Spatio-temporal variability and dynamics in Sahelian agro-pastoral zones make each local situation a special case. These specificities must be considered to guide the dissemination of agricultural options with a view ...Spatio-temporal variability and dynamics in Sahelian agro-pastoral zones make each local situation a special case. These specificities must be considered to guide the dissemination of agricultural options with a view to sustainable development. The territorial scale of municipalities is not sufficient for this necessary contextualization;the scale of the “village terroir” seems to be a better option. This is the hypothesis we put forward in the framework of the Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems program (CRFS), i.e. local context is spatially defined by village terroir. The study is based on data collected through participatory mapping and surveys in “village terroirs” in three regions of Niger (Maradi, Dosso and Tillabéri). Then the links between farm managers and their cultivated land, as well as the spatio-temporal dynamics of local context are analyzed. This study provides evidence of the existence and functional usefulness of the village terroir for farmers, their land management and their activities. It demonstrates the usefulness of contextualizing agricultural options at this scale. Their analysis elucidates the links between “terroirs village” and the specific functioning of the agrosocio-ecosystems acting on each of them, thus laying the systemic and geographical foundations for a model of the spatio- temporal dynamics of “village terroirs”. This initial work has opened up new perspectives in modeling and sustainable development.展开更多
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the predominant form of dementia, is a chronic, incurable neurodegenerative disorder presenting with symptoms includ- ing progressive memory loss and disturbed emotional state. It has been...Alzheimer's disease (AD), the predominant form of dementia, is a chronic, incurable neurodegenerative disorder presenting with symptoms includ- ing progressive memory loss and disturbed emotional state. It has been estimated that dementia affects over 47 million people worldwide (Prince et al., 2015), and with 60-80% of cases attributable to AD.展开更多
Based on the complex variable moving least-square(CVMLS) approximation and a local symmetric weak form,the complex variable meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(CVMLPG) method of solving two-dimensional potential proble...Based on the complex variable moving least-square(CVMLS) approximation and a local symmetric weak form,the complex variable meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(CVMLPG) method of solving two-dimensional potential problems is presented in this paper.In the present formulation,the trial function of a two-dimensional problem is formed with a one-dimensional basis function.The number of unknown coefficients in the trial function of the CVMLS approximation is less than that in the trial function of the moving least-square(MLS) approximation.The essential boundary conditions are imposed by the penalty method.The main advantage of this approach over the conventional meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(MLPG) method is its computational efficiency.Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the implementation and performance of the present CVMLPG method.展开更多
By simulating the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and optical spectra on the basis of the 120 × 120 complete energy matrix, this paper determines the local lattice structure parameters R1 and R2 for MCl...By simulating the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and optical spectra on the basis of the 120 × 120 complete energy matrix, this paper determines the local lattice structure parameters R1 and R2 for MCl:V2+ (M=Na, K, Rb) systems at 77K, 195 K and RT (room temperature 295 K or 302 K), respectively. The theoretical results indicate that there exists a compressed distortion in MCl:V2+ systems. Meanwhile, it finds that the structure parameters R1, R2 and |△R|( = R1 - R2) increase with the rising temperature. Subsequently, from the analysis it concludes that the relation of EPR parameter D vs. △R is approximately linear. Finally, the effects of orbital reduction factor k on the g factors for the three systems have been discussed.展开更多
In this paper, a new mechanism for the emergence of scale-free distribution is proposed. It is more realistic than the existing mechanism. Based on our mechanism, a model responsible for the scale-free distribution wi...In this paper, a new mechanism for the emergence of scale-free distribution is proposed. It is more realistic than the existing mechanism. Based on our mechanism, a model responsible for the scale-free distribution with an exponent in a range of 3-to-5 is given. Moreover, this model could also reproduce the exponential distribution that is discovered in some real networks. Finally, the analytical result of the model is given and the simulation shows the validity of our result,展开更多
