According to the positive correlation of coal ash content and natural gamma, using a new coal core reposition method, which is ordered by global and local extreme, coal samples from medium-thickness seam are reasonabl...According to the positive correlation of coal ash content and natural gamma, using a new coal core reposition method, which is ordered by global and local extreme, coal samples from medium-thickness seam are reasonably located. Inte- grated the data of coal macrostructure characteristics, coal petrography analysis and coal gas production test, it studies the rela- tionship between coalbody structure and amplitude variation of different well logging data, and the tectonic coal recognition method with well logging data in fresh-water mud invasion. The results show that: the anomalous response of natural gamma ray, neutron, density and apparent resistivity does not reflect the coalbody structure type. In fresh-water drilling mud invasion, using the crossplot technique of dual-lateral, RXO resistivity response and the coalbody structure can classify granulated coal accurately; the proposed method is of good practicability and high reliability.展开更多
Vegetative insecticidal proteins (VIPs), produced during the vegetative stage of their growth in Bacillus thuringiensis, are a group of insecticidal proteins and represent the second generation of insecticidal trans...Vegetative insecticidal proteins (VIPs), produced during the vegetative stage of their growth in Bacillus thuringiensis, are a group of insecticidal proteins and represent the second generation of insecticidal trans-genes that will complement the novel δendotoxins in future. Fewer structural and functional relationships of Vip proteins are known in comparison with those of δ-endotoxins. In this study, both the maximum-likelihood methods and the maximum parsimony based sliding window analysis were used to evaluate the molecular evolution of Vip proteins. As a result, strong evidence was found that Vip proteins are subject to the high rates of positive selection, and 16 sites are identified to be under positive selection using the Bayes Empirical Bayesian method. Interestingly, all these positively selected sites are located from site-705 to site-809 in the C-terminus of the Vip proteins. Most of these sites are exposed and clustered in the loop regions when mapped onto its computational predicted secondary tertiary and a part of the tertiary structure. It has been postulated that the high divergence in the C-terminal of Vip proteins may not result from the lack of functional constraints, but rather from the rapid mutation to adapt their targeted insects, driven by positive selection. The potential positive selection pressures may be an attempt to adapt for the "arm race" between Vip proteins and the targeted insects, or to enlarge their target's host range. Sites identified to be under positive selection may be related to the insect host range, which may shed a light on the investigation of the Vip proteins' structural and functional relationships.展开更多
This study was focused on orthophosphate adsorption on natural zeolite which was obtained from South of Thailand and has been carried out by Vanadomolybdophosphoric Acid (VMPA) and using spectrophotometry technique....This study was focused on orthophosphate adsorption on natural zeolite which was obtained from South of Thailand and has been carried out by Vanadomolybdophosphoric Acid (VMPA) and using spectrophotometry technique. The phosphate solution were prepared artificially by adding certain quantities of KH2PO4 in water at the initial orthophosphate concentration of 5, 10 and 20 mg/L. While the adsorbent quantity was 1g of natural zeolite per 50 mL, aqueous solution NaOH IN and HCI IN solutions were used as pH regulators. The effect of equilibrium pH, adsorbent mass and contact time was studied. The results showed that natural zeolite adsorption efficiency was 99.18%, 99.33% and 99.02% (5, 10 and 20 mg/L), respectively, at pH of 12 and a contact time of 30 minutes at 298 K. Moreover, the isotherm can be used to evaluate the capacity and nature of the interaction between a sorbent and a sorbate. This work considers the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm. Based on the R2 of adsorption isotherm studies, the adsorption data for phosphate fitted well the Freundlich isotherm for natural zeolite (R^2=0.99), with multi-layer adsorption. The results are in good agreement with recent experimentl data.展开更多
