Mathematic simulation and parameters determination of slacking process of weak rocks

Slacking experiments were performed on the red beds weak rock from vicinity of Changsha. Grain size distribution of the slacking rock was tested periodically during the experiments, which can be used to describe the physical transition of red beds weak rock during slacking process. According to the similar characters of many attributions such as environmental moisture, mineralogical composition, grain size and other factors between big rocks before slacking and its slacked product, the self-similar property of big rock and the small one can be induced. Fractal concept was introduced to construct the slacking model of red beds weak rock. Combining the supposed relationship of time for slacking and grain size of weak rock, the mathematic simulation of slacking process of red beds weak rock was conducted. To simplify the parameters back calculation, the fractal model proposed by Tyler and Wheatcraft was introduced to describe the characters of grain size distribution variation. The results show that the fractal dimension calculated from simulation data meet experiments data closely, which proves that the mathematic simulation method is reasonable and the parameters determination method is effective.

A New Solution to Intrusion Detection Systems Based on Improved Federated-Learning Chain

In the context of enterprise systems,intrusion detection(ID)emerges as a critical element driving the digital transformation of enterprises.With systems spanning various sectors of enterprises geographically dispersed,the necessity for seamless information exchange has surged significantly.The existing cross-domain solutions are challenged by such issues as insufficient security,high communication overhead,and a lack of effective update mechanisms,rendering them less feasible for prolonged application on resource-limited devices.This study proposes a new cross-domain collaboration scheme based on federated chains to streamline the server-side workload.Within this framework,individual nodes solely engage in training local data and subsequently amalgamate the final model employing a federated learning algorithm to uphold enterprise systems with efficiency and security.To curtail the resource utilization of blockchains and deter malicious nodes,a node administration module predicated on the workload paradigm is introduced,enabling the release of surplus resources in response to variations in a node’s contribution metric.Upon encountering an intrusion,the system triggers an alert and logs the characteristics of the breach,facilitating a comprehensive global update across all nodes for collective defense.Experimental results across multiple scenarios have verified the security and effectiveness of the proposed solution,with no loss of its recognition accuracy.

计算机系统信息隐藏反取证技术

研究了现代计算机系统信息隐藏的各种可能方式.运用HPA和DCO、隐藏分区等技术分析了磁盘驱动的数据隐藏,运用簇分配、Slack空间等技术分析了NTFS文件系统的各种信息隐藏方法,以及各种方法可能的检测手段.分析各种隐藏技术作为计算机反取证手段,给计算机取证带来的巨大影响.

Bimanual motor skill learning and robotic assistance for chronic hemiparetic stroke: a randomized controlled trial

Using robotic devices might improve recovery post-stroke, but the optimal way to apply robotic assistance has yet to be determined. The current study aimed to investigate whether training under the robotic active-assisted mode improves bimanual motor skill learning(biMSkL) more than training under the active mode in stroke patients. Twenty-six healthy individuals(HI) and 23 chronic hemiparetic stroke patients with a detectable lesion on MRI or CT scan, who demonstrated motor deficits in the upper limb, were randomly allocated to two parallel groups. The protocol included a two-day training on a new bimanual cooperative task, LIFT-THE-TRAY, under either the active or activeassisted modes(where assistance decreased in a pre-determined stepwise fashion) with the bimanual version of the REAplan? robotic device. The hypothesis was that the active-assisted mode would result in greater biMSkL than the active mode. The biMSkL was quantified by a speed-accuracy trade-off(SAT) before(T1) and immediately after(T2) training on days 1 and 2(T3 and T4). The change in SAT after 2 days of training(T4/T1) indicated that both HI and stroke patients learned and retained the bimanual cooperative task. After 2 days of training, the active-assisted mode did not improve biMSkL more than the active mode(T4/T1) in HI nor stroke patients. Whereas HI generalized the learned bimanual skill to different execution speeds in both the active and active-assisted subgroups, the stroke patients generalized the learned skill only in the active subgroup. Taken together, the active-assisted mode, applied in a pre-determined stepwise decreasing fashion, did not improve biMSkL more than the active mode in HI and stroke subjects. Stroke subjects might benefit more from robotic assistance when applied "as-needed." This study was approved by the local ethical committee(Comité d'éthique médicale, CHU UCL Namur, MontGodinne, Yvoir, Belgium;Internal number: 54/2010, Eudra CT number: NUB B039201317382) on July 14, 2016 and was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov(Identifier: NCT03974750) on June 5, 2019.

