[Objective] This study aimed to provide references for the application of participatory monitoring and evaluation in the development of animal husbandry tech- nology. [Method] With the livelihood improvement program f...[Objective] This study aimed to provide references for the application of participatory monitoring and evaluation in the development of animal husbandry tech- nology. [Method] With the livelihood improvement program for agricultural and pas- toral area in northern Yunnan as the example, the development process of partici- patory animal husbandry was overviewed. And the monitoring and evaluation pro- cesses of participatory animal husbandry were introduced and analyzed. [Result] The monitoring and evaluation indicator system of participatory animal husbandry technol- ogy included 4 layers, namely technology, institutional system, personnel ability con- struction and effectiveness, and 11 third-level indicators, namely, technical characteristics, superiority-inferiority comparison, community and farmers, technical personnel, project personnel, economic indicators and social indicators. [Conclusion] This study provided the references for the application of participatory monitoring and evaluation in the development of animal husbandry technology.展开更多
Satellite communication networks have been evolving from standalone networks with ad-hoc infrastructures to possibly interconnected portions of a wider Future Internet architecture. Experts belonging to the fifth-gene...Satellite communication networks have been evolving from standalone networks with ad-hoc infrastructures to possibly interconnected portions of a wider Future Internet architecture. Experts belonging to the fifth-generation(5 G) standardization committees are considering satellites as a technology to integrate in the 5 G environment. Software Defined Networking(SDN) is one of the paradigms of the next generation of mobile and fixed communications. It can be employed to perform different control functionalities, such as routing, because it allows traffic flow identification based on different parameters and traffic flow management in a centralized way. A centralized set of controllers makes the decisions and sends the corresponding forwarding rules for each traffic flow to the involved intermediate nodes that practically forward data up to the destination. The time to perform this process in integrated terrestrial-satellite networks could be not negligible due to satellite link delays. The aim of this paper is to introduce an SDN-based terrestrial satellite network architecture and to estimate the mean time to deliver the data of a new traffic flow from the source to the destination including the time required to transfer SDN control actions. The practical effect is to identify the maximum performance than can be expected.展开更多
As BIM (building information modeling) became the gold standard of the architecture, construction, and engineering industry, lack of skilled BIM professionals is considered one of the major challenges. It is theref...As BIM (building information modeling) became the gold standard of the architecture, construction, and engineering industry, lack of skilled BIM professionals is considered one of the major challenges. It is therefore of significant importance that CM (construction management) programs train future construction professionals in the capabilities and advantages of BIM technology. This paper presents the findings of a comprehensive review of the implementation of BIM education in CM programs and summarizes the process of BIM adoption, existing educational approaches, and identified challenges in the implementation process. The information presented in this paper serves as a guide to CM programs that are new to and in the progress of implementing BIM education.展开更多
Manufacturing equipment takes the task of operation and directly effects on the manufacturing process. One single Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is mainly employed to evaluate equipment in most studies, neither int...Manufacturing equipment takes the task of operation and directly effects on the manufacturing process. One single Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is mainly employed to evaluate equipment in most studies, neither integrating the KPIs into a completed evaluation system nor considering the impact and conflict among KPIs. In this paper, a KPI evaluation architecture is presented to define and analyze KPIs, and then a common structure for KPI to obtain the KPI set of manufacturing equipment is introduced. An available multi-KPl coordination model is proposed to discern and balance the relationship among multi-KPl. Finally, a case study is introduced to illustrate the applicability of the coordination model by using multi-objective optimization strategy and an efficient solution is obtained.展开更多
The current Internet architecture was designed on the basis of a triple bindings model, which could meet the needs of the early Internet. However, with the tremendous growth of the Internet and the continuous innovati...The current Internet architecture was designed on the basis of a triple bindings model, which could meet the needs of the early Internet. However, with the tremendous growth of the Internet and the continuous innovations of applications, the triple bindings(namely, control/data binding, resource/location binding and user/network binding) have given rise to many problems for the Internet, such as scalability, mobility, and security. In order to solve these problems, many network techniques have been developed. Besides, novel future Internet architectures including Information-Centric Networks and Software-Defined Networks have emerged. However, these architectures only partially decouple the triple bindings. To completely separate the triple bindings, Smart Collaborative Identifier Networks(SINET) is proposed. There have been many research efforts on SINET, which built the foundation of SINET being a promising future Internet. In this paper, we comprehensively introduce SINET and these related research works. We start by introducing the motivation for SINET, explain its fundamental concepts and how it can make a difference. Next, we present in details the design principles of every layer in SINET, explaining how it can decouple the triple bindings and solve the problems of the current Internet. Finally, we discuss the state-of-theart challenges in SINET. We investigate the ongoing research works and commercial products in SINET, with aspects such as scalability, mobility, security and reliability.展开更多
