Objectives:This systematic review was conducted to explore whether nutritional supplement can improve the benefits of exercise intervention on sarcopenia in the elderly.Methods:Databases,including PubMed,Embase,Cochra...Objectives:This systematic review was conducted to explore whether nutritional supplement can improve the benefits of exercise intervention on sarcopenia in the elderly.Methods:Databases,including PubMed,Embase,Cochrane Library,Web of Science,CINAHL,CBM,CNKI,WANFANG,and VIP,were searched.All related papers with randomized controlled trials(RCT)meth-odology that were included in the databases from inception to 19 July 2016 were selected for the study.The tool"assessing risk of bias"from Cochrane Handbook 5.10 was used to evaluate the quality of included papers.A meta-analysis of eligible studies was performed using Stata12.0.Data that we were unable to convene or merge were subjected to descriptive analysis.Results:Six trials were included in our study,which included 429 elderly patients with sarcopenia.The overall methodological quality of the trials was moderate.Compared with the exercise group,patients who were given nutritional supplements gained a bigger boost in fat-free mass(standard mean differ-ence(SMD)=5.78,95%CI:5.17 to 6.40,P=0.000)and muscle mass(SMD=2.048,95%CI:0.907 to 3.189,P=0.000),as well as showed enhancement of keen extension strength(SMD=1.08,95%CI:0.71 to 1.45,P=0.000)and usual walk speed(SMD=0.570,95%CI:0.19 to 0.95,P=0.003).Conclusion:Nutritional supplementation may magnify the effect of exercise intervention on sarcopenia elderly in terms of muscle mass,muscle strength,and physical performance.Inconsistencies were pre-sent among research studies.More robust studies are needed to determine the most suitable type of nutrient and target population and to explore the actual role of combined intervention in managing sarcopenia in the elderly.展开更多
Batteries transfer management is one important aspect in electric vehicle(EV)network's intelligent operation management system.Batteries transfer is a special and much more complex VRP(Vehicle Routing Problem) whi...Batteries transfer management is one important aspect in electric vehicle(EV)network's intelligent operation management system.Batteries transfer is a special and much more complex VRP(Vehicle Routing Problem) which takes the multiple constraints such as dynamic multi-depots,time windows,simultaneous pickups and deliveries,distance minimization,etc.into account.We call it VRPEVB(VRP with EV Batteries).This paper,based on the intelligent management model of EV's battery power,puts forward a battery transfer algorithm for the EV network which considers the traffic congestion that changes dynamically and uses improved Ant Colony Optimization.By setting a reasonable tabv range,special update rules of the pheromone and path list memory functions,the algorithm can have a better convergence,and its feasibility is proved by the experiment in an EV's demonstration operation system.展开更多
In this paper the authors show how software component design can affect security properties through different composition operators. The authors define software composition as the result of aggregating and/or associat...In this paper the authors show how software component design can affect security properties through different composition operators. The authors define software composition as the result of aggregating and/or associating a component to a software system. The component itself may be informational or functional and carry a certain level of security attribute. The authors first show that the security attributes or properties form a lattice structure when combined with the appropriate least upper bound and greatest lower bound type of operators. Three composition operators, named C l, C2 and C3 are developed. The system's security properties resulting from these compositions are then studied. The authors discuss how different composition operators maintain, relax and restrict the security properties. Finally, the authors show that C1 and C2 composition operators are order-sensitive and that C3 is order-insensitive.展开更多
Good equipment management is essential for the day to day management of an enterprise. Targeted at production opera-tion of the railway transportation department of a mining group and aimed at mine railway equipment m...Good equipment management is essential for the day to day management of an enterprise. Targeted at production opera-tion of the railway transportation department of a mining group and aimed at mine railway equipment management, we have estab-lished a management information system for the equipment in the entire process of the life cycle of equipment. The project deals with basic data about equipment, initial management, maintenance, operation and even disposal, based on a C/S and B/S structure. We adopted an object-oriented approach, dealing with software engineering, information engineering, economic and organizational measures. Thus, effective monitoring and control of the operation of railway equipment and its status in the entire process has been achieved.展开更多