Double diffusion convection in a cavity with a hot square obstacle inside is simulated using the lattice Boltzmann method. The results are presented for the Rayleigh numbers 104,105 and 106, the Lewis numbers 0.1, 2 a...Double diffusion convection in a cavity with a hot square obstacle inside is simulated using the lattice Boltzmann method. The results are presented for the Rayleigh numbers 104,105 and 106, the Lewis numbers 0.1, 2 and 10 and aspect ratio A(obstacle height/cavity height) of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 for a range of buoyancy number N = 0 to- 4 with the effect of opposing flow. The results indicate that for |N| b 1, the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers decrease as buoyancy ratio increases, while for |N| N 1, they increase with |N|. As the Lewis number increases, higher buoyancy ratio is required to overcome the thermal effects and the minimum value of the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers occur at higher buoyancy ratios. The increase in the Rayleigh or Lewis number results in the formation of the multi-cell flow in the enclosure and the vortices will vanish as |N| increases.展开更多
In this paper we discuss the weak type(IP,I)boundedness of a class of maximal operators T and themaximal strong,mean boundedness of a family of the operators {T on the atomic IP spaces on compaet Lie groups.Also,we ob...In this paper we discuss the weak type(IP,I)boundedness of a class of maximal operators T and themaximal strong,mean boundedness of a family of the operators {T on the atomic IP spaces on compaet Lie groups.Also,we obtain the correspoding convergent rosults.展开更多
Several thousands of chemical substances are registered every year for different purposes, and sometimes many of them are claimed to play the same role. To establish and compare their toxicities, the determination of ...Several thousands of chemical substances are registered every year for different purposes, and sometimes many of them are claimed to play the same role. To establish and compare their toxicities, the determination of the lethal concentrations is usually necessary and should account for natural mortality. However, many of the statistical software packages used for that purpose do not readily integrate control mortality or adjust the best link function to the data during the process. This manuscript proposes an "lc" function in the R open source that aims at the effective determination of lethal concentrations. Furthermore, it performs the procedure with the appropriate link function. The "lc" application on the example provided revealed that the complementary log link function is adequate.展开更多
This paper considers noncoherent cooperative decode-and-forward(DF) halfduplex multi-branch relay systems.Each relay branch is modeled as a probabilistic transition system at the last hop,and thus it can be considered...This paper considers noncoherent cooperative decode-and-forward(DF) halfduplex multi-branch relay systems.Each relay branch is modeled as a probabilistic transition system at the last hop,and thus it can be considered as a relaying chain comprising multi-hop relays.An approximation to the generalized maximum likelihood(ML) noncoherent block detection is derived for uncoded M-ary modulation in a faded noisy environment.In particular,the derived noncoherent block detection in a noiseless case is equivalent to a multichannel reception with full diversity.Furthermore,the generalized detection is extended specifically to block coded M-ary phase shift keying(MPSK) modulation.For a DF three node relay system using block coded quadrature phase shift keying(QPSK),simulation results are provided to examine the end-to-end error performance of the noncoherent detection with considering the effects of network geometry and power allocation,respectively.It is shown that under a fixed power allocation,a proper relay placement can yield near full diversity for large signal-to-noise ratio.展开更多
The probability distribution analysis is per-formed for multi-timescale aerosol optical depth (AOD) using AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) level 2.0 data.The maximum likelihood estimation is employed to determine the...The probability distribution analysis is per-formed for multi-timescale aerosol optical depth (AOD) using AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) level 2.0 data.The maximum likelihood estimation is employed to determine the best-fit probability density function (PDF),and the statement that the fitting Weibull distribution will be light-tailed is proved true for these AOD samples.The best-fit PDF results for multi-site data show that the PDF of AOD samples with longer timescale in most sites tends to be stably represented by lognormal distribution,while Weibull distribution is a better fit for AOD samples with short timescales.The reason for this difference is ana-lyzed through tail characteristics of the two distributions,and an indicator for the selection between Weibull and lognormal distributions is suggested and validated.The result of this research is helpful for determining the most accurate AOD statistics for a given site and a given time-scale and for validating the retrieved AOD through its PDF.展开更多
