Living and learning as an international postgraduate student at a Midlands university

This paper investigates the views of 20 full-time international postgraduate students, many of whom were Chinese, on living, learning and becoming successful students at one university in a multicultural city in the Midlands of England. The qualitative study built on findings from the International Students’ Barometer (ISB) survey for the university, in that it seeks to understand how students’ experience of context (living) interacted with their experience of learning in building their identities as successful learners. Student participants were sampled opportunistically within a purposive framework. Data was collected through audio-recorded individual semi-structured interviews, using as a stimulus participant-constructed concept maps of their perceptions of learning in the university and living in the city. Interview data were transcribed and analysed thematically. The main findings showed that participants enjoyed living in a city with an international culture, although some found it strange initially because they encountered different styles of life and food, albeit including some that they enjoyed at home. They welcomed studying at a university with high international prestige, a wide range of excellent facilities and generally approachable tutors but were shocked by having to undertake unfamiliar styles of independent learning with brief teaching hours. They perceived culture shock as transitional, which declined as they made friends, often with co-linguists, and became familiar with life in the city, work in the university and the extensive support of tutors.     

Seismic response analysis of long-span suspen-dome under multi-support excitations

A practical suspen-dome project, Changzhou Gym roof, is adopted as an example and its transient analysis based on the multi-support excitations of the earthquake wave is carried out. Compared with the single support excitation, the position and value of the maximum stress under multi-support excitations both change and the amount of elements with obvious changes is large and more than 70% of the total. Moreover, when other terms are not changed, this influence will decrease as the span decreases, but increa...     

用平面波法计算光子晶体光纤

本文讨论了平面波法在光子晶体光纤中的应用,在光子晶体光纤的横截面内选取包含芯层的一个大晶格,形成一个假想的二维周期结构,用平面波将模式磁场展开．就可以求解任意横截面光纤中的麦克斯韦方程。     

光学系统成像的仿真研究

利用波动光学的基本理论,对复杂的光学系统的成像进行分析,并结合MATLAB语言的编程和图像处理功能。通过数值模拟形象地把光学系统成像的结果显示出来。结果表明,在对单透镜系统成像分析的基础上,可以对各种复杂的光学系统的成像进行分析。利用这种方法作为辅助教学手段,有助于学生更加深刻地理解光学系统的成像,提高教学质量。     

A new patch antenna with metamaterial cover

INTRODUCTION Investigation of metamaterials is currently one of the most active frontiers in engineering and physics. Metamaterials are also called backward-wave mate- rials, double-negative materials, or left-handed mate- rials. Left-handed materials were proposed by Vese- lago (1968). The applications of metamaterials are widely spread in many fields (Pendry, 2000; Grbic and Eleftheriades, 2003; Foteinopoulou et al., 2003), such as imaging apparatus, planar light wave circuits, optica…     

烃类水合物高压密相波形板壁防火材料设计

设计防火材料中,对防火特性基质的合成材料的设计研究是关键,烃类水合物在持续受热条件下具有较好的阻燃性能,烃类水合物是由碳和氢两种元素组成的有机化合物,是具有一定潜质的选材原料。为解决烃类水合物高压密相波形板壁隔热防火材料设计中关键技术问题,开展对烃类水合物高压密相波形板壁隔热防火材料设计的研究和实验工作,采用高压密相波形板壁设计方法,合成出Ui O-66(Zr)烃类水合物隔热防火材料。基于变压吸附分离技术,分析材料的热稳定性、化学稳定性、力学稳定性和热降解特性。利用烃类水合物高压密相波形板壁隔热技术实现对高热稳定和水稳定的隔热防火材料研究。实验得出,当样品升温速率低于加热系统的升温速率,样品受到外部加热的作用,发生破乳和水分挥发,实现阻止燃烧的功效,有效提高阻燃性能,采用该隔热防火材料,阻燃和耐高温性能较优越。     

褐藻糖胶测定的影响因素及其提取的优化工艺分析

研究了苯酚-硫酸法和氯化钡明胶比浊法分别测定褐藻糖胶中多糖和硫酸根含量的影响因素，并分析了用正交试验设计法超声波辅助提取工艺的褐藻糖胶，优化提取工艺中褐藻糖胶含量达到36．97％．硫酸根含量达到22．49％。     

一类四阶非线性波动方程整体解的存在性

借助线性问题的衰减估计，在一适当的Banach空间，利用整体迭代法证明了一类非线性四阶波动方程Cauchy问题整体解的存在性     

量子力学中德布罗意波的波长和频率的计算

通过对德布罗意关系中和的意义及其之间关系的分析。澄清德布罗意波的波长和频率计算过程中的一些问题。     

从康普顿效应看光的本性

康普顿效应是光与物质作用结果的一种方式，对它的准确理解是对光的本性正确认识的前提。教学过程中出现认识上的偏差，正是光的本性中矛盾的双方造成的。通过经典的波动理论与现代量子力学中的微扰理论相结合，对光的本性教学中存在的问题进行了定性定量的分析。