Federated edge learning(FEEL)technology for vehicular networks is considered as a promising technology to reduce the computation workload while keeping the privacy of users.In the FEEL system,vehicles upload data to t...Federated edge learning(FEEL)technology for vehicular networks is considered as a promising technology to reduce the computation workload while keeping the privacy of users.In the FEEL system,vehicles upload data to the edge servers,which train the vehicles’data to update local models and then return the result to vehicles to avoid sharing the original data.However,the cache queue in the edge is limited and the channel between edge server and each vehicle is time-varying.Thus,it is challenging to select a suitable number of vehicles to ensure that the uploaded data can keep a stable cache queue in edge server while maximizing the learning accuracy.Moreover,selecting vehicles with different resource statuses to update data will affect the total amount of data involved in training,which further affects the model accuracy.In this paper,we propose a vehicle selection scheme,which maximizes the learning accuracy while ensuring the stability of the cache queue,where the statuses of all the vehicles in the coverage of edge server are taken into account.The performance of this scheme is evaluated through simulation experiments,which indicates that our proposed scheme can perform better than the known benchmark scheme.展开更多
Aiming to provide theoretical foundations for crop growth and water control optimization in closed greenhouses, this paper compares the closed greenhouse and the conventional greenhouse in terms of crop growth, yield ...Aiming to provide theoretical foundations for crop growth and water control optimization in closed greenhouses, this paper compares the closed greenhouse and the conventional greenhouse in terms of crop growth, yield and irrigation water productivity. The results showed that environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and CO_2 in a closed greenhouse, were far higher than those in a conventional greenhouse. Compared with tomato and cowpea, spinach and alfalfa adapted well to high temperature and high humidity, and their water requirement and water use efficiency in the closed greenhouse were higher than those in the conventional greenhouse.展开更多
As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud inherently incurs high end-to-end(E2E)delay for mobile users,cloudlets,which are deployed at the edge of a network,can potentially mitigate this problem.Although ...As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud inherently incurs high end-to-end(E2E)delay for mobile users,cloudlets,which are deployed at the edge of a network,can potentially mitigate this problem.Although some research works focus on allocating workloads among cloudlets,the cloudlet placement aiming to minimize the deployment cost(i.e.,consisting of both the cloudlet cost and average E2E delay cost)has not been addressed effectively so far.The locations and number of cloudlets have a crucial impact on both the cloudlet cost in the network and average E2E delay of users.Therefore,in this paper,we propose the Cost Aware cloudlet PlAcement in moBiLe Edge computing(CAPABLE)strategy,where both the cloudlet cost and average E2E delay are considered in the cloudlet placement.To solve this problem,a Lagrangian heuristic algorithm is developed to achieve the suboptimal solution.After cloudlets are placed in the network,we also design a workload allocation scheme to minimize the E2E delay between users and their cloudlets by considering the user mobility.The performance of CAPABLE has been validated by extensive simulations.展开更多
The diverse members of the genus Daphne are prized for their fragrant flowers.Despite being promising ornamental plants in many countries,genetic information of Daphne is scarce.In this study,the plastomes of four spe...The diverse members of the genus Daphne are prized for their fragrant flowers.Despite being promising ornamental plants in many countries,genetic information of Daphne is scarce.In this study,the plastomes of four species and one variety of Daphne were sequenced and analyzed.The plastomes were typical and contained a pair of inverted repeat(IR)regions that separated the large single-copy(LSC)region from the small single-copy(SSC)region.With a length ranging from 132,869 bp(D.genkwa)to 174,773 bp(D.championii),106 to 141 genes were predicted.Comparative plastome analysis of the newly sequenced plastomes with four publicly available Daphne plastomes identified an expansion of the IRs,sequence variations,and mutational hotspots.Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the genus Daphne in its current circumscription is polyphyletic.Daphne genkwa was nested within the genus Wikstroemia,while D.championii was well resolved as sister to Edgeworthia.These findings concurred with results from our study that used nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer sequence data.The conflicts on the molecular placement of D.championii and D.genkwa and the present taxonomic classification in Daphne suggest that a new intergeneric classification system of Daphneae warrants consideration.展开更多
