In this letter, the homotopy analysis method is successfully applied to solve the Relativistic Toda lattice system. Comparisons are made between the results of the proposed method and exact solutions. Analysis results...In this letter, the homotopy analysis method is successfully applied to solve the Relativistic Toda lattice system. Comparisons are made between the results of the proposed method and exact solutions. Analysis results show that homotopy analysis method is a powerful and easy-to-use analytic tool to solve systems of differential-difference equations.展开更多
Educational achievement and age correlatives may have significant bearings on generation, maintenance, and sustenance of environment to disseminate education for comprehensive development of learners as permeation of ...Educational achievement and age correlatives may have significant bearings on generation, maintenance, and sustenance of environment to disseminate education for comprehensive development of learners as permeation of learning and its diffusion rate may vary depending upon different achievements on literacy scale for different age groups. More so, for disable learners as such learners need additional initiatives and assisting environment of even more literate fellow beings constituting surroundings. From this perspective, this paper makes a descriptive analytical effort to present census (2011) results in evaluating overall literacy position and that for disable ones alongwith environment availability through simple statistical tools展开更多
Group signature schemes are fundamental cryptographic tools. A group signature scheme allows members of a group to anonymously sign misuse, the anonymity messages. To counter can be revoked by the group manager. The g...Group signature schemes are fundamental cryptographic tools. A group signature scheme allows members of a group to anonymously sign misuse, the anonymity messages. To counter can be revoked by the group manager. The group joining operation is a critical component of group signature scheme, the framing attack can be prevented by group joining processes. This paper presents an efficient group signature scheme with a simple joining protocol that is based on a "single message and signature response" interaction between the prospective user and the group manager. The security of our group signature is based on the Discrete Logarithm assumption and Decisional Linear Diffie- Hellman assumption. The formal security proof of our scheme is given in the random oracle model. Our scheme is also a very efficient short group signature scheme with efficient concurrent join.展开更多
Six Sigma was introduced as a quality management tool at Motorola in the 1980s. Since then, leading U.S. companies have gained significant financial and non-financial benefits/results from the implementation of Six Si...Six Sigma was introduced as a quality management tool at Motorola in the 1980s. Since then, leading U.S. companies have gained significant financial and non-financial benefits/results from the implementation of Six Sigma projects. Despite Six Sigma popularity, some companies have failed to gain quantifiable net financial benefits/results from Six Sigma implementation. In the process of Six Sigma implementation, vital components are critical factors and key ingredients for the success of Six Sigma projects because if these vital components do not exist, Six Sigma projects have little chance of success. Thus, this paper identifies most influencing and least influencing vital components. The results are generated from a survey conducted in U.S. Fortune 500 companies employing descriptive statistics. Based on the data analysis, "leadership commitment to Six Sigma" was the most influencing vital component and "overall, training on Six Sigma to reduce employee turnover" was the least influencing vital component.展开更多
The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the ...The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them For the biologist, running bioinformatics analyses involve a time-consuming management of data and tools. Users need support to organize their work, retrieve parameters and reproduce their analyses. They also need to be able to combine their analytic tools using a safe data flow software mechanism. Finally we have designed a system, Bioinfo-Portal, to provide a flexible and usable web environment for defining and running bioinformatics analyses. It embeds simple yet powerful data management features that allow the user to reproduce analyses and to combine tools using an adobe flex tool. Bioinfo-Portal can also act as a front end to provide a unified view of already-existing collections of bioinformatics resources. Users can analyze genomic and proteomic data by using the tools that has been integrated in the portal (tools for alignments, dotplots, motif detection, domain analysis, profile searching and tertiary structure prediction). The sequences that user obtained from portal's nucleotide and protein databases are easily analyzed by the portal tools on the same interface in no time. User can also take benefit from the animations.展开更多
By applying non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in combination with the density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic transport properties of molecular junctions constructed by OPE derivative...By applying non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in combination with the density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic transport properties of molecular junctions constructed by OPE derivatives with different side groups combined C60 molecules. The results show that the side groups play an important role in the properties of electron transport. Negative differential resistance (NDR) is observed in such devices. Especially for the molecule with electron-donating group ( OCH3), two NDR appear at different bias voltage regions. And the mechanism is proposed for the NDR behavior, owing to the shift of the molecular orbitals caused by the change in molecule charge.展开更多
A molecular-level kinetics model has been developed for the pyrolysis of heavy residual oil. Resid structure was modeled in terms of three attribute groups: cores, inter-core linkages, and side chains. The concentrati...A molecular-level kinetics model has been developed for the pyrolysis of heavy residual oil. Resid structure was modeled in terms of three attribute groups: cores, inter-core linkages, and side chains. The concentrations of attributes were constrained by probability density functions (PDFs) that were optimized by minimizing the difference between the properties of the computational representation-which were obtained by juxtaposing the attributes-to measured properties, which were obtained by analytical chemistry measurements. Computational tools were used to build a reaction network that was constructed based upon model compounds and their associated kinetics. For cases with an intractable number of species, equations were written in terms of the three attribute groups and the molecular composition was retained implicitly through the juxtaposition. These modeling methods were applied to the Shengli and Daqing resids. The composition of the simulated molecular feedstock fit well with analytical chemistry measurements. After simulated pyrolysis, both resids showed representative increases in the weight fractions of lighter hydrocarbons. Relevant end-use properties were predicted for the product mixtures.展开更多
基金Supported by Leading Academic Discipline Program, 211 Project for Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (the 3rd phase)
文摘In this letter, the homotopy analysis method is successfully applied to solve the Relativistic Toda lattice system. Comparisons are made between the results of the proposed method and exact solutions. Analysis results show that homotopy analysis method is a powerful and easy-to-use analytic tool to solve systems of differential-difference equations.
