[Objective] The research aimed to isolate flanking sequences adjacent to the transgenic T-DNA in Brassica napus by an improved inverse PCR method.[Method] Using single clone of transgenic FS4 in Brassica napus as the ...[Objective] The research aimed to isolate flanking sequences adjacent to the transgenic T-DNA in Brassica napus by an improved inverse PCR method.[Method] Using single clone of transgenic FS4 in Brassica napus as the research materials,total DNA was extracted from transgenic Brassica napus by using modified CTAB method.After enzyme digestion and purification,self-joining was made.Two circles of nested PCR and the sequence alignment were carried out.[Result] A fragement with the size of 4.0 kb was amplified ...展开更多
A new method that uses a modified ordered subsets (MOS) algorithm to improve the convergence rate of space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) algorithm for positron emission tomography (PET)...A new method that uses a modified ordered subsets (MOS) algorithm to improve the convergence rate of space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) algorithm for positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is proposed.In the MOS-SAGE algorithm,the number of projections and the access order of the subsets are modified in order to improve the quality of the reconstructed images and accelerate the convergence speed.The number of projections in a subset increases as follows:2,4,8,16,32 and 64.This sequence means that the high frequency component is recovered first and the low frequency component is recovered in the succeeding iteration steps.In addition,the neighboring subsets are separated as much as possible so that the correlation of projections can be decreased and the convergences can be speeded up.The application of the proposed method to simulated and real images shows that the MOS-SAGE algorithm has better performance than the SAGE algorithm and the OSEM algorithm in convergence and image quality.展开更多
In sports timing systems,P2P communication is used at low frequency bandwidths(under 135 KHz) between tags and readers in the RFID field.However,in such cases,collisions tend to occur when a reader deals with multiple...In sports timing systems,P2P communication is used at low frequency bandwidths(under 135 KHz) between tags and readers in the RFID field.However,in such cases,collisions tend to occur when a reader deals with multiple RFID tags simultaneously.To overcome this issue,a sports timing system including a Multi Reader Controller(MRC)loaded with an advanced multiple reader algorithm and application was created and applied at large-scale citizens' marathon events.In these cases,a large number of people pass over the installed urethane type's antenna mat continually during a short period of time.This study verified the superiority of the improved algorithm and application through the on-thespot application of the multi reader algorithm and application program,which allows us to smoothly measure runners' times through multiaccess reading for rapid collision avoidance.展开更多
A new image encryption approach is proposed.First,a sort transformation based on nonlinear chaoticalgorithm is used to shuffle the positions of image pixels.Then the states of hyper-chaos are used to change the greyva...A new image encryption approach is proposed.First,a sort transformation based on nonlinear chaoticalgorithm is used to shuffle the positions of image pixels.Then the states of hyper-chaos are used to change the greyvalues of the shuffled image according to the changed chaotic values of the same position between the above nonlinearchaotic sequence and the sorted chaotic sequence.The experimental results demonstrate that the image encryptionscheme based on a shuffling map shows advantages of large key space and high-level security.Compared with someencryption algorithms,the suggested encryption scheme is more secure.展开更多
Fuel cell stacks as the automotive power source can be severely poisoned by a trace amount of NOx in atmosphere,which makes it necessary to provide clean air for fuel cell vehicles.In this work,activating commercial a...Fuel cell stacks as the automotive power source can be severely poisoned by a trace amount of NOx in atmosphere,which makes it necessary to provide clean air for fuel cell vehicles.In this work,activating commercial activated carbons with K2CO3 for the large enhancement of NO capture was studied.K2CO3 modified activated carbons(K2CO3 ACs)were prepared by impregnating activate carbons in K2CO3 solution under ultrasound treatment,followed by temperature programmed baking at 800 oC.The dynamic NO flow tests on K2CO3 ACs at room temperature indicated that NO adsorption capacity reached the maximum(96 mg/g)when K2CO3 loading was 19.5 wt%,which corresponded to a specific surface area of 1196.1 m2/g and total pore volume of 0.70 cm3/g.The ten-fold enhancement of NO adsorption on K2CO3 ACs compared to the unimpregnated activated carbon was mainly attributed to the formation of potassium nitrite,which was confirmed by FTIR and temperature programmed desorption measurements.Regeneration tests of NO adsorption on the optimum sample revealed that 76%of the NO adsorption capacity could be remained after the fourth cycle.展开更多
