The rehabilitation of older buildings for residential use that started in the last few decades of the 20th century has become recurrent in some Brazilian cities. In Sao Paulo, for instance, this subject is within the ...The rehabilitation of older buildings for residential use that started in the last few decades of the 20th century has become recurrent in some Brazilian cities. In Sao Paulo, for instance, this subject is within the context of the revitalization of its downtown area with the reintroduction of residential occupancy in the region as a consequence of actions taken by public and private groups. However, older buildings were designed based on the technologies and regulations available in the past and applied to meet the lifestyles of the time of their construction. This paper presents a method for the analysis of older apartment buildings, diagnosing their strengths and limitations in adapting to both the new Brazilian regulatory and legislative requirements, and the contemporary domestic demands. Requirements, criteria and methods for evaluation were studied, and defined as well as procedures for the application of a method which allows for a physical and systematic analysis of old apartment buildings. It was found that the proposed method can be an important support tool at the moment of studying the feasibility of rehabilitation processes, guiding and providing grounds for the design and building decisions of the professionals involved in these processes.展开更多
Memristor based artificial synapses have demonstrated great potential for bioinspired neuromorphic computing in recent years. To emulate synaptic fimctions, such as short-term plasticity and long-term potentiation/dep...Memristor based artificial synapses have demonstrated great potential for bioinspired neuromorphic computing in recent years. To emulate synaptic fimctions, such as short-term plasticity and long-term potentiation/depression, square pulses or combined complex pulse groups are applied on the device. However, in biological neuron systems, the action potentials are analog pulses with similar amplitudes. Furthermore, in biological systems, the intensity of the stimulus is coded into the frequency of action potentials to modulate the weight of synapses. Toward this programming method, we applied a series of analog spiking pulses with same peaks on Ru/TiOJTiN 3D memristor to emulate synaptic functions, such as long-term potentiation/depression and synaptic saturation. Moreover, we demonstrated the conductance change of the device under different stimulus frequencies of analog spiking pulses and described the statistical results of conductance change value, which shows that the device conductance has a larger change value under a higher spiking frequency with identical pulse number. These results show that the analog spiking pulses can well modulate the memristor-based synaptic weight and have a great potential for bioinspired computing in the future.展开更多
Mathematical models and computer simulations are useful experimental tools for building and testing theories. Many mathematical models in biology can be formulated by a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equati...Mathematical models and computer simulations are useful experimental tools for building and testing theories. Many mathematical models in biology can be formulated by a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. This work deals with the numerical solution of the hantavirus infection model, the human immunodeficiency virus （HIV） infection model of CD4^＋T cells and the susceptible-infected-removed （SIR） epidemic model using a new reliable algorithm based on shifted Boubaker Lagrangian （SBL） method. This method reduces the solution of such system to a system of linear or non- linear algebraic equations which are solved using the Newton iteration method. The obtained results of the proposed method show highly accurate and valid for an arbitrary finite interval. Also, those are compared with fourth-order Runge-Kutta （RK4） method and with the solutions obtained by some other methods in the literature.展开更多
文摘The rehabilitation of older buildings for residential use that started in the last few decades of the 20th century has become recurrent in some Brazilian cities. In Sao Paulo, for instance, this subject is within the context of the revitalization of its downtown area with the reintroduction of residential occupancy in the region as a consequence of actions taken by public and private groups. However, older buildings were designed based on the technologies and regulations available in the past and applied to meet the lifestyles of the time of their construction. This paper presents a method for the analysis of older apartment buildings, diagnosing their strengths and limitations in adapting to both the new Brazilian regulatory and legislative requirements, and the contemporary domestic demands. Requirements, criteria and methods for evaluation were studied, and defined as well as procedures for the application of a method which allows for a physical and systematic analysis of old apartment buildings. It was found that the proposed method can be an important support tool at the moment of studying the feasibility of rehabilitation processes, guiding and providing grounds for the design and building decisions of the professionals involved in these processes.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61521064,61422407,61474136,61574166,and61522408)the National High Technology Research Development Program(Grant Nos.2017YFB0405603,and 2016YFA0201803)+1 种基金Beijing Training Project for the Leading Talents in S&T(Grant No.ljrc201508)the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Microelectronics Devices&Integrated Technology,Institute of Microelectronics,the Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘Memristor based artificial synapses have demonstrated great potential for bioinspired neuromorphic computing in recent years. To emulate synaptic fimctions, such as short-term plasticity and long-term potentiation/depression, square pulses or combined complex pulse groups are applied on the device. However, in biological neuron systems, the action potentials are analog pulses with similar amplitudes. Furthermore, in biological systems, the intensity of the stimulus is coded into the frequency of action potentials to modulate the weight of synapses. Toward this programming method, we applied a series of analog spiking pulses with same peaks on Ru/TiOJTiN 3D memristor to emulate synaptic functions, such as long-term potentiation/depression and synaptic saturation. Moreover, we demonstrated the conductance change of the device under different stimulus frequencies of analog spiking pulses and described the statistical results of conductance change value, which shows that the device conductance has a larger change value under a higher spiking frequency with identical pulse number. These results show that the analog spiking pulses can well modulate the memristor-based synaptic weight and have a great potential for bioinspired computing in the future.
文摘Mathematical models and computer simulations are useful experimental tools for building and testing theories. Many mathematical models in biology can be formulated by a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations. This work deals with the numerical solution of the hantavirus infection model, the human immunodeficiency virus （HIV） infection model of CD4^＋T cells and the susceptible-infected-removed （SIR） epidemic model using a new reliable algorithm based on shifted Boubaker Lagrangian （SBL） method. This method reduces the solution of such system to a system of linear or non- linear algebraic equations which are solved using the Newton iteration method. The obtained results of the proposed method show highly accurate and valid for an arbitrary finite interval. Also, those are compared with fourth-order Runge-Kutta （RK4） method and with the solutions obtained by some other methods in the literature.
