Breakpoint detection of heating wire in wind blade moulds using infrared thermography

In order to manufacture the fibre glass wind blades, one kind of mould embedded with heating wire is used not only for making numerous ‘copies’ of the original sample, and also heating the mould to a certain temperature for curing. The heating wire is embedded in fibre glass as a sandwich structure, and it may break after a long time usage at high temperatures. In this study, a high voltage discharging (HVD) circuit is used to trigger HVD at the breakpoint, which generates heat and therefore causes temperature increase at the corresponding front surface, one infrared camera is used to monitor the temperature evolution. It successfully and quickly detects breakpoints in spar moulds.     

CPU中可伸缩低开销的硬件调试器设计

介绍了一种基于JTAG的片上调试的低开销、可伸缩、支持“非侵入性”调试的硬件实现方法。该实现方法是通过在片上调试模块中引入一组映像寄存器，用于跟踪和设置CPU的状态。使用该方法避免了在CPU的关键路径上插入扫描链而限制了CPU性能提高的缺点。此外，本文还阐述了精确硬件断点的实现方法，调试模块实时监视数据地址总线和指令地址总线，当地址与预设值吻合时使CPU进入调试模式，该实现方法支持在程序全速运行时在断点处进入调试模式。本文所提出的方法已经在CK520嵌入式CPU中得到应用和证明。     

A bound for the reversal distance of genome rearrangements

This paper answers the conjecture posed by Jianxiu Hao regarding an estimate of sorting by reversals. More precisely, for every permutation π the right-hand inequality of will be proved.     

Scaffold assembly based on genome rearrangement analysis

Advances in DNA sequencing technology over the past decade have increased the volume of raw sequenced genomic data available for further assembly and analysis. While there exist many algorithms for assembly of sequenced genomic material, they often experience difficulties in constructing complete genomic sequences. Instead, they produce long genomic subsequences (scaffolds), which then become a subject to scaffold assembly aimed at reconstruction of their order along genome chromosomes. The balance between reliability and cost for scaffold assembly is not there just yet, which inspires one to seek for new approaches to address this problem. We present a new method for scaffold assembly based on the analysis of gene orders and genome rearrangements in multiple related genomes (some or even all of which may be fragmented). Evaluation of the proposed method on artificially fragmented mammalian genomes demonstrates its high reliability. We also apply our method for incomplete anophelinae genomes, which expose high fragmentation, and further validate the assembly results with referenced-based scaffolding. While the two methods demonstrate consistent results, the proposed method is able to identify more assembly points than the reference-based scaffolding.