In this article, we have given the definition of the relative double multiplier (quasi-multiplier) on a ternary algebra,and studied the isomorphic problem of the multiplier algebra M(A,e) of a ternary algerbra A.
The design of counter-rotating turbine is one of new techniques to improve the thrust-weight ratio of jet propulsion engines.Numerical analysis of a low pressure(LP)counter-rotating turbine rotor blade is presented ...The design of counter-rotating turbine is one of new techniques to improve the thrust-weight ratio of jet propulsion engines.Numerical analysis of a low pressure(LP)counter-rotating turbine rotor blade is presented by using ANSYS/CFX software.Interaction of aerodynamics and solid mechanics coupling in the computation is applied.In some rating of turbine,stress distribution and vibration characteristics of low pressure turbine(LPT)blade are computed.The wake aerodynamic forces and LPT blade vibration are transformed in frequency domain using fast Fourier transform(FFT)method.The results show that under wake aerodynamic force excitation,the first order modal vibration is more easily aroused and the higher order response cannot be ignored.Moreover,with different temperature fields,the vibration responses of blade are also different.展开更多
Circuit design of 32 bit logarithmic skip adder (LSA) is introduced to implement high performance,low power addition.ELM carry lookahead adder is included into groups of carry skip adder and the hybrid structure cost...Circuit design of 32 bit logarithmic skip adder (LSA) is introduced to implement high performance,low power addition.ELM carry lookahead adder is included into groups of carry skip adder and the hybrid structure costs 30% less hardware than ELM.At circuit level,a carry incorporating structure to include the primary carry input in carry chain and an 'and xor' structure to implement final sum logic in 32 bit LSA are designed for better optimization.For 5V,1μm process,32 bit LSA has a critical delay of 5 9ns and costs an area of 0 62mm 2,power consumption of 23mW at 100MHz.For 2 5V,0 25μm process,critical delay of 0 8ns,power dissipation of 5 2mW at 100MHz is simulated.展开更多
The combined selection index used in the breeding of new Yorkshire dam line with high prolificacy according to breeding objects was formulated as /:2.272E- BVNB-0.056EBVDAYS. After 5 generations breeding, the two mai...The combined selection index used in the breeding of new Yorkshire dam line with high prolificacy according to breeding objects was formulated as /:2.272E- BVNB-0.056EBVDAYS. After 5 generations breeding, the two main selected traits such as total number of born and age at 100 kg weight was 12.17 piglets/litter and 165.18 d, respectively. The genetic improvements per generates was 0.156 and -2.198, respec- tively. The breeding objects of the new Yorkshire dam line with high prolificacy were basically reached. It indicated that the methods and index could be used in pig breeding.展开更多
The constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of orders 4m are established in paper [3]. In this paper, the constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of odd orders n are establi...The constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of orders 4m are established in paper [3]. In this paper, the constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of odd orders n are established with n = 6m+l, 6m+5 and 6m+3, m is an odd positive integer and m is an even positive integer 9|6m + 3. It is seen that the number sets for constructing pandiagonal snowflake magic squares can be extended to the matrices with symmetric partial difference in each direction for orders 6m + 1 , 6m + 5; to the trisection matrices with symmetric partial difference in each direction for order 6m + 3.展开更多
Let R be a ring, * be an involutory function of the set of all finite matrices over R. In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a matrix to have a (1,3)-inverse, (1,4)-inverse, or Moore-P enros...Let R be a ring, * be an involutory function of the set of all finite matrices over R. In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a matrix to have a (1,3)-inverse, (1,4)-inverse, or Moore-P enrose inverse, relative to *. Some results about generalized inverses of matrices over division rings are generalized and improved.展开更多
In this paper, it has been shown that A_5 and PSL (2,7) are the only simple groups which just contain 15 or 21 in volutions, respectively. Meanwhile, we have also obtained some results about finite CIT-groups and fini...In this paper, it has been shown that A_5 and PSL (2,7) are the only simple groups which just contain 15 or 21 in volutions, respectively. Meanwhile, we have also obtained some results about finite CIT-groups and finite nonsolvabie CIT-groups.展开更多