Traditional data driven fault detection methods assume that the process operates in a single mode so that they cannot perform well in processes with multiple operating modes. To monitor multimode processes effectively...Traditional data driven fault detection methods assume that the process operates in a single mode so that they cannot perform well in processes with multiple operating modes. To monitor multimode processes effectively,this paper proposes a novel process monitoring scheme based on orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization(ONMF) and hidden Markov model(HMM). The new clustering technique ONMF is employed to separate data from different process modes. The multiple HMMs for various operating modes lead to higher modeling accuracy.The proposed approach does not presume the distribution of data in each mode because the process uncertainty and dynamics can be well interpreted through the hidden Markov estimation. The HMM-based monitoring indication named negative log likelihood probability is utilized for fault detection. In order to assess the proposed monitoring strategy, a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman process are used. The results demonstrate that this method provides efficient fault detection performance.展开更多
Social forestry has emerged as a popular approach to achieving landscape justice by empowering local communities.However,the development and implementation of such programs often face challenges.This paper explores th...Social forestry has emerged as a popular approach to achieving landscape justice by empowering local communities.However,the development and implementation of such programs often face challenges.This paper explores the concept of landscape justice within the context of Indonesian social forestry in two ways.First,it juxtaposes the social forestry program with palm oil plantations to highlight the relationship between environmental initiatives and capital expansion,and the formation of green capitalism.By examining the historical development of social forestry,the paper argues that current political and legal frameworks have facilitated the depoliticization of previously radical,anti-capitalist,and anti-palm oil civil movements,despite notionally“empowering”local communities.Second,the paper interrogates the inclusivity of the social forestry program within local communities,noting that NGOs sometimes label local people as“cooperative”or“stubborn,”thus overlooking the pre-existing social tensions.The paper posits that more attention should be given to the social foundations underlying environmental projects and the new eco-social structure arising from environmental governance.展开更多
The missing response problem in single-index models is studied, and a bias-correction method to infer the index coefficients is developed. Two weighted empirical log-likelihood ratios with asymptotic chisquare are der...The missing response problem in single-index models is studied, and a bias-correction method to infer the index coefficients is developed. Two weighted empirical log-likelihood ratios with asymptotic chisquare are derived, and the corresponding empirical likelihood confidence regions for the index coefficients are constructed. In addition, the estimators of the index coefficients and the link function are defined, and their asymptotic normalities are proved. A simulation study is conducted to compare the empirical likelihood and the normal approximation based method in terms of coverage probabilities and average lengths of confidence intervals. A real example illustrates our methods.展开更多
A partial linear model with missing response variables and error-prone covariates is considered. The imputation approach is developed to estimate the regression coefficients and the nonparametric function. The propose...A partial linear model with missing response variables and error-prone covariates is considered. The imputation approach is developed to estimate the regression coefficients and the nonparametric function. The proposed parametric estimators are shown to be asymptotically normal, and the estimators for the nonparametric part are proved to converge at an optimal rate. To construct confidence regions for the regression coefficients and the nonparametric function, respectively, the authors also propose the empirical-likelihood-based statistics and investigate the limit distributions of the empirical likelihood ratios. The simulation study is conducted to compare the finite sample behavior for the proposed estimators. An application to an AIDS dataset is illustrated.展开更多
Let A be a unital C-algebra, n ∈ N ∪ {∞}. It is proved that the isomorphism △n : is isometric for some suitable distances. Asan application, the author has the split exact sequence with iA contractive (and isometr...Let A be a unital C-algebra, n ∈ N ∪ {∞}. It is proved that the isomorphism △n : is isometric for some suitable distances. Asan application, the author has the split exact sequence with iA contractive (and isometric if n = ∞) under certain condition of A.展开更多