A weighted Koppelman-Leray-Norguet formula of (r, s) differential forms on a local q-concave wedge in a complex manifold is obtained. By constructing the new weighted kernels, the authors give a new weighted Koppelman...A weighted Koppelman-Leray-Norguet formula of (r, s) differential forms on a local q-concave wedge in a complex manifold is obtained. By constructing the new weighted kernels, the authors give a new weighted Koppelman-Leray-Norguet formula without boundary integral of (r, s) differential forms, which is different from the classical one. The new weighted formula is especially suitable for the case of the local g-concave wedge with a non-smooth boundary, so one can avoid complex estimates of boundary integrals and the density of integral may be not defined on the boundary but only in the domain. Moreover, the weighted integral formulas have much freedom in applications such as in the interpolation of functions.展开更多
With the help of the symbolic computation system Maple, the Riccati equation mapping approach and a linear variable separation approach, a new family of complex solutions for the (2+ 1)-dimensional Boiti-Leon-Pempi...With the help of the symbolic computation system Maple, the Riccati equation mapping approach and a linear variable separation approach, a new family of complex solutions for the (2+ 1)-dimensional Boiti-Leon-Pempinelli system (BLP) is derived. Based on the derived solitary wave solution, some novel complex wave localized excitations are obtained.展开更多
累计局部离群因子(cumulative local outlier factor,C_LOF)算法能有效解决数据流中的概念漂移问题和克服离群点检测中的伪装问题,但在处理高维数据时,时间复杂度较高。为有效解决时间复杂度高的问题,提出一种基于投影索引近邻的累计局...累计局部离群因子(cumulative local outlier factor,C_LOF)算法能有效解决数据流中的概念漂移问题和克服离群点检测中的伪装问题,但在处理高维数据时,时间复杂度较高。为有效解决时间复杂度高的问题,提出一种基于投影索引近邻的累计局部离群因子(cumulative local outlier factor based projection indexed nearest neighbor,PINN_C_LOF)算法。使用滑动窗口维护活跃数据点,在新数据到达和旧数据过期时,引入投影索引近邻(projection indexed nearest neighbor,PINN)方法,增量更新窗口中受影响数据点的近邻。实验结果表明,PINN_C_LOF算法在检测高维流数据离群值时,在保持检测精确度的前提下,其时间复杂度较C_LOF算法明显降低。展开更多
By considering the eigenratio of the Laplacian matrix as the synchronizability measure, this paper presents an efficient method to enhance the synchronizability of undirected and unweighted networks via rewiring. The ...By considering the eigenratio of the Laplacian matrix as the synchronizability measure, this paper presents an efficient method to enhance the synchronizability of undirected and unweighted networks via rewiring. The rewiring method combines the use of tabu search and a local greedy algorithm so that an effective search of solutions can be achieved. As demonstrated in the simulation results, the performance of the proposed approach outperforms the existing methods for a large variety of initial networks, both in terms of speed and quality of solutions.展开更多
The local-world (LW) evolving network model shows a transition for the degree distribution between the exponential and power-law distributions, depending on the LW size. Cascading failures under intentional attacks in...The local-world (LW) evolving network model shows a transition for the degree distribution between the exponential and power-law distributions, depending on the LW size. Cascading failures under intentional attacks in LW network models with different LW sizes were investigated using the cascading failures load model. We found that the LW size has a significant impact on the network's robustness against deliberate attacks. It is much easier to trigger cascading failures in LW evolving networks with a larger LW size. Therefore, to avoid cascading failures in real networks with local preferential attachment such as the Internet, the World Trade Web and the multi-agent system, the LW size should be as small as possible.展开更多
Sediment incipience under flows passing a backward-facing step was studied. A series of experiments were conducted to measure scouring depth, probability of sediment incipience, and instantaneous flow velocity field d...Sediment incipience under flows passing a backward-facing step was studied. A series of experiments were conducted to measure scouring depth, probability of sediment incipience, and instantaneous flow velocity field downstream of a backward-facing step. Instantaneous flow velocity fields were measured by using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and an image processing method for determining probability of sediment incipience was employed to analyze the experimental data. The experimental results showed that the probability of sediment incipience was the highest near the reattachment point, even though the near-wall instantaneous flow velocity and the Reynolds stress were both much higher further downstream of the backward-facing step. The possible me- chanisms are discussed for the sediment incipience near the reattachment point.展开更多
In some real complex networks, only a few nodes can obtain the global information about the entire networks, but most of the nodes own only local connections therefore own only local information of the networks. A new...In some real complex networks, only a few nodes can obtain the global information about the entire networks, but most of the nodes own only local connections therefore own only local information of the networks. A new local-world evolving network model is proposed in this paper. In the model, not all the nodes obtain local network information, which is different from the local world network model proposed by Li and Chen (LC model). In the LC model, each node has only the local connections therefore owns only local information about the entire networks. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that adjusting the ratio of the number of nodes obtaining the global information of the network to the total number of nodes can effectively control the valuing range for the power-law exponent of the new network. Therefore, if the topological structure of a complex network, especially its exponent of power-law degree distribution, needs controlling, we just add or take away a few nodes which own the global information of the network.展开更多
