An adaptive topology learning approach is proposed to learn the topology of a practical camera network in an unsupervised way. The nodes are modeled by the Gaussian mixture model. The connectivity between nodes is jud...An adaptive topology learning approach is proposed to learn the topology of a practical camera network in an unsupervised way. The nodes are modeled by the Gaussian mixture model. The connectivity between nodes is judged by their cross-correlation function, which is also used to calculate their transition time distribution. The mutual information of the connected node pair is employed for transition probability calculation. A false link eliminating approach is proposed, along with a topology updating strategy to improve the learned topology. A real monitoring system with five disjoint cameras is built for experiments. Comparative results with traditional methods show that the proposed method is more accurate in topology learning and is more robust to environmental changes.展开更多
AIM:To study the blood-brain barrier integrity,brain edema, animal behavior and ammonia plasma levels in prehepatic portal hypertensive rats with and without acute liver intoxication. METHODS:Adults male Wistar rats w...AIM:To study the blood-brain barrier integrity,brain edema, animal behavior and ammonia plasma levels in prehepatic portal hypertensive rats with and without acute liver intoxication. METHODS:Adults male Wistar rats were divided into four groups.Group Ⅰ:sham operation;Ⅱ:Prehepatic portal hypertension,produced by partial portal vein ligation;Ⅲ: Acetaminophen intoxication and Ⅳ:Prehepatic portal hypertension plus acetaminophen.Acetaminophen was administered to produce acute hepatic injury.Portal pressure,liver serum enzymes and ammonia plasma levels were determined.Brain cortex water content was registered and trypan blue was utilized to study blood brain barrier integrity.Reflexes and behavioral tests were recorded. RESULTS:Portal hypertension was significantly elevated in groups Ⅱ and Ⅳ.Uver enzymes and ammonia plasma levels were increased in groups Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ.Prehepatic portal hypertension (group Ⅱ),acetaminophen intoxication (group Ⅲ) and both (group Ⅳ) had changes in the blood brain-barrier integrity (trypan blue) and hyperammonemia.Cortical edema was present in rats with acute hepatic injury in groups Ⅲ and Ⅳ.Behavioral test (rota rod) was altered in group Ⅳ. CONCLUSION:These results suggest the possibility of another pathway for cortical edema production because blood brain barrier was altered (vasogenic) and hyperammonemia was registered (oltotoxic).Group Ⅳ,with behavioral altered test,can be considered as a model for study at an early stage of portal-systemic encephalopathy.展开更多
An effective strategy and framework that adequately integrate the automated and manual processes for fast cartographic sounding selection is presented. The important submarine topographic features are extracted for im...An effective strategy and framework that adequately integrate the automated and manual processes for fast cartographic sounding selection is presented. The important submarine topographic features are extracted for important soundings selection, and an improved "influence circle" algorithm is introduced for sounding selection. For automatic configuration of soundings distribution pattern, a special algorithm considering multi factors is employed. A semi automatic method for solving the ambiguous conflicts is described. On the basis of the algorithms and strategies a system named HGIS for fast cartographic sounding selection is developed and applied in Chinese Marine Safety Administration Bureau (CMSAB). The application experiments show that the system is effective and reliable. At last some conclusions and the future work are given.展开更多
This paper presents a new topology for a High Voltage (HV) 50 kV, High Frequency (HF) 20 kHz, multi-cored transformer suitable for use in pulsed power application systems. The main requirements are: high voltage ...This paper presents a new topology for a High Voltage (HV) 50 kV, High Frequency (HF) 20 kHz, multi-cored transformer suitable for use in pulsed power application systems. The main requirements are: high voltage capability, small size and weight. The HV, HF transformer is the main critical block of a high frequency power converter system. The transformer must have high electrical efficiency and in the proposed approach has to be optimized by the number of the cores. The transformer concept has been investigated analytically and through software simulations and experiments. This paper introduces the transformer topology and discusses the design procedure. Experimental measurements to predict core losses are also presented. The losses of epoxy coated nanocrystalline are compared to the losses in a new uncoated core.展开更多
