Characterization of the sleep architecture in two species of fruit bat

Bats (Chiroptera) are the second-most abundant mammalian order in the world, occupying a diverse range of habitats and exhibiting many different life history traits. In order to contribute to this highly underrepresented group we describe the sleep architecture of two species of frugivorous bat, the greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) and the lesser dawn fruit bat (Eonycteris spelaea). Electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) data were recorded from multiple individuals (>= 5) by telemetry over a 72-h period in a laboratory setting with light/dark cycles equivalent to those found in the wild. Our results show that over a 24-h period both species spent more time asleep than awake (mean 15 h), less than previous reported for Chiroptera (20 h). C sphinx spent significantly more of its non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) quotas during the light phase, while E. spelaea divided its sleep-wake architecture equally between both light and dark phases. Comparing the sleep patterns of the two species found that C. sphinx had significantly fewer NREM and REM episodes than E. spelaea but each episode lasted for a significantly longer period of time. Potential hypotheses to explain the differences in the sleep architecture of C. sphinx with E. spelaea, including risk of predation and social interaction are discussed. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V.

应用软件发布与恢复机制研究

在传统的软件开发过程中，开发者更关注软件开发生命周期的管理，而对软 件开发后生命周期的管理并不热心。随着信息技术和互联网技术的快速发展，软 件产业发生了重大变革。新的软件运营模式要求对软件开发后生命周期管理提供 完善的支持。 本文首先回顾了传统的软件发布技术。PXE技术提供了网络远程引导功能， 该技术结合网络远程唤醒技术Wake-on-LAN使得通过网络远程控制客户机安装 操作系统成为可能。网络安装软件有基于网络克隆的Symantec Ghost和Windows Server 2003 RIS；有基于脚本的Kickstart；有基于镜像的SystemImager suite。在 开源系统中，APT是最为著名的包管理工具，它较为完善地解决了软件包之间的 依赖关系。网络更新技术则提供了更多的功能，目前的更新软件有：通用产品更 新器Install Shield, Power Update, Software Dock, Marimba等；以及供应商产品更 新器Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Microsoft SUS, Microsoft SMS, Norton AntiVirus LiveUpate等。 美国Colorado大学为软件开发后生命周期建立了一个体系结构Software Dock，并实现了一个粗略的原型系统。本研究侧重分析了应用软件的发布和恢 复机制，提出以用户的角度看待软件开发后生命周期管理的思想，建立了一个软 件发布机制体系结构，试图解决如下问题：系统重装后的运行态恢复，即系统崩 溃后如何快速而灵活地恢复到指定状态点并且重建该状态点的运行状态(即运行 态恢复)；应用软件恢复透明化和即点即用。

Mechanism Responsible for the Complete Suppression of Karman Vortex in Flows Past a Wavy Square-Section Cylinder

The Karman vortex shedding is totally suppressed in flows past a wavy square-section cylinder at a Reynolds number of 100 and the wave steepness of 0.025. Such a phenomenon is illuminated by the numerical simulations. In the present study, the mechanism responsible for it is mainly attributed to the vertical vorticity. The geometric disturbance on the rear surface leads to the appearance of spanwise flow near the base. The specific vertical vorticity is generated on the rear surface and convecting into the near wake. The wake flow is recirculated with the appearance of the pair of recirculating cells. The interaction between the upper and lower shear layers is weakened by such cells, so that the vortex rolls could not be formed and the near wake flow becomes stable.

圆柱涡激振动的结构-尾流振子耦合模型研究

建立了一个新的结构一尾流振子耦合模型, 流场近尾迹动力学特征被模化为非线性阻尼振子, 采用van der Pol方程描述.以控制体中结构与近尾迹流体间受力互为反作用关系来实现流固耦合, 采用该模型进行了二维结构涡激振动计算, 得到了合理的振幅随来流流速的变化规律和共振幅值, 并正确地预计了共振振幅值 A~*_(max) 随着质量阻尼参数(m~*+ C_A)ζ的变化规律, 给出了预测A*_(max) 值的拟合公式, 采用该模型计算了三维柔性结构在均匀来流和简谐波形来流作用下的VIV响应.结构在均匀来流作用下振动呈现由驻波向行波的变化过程, 并最后稳定为行波振动形态, 在简谐波形来流作用下, 结构呈现混合振动形态, 幅值随时间呈周期变化

FLOW STRUCTURES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL FISH-LIKE SWIMMING

The swimming of a fish-like body is numerical simulated. The wake structures consist of a series of hairpin-like vortices braided together. The caudal fins generated vorticity interacts constructively with the body-bounded vorticity.

高焓风洞中带翼钝锥体尾流电子密度的测量与分析

报道了在爆轰驱动高焓激波风洞中开展带尾翼钝锥体电子密度测试的相关研究工作进展.试验气流为4km/s,密度为0.001kg/m3.诊断尾翼对尾流的影响时,为不影响流场并获得足够的空间分辨率采用针状静电探针;实验结果给出带尾翼模型对尾流电子密度影响的定量结果及受影响的空间区域

采用改进尾流振子模型的柔性海洋立管的涡激振动响应分析

建立了柔性杆件在非均匀流作用下的涡激振动响应预测模型, 考虑了涡激振动锁频阶段流体附加质量的变化, 以及振动响应和来流简缩速度的非线性关系. 该模型通过经验公式结合迭代求解的方式, 计算方便、速度快, 避免了数值计算(CFD)的繁琐, 较为适合于海洋工程实际应用. 与试验和数值结果的比较表明采用该文提出的计算模型, 可以更合理、准确地给出结构涡激振动响应. 最后, 结合实际平台参数, 进行了柔性立管在非均匀流场的作用下的涡激振动响应分析, 并研究了立管的预张力、流场分布等参数的影响. 分析结果表明: 随着立管张力和流场分布的改变, 各阶模态锁频区域发生了变化, 从而改变了结构的总体响应

