Analysis of Welding Defects in Spot Welding Process U-I Curves
High speed collecting and managing system of spot welding signal can achieve the A/D conversion and data collection. The data of welding current, electrode voltage as well as welding cycle has been collected. Subsequently, they were processed with data acquisition and memory module, wavelet filtering of digit signal module, U-I curves and energy analyzing module, respectively. Based on the collections of welding current and electrode voltage, a criterion splash occurrence and the defective of loose weld by U-I curves change and acreage were proposed. The results prove that the criterion can decipher the welding splash and defective of loose weld accurately.

title: A Speaker Verification System Based on EMD
abstract: Most of the speech utterance feature extraction methods are based on the assumptions: utterance signal is short-term stable and independent between each other adjacent frames. This approach ignores the dynamic characteristics of speech signal. For the time-varying characteristics of the speech utterance, we propose a new feature extraction method based on empirical mode decomposition EMD. We can extract the LPCC feature parameters from different stages of IMFs which are decomposed by EMD process. A speaker verification system based on EMD is proposed and it is shown that it is better performance than the one with traditional LPCC features based on short-term process.

title: An Energy Reporting Aggregation Method Based on EAFM and DTRM in WSN
abstract: Analyzed the energy consumption disciplinarian of the nodes in WSN, the node’s Energy Attenuation Forecast Model(EAFM) can be established. A Difference-threshold Reporting Mechanism (DTRM) is used to report the residual energy of nodes. The energy collection mechanism based on EAFM and DTRM can reduce energy data reporting times significantly,improve the efficient of energy data collection, save the node's energy at the same time. The experiments in the platform of telosb nodes show that the predicable rate is between 70% and85%, and this method can extend the node’s life by 1% ~ 4.5%.

title: An Approximate Controller for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems with Time Delay
abstract: An approximation controller is developed to obtain an optimal control for nonlinear networked control systems (NCS) with time delay. In the approach only the non-linear compensating term, solution of a sequence of adjoint vector differential equations, is required iteration. By taking the finite iteration of non-linear compensating term of optimal solution sequence, a suboptimal control law for NCS can be obtained.

title: A comparison between the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database and the Science Citation Index in terms of journal hierarchies and interjournal citation relations
abstract: The journal structure in the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD) is analysed from three perspectives: the database level, the specialty level and the institutional level (i.e., university journals versus journals issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences). The results are compared with those for (Chinese) journals included in the Science Citation Index. The frequency of journal-journal citation relations in the CSTPCD is an order of magnitude lower than in the SCI. Chinese journals, especially high-quality journals, prefer to cite international journals rather than domestic ones. However, Chinese journals do not get an equivalent reception from their international counterparts. The international visibility of Chinese journals is low, but varies among fields of science. Journals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have a better reception in the international scientific community than university journals.

title: Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents
abstract: The Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index 2004 were used to delineate a core set of nanotechnology journals and a nanotechnology-relevant set. In comparison with 2003, the core set has grown and the relevant set has decreased. This suggests a higher degree of codification in the field of nanotechnology: the field has become more focused in terms of citation practices. Using the citing patterns among journals at the aggregate level, a core group of ten nanotechnology journals in the vector space can be delineated on the criterion of betweenness centrality. National contributions to this core group of journals are evaluated for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. Additionally, the specific class of nanotechnology patents in the database of the U. S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) is analyzed to determine if non-patent literature references can be used as a source for the delineation of the knowledge base in terms of scientific journals. The references are primarily to general science journals and letters, and therefore not specific enough for the purpose of delineating a journal set.

title: Are the contributions of China and Korea upsetting the world system of science?
abstract: SummaryInstitutions and their aggregates are not the right units of analysis for developing a science policy with cognitive goals in view. Institutions, however, can be compared in terms of their performance with reference to their previous stages. King's (2004) 'The scientific impact of nations' has provided the data for this comparison. Evaluation of the data from this perspective along the time axis leads to completely different and hitherto overlooked conclusions: a new dynamic can be revealed which points to a group of emerging nations. These nations do not increase their contributions marginally, but their national science systems grow endogenously. In addition to publications, their citation rates keep pace with the exponential growth patterns, albeit with a delay. The center of gravity of the world system of science may be changing accordingly.