Intense human activities have greatly changed the flood generation conditions in most areas of the world, and have destroyed the consistency in the annual flood peak and volume series. For design flood estimation, coa...Intense human activities have greatly changed the flood generation conditions in most areas of the world, and have destroyed the consistency in the annual flood peak and volume series. For design flood estimation, coaxial correlation diagram and conceptual hydrological model are two frequently used tools to adjust and reconstruct the flood series under human disturbance. This study took a typical mountain catchment of the Haihe River Basin as an example to investigate the effects of human activities on flood regime and to compare and assess the two adjustment methods. The main purpose is to construct a conceptual hydrological model which can incorporate the effects of human activities. The results show that the coaxial correlation diagram is simple and widely-used, but can only adjust the time series of total flood volumes. Therefore, it is only applicable under certain conditions(e.g. There is a strong link between the flood peaks and volumes and the link is not significantly affected by human activities). The conceptual model is a powerful tool to adjust the time series of both flood peak flows and flood volumes over different durations provided that it is closely related to the catchment hydrological characteristics, specifically accounting for the effects of human activities, and incorporating expert knowledge when estimating or calibrating parameters. It is suggested that the two methods should be used together to cross check each other.展开更多
In order to avoid the influence of noise variance on the filtering performances, a modified adaptive weighted averaging (MAWA) filtering algorithm is proposed for noisy image sequences. Based upon adaptive weighted av...In order to avoid the influence of noise variance on the filtering performances, a modified adaptive weighted averaging (MAWA) filtering algorithm is proposed for noisy image sequences. Based upon adaptive weighted averaging pixel values in consecutive frames, this algorithm achieves the filtering goal by assigning smaller weights to the pixels with inappropriate estimated motion trajectory for noise. It only utilizes the intensity of pixels to suppress noise and accordingly is independent of noise variance. To evaluate the performance of the proposed filtering algorithm, its mean square error and percentage of preserved edge points were compared with those of traditional adaptive weighted averaging and non-adaptive mean filtering algorithms under different noise variances. Relevant results show that the MAWA filtering algorithm can preserve image structures and edges under motion after attenuating noise, and thus may be used in image sequence filtering.展开更多
Axis House manufactures and supplies alkyl hydroxamate reagent of various carbon chain lengths for application in flotation of oxide copper and other minerals. As a part of reagent performance improvement, the structu...Axis House manufactures and supplies alkyl hydroxamate reagent of various carbon chain lengths for application in flotation of oxide copper and other minerals. As a part of reagent performance improvement, the structural factors of hydroxamate are examined by various analytical tools in particular with X-ray diffraction of single crystals. In a recent publication, the structures of n-octyl hydroxamic acid and its corresponding potassium salt are presented with findings of hydroxamic functional group geometric preference, H-bonding, keto-enol tautomerisation, acid-salt aggregation and alignment of carbon chain. In this paper, an example of branched alkyl hydroxamate3,5,5-trimethyl hexyl hydroxamate. hydroxamate is presented and compared with the result of linear alkyl展开更多
This paper discusses the idea that the industry can have a differentiator of program quality by encouraging the activities of the Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization (BPO) in Japan. The BPO, a wo...This paper discusses the idea that the industry can have a differentiator of program quality by encouraging the activities of the Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization (BPO) in Japan. The BPO, a worldwide independent organization, has a mission of a breakwater against state power, and thus can be regarded as a kind of media accountability system, as proposed by Claude-Jean Bertrand. We review some controversial affairs in the TV industry and discuss BPO's activities aimed preventing "yellow journalism" and improving the quality of programming. High-quality content may be a differentiator for viewers faced with a choice of media, and thus, we focus on BPO and its role as a differentiator of the Japanese TV industry among the other, especially, Internet media. We also propose four ideas in response of critiques of BPO. Those are to strengthen transparency of governance of BPO, to improve the conformity of the TV industry to BPO's assessments of it, to establish a new committee to examine the whole concept of journalism, and to introduce a new certification institution to guarantee quality.展开更多