Hydrides offer an opportunity to study high critical temperature(high-Tc)superconductivity at experimentally achievable pressures.However,the pressure needed remains extremely high.Using density functional theory calc...Hydrides offer an opportunity to study high critical temperature(high-Tc)superconductivity at experimentally achievable pressures.However,the pressure needed remains extremely high.Using density functional theory calculations,herein we demonstrate that a new rare earth hydride ErH2could be superconducting with Tc~80 K at 14.5 GPa,the lowest reported value for compressed hydrides to date.Intriguingly,due to Kondo destruction,superconductivity was prone to exist at 15 GPa.We also reveal an energy gap at 20 GPa on the background of normal metallic states.At 20 GPa,this compressed system could act as a host of superconductor judged from a sharp jump of spontaneous magnetic susceptibility with an evanescent spin density of state at Fermi level.Finally,electron pairing glue for ErH2at these three typical pressures was attributed to the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation.展开更多
Software projects are not developed in isolation but often build upon other open source resources. These projects form a kind of reference ecosystem regarded as a software world. Most of social computing works focus o...Software projects are not developed in isolation but often build upon other open source resources. These projects form a kind of reference ecosystem regarded as a software world. Most of social computing works focus on social networks such as Facebook and weibo to mine information. However, few previous works analyze Open Source Community which could help developers conduct collaborative development. In this paper, we model the Java reference ecosystem as a network based on the reuse relationships of GitHub-hosted Java projects and analyze the characteristics and the patterns of this reference ecosystem by using community detection and pattern discovery algorithms. Our study indicates that (1) Developers prefer to reuse software limited in only a small part of projects with cross cutting functionality or advanced applications. (2) Developers usually select software reused with similar function widely depending on different requirements, resulting to different patterns. Based on these collective intelligence, our study opens up several possible future directions of reuse recommendation,which are considered as guidance of collaborative development.展开更多
With the rapid development of smart products,fexible and stretchable smart wearable electronic devices gradually play an important role,and they are considered as the pioneers of the new generation of fexible electron...With the rapid development of smart products,fexible and stretchable smart wearable electronic devices gradually play an important role,and they are considered as the pioneers of the new generation of fexible electronic devices.Among these intelligent devices,fexible and stretchable strain sensors have been widely studied for their good fexibility,high sensitivity,high repeatability and huge potential for application in personal healthcare and motion detection.Moreover,unlike traditional rigid bulky sensors,the high-performance fexible strain sensors are lightweight portable devices with excellent mechanical and electrical performance,which can meet personalized needs and become more popular.Herein,the research progress of fexible strain sensors in recent years are reviewed,which mainly introducing the sensing principles and key parameters of strain sensors,commonly used conductive materials and fexible substrates and common preparation methods,and fnally proposes the future application and prospects of strain sensors.展开更多
With the deep integration of software collaborative development and social networking, social coding represents a new style of software production and creation paradigm. Because of their good flexibility and openness,...With the deep integration of software collaborative development and social networking, social coding represents a new style of software production and creation paradigm. Because of their good flexibility and openness,a large number of external contributors have been attracted to the open-source communities. They are playing a significant role in open-source development. However, the open-source development online is a globalized and distributed cooperative work. If left unsupervised, the contribution process may result in inefficiency. It takes contributors a lot of time to find suitable projects or tasks from thousands of open-source projects in the communities to work on. In this paper, we propose a new approach called "RepoLike," to recommend repositories for developers based on linear combination and learning to rank. It uses the project popularity, technical dependencies among projects, and social connections among developers to measure the correlations between a developer and the given projects. Experimental results show that our approach can achieve over 25% of hit ratio when recommending 20 candidates, meaning that it can recommend closely correlated repositories to social developers.展开更多
