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Recently, a number of modern premium cars have been equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), especially an adaptive cruise control (ACC) system, which was found to be one of the most widely and successful ADAS systems to date. However, the road topography on highways affects fuel consumption of vehicles. Rapid acceleration, rapid deceleration, and unreasonable gear use can all result...
This research aims at studying health capital depreciation of senior citizens and their corresponding medical care demand. Qualitative response models are constructed, followed by empirical studies. Data is collected from inpatients of Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital from 2008 to 2012. All test subjects are under comprehensive geriatric assessment to characterize...
Industrial ecosystems as an important practice of sustainable development are rapidly advancing at home and abroad, but the evaluation of industrial ecosystem stability is not perfect. Emergy and exergy analysis as complementary methods are used to evaluate the level of the sustainable development of the system. This paper attempts to combine the characteristics of emergy and exergy analysis, and...
The cement industry is a typical high energy industry. The cement pre-calcining kiln process needs amounts of fuels to combust which can provide heat for the raw material decomposition and the clinker calcination. Utilizations of alternative fuels in the cement kiln process is an efficacious way to reduce the energy consumption of the cement industry, and the study on the effect of alternative fuels...
Material flow analysis (MFA) has been a hot topic on the research of circular economy and sustainable development of the environment - economic systems in recent years. This paper briefly reviews the development process of MFA. A detailed summary of the recent progress of MFA has been given in three forms, which respectively for three research levels (the national level, the regional level and the...
To attract and serve an expanded customer base, telecommunication service providers need to provide more targeted, focused and personalized services, which brings challenges to both business model and technologies to development of value added services. In this paper, we introduce Service Storm, a novel self-service telecommunication Service Delivery Platform with Platform-as-a-Service technologies...
With the popularity of cloud computing, Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) becomes one of the core technical enablers by enterprise to change the services to both customers and internal organizations. An application in an enterprise needs to take into account various specific requirements for hosting in private and hybrid cloud, with unique requirements on rapid development, simplicity for deployment and...
The virtual world has been a new channel in which people can contact with the others and organizations can provide service to their customers. Selling symbolic goods in the virtual world has also emerged as a new economy. People buy symbolic goods to decorating their avatars. This study based on the theories of symbolic consumption, self-presentation, and computer-mediated environment, investigated...
With the increasingly depravation of Earth environment, environmental education is gaining more and more concern all over the world. The potential value of virtual reality technology in environmental education is analyzed. A metaphor-based generic architecture of virtual reality systems as environmental learning tools is proposed. A vivid example of ecosystem simulation is presented, and the students'...
As a branch of data mining, data classification technology has got a widely use in science, engineering, finance and other areas. The key point of the classification techniques is to construct a classifier, in this paper, a non-liner classifier model based on RBF neural network is introduced to do the data classification, compared with traditional BP neural network, it is not only avoids complicated...
According to the logistics node location of the preferred option is to make its goods through the logistics node collection, transfer, distribution, until the point of delivery to the needs of the whole process's best efficiency, using AHP and the 0-1 integer programming combined model methods, to select logistics nodes and combination of suppliers. MDL, for example in order to show that the minimum...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the teaching methods for Basic Design which aims at cultivating creative thinking for the design beginners. Based on Bounded Rationality, for the essence of creative thinking like “selection”, “breakthrough”, and “reconstruction”, this paper proposed some new teaching methods, which included “simple problem”, “limitation”, and “quantity”. Moreover this paper...
The purpose of this paper is to build up the development pattern of industrial design in China. Based on H. Alpay Er's six evaluation dimensions of the development pattern of industrial design in Newly Industrialized Countries, this paper put forward the four-phase development pattern of industrial design in China, which included “proto-design phase”, “introduction phase”, “adjustment phase”, and...
This paper presents a novel segmentation algorithm to segment a body posture into different body parts using the technique of deformable triangulation. To analyze each posture more accurately, they are segmented into triangular meshes, where a spanning tree can be found from the meshes using a depth-first search scheme. Then, we can decompose the tree into different subsegments, where each subsegment...
The authors proposed a novel structure representation strategy __ ??Interaction-Distance?? theory to study the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) of peptide. The ??Interaction-Distance?? theory stated that: I. In a peptide chain, there exists interaction between any two amino acids; II. The value of interaction lies on not only the types the two amino acids, but also the distance...
Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 protein (HER2) are involved in several signal pathways for cancer cell proliferation. We focused on these two hallmarkers to design the dual-targeted inhibitors for cancer therapy. The comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and pharmacophore analysis were employed for generating the predictive models. According the leave-one...
In this investigation, the CoMFA and CoMSIA in the three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) studies were implemented to search for the pharmacophore features in each target receptor. QSAR pharmacophores hypothesis models were made from a series of ligands by their activity values. Besides, we made use of the docking strategy between the structures of each PPARs subtype...
This paper initiated the general hypotheses and propositions about the research on entrepreneurs. The authors reviewed the past three economic perspectives based on the entrepreneurial competency. Three core structures were put forward and four requisite ones as well. Cultivation, selection, competition and motivation were suggested as the strategies finally.
In this paper, a forecasting method, combining grey model (GM) with partial least squares regression (PLS), was applied to forecasting city terminal energy consumption for the first time. PLS is of the advantage of overcoming the correlative affect among independent variables, distinguishing the system signal from noises, and explaining dependent variables well; GM (1, 1) model is able to overcome...
Vertical movement of buoyancy regulating cyanobacteria in wind-driven currents was simulated based on Lagrangian approach and a validated buoyancy regulation model. Turbulence of water was simulated using k-epsiv model. Effects of a range of wind speeds on cyanobacteria colonies of different sizes were discussed. Dispersion of colonies intensified as wind speed increased. Small colonies tended to...
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