This paper introduces the operational characteristics of the era of big data and the current era of big data challenges, and exhaustive research and design of big data analytics platform based on cloud computing, incl...This paper introduces the operational characteristics of the era of big data and the current era of big data challenges, and exhaustive research and design of big data analytics platform based on cloud computing, including big data analytics platform architecture system, big data analytics platform software architecture, big data analytics platform network architecture big data analysis platform unified program features and so on. The paper also analyzes the cloud computing platform for big data analysis program unified competitive advantage and development of business telecom operators play a certain role in the future.展开更多
The strategic value evaluation ofphysical channels is the main purpose of thispaper.To interpret this value,we refine finance,location and competition dimensions.Atotal of 166 social high-star channels are selected as...The strategic value evaluation ofphysical channels is the main purpose of thispaper.To interpret this value,we refine finance,location and competition dimensions.Atotal of 166 social high-star channels are selected as empirical samples.Practice showsthat all second-layer indicators can be quantified by information system or artificial collection.The weight of three first-layer indicatorscan be defined by correlation analysis.The valuecomprehensive ranking of the channels is clearbased on the first-layer and second-layer indicators.In the sample group in this study,theweight of location value is higher.The resultson channels' strategic value research may provide further insights on business value,servicevalue and other related fields.展开更多
Dry tree semi is a fast developing technology and becomes more and more appealing to the operators as a solution for producing deepwater reserves. Utilizing a dry tree semi means spending less cost on well mainte-nanc...Dry tree semi is a fast developing technology and becomes more and more appealing to the operators as a solution for producing deepwater reserves. Utilizing a dry tree semi means spending less cost on well mainte-nance and interventions,while the production platform can be integrated and commissioned at quayside. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of various technologies for dry tree semi,such as E-semi,T-semi,paired-column semi and long stroke tensioners. Each dry tree semi concept is briefed in terms of global performance,top tension riser (TTR) tensioner system,quayside integration and feasibility to environment.展开更多
Traffic matrix is an abstract representation of the traffic volume flowing between sets of source and destination pairs.It is a key input parameter of network operations management,planning,provisioning and traffic en...Traffic matrix is an abstract representation of the traffic volume flowing between sets of source and destination pairs.It is a key input parameter of network operations management,planning,provisioning and traffic engineering.Traffic matrix is also important in the context of OpenFlow-based networks.Because even good measurement systems can suffer from errors and data collection systems can fail,missing values are common.Existing matrix completion methods do not consider traffic exhibit characteristics and only provide a finite precision.To address this problem,this paper proposes a novel approach based on compressive sensing and traffic self-similarity to reconstruct the missing traffic flow data.Firstly,we analyze the realworld traffic matrix,which all exhibit lowrank structure,temporal smoothness feature and spatial self-similarity.Then,we propose Self-Similarity and Temporal Compressive Sensing(SSTCS) algorithm to reconstruct the missing traffic data.The extensive experiments with the real-world traffic matrix show that our proposed SSTCS can significantly reduce data reconstruction errors and achieve satisfactory accuracy comparing with the existing solutions.Typically SSTCS can successfully reconstruct the traffic matrix with less than 32%errors when as much as98%of the data is missing.展开更多
The "torque rich" is known as a phenomenon that makes reduction of ship speed, overload for main engine and higher fuel consumption of ship, even can cause some major problems for a ship propulsion system. In Vietna...The "torque rich" is known as a phenomenon that makes reduction of ship speed, overload for main engine and higher fuel consumption of ship, even can cause some major problems for a ship propulsion system. In Vietnam, according to investigated results, almost ships of country merchant fleet are facing with ship speed decrease, fuel consumption increase due to the torque rich, consequently the average ship operation cost is increasing from 15% to 25%, even higher in some cases and the environment is badly impacted. To comply with the international requirements and national legislation regarding to "using efficiently energy and environment protection", Vietnamese shipping companies must combat with the torque rich problem as crucial reason making downgrade in ship operation. The article shows a potential method to reduce the torque rich phenomena by modifying propeller which has been successfully applied for a real ship in Vietnam.展开更多