Time-series prediction is one of the major methodologies used for fault prediction. The methods based on recurrent neural networks have been widely used in time-series prediction for their remarkable non-liner mapping...Time-series prediction is one of the major methodologies used for fault prediction. The methods based on recurrent neural networks have been widely used in time-series prediction for their remarkable non-liner mapping ability. As a new recurrent neural network, reservoir neural network can effectively process the time-series prediction. However, the ill-posedness problem of reservoir neural networks has seriously restricted the generalization performance. In this paper, a fault prediction algorithm based on time-series is proposed using improved reservoir neural networks. The basic idea is taking structure risk into consideration, that is, the cost function involves not only the experience risk factor but also the structure risk factor. Thus a regulation coefficient is introduced to calculate the output weight of the reservoir neural network. As a result, the amplitude of output weight is effectively controlled and the ill-posedness problem is solved. Because the training speed of ordinary reservoir networks is naturally fast, the improved reservoir networks for time-series prediction are good in speed and generalization ability. Experiments on Mackey–Glass and sunspot time series prediction prove the effectiveness of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm is applied to TE process fault prediction. We first forecast some timeseries obtained from TE and then predict the fault type adopting the static reservoirs with the predicted data.The final prediction correct rate reaches 81%.展开更多
The use of mobile phone technologies in the education sector is getting more attention nowadays. This is due to the advancement of technologies equipped in majority of the mobile phones which makes the devices become ...The use of mobile phone technologies in the education sector is getting more attention nowadays. This is due to the advancement of technologies equipped in majority of the mobile phones which makes the devices become more capable of supporting the learning and teaching activities. Mobile learning (m-learning) is a learning tool which can be run on mobile devices. It can be considered as an enhancement to the electronic learning (e-learning). M-learning overcomes several limitations of e-learning especially in term of mobility. It provides more independent way of learning whereby learners can use the application to do the learning activities at anytime and any place. However, as with other learning and teaching applications, applications to be developed for mobile learning must also be developed based on certain learning theories and guidelines in order for them to be effective as well as usable. Therefore, in this paper, the development process of a mobile learning course content application called Mobile System Analysis and Design (MOSAD) as a revision tool will be shared and its testing's conduct and results will also be presented and discussed. MOSAD was developed with the content of a topic from the System Analysis and Design (SAD) course conducted at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). A heuristic test involving 5 experts in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) were conducted after the first version of MOSAD was completed to strengthen its functionality and usability, followed by a Post Test Quasi Experimental Design which was conducted to 116 UTP second year students who took the SAD course to test the effectiveness and usability of MOSAD after it was revised. As a result from the post test, the students who had used MOSAD (66 out of the 116 students) as their revision tool for answering ten quiz questions obtained a mean score of 7.7576 as compared to 5.160 obtained by the other group of students (50 out of the 116 students) who used traditional methods of revision. Besides, usability test which tested on consistency, leamability, flexibility, minimal action and minimal memory load of MOSAD gave results above 3.5 for each metric based on the rating of 1 to 5. Thus, both results indicate that MOSAD is effective and usable as a revision tool for the higher education students.展开更多
From the perspective of public administration, China's government re tbrm coincides with China's 30 years of reform and opening-up. Therefore, government reform, in particular central government reform, provides us ...From the perspective of public administration, China's government re tbrm coincides with China's 30 years of reform and opening-up. Therefore, government reform, in particular central government reform, provides us another perspective to look at the past 30 years of reform and opening-up. Although China's central government has gone through six rounds of reform over the past three decades, goverument reforms still face major challenges. Approached from the relationship between the transformation of the social order and government reform, this paper tries to understand the basic logic behind China's government reform. By reviewing the history of institutional reform and analyzing current restrictions that confront China's government reform, this paper points out the trends of China's government reform. In this paper, the authors try to study the micro and macro motivations of China's governmental reform by using public choice theory, and briefly comment on the "super ministry system." .展开更多