A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifet...A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifetime.It takes the path loss exponent and the energy control coefficient into consideration with the aim to accentuate the minimum covering district of each node more accurately and precisely according to various network application scenarios.Besides,a self-healing scheme that enhances the robustness of the network was provided.It makes the topology tolerate more dead nodes than existing algorithms.Simulation was done under OMNeT++ platform and the results show that the LA-TPA strategy is more effective in constructing a well-performance network topology based on various application scenarios and can prolong the network lifetime significantly.展开更多
Recently,Content-Centric Networking(CCN) has been paid more and more attention.The modeling of CCN as an important research point is the foundation of the architecture.The past work of cache network modeling always as...Recently,Content-Centric Networking(CCN) has been paid more and more attention.The modeling of CCN as an important research point is the foundation of the architecture.The past work of cache network modeling always assumes the virtual round trip time(VRTT) is zero for simplicity.However,this assumption isn't practical and results in model error especially in CCN.CCN's router can aggregate the content requests during the VRTT to avoid content delivery repeatedly.Thus,to modeling CCN data transfer,as well as understanding how it should be managed,the VRTT shouldn't be ignored.In this paper,we model the data transfer in CCN,and propose a multi-cache with aggregation approximation(MCAA)algorithm to get the content miss rate and VRTT at each router.Simulation results show the validity of our MCAA algorithm.展开更多
To get simpler operation in modified fuzzy adaptive learning control network (FALCON) in some engineering application, sigmoid nonlinear function is employed as a substitute of traditional Gaussian membership functi...To get simpler operation in modified fuzzy adaptive learning control network (FALCON) in some engineering application, sigmoid nonlinear function is employed as a substitute of traditional Gaussian membership function. For making the modified FALCON learning more efficient and stable, a simulated annealing (SA) learning coefficient is introduced into learning algorithm. At first, the basic concepts and main advantages of FALCON were briefly reviewed. Subsequently, the topological structure and nodes operation were illustrated; the gradient-descent learning algorithm with SA learning coefficient was derived; and the distinctions between the archetype and the modification were analyzed. Eventually, the significance and worthiness of the modified FALCON were validated by its application to probability prediction of anode effect in aluminium electrolysis cells.展开更多
This paper presents a simple approach of a topology already known in the literature, applied in active power transfer from direct current source to any alternating current voltage source, whether the utility power or ...This paper presents a simple approach of a topology already known in the literature, applied in active power transfer from direct current source to any alternating current voltage source, whether the utility power or a voltage inverter that is forming an isolated AC grid. The photovoltaic inverter works as current controlled voltage source inverter that provides a sinusoidal current to the AC grid. The inverter is insulated from the grid by a transformer. The system is discussed and modeled. Simulation results of this application are presented and experimental results validate this topology.展开更多
How to energy-efficiently maintain the topology of wireless sensor networks(WSNs) is still a difficult problem because of their numerous nodes,highly dynamic nature,varied application scenarios and limited resources.A...How to energy-efficiently maintain the topology of wireless sensor networks(WSNs) is still a difficult problem because of their numerous nodes,highly dynamic nature,varied application scenarios and limited resources.An energy-efficient multi-mode clusters maintenance(M2CM) method is proposed based on localized and event-driven mechanism in this work,which is different from the conventional clusters maintenance model with always periodically re-clustered among the whole network style based on time-trigger for hierarchical WSNs.M2 CM can meet such demands of clusters maintenance as adaptive local maintenance for the damaged clusters according to its changes in time and space field.,the triggers of M2 CM include such events as nodes' residual energy being under the threshold,the load imbalance of cluster head,joining in or exiting from any cluster for new node or disable one,etc.Based on neighboring relationship of the damaged clusters,one can start a single cluster(inner-cluster) maintenance or clusters(inter-cluster) maintenance program to meet diverse demands in the topology management of hierarchical WSNs.The experiment results based on NS2 simulation show that the proposed method can significantly save energy used in maintaining a damaged network,effectively narrow down the influenced area of clusters maintenance,and increase transmitted data and prolong lifetime of network compared to the traditional schemes.展开更多