Experience from recent earthquakes such as Gilan, Zanjan, Bam and Lorestan earthquakes in Iran indicated that the constructed buildings are vulnerable against earthquake. Vulnerability of these structures is due to va...Experience from recent earthquakes such as Gilan, Zanjan, Bam and Lorestan earthquakes in Iran indicated that the constructed buildings are vulnerable against earthquake. Vulnerability of these structures is due to various reasons such as designing without considering seismic regulations, problems of regulations (design goals), implementation problems, changing of the building occupancy class, increasing the weight of building stories, adding new stories to the building and changing in architecture of building without considering structural system. So the main objective of this research is to examine the features of building configuration and their effects as for the damages to buildings in past earthquakes. For this purpose, initially four occurred earthquakes in Iran are selected as case study. Then three types of buildings (steel structure, concrete structure and masonry buildings) are analyzed with details. Results showed that the most of damages are occurred in the old steel structures and masonry buildings which their ages are more than 25 years. The study showed that most of the buildings in the study area are steel structure and masonry buildings while concrete structures are infrequent which most of them had no or slight damages. Therefore, the importance and need to enhance the performance of available buildings against earthquake forces by rehabilitating methods would be more important than before. Also results indicated that the decisions related to architectural plan which have significant effect on seismic performance of buildings, can be divided into three categories: configuration of building, restrictive formal architectural plan and dangerous structural components, as these categories are not obstacle of each other, it is possible that each category has an influential effect on others. So organizing the design decisions in this way is very important so as to manage their effects and interdependencies.展开更多
To better evaluate the quality of software architecture,a metrics suite is proposed to measure the coupling of software architecture models,in which CBC is used to measure the coupling between components,CBCC is used ...To better evaluate the quality of software architecture,a metrics suite is proposed to measure the coupling of software architecture models,in which CBC is used to measure the coupling between components,CBCC is used to measure the coupling of transferring message between components,CBCCT is used to measure the coupling of software architecture,WCBCC is used to measure the coupling of transferring message with weight between components,and WCBCCT is used to measure the coupling of message transmission with weight in the whole software architecture. The proposed algorithm for the coupling metrics is applied to the design of serve software architecture. Analysis of an example validates the feasibility of this metrics suite.展开更多
Vulnerability is a new field and analytical tool in the study of urban safety. Analysis and assessment of vulnerability provide a new basis for urban planning. This study constructed a quantitative index system for as...Vulnerability is a new field and analytical tool in the study of urban safety. Analysis and assessment of vulnerability provide a new basis for urban planning. This study constructed a quantitative index system for assessing vulnerability, based on the city′s sensitivity and emergency response capacity. City size, density, and spatial form influence a city′s sensitivity to crises and risks, to which vulnerability is positively related. Levels of socio-economic development, infrastructures, and emergency management contribute to a city′s emergency response capacity, with which vulnerability is inversely associated. Vulnerability of 19 large Chinese cities was assessed. Harbin and Shenzhen demonstrated the highest and lowest vulnerability among 19 cities, while Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou ranked the 5th, the 9th and the 12th. Spatially, northern cities tended to be more vulnerable than southern cities. And the differences in vulnerability among cities were explored based on cities′ physical geography conditions, level of socioeconomic development, infrastructures, regional status, history of disaster, history of urban planning and development, government policies, etc.展开更多
The exploration of Mars, alike of other planets, would be oriented on a so called on-line tracking. At this approach the development of structural indicators can be followed at time using geological receptors. The pri...The exploration of Mars, alike of other planets, would be oriented on a so called on-line tracking. At this approach the development of structural indicators can be followed at time using geological receptors. The principle on what stays this exploration stems from the fact, that a planet is an object, where interactions among its elements are to some extent organized. It means that it goes about an object with a hidden system of control aiming to augment its level of existence and that it is not a "stack of stones". In advance it is necessary to establish some ways-out for the on-line tracking. The first way-out is the fact, that this is an object been monitored, it means a system of organized elements, which has its proper existence and its strategies for a cultivation of this existence. These elements are primarily atoms and for a monitoring of their activities it is possible to use their complexes, e.g. crystals and of course occasionally higher structures, too. Another way-out is the fact, that elements have their proper satisfaction and successfulness and that on basis of those quantities stays the existence of the overall object. These quantities are for new observable mainly on higher structures.展开更多
