Mapping population distribution is an important field of geographical and related research because of the frequent need to combine spatial data representing socio-demographic information across various incompatible sp...
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Mapping population distribution is an important field of geographical and related research because of the frequent need to combine spatial data representing socio-demographic information across various incompatible spatial units. However, the research may become very complex and difficult when a population in multiple places is estimated by various factors. Previous efforts in the field have contributed to the selection of appropriate independent variables and the creation of different population models. However, the level of accuracy obtainable with these studies is limited by the spatial heterogeneity of population distribution within the individual census districts, particularly in large rural areas. A high-accuracy modelling method for population estimation based on integration of Genetic programming (GP) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is presented in this paper. GIS was applied to identify and quantify a set of natural and socioeconomic factors which contributed to population distribution, and then GP and GA were used to build and optimise the population model to automatically transform census population data to regular grids. The study indicated that the proposed method performed much better than the stepwise regression analysis and adapted gravity model methods in estimating the population of both urban and rural areas. More importantly, this proposed method could provide a single, unified approach to mapping population distribution in various areas because the paradigms of these algorithms are general.
With the developing of the high-speed railways, the requirement for railway signalling turns more and more strict. Came from France, the TVM430 signal has more information up to 27 bits digital word, with each bit cor...
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(纸本)9781424435746
With the developing of the high-speed railways, the requirement for railway signalling turns more and more strict. Came from France, the TVM430 signal has more information up to 27 bits digital word, with each bit corresponding to one of the 27 frequencies modulated onto the carrier frequency in the track circuits. The presence of a particular frequency indicates a "1" bit and lack of corresponds to a "0". But the slow demodulation is the biggest flaw for TVM430. To solve the above problems, we design a new digital coded track signal - Improved TVM430 Railway Signalling (ITRS). ITRS reduces the number of TVM430's modulation frequency while provides the same information capacity as TVM430. We also search for cycle generating polynomial, add parity checking to the important code - speed identification code. New frequency, amplitude and phase are defined for frequency modulated signals. ITRS performs better in information capacity, reliability and demodulation speed.
The water quality of lignite-derived water produced from Hot Press Upgrading (HPU) is in breach of the reuse standard for power plant's circulating cooling water. This study assesses the water characteristics of l...
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(纸本)9781424447138
The water quality of lignite-derived water produced from Hot Press Upgrading (HPU) is in breach of the reuse standard for power plant's circulating cooling water. This study assesses the water characteristics of lignite-derived water as follows: The BOD5/COD ratio is 0.85. The pH value of lignite-derived water samples is from 6.65 to 6.85. The lignite-derived water's properties parameters such as turbidity, BOD5, CODCr, Mn and NH3-N are higher than the reuse standard for power plant's circulating cooling water. A combined treatment process, A(2)/O-UBAF, was developed for remediation of the lignite-derived water in this paper. After the treatment, the lignite-derived water's quality can meet the reuse standard for power plant's circulating cooling water in china.
With the increasing number of commerce facilities using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, challenges exist in recommending interesting or useful products and services to a particular customer. Collaborative Filtering (CF) ...
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With the increasing number of commerce facilities using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, challenges exist in recommending interesting or useful products and services to a particular customer. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most successful techniques that attempts to recommend items (such as music, movies, web sites) which are likely to be of interest to the people. However, conventional collaborative filtering encounters a number of challenges on its recommendation accuracy. One of the most important challenges may be due to the sparse attributes inherent to the rating data. Another important challenge is that existing CF methods consider mainly user-based or item-based ratings respectively. In this paper a P2P-based hybrid collaborative filtering mechanism for the support of combining user-based and item attribute-based ratings is considered. We take advantage of the inherent item attributes to construct a Boolean matrix to predict the blank elements for a sparse user-item matrix. Furthermore, a Hybrid collaborative filtering (HCF) algorithm is presented to improve the predictive accuracy. Case studies and experiment results illustrate that our approaches not only contribute to predicting the unrated blank data for a sparse matrix but also improve the prediction accuracy as expected. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
P>In our microsatellite analysis of three male and three female gametophytes of Undaria pinnatifida (Harv.) Suringar, a microsatellite marker (part of the locus Up-AC-2A8, GenBank accession no. AY738602.1) was only...
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P>In our microsatellite analysis of three male and three female gametophytes of Undaria pinnatifida (Harv.) Suringar, a microsatellite marker (part of the locus Up-AC-2A8, GenBank accession no. AY738602.1) was only polymerase chain reaction-amplified in three female gametophytes. This putative female-specific marker was further tested by the use of 32 male and 21 female gametophytes maintained in the Marine Biological Culture Collection Centre, china. In addition, three sporophytes were included for confirmation. Results showed that the marker was present in all of the female gametophytes and sporophyte cultures, but absent in all of the male gametophytes. To our knowledge, this is the first sex-related marker ever reported in U. pinnatifida. The discovery of this marker will accelerate gender identification and shed light on our understanding of the mechanisms of sex determination at a molecular level in this commercially important seaweed.
