Создание равномерных покрытий импульсным лазерным осаждением

The present paper deals with the selection of laser beam processing parameters that guarantee the formation of thin coatings with even thickness by means of the laser beam deposition. Laser deposition was carried out in the atmosphere of Ar and Si and SiC samples were used as a source for the deposited material. Preliminary experiments show that there is a direct dependency between the brightness of the image of the deposited layer (at uniform illumination conditions) and its thickness. Therefore, it was possible to determine the thickness of the deposited layer for various processing parameters and to calculate the laws of motion of the work piece that guarantee the deposition of the layer with a minimal deviation of thickness from the required value. Calculated parameters were successfully used for the deposition of coatings on a substrate of a relatively large area.

Retrospective review: congenital pulmonary artery stenosis in dogs (prevalence forms)

Objective: to determine the occurrence and clinical characteristics of different types of PS (pulmonary stenosis) in dogs Reseach tasks: to identify the breed predisposition to PS, to study the clinical, echocardiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics of various types of PS and to analyse their dependence on the severity of the heart defect. Materials and methods: a retrospective analysis of Biocontrol veterinary clinic medical records throughout six years (2014–2020). Cardiological examination of dogs presented to the primary ambulatory appointment included physical examination, echocardiography using the Philips HD15 ultrasound system, radiography and electrocardiography. Animals: 31 dogs with isolated pulmonary artery stenosis (17 males and 14 females). Breeds: French Bulldog, English Bulldog, Yorkshire Terrier, German Spitz, American Pit Bull Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier, Toy Terrier, Cane Corso, Whippet, Biewer Yorkshire Terrier, Chihuahua, Entlebucher, German Boxer, East European Shepherd, American Bully. Results and discussion: 43 dogs with a PS were examined from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020. Of these, 31 dogs (72 %) with isolated PS and 12 dogs (28 %) with a combination of PS with other congenital heart defects. The most common combinations were PS with aortic stenosis (25 %) and PS with ventricular septal defect (25 %). The most common form of isolated PS was type A valve stenosis (68 %). Severe stenosis prevailed (58 %). The most common breeds were French Bulldogs (22.6 %), English Bulldogs (16.1 %) and Yorkshire Terriers (9.7 %). Males were more prevalent (55 %). 61 % of animals from the group of dogs with severe PS visited clinic because of signalment, and syncope was the most frequently reported symptom (28 %). The symptoms associated with congenital heart defect were not identified in the group of animals with moderate and mild degrees of PS. ECG showed that 100 % of dogs were diagnosed with sinus rhythm. Electrical right axis deviation of the heart was detected in 45 % of dogs. Direct dependency was between the severity of the stenosis and the severity of electrical right axis deviation. According to echocardiographic studies — 100 % of animals with severe and moderate stenosis and 14% with mild stenosis were diagnosed with concentric, eccentric or mixed forms of right ventricle myocardial hypertrophy, enlargement of the right atrial. Direct dependency is founded between the severity of stenosis, the type of right ventricle hypertrophy and the size of the right atrium. The more severe stenosis, the more mixed form of hypertrophy; increase of the right atrium was recorded in dogs with mixed right ventricular hypertrophy. Post-stenotic dilatation of the trunk and branches of the pulmonary artery was determined in all dogs with single right coronary artery type R2A. Conclusions: PS is most commonly found in French Bulldogs. The most common type of PS is type A valvular stenosis in the form of an isolated defect. Severe PS is prevalent. There is direct dependency is between the severity of the defect and the severity of right ventricular myocardial hypertrophy, the large size of the right atrium and electrical right axis deviation of the heart.

Combined Acidification and Solar Drying of Pig Slurries for Nutrient Recovery and Controlled Atmospheric Emissions

The solar drying of pig slurries was tested in a pilot-scale greenhouse (10 m2 footprint), operated with forced ventilation under low and high solar irradiation in Mediterranean conditions. Gaseous emissions were prevented through slurry acidification and by the biofiltration of exhaust gases. Air relative humidity and temperature in and out the greenhouse, as well as the weight of a slurry sample, were monitored online to command the ventilation regime. Daily average drying rate values ranged from 0.3 to 2.8 kg m−2 d−1 and displayed a direct dependency with solar radiation until the pig slurry lost a 60% of its initial weight, with a solar energy efficiency of about 26%. Upon further drying, the water content from pig slurries stabilized at around 10%. Mass balances between the initial slurry and dried product were closed for total solids and organic matter, but the recovery of nutrients ranged from 69% to 81%, apparently because of precipitation and incrustation phenomena. The NPK composition of the final product was 4.3–2.5–3.8 and fulfilled current regulations for solid organic fertilizers. Operational costs of the drying process and fertilizing quality parameters were also discussed.