Due to the fact that traditional ray field tracking approaches require a large number of geometrical optical(GO) ray tubes,they are very inefficient in many practical applications.An improved ray model scheme for a ...Due to the fact that traditional ray field tracking approaches require a large number of geometrical optical(GO) ray tubes,they are very inefficient in many practical applications.An improved ray model scheme for a complex source beam(CSB) tracking technique is proposed in this paper.The source field can be expressed by a superposition of CSBs,then every CSB basis function has a Gaussian-type amplitude distribution and is suitable for replacing a GO ray tube in the ray tracing approach.The complex phase matching technique is adopted to find the reflected beam in the reflection point where local approximation is used to represent the curved surface in its neighborhood.A new solution to multiple reflections using the conventional right-handed reflected system is used to track the field easily.Numerical results show the accuracy of the proposed method.展开更多
Measured surface localization (MSL) is one of the key essentials for the assessment of form error in pre- cision manufacturing. Currently, the researches on MSL have focused on the corresponding relation search betw...Measured surface localization (MSL) is one of the key essentials for the assessment of form error in pre- cision manufacturing. Currently, the researches on MSL have focused on the corresponding relation search between two surfaces, the performance improvement of localization algorithms and the uncertainty analysis of localization. However, low efficiency, limitation of localization algo- rithms and mismatch of multiple similarities of feature points with no prior are the common disadvantages for MSL. In order to match feature points quickly and fulfill MSL efficiently, this paper presents a new localization approach for measured surfaces by extracting the generic umbilics and estimating their single complex variables, describing the match methods of ambiguous relation at umbilics, presenting the initial localization process of one pair matched points, refining MSL on the basis of obtained closet points for some measured points by the improvement directed projection method. In addition, the proposed algorithm is simulated in two different types of surfaces,two different localization types and multiple similar sur- faces, also tested with the part of B-spline surface machined and bottle mould with no knowledge, finally the initial and accurate rigid body transformation matrix, localization errors between two surfaces and execution time are got. The experimental results show that the pro- posed method is feasible, more accurate in localization and high in efficiency. The proposed research can not only improve the accuracy and performance of form error assessment, but also provide an effective guideline for the integration of different types of measured surfaces.展开更多
文摘Spatio-temporal variability and dynamics in Sahelian agro-pastoral zones make each local situation a special case. These specificities must be considered to guide the dissemination of agricultural options with a view to sustainable development. The territorial scale of municipalities is not sufficient for this necessary contextualization;the scale of the “village terroir” seems to be a better option. This is the hypothesis we put forward in the framework of the Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems program (CRFS), i.e. local context is spatially defined by village terroir. The study is based on data collected through participatory mapping and surveys in “village terroirs” in three regions of Niger (Maradi, Dosso and Tillabéri). Then the links between farm managers and their cultivated land, as well as the spatio-temporal dynamics of local context are analyzed. This study provides evidence of the existence and functional usefulness of the village terroir for farmers, their land management and their activities. It demonstrates the usefulness of contextualizing agricultural options at this scale. Their analysis elucidates the links between “terroirs village” and the specific functioning of the agrosocio-ecosystems acting on each of them, thus laying the systemic and geographical foundations for a model of the spatio- temporal dynamics of “village terroirs”. This initial work has opened up new perspectives in modeling and sustainable development.
文摘Alzheimer's disease (AD), the predominant form of dementia, is a chronic, incurable neurodegenerative disorder presenting with symptoms includ- ing progressive memory loss and disturbed emotional state. It has been estimated that dementia affects over 47 million people worldwide (Prince et al., 2015), and with 60-80% of cases attributable to AD.