基于SBM-Tobit模型的中部6省环境效率分析

环境保护是事关社会发展与人类生存的重大问题.选取80个地级以上城市2014-2018年的面板数据,定量测度了中部6省的环境效率及其影响因素.结果表明:①整体上中部6省的环境效率值偏低,且存在环境EKC(Environmental Kuznets Curve)曲线,6省环境效率呈现一定的空间溢出效应和集聚效应.②湖南和湖北为典型的高环境效率高差异省份,安徽为典型的低环境效率低差异省份.③中部6省的全要素环境效率发生了由衰退到提升的演变,其诱因由技术进步的单因素驱动演变为技术进步、技术效率提升兼有的双因素驱动.④产业结构和人均GDP对环境效率有促进作用,财政支出、研发投入强度与外商直接投资对环境效率有抑制作用.

环境约束下中国与世界主要国家技术效率和生产率的测度与比较

运用含非期望产出的超效率SBM(slack based measure)模型和GML(global Malmquist-Luenberger)指数,对中国与世界主要国家1991—2016年的分别在考虑和不考虑环境约束下的技术效率和全要素生产率进行测度与比较。研究发现,不考虑环境约束的测度结果忽略了一国发展所造成的污染损失,导致技术效率与生产率被高估;中国的技术效率在考虑环境因素后显著下降,总效率排名从样本中的第16位下降至第40位。时间趋势上,中国的环境效率与技术效率的差距呈现先扩大后缩小,且近年来有逐渐趋同的态势;动态视角上,不考虑环境约束时中国的全要素生产率变化总体呈现增长趋势,但在考虑环境因素后中国的环境全要素生产率转变为下降趋势,这其中,技术进步的下降是影响环境全要素生产率变化的主要因素。

考虑碳排放的长三角机场运营效率研究

传统的机场运营效率研究忽视了非期望产出对机场运营效率的影响,且对有效单元无法进一步排名,基于此,采用长江三角洲16个机场2015~2019年的面板数据,将碳排放量和旅客投诉数量作为非期望产出指标,通过模型对比分析非期望产出的必要性,利用GML(Global Malmquist-Luenberger)指数刻画出机场全要素生产率的时空特性.结果表明,考虑非期望产出后,机场的静态运营效率和动态全要素生产率均产生变化.2015~2019年,长三角机场运营效率呈现波动上升,小型机场受非期望产出影响较大;2015~2019年,长三角机场全要素生产率受技术效率和技术进步共同影响,非期望产出影响技术进步上升的机场数量较多,但是对机场的技术效率影响更大.

Stiffness of individual quadriceps muscle assessed using ultrasound shear wave elastography during passive stretching

Background: Until recently it has not been possible to isolate the mechanical behavior of individual muscles during passive stretching. Muscle shear modulus(an index of muscle stiffness) measured using ultrasound shear wave elastography can be used to estimate changes in stiffness of an individual muscle. The aims of the present study were(1) to determine the shear modulus—knee angle relationship and the slack angle of the vastus medialis oblique(VMO), rectus femoris(RF), and vastus lateralis(VL) muscles;(2) to determine whether this differs between the muscles.Methods: Nine male rowers took part in the study. The shear modulus of VMO, RF, and VL muscles was measured while the quadriceps was passively stretched at 3°/s. The relationship between the muscle shear modulus and knee angle was plotted as shear modulus—knee angle curve through which the slack angle of each muscle was determined.Results: The shear modulus of RF was higher than that of VMO and VL when the muscles were stretched over 54°(all p < 0.01). No significant difference was found between the VMO and VL(all p > 0.05). The slack angle was similar among the muscles: 41.3°± 10.6°, 44.3°± 9.1°, and 44.3°± 5.6° of knee flexion for VMO, RF, and VL, respectively(p = 0.626).Conclusion: This is the first study to experimentally determine the muscle mechanical behavior of individual heads of the quadriceps during passive stretching. Different pattern of passive tension was observed between mono-and bi-articular muscles. Further research is needed to determine whether changes in muscle stiffness are muscle-specific in pathological conditions or after interventions such as stretching protocols.