This paper proposes that due to its reduced level of economic growth,China must identify a replacement driver for its economic development.By conducting empirical tests of China's two rounds of economic growth dri...This paper proposes that due to its reduced level of economic growth,China must identify a replacement driver for its economic development.By conducting empirical tests of China's two rounds of economic growth driving force transformation in its more than30 years of reform and opening-up,this paper has revealed the internal mechanism of the reform and growth cycles and the transformations,and demonstrated that China's current economic slowdown is not the inadequacy of policies and measures for the expansion of domestic consumption but the necessity to replace the growth engine to drive the country's third round of growth driving force transformation.Lastly,this paper has identified the approach and measures to encourage the transformation.展开更多
The background of research was conditions of settlement in slum area at Tallo which are most apprehensive; lack of facilities, the houses made of flammable materials, and some criminal action occurred in the density s...The background of research was conditions of settlement in slum area at Tallo which are most apprehensive; lack of facilities, the houses made of flammable materials, and some criminal action occurred in the density settlement. Upgrading Programs has been twice implemented in this area. However, those have the same aim, to improve street and drainage condition around the area. The different between of them is the using of material which are the first program used asphalt as street cover material and the second one used paving blok. Although the upgrading programs had done, the condition of the settlement did not improve significantly. The problems in settlement were not only leak in infrastructure condition and needs, but also lake of community welfare, unemployment, housing conditions, and the existence of the warehouses in the settlement. The flood problems also appeared in this area which closed with the water channel to the city disposal channel so when rainy season, the area is always flooded and enter into the entrance of the houses. The objective of this research was to find the root of the problems and find good solutions for the environment and how to meet the major needs of the settlement upgrading program into the local community point of view. Field research and questioners was conducted as research method to the research objectivities in the needs of community for good environment. Furthermore, the data from the field research was analyzed by making synchronization with the theory of environmental sustainability. Results from this research showed the comparison study between first and the last condition of the settlement area which had the upgrading program implementation. These findings could provide a new guideline for the government in policy related to slum upgrading.展开更多
This paper presents a Modified Formula for Cotes rule with fifths derivatives of endpoint and its truncation error. It also displays an analysis on convergence order of compound formula. Though compound modified formu...This paper presents a Modified Formula for Cotes rule with fifths derivatives of endpoint and its truncation error. It also displays an analysis on convergence order of compound formula. Though compound modified formula for Cotes rule with endpoint derivatives just calculates a newly-added fifths derivative of the two endpoints for each time compared with compound Cotes formula calculation, there are 2 more ranks of the convergence order in this modified formula. Examples of numerical calculation have validated theoretical analysis.展开更多
The research study proposes to examine a three-dimensional visualization program, emphasizing on improving genetic algorithms through the optimization of a layout design-based standard and discrete shipbuilding worksh...The research study proposes to examine a three-dimensional visualization program, emphasizing on improving genetic algorithms through the optimization of a layout design-based standard and discrete shipbuilding workshop. By utilizing a steel processing workshop as an example, the principle of minimum logistic costs will be implemented to obtain an ideological equipment layout, and a mathematical model. The objectiveness is to minimize the total necessary distance traveled between machines. An improved control operator is implemented to improve the iterative efficiency of the genetic algorithm, and yield relevant parameters. The Computer Aided Tri-Dimensional Interface Application (CATIA) software is applied to establish the manufacturing resource base and parametric model of the steel processing workshop. Based on the results of optimized planar logistics, a visual parametric model of the steel processing workshop is constructed, and qualitative and quantitative adjustments then are applied to the model. The method for evaluating the results of the layout is subsequently established through the utilization of AHP. In order to provide a mode of reference to the optimization and layout of the digitalized production workshop, the optimized discrete production workshop will possess a certain level of practical significance.展开更多
