Recovery of lower limb function following 6 weeks of non-weight bearing

Skeletal muscle weakness and atrophy occur following an extended period of decreased use, including space flight and limb unloading. It is also likely that affected muscles will be susceptible to a re-loading injury when they begin return to earth or weight bearing. However, there is a paucity of literature evaluating the response of human unloaded muscle to exercise and return to activity.

The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the soreness, function and strength response of muscle to re-loading in seven patients who were non-weight bearing for 6 weeks, compared to five healthy subjects.

Function improved significantly over time for the patients but was still less than the healthy subjects over 12 weeks of physiotherapy. Concentric quadriceps muscle strength increased significantly over time for the patients. There was considerable variability in the patients’ reports of muscle soreness but there were no significant changes over time or between groups.     

High-Order Intermodulation Effects in Digital Satellite Channels

The phenomenon of intermodulation generation due to passive and normally linear components is sometimes called passive intermodulation. A unique characteristic of passive intermodulation interference in communications satellites is that the products causing trouble are of high orders. Due to the immense combinatorial complexity of the problem, both exact analysis and direct simulation are almost impossible. In this paper the problem is simplified by considering a composite interference model consisting of 1) the lowest order intermodulation product (of those high-order ones) at a frequency of interest, 2) a constant-envelope carrier with random phase to account for all other intermodulation interferences by direct overlap or spectrum spreading in the vicinity, and 3) white Gaussian noise (receiver noise). An approximation of the tail statistics of this composite interference is derived, and numerical results (checked by simulation) show that the tail distribution may be very different from Gaussian; careful consideration must be rendered before resorting to the a priori Gaussian assumption.     

功率超声换能器应用与设计

本文主要介绍了功率超声在工业方面的应用，并介绍了清洗用功率超声换能器的设计，详细阐述了其结构特点、振动方程、振速分布及应力分布等。     

具有自检和故障定位功能的可编程开关阵列

可编程开关阵列是计算机辅助测试(CAT)系统的关键部件。本文详细地讨论这种阵列的组成、控制、可测试性以及自检算法,主要给出了如下几方面的概念:变形的复合三维阵列、细胞模块结构和独特的测试方法。这种三维阵列极大地减少了所需的开关数;模块结构使所设计的阵列具有充分的灵活性和良好的可维护性;这种开关阵列具有自检和精确的故障定位功能。上述概念已成功地用于开关阵列NS161的设计中,目前这个开关阵列正服役于上海航天局。