A fast and facile method of fabricating fiber-optic localized surface plasmon resonance sensors baseff on spherical gold nanoparticles was introduced in this study. The gold nanoparticles with an average diameter of 5...A fast and facile method of fabricating fiber-optic localized surface plasmon resonance sensors baseff on spherical gold nanoparticles was introduced in this study. The gold nanoparticles with an average diameter of 55 nm were synthesized via the Turkevich method and were then immobilized onto the surface of an uncladded sensor probe using a polydopamine layer. To obtain a sensor probe with high sensitivity to changes in the refractive index, a set of key optimization parameters, including the sensing length, coating time of the potydopamine layer, and coating time of the gold nanoparticles, were investigated. The sensitivity of the optimized sensor probe was 522.80 nm per refractive index unit, and the probe showed distinctive wavelength shifts when the refractive index was changed from 1.328 6 to 1.398 7. When stored in deionized water at 4 ℃, the sensor probe proved to be stable over a period of two weeks. The sensor also exhibited advantages, such as low cost, fast fabrication, and simple optical setup, which indicated its potential application in remote sensing and real-time detection.展开更多
A neighborhood search algorithm was proposed to simultaneously schedule the waste removal quantity and the equipment fleet profile over the mine life for open pit mines.An initial search domain was first defined and a...A neighborhood search algorithm was proposed to simultaneously schedule the waste removal quantity and the equipment fleet profile over the mine life for open pit mines.An initial search domain was first defined and a good schedule was obtained as the current best schedule by searching in this domain.Then,progressively narrower neighborhood search domains were constructed around the current best schedule to search for better schedules.The objective is to minimize the present value of waste removal costs over the mine life.The resulting schedule from this algorithm provides a complete fleet profile for each year over the mine life:the selected equipment models,the number of equipment units of each model,the age of each unit,as well as the quantity of waste removed.A numerical example of application was provided to demonstrate the feasibility and merits of the algorithm.展开更多
The installation of vast quantities of additional new sensing and communication equipment, in conjunction with building the computing infrastructure to store and manage data gathered by this equipment, has been the fi...The installation of vast quantities of additional new sensing and communication equipment, in conjunction with building the computing infrastructure to store and manage data gathered by this equipment, has been the fi rst step in the creation of what is generically referred to as the "smart grid" for the electric transmission system. With this enormous capital investment in equipment having been made, attention is now focused on developing methods to analyze and visualize this large data set. The most direct use of this large set of new data will be in data visualization. This paper presents a survey of some visualization techniques that have been deployed by the electric power industry for visualizing data over the past several years. These techniques include pie charts, animation, contouring, time-varying graphs, geographic-based displays, image blending, and data aggregation techniques. The paper then emphasizes a newer concept of using word-sized graphics called sparklines as an extremely eff ective method of showing large amounts of timevarying data.展开更多
Conventional color-printing systems often use inks of three hues, such as CMY, CMYK and CMYKLcLm, but in order to obtain more realistic color reproductions, the ink set of more than three hues has been adopted by some...Conventional color-printing systems often use inks of three hues, such as CMY, CMYK and CMYKLcLm, but in order to obtain more realistic color reproductions, the ink set of more than three hues has been adopted by some color-printing systems. It is difficult, however, to model the composed color with the multiple inks when the number of the output ink hues exceeds three due to the none-unique mapping between the color spaces of the CIE Lab and the multi-color printing device. In this paper, we propose a fine color-printing method for multi-color printing device with the ink set of more than three hues. The proposed approach has good color expression ability and provides fine control of the printed color. By dividing the output color space into several subspaces, our method allows one-to-one mapping between the standard color space and the multi-color output color space. It has been proved effective when applied to the digital inkjet printer—Mutoh8000.展开更多
This paper describes the design and development of a wireless LAN (WLAN) access point based on Bluetooth and uClinux. To make the best use of high-speed serial communication capability, several methods such as modifyi...This paper describes the design and development of a wireless LAN (WLAN) access point based on Bluetooth and uClinux. To make the best use of high-speed serial communication capability, several methods such as modifying baud-rate of serial port driver, utilizing buffer area and adding flow-control were adopted. After analysis of scheduling and interruption handling, modifying the timer's parameters was put forward as a method to control the timer interrupt. In this way, data throughput and system stability were enhanced. Meanwhile, migration of the Bluetooth protocol stack was detailed and some successful applications of LAN access point were presented.展开更多