In this paper, a novel method called tangent space discriminant analysis is proposed for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. Differing from the recently proposed manifold learning methods completely opera...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424479948
In this paper, a novel method called tangent space discriminant analysis is proposed for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction. Differing from the recently proposed manifold learning methods completely operating on raw feature space, TSDA completely uses the local tangent space to represent the local within-class geometry and local between-class geometry. Assume that the face images of different people reside on different intrinsically low-dimensional sub-manifolds, TSDA is developed to preserve the locality of each sub-manifold and simultaneously maximize the local separability of different sub-manifolds by using local tangent space alignment. Experimental results show that TSDA achieves higher recognition rates than a few the state-of-the-art techniques.
The potential toxicity of chemicals may present adverse effects to the environment and human health. The quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) provides a useful method for hazard assessment. In this stud...
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The potential toxicity of chemicals may present adverse effects to the environment and human health. The quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) provides a useful method for hazard assessment. In this study, we constructed a QSAR model based on a highly heterogeneous data set of 571 compounds from the US Environmental Protection Agency, for predicting acute toxicity to the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas). An approach coupling support vector regression (SVR) with the genetic algorithm (GA) was developed to build the model. The generated QSAR model showed excellent data fitting and prediction abilities: the squared correlation coefficients (r2) for the training set and the test set were 0.826 and 0.802, respectively. Only eight critical descriptors, most of which are closely related to the toxicity mechanism, were chosen by GA-SVR, making the derived model readily interpretable. In summary, the successful case reported here highlights that our GA-SVR approach can be used as a general machine learning method for toxicity prediction.
A real-time algorithm for constructing contour maps from grid DEM data is *** runs completely within the programmable 3D visualization *** interpolation is paralleled by rasterizer units in the graphics card,and conto...
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A real-time algorithm for constructing contour maps from grid DEM data is *** runs completely within the programmable 3D visualization *** interpolation is paralleled by rasterizer units in the graphics card,and contour line extraction is paralleled by pixel *** each frame of the rendering,we first make an elevation gradient map out of original terrain vertex data,then figure out the final contour lines with image-space processing,and directly blend the results on the original scene to obtain a final scene with contour map using *** implement this method in our global 3D-digitalearth system with Direct3D?9.0c API and tested on some consumer level PC *** arbitrary scene with certain LOD level,the process takes less than 10 ms,giving topologically correct,anti-aliased contour lines.
作者:
Liu, XiaojieWang, HuiSu, ChanghuaZhang, PengweiBai, JinboNW Univ Xian
Key Lab Synthet & Nat Funct Mol Chem Minist Educ Coll Chem & Mat Sci Xian 710069 Peoples R China NW Univ Xian
Natl Key Lab Photoelect Technol & Funct Mat Natl Photoelect Technol & Funct Mat & Applicat Sc Inst Photon & Photon TechnolCulture Base Xian 710069 Peoples R China Ecole Cent Paris
Lab MSS MAT CNRS UMR 8579 F-92295 Chatenay Malabry France
In this paper, the microspherical Fe2O3 was successfully obtained by calcining the FeCO3 sphere prepared by a hydrothermal route. The sphere morphology perfectly remained after the calcination of FeCO3 but the diamete...
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In this paper, the microspherical Fe2O3 was successfully obtained by calcining the FeCO3 sphere prepared by a hydrothermal route. The sphere morphology perfectly remained after the calcination of FeCO3 but the diameter of sphere decreased in a certain degree from 70-100 mu m to 50-70 mu m, which might be due to some loss of quantity during the calcination (FeCO3-Fe2O3). The sphere was solid and highly densified. At the same time, the effects of factors influencing the formation of FeCO3, such as PVP, reaction temperature were investigated. The simple formation process of FeCO3 was also proposed as follows: Fe2+ produced by the reduction of Fe3+ reacted with CO32- released from the decomposition of urea to form FeCO3 nanoparticle. Then, the formed nanoparticles aggregated together to produce sphere structure via oriented attachment. With the reaction time increasing, the sphere became solidness and densification. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The fast accumulation of mutant mouse strains in recent years has provided an invaluable resource for phenotype-based genetic screens. However, study of lymphoid phenotypes can be obscured or impractical if homozygous...
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The fast accumulation of mutant mouse strains in recent years has provided an invaluable resource for phenotype-based genetic screens. However, study of lymphoid phenotypes can be obscured or impractical if homozygous mutations cause early embryonic defects. To aid phenotype screening of germ line mutations in the lymphoid system, we developed a method to induce loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in developing lymphocytes through chromosome deletion. Chromosome deletion was triggered by Cre/loxP-mediated inverse sister chromatid recombination in the G(2)/M phase of the cell cycle, leading to the generation of daughter cells missing part of or the entire recombinant chromosome. We show that the resulting cells were viable and capable of additional rounds of cell division, thus providing raw materials for subsequent phenotypic assessment. We used the recombination system to induce LOH at the E2A locus in developing B cells. A significant loss of pro-B and pre-B cells was observed when the wild-type allele was removed by chromosome deletion from the E2A heterozygous mice, a result consistent with the required role for E2A in B cell development. We also demonstrated the effectiveness of Cre-mediated chromosome deletion in the LOH assay for HEB function in T cell development. Thus, the Cre-mediated chromosome deletion provides a new and effective method for genome-wide assessment of germ line mutations in the lymphoid system.
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