Enhancing personalized exercise recommendation with student and exercise portraits

The exercise recommendation system is emerging as a promising application in online learning scenarios,providing personalized recommendations to assist students with explicit learning directions.Existing solutions generally follow a collaborative filtering paradigm,while the implicit connections between students(exercises)have been largely ignored.In this study,we aim to propose an exercise recommendation paradigm that can reveal the latent connections between student-student(exercise-exercise).Specifically,a new framework was proposed,namely personalized exercise recommendation with student and exercise portraits(PERP).It consists of three sequential and interdependent modules:Collaborative student exercise graph(CSEG)construction,joint random walk,and recommendation list optimization.Technically,CSEG is created as a unified heterogeneous graph with students’response behaviors and student(exercise)relationships.Then,a joint random walk to take full advantage of the spectral properties of nearly uncoupled Markov chains is performed on CSEG,which allows for full exploration of both similar exercises that students have finished and connections between students(exercises)with similar portraits.Finally,we propose to optimize the recommendation list to obtain different exercise suggestions.After analyses of two public datasets,the results demonstrated that PERP can satisfy novelty,accuracy,and diversity.

THREE KINDS OF DENTABILITIES IN BANACH SPACES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

In this paper,we study some dentabilities in Banach spaces which are closely related to the famous Radon-Nikodym property.We introduce the concepts of the weak^(*)-weak denting point and the weak^(*)-weak^(*)denting point of a set.These are the generalizations of the weak^(*)denting point of a set in a dual Banach space.By use of the weak^(*)-weak denting point,we characterize the very smooth space,the point of weak^(*)-weak continuity,and the extreme point of a unit ball in a dual Banach space.Meanwhile,we also characterize an approximatively weak compact Chebyshev set in dual Banach spaces.Moreover,we define the nearly weak dentability in Banach spaces,which is a generalization of near dentability.We prove the necessary and sufficient conditions of the reflexivity by nearly weak dentability.We also obtain that nearly weak dentability is equivalent to both the approximatively weak compactness of Banach spaces and the w-strong proximinality of every closed convex subset of Banach spaces.

The Thermal Comfort and Hygrothermal Performance of the First Certified Passive House in Estonia

This study presents the thermal comfort and hygrothermal performance of building envelope of the first certified passive single-family detached house in Estonia.Temperature and humidity conditions were measured from different rooms and building envelopes.This article presents analysis of measurement results during the first year after construction.Results showed high room temperature,achieved mainly due to large windows with southern exposure and the small heat loss of the building envelope.High indoor temperature decreased the indoor RH(relative humidity)to quite low levels.Even the RH was low,the moisture excess was high indicating that the design of PH(passive houses)indoor humidity loads cannot be decreased.Humidity in the externally insulated cross-laminated timber panels was observed to be high,caused by drying out of the constructional moisture and the high diffusion resistance of the wood fibre sheathing board.That caused water vapour condensation and risk for mould growth.In conclusion,while planning buildings with high-energy efficiency,more focused attention should be paid to the performance of the building service systems and moisture safety already in the preliminary stages of design.

Is the Chinese Economy Nearing A Downturn?

Some media reports have contended that China’s rapid economic development has reached a “glass ceiling” and that a downward inflection point will appear as early as next year. Wang Tongsan, Director of the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, addresses China’s general economic outlook in the coming year in an interview with People’s Daily.

Boundary Element Analysis forModeⅢCrack Problems of Thin-Walled Structures from Micro-to Nano-Scales

This paper develops a new numerical framework for modeⅢcrack problems of thin-walled structures by integrating multiple advanced techniques in the boundary element literature.The details of special crack-tip elements for displacement and stress are derived.An exponential transformation technique is introduced to accurately calculate the nearly singular integral,which is the key task of the boundary element simulation of thin-walled structures.Three numerical experiments with different types of cracks are provided to verify the performance of the present numerical framework.Numerical results demonstrate that the present scheme is valid for modeⅢcrack problems of thin-walled structures with the thickness-to-length ratio in the microscale,even nanoscale,regime.

Symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta method based onthe eighth-order nearly analytic discrete operator and its wavefield simulations

We propose a symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta （SPRK） method with eighth-order spatial accuracy based on the extended Hamiltonian system of the acoustic waveequation. Known as the eighth-order NSPRK method, this technique uses an eighth-orderaccurate nearly analytic discrete （NAD） operator to discretize high-order spatial differentialoperators and employs a second-order SPRK method to discretize temporal derivatives.The stability criteria and numerical dispersion relations of the eighth-order NSPRK methodare given by a semi-analytical method and are tested by numerical experiments. We alsoshow the differences of the numerical dispersions between the eighth-order NSPRK methodand conventional numerical methods such as the fourth-order NSPRK method, the eighth-order Lax-Wendroff correction （LWC） method and the eighth-order staggered-grid （SG）method. The result shows that the ability of the eighth-order NSPRK method to suppress thenumerical dispersion is obviously superior to that of the conventional numerical methods. Inthe same computational environment, to eliminate visible numerical dispersions, the eighth-order NSPRK is approximately 2.5 times faster than the fourth-order NSPRK and 3.4 timesfaster than the fourth-order SPRK, and the memory requirement is only approximately47.17% of the fourth-order NSPRK method and 49.41% of the fourth-order SPRK method,which indicates the highest computational efficiency. Modeling examples for the two-layermodels such as the heterogeneous and Marmousi models show that the wavefields generatedby the eighth-order NSPRK method are very clear with no visible numerical dispersion.These numerical experiments illustrate that the eighth-order NSPRK method can effectivelysuppress numerical dispersion when coarse grids are adopted. Therefore, this methodcan greatly decrease computer memory requirement and accelerate the forward modelingproductivity. In general, the eighth-order NSPRK method has tremendous potential value forseismic exploration and seismology research.