In wastewater treatment plants（WWTPs）using the activated sludge process,two methods are widely used to improve aeration efficiency — use of high-efficiency aeration devices and optimizing the aeration control strat...In wastewater treatment plants（WWTPs）using the activated sludge process,two methods are widely used to improve aeration efficiency — use of high-efficiency aeration devices and optimizing the aeration control strategy. Aeration efficiency is closely linked to sludge characteristics（such as concentrations of mixed liquor suspended solids（MLSS）and microbial communities）and operating conditions（such as air flow rate and operational dissolved oxygen（DO）concentrations）. Moreover,operational DO is closely linked to effluent quality. This study,which is in reference to WWTP discharge class A Chinese standard effluent criteria,determined the growth kinetics parameters of nitrifiers at different DO levels in small-scale tests. Results showed that the activated sludge system could meet effluent criteria when DO was as low as 0.3 mg/L,and that nitrifier communities cultivated under low DO conditions had higher oxygen affinity than those cultivated under high DO conditions,as indicated by the oxygen half-saturation constant and nitrification ability. Based on nitrifier growth kinetics and on the oxygen mass transfer dynamic model（determined using different air flow rate（Q′air）and mixed liquor volatile suspended solids（MLVSS）values）,theoretical analysis indicated limited potential for energy saving by improving aeration diffuser performance when the activated sludge system had low oxygen consumption; however,operating at low DO and low MLVSS could significantly reduce energy consumption. Finally,a control strategy coupling sludge retention time and MLVSS to minimize the DO level was discussed,which is critical to appropriate setting of the oxygen point and to the operation of low DO treatment technology.展开更多
Correction to:Advanced Fiber Materials https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-021-00126-3 Due to an unfortunate oversight during the e.proofng process Jinlei Miao has not been assigned as co-correspondence author.It should be...Correction to:Advanced Fiber Materials https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-021-00126-3 Due to an unfortunate oversight during the e.proofng process Jinlei Miao has not been assigned as co-correspondence author.It should be read:Jinlei Miao jinlei.miao@qdu.edu.cn The original article has been corrected.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61701197)in part by the open research fund of State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks(No.ISN23-11)+3 种基金in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFA1000500(4))in part by the 111 Project(No.B23008)in part by the Future Network Scientific Research Fund Project(FNSRFP2021-YB-11)in part by the project of Changzhou Key Laboratory of 5G+Industrial Internet Fusion Application(No.CM20223015)。
文摘Federated edge learning(FEEL)technology for vehicular networks is considered as a promising technology to reduce the computation workload while keeping the privacy of users.In the FEEL system,vehicles upload data to the edge servers,which train the vehicles’data to update local models and then return the result to vehicles to avoid sharing the original data.However,the cache queue in the edge is limited and the channel between edge server and each vehicle is time-varying.Thus,it is challenging to select a suitable number of vehicles to ensure that the uploaded data can keep a stable cache queue in edge server while maximizing the learning accuracy.Moreover,selecting vehicles with different resource statuses to update data will affect the total amount of data involved in training,which further affects the model accuracy.In this paper,we propose a vehicle selection scheme,which maximizes the learning accuracy while ensuring the stability of the cache queue,where the statuses of all the vehicles in the coverage of edge server are taken into account.The performance of this scheme is evaluated through simulation experiments,which indicates that our proposed scheme can perform better than the known benchmark scheme.
基金Supported by Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Northwest A&F University(2452015291)The special funds of the National Key Laboratory(A314021402-1605)Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2015JQ4107)
文摘Aiming to provide theoretical foundations for crop growth and water control optimization in closed greenhouses, this paper compares the closed greenhouse and the conventional greenhouse in terms of crop growth, yield and irrigation water productivity. The results showed that environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and CO_2 in a closed greenhouse, were far higher than those in a conventional greenhouse. Compared with tomato and cowpea, spinach and alfalfa adapted well to high temperature and high humidity, and their water requirement and water use efficiency in the closed greenhouse were higher than those in the conventional greenhouse.