基金Project supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11102125)
文摘Based on the complex variable moving least-square(CVMLS) approximation and a local symmetric weak form,the complex variable meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(CVMLPG) method of solving two-dimensional potential problems is presented in this paper.In the present formulation,the trial function of a two-dimensional problem is formed with a one-dimensional basis function.The number of unknown coefficients in the trial function of the CVMLS approximation is less than that in the trial function of the moving least-square(MLS) approximation.The essential boundary conditions are imposed by the penalty method.The main advantage of this approach over the conventional meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(MLPG) method is its computational efficiency.Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the implementation and performance of the present CVMLPG method.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10774103)the Doctoral Education Fund of the Education Ministry of China (Grant No 20050610011)
文摘By simulating the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and optical spectra on the basis of the 120 × 120 complete energy matrix, this paper determines the local lattice structure parameters R1 and R2 for MCl:V2+ (M=Na, K, Rb) systems at 77K, 195 K and RT (room temperature 295 K or 302 K), respectively. The theoretical results indicate that there exists a compressed distortion in MCl:V2+ systems. Meanwhile, it finds that the structure parameters R1, R2 and |△R|( = R1 - R2) increase with the rising temperature. Subsequently, from the analysis it concludes that the relation of EPR parameter D vs. △R is approximately linear. Finally, the effects of orbital reduction factor k on the g factors for the three systems have been discussed.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 60374037 and 60574036), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents of High Education of China(Grant No NCET 2005-290), The Special Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of High Education of China (Grant No 20050055013).Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Réka Albert for useful discussion and are grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions and comments, which have made this paper improved.
文摘In this paper, a new mechanism for the emergence of scale-free distribution is proposed. It is more realistic than the existing mechanism. Based on our mechanism, a model responsible for the scale-free distribution with an exponent in a range of 3-to-5 is given. Moreover, this model could also reproduce the exponential distribution that is discovered in some real networks. Finally, the analytical result of the model is given and the simulation shows the validity of our result,
基金National Natural Science Foundation and Mathematical "Tian Yuan" Foundation of China (10271097 and TY10126033)
文摘A weighted Koppelman-Leray-Norguet formula of (r, s) differential forms on a local q-concave wedge in a complex manifold is obtained. By constructing the new weighted kernels, the authors give a new weighted Koppelman-Leray-Norguet formula without boundary integral of (r, s) differential forms, which is different from the classical one. The new weighted formula is especially suitable for the case of the local g-concave wedge with a non-smooth boundary, so one can avoid complex estimates of boundary integrals and the density of integral may be not defined on the boundary but only in the domain. Moreover, the weighted integral formulas have much freedom in applications such as in the interpolation of functions.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11375079)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China(Grant Nos.Y6100257 and Y6110140)
文摘With the help of the symbolic computation system Maple, the Riccati equation mapping approach and a linear variable separation approach, a new family of complex solutions for the (2+ 1)-dimensional Boiti-Leon-Pempinelli system (BLP) is derived. Based on the derived solitary wave solution, some novel complex wave localized excitations are obtained.
文摘累计局部离群因子(cumulative local outlier factor,C_LOF)算法能有效解决数据流中的概念漂移问题和克服离群点检测中的伪装问题,但在处理高维数据时,时间复杂度较高。为有效解决时间复杂度高的问题,提出一种基于投影索引近邻的累计局部离群因子(cumulative local outlier factor based projection indexed nearest neighbor,PINN_C_LOF)算法。使用滑动窗口维护活跃数据点,在新数据到达和旧数据过期时,引入投影索引近邻(projection indexed nearest neighbor,PINN)方法,增量更新窗口中受影响数据点的近邻。实验结果表明,PINN_C_LOF算法在检测高维流数据离群值时,在保持检测精确度的前提下,其时间复杂度较C_LOF算法明显降低。
基金Project supported by the grant from City University of Hong Kong (Grant No. 7008105)
文摘By considering the eigenratio of the Laplacian matrix as the synchronizability measure, this paper presents an efficient method to enhance the synchronizability of undirected and unweighted networks via rewiring. The rewiring method combines the use of tabu search and a local greedy algorithm so that an effective search of solutions can be achieved. As demonstrated in the simulation results, the performance of the proposed approach outperforms the existing methods for a large variety of initial networks, both in terms of speed and quality of solutions.