Superlattices have great application potentials in thermo-electric materials and solid laser techniques.Their complicated heat transport mechanisms due to size effects,multi-interfaces and mini-band are very important...Superlattices have great application potentials in thermo-electric materials and solid laser techniques.Their complicated heat transport mechanisms due to size effects,multi-interfaces and mini-band are very important issues for the prediction of thermal conductivity.In this paper,the short-period Si/Ge superlattices are investigated by a modified series model based on the Debye-Callaway description.The Lambert Law is used to describe the phonon emission within hemisphere space.In addition,the phonon interface transmission coefficients obtained from the phonon wave packet simulation are incorporated into boundary condition of the model,which removes the fitting parameters in the model.Better agreement with experiment is obtained.The effects of temperature,wavelength-dependent phonon transmission,superlattice periods,as well as the thickness of Ge layer are considered in this paper.展开更多
基金Supported by National 863 Program of China(2006AA10A113)Natural Science foundation of Zhejiang Province(Y306097)~~
文摘[Objective] The research aimed to isolate flanking sequences adjacent to the transgenic T-DNA in Brassica napus by an improved inverse PCR method.[Method] Using single clone of transgenic FS4 in Brassica napus as the research materials,total DNA was extracted from transgenic Brassica napus by using modified CTAB method.After enzyme digestion and purification,self-joining was made.Two circles of nested PCR and the sequence alignment were carried out.[Result] A fragement with the size of 4.0 kb was amplified ...
基金The National Basic Research Program of China (973Program) (No.2003CB716102).
文摘A new method that uses a modified ordered subsets (MOS) algorithm to improve the convergence rate of space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization (SAGE) algorithm for positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is proposed.In the MOS-SAGE algorithm,the number of projections and the access order of the subsets are modified in order to improve the quality of the reconstructed images and accelerate the convergence speed.The number of projections in a subset increases as follows:2,4,8,16,32 and 64.This sequence means that the high frequency component is recovered first and the low frequency component is recovered in the succeeding iteration steps.In addition,the neighboring subsets are separated as much as possible so that the correlation of projections can be decreased and the convergences can be speeded up.The application of the proposed method to simulated and real images shows that the MOS-SAGE algorithm has better performance than the SAGE algorithm and the OSEM algorithm in convergence and image quality.
文摘In sports timing systems,P2P communication is used at low frequency bandwidths(under 135 KHz) between tags and readers in the RFID field.However,in such cases,collisions tend to occur when a reader deals with multiple RFID tags simultaneously.To overcome this issue,a sports timing system including a Multi Reader Controller(MRC)loaded with an advanced multiple reader algorithm and application was created and applied at large-scale citizens' marathon events.In these cases,a large number of people pass over the installed urethane type's antenna mat continually during a short period of time.This study verified the superiority of the improved algorithm and application through the on-thespot application of the multi reader algorithm and application program,which allows us to smoothly measure runners' times through multiaccess reading for rapid collision avoidance.
基金Supported by Research Fond for the Doctoral of Higher Education of China,the Hunan Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.05JJ30121the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No.08B011Educational Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No.09C013
文摘A new image encryption approach is proposed.First,a sort transformation based on nonlinear chaoticalgorithm is used to shuffle the positions of image pixels.Then the states of hyper-chaos are used to change the greyvalues of the shuffled image according to the changed chaotic values of the same position between the above nonlinearchaotic sequence and the sorted chaotic sequence.The experimental results demonstrate that the image encryptionscheme based on a shuffling map shows advantages of large key space and high-level security.Compared with someencryption algorithms,the suggested encryption scheme is more secure.