Design Study of a Heavily Loaded Ice Class Propeller Using an Advance Panel Method

A design and optimization procedure developed and used for a propeller installed on a twin-semitunnel-hull ship navigating in very shallow and icy water under heavy load conditions is presented. The base propeller for this vessel was first determined using classic design routines under open-water condition with existing model test data. In the optimization process, a panel method code (PROPELLA) was used to vary the pitch values and distributions and take into account the inflow wake distribution, tunnel gap, and cavitation effects. The optimized propeller was able to improve a ship speed of 0.02 knots higher than the desired speed and 0.06 knots higher than the classic B-series propeller. The analysis of the effect of inflow wake, hull tunnel, cavitation, and blade rake angle on propulsive performance is the focus of this paper.

Multi-mode Vortex-induced Vibration of Slender Cable Experiencing Shear Flow

The dynamic characteristics of slender cable often present serried modes with low frequencies due to large structure flexibility resulted from high aspect ratio (ratio of length to diameter of cable), while the flow velocity distributes non-uniformly along the cable span actually in practical engineering. Therefore, the prediction of the vertex-induce vibration of slender cable suffered from multi-mode and high-mode motions becomes a challenging problem. In this paper a prediction approach based on modal energy is developed to deal with multi-mode lock-in. Then it is applied to the modified wake-oscillator model to predict the VIV displacement and stress responses of cable in non-uniform flow field. At last, illustrative examples are given of which the VIV response of flexible cable in nonlinear shear flow field is analyzed. The effects of flow velocity on VIV are explored. Our results show that both displacement and stress responses become larger as the flow velocity increasing; especially higher stress response companied with higher frequency vibration should be paid enough attention in practical design of SFT because of its remarkable influence on structure fatigue life.

INVESTIGATING A NEAR-BED SUBMARINE PIPELINE IN A CURRENT

This paper considers the lift forces acting on a pipeline with a small gap between the pipeline and the plane bottom or scoring bottom. A more reasonable fluid force on the pipeline has been obtained by applying the knowledge of modified potential theory (MPT), which includes the influences of the downstream wake. By finite element method, an iteration procedure is used to solve problems of the nonlinear fluid-structure interaction. Comparing the deflection and the stress distributions with the difference sea bottoms, the failure patterns of a spanning pipeline have been discussed. The results are essential for engineers to assess pipeline stability.

He, Ne and Ar isotopic composition of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis

The noble gas nuclide abundances and isotopic ratios of the upmost layer of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean have been determined. The results indicate that the He and Ar nuclide abundances and isotopic ratios can be classified into two types: low He-3/He-4 type and high He-3/He-4 type. The low He-3/He-4 type is characterized by high He-4 abundances of 191x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1) on average, with variable He-4, Ne-20 and Ar-40 abundances in the range (42.8-421)x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1), (5.40-141)x10(-9)cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1), and (773-10976)x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1), respectively. The high He-3/He-4 samples are characterized by low He-4 abundances of 11.7x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1) on average, with He-4, Ne-20 and Ar-40 abundances in the range of (7.57-17.4)x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1), (110.4-25.5)x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1) and (5354-9050)x10(-9) cm(3.)STP(.)g(-1), respectively. The low He-3/He-4 samples have He-3/He-4 ratios (with RIRA ratios of 2.04-2.92) which are lower than those of MORB (R/R-A=8 +/- 1) and Ar-40/Ar-36 ratios (447-543) which are higher than those of air (295.5). The high He-3/He-4 samples have He-3/He-4 ratios (with R/R-A ratios of 10.4-12.0) slightly higher than those of MORB (R/R-A=8 +/- 1) and Ar-40/Ar-36 ratios (293-299) very similar to those of air (295.5). The Ne isotopic ratios (Ne-20/Ne-22 and Ne-21/Ne-22 ratios of 10.3-10.9 and 0.02774-0.03039, respectively) and the Ar-38/Ar-36 ratios (0.1886-0.1963) have narrow ranges which are very similar to those of air (the Ne-20/Ne-22, Ne-21/Ne-22, Ar-38/Ar-36 ratios of 9.80, 0.029 and 0.187, respectively), and cannot be differentiated into different groups. The noble gas nuclide abundances and isotopic ratios, together with their regional variability, suggest that the noble gases in the Fe-Mn crusts originate primarily from the lower mantle. The low He-3/He-4 type and high He-3/He-4 type samples have noble gas characteristics similar to those of HIMU (High U/Pb Mantle)- and EM (Enriched Mantle)-type mantle material, respectively. The low He-3/He-4 type samples with HIMU-type noble gas isotopic ratios occur in the Magellan Seamounts, Marcus-Wake Seamounts, Marshall Island Chain and the Mid-Pacific Seamounts whereas the high He-3/He-4 type samples with EM-type noble gas isotopic ratios occur in the Line Island Chain. This difference in noble gas characteristics of these crust types implies that the Magellan Seamounts, Marcus-Wake Seamounts, Marshall Island Chain, and the Mid-Pacific Seamounts originated from HIMU-type lower mantle material whereas the Line Island Chain originated from EM-type lower mantle material. This finding is consistent with variations in the Pb-isotope and trace element signatures in the seamount lavas. Differences in the mantle surce may therefore be responsible for variations in the noble gas abundances and isotopic ratios in the Fe-Mn crusts. Mantle degassing appears to be the principal factor controlling noble gas isotopic abundances in Fe-Mn crusts. Decay of radioactive isotopes has a negligible influence on the nuclide abundances and isotopic ratios of noble gases in these crusts on the timescale of their formation.