To evaluate the impact of GMP on Chinese pharmaceutical industry in a quantitative system, we referred to theories on policy evaluation and industrial organization, and conducted literature review, key person intervie...To evaluate the impact of GMP on Chinese pharmaceutical industry in a quantitative system, we referred to theories on policy evaluation and industrial organization, and conducted literature review, key person interview, multi-round Delphi and field investigation. We set up the principles to construct our indicator system, reviewed based on the policy objectives of the new GMP for drugs systematically, and analysed the influence path of the new GMP for pharmaceutical manufacturers. We proposed a three-dimensional "structure-conduct-performance" evaluation indicator system. Our evaluation indicator system is accepted by experts and relevant personnel, indicating the three-dimensional evaluation indicator system is feasible to evaluate the impact of the new GMP in Chinese pharmaceutical industry.展开更多
We study symmetric hyperbolic systems with memory-type dissipation and investigate their dissipative structures.We treat two cases:memory-type diffusion and memory-type relaxation,and observe that the dissipative stru...We study symmetric hyperbolic systems with memory-type dissipation and investigate their dissipative structures.We treat two cases:memory-type diffusion and memory-type relaxation,and observe that the dissipative structures of these two cases are essentially different.Namely,we show that the dissipative structure of the system with memory-type diffusion is of the standard type,while that of the system with memory-type relaxation is of the regularity-loss type.展开更多
In this paper, we design and characterize a novel small size four-channel biosensor based on the two-dimensional photonic crystal with introducing waveguides and nano-cavities in the hexagonal lattice of air pores in ...In this paper, we design and characterize a novel small size four-channel biosensor based on the two-dimensional photonic crystal with introducing waveguides and nano-cavities in the hexagonal lattice of air pores in the silicon slab. By removing a group of air pores, waveguides are achieved, and nano-cavities are shaped by modifying the radius of air pores. Highly parallel operation of this biosensor due to the special architecture is the capability of the designed structure. The biomaterials which are suspended in a liquid medium inside nano-cavities cause effective refractive index changes which lead to the resonant wavelength shift in the output terminal. According to results, with increasing the refractive index of nano-cavities, resonant wavelengths shifts to longer values. For biochemical sensing like DNA molecule and protein and for the refractive index detection, this novel designed biosensor can be utilized.展开更多
Extensibility and attainability of topology optimization are discussed by investigating a variety of simultaneous topology opti-mization methods extended from the standard formulation.First,the state of the art is hig...Extensibility and attainability of topology optimization are discussed by investigating a variety of simultaneous topology opti-mization methods extended from the standard formulation.First,the state of the art is highlighted through systematic classification of developed methods,such as simultaneous topology optimizations of microstructure and macrostructure,structure and supports,structure and design-dependent loads,structure and locations of involved components.Second,some recent results about simultaneous topology optimization of structure and applied loads are presented.It is shown that the simultaneous topology optimization is an integrated methodology that extends the concept of standard topology optimization in the sense of systematic design.The presence of more than one kind of design variable of different nature makes the optimization problem complex but enlarges the design space to attain the optimization.展开更多
基金Supported by the Canadian International Development Research Center(IDRC)~~
文摘[Objective] This study aimed to provide references for the application of participatory monitoring and evaluation in the development of animal husbandry tech- nology. [Method] With the livelihood improvement program for agricultural and pas- toral area in northern Yunnan as the example, the development process of partici- patory animal husbandry was overviewed. And the monitoring and evaluation pro- cesses of participatory animal husbandry were introduced and analyzed. [Result] The monitoring and evaluation indicator system of participatory animal husbandry technol- ogy included 4 layers, namely technology, institutional system, personnel ability con- struction and effectiveness, and 11 third-level indicators, namely, technical characteristics, superiority-inferiority comparison, community and farmers, technical personnel, project personnel, economic indicators and social indicators. [Conclusion] This study provided the references for the application of participatory monitoring and evaluation in the development of animal husbandry technology.
文摘Satellite communication networks have been evolving from standalone networks with ad-hoc infrastructures to possibly interconnected portions of a wider Future Internet architecture. Experts belonging to the fifth-generation(5 G) standardization committees are considering satellites as a technology to integrate in the 5 G environment. Software Defined Networking(SDN) is one of the paradigms of the next generation of mobile and fixed communications. It can be employed to perform different control functionalities, such as routing, because it allows traffic flow identification based on different parameters and traffic flow management in a centralized way. A centralized set of controllers makes the decisions and sends the corresponding forwarding rules for each traffic flow to the involved intermediate nodes that practically forward data up to the destination. The time to perform this process in integrated terrestrial-satellite networks could be not negligible due to satellite link delays. The aim of this paper is to introduce an SDN-based terrestrial satellite network architecture and to estimate the mean time to deliver the data of a new traffic flow from the source to the destination including the time required to transfer SDN control actions. The practical effect is to identify the maximum performance than can be expected.