The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a highly modular, easy to expand; the output voltage waveform is good, especially suitable for application in high voltage power system. This article first introduces the ci...The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a highly modular, easy to expand; the output voltage waveform is good, especially suitable for application in high voltage power system. This article first introduces the circuit topology and principle of MMC, and the main technical characteristics of MMC. And according to the relationship between the drop power voltage and the load power factor, proposed three working modes of the minimum energy compensation strategy. It is shown that MMC has good application prospect in future medium or high- voltage high power applications, especially be one of candidates for HVDC system application.展开更多
This paper considers a multi-agent tracking problem for a high-dimensional active leaderand variable interconnection topology. The state of the leader not only keeps changing but also maynot be measured. To estimate t...This paper considers a multi-agent tracking problem for a high-dimensional active leaderand variable interconnection topology. The state of the leader not only keeps changing but also maynot be measured. To estimate the state such a leader individually, a neighbor-based local controllertogether with a neighbor-based state-estimation rule is given for each autonomous agent. Then, theauthors prove that, with the help of a constructed common Lyapunov function (CLF), each agent cantrack the active leader with unmeasurable states. Finally, the authors explicitly construct a CLF foran active leader with unknown periodic input for illustration.展开更多
In this paper, the author uses Gauss map to study the topology, volume and diameter of submanifolds in a sphere. It is proved that if there exist ε, 1≥ε > 0 and a fixed unit simple p-vector a such that the Gauss...In this paper, the author uses Gauss map to study the topology, volume and diameter of submanifolds in a sphere. It is proved that if there exist ε, 1≥ε > 0 and a fixed unit simple p-vector a such that the Gauss map g of an n-dimensional complete and connected submanifold M in Sn+p satisfies (g, a) ≥ε, then M is diffeomorphic to Sn, and the volume and diameter of M satisfy εnvol(Sn) ≤vol(M) ≤ vol(Sn)/ε and επ ≤diam(M) ≤ π/ε, respectively. The author also characterizes the case where these inequalities become equalities. As an application, a differential sphere theorem for compact submanifolds in a sphere is obtained.展开更多
The notion of a band gap is ubiquitous in the characterization of matter.Particularly interesting are pseudo-gaps,which are enigmatic regions of very low density of states that have been linked to novel phenomena like...The notion of a band gap is ubiquitous in the characterization of matter.Particularly interesting are pseudo-gaps,which are enigmatic regions of very low density of states that have been linked to novel phenomena like high temperature superconductivity.In this work,we discover a novel origin for pseudo-gaps when boundaries are introduced in a non-Hermitian lattice.It generically occurs due to the interference between two or more asymmetric pumping channels,and possess no analog in Hermitian systems.Mathematically,it can be visualized as being created by divergences of spectral flow in the complex energy plane,analogous to how sharp edges creates divergent electric fields near an electrical conductor.A non-Hermitian pseudo-gap can host symmetry-protected mid-gap modes like ordinary topological gaps,but the mid-gap modes are extended instead of edge-localized,and exhibit extreme sensitivity to symmetry-breaking perturbations.Surprisingly,pseudo-gaps can also host an integer number of edge modes even though the pseudo-bands possess fractional topological windings,or even no well-defined Chern number at all,in the marginal case of a phase transition point.Challenging conventional notions of topological bulk-boundary correspondences and even the very concept of a band,pseudo-gaps post profound implications that extend to many-body settings,such as fractional Chern insulators.展开更多