基金the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2004CB217902)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 60421002 and 60804045)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 20070421163)
文摘The local-world (LW) evolving network model shows a transition for the degree distribution between the exponential and power-law distributions, depending on the LW size. Cascading failures under intentional attacks in LW network models with different LW sizes were investigated using the cascading failures load model. We found that the LW size has a significant impact on the network's robustness against deliberate attacks. It is much easier to trigger cascading failures in LW evolving networks with a larger LW size. Therefore, to avoid cascading failures in real networks with local preferential attachment such as the Internet, the World Trade Web and the multi-agent system, the LW size should be as small as possible.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10602017)Maritime Research Center and DHI-NTU Center of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
文摘Sediment incipience under flows passing a backward-facing step was studied. A series of experiments were conducted to measure scouring depth, probability of sediment incipience, and instantaneous flow velocity field downstream of a backward-facing step. Instantaneous flow velocity fields were measured by using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and an image processing method for determining probability of sediment incipience was employed to analyze the experimental data. The experimental results showed that the probability of sediment incipience was the highest near the reattachment point, even though the near-wall instantaneous flow velocity and the Reynolds stress were both much higher further downstream of the backward-facing step. The possible me- chanisms are discussed for the sediment incipience near the reattachment point.
基金supported by the Scientific Research Starting Foundation of Hangzhou Dianzi University (Grant No KYS091507073)partly by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No 2005AA147030)
文摘In some real complex networks, only a few nodes can obtain the global information about the entire networks, but most of the nodes own only local connections therefore own only local information of the networks. A new local-world evolving network model is proposed in this paper. In the model, not all the nodes obtain local network information, which is different from the local world network model proposed by Li and Chen (LC model). In the LC model, each node has only the local connections therefore owns only local information about the entire networks. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that adjusting the ratio of the number of nodes obtaining the global information of the network to the total number of nodes can effectively control the valuing range for the power-law exponent of the new network. Therefore, if the topological structure of a complex network, especially its exponent of power-law degree distribution, needs controlling, we just add or take away a few nodes which own the global information of the network.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61301056 and 61231001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant No.ZYGX2014J012)+2 种基金the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation,China(Grant No.141062)the Aero-Science Fund,China(Grant No.20142580012)the"111"Project(Grant No.B07046)
文摘Due to the fact that traditional ray field tracking approaches require a large number of geometrical optical(GO) ray tubes,they are very inefficient in many practical applications.An improved ray model scheme for a complex source beam(CSB) tracking technique is proposed in this paper.The source field can be expressed by a superposition of CSBs,then every CSB basis function has a Gaussian-type amplitude distribution and is suitable for replacing a GO ray tube in the ray tracing approach.The complex phase matching technique is adopted to find the reflected beam in the reflection point where local approximation is used to represent the curved surface in its neighborhood.A new solution to multiple reflections using the conventional right-handed reflected system is used to track the field easily.Numerical results show the accuracy of the proposed method.
基金Supported by Science and Technology Supporting Projects of China(Grant No.2015BAF27B01)Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Supporting Program of China(Grant Nos.2014GZ0119,2017GZ0350)Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Manufacturing and Automation,Xihua University(Grant No.S2jj2013-042)
文摘Measured surface localization (MSL) is one of the key essentials for the assessment of form error in pre- cision manufacturing. Currently, the researches on MSL have focused on the corresponding relation search between two surfaces, the performance improvement of localization algorithms and the uncertainty analysis of localization. However, low efficiency, limitation of localization algo- rithms and mismatch of multiple similarities of feature points with no prior are the common disadvantages for MSL. In order to match feature points quickly and fulfill MSL efficiently, this paper presents a new localization approach for measured surfaces by extracting the generic umbilics and estimating their single complex variables, describing the match methods of ambiguous relation at umbilics, presenting the initial localization process of one pair matched points, refining MSL on the basis of obtained closet points for some measured points by the improvement directed projection method. In addition, the proposed algorithm is simulated in two different types of surfaces,two different localization types and multiple similar sur- faces, also tested with the part of B-spline surface machined and bottle mould with no knowledge, finally the initial and accurate rigid body transformation matrix, localization errors between two surfaces and execution time are got. The experimental results show that the pro- posed method is feasible, more accurate in localization and high in efficiency. The proposed research can not only improve the accuracy and performance of form error assessment, but also provide an effective guideline for the integration of different types of measured surfaces.