Gasoline blending is a key process in a petroleum refinery, as it can yield 60%–70% of a typical refinery's total revenue. This process not only exhibits non-convex nonlinear blending behavior due to the complica...Gasoline blending is a key process in a petroleum refinery, as it can yield 60%–70% of a typical refinery's total revenue. This process not only exhibits non-convex nonlinear blending behavior due to the complicated blend mechanism of various component feedstocks with different quality properties, but also involves global optimum searching among numerous blending recipes. Since blend products are required to meet a series of quality requirements and highly-sensitive to the proportion changes of blending feedstocks, global optimization methods for NLP problems are often difficult to be applied because of heavy computational burdens. Thus, piecewise linearization methods are naturally proposed to provide an approximate global optimum solution by adding binary variables into the models and converting the original NLP problems into MILP ones. In this paper, Logarithmtransform piecewise linearization(LTPL) method, an improved piecewise linearization, is proposed. In this method a logarithm transform is applied to convert multi-variable multi-degree constraints into a series of single-variable constraints. As a result, the number of 0–1 variables is greatly reduced. In the final part of this paper, an industrial case study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of LTPL method. In principle, this method would be useful for blending problems with complicated empirical or theoretical models.展开更多
We introduce the sequence of spontaneous symmetry breaking of a coupling between Pati-Salam and electroweak symmetries SU( 4 )PS × SU( 4 )EW in order to establish a mathematically consistent relation among th...We introduce the sequence of spontaneous symmetry breaking of a coupling between Pati-Salam and electroweak symmetries SU( 4 )PS × SU( 4 )EW in order to establish a mathematically consistent relation among the coupling constants at grand unification energy scale. With the values of baryon minus lepton quantum numbers of known quarks and leptons, by including right-handed neutrinos, we can lind the mixing angle relations at different energy levels up to the electromagnetic U(1)EM scale.展开更多
Multi-year experiments are conducted using the most recent version of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics regional climate model RegCM4(version 4.7) to customize its performance over Southeast...Multi-year experiments are conducted using the most recent version of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics regional climate model RegCM4(version 4.7) to customize its performance over Southeast Asia - a region with few RCMs applied to date. The model is driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis data at a grid spacing of 25 km using the CORDEX(Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) Southeast Asia domain. The authors focus on comparing the convection schemes of Emanuel and Tiedtke(Tiedtke-1) and Tiedtke with effects of sea surface evaporation introduced(Tiedtke-2). The authors find that, for temperature over land, the model shows reasonable performance in reproducing the present-day climatology in both December–January–February(DJF) and June–July–August(JJA) in all the experiments. Meanwhile, cold biases prevail in both seasons, although portions of warm bias exist in DJF. For precipitation, the spatial pattern and amount, as well as seasonal evolution, are in general reproduced well in the experiments.Better performances of Tiedtke-1 and Tiedtke-2 are evident compared to Emanuel, particularly over ocean. Thereby, the optimal configuration of Reg CM4.7 for future climate change simulations over the region is identified as using the Tiedtke scheme with spray effects considered, along with the default settings for other physical parameterizations.展开更多
A new group signature with one time secret key is proposed. The main merits are that it only needs the trusted center issuing the partial secret key one time for each group member; and that the group member can genera...A new group signature with one time secret key is proposed. The main merits are that it only needs the trusted center issuing the partial secret key one time for each group member; and that the group member can generate his different secret key each time when he wants to sign a message. The group public key is constant and the size of the signature is independent of the number of group members. The total computation cost of signature and verification requires only 8 modular exponentiations.展开更多
Hu Shuhe gets a sufficient condition on the law of the iterated logarithm for the sums of φ-mixing sequences with duple suffixes. This paper greatly improves his condition.