To provide the right services or information to the right users, at the right time and in the right place in ubiquitous computing environment, an Indoor Ubiquitous Computing Environment based on Location-Awareness, IU...To provide the right services or information to the right users, at the right time and in the right place in ubiquitous computing environment, an Indoor Ubiquitous Computing Environment based on Location-Awareness, IUCELA, is presented in this paper. A general architecture of IUCELA is designed to connect multiple sensing devices with locationaware applications. Then the function of location-aware middleware which is the core componnet of the proposed architecture is elaborated. Finally an indoor forum is taken as an example scenario to demonstrate the security, usefulness, flexibiltity and robustness of IUCELA.展开更多
Wireless location technology is used to locate,track and monitor the location of given target using devices such as the radio frequency identification(RFID) based on WiFi technology and the sensors. And such applicati...Wireless location technology is used to locate,track and monitor the location of given target using devices such as the radio frequency identification(RFID) based on WiFi technology and the sensors. And such applications as long term evolution(LTE) ,wireless local area networks(WLAN) ,RFID and location based service(LBS) are essential in today's wireless communications industry. In this paper,both wireless location technology and its application are proposed,where our experimental research results and theoretical innovation are included.展开更多
From the measurement of liquid flow field on a large plate by a hot-film anemometer, three different regions on the large plate were presented, including a liquid circulation area near the inlet down-comer, a region w...From the measurement of liquid flow field on a large plate by a hot-film anemometer, three different regions on the large plate were presented, including a liquid circulation area near the inlet down-comer, a region with very slow moving or stagnant liquid on the side of the tray and an active flow region at the center of the plate. According to the contribution of the three regions, the tray efficiency for large plates was proposed. The prediction plate efficiency by the present model are compared with the experimental data in the literature and those calculated by other models. It is shown that the present model is more accurate for prediction of efficiency of large plates, and the calculation is simpler.展开更多
To solve the problem of variations in radio frequency characteristics among different devices,transfer learning is applied to transform device diversity to domain adaptation in the indoor localization algorithm.A robu...To solve the problem of variations in radio frequency characteristics among different devices,transfer learning is applied to transform device diversity to domain adaptation in the indoor localization algorithm.A robust indoor localization algorithm based on the aligned fingerprints and ensemble learning called correlation alignment for localization(CALoc)is proposed with low computational complexity.The second-order statistical properties of fingerprints in the offline and online phase are needed to be aligned.The real-time online calibration method mitigates the impact of device heterogeneity largely.Without any time-consuming deep learning retraining process,CALoc online only needs 0.11 s.The effectiveness and efficiency of CALoc are verified by realistic experiments.The results show that compared to the traditional algorithms,a significant performance gain is achieved and that it achieves better positioning accuracy with a 19%improvement.展开更多
The conservative Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease mechanism of traditional TCP causes the link under-utilization in the Wide Area Networks(WANs) due to the WANs' intrinsic nature of high latency and high ...The conservative Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease mechanism of traditional TCP causes the link under-utilization in the Wide Area Networks(WANs) due to the WANs' intrinsic nature of high latency and high packet loss.To alleviate the problem,we present the design and implantation of STAG,an Acceleration Gateway with Split-TCP in the paper.STAG is built on embedded network equipment and acts as a transparent proxy.In STAG,a new improved congestion control method named Rapid TCP is adopted,which determines whether or not to decrease the congestion window based on the packet loss trend.In particular,in the fast recovery phase,it chooses different window adjustment strategies based on the current size of congestion window to achieve higher utilization.The performance validation of STAG is done on both our emulation testbed and the real wide area network.The results show that STAG with Rapid TCP effectively adapts to the high loss network environment and significantly speeds up the applications without loss of fairness.展开更多
We present a two-step deterministic remote state preparation protocol for an arbitrary qubit with the aid of a three-particle Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. Generalization of this protocol for higher-dimensional H...We present a two-step deterministic remote state preparation protocol for an arbitrary qubit with the aid of a three-particle Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. Generalization of this protocol for higher-dimensional Hilbert space systems among three parties is also given. We show that only single-particle yon Neumann measurements, local operations, and classical communication are necessary. Moreover, since the overall information of the quantum state can be divided into two different pieces, which may be at different locations, this protocol may be useful in the quantum information field.展开更多