文摘Educational achievement and age correlatives may have significant bearings on generation, maintenance, and sustenance of environment to disseminate education for comprehensive development of learners as permeation of learning and its diffusion rate may vary depending upon different achievements on literacy scale for different age groups. More so, for disable learners as such learners need additional initiatives and assisting environment of even more literate fellow beings constituting surroundings. From this perspective, this paper makes a descriptive analytical effort to present census (2011) results in evaluating overall literacy position and that for disable ones alongwith environment availability through simple statistical tools
基金This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61072140, 61373171 the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities NO. B08038 the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education No. 20100203110003.
文摘Group signature schemes are fundamental cryptographic tools. A group signature scheme allows members of a group to anonymously sign misuse, the anonymity messages. To counter can be revoked by the group manager. The group joining operation is a critical component of group signature scheme, the framing attack can be prevented by group joining processes. This paper presents an efficient group signature scheme with a simple joining protocol that is based on a "single message and signature response" interaction between the prospective user and the group manager. The security of our group signature is based on the Discrete Logarithm assumption and Decisional Linear Diffie- Hellman assumption. The formal security proof of our scheme is given in the random oracle model. Our scheme is also a very efficient short group signature scheme with efficient concurrent join.
文摘Six Sigma was introduced as a quality management tool at Motorola in the 1980s. Since then, leading U.S. companies have gained significant financial and non-financial benefits/results from the implementation of Six Sigma projects. Despite Six Sigma popularity, some companies have failed to gain quantifiable net financial benefits/results from Six Sigma implementation. In the process of Six Sigma implementation, vital components are critical factors and key ingredients for the success of Six Sigma projects because if these vital components do not exist, Six Sigma projects have little chance of success. Thus, this paper identifies most influencing and least influencing vital components. The results are generated from a survey conducted in U.S. Fortune 500 companies employing descriptive statistics. Based on the data analysis, "leadership commitment to Six Sigma" was the most influencing vital component and "overall, training on Six Sigma to reduce employee turnover" was the least influencing vital component.
文摘The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them For the biologist, running bioinformatics analyses involve a time-consuming management of data and tools. Users need support to organize their work, retrieve parameters and reproduce their analyses. They also need to be able to combine their analytic tools using a safe data flow software mechanism. Finally we have designed a system, Bioinfo-Portal, to provide a flexible and usable web environment for defining and running bioinformatics analyses. It embeds simple yet powerful data management features that allow the user to reproduce analyses and to combine tools using an adobe flex tool. Bioinfo-Portal can also act as a front end to provide a unified view of already-existing collections of bioinformatics resources. Users can analyze genomic and proteomic data by using the tools that has been integrated in the portal (tools for alignments, dotplots, motif detection, domain analysis, profile searching and tertiary structure prediction). The sequences that user obtained from portal's nucleotide and protein databases are easily analyzed by the portal tools on the same interface in no time. User can also take benefit from the animations.
基金supported by the Independent Innovative Natural Science Foundation of Shandong University (Grant No. 2009TS097)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Grant Nos. ZR2009-AL004 and ZR2010AM037)
文摘By applying non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in combination with the density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic transport properties of molecular junctions constructed by OPE derivatives with different side groups combined C60 molecules. The results show that the side groups play an important role in the properties of electron transport. Negative differential resistance (NDR) is observed in such devices. Especially for the molecule with electron-donating group ( OCH3), two NDR appear at different bias voltage regions. And the mechanism is proposed for the NDR behavior, owing to the shift of the molecular orbitals caused by the change in molecule charge.
文摘A molecular-level kinetics model has been developed for the pyrolysis of heavy residual oil. Resid structure was modeled in terms of three attribute groups: cores, inter-core linkages, and side chains. The concentrations of attributes were constrained by probability density functions (PDFs) that were optimized by minimizing the difference between the properties of the computational representation-which were obtained by juxtaposing the attributes-to measured properties, which were obtained by analytical chemistry measurements. Computational tools were used to build a reaction network that was constructed based upon model compounds and their associated kinetics. For cases with an intractable number of species, equations were written in terms of the three attribute groups and the molecular composition was retained implicitly through the juxtaposition. These modeling methods were applied to the Shengli and Daqing resids. The composition of the simulated molecular feedstock fit well with analytical chemistry measurements. After simulated pyrolysis, both resids showed representative increases in the weight fractions of lighter hydrocarbons. Relevant end-use properties were predicted for the product mixtures.