This paper investigated the growth and policy implications of Global System for Mobile Communication in Nigeria. Stochastic economic modeling was used to analyze Nigeria's time series data. The models were adjudged r...This paper investigated the growth and policy implications of Global System for Mobile Communication in Nigeria. Stochastic economic modeling was used to analyze Nigeria's time series data. The models were adjudged reliable before they were used. The components of the model were defined and a prior expectation of the relationship among the variables explained for the purpose of giving the reviewers and users a deep insight into the phenomenon under study. The secondary data used for the study were processed using the E-View for windows electronic packages. The outcome of the empirical and stochastic investigations shows that Global System for Mobile Communication has a positive relationship with output growth in Nigeria. The impact is of a higher magnitude. The usage of Global System for Mobile Telecommunication led to 17 percent rise in the output growth. The findings suggest the need for the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and the federal government of Nigeria to expand tele-density and directly make telephone communications cheap and accessible. To achieve this goal, more licenses should be given to GSM operators in order to allow for healthy competition among them. This will lead to improved quality of services, quality of product and consequently sustain the growth and development of the country.展开更多
The quality of methods for determining energy transits on the tie lines (lines that connect two neighboring power system) can have significant impact on business activity of the TSOs (transmission system operators...The quality of methods for determining energy transits on the tie lines (lines that connect two neighboring power system) can have significant impact on business activity of the TSOs (transmission system operators). Existing law regulation is not enough precise regarding definition of methods for metering energy transits (energy interchanged between neighboring TSOs). This paper analyses disadvantages of method for line losses metering with electric meters and suggests introduction of the measured value corrections.展开更多
Data stream management system (DSMS) provides convenient solutions to the problem of processing continuous queries on data streams.Previous approaches for scheduling these queries and their operators assume that each ...Data stream management system (DSMS) provides convenient solutions to the problem of processing continuous queries on data streams.Previous approaches for scheduling these queries and their operators assume that each operator runs in separate thread or all operators combine in one query plan and run in a single thread.Both approaches suffer from severe drawbacks concerning the thread overhead and the stalls due to expensive operators.To overcome these drawbacks,a novel approach called clustered operators scheduling (COS) is proposed that adaptively clusters operators of the query plan into a number of groups based on their selectivity and computing cost using S-mean clustering.Experimental evaluation is provided to demonstrate the potential benefits of COS scheduling over the other scheduling strategies.COS can provide adaptive,flexible,reliable,scalable and robust design for continuous query processor.展开更多
In this paper,we consider a new algorithm for a generalized system for relaxed coercive nonlinear inequalities involving three different operators in Hilbert spaces by the convergence of projection methods.Our results...In this paper,we consider a new algorithm for a generalized system for relaxed coercive nonlinear inequalities involving three different operators in Hilbert spaces by the convergence of projection methods.Our results include the previous results as special cases extend and improve the main results obtained by many others.展开更多
High OPEX (operation expenditure), pollution and complicated environment are challenges which telecom operators have to conquer to improve energy efficiency. Integration and flexibility are tendencies for telecom en...High OPEX (operation expenditure), pollution and complicated environment are challenges which telecom operators have to conquer to improve energy efficiency. Integration and flexibility are tendencies for telecom energy solution development, also the keys to improve energy efficiency. With plentiful design and implementation experience, the author provides a three-dimensional energy matrix model to design a perfect energy system, and some practical measures of integration and flexibility are also shared from mechanical to electrical, from single site to whole network.展开更多
A novel prediction network composed of some chaotic operators is proposed to predict the wind speed series.Training samples are constructed by the theory of phase space reconstruction.Genetic algorithm is adopted to o...A novel prediction network composed of some chaotic operators is proposed to predict the wind speed series.Training samples are constructed by the theory of phase space reconstruction.Genetic algorithm is adopted to optimize the control parameters of chaotic operators to change the dynamic characteristic of the network to approach to the predicted system.In this way,the dynamic prediction of wind speed series can be completed.The wind acceleration series can also be predicted by the same network.And the prediction results of both series can be fused by Kalman Filter to get the optimal estimation prediction result of the wind speed series,which is superior to the result obtained by each single method.Simulation results show that the prediction network has less computation cost than BP neural network,and it has better prediction performance than BP neural network and autoregressive integrated moving average model.Kalman Filter can improve the prediction performance further.展开更多