Generalized linear measurement error models, such as Gaussian regression, Poisson regression and logistic regression, are considered. To eliminate the effects of measurement error on parameter estimation, a corrected ...Generalized linear measurement error models, such as Gaussian regression, Poisson regression and logistic regression, are considered. To eliminate the effects of measurement error on parameter estimation, a corrected empirical likelihood method is proposed to make statistical inference for a class of generalized linear measurement error models based on the moment identities of the corrected score function. The asymptotic distribution of the empirical log-likelihood ratio for the regression parameter is proved to be a Chi-squared distribution under some regularity conditions. The corresponding maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the regression parameter π is derived, and the asymptotic normality is shown. Furthermore, we consider the construction of the confidence intervals for one component of the regression parameter by using the partial profile empirical likelihood. Simulation studies are conducted to assess the finite sample performance. A real data set from the ACTG 175 study is used for illustrating the proposed method.展开更多
文摘According to the positive correlation of coal ash content and natural gamma, using a new coal core reposition method, which is ordered by global and local extreme, coal samples from medium-thickness seam are reasonably located. Inte- grated the data of coal macrostructure characteristics, coal petrography analysis and coal gas production test, it studies the rela- tionship between coalbody structure and amplitude variation of different well logging data, and the tectonic coal recognition method with well logging data in fresh-water mud invasion. The results show that: the anomalous response of natural gamma ray, neutron, density and apparent resistivity does not reflect the coalbody structure type. In fresh-water drilling mud invasion, using the crossplot technique of dual-lateral, RXO resistivity response and the coalbody structure can classify granulated coal accurately; the proposed method is of good practicability and high reliability.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30571009).
文摘Vegetative insecticidal proteins (VIPs), produced during the vegetative stage of their growth in Bacillus thuringiensis, are a group of insecticidal proteins and represent the second generation of insecticidal trans-genes that will complement the novel δendotoxins in future. Fewer structural and functional relationships of Vip proteins are known in comparison with those of δ-endotoxins. In this study, both the maximum-likelihood methods and the maximum parsimony based sliding window analysis were used to evaluate the molecular evolution of Vip proteins. As a result, strong evidence was found that Vip proteins are subject to the high rates of positive selection, and 16 sites are identified to be under positive selection using the Bayes Empirical Bayesian method. Interestingly, all these positively selected sites are located from site-705 to site-809 in the C-terminus of the Vip proteins. Most of these sites are exposed and clustered in the loop regions when mapped onto its computational predicted secondary tertiary and a part of the tertiary structure. It has been postulated that the high divergence in the C-terminal of Vip proteins may not result from the lack of functional constraints, but rather from the rapid mutation to adapt their targeted insects, driven by positive selection. The potential positive selection pressures may be an attempt to adapt for the "arm race" between Vip proteins and the targeted insects, or to enlarge their target's host range. Sites identified to be under positive selection may be related to the insect host range, which may shed a light on the investigation of the Vip proteins' structural and functional relationships.
文摘This study was focused on orthophosphate adsorption on natural zeolite which was obtained from South of Thailand and has been carried out by Vanadomolybdophosphoric Acid (VMPA) and using spectrophotometry technique. The phosphate solution were prepared artificially by adding certain quantities of KH2PO4 in water at the initial orthophosphate concentration of 5, 10 and 20 mg/L. While the adsorbent quantity was 1g of natural zeolite per 50 mL, aqueous solution NaOH IN and HCI IN solutions were used as pH regulators. The effect of equilibrium pH, adsorbent mass and contact time was studied. The results showed that natural zeolite adsorption efficiency was 99.18%, 99.33% and 99.02% (5, 10 and 20 mg/L), respectively, at pH of 12 and a contact time of 30 minutes at 298 K. Moreover, the isotherm can be used to evaluate the capacity and nature of the interaction between a sorbent and a sorbate. This work considers the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm. Based on the R2 of adsorption isotherm studies, the adsorption data for phosphate fitted well the Freundlich isotherm for natural zeolite (R^2=0.99), with multi-layer adsorption. The results are in good agreement with recent experimentl data.