电子取证中的隐形数据及其相关处理技术探究

随着社会信息化程度越来越高,电子取证中的证据来源逐渐成为大家关注的一个热点。本文提出在计算机及其相关存储设备中,存在着一些不太显而易见的电子证据来源隐形数据,对它们的产生和数据形式进行了分析,并介绍了几种重要的隐形数据分析处理技术。

Urban Metabolism Based on Emergy and Slack Based Model: A Case Study of Beijing, China

The key to studying urban sustainable development depends on quantifying stores, efficiencies of urban metabolisms and capturing urban metabolisms′ mechanisms. This paper builds up the metabolic emergy account and quantifies some important concepts of emergy stores. Emphasis is placed on the urban metabolic model based on the slack based model(SBM) method to measure urban metabolic efficiencies. Urban metabolic mechanisms are discussed by using the regression method. By integrating these models, this paper analyzes the urban metabolic development in Beijing from 2001 to 2010. We conclude that the metabolic emergy stores of Beijing increased significantly from 2001 to 2010, with the emergy imported accounting for most of the increase. The metabolic efficiencies in Beijing have improved since the 2008 Olympic Games. The population, economic growth, industrial structures, and environmental governance positively affect the overall urban metabolism, while the land expansion, urbanization and environmentally technical levels hinder the improving of urban metabolic efficiencies. The SBM metabolic method and the regression model based on the emergy analysis provide insights into the urban metabolic efficiencies and the mechanism. They can promote to integrate such concepts into their sustainability analyses and policy decisions.

Dynamics of Anchor Last Deployment of Submersible Buoy System

Submersible buoy systems are widely used for oceanographic research,ocean engineering and coastal defense.Severe sea environment has obvious effects on the dynamics of submersible buoy systems.Huge tension can occur and may cause the snap of cables,especially during the deployment period.This paper studies the deployment dynamics of submersible buoy systems with numerical and experimental methods.By applying the lumped mass approach,a three-dimensional multi-body model of submersible buoy system is developed considering the hydrodynamic force,tension force and impact force between components of submersible buoy system and seabed.Numerical integration method is used to solve the differential equations.The simulation output includes tension force,trajectory,profile and dropping location and impact force of submersible buoys.In addition,the deployment experiment of a simplified submersible buoy model was carried out.The profile and different nodes' velocities of the submersible buoy are obtained.By comparing the results of the two methods,it is found that the numerical model well simulates the actual process and conditions of the experiment.The simulation results agree well with the results of the experiment such as gravity anchor's location and velocities of different nodes of the submersible buoy.The study results will help to understand the conditions of submersible buoy's deployment,operation and recovery,and can be used to guide the design and optimization of the system.

On exponential stability for systems with state delays

This paper considers the issue of delay-dependent exponential stability for time-delay systems. Both nominal and uncertain systems are investigated. New sufficient conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs) are obtained. These criteria are simple owing to the use of an integral inequality. The model transformation approaches,bounding techniques for cross terms and slack matrices are all avoided in the derivation. Rigorous proof and numerical examples showed that the proposed criteria and those based on introducing slack matrices are equivalent.

Proposing a New Model of Hangers in Pedestrian Suspension Bridges to Solve Hangers Slackness Problem

The hangers of suspension bridges can be placed in two forms: vertical or inclined form. Inclined hangers are more liable to fatigue. Vertical hangers are subjected to greater fluctuations of stress resulting from bridge wind loads. To improve aerodynamic stability, inclined hangers can be used instead of vertical ones. Some inclined hangers show considerable signs of distress and some of them show slackness due to their location against loads. In this paper a pedestrian suspension bridge with vertical hangers has been studied as a case study. Then, the same bridge has been studied with inclined hangers. To reduce internal forces, fatigue and slackness in hangers, horizontal cables have been added to inclined hangers. This modification is proposed by the present authors. The added horizontal cables transfer the tensile load from overstressed hangers to adjacent slacked hangers. Three different hanger patterns have been analyzed under nonlinear static analysis for symmetrical and nonsymmetrical live load plus dead load. Results showed that the modified hanger system had been improved considerably in comparison with vertical or inclined hangers and wherever that there is no improvement some solutions have been proposed.

TIMING SLACK OPTIMIZATION APPROACH USING FPGA HYBRID ROUTING STRATEGY OF RIP-UP-RETRY AND PATHFINDER

To improve the path slack of Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA), this paper proposes a timing slack optimization approach which utilizes the hybrid routing strategy of rip-up-retry and pathfinder. Firstly, effect of process variations on path slack is analyzed, and by constructing a collocation table of delay model that takes into account the multi-corner process, the complex statistical static timing analysis is successfully translated into a simple classical static timing analysis. Then, based on the hybrid routing strategy of rip-up-retry and pathfinder, by adjusting the critical path which detours a long distance, the critical path delay is reduced and the path slack is optimized. Experimental results show that, using the hybrid routing strategy, the number of paths with negative slack can be optimized(reduced) by 85.8% on average compared with the Versatile Place and Route(VPR) timing-driven routing algorithm, while the run-time is only increased by 15.02% on average.