The Leibniz-Hopf algebra is the free associative algebra with one generator in each positive degree and coproduct given by the Cartan formula. Quasi-symmetric functions are a generalisation of symmetric functions [7],...The Leibniz-Hopf algebra is the free associative algebra with one generator in each positive degree and coproduct given by the Cartan formula. Quasi-symmetric functions are a generalisation of symmetric functions [7],and the algebra of quasi-symmetric functions appear as the dual of the Leibniz-Hopf algebra. The Leibniz-Hopf algebra and its dual are word Hopf algebras and play an important role in combinatorics, algebra and topology. We give some properties of words and consider an another view of proof for the antipode in the dual Leibniz-Hopf algebra.展开更多
We investigate the leading SUSY-QCD contributions to the branch ratio (BR) oft→ch~0 within the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with complex parameters,assuming more generally that there is...We investigate the leading SUSY-QCD contributions to the branch ratio (BR) oft→ch~0 within the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with complex parameters,assuming more generally that there is a misalignment between the squark and quark that leads to a flavor non-diagonal squark mass matrix.We introduce complex phases only in μ and At,namely φ_μ and φ_(Aq),for simplicity,and study the dependence of the BR of t→ch~0 on these phase parameters.Our calculations show that these CP-violation phases and the flavor mixing parameter λ influence the BR oft→ch~0 considerably,and the effect induced by φ_(At) is much larger than that by φ_μ and φ_(Ac(?)u.For different values of the complex parameters μ and A_t that are set in this paper,the BR of t -+ ch~ is in the range of 10~(-7)~10~(-6),depending mainly on the value of the trilinear coupling A_t.展开更多
A novel mixed integer linear programming (NMILP) model for detection of gross errors is presented in this paper. Yamamura et al.(1988) designed a model for detection of gross errors and data reconciliation based on Ak...A novel mixed integer linear programming (NMILP) model for detection of gross errors is presented in this paper. Yamamura et al.(1988) designed a model for detection of gross errors and data reconciliation based on Akaike information cri- terion (AIC). But much computational cost is needed due to its combinational nature. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) approach was performed to reduce the computational cost and enhance the robustness. But it loses the super performance of maximum likelihood estimation. To reduce the computational cost and have the merit of maximum likelihood estimation, the simultaneous data reconciliation method in an MILP framework is decomposed and replaced by an NMILP subproblem and a quadratic programming (QP) or a least squares estimation (LSE) subproblem. Simulation result of an industrial case shows the high efficiency of the method.展开更多
In relay-assisted cooperative communication,relay nodes help forwarding the information of a source node in case of link failure between the source and a destination.Although user cooperation improves the overall effi...In relay-assisted cooperative communication,relay nodes help forwarding the information of a source node in case of link failure between the source and a destination.Although user cooperation improves the overall efficiency of the network,it requires incentive to stimulate potential relay nodes to assist the source by forwarding its data to the destination.Moreover,the potential relays are better informed than the source about their channel conditions to destination,which results in asymmetric information between the source and the relays.In this paper,we study the problem of lack of forwarding incentive in cooperative communication when channel state information of relays is private information and not known by the source.To tackle this problem,we apply the principle of contract theory to a cooperative wireless system.Source first designs incentive compatible and individually rational contract,consisting of a set of power-credit pairs.Then it broadcasts contract items to nearby nodes.Once the source node receives reply messages from the volunteer relays,it chooses one or more relays based on its requirements and communication starts.Simulation results show how credit assignment works in order to stimulate relays to cooperate and prevents relays from cheating behavior.展开更多