广义内射模

引入了广义内射模的概念,证明了模M=ni=1Mi是广义内射模当且仅当Mi,i=1,2,…,n是广义内射模.

具有处处非零Killing向量场的nearly Khler流形

研究了在nearly Khler流形上某种处处非零Killing向量场的存在性与流形的拓扑和几何之间的联系.并且得到了下面的主要结论及其推论:设(M2n,g,J)是一个2n维的近复流形.如果在M上存在一个处处非零的Killing向量场ξ,使得ξ*∧Jξ*是闭2次形式,则M局部微分同胚于M1×M2,其中M1和M2分别是分布V∶=span{ξ,Jξ}和分布H:=span{ξ,Jξ}⊥的极大积分子流形.

nearly和almost的语料研究

语言的研究越来越强调语料的真实性和客观性.计算机空前迅速地发展,使得包含广泛自然语料的语料库的建立成为可能,这种语料库同时也为语言研究提供了可靠依据.本文对nearly和almost的研究,就是根据英国兰卡斯特大学的Spoken English语料库的语料进行的.这一研究,对nearly和almost在自然语言中的应用提供了一个真实客观的依据.

Nearly Sasak流形的半不变子流形的测地性

给出了NearlySasak流形的半不变子流形测地的几个充要条件.

Nearly Sasak流形上分布D{ξ}的可积性

给出了Nearly Sasak流形上分布D{ξ}可积的几个充要条件,推广了Bejancu的结论.

almost与nearly有何区别?

【问】[518]在学习中经常会遇到almost与nearly这两个非常活跃的副词，它们都能表示“几乎，差不多”，请问它们之间有何异同点？

基于两步滚动的单机调度算法研究

提出了一种两步滚动的调度算法。一般情况下,与在线算法DELAY-SPT比较,滚动调度算法是比较优的。同时,也把两步滚动方法与一步滚动方法进行了比较,得出在一般情况下,两步滚动策略是较优的。

SUPER EFFICIENCY IN THE NEARLY CONE-SUBCONVEXLIKE VECTOR OPTIMIZATION WITH SET-VALUED FUNCTIONS

Some properties for convex cones are discussed, which are used to obtain an equivalent condition and another important property for nearly cone-subconvexlike set-valued functions. Under the nearly cone-subconvexlikeness, some characterizations of the super efficiency are given in terms of scalarization and Lagrangian multipliers. Related results are generalized.

BENSON PROPER EFFICIENCY IN THE NEARLY CONE-SUBCONVEXLIKE VECTOR OPTIMIZATION WITH SET-VALUED FUNCTIONS

Some properties of convex cones are obtained and are used to derive several equivalent conditions as well as another important property for nearly cone-subconvexlike set-valued functions. Under the assumption of nearly cone-subconvexlikeness,a Lagrangian multiplier theorem on Benson proper efficiency is presented. Related results are generalized.

Highly accurate symplectic element based on two variational principles

For the stability requirement of numerical resultants, the mathematical theory of classical mixed methods are relatively complex. However, generalized mixed methods are automatically stable, and their building process is simple and straightforward. In this paper, based on the seminal idea of the generalized mixed methods, a simple, stable, and highly accurate 8-node noncompatible symplectic element(NCSE8) was developed by the combination of the modified Hellinger-Reissner mixed variational principle and the minimum energy principle. To ensure the accuracy of in-plane stress results, a simultaneous equation approach was also suggested. Numerical experimentation shows that the accuracy of stress results of NCSE8 are nearly the same as that of displacement methods, and they are in good agreement with the exact solutions when the mesh is relatively fine. NCSE8 has advantages of the clearing concept, easy calculation by a finite element computer program, higher accuracy and wide applicability for various linear elasticity compressible and nearly incompressible material problems. It is possible that NCSE8 becomes even more advantageous for the fracture problems due to its better accuracy of stresses.

Estimation for nearly unit root processes with GARCH errors

In this paper the limiting distribution of the least square estimate for the autoregressive coefficient of a nearly unit root model with GARCH errors is derived. Since the limiting distribution depends on the unknown variance of the errors, an empirical likelihood ratio statistic is proposed from which confidence intervals can be constructed for the nearly unit root model without knowing the variance. To gain an intuitive sense for the empirical likelihood ratio, a small simulation for the asymptotic distribution is given.

NEW METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING D-η-PROPERLY PREQUASI-INVEX FUNCTIONS

The D-η-proper prequasi invexity of vector-valued functions is characterized by means of （weak） nearly convexity and density of sets. Under weaker assumptions, some equivalent conditions for D-η-proper prequasi-invexity are derived.

Temporal variations in free core nutation period

Based on the nearly diurnal resonance in the tidal gravity observations, the temporal variations in period of the Earth＇s free core nutation （FCN） are investigated by using the tidal gravity observations of 18-year duration recorded continu- ously with a superconducting gravimeter （SG） at Brussels. The effects of the global oceanic tide loading and local barometric pressure on the SG observations have been removed by using eleven high-precision global digital models of oceanic tides and barometric pressure measurements recorded simultaneously at the same site. The results indicate that there exist decade-scale variations in the FCN period. The results should be further confirmed by the measurements using other space-based geodetic techniques （such as the very long baseline interferometry） and the SG observations from globally distributed stations.