数据库基于Slack Bot的实时监控和预警平台

为了能够有效的监控和预警生产环境中数据库的运行状态,及时的解决因为数据库无法响应或者数据库硬件损坏导致的损失,基于数据库的实时预警系统尤为重要。传统的监控和预警平台通常采用的是自动化脚本＋邮件和短信提醒的方式,虽然解决了预警的及时性问题,但是并不能支持可配置性和实时查询。因此有必要搭建一套实时的数据库监控和预警系统来保证线上数据库的正常运行。该文采用了最近逐渐开始流行的Slack作为消息推送平台,通过研究Slack实时消息API,并且与Jira,LDAP等企业管理工具的集成,实现了一套部署在生产环境数据库之上的基于Slack Bot的实时监控和预警系统。最后通过比较评估了实际效果。

Further studies on stability analysis of nonlinear Roesser-type two-dimensional systems

This paper is concerned with further relaxations of the stability analysis of nonlinear Roesser-type two-dimensional （2D） systems in the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy form. To achieve the goal, a novel slack matrix variable technique, which is homogenous polynomially parameter-dependent on the normalized fuzzy weighting functions with arbitrary degree, is developed and the algebraic properties of the normalized fuzzy weighting functions are collected into a set of augmented matrices. Consequently, more information about the normalized fuzzy weighting functions is involved and the relaxation quality of the stability analysis is significantly improved. Moreover, the obtained result is formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities, which can be easily solved via standard numerical software. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed result.

RHEOLOGICAL FRACTURE ANALYSIS OF CABLE BY CONSIDERING THE SECOND ORDER EFFECTS OF RANDOM SLACK

In this paper we consider the cable as a bundle consisting of x sub-bundles, with m parallel tension members per sub-bundle, and the tension members themselves are polymeric yarns impregnated with a resin matrix. The nonfailad members at any instant must share an applied system load according to some rule, since there is a clearly expressed dependence of the fracture on the duration on the duration and character of the loading. So then, the fracture of cable is a process of nonlinear dynamic evolution, which accommodates to the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of irreversible processes by itself. Let us assume that the polymeric yarns art as viscoelastic solid, under certain probabilistic assumptions, according to the principles of rheology of bodies with defects, the relationship between the single member loading and failure and the bundle loading are investigated. It can be shown that the bundle failure time is asymptotically normally distributed as the number of members grows large. After a study of the second order effects of random slack, it is known that the asymptotic mean and variance are functions of the parameters of loading and single member theological behavior. Hence the loss in the asymptotic bundle strength mean brought about by random member and sub-bundle slack, L(s), and the loss in the asymptotic bundle strength variance caused by random member slack, Delta(s), are determined. And finally, if is known that the asymptotic time of failure can make up a considerable part of the fracture of cable, and the fracture of cable is a time-dependent process of rheological fracture.

Energy Efficient On-Chip Communications Implementation Based on Power Slacks

The quest for energy efficiency has growing importance in high performance many-core systems. However, in current practices, the power slacks, which are the differences observed between the input power budget and the actual power consumed in the many-core systems, are typically ignored, thus leading to poor energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose a scheme to effectively power the on-chip communications by exploiting the available power slack that is totally wasted in current many-core systems. As so, the demand for extra energy from external power sources （e.g., batteries） is minimized, which helps improve the overall energy efficiency. In essence, the power slack is stored at each node and the proposed routing algorithm uses a dynamic programming network to find the globally optimal path, along which the total energy stored on the nodes is the maximum. Experimental results have confirmed that the proposed scheme, with low hardware overhead, can reduce latency and extra energy consumption by 44% and 48%, respectively, compared with the two competing routing methods.

The Treatment of Non-zero Slacks in Data Envelopment Analysis

The paper studies the non-zero slacks in data envelopment analysis. A procedure is developed for the treatment of non-zero slacks. DEA projections can be done just in one step.

Thermal transport property of Ge_(34) and d-Ge investigated by molecular dynamics and the Slack's equation

In this study, we evaluate the values of lattice thermal conductivity κL of type Ⅱ Ge clathrate （Ge34） and diamond phase Ge crystal （d-Ce） with the equilibrium molecular dynamics （EMD） method and the Slack＇s equation. The key parameters of the Slack＇s equation are derived from the thermodynamic properties obtained from the lattice dynamics （LD） calculations. The empirical Tersoff＇s potential is used in both EMD and LD simulations. The thermal conductivities of d-Ge calculated by both methods are in accordance with the experimental values. The predictions of the Slack＇s equation are consistent with the EMD results above 250 K for both Ge34 and d-Ge. In a temperature range of 200-1000 K, the κL value of d-Ge is about several times larger than that of Ge34.