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Automatic grading of oil palm fresh fruit bunch is desired. In this study, a capacitive sensing system was designed and developed for the purpose of grading oil palm fresh fruit bunch. In this method, oil palm fresh fruit bunch placed between capacitive plates as a dielectric material and then measure the resulting capacitance voltage. Experiments were carried out using oil palm bunches of Tenera...
Financial report readability is an important factor influencing the decision usefulness of accounting report, which has become a common concern problem of both accounting theory and practice. For study on financial report readability, it is gradually mature in foreign countries, but in China, due to the limited measurement method of readability and other factors, the study on financial report readability...
A novel scheme for single-rate compression of material and texture attributes for triangular meshes is proposed in this work. For the material coding, it proposes a novel approach based on breadth-first surface traversal, exploiting the local coherence of the material attributes among neighboring facets; for the texture coordinate coding, it proposes a similar-triangle-based prediction method, exploiting...
In this paper, based on double auction and cell membrane optimization, a novel cloud resource management scheme is proposed with the economic methods adopted and the characteristics of resources and market in cloud environment considered. In the proposed scheme, the resources are priced by double auction, and the best solution for cloud resource allocation is got by cell membrane optimization algorithm...
Base on the Landsat TM/ETM+ data on August of 2001 and 2010, the surface urban heat island (SUHI) intensity on prevailing wind direction belt using three sampling belts with 1 km width within the third circle freeway of Shenyang were calculated, and its relationships with land use types, source-sink distribution, normal differential vegetation index (NDVI), normal differential built-up index (NDBI),...
This paper emphasis that to evaluate the complex risk about super-huge type project, we should not only think about the probability and valuable influence of risk, but also put in factors of the main body's value preference and dynamic game playing. Thus method makes the evaluation has more rational behavioral base. Firstly, this paper analyses the characteristic of the risk evaluation and game-playing...
Analysis of critical conditions on the spacecrafts Columbia (USA), and the Buran (Russia) related to defects in insulation and heat-protection coatings have been performed. It is shown that the existing methods of non-destructive testing, including ultrasound, failed to prevent the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia and serious incidents involving spacecraft Buran during its only flight. A new...
LUSI (Lumpur Sidoarjo) mud volcano has been erupting solid and liquid materials for more than 7 years since its birth. The sudden nature of this phenomenon and land subsidence observed around the big hole requires immediate and precise management. Embankment built around it needs proper monitoring to observe the subsurface condition in order to avoid sudden failures. GPR monitoring, being non-destructive...
Journal rankings and journal ratings are important to government, research institutes and scientific research, which use as the criteria for evaluating researcher's performance to determine whether he or she can get a promotion or research funds. The only widely adopted journal assessment method is impact factor, focusing on the citations between academic journals. However, impact factor disregards...
Electricity generation is a key source to global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and their related environmental impact. Sustainable development requires methods and tools to measure the environmental impacts of human activities for various products viz. goods, services, etc. Life-cycle analysis is an invaluable tool for evaluating the environmental profile of a product or technology from cradle...
Nonlinear refractive dynamics of CS2 are measured with the beam deflection technique. A response function model is fit, from which the pulse width dependent n2,eff is calculated and compared to Z-scan measurements.
The Bioeconomy strategy fosters the integration of the agricultural, chemical, pulp and paper industries and the energy sector for obtaining sustainable bio-based materials and bioenergy. Basically all industrial sectors relying on biomass are facing economic burdens by resource competition. The cascade and coupled use stand as potential solutions for cross-sectoral cooperations to mutually enhance...
The nonnegative least squares problems are useful in applications where the physical nature of problem domain permits only additive linear combinations. We discuss the l1-regularized nonnegative least squares (L1-NLS) problem, where l1-regularization is used to induce sparsity. Although l1-regularization has been successfully used in least squares regression, when combined with nonnegativity constraints,...
Remote exploration of medical volume models is nowadays a challenging problem. Interactive visualization algorithms must be able to send and render in real-time the volume model at the maximum possible visual quality, while adapting to network bandwidth limitations and to hardware constraints in the client device. In this paper we present a transfer function-aware scheme for the remote interactive...
In this paper a new approach of ultra sensitive sensor based on coplanar waveguide is proposed. This sensor consists of two Wilkinson power dividers, makes use of the path difference of the two branches resulting in the opposite in phase, thus the weak signal changes emerge from the dramatically reduced background and the sensitivity is greatly improved.
In this paper, approaches to develop subspace-based classifiers for material based signal classification are presented. Material based signal classification is essential in many applications for the identification of the cause of the acoustic signal. Four approaches are presented in this paper for classification. They are namely, classification via eigen-filter characteristics, eigenvector projection...
Materials science domain-specific search engine are becoming increasingly important because they offer increased accuracy and extra characteristics not applied by general, web-wide search engine. The current tools provide little support for materials end users. This paper proposes a new evaluation model to greatly improve the efficiency and maintenance of materials science domain-specific search engine...
Selective thermal emitters with a metallic 2D photonic crystal structure, such as shown in Fig. 1a), have been demonstrated to control the thermal emission spectrum of selective emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications [1]. Traditionally, tungsten has been the metal of choice for thermal emitters due to their natural thermal emission selectivity to wavelengths > 2µm and high melting temperatures...
Some semantics of the predicate formulas in the framework of the symmetric constructive logic [1] is defined. The following theorems are proved: (1) any predicate formula deducible in the symmetric constructive predicate calculus is identically true in the sense of the introduced semantics; (2) some predicate formulas not deducible in the mentioned calculus are not identically true in the sense of...
Finding a pattern P[0…m−1] in a large body of text T[0…n−1], m≤n, is called pattern matching. One of its variation is parameterized string matching. Two strings are said to parameterized match, if one can be transformed into other via some bijective mapping. The parameterized matching has important applications in software maintenance and plagiarism detection. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm...
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