On the bead design in LFT structures: the influence of manufacturing-induced residual stresses

In the design of long fibre reinforced thermoplastic (LFT) structures, there is a direct dependency on the manufacturing. Therefore, it is indispensable to integrate the manufacturing influences into the design process. This not only offers new opportunities for material- and load-adapted designs, but also reduces cost-intensive modifications in later stages. The goal of this contribution is to make the complexity manageable by presenting a method which couples LFT manufacturing and structural simulations in an automated optimization loop. Herein, the influence of linear-elastic, local anisotropic material properties as well as residual stresses resulting from the compression molding of LFT on the stiffness-optimized design of beaded plates is investigated. Based on the simulation studies in this contribution, it can be summarized that the resulting bead height and flank angle, considering anisotropies and residual stresses, are smaller compared to isotropic modelling. As a conclusion, the strength constraint limits the maximum bead height and the flank angle needs to be additionally chosen as a consequence of the local fibre orientations and residual stresses resulting from manufacturing. Optimized bead cross sections are only valid for a specific system under investigation, as they depend on the defined boundary conditions (load case, initial charge geometry and position, fibre orientations, etc.).

Wh-Scope Marking in Japanese: Evidence for the Indirect-Dependency Approach

The goal of this squib is to tease apart two competing approaches to wh-scope marking, the direct-dependency approach and the indirect-dependency approach, by introducing Japanese wh-scope marking. The two approaches make different predictions regarding the type of the embedded clause in wh-scope-marking constructions. The embedded clause is regarded as declarative under the direct-dependency approach but as interrogative under the indirect-dependency approach. What is especially interesting in this respect is that Japanese wh-scope marking requires the embedded clause to be marked by the interrogative complementizer ka. Japanese wh-scope marking thus provides clear morphological evidence for the indirect-dependency approach.

Text Classification Using Self-Structure Extended Multinomial Naive Bayes

With the advent of neural networks and its subfields like deep neural networks and convolutional neural networks, it is possible to make text classification predictions with high accuracy. Among the many subtypes of naive Bayes, multinomial naive Bayes is used for text classification. Many attempts have been made to somehow develop an algorithm that uses the simplicity of multinomial naive Bayes and at the same time incorporates feature dependency. One such effort was put in structure extended multinomial naive Bayes, which uses one-dependence estimators to inculcate dependencies. Basically, one-dependence estimators take one of the attributes as features and all other attributes as its child. This chapter proposes self structure extended multinomial naïve Bayes, which presents a hybrid model, a combination of the multinomial naive Bayes and structure extended multinomial naive Bayes. Basically, it tries to classify the instances that were misclassified by structure extended multinomial naive Bayes as there was no direct dependency between attributes.

Distributionally Adversarial Attack

Recent work on adversarial attack has shown that Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) Adversary is a universal first-order adversary, and the classifier adversarially trained by PGD is robust against a wide range of first-order attacks. It is worth noting that the original objective of an attack/defense model relies on a data distribution p(x), typically in the form of risk maximization/minimization, e.g., max/min Ep(x) L(x) with p(x) some unknown data distribution and L(·) a loss function. However, since PGD generates attack samples independently for each data sample based on L(·), the procedure does not necessarily lead to good generalization in terms of risk optimization. In this paper, we achieve the goal by proposing distributionally adversarial attack (DAA), a framework to solve an optimal adversarial-data distribution, a perturbed distribution that satisfies the L∞ constraint but deviates from the original data distribution to increase the generalization risk maximally. Algorithmically, DAA performs optimization on the space of potential data distributions, which introduces direct dependency between all data points when generating adversarial samples. DAA is evaluated by attacking state-of-the-art defense models, including the adversarially-trained models provided by MIT MadryLab. Notably, DAA ranks the first place on MadryLab’s white-box leaderboards, reducing the accuracy of their secret MNIST model to 88.56% (with l∞ perturbations of ε = 0.3) and the accuracy of their secret CIFAR model to 44.71% (with l∞ perturbations of ε = 8.0). Code for the experiments is released on https://github.com/tianzheng4/Distributionally-Adversarial-Attack.

Sphere

A decentralization of electronic currency would allow business activity and development of a single network to be independent of other different business networks. Cost of a decentralized currency of the network can become stable as long as participants of that network are still active.We propose a solution for such a big problem of traditional economy as a “direct dependency of local prices on global ones”.We also propose an innovative mechanism that allows participants of NCN to get any service of one business network for money (hours) earned in other network (‘s).The currency is implemented by usage of two innovative technologies, “Proof of Participation protocol” (PoP) [3] and “Smart Transactions” [2].

Studying the Dependence of the Toxic Effect on the Time of the Toxicant's Contact with the Algae Culture

Relevance. The intensity of photosynthesis is the most common toxicity test when using algae as test objects. All methods for determining photosynthesis are based on measuring the rate of oxygen evolution or absorption of carbon dioxide in an incubation medium before and after a certain exposure of algae culture to light. Purpose. Determination of threshold concentrations of toxic substances for this method and study of the dependence of the type of dose-value of the toxic effect. Results. Toxicity bioassay by evaluating the photosynthetic activity of algae is possible only for wastewater with acute toxicity. A direct dependency between the magnitude of the toxic effect and the duration of contact of algae with toxicants is observed for about an hour. A further increase in the contact time almost does not increase the toxic effect. Conclusions. By increasing the contact time of algae with toxicants, it is possible to significantly increase the sensitivity of the method and, possibly, use it to evaluate low-toxic wastewater. However, for the final conclusions about the limits of sensitivity of the method, and, therefore, about the scope of its application, additional studies are needed.