We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies on a series of FeTe_(1-x)Se_x monolayer films grown on Sr TiO_3.The superconductivity of the films is robust and rather insensitive to the variations of t...We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies on a series of FeTe_(1-x)Se_x monolayer films grown on Sr TiO_3.The superconductivity of the films is robust and rather insensitive to the variations of the band position and effective mass caused by the substitution of Se by Te.However,the band gap between the electron-and hole-like bands at the Brillouin zone center decreases towards band inversion and parity exchange,which drive the system to a nontrivial topological state predicted by theoretical calculations.Our results provide a clear experimental indication that the FeTe_(1-x)Se_x monolayer materials are high-temperature connate topological superconductors in which band topology and superconductivity are integrated intrinsically.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60972001)the Science and Technology Plan of Suzhou City(No.SS201223)
文摘An adaptive topology learning approach is proposed to learn the topology of a practical camera network in an unsupervised way. The nodes are modeled by the Gaussian mixture model. The connectivity between nodes is judged by their cross-correlation function, which is also used to calculate their transition time distribution. The mutual information of the connected node pair is employed for transition probability calculation. A false link eliminating approach is proposed, along with a topology updating strategy to improve the learned topology. A real monitoring system with five disjoint cameras is built for experiments. Comparative results with traditional methods show that the proposed method is more accurate in topology learning and is more robust to environmental changes.
基金Supported by Grant #TB 56 from the University of Buenos Aires,Argentina
文摘AIM:To study the blood-brain barrier integrity,brain edema, animal behavior and ammonia plasma levels in prehepatic portal hypertensive rats with and without acute liver intoxication. METHODS:Adults male Wistar rats were divided into four groups.Group Ⅰ:sham operation;Ⅱ:Prehepatic portal hypertension,produced by partial portal vein ligation;Ⅲ: Acetaminophen intoxication and Ⅳ:Prehepatic portal hypertension plus acetaminophen.Acetaminophen was administered to produce acute hepatic injury.Portal pressure,liver serum enzymes and ammonia plasma levels were determined.Brain cortex water content was registered and trypan blue was utilized to study blood brain barrier integrity.Reflexes and behavioral tests were recorded. RESULTS:Portal hypertension was significantly elevated in groups Ⅱ and Ⅳ.Uver enzymes and ammonia plasma levels were increased in groups Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ.Prehepatic portal hypertension (group Ⅱ),acetaminophen intoxication (group Ⅲ) and both (group Ⅳ) had changes in the blood brain-barrier integrity (trypan blue) and hyperammonemia.Cortical edema was present in rats with acute hepatic injury in groups Ⅲ and Ⅳ.Behavioral test (rota rod) was altered in group Ⅳ. CONCLUSION:These results suggest the possibility of another pathway for cortical edema production because blood brain barrier was altered (vasogenic) and hyperammonemia was registered (oltotoxic).Group Ⅳ,with behavioral altered test,can be considered as a model for study at an early stage of portal-systemic encephalopathy.
文摘An effective strategy and framework that adequately integrate the automated and manual processes for fast cartographic sounding selection is presented. The important submarine topographic features are extracted for important soundings selection, and an improved "influence circle" algorithm is introduced for sounding selection. For automatic configuration of soundings distribution pattern, a special algorithm considering multi factors is employed. A semi automatic method for solving the ambiguous conflicts is described. On the basis of the algorithms and strategies a system named HGIS for fast cartographic sounding selection is developed and applied in Chinese Marine Safety Administration Bureau (CMSAB). The application experiments show that the system is effective and reliable. At last some conclusions and the future work are given.
文摘This paper presents a new topology for a High Voltage (HV) 50 kV, High Frequency (HF) 20 kHz, multi-cored transformer suitable for use in pulsed power application systems. The main requirements are: high voltage capability, small size and weight. The HV, HF transformer is the main critical block of a high frequency power converter system. The transformer must have high electrical efficiency and in the proposed approach has to be optimized by the number of the cores. The transformer concept has been investigated analytically and through software simulations and experiments. This paper introduces the transformer topology and discusses the design procedure. Experimental measurements to predict core losses are also presented. The losses of epoxy coated nanocrystalline are compared to the losses in a new uncoated core.
基金Projects(61101104,61100213) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(NY211050) supported by Fund of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,China
文摘A distributed local adaptive transmit power assignment (LA-TPA) strategy was proposed to construct a topology with better performance according to the environment and application scenario and prolong the network lifetime.It takes the path loss exponent and the energy control coefficient into consideration with the aim to accentuate the minimum covering district of each node more accurately and precisely according to various network application scenarios.Besides,a self-healing scheme that enhances the robustness of the network was provided.It makes the topology tolerate more dead nodes than existing algorithms.Simulation was done under OMNeT++ platform and the results show that the LA-TPA strategy is more effective in constructing a well-performance network topology based on various application scenarios and can prolong the network lifetime significantly.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program(973) of China(No. 2012CB315801)the National Natural Science Fund(No.61302089)the fundamental research funds for the Central Universities(No. 2013RC0113)
文摘Recently,Content-Centric Networking(CCN) has been paid more and more attention.The modeling of CCN as an important research point is the foundation of the architecture.The past work of cache network modeling always assumes the virtual round trip time(VRTT) is zero for simplicity.However,this assumption isn't practical and results in model error especially in CCN.CCN's router can aggregate the content requests during the VRTT to avoid content delivery repeatedly.Thus,to modeling CCN data transfer,as well as understanding how it should be managed,the VRTT shouldn't be ignored.In this paper,we model the data transfer in CCN,and propose a multi-cache with aggregation approximation(MCAA)algorithm to get the content miss rate and VRTT at each router.Simulation results show the validity of our MCAA algorithm.
文摘To get simpler operation in modified fuzzy adaptive learning control network (FALCON) in some engineering application, sigmoid nonlinear function is employed as a substitute of traditional Gaussian membership function. For making the modified FALCON learning more efficient and stable, a simulated annealing (SA) learning coefficient is introduced into learning algorithm. At first, the basic concepts and main advantages of FALCON were briefly reviewed. Subsequently, the topological structure and nodes operation were illustrated; the gradient-descent learning algorithm with SA learning coefficient was derived; and the distinctions between the archetype and the modification were analyzed. Eventually, the significance and worthiness of the modified FALCON were validated by its application to probability prediction of anode effect in aluminium electrolysis cells.
文摘This paper presents a simple approach of a topology already known in the literature, applied in active power transfer from direct current source to any alternating current voltage source, whether the utility power or a voltage inverter that is forming an isolated AC grid. The photovoltaic inverter works as current controlled voltage source inverter that provides a sinusoidal current to the AC grid. The inverter is insulated from the grid by a transformer. The system is discussed and modeled. Simulation results of this application are presented and experimental results validate this topology.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61170219)the Joint Research Foundation of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and China Mobile(Grant No.MCM20150202)the Science and Technology Project Affiliated to Chongqing Education Commission(KJ1602201)
文摘How to energy-efficiently maintain the topology of wireless sensor networks(WSNs) is still a difficult problem because of their numerous nodes,highly dynamic nature,varied application scenarios and limited resources.An energy-efficient multi-mode clusters maintenance(M2CM) method is proposed based on localized and event-driven mechanism in this work,which is different from the conventional clusters maintenance model with always periodically re-clustered among the whole network style based on time-trigger for hierarchical WSNs.M2 CM can meet such demands of clusters maintenance as adaptive local maintenance for the damaged clusters according to its changes in time and space field.,the triggers of M2 CM include such events as nodes' residual energy being under the threshold,the load imbalance of cluster head,joining in or exiting from any cluster for new node or disable one,etc.Based on neighboring relationship of the damaged clusters,one can start a single cluster(inner-cluster) maintenance or clusters(inter-cluster) maintenance program to meet diverse demands in the topology management of hierarchical WSNs.The experiment results based on NS2 simulation show that the proposed method can significantly save energy used in maintaining a damaged network,effectively narrow down the influenced area of clusters maintenance,and increase transmitted data and prolong lifetime of network compared to the traditional schemes.
文摘The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a highly modular, easy to expand; the output voltage waveform is good, especially suitable for application in high voltage power system. This article first introduces the circuit topology and principle of MMC, and the main technical characteristics of MMC. And according to the relationship between the drop power voltage and the load power factor, proposed three working modes of the minimum energy compensation strategy. It is shown that MMC has good application prospect in future medium or high- voltage high power applications, especially be one of candidates for HVDC system application.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 60874018, 60628302, and 60821091
文摘This paper considers a multi-agent tracking problem for a high-dimensional active leaderand variable interconnection topology. The state of the leader not only keeps changing but also maynot be measured. To estimate the state such a leader individually, a neighbor-based local controllertogether with a neighbor-based state-estimation rule is given for each autonomous agent. Then, theauthors prove that, with the help of a constructed common Lyapunov function (CLF), each agent cantrack the active leader with unmeasurable states. Finally, the authors explicitly construct a CLF foran active leader with unknown periodic input for illustration.
基金Project supported by the Fund of the Education Department of Zhejiang Province of China (No.20030707).
文摘In this paper, the author uses Gauss map to study the topology, volume and diameter of submanifolds in a sphere. It is proved that if there exist ε, 1≥ε > 0 and a fixed unit simple p-vector a such that the Gauss map g of an n-dimensional complete and connected submanifold M in Sn+p satisfies (g, a) ≥ε, then M is diffeomorphic to Sn, and the volume and diameter of M satisfy εnvol(Sn) ≤vol(M) ≤ vol(Sn)/ε and επ ≤diam(M) ≤ π/ε, respectively. The author also characterizes the case where these inequalities become equalities. As an application, a differential sphere theorem for compact submanifolds in a sphere is obtained.
基金funding support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12104519)the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515110773)
文摘The notion of a band gap is ubiquitous in the characterization of matter.Particularly interesting are pseudo-gaps,which are enigmatic regions of very low density of states that have been linked to novel phenomena like high temperature superconductivity.In this work,we discover a novel origin for pseudo-gaps when boundaries are introduced in a non-Hermitian lattice.It generically occurs due to the interference between two or more asymmetric pumping channels,and possess no analog in Hermitian systems.Mathematically,it can be visualized as being created by divergences of spectral flow in the complex energy plane,analogous to how sharp edges creates divergent electric fields near an electrical conductor.A non-Hermitian pseudo-gap can host symmetry-protected mid-gap modes like ordinary topological gaps,but the mid-gap modes are extended instead of edge-localized,and exhibit extreme sensitivity to symmetry-breaking perturbations.Surprisingly,pseudo-gaps can also host an integer number of edge modes even though the pseudo-bands possess fractional topological windings,or even no well-defined Chern number at all,in the marginal case of a phase transition point.Challenging conventional notions of topological bulk-boundary correspondences and even the very concept of a band,pseudo-gaps post profound implications that extend to many-body settings,such as fractional Chern insulators.
基金supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2015CB921000,2016YFA0401000,2015CB921301,2016YFA0300300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11574371,11274362,1190020,11334012,11274381,11674371)
文摘We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies on a series of FeTe_(1-x)Se_x monolayer films grown on Sr TiO_3.The superconductivity of the films is robust and rather insensitive to the variations of the band position and effective mass caused by the substitution of Se by Te.However,the band gap between the electron-and hole-like bands at the Brillouin zone center decreases towards band inversion and parity exchange,which drive the system to a nontrivial topological state predicted by theoretical calculations.Our results provide a clear experimental indication that the FeTe_(1-x)Se_x monolayer materials are high-temperature connate topological superconductors in which band topology and superconductivity are integrated intrinsically.