The satisfactory performance of electrical equipments depends on their operating temperature. In order to maintain these devices within the safe temperature limits, an effective cooling is needed. High heat transfer r...The satisfactory performance of electrical equipments depends on their operating temperature. In order to maintain these devices within the safe temperature limits, an effective cooling is needed. High heat transfer rate of compact in size and reliable operation are the challenges of a thermal design engineer of electronic equipment. Then, it has been simulated the transient a three-dimensional model to study the heating phenomenon with two assumption values of heat generation. To control for the working of this equipment, cooling process was modeled by choosing one from different cooling technique. Constant low speed fan at one direction of air flow was used for cooling to predict the reducing of heating temperature through working of this equipment. Numerical Solution of finite difference time domain method （FDTD） has been utilized to simulate the temporal and spatial temperature profiles through two processes, which would minimize the solution errors.展开更多
Plant growth contributes to mineral weathering, but this contribution remains poorly understood. Weathering rates in an aggrading forested watershed in subtropical China were studied by means of geochemical mass balan...Plant growth contributes to mineral weathering, but this contribution remains poorly understood. Weathering rates in an aggrading forested watershed in subtropical China were studied by means of geochemical mass balance. Rainfall, dry deposition, and streamwater were monitored from March 2007 to February 2012. Samples of vegetative components, rainfall, dry deposition, streamwater, representative soils, and parent rock were collected and determined for mass balance calculation and clarifying plant-driven weathering mechanisms stoichiometrically. Ignoring biomass, weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, Na^＋, and Si were 25.6, 10.7, 2.8, and 51.0 kg ha^-1 year^-1, respectively. Taking biomass into consideration, weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, and Si and the sum of weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, Na^＋, K^＋, and Si were 2.6, 1.8, 1.2, and 1.5-fold higher than those ignoring biomass, respectively. This is attributed to plant-driven weathering due to the nutrient （e.g., Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, and K^＋） absorption by vegetation and substantial proton production during assimilation of these nutrients, with the former acting as a pump for removing weathering products and the latter being a source of weathering agents solubilizing mineral components. The same pattern of weathering, i.e., higher rates of weathering with than without including biomass in mass balance calculation, was reported in previous studies; however, the extent to which plants drive weathering rates varied with vegetation types and climatic zones. The documented biological weathering driven by plants is expected to play a critical role in regulating nutrient cycling and material flows within the Earth＇s Critical Zone.展开更多
基金Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2012YQ090194)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51473115)
文摘A fast and facile method of fabricating fiber-optic localized surface plasmon resonance sensors baseff on spherical gold nanoparticles was introduced in this study. The gold nanoparticles with an average diameter of 55 nm were synthesized via the Turkevich method and were then immobilized onto the surface of an uncladded sensor probe using a polydopamine layer. To obtain a sensor probe with high sensitivity to changes in the refractive index, a set of key optimization parameters, including the sensing length, coating time of the potydopamine layer, and coating time of the gold nanoparticles, were investigated. The sensitivity of the optimized sensor probe was 522.80 nm per refractive index unit, and the probe showed distinctive wavelength shifts when the refractive index was changed from 1.328 6 to 1.398 7. When stored in deionized water at 4 ℃, the sensor probe proved to be stable over a period of two weeks. The sensor also exhibited advantages, such as low cost, fast fabrication, and simple optical setup, which indicated its potential application in remote sensing and real-time detection.
基金Projects(51474049,51674062)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(51604061)supported by the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China+3 种基金Projects(201202075,2014020040)supported by the Liaoning Natural Science Founds,ChinaProject(LZ2014020)supported by the Liaoning Province’s Key Laboratory Construction,ChinaProject(20130042110012)supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of ChinaProject(F14-231-1-07)supported by the Shenyang Technical Plan Project,China
文摘A neighborhood search algorithm was proposed to simultaneously schedule the waste removal quantity and the equipment fleet profile over the mine life for open pit mines.An initial search domain was first defined and a good schedule was obtained as the current best schedule by searching in this domain.Then,progressively narrower neighborhood search domains were constructed around the current best schedule to search for better schedules.The objective is to minimize the present value of waste removal costs over the mine life.The resulting schedule from this algorithm provides a complete fleet profile for each year over the mine life:the selