In order to fully realize semantic interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous applications on the web, a set of effective interoperability mechanisms is presented. This mechanism adopts service interactive i...In order to fully realize semantic interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous applications on the web, a set of effective interoperability mechanisms is presented. This mechanism adopts service interactive interfaces (SII) and service aggregative interfaces (SAI) modeled with abstract state machine (ASM) to abstractly describe the behavior of the invoked web service instances, which makes business processing accurately specify tasks and effectively solves the problems of communication and collaboration between service providers and service requesters. The mechanism also uses appropriate mediators to solve the problems of information and coinmunication incompatibility during the course of service interaction, which is convenient for service interoperability, sharing and integration. The mechanism' s working principle and interoperability implementation are illustrated by a use case in detail.展开更多
The unity between physics and biology refers to that the inorganic systems: the Solar System, galaxies and artificial systems have the same structures and functions as the organisms. The development of science and te...The unity between physics and biology refers to that the inorganic systems: the Solar System, galaxies and artificial systems have the same structures and functions as the organisms. The development of science and technology is demonstrating the intense unification trends of physics and biology and a holistic science and technology era is about to start. The physics and biology unify on the basis of the four seasons' law, which is the most important rule of the universe. Life is defined as the four seasons' whole with the structure and process of four seasons. The organism is basically structured into a dual four-season body by state-varying, state-stabilizing and control organizations. Animals, the Solar System and the earth are all the dual four-season bodies. In the unity between physics and biology, the inorganic life materials and inorganic life body can be manufactured artificially.展开更多
Heterogeneous networks(HetNets)consisting of macro cells with very large antenna arrays and a secondary tier of small cells with a few antennas each can well tackle the contradiction of large coverage of the network a...Heterogeneous networks(HetNets)consisting of macro cells with very large antenna arrays and a secondary tier of small cells with a few antennas each can well tackle the contradiction of large coverage of the network and high data rate at the hot spots.However,it is not permissible to assign orthogonal pilot sequences for all the supported users due to the large number.Hence,we propose a pilot reduction scheme based on the heterogeneous system configurations and the unique topology of this HetNet.The reusing of pilot sequences causes the presence of the contaminated channel state information(CSI) and results in receivers' Quality of Service(QoS) outage.With the contaminated CSI,we provide an energy-efficient beamforming based on minimizing the total power consumption while keeping the QoS constraints satisfied and restricting the QoS outage probability below a given specification.By applying the approach of Bernstein approximation and semi-definite relaxation,we transform the original intractable chance constrained program to a convex problem conservatively.Numerical results show that the average power consumption of the proposed beamforming for our pilot reduction scheme is close to that of the perfect CSI case.Since our scheme will greatly compress the length of pilot sequence especially for those highly densified network with large number of small cells,it will be crucially helpful to put such two-tier massive multiple-input and multiple-output(MIMO) systems into practice.展开更多
A comprehensive method to predict wear in planar mechanical systems with clearance joints is presented and discussed in this paper.This method consists of a system dynamic analysis and a joint wear prediction.As the s...A comprehensive method to predict wear in planar mechanical systems with clearance joints is presented and discussed in this paper.This method consists of a system dynamic analysis and a joint wear prediction.As the size and shape of the clearance are dictated by wear and evolve with the dynamic response of the system,the contact between the journal and bearing could be conformal or non-conformal,which makes the contact conditions in clearance joints quite complicated.Therefore a modified contact force model is employed to evaluate the joint reaction force in this study.As the nonlinear stiffness coefficient is related to the physical and geometrical properties of contact bodies and varies with the deformation,this contact force model is applicable to different contact conditions between the journal and bearing.Furthermore,based on the Archard’s wear model,the amount of wear can be quantified in the joint.And the geometry is updated to reflect the evolving contact boundary.Then,the wear process and the contact force model are integrated into the motion equations of the system to perform coupled iterative analyses between system dynamic response and joint wear prediction.In addition,a slider-crank mechanism is simulated as an example to demonstrate efficiency of the proposed method and to carry out a parametric study on mechanical systems considering joint wear.The influence of clearance size and driving power are discussed and compared respectively.The index of concordance is introduced to quantify contributions of contact pressure and sliding distance to wear rate under different types of journal motion.This study could help to predict joint wear in mechanical systems with clearances and optimize mechanisms in design.展开更多
This paper considers the convergence rate of an asymmetric Deffuant-Weisbuch model.The model is composed by finite n interacting agents.In this model,agent i’s opinion is updated at each time,by first selecting one r...This paper considers the convergence rate of an asymmetric Deffuant-Weisbuch model.The model is composed by finite n interacting agents.In this model,agent i’s opinion is updated at each time,by first selecting one randomly from n agents,and then combining the selected agent j’s opinion if the distance between j’s opinion and i’s opinion is not larger than the confidence radiusε0.This yields the endogenously changing inter-agent topologies.Based on the previous result that all agents opinions will converge almost surely for any initial states,the authors prove that the expected potential function of the convergence rate is upper bounded by a negative exponential function of time t when opinions reach consensus finally and is upper bounded by a negative power function of time t when opinions converge to several different limits.展开更多
We address the question of how the structure condition is affected when one possesses some additional information at the very beginning of the investment period.The structure condition represents essentially an altern...We address the question of how the structure condition is affected when one possesses some additional information at the very beginning of the investment period.The structure condition represents essentially an alternative to non-arbitrage conditions for the Markowitz’s portfolio optimization framework,and is crucial for the existence of the optimal portfolio in quadratic utility settings.Herein,we provide practical assumption on the initial market model and the additional information to preserve the structure condition.The stochastic tools that drive this result are a generalization of the Lazaro-Yor representation by Lazaro and Yor(1978)and optional stochastic integral.展开更多
Damping behavior of Ti50.1Ni49.9 shape memory alloy during reverse martensitic transformation has been investigated by dynamic mechanical analyzer in a dual-cantilever mode. With the increase of strain amplitude, inte...Damping behavior of Ti50.1Ni49.9 shape memory alloy during reverse martensitic transformation has been investigated by dynamic mechanical analyzer in a dual-cantilever mode. With the increase of strain amplitude, internal friction (IF) of the alloy increases in martensite and austenite states while decreases in transformation region. Based on the regularity of IF attenuation in isothermal condition, IFTr and (IFpT+ 1FI) are decomposed from the strain amplitude dependent IF in transformation region. For practical application of shape memory alloys as a damping material, it is significant to evaluate the damping capacity by eliminating the influence of IFTr and consider its time independent real IF (IFpT+ IFI).展开更多
Chemical cross-linking provides an effective avenue to reduce the conformational entropy of polypeptide chains and hence has become a popular method to induce or force structural formation in peptides and proteins.Rec...Chemical cross-linking provides an effective avenue to reduce the conformational entropy of polypeptide chains and hence has become a popular method to induce or force structural formation in peptides and proteins.Recently,other types of molecular constraints,especially photoresponsive linkers and functional groups,have also found increased use in a wide variety of applications.Herein,we provide a concise review of using various forms of molecular strategies to constrain proteins,thereby stabilizing their native states,gaining insight into their folding mechanisms,and/or providing a handle to trigger a conformational process of interest with light.The applications discussed here cover a wide range of topics,ranging from delineating the details of the protein folding energy landscape to controlling protein assembly and function.展开更多
基金The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (No.05JJ30122),the Education Department Foundation of Hunan Prov-ince (No.05C519).
文摘In order to fully realize semantic interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous applications on the web, a set of effective interoperability mechanisms is presented. This mechanism adopts service interactive interfaces (SII) and service aggregative interfaces (SAI) modeled with abstract state machine (ASM) to abstractly describe the behavior of the invoked web service instances, which makes business processing accurately specify tasks and effectively solves the problems of communication and collaboration between service providers and service requesters. The mechanism also uses appropriate mediators to solve the problems of information and coinmunication incompatibility during the course of service interaction, which is convenient for service interoperability, sharing and integration. The mechanism' s working principle and interoperability implementation are illustrated by a use case in detail.
文摘The unity between physics and biology refers to that the inorganic systems: the Solar System, galaxies and artificial systems have the same structures and functions as the organisms. The development of science and technology is demonstrating the intense unification trends of physics and biology and a holistic science and technology era is about to start. The physics and biology unify on the basis of the four seasons' law, which is the most important rule of the universe. Life is defined as the four seasons' whole with the structure and process of four seasons. The organism is basically structured into a dual four-season body by state-varying, state-stabilizing and control organizations. Animals, the Solar System and the earth are all the dual four-season bodies. In the unity between physics and biology, the inorganic life materials and inorganic life body can be manufactured artificially.
基金supported in part by the "863" Program of China No. 2014AA01A704National Natural Science Foundation of China No.61171080
文摘Heterogeneous networks(HetNets)consisting of macro cells with very large antenna arrays and a secondary tier of small cells with a few antennas each can well tackle the contradiction of large coverage of the network and high data rate at the hot spots.However,it is not permissible to assign orthogonal pilot sequences for all the supported users due to the large number.Hence,we propose a pilot reduction scheme based on the heterogeneous system configurations and the unique topology of this HetNet.The reusing of pilot sequences causes the presence of the contaminated channel state information(CSI) and results in receivers' Quality of Service(QoS) outage.With the contaminated CSI,we provide an energy-efficient beamforming based on minimizing the total power consumption while keeping the QoS constraints satisfied and restricting the QoS outage probability below a given specification.By applying the approach of Bernstein approximation and semi-definite relaxation,we transform the original intractable chance constrained program to a convex problem conservatively.Numerical results show that the average power consumption of the proposed beamforming for our pilot reduction scheme is close to that of the perfect CSI case.Since our scheme will greatly compress the length of pilot sequence especially for those highly densified network with large number of small cells,it will be crucially helpful to put such two-tier massive multiple-input and multiple-output(MIMO) systems into practice.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11272171)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(Grant No.20120002110070)
文摘A comprehensive method to predict wear in planar mechanical systems with clearance joints is presented and discussed in this paper.This method consists of a system dynamic analysis and a joint wear prediction.As the size and shape of the clearance are dictated by wear and evolve with the dynamic response of the system,the contact between the journal and bearing could be conformal or non-conformal,which makes the contact conditions in clearance joints quite complicated.Therefore a modified contact force model is employed to evaluate the joint reaction force in this study.As the nonlinear stiffness coefficient is related to the physical and geometrical properties of contact bodies and varies with the deformation,this contact force model is applicable to different contact conditions between the journal and bearing.Furthermore,based on the Archard’s wear model,the amount of wear can be quantified in the joint.And the geometry is updated to reflect the evolving contact boundary.Then,the wear process and the contact force model are integrated into the motion equations of the system to perform coupled iterative analyses between system dynamic response and joint wear prediction.In addition,a slider-crank mechanism is simulated as an example to demonstrate efficiency of the proposed method and to carry out a parametric study on mechanical systems considering joint wear.The influence of clearance size and driving power are discussed and compared respectively.The index of concordance is introduced to quantify contributions of contact pressure and sliding distance to wear rate under different types of journal motion.This study could help to predict joint wear in mechanical systems with clearances and optimize mechanisms in design.
基金supported by the Young Scholars Development Fund of Southwest Petroleum University(SWPU)under Grant No.201499010050the Scientific Research Starting Project of SWPU under Grant No.2014QHZ032+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61203141the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)under Grant No.2014CB845301/2/3
文摘This paper considers the convergence rate of an asymmetric Deffuant-Weisbuch model.The model is composed by finite n interacting agents.In this model,agent i’s opinion is updated at each time,by first selecting one randomly from n agents,and then combining the selected agent j’s opinion if the distance between j’s opinion and i’s opinion is not larger than the confidence radiusε0.This yields the endogenously changing inter-agent topologies.Based on the previous result that all agents opinions will converge almost surely for any initial states,the authors prove that the expected potential function of the convergence rate is upper bounded by a negative exponential function of time t when opinions reach consensus finally and is upper bounded by a negative power function of time t when opinions converge to several different limits.
基金supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Grant No. G121210818)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11501105)
文摘We address the question of how the structure condition is affected when one possesses some additional information at the very beginning of the investment period.The structure condition represents essentially an alternative to non-arbitrage conditions for the Markowitz’s portfolio optimization framework,and is crucial for the existence of the optimal portfolio in quadratic utility settings.Herein,we provide practical assumption on the initial market model and the additional information to preserve the structure condition.The stochastic tools that drive this result are a generalization of the Lazaro-Yor representation by Lazaro and Yor(1978)and optional stochastic integral.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51001100)
文摘Damping behavior of Ti50.1Ni49.9 shape memory alloy during reverse martensitic transformation has been investigated by dynamic mechanical analyzer in a dual-cantilever mode. With the increase of strain amplitude, internal friction (IF) of the alloy increases in martensite and austenite states while decreases in transformation region. Based on the regularity of IF attenuation in isothermal condition, IFTr and (IFpT+ 1FI) are decomposed from the strain amplitude dependent IF in transformation region. For practical application of shape memory alloys as a damping material, it is significant to evaluate the damping capacity by eliminating the influence of IFTr and consider its time independent real IF (IFpT+ IFI).
基金supported by the National Institutes of Health(GM-065978,AG-039253)
文摘Chemical cross-linking provides an effective avenue to reduce the conformational entropy of polypeptide chains and hence has become a popular method to induce or force structural formation in peptides and proteins.Recently,other types of molecular constraints,especially photoresponsive linkers and functional groups,have also found increased use in a wide variety of applications.Herein,we provide a concise review of using various forms of molecular strategies to constrain proteins,thereby stabilizing their native states,gaining insight into their folding mechanisms,and/or providing a handle to trigger a conformational process of interest with light.The applications discussed here cover a wide range of topics,ranging from delineating the details of the protein folding energy landscape to controlling protein assembly and function.