文摘Double diffusion convection in a cavity with a hot square obstacle inside is simulated using the lattice Boltzmann method. The results are presented for the Rayleigh numbers 104,105 and 106, the Lewis numbers 0.1, 2 and 10 and aspect ratio A(obstacle height/cavity height) of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 for a range of buoyancy number N = 0 to- 4 with the effect of opposing flow. The results indicate that for |N| b 1, the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers decrease as buoyancy ratio increases, while for |N| N 1, they increase with |N|. As the Lewis number increases, higher buoyancy ratio is required to overcome the thermal effects and the minimum value of the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers occur at higher buoyancy ratios. The increase in the Rayleigh or Lewis number results in the formation of the multi-cell flow in the enclosure and the vortices will vanish as |N| increases.
文摘In this paper we discuss the weak type(IP,I)boundedness of a class of maximal operators T and themaximal strong,mean boundedness of a family of the operators {T on the atomic IP spaces on compaet Lie groups.Also,we obtain the correspoding convergent rosults.
文摘Several thousands of chemical substances are registered every year for different purposes, and sometimes many of them are claimed to play the same role. To establish and compare their toxicities, the determination of the lethal concentrations is usually necessary and should account for natural mortality. However, many of the statistical software packages used for that purpose do not readily integrate control mortality or adjust the best link function to the data during the process. This manuscript proposes an "lc" function in the R open source that aims at the effective determination of lethal concentrations. Furthermore, it performs the procedure with the appropriate link function. The "lc" application on the example provided revealed that the complementary log link function is adequate.
基金ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (61302095), the Huaqiao University Science Foundations (13Y0384,12BS219).
文摘This paper considers noncoherent cooperative decode-and-forward(DF) halfduplex multi-branch relay systems.Each relay branch is modeled as a probabilistic transition system at the last hop,and thus it can be considered as a relaying chain comprising multi-hop relays.An approximation to the generalized maximum likelihood(ML) noncoherent block detection is derived for uncoded M-ary modulation in a faded noisy environment.In particular,the derived noncoherent block detection in a noiseless case is equivalent to a multichannel reception with full diversity.Furthermore,the generalized detection is extended specifically to block coded M-ary phase shift keying(MPSK) modulation.For a DF three node relay system using block coded quadrature phase shift keying(QPSK),simulation results are provided to examine the end-to-end error performance of the noncoherent detection with considering the effects of network geometry and power allocation,respectively.It is shown that under a fixed power allocation,a proper relay placement can yield near full diversity for large signal-to-noise ratio.
基金supported by funds from the Chinese Global Change Research Program (Grant No.2010CB951804)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.40830103)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No.20100480436)
文摘The probability distribution analysis is per-formed for multi-timescale aerosol optical depth (AOD) using AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) level 2.0 data.The maximum likelihood estimation is employed to determine the best-fit probability density function (PDF),and the statement that the fitting Weibull distribution will be light-tailed is proved true for these AOD samples.The best-fit PDF results for multi-site data show that the PDF of AOD samples with longer timescale in most sites tends to be stably represented by lognormal distribution,while Weibull distribution is a better fit for AOD samples with short timescales.The reason for this difference is ana-lyzed through tail characteristics of the two distributions,and an indicator for the selection between Weibull and lognormal distributions is suggested and validated.The result of this research is helpful for determining the most accurate AOD statistics for a given site and a given time-scale and for validating the retrieved AOD through its PDF.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61374140,61403072)
文摘Traditional data driven fault detection methods assume that the process operates in a single mode so that they cannot perform well in processes with multiple operating modes. To monitor multimode processes effectively,this paper proposes a novel process monitoring scheme based on orthogonal nonnegative matrix factorization(ONMF) and hidden Markov model(HMM). The new clustering technique ONMF is employed to separate data from different process modes. The multiple HMMs for various operating modes lead to higher modeling accuracy.The proposed approach does not presume the distribution of data in each mode because the process uncertainty and dynamics can be well interpreted through the hidden Markov estimation. The HMM-based monitoring indication named negative log likelihood probability is utilized for fault detection. In order to assess the proposed monitoring strategy, a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman process are used. The results demonstrate that this method provides efficient fault detection performance.