基金supported in part by the National Science Foundation(CNS-1647170)
文摘As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud inherently incurs high end-to-end(E2E)delay for mobile users,cloudlets,which are deployed at the edge of a network,can potentially mitigate this problem.Although some research works focus on allocating workloads among cloudlets,the cloudlet placement aiming to minimize the deployment cost(i.e.,consisting of both the cloudlet cost and average E2E delay cost)has not been addressed effectively so far.The locations and number of cloudlets have a crucial impact on both the cloudlet cost in the network and average E2E delay of users.Therefore,in this paper,we propose the Cost Aware cloudlet PlAcement in moBiLe Edge computing(CAPABLE)strategy,where both the cloudlet cost and average E2E delay are considered in the cloudlet placement.To solve this problem,a Lagrangian heuristic algorithm is developed to achieve the suboptimal solution.After cloudlets are placed in the network,we also design a workload allocation scheme to minimize the E2E delay between users and their cloudlets by considering the user mobility.The performance of CAPABLE has been validated by extensive simulations.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(33000-31611215)the Guangzhou Science and Technology Program(201903010076)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31760048).
文摘The diverse members of the genus Daphne are prized for their fragrant flowers.Despite being promising ornamental plants in many countries,genetic information of Daphne is scarce.In this study,the plastomes of four species and one variety of Daphne were sequenced and analyzed.The plastomes were typical and contained a pair of inverted repeat(IR)regions that separated the large single-copy(LSC)region from the small single-copy(SSC)region.With a length ranging from 132,869 bp(D.genkwa)to 174,773 bp(D.championii),106 to 141 genes were predicted.Comparative plastome analysis of the newly sequenced plastomes with four publicly available Daphne plastomes identified an expansion of the IRs,sequence variations,and mutational hotspots.Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the genus Daphne in its current circumscription is polyphyletic.Daphne genkwa was nested within the genus Wikstroemia,while D.championii was well resolved as sister to Edgeworthia.These findings concurred with results from our study that used nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer sequence data.The conflicts on the molecular placement of D.championii and D.genkwa and the present taxonomic classification in Daphne suggest that a new intergeneric classification system of Daphneae warrants consideration.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12104294)the Research Project of Leshan Normal University(Grant No.801/204190415)。
文摘Hydrides offer an opportunity to study high critical temperature(high-Tc)superconductivity at experimentally achievable pressures.However,the pressure needed remains extremely high.Using density functional theory calculations,herein we demonstrate that a new rare earth hydride ErH2could be superconducting with Tc~80 K at 14.5 GPa,the lowest reported value for compressed hydrides to date.Intriguingly,due to Kondo destruction,superconductivity was prone to exist at 15 GPa.We also reveal an energy gap at 20 GPa on the background of normal metallic states.At 20 GPa,this compressed system could act as a host of superconductor judged from a sharp jump of spontaneous magnetic susceptibility with an evanescent spin density of state at Fermi level.Finally,electron pairing glue for ErH2at these three typical pressures was attributed to the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61432020,61472430 and 61502512).
文摘Software projects are not developed in isolation but often build upon other open source resources. These projects form a kind of reference ecosystem regarded as a software world. Most of social computing works focus on social networks such as Facebook and weibo to mine information. However, few previous works analyze Open Source Community which could help developers conduct collaborative development. In this paper, we model the Java reference ecosystem as a network based on the reuse relationships of GitHub-hosted Java projects and analyze the characteristics and the patterns of this reference ecosystem by using community detection and pattern discovery algorithms. Our study indicates that (1) Developers prefer to reuse software limited in only a small part of projects with cross cutting functionality or advanced applications. (2) Developers usually select software reused with similar function widely depending on different requirements, resulting to different patterns. Based on these collective intelligence, our study opens up several possible future directions of reuse recommendation,which are considered as guidance of collaborative development.