In this paper, we study the following degenerate critical elliptic equation with anisotropic coefficients-div(|x N | 2α▽u) = K(x)|x N | α·2 * (s)-s |u| 2 * (s)-2 u in R N ,where x = (x 1 , . . . , x N ) ∈ R N...In this paper, we study the following degenerate critical elliptic equation with anisotropic coefficients-div(|x N | 2α▽u) = K(x)|x N | α·2 * (s)-s |u| 2 * (s)-2 u in R N ,where x = (x 1 , . . . , x N ) ∈ R N , N≥3, α > 1/2, 0≤ s ≤2 and 2 * (s) = 2(N-s)/(N-2). Some basic properties of the degenerate elliptic operator -div(|x N |2α▽u) are investigated and some regularity, symmetry and uniqueness results for entire solutions of this equation are obtained. We also get some variational identities for solutions of this equation. As consequences, we obtain some nonexistence results for this equation.展开更多
文摘Objectives:This systematic review was conducted to explore whether nutritional supplement can improve the benefits of exercise intervention on sarcopenia in the elderly.Methods:Databases,including PubMed,Embase,Cochrane Library,Web of Science,CINAHL,CBM,CNKI,WANFANG,and VIP,were searched.All related papers with randomized controlled trials(RCT)meth-odology that were included in the databases from inception to 19 July 2016 were selected for the study.The tool"assessing risk of bias"from Cochrane Handbook 5.10 was used to evaluate the quality of included papers.A meta-analysis of eligible studies was performed using Stata12.0.Data that we were unable to convene or merge were subjected to descriptive analysis.Results:Six trials were included in our study,which included 429 elderly patients with sarcopenia.The overall methodological quality of the trials was moderate.Compared with the exercise group,patients who were given nutritional supplements gained a bigger boost in fat-free mass(standard mean differ-ence(SMD)=5.78,95%CI:5.17 to 6.40,P=0.000)and muscle mass(SMD=2.048,95%CI:0.907 to 3.189,P=0.000),as well as showed enhancement of keen extension strength(SMD=1.08,95%CI:0.71 to 1.45,P=0.000)and usual walk speed(SMD=0.570,95%CI:0.19 to 0.95,P=0.003).Conclusion:Nutritional supplementation may magnify the effect of exercise intervention on sarcopenia elderly in terms of muscle mass,muscle strength,and physical performance.Inconsistencies were pre-sent among research studies.More robust studies are needed to determine the most suitable type of nutrient and target population and to explore the actual role of combined intervention in managing sarcopenia in the elderly.
基金supported by the 973 Program under Grant No.2011CB302506, 2012CB315802National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2012BAH94F02+5 种基金The 863 Program under Grant No.2013AA102301NNSF of China under Grant No.61132001, 61170273Program for New Century Excel-lent Talents in University under Grant No. NCET-11-0592Project of New Generation Broad band Wireless Network under Grant No.2014ZX03006003The Technology Development and Experiment of Innovative Network Architecture(CNGI-12-03-007)The Open Fund Project of CAAC InformationTechnology Research Base(CAACITRB-201201)
文摘Batteries transfer management is one important aspect in electric vehicle(EV)network's intelligent operation management system.Batteries transfer is a special and much more complex VRP(Vehicle Routing Problem) which takes the multiple constraints such as dynamic multi-depots,time windows,simultaneous pickups and deliveries,distance minimization,etc.into account.We call it VRPEVB(VRP with EV Batteries).This paper,based on the intelligent management model of EV's battery power,puts forward a battery transfer algorithm for the EV network which considers the traffic congestion that changes dynamically and uses improved Ant Colony Optimization.By setting a reasonable tabv range,special update rules of the pheromone and path list memory functions,the algorithm can have a better convergence,and its feasibility is proved by the experiment in an EV's demonstration operation system.
文摘In this paper the authors show how software component design can affect security properties through different composition operators. The authors define software composition as the result of aggregating and/or associating a component to a software system. The component itself may be informational or functional and carry a certain level of security attribute. The authors first show that the security attributes or properties form a lattice structure when combined with the appropriate least upper bound and greatest lower bound type of operators. Three composition operators, named C l, C2 and C3 are developed. The system's security properties resulting from these compositions are then studied. The authors discuss how different composition operators maintain, relax and restrict the security properties. Finally, the authors show that C1 and C2 composition operators are order-sensitive and that C3 is order-insensitive.
文摘Good equipment management is essential for the day to day management of an enterprise. Targeted at production opera-tion of the railway transportation department of a mining group and aimed at mine railway equipment management, we have estab-lished a management information system for the equipment in the entire process of the life cycle of equipment. The project deals with basic data about equipment, initial management, maintenance, operation and even disposal, based on a C/S and B/S structure. We adopted an object-oriented approach, dealing with software engineering, information engineering, economic and organizational measures. Thus, effective monitoring and control of the operation of railway equipment and its status in the entire process has been achieved.
文摘This paper introduces the operational characteristics of the era of big data and the current era of big data challenges, and exhaustive research and design of big data analytics platform based on cloud computing, including big data analytics platform architecture system, big data analytics platform software architecture, big data analytics platform network architecture big data analysis platform unified program features and so on. The paper also analyzes the cloud computing platform for big data analysis program unified competitive advantage and development of business telecom operators play a certain role in the future.
基金supported in part by the Youth Innovation Fund of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2012
文摘The strategic value evaluation ofphysical channels is the main purpose of thispaper.To interpret this value,we refine finance,location and competition dimensions.Atotal of 166 social high-star channels are selected as empirical samples.Practice showsthat all second-layer indicators can be quantified by information system or artificial collection.The weight of three first-layer indicatorscan be defined by correlation analysis.The valuecomprehensive ranking of the channels is clearbased on the first-layer and second-layer indicators.In the sample group in this study,theweight of location value is higher.The resultson channels' strategic value research may provide further insights on business value,servicevalue and other related fields.
文摘Dry tree semi is a fast developing technology and becomes more and more appealing to the operators as a solution for producing deepwater reserves. Utilizing a dry tree semi means spending less cost on well mainte-nance and interventions,while the production platform can be integrated and commissioned at quayside. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of various technologies for dry tree semi,such as E-semi,T-semi,paired-column semi and long stroke tensioners. Each dry tree semi concept is briefed in terms of global performance,top tension riser (TTR) tensioner system,quayside integration and feasibility to environment.
基金This work is supported by the Prospcctive Research Project on Future Networks of Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute under Grant No.BY2013095-1-05, the National Ba- sic Research Program of China (973) under Grant No. 2012CB315805 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 61173167.
文摘Traffic matrix is an abstract representation of the traffic volume flowing between sets of source and destination pairs.It is a key input parameter of network operations management,planning,provisioning and traffic engineering.Traffic matrix is also important in the context of OpenFlow-based networks.Because even good measurement systems can suffer from errors and data collection systems can fail,missing values are common.Existing matrix completion methods do not consider traffic exhibit characteristics and only provide a finite precision.To address this problem,this paper proposes a novel approach based on compressive sensing and traffic self-similarity to reconstruct the missing traffic flow data.Firstly,we analyze the realworld traffic matrix,which all exhibit lowrank structure,temporal smoothness feature and spatial self-similarity.Then,we propose Self-Similarity and Temporal Compressive Sensing(SSTCS) algorithm to reconstruct the missing traffic data.The extensive experiments with the real-world traffic matrix show that our proposed SSTCS can significantly reduce data reconstruction errors and achieve satisfactory accuracy comparing with the existing solutions.Typically SSTCS can successfully reconstruct the traffic matrix with less than 32%errors when as much as98%of the data is missing.
文摘The "torque rich" is known as a phenomenon that makes reduction of ship speed, overload for main engine and higher fuel consumption of ship, even can cause some major problems for a ship propulsion system. In Vietnam, according to investigated results, almost ships of country merchant fleet are facing with ship speed decrease, fuel consumption increase due to the torque rich, consequently the average ship operation cost is increasing from 15% to 25%, even higher in some cases and the environment is badly impacted. To comply with the international requirements and national legislation regarding to "using efficiently energy and environment protection", Vietnamese shipping companies must combat with the torque rich problem as crucial reason making downgrade in ship operation. The article shows a potential method to reduce the torque rich phenomena by modifying propeller which has been successfully applied for a real ship in Vietnam.
文摘This paper investigated the growth and policy implications of Global System for Mobile Communication in Nigeria. Stochastic economic modeling was used to analyze Nigeria's time series data. The models were adjudged reliable before they were used. The components of the model were defined and a prior expectation of the relationship among the variables explained for the purpose of giving the reviewers and users a deep insight into the phenomenon under study. The secondary data used for the study were processed using the E-View for windows electronic packages. The outcome of the empirical and stochastic investigations shows that Global System for Mobile Communication has a positive relationship with output growth in Nigeria. The impact is of a higher magnitude. The usage of Global System for Mobile Telecommunication led to 17 percent rise in the output growth. The findings suggest the need for the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and the federal government of Nigeria to expand tele-density and directly make telephone communications cheap and accessible. To achieve this goal, more licenses should be given to GSM operators in order to allow for healthy competition among them. This will lead to improved quality of services, quality of product and consequently sustain the growth and development of the country.
文摘The quality of methods for determining energy transits on the tie lines (lines that connect two neighboring power system) can have significant impact on business activity of the TSOs (transmission system operators). Existing law regulation is not enough precise regarding definition of methods for metering energy transits (energy interchanged between neighboring TSOs). This paper analyses disadvantages of method for line losses metering with electric meters and suggests introduction of the measured value corrections.
基金Project(50275150) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(20040533035) supported by the National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China
文摘Data stream management system (DSMS) provides convenient solutions to the problem of processing continuous queries on data streams.Previous approaches for scheduling these queries and their operators assume that each operator runs in separate thread or all operators combine in one query plan and run in a single thread.Both approaches suffer from severe drawbacks concerning the thread overhead and the stalls due to expensive operators.To overcome these drawbacks,a novel approach called clustered operators scheduling (COS) is proposed that adaptively clusters operators of the query plan into a number of groups based on their selectivity and computing cost using S-mean clustering.Experimental evaluation is provided to demonstrate the potential benefits of COS scheduling over the other scheduling strategies.COS can provide adaptive,flexible,reliable,scalable and robust design for continuous query processor.
基金Supported by the NSF of Henan Province(092300410150)Supported by the NSF of Department Education of Henan Province(2009C110002)Supported by the Key Teacher Foundation of Huanghuai University
文摘In this paper,we consider a new algorithm for a generalized system for relaxed coercive nonlinear inequalities involving three different operators in Hilbert spaces by the convergence of projection methods.Our results include the previous results as special cases extend and improve the main results obtained by many others.
文摘High OPEX (operation expenditure), pollution and complicated environment are challenges which telecom operators have to conquer to improve energy efficiency. Integration and flexibility are tendencies for telecom energy solution development, also the keys to improve energy efficiency. With plentiful design and implementation experience, the author provides a three-dimensional energy matrix model to design a perfect energy system, and some practical measures of integration and flexibility are also shared from mechanical to electrical, from single site to whole network.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61203302)the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin(Grant No.11JCYBJC07000)
文摘A novel prediction network composed of some chaotic operators is proposed to predict the wind speed series.Training samples are constructed by the theory of phase space reconstruction.Genetic algorithm is adopted to optimize the control parameters of chaotic operators to change the dynamic characteristic of the network to approach to the predicted system.In this way,the dynamic prediction of wind speed series can be completed.The wind acceleration series can also be predicted by the same network.And the prediction results of both series can be fused by Kalman Filter to get the optimal estimation prediction result of the wind speed series,which is superior to the result obtained by each single method.Simulation results show that the prediction network has less computation cost than BP neural network,and it has better prediction performance than BP neural network and autoregressive integrated moving average model.Kalman Filter can improve the prediction performance further.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10901112, 11001255)Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 1102013)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 20090460548)
文摘In this paper, we study the following degenerate critical elliptic equation with anisotropic coefficients-div(|x N | 2α▽u) = K(x)|x N | α·2 * (s)-s |u| 2 * (s)-2 u in R N ,where x = (x 1 , . . . , x N ) ∈ R N , N≥3, α > 1/2, 0≤ s ≤2 and 2 * (s) = 2(N-s)/(N-2). Some basic properties of the degenerate elliptic operator -div(|x N |2α▽u) are investigated and some regularity, symmetry and uniqueness results for entire solutions of this equation are obtained. We also get some variational identities for solutions of this equation. As consequences, we obtain some nonexistence results for this equation.