文摘Social forestry has emerged as a popular approach to achieving landscape justice by empowering local communities.However,the development and implementation of such programs often face challenges.This paper explores the concept of landscape justice within the context of Indonesian social forestry in two ways.First,it juxtaposes the social forestry program with palm oil plantations to highlight the relationship between environmental initiatives and capital expansion,and the formation of green capitalism.By examining the historical development of social forestry,the paper argues that current political and legal frameworks have facilitated the depoliticization of previously radical,anti-capitalist,and anti-palm oil civil movements,despite notionally“empowering”local communities.Second,the paper interrogates the inclusivity of the social forestry program within local communities,noting that NGOs sometimes label local people as“cooperative”or“stubborn,”thus overlooking the pre-existing social tensions.The paper posits that more attention should be given to the social foundations underlying environmental projects and the new eco-social structure arising from environmental governance.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11571025 and 11331011)the BCMIIS,the Ph D Program Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(Grant No.20121103110004)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant Nos.1142003 and L140003)
文摘The missing response problem in single-index models is studied, and a bias-correction method to infer the index coefficients is developed. Two weighted empirical log-likelihood ratios with asymptotic chisquare are derived, and the corresponding empirical likelihood confidence regions for the index coefficients are constructed. In addition, the estimators of the index coefficients and the link function are defined, and their asymptotic normalities are proved. A simulation study is conducted to compare the empirical likelihood and the normal approximation based method in terms of coverage probabilities and average lengths of confidence intervals. A real example illustrates our methods.
基金This research is supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11CTJ004, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10871013 and 10871217, the National Natural Science Foundation of Beijing under Grant No. 1102008, the Research Foundation of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission under Grant Nos. KJ110720 and KJ100726, and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi under Grant No. 2010GXNSFB013051.
文摘A partial linear model with missing response variables and error-prone covariates is considered. The imputation approach is developed to estimate the regression coefficients and the nonparametric function. The proposed parametric estimators are shown to be asymptotically normal, and the estimators for the nonparametric part are proved to converge at an optimal rate. To construct confidence regions for the regression coefficients and the nonparametric function, respectively, the authors also propose the empirical-likelihood-based statistics and investigate the limit distributions of the empirical likelihood ratios. The simulation study is conducted to compare the finite sample behavior for the proposed estimators. An application to an AIDS dataset is illustrated.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10271090).
文摘Let A be a unital C-algebra, n ∈ N ∪ {∞}. It is proved that the isomorphism △n : is isometric for some suitable distances. Asan application, the author has the split exact sequence with iA contractive (and isometric if n = ∞) under certain condition of A.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11301569,11471029 and 11101014)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.1142002)+2 种基金the Science and Technology Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission(Grant No.KM201410005010)Hong Kong Research Grant(Grant No.HKBU202711)Hong Kong Baptist University FRG Grants(Grant Nos.FRG2/11-12/110 and FRG1/13-14/018)
文摘Generalized linear measurement error models, such as Gaussian regression, Poisson regression and logistic regression, are considered. To eliminate the effects of measurement error on parameter estimation, a corrected empirical likelihood method is proposed to make statistical inference for a class of generalized linear measurement error models based on the moment identities of the corrected score function. The asymptotic distribution of the empirical log-likelihood ratio for the regression parameter is proved to be a Chi-squared distribution under some regularity conditions. The corresponding maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the regression parameter π is derived, and the asymptotic normality is shown. Furthermore, we consider the construction of the confidence intervals for one component of the regression parameter by using the partial profile empirical likelihood. Simulation studies are conducted to assess the finite sample performance. A real data set from the ACTG 175 study is used for illustrating the proposed method.