were unequivocally identified as those due to the spontaneous fission of ²⁴⁴Pu and ²³⁸U. The largest part of them was attributed to the spontaneous fission of ²⁴⁴Pu; ρ_Pu/ρ_U≈3. The model fission-track age of the studied pallasite turned out to be 4.20 Gyr. This value fix the time of the last shock/thermal event in the cosmic history of the Bragin pallasite, which had caused the partial annealing of tracks presented to that time and “fission-track clock” reset.     

汉中市三组年龄段人群发 Pb含量测定分析

用原子吸收光谱法测定了健康少儿、青年、中老年三个年龄段共 2 74人发Pb含量。统计结果表明 ,中老年组发Pb含量最高 ( 9 52 1× 1 0 - 6 ± 2 3 3 9× 1 0 - 6 ) ,三组发Pb有明显差异。各组男女之间发Pb含量无显著性差异 ,Pb与Cd、Fe有相关性。提示当某些必需元素随着年龄增长而降低时 ,发Pb却有随着年龄增长而增高的倾向 ,故Pb在体内的蓄积作用对中老年人带来的危害更应受到关注     

NHn(n=1～3)体系电子对内对间相关能的变化规律

众所周知,电子相关能问题是量子化学的瓶颈问题‘’‘．为了更深人地了解和认识电子相关能的轨道本质,建立P。St－HF理论校正模型,JS等”－”应用电子对内对间电子相关模式,指出国际著名量子     

Age Analysis of Status Updating System with Probabilistic Packet Preemption

The age of information (AoI) metric was proposed to measure the freshness of messages obtained at the terminal node of a status updating system. In this paper, the AoI of a discrete time status updating system with probabilistic packet preemption is investigated by analyzing the steady state of a three-dimensional discrete stochastic process. We assume that the queue used in the system is Ber/Geo/1/2*/η, which represents that the system size is 2 and the packet in the buffer can be preempted by a fresher packet with probability η. Instead of considering the system’s AoI separately, we use a three-dimensional state vector (n,m,l) to simultaneously track the real-time changes of the AoI, the age of a packet in the server, and the age of a packet waiting in the buffer. We give the explicit expression of the system’s average AoI and show that the average AoI of the system without packet preemption is obtained by letting η=0. When η is set to 1, the mean of the AoI of the system with a Ber/Geo/1/2* queue is obtained as well. Combining the results we have obtained and comparing them with corresponding average continuous AoIs, we propose a possible relationship between the average discrete AoI with the Ber/Geo/1/c queue and the average continuous AoI with the M/M/1/c queue. For each of two extreme cases where η=0 and η=1, we also determine the stationary distribution of AoI using the probability generation function (PGF) method. The relations between the average AoI and the packet preemption probability η, as well as the AoI’s distribution curves in two extreme cases, are illustrated by numerical simulations. Notice that the probabilistic packet preemption may occur, for example, in an energy harvest (EH) node of a wireless sensor network, where the packet in the buffer can be replaced only when the node collects enough energy. In particular, to exhibit the usefulness of our idea and methods and highlight the merits of considering discrete time systems, in this paper, we provide detailed discussions showing how the results about continuous AoI are derived by analyzing the corresponding discrete time system and how the discrete age analysis is generalized to the system with multiple sources. In terms of packet service process, we also propose an idea to analyze the AoI of a system when the service time distribution is arbitrary.     

Nonequilibrium dynamics in two-dimensional Ising spin glass

This paper investigates the nonequilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional Ising spin glass by dynamical Monte Carlo simulations. A new method is developed to quantitatively measure the age of domain growth. Using this method it investigates how temperature shift affects the effective age of domain growth. It finds that the T -shift dependence of the effective age follows the prediction of the droplet model quite well. It also investigates the overlap length between the spin glass states as well as the correlated flips of spins,which are not consistent with the theoretical predictions. The possible reasons are discussed.     

新疆干旱地区褐家鼠种群结构特征的初步研究

根据多年的实地调查数据，研究了褐家鼠在新疆干旱环境中的种群生态学特征。结果表明，褐家鼠种群内禀增长率(rm)0.221，种群周限增长率(λ)为1．247。同时还发现，褐家鼠移入新疆干旱环境后，其种群年凝结构尚未见明显变化，仍为稳定增长。     

具有潜伏年龄和隔离的SEIQ流行病模型的稳定性

建立和研究了具潜伏带年龄和隔离的SEIQ流行病模型.运用微分方程和积分方程中的理论和方法,得到基本再生数R0的表达式,证明了当R0<1时,存在全局渐近稳定的无病平衡点,当R0>1时,无病平衡点不稳定,此时存在局部渐近稳定的地方病平衡点.