基金Financial support of this work was provided by Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(ZR2018QEM004,ZR2020QE081)Shandong Province Key Research and Development Plan(Major scientifc and technological innovation projects)(2019JZZY010340,2019JZZY010335,2019GGX102022)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation via grant No.2020M671994.
文摘With the rapid development of smart products,fexible and stretchable smart wearable electronic devices gradually play an important role,and they are considered as the pioneers of the new generation of fexible electronic devices.Among these intelligent devices,fexible and stretchable strain sensors have been widely studied for their good fexibility,high sensitivity,high repeatability and huge potential for application in personal healthcare and motion detection.Moreover,unlike traditional rigid bulky sensors,the high-performance fexible strain sensors are lightweight portable devices with excellent mechanical and electrical performance,which can meet personalized needs and become more popular.Herein,the research progress of fexible strain sensors in recent years are reviewed,which mainly introducing the sensing principles and key parameters of strain sensors,commonly used conductive materials and fexible substrates and common preparation methods,and fnally proposes the future application and prospects of strain sensors.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61432020,61472430,and 61502512)the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFB1000805)
文摘With the deep integration of software collaborative development and social networking, social coding represents a new style of software production and creation paradigm. Because of their good flexibility and openness,a large number of external contributors have been attracted to the open-source communities. They are playing a significant role in open-source development. However, the open-source development online is a globalized and distributed cooperative work. If left unsupervised, the contribution process may result in inefficiency. It takes contributors a lot of time to find suitable projects or tasks from thousands of open-source projects in the communities to work on. In this paper, we propose a new approach called "RepoLike," to recommend repositories for developers based on linear combination and learning to rank. It uses the project popularity, technical dependencies among projects, and social connections among developers to measure the correlations between a developer and the given projects. Experimental results show that our approach can achieve over 25% of hit ratio when recommending 20 candidates, meaning that it can recommend closely correlated repositories to social developers.
基金supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project(No.2013ZX07314-001)
文摘In wastewater treatment plants（WWTPs）using the activated sludge process,two methods are widely used to improve aeration efficiency — use of high-efficiency aeration devices and optimizing the aeration control strategy. Aeration efficiency is closely linked to sludge characteristics（such as concentrations of mixed liquor suspended solids（MLSS）and microbial communities）and operating conditions（such as air flow rate and operational dissolved oxygen（DO）concentrations）. Moreover,operational DO is closely linked to effluent quality. This study,which is in reference to WWTP discharge class A Chinese standard effluent criteria,determined the growth kinetics parameters of nitrifiers at different DO levels in small-scale tests. Results showed that the activated sludge system could meet effluent criteria when DO was as low as 0.3 mg/L,and that nitrifier communities cultivated under low DO conditions had higher oxygen affinity than those cultivated under high DO conditions,as indicated by the oxygen half-saturation constant and nitrification ability. Based on nitrifier growth kinetics and on the oxygen mass transfer dynamic model（determined using different air flow rate（Q′air）and mixed liquor volatile suspended solids（MLVSS）values）,theoretical analysis indicated limited potential for energy saving by improving aeration diffuser performance when the activated sludge system had low oxygen consumption; however,operating at low DO and low MLVSS could significantly reduce energy consumption. Finally,a control strategy coupling sludge retention time and MLVSS to minimize the DO level was discussed,which is critical to appropriate setting of the oxygen point and to the operation of low DO treatment technology.
文摘Correction to:Advanced Fiber Materials https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-021-00126-3 Due to an unfortunate oversight during the e.proofng process Jinlei Miao has not been assigned as co-correspondence author.It should be read:Jinlei Miao jinlei.miao@qdu.edu.cn The original article has been corrected.