文摘As BIM (building information modeling) became the gold standard of the architecture, construction, and engineering industry, lack of skilled BIM professionals is considered one of the major challenges. It is therefore of significant importance that CM (construction management) programs train future construction professionals in the capabilities and advantages of BIM technology. This paper presents the findings of a comprehensive review of the implementation of BIM education in CM programs and summarizes the process of BIM adoption, existing educational approaches, and identified challenges in the implementation process. The information presented in this paper serves as a guide to CM programs that are new to and in the progress of implementing BIM education.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61134007,61320106009)
文摘Manufacturing equipment takes the task of operation and directly effects on the manufacturing process. One single Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is mainly employed to evaluate equipment in most studies, neither integrating the KPIs into a completed evaluation system nor considering the impact and conflict among KPIs. In this paper, a KPI evaluation architecture is presented to define and analyze KPIs, and then a common structure for KPI to obtain the KPI set of manufacturing equipment is introduced. An available multi-KPl coordination model is proposed to discern and balance the relationship among multi-KPl. Finally, a case study is introduced to illustrate the applicability of the coordination model by using multi-objective optimization strategy and an efficient solution is obtained.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant No.61232017the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant NO.2017YJS032
文摘The current Internet architecture was designed on the basis of a triple bindings model, which could meet the needs of the early Internet. However, with the tremendous growth of the Internet and the continuous innovations of applications, the triple bindings(namely, control/data binding, resource/location binding and user/network binding) have given rise to many problems for the Internet, such as scalability, mobility, and security. In order to solve these problems, many network techniques have been developed. Besides, novel future Internet architectures including Information-Centric Networks and Software-Defined Networks have emerged. However, these architectures only partially decouple the triple bindings. To completely separate the triple bindings, Smart Collaborative Identifier Networks(SINET) is proposed. There have been many research efforts on SINET, which built the foundation of SINET being a promising future Internet. In this paper, we comprehensively introduce SINET and these related research works. We start by introducing the motivation for SINET, explain its fundamental concepts and how it can make a difference. Next, we present in details the design principles of every layer in SINET, explaining how it can decouple the triple bindings and solve the problems of the current Internet. Finally, we discuss the state-of-theart challenges in SINET. We investigate the ongoing research works and commercial products in SINET, with aspects such as scalability, mobility, security and reliability.
文摘Experience from recent earthquakes such as Gilan, Zanjan, Bam and Lorestan earthquakes in Iran indicated that the constructed buildings are vulnerable against earthquake. Vulnerability of these structures is due to various reasons such as designing without considering seismic regulations, problems of regulations (design goals), implementation problems, changing of the building occupancy class, increasing the weight of building stories, adding new stories to the building and changing in architecture of building without considering structural system. So the main objective of this research is to examine the features of building configuration and their effects as for the damages to buildings in past earthquakes. For this purpose, initially four occurred earthquakes in Iran are selected as case study. Then three types of buildings (steel structure, concrete structure and masonry buildings) are analyzed with details. Results showed that the most of damages are occurred in the old steel structures and masonry buildings which their ages are more than 25 years. The study showed that most of the buildings in the study area are steel structure and masonry buildings while concrete structures are infrequent which most of them had no or slight damages. Therefore, the importance and need to enhance the performance of available buildings against earthquake forces by rehabilitating methods would be more important than before. Also results indicated that the decisions related to architectural plan which have significant effect on seismic performance of buildings, can be divided into three categories: configuration of building, restrictive formal architectural plan and dangerous structural components, as these categories are not obstacle of each other, it is possible that each category has an influential effect on others. So organizing the design decisions in this way is very important so as to manage their effects and interdependencies.
基金Sponsored by the Science and Technology Department Term of Education of Heilongjiang Province(Grant No. 10541098)
文摘To better evaluate the quality of software architecture,a metrics suite is proposed to measure the coupling of software architecture models,in which CBC is used to measure the coupling between components,CBCC is used to measure the coupling of transferring message between components,CBCCT is used to measure the coupling of software architecture,WCBCC is used to measure the coupling of transferring message with weight between components,and WCBCCT is used to measure the coupling of message transmission with weight in the whole software architecture. The proposed algorithm for the coupling metrics is applied to the design of serve software architecture. Analysis of an example validates the feasibility of this metrics suite.