基金Project(2018YFB0105303)supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of ChinaProject(17DZ1200702)supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee,China
文摘Fuel cell stacks as the automotive power source can be severely poisoned by a trace amount of NOx in atmosphere,which makes it necessary to provide clean air for fuel cell vehicles.In this work,activating commercial activated carbons with K2CO3 for the large enhancement of NO capture was studied.K2CO3 modified activated carbons(K2CO3 ACs)were prepared by impregnating activate carbons in K2CO3 solution under ultrasound treatment,followed by temperature programmed baking at 800 oC.The dynamic NO flow tests on K2CO3 ACs at room temperature indicated that NO adsorption capacity reached the maximum(96 mg/g)when K2CO3 loading was 19.5 wt%,which corresponded to a specific surface area of 1196.1 m2/g and total pore volume of 0.70 cm3/g.The ten-fold enhancement of NO adsorption on K2CO3 ACs compared to the unimpregnated activated carbon was mainly attributed to the formation of potassium nitrite,which was confirmed by FTIR and temperature programmed desorption measurements.Regeneration tests of NO adsorption on the optimum sample revealed that 76%of the NO adsorption capacity could be remained after the fourth cycle.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41130639, 51179045, 41201028)the Nonprofit Industry Financial Program of MWR of China (201501022)
文摘Intense human activities have greatly changed the flood generation conditions in most areas of the world, and have destroyed the consistency in the annual flood peak and volume series. For design flood estimation, coaxial correlation diagram and conceptual hydrological model are two frequently used tools to adjust and reconstruct the flood series under human disturbance. This study took a typical mountain catchment of the Haihe River Basin as an example to investigate the effects of human activities on flood regime and to compare and assess the two adjustment methods. The main purpose is to construct a conceptual hydrological model which can incorporate the effects of human activities. The results show that the coaxial correlation diagram is simple and widely-used, but can only adjust the time series of total flood volumes. Therefore, it is only applicable under certain conditions(e.g. There is a strong link between the flood peaks and volumes and the link is not significantly affected by human activities). The conceptual model is a powerful tool to adjust the time series of both flood peak flows and flood volumes over different durations provided that it is closely related to the catchment hydrological characteristics, specifically accounting for the effects of human activities, and incorporating expert knowledge when estimating or calibrating parameters. It is suggested that the two methods should be used together to cross check each other.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30500129)
文摘In order to avoid the influence of noise variance on the filtering performances, a modified adaptive weighted averaging (MAWA) filtering algorithm is proposed for noisy image sequences. Based upon adaptive weighted averaging pixel values in consecutive frames, this algorithm achieves the filtering goal by assigning smaller weights to the pixels with inappropriate estimated motion trajectory for noise. It only utilizes the intensity of pixels to suppress noise and accordingly is independent of noise variance. To evaluate the performance of the proposed filtering algorithm, its mean square error and percentage of preserved edge points were compared with those of traditional adaptive weighted averaging and non-adaptive mean filtering algorithms under different noise variances. Relevant results show that the MAWA filtering algorithm can preserve image structures and edges under motion after attenuating noise, and thus may be used in image sequence filtering.
文摘Axis House manufactures and supplies alkyl hydroxamate reagent of various carbon chain lengths for application in flotation of oxide copper and other minerals. As a part of reagent performance improvement, the structural factors of hydroxamate are examined by various analytical tools in particular with X-ray diffraction of single crystals. In a recent publication, the structures of n-octyl hydroxamic acid and its corresponding potassium salt are presented with findings of hydroxamic functional group geometric preference, H-bonding, keto-enol tautomerisation, acid-salt aggregation and alignment of carbon chain. In this paper, an example of branched alkyl hydroxamate3,5,5-trimethyl hexyl hydroxamate. hydroxamate is presented and compared with the result of linear alkyl
文摘This paper discusses the idea that the industry can have a differentiator of program quality by encouraging the activities of the Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization (BPO) in Japan. The BPO, a worldwide independent organization, has a mission of a breakwater against state power, and thus can be regarded as a kind of media accountability system, as proposed by Claude-Jean Bertrand. We review some controversial affairs in the TV industry and discuss BPO's activities aimed preventing "yellow journalism" and improving the quality of programming. High-quality content may be a differentiator for viewers faced with a choice of media, and thus, we focus on BPO and its role as a differentiator of the Japanese TV industry among the other, especially, Internet media. We also propose four ideas in response of critiques of BPO. Those are to strengthen transparency of governance of BPO, to improve the conformity of the TV industry to BPO's assessments of it, to establish a new committee to examine the whole concept of journalism, and to introduce a new certification institution to guarantee quality.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61074153)
文摘Time-series prediction is one of the major methodologies used for fault prediction. The methods based on recurrent neural networks have been widely used in time-series prediction for their remarkable non-liner mapping ability. As a new recurrent neural network, reservoir neural network can effectively process the time-series prediction. However, the ill-posedness problem of reservoir neural networks has seriously restricted the generalization performance. In this paper, a fault prediction algorithm based on time-series is proposed using improved reservoir neural networks. The basic idea is taking structure risk into consideration, that is, the cost function involves not only the experience risk factor but also the structure risk factor. Thus a regulation coefficient is introduced to calculate the output weight of the reservoir neural network. As a result, the amplitude of output weight is effectively controlled and the ill-posedness problem is solved. Because the training speed of ordinary reservoir networks is naturally fast, the improved reservoir networks for time-series prediction are good in speed and generalization ability. Experiments on Mackey–Glass and sunspot time series prediction prove the effectiveness of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm is applied to TE process fault prediction. We first forecast some timeseries obtained from TE and then predict the fault type adopting the static reservoirs with the predicted data.The final prediction correct rate reaches 81%.
文摘The use of mobile phone technologies in the education sector is getting more attention nowadays. This is due to the advancement of technologies equipped in majority of the mobile phones which makes the devices become more capable of supporting the learning and teaching activities. Mobile learning (m-learning) is a learning tool which can be run on mobile devices. It can be considered as an enhancement to the electronic learning (e-learning). M-learning overcomes several limitations of e-learning especially in term of mobility. It provides more independent way of learning whereby learners can use the application to do the learning activities at anytime and any place. However, as with other learning and teaching applications, applications to be developed for mobile learning must also be developed based on certain learning theories and guidelines in order for them to be effective as well as usable. Therefore, in this paper, the development process of a mobile learning course content application called Mobile System Analysis and Design (MOSAD) as a revision tool will be shared and its testing's conduct and results will also be presented and discussed. MOSAD was developed with the content of a topic from the System Analysis and Design (SAD) course conducted at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). A heuristic test involving 5 experts in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) were conducted after the first version of MOSAD was completed to strengthen its functionality and usability, followed by a Post Test Quasi Experimental Design which was conducted to 116 UTP second year students who took the SAD course to test the effectiveness and usability of MOSAD after it was revised. As a result from the post test, the students who had used MOSAD (66 out of the 116 students) as their revision tool for answering ten quiz questions obtained a mean score of 7.7576 as compared to 5.160 obtained by the other group of students (50 out of the 116 students) who used traditional methods of revision. Besides, usability test which tested on consistency, leamability, flexibility, minimal action and minimal memory load of MOSAD gave results above 3.5 for each metric based on the rating of 1 to 5. Thus, both results indicate that MOSAD is effective and usable as a revision tool for the higher education students.
文摘From the perspective of public administration, China's government re tbrm coincides with China's 30 years of reform and opening-up. Therefore, government reform, in particular central government reform, provides us another perspective to look at the past 30 years of reform and opening-up. Although China's central government has gone through six rounds of reform over the past three decades, goverument reforms still face major challenges. Approached from the relationship between the transformation of the social order and government reform, this paper tries to understand the basic logic behind China's government reform. By reviewing the history of institutional reform and analyzing current restrictions that confront China's government reform, this paper points out the trends of China's government reform. In this paper, the authors try to study the micro and macro motivations of China's governmental reform by using public choice theory, and briefly comment on the "super ministry system." .