From the viewpoint of game theory, this paper proposes a model that combines QoS index with price factor in overlay access networks, and uses the multinomial logit (MNL) to model the choice behaviour of users. Each ...From the viewpoint of game theory, this paper proposes a model that combines QoS index with price factor in overlay access networks, and uses the multinomial logit (MNL) to model the choice behaviour of users. Each service class is considered an independent and competitive entity offered by each provider, which aims at maximizing its own utility. Based on noncooperative game, we prove the existence and uniqueness of equilibriums between QoS levels and prices among various service classes, and demonstrate the properties of equilibriums. Finally, these results are verified via ntunerieal analysis.展开更多
The effect of friction factor on the unsteady state mixed convective-radiative heat transfer in an inclined cylindrical annulus is investigated from continuity, momentum and energy equations. The outer cylinder is kep...The effect of friction factor on the unsteady state mixed convective-radiative heat transfer in an inclined cylindrical annulus is investigated from continuity, momentum and energy equations. The outer cylinder is kept at a constant temperature while the inner cylinder is heated with constant heat flux. The governing equations are normalized and solved using the vorticity-stream function and the BFC (body fitted coordinates) methods. The two heat transfer mechanisms of convection and radiation are treated independently and simultaneously. A computer program (Fortran 90) was built to calculate Nusselt number (Nu) and friction factorffor unsteady state condition for fluid Prandtl number fixed at (Pr = 0.7) (for air as working fluid) with radius ratio (/~ = 2.6), Rayleigh number (0 〈 Ra 〈 103), Reynolds number (50 〈 Re 〈 2,000), conduction-radiation parameter (0 〈 N 〈 10), optical thickness (0 〈 l" 〈 10) and different annulus inclination with horizontal plane (0~ _〈 d 〈 90~) for concentric cylindrical annulus. For the range of parameters considered, results show that radiation enhance heat transfer. It is also indicated in the results that as 3 increasefwill be decrease and also when Re increasefwill be decrease for any value of Ra causing increase in heat transfer. The maximum value off can be recognized at ~ = 90~ and the minimum value at 6 = 0~ for low Re. There is an optimum value of annulus inclination that gives maximum value of Nu, this maximum value appears at 90~ of annulus inclination comparison of the result with the previous work shows a good agreement.展开更多
Outsourcing is a change from horizontal cooperation (coopetition) to a vertical one. That is, the company, which up to now could be considered as a competitor, changes into a supplier. It is worth remembering that t...Outsourcing is a change from horizontal cooperation (coopetition) to a vertical one. That is, the company, which up to now could be considered as a competitor, changes into a supplier. It is worth remembering that the company that is to become a supplier can either create a new one or be an already existing one. This article is based on empirical data coming from the companies from the Visegrad Group that is Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The results presented here imply that outsourcing has a stimulating effect on innovative activity of a company both in terms of investment and implementation aspects. Also, innovative activity, in its investment and implementation aspects, positively influences the occurrence of outsourcing. This confirms the existence of feedback among these variables. It is worth noting however, that the probability of innovative activity among the companies using outsourcing is higher than the probability of outsourcing among the companies that are irmovatively active. It seems that the influence of outsourcing on innovative activity is stronger than the influence o f innovative activity on outsourcing.展开更多
文摘In this article, we have given the definition of the relative double multiplier (quasi-multiplier) on a ternary algebra,and studied the isomorphic problem of the multiplier algebra M(A,e) of a ternary algerbra A.
文摘The design of counter-rotating turbine is one of new techniques to improve the thrust-weight ratio of jet propulsion engines.Numerical analysis of a low pressure(LP)counter-rotating turbine rotor blade is presented by using ANSYS/CFX software.Interaction of aerodynamics and solid mechanics coupling in the computation is applied.In some rating of turbine,stress distribution and vibration characteristics of low pressure turbine(LPT)blade are computed.The wake aerodynamic forces and LPT blade vibration are transformed in frequency domain using fast Fourier transform(FFT)method.The results show that under wake aerodynamic force excitation,the first order modal vibration is more easily aroused and the higher order response cannot be ignored.Moreover,with different temperature fields,the vibration responses of blade are also different.
文摘Circuit design of 32 bit logarithmic skip adder (LSA) is introduced to implement high performance,low power addition.ELM carry lookahead adder is included into groups of carry skip adder and the hybrid structure costs 30% less hardware than ELM.At circuit level,a carry incorporating structure to include the primary carry input in carry chain and an 'and xor' structure to implement final sum logic in 32 bit LSA are designed for better optimization.For 5V,1μm process,32 bit LSA has a critical delay of 5 9ns and costs an area of 0 62mm 2,power consumption of 23mW at 100MHz.For 2 5V,0 25μm process,critical delay of 0 8ns,power dissipation of 5 2mW at 100MHz is simulated.
基金Supported by National Science and Technology Support Plan during the Eleventh Five-year Plan(2006BAD01A08-02)Hubei Agricultural Innovation Program(2007-620-004-003)Special Fund for Modern Pig Production Technology Construction(NYCYTX-009)~~
文摘The combined selection index used in the breeding of new Yorkshire dam line with high prolificacy according to breeding objects was formulated as /:2.272E- BVNB-0.056EBVDAYS. After 5 generations breeding, the two main selected traits such as total number of born and age at 100 kg weight was 12.17 piglets/litter and 165.18 d, respectively. The genetic improvements per generates was 0.156 and -2.198, respec- tively. The breeding objects of the new Yorkshire dam line with high prolificacy were basically reached. It indicated that the methods and index could be used in pig breeding.
文摘The constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of orders 4m are established in paper [3]. In this paper, the constructional methods of pandiagonal snowflake magic squares of odd orders n are established with n = 6m+l, 6m+5 and 6m+3, m is an odd positive integer and m is an even positive integer 9|6m + 3. It is seen that the number sets for constructing pandiagonal snowflake magic squares can be extended to the matrices with symmetric partial difference in each direction for orders 6m + 1 , 6m + 5; to the trisection matrices with symmetric partial difference in each direction for order 6m + 3.
文摘Let R be a ring, * be an involutory function of the set of all finite matrices over R. In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a matrix to have a (1,3)-inverse, (1,4)-inverse, or Moore-P enrose inverse, relative to *. Some results about generalized inverses of matrices over division rings are generalized and improved.
文摘In this paper, it has been shown that A_5 and PSL (2,7) are the only simple groups which just contain 15 or 21 in volutions, respectively. Meanwhile, we have also obtained some results about finite CIT-groups and finite nonsolvabie CIT-groups.
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB720500)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1462206)
文摘Gasoline blending is a key process in a petroleum refinery, as it can yield 60%–70% of a typical refinery's total revenue. This process not only exhibits non-convex nonlinear blending behavior due to the complicated blend mechanism of various component feedstocks with different quality properties, but also involves global optimum searching among numerous blending recipes. Since blend products are required to meet a series of quality requirements and highly-sensitive to the proportion changes of blending feedstocks, global optimization methods for NLP problems are often difficult to be applied because of heavy computational burdens. Thus, piecewise linearization methods are naturally proposed to provide an approximate global optimum solution by adding binary variables into the models and converting the original NLP problems into MILP ones. In this paper, Logarithmtransform piecewise linearization(LTPL) method, an improved piecewise linearization, is proposed. In this method a logarithm transform is applied to convert multi-variable multi-degree constraints into a series of single-variable constraints. As a result, the number of 0–1 variables is greatly reduced. In the final part of this paper, an industrial case study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of LTPL method. In principle, this method would be useful for blending problems with complicated empirical or theoretical models.
文摘We introduce the sequence of spontaneous symmetry breaking of a coupling between Pati-Salam and electroweak symmetries SU( 4 )PS × SU( 4 )EW in order to establish a mathematically consistent relation among the coupling constants at grand unification energy scale. With the values of baryon minus lepton quantum numbers of known quarks and leptons, by including right-handed neutrinos, we can lind the mixing angle relations at different energy levels up to the electromagnetic U(1)EM scale.
基金This research was jointly supported by the Strategic Priority Research Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number Y86101|601]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 41675103 and 41861144015].
文摘Multi-year experiments are conducted using the most recent version of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics regional climate model RegCM4(version 4.7) to customize its performance over Southeast Asia - a region with few RCMs applied to date. The model is driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis data at a grid spacing of 25 km using the CORDEX(Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) Southeast Asia domain. The authors focus on comparing the convection schemes of Emanuel and Tiedtke(Tiedtke-1) and Tiedtke with effects of sea surface evaporation introduced(Tiedtke-2). The authors find that, for temperature over land, the model shows reasonable performance in reproducing the present-day climatology in both December–January–February(DJF) and June–July–August(JJA) in all the experiments. Meanwhile, cold biases prevail in both seasons, although portions of warm bias exist in DJF. For precipitation, the spatial pattern and amount, as well as seasonal evolution, are in general reproduced well in the experiments.Better performances of Tiedtke-1 and Tiedtke-2 are evident compared to Emanuel, particularly over ocean. Thereby, the optimal configuration of Reg CM4.7 for future climate change simulations over the region is identified as using the Tiedtke scheme with spray effects considered, along with the default settings for other physical parameterizations.
基金Project (No. 10271037) supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China
文摘A new group signature with one time secret key is proposed. The main merits are that it only needs the trusted center issuing the partial secret key one time for each group member; and that the group member can generate his different secret key each time when he wants to sign a message. The group public key is constant and the size of the signature is independent of the number of group members. The total computation cost of signature and verification requires only 8 modular exponentiations.
文摘Hu Shuhe gets a sufficient condition on the law of the iterated logarithm for the sums of φ-mixing sequences with duple suffixes. This paper greatly improves his condition.
文摘The Leibniz-Hopf algebra is the free associative algebra with one generator in each positive degree and coproduct given by the Cartan formula. Quasi-symmetric functions are a generalisation of symmetric functions [7],and the algebra of quasi-symmetric functions appear as the dual of the Leibniz-Hopf algebra. The Leibniz-Hopf algebra and its dual are word Hopf algebras and play an important role in combinatorics, algebra and topology. We give some properties of words and consider an another view of proof for the antipode in the dual Leibniz-Hopf algebra.
基金The project supported in part by National Natura Science Foundation of China and a grant from the University of Science and Technology of China
文摘We investigate the leading SUSY-QCD contributions to the branch ratio (BR) oft→ch~0 within the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with complex parameters,assuming more generally that there is a misalignment between the squark and quark that leads to a flavor non-diagonal squark mass matrix.We introduce complex phases only in μ and At,namely φ_μ and φ_(Aq),for simplicity,and study the dependence of the BR of t→ch~0 on these phase parameters.Our calculations show that these CP-violation phases and the flavor mixing parameter λ influence the BR oft→ch~0 considerably,and the effect induced by φ_(At) is much larger than that by φ_μ and φ_(Ac(?)u.For different values of the complex parameters μ and A_t that are set in this paper,the BR of t -+ ch~ is in the range of 10~(-7)~10~(-6),depending mainly on the value of the trilinear coupling A_t.
基金Project supported by the National Creative Research Groups Science Foundation of China (No. 60421002)the National "Tenth Five-Year" Science and Technology Research Program of China (No.2004BA204B08)
文摘A novel mixed integer linear programming (NMILP) model for detection of gross errors is presented in this paper. Yamamura et al.(1988) designed a model for detection of gross errors and data reconciliation based on Akaike information cri- terion (AIC). But much computational cost is needed due to its combinational nature. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) approach was performed to reduce the computational cost and enhance the robustness. But it loses the super performance of maximum likelihood estimation. To reduce the computational cost and have the merit of maximum likelihood estimation, the simultaneous data reconciliation method in an MILP framework is decomposed and replaced by an NMILP subproblem and a quadratic programming (QP) or a least squares estimation (LSE) subproblem. Simulation result of an industrial case shows the high efficiency of the method.