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40635030)
文摘Vulnerability is a new field and analytical tool in the study of urban safety. Analysis and assessment of vulnerability provide a new basis for urban planning. This study constructed a quantitative index system for assessing vulnerability, based on the city′s sensitivity and emergency response capacity. City size, density, and spatial form influence a city′s sensitivity to crises and risks, to which vulnerability is positively related. Levels of socio-economic development, infrastructures, and emergency management contribute to a city′s emergency response capacity, with which vulnerability is inversely associated. Vulnerability of 19 large Chinese cities was assessed. Harbin and Shenzhen demonstrated the highest and lowest vulnerability among 19 cities, while Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou ranked the 5th, the 9th and the 12th. Spatially, northern cities tended to be more vulnerable than southern cities. And the differences in vulnerability among cities were explored based on cities′ physical geography conditions, level of socioeconomic development, infrastructures, regional status, history of disaster, history of urban planning and development, government policies, etc.
文摘The exploration of Mars, alike of other planets, would be oriented on a so called on-line tracking. At this approach the development of structural indicators can be followed at time using geological receptors. The principle on what stays this exploration stems from the fact, that a planet is an object, where interactions among its elements are to some extent organized. It means that it goes about an object with a hidden system of control aiming to augment its level of existence and that it is not a "stack of stones". In advance it is necessary to establish some ways-out for the on-line tracking. The first way-out is the fact, that this is an object been monitored, it means a system of organized elements, which has its proper existence and its strategies for a cultivation of this existence. These elements are primarily atoms and for a monitoring of their activities it is possible to use their complexes, e.g. crystals and of course occasionally higher structures, too. Another way-out is the fact, that elements have their proper satisfaction and successfulness and that on basis of those quantities stays the existence of the overall object. These quantities are for new observable mainly on higher structures.
文摘To evaluate the impact of GMP on Chinese pharmaceutical industry in a quantitative system, we referred to theories on policy evaluation and industrial organization, and conducted literature review, key person interview, multi-round Delphi and field investigation. We set up the principles to construct our indicator system, reviewed based on the policy objectives of the new GMP for drugs systematically, and analysed the influence path of the new GMP for pharmaceutical manufacturers. We proposed a three-dimensional "structure-conduct-performance" evaluation indicator system. Our evaluation indicator system is accepted by experts and relevant personnel, indicating the three-dimensional evaluation indicator system is feasible to evaluate the impact of the new GMP in Chinese pharmaceutical industry.
基金supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant No. 25220702)
文摘We study symmetric hyperbolic systems with memory-type dissipation and investigate their dissipative structures.We treat two cases:memory-type diffusion and memory-type relaxation,and observe that the dissipative structures of these two cases are essentially different.Namely,we show that the dissipative structure of the system with memory-type diffusion is of the standard type,while that of the system with memory-type relaxation is of the regularity-loss type.
文摘In this paper, we design and characterize a novel small size four-channel biosensor based on the two-dimensional photonic crystal with introducing waveguides and nano-cavities in the hexagonal lattice of air pores in the silicon slab. By removing a group of air pores, waveguides are achieved, and nano-cavities are shaped by modifying the radius of air pores. Highly parallel operation of this biosensor due to the special architecture is the capability of the designed structure. The biomaterials which are suspended in a liquid medium inside nano-cavities cause effective refractive index changes which lead to the resonant wavelength shift in the output terminal. According to results, with increasing the refractive index of nano-cavities, resonant wavelengths shifts to longer values. For biochemical sensing like DNA molecule and protein and for the refractive index detection, this novel designed biosensor can be utilized.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51275424,51221001)the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2011CB610304)+1 种基金the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20126102130003)the NWPU Foundation for Fundamental Research(Grant No.NPU-FFR-201001)
文摘Extensibility and attainability of topology optimization are discussed by investigating a variety of simultaneous topology opti-mization methods extended from the standard formulation.First,the state of the art is highlighted through systematic classification of developed methods,such as simultaneous topology optimizations of microstructure and macrostructure,structure and supports,structure and design-dependent loads,structure and locations of involved components.Second,some recent results about simultaneous topology optimization of structure and applied loads are presented.It is shown that the simultaneous topology optimization is an integrated methodology that extends the concept of standard topology optimization in the sense of systematic design.The presence of more than one kind of design variable of different nature makes the optimization problem complex but enlarges the design space to attain the optimization.