基金Result of a program of the Ministry of Education's"Research on the Reform of the Primary Distribution System to Balance Fairness and Efficiency"
文摘This paper proposes that due to its reduced level of economic growth,China must identify a replacement driver for its economic development.By conducting empirical tests of China's two rounds of economic growth driving force transformation in its more than30 years of reform and opening-up,this paper has revealed the internal mechanism of the reform and growth cycles and the transformations,and demonstrated that China's current economic slowdown is not the inadequacy of policies and measures for the expansion of domestic consumption but the necessity to replace the growth engine to drive the country's third round of growth driving force transformation.Lastly,this paper has identified the approach and measures to encourage the transformation.
文摘The background of research was conditions of settlement in slum area at Tallo which are most apprehensive; lack of facilities, the houses made of flammable materials, and some criminal action occurred in the density settlement. Upgrading Programs has been twice implemented in this area. However, those have the same aim, to improve street and drainage condition around the area. The different between of them is the using of material which are the first program used asphalt as street cover material and the second one used paving blok. Although the upgrading programs had done, the condition of the settlement did not improve significantly. The problems in settlement were not only leak in infrastructure condition and needs, but also lake of community welfare, unemployment, housing conditions, and the existence of the warehouses in the settlement. The flood problems also appeared in this area which closed with the water channel to the city disposal channel so when rainy season, the area is always flooded and enter into the entrance of the houses. The objective of this research was to find the root of the problems and find good solutions for the environment and how to meet the major needs of the settlement upgrading program into the local community point of view. Field research and questioners was conducted as research method to the research objectivities in the needs of community for good environment. Furthermore, the data from the field research was analyzed by making synchronization with the theory of environmental sustainability. Results from this research showed the comparison study between first and the last condition of the settlement area which had the upgrading program implementation. These findings could provide a new guideline for the government in policy related to slum upgrading.
文摘This paper presents a Modified Formula for Cotes rule with fifths derivatives of endpoint and its truncation error. It also displays an analysis on convergence order of compound formula. Though compound modified formula for Cotes rule with endpoint derivatives just calculates a newly-added fifths derivative of the two endpoints for each time compared with compound Cotes formula calculation, there are 2 more ranks of the convergence order in this modified formula. Examples of numerical calculation have validated theoretical analysis.
文摘The research study proposes to examine a three-dimensional visualization program, emphasizing on improving genetic algorithms through the optimization of a layout design-based standard and discrete shipbuilding workshop. By utilizing a steel processing workshop as an example, the principle of minimum logistic costs will be implemented to obtain an ideological equipment layout, and a mathematical model. The objectiveness is to minimize the total necessary distance traveled between machines. An improved control operator is implemented to improve the iterative efficiency of the genetic algorithm, and yield relevant parameters. The Computer Aided Tri-Dimensional Interface Application (CATIA) software is applied to establish the manufacturing resource base and parametric model of the steel processing workshop. Based on the results of optimized planar logistics, a visual parametric model of the steel processing workshop is constructed, and qualitative and quantitative adjustments then are applied to the model. The method for evaluating the results of the layout is subsequently established through the utilization of AHP. In order to provide a mode of reference to the optimization and layout of the digitalized production workshop, the optimized discrete production workshop will possess a certain level of practical significance.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB933200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51176091)Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of China(Grant No.51321002)
文摘Superlattices have great application potentials in thermo-electric materials and solid laser techniques.Their complicated heat transport mechanisms due to size effects,multi-interfaces and mini-band are very important issues for the prediction of thermal conductivity.In this paper,the short-period Si/Ge superlattices are investigated by a modified series model based on the Debye-Callaway description.The Lambert Law is used to describe the phonon emission within hemisphere space.In addition,the phonon interface transmission coefficients obtained from the phonon wave packet simulation are incorporated into boundary condition of the model,which removes the fitting parameters in the model.Better agreement with experiment is obtained.The effects of temperature,wavelength-dependent phonon transmission,superlattice periods,as well as the thickness of Ge layer are considered in this paper.