文摘In relay-assisted cooperative communication,relay nodes help forwarding the information of a source node in case of link failure between the source and a destination.Although user cooperation improves the overall efficiency of the network,it requires incentive to stimulate potential relay nodes to assist the source by forwarding its data to the destination.Moreover,the potential relays are better informed than the source about their channel conditions to destination,which results in asymmetric information between the source and the relays.In this paper,we study the problem of lack of forwarding incentive in cooperative communication when channel state information of relays is private information and not known by the source.To tackle this problem,we apply the principle of contract theory to a cooperative wireless system.Source first designs incentive compatible and individually rational contract,consisting of a set of power-credit pairs.Then it broadcasts contract items to nearby nodes.Once the source node receives reply messages from the volunteer relays,it chooses one or more relays based on its requirements and communication starts.Simulation results show how credit assignment works in order to stimulate relays to cooperate and prevents relays from cheating behavior.
基金Supported by the High Technology Research and Development Programme of China (No. 2003AA121220) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60472067).
文摘From the viewpoint of game theory, this paper proposes a model that combines QoS index with price factor in overlay access networks, and uses the multinomial logit (MNL) to model the choice behaviour of users. Each service class is considered an independent and competitive entity offered by each provider, which aims at maximizing its own utility. Based on noncooperative game, we prove the existence and uniqueness of equilibriums between QoS levels and prices among various service classes, and demonstrate the properties of equilibriums. Finally, these results are verified via ntunerieal analysis.
文摘The effect of friction factor on the unsteady state mixed convective-radiative heat transfer in an inclined cylindrical annulus is investigated from continuity, momentum and energy equations. The outer cylinder is kept at a constant temperature while the inner cylinder is heated with constant heat flux. The governing equations are normalized and solved using the vorticity-stream function and the BFC (body fitted coordinates) methods. The two heat transfer mechanisms of convection and radiation are treated independently and simultaneously. A computer program (Fortran 90) was built to calculate Nusselt number (Nu) and friction factorffor unsteady state condition for fluid Prandtl number fixed at (Pr = 0.7) (for air as working fluid) with radius ratio (/~ = 2.6), Rayleigh number (0 〈 Ra 〈 103), Reynolds number (50 〈 Re 〈 2,000), conduction-radiation parameter (0 〈 N 〈 10), optical thickness (0 〈 l" 〈 10) and different annulus inclination with horizontal plane (0~ _〈 d 〈 90~) for concentric cylindrical annulus. For the range of parameters considered, results show that radiation enhance heat transfer. It is also indicated in the results that as 3 increasefwill be decrease and also when Re increasefwill be decrease for any value of Ra causing increase in heat transfer. The maximum value off can be recognized at ~ = 90~ and the minimum value at 6 = 0~ for low Re. There is an optimum value of annulus inclination that gives maximum value of Nu, this maximum value appears at 90~ of annulus inclination comparison of the result with the previous work shows a good agreement.
文摘Outsourcing is a change from horizontal cooperation (coopetition) to a vertical one. That is, the company, which up to now could be considered as a competitor, changes into a supplier. It is worth remembering that the company that is to become a supplier can either create a new one or be an already existing one. This article is based on empirical data coming from the companies from the Visegrad Group that is Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The results presented here imply that outsourcing has a stimulating effect on innovative activity of a company both in terms of investment and implementation aspects. Also, innovative activity, in its investment and implementation aspects, positively influences the occurrence of outsourcing. This confirms the existence of feedback among these variables. It is worth noting however, that the probability of innovative activity among the companies using outsourcing is higher than the probability of outsourcing among the companies that are irmovatively active. It seems that the influence of outsourcing on innovative activity is stronger than the influence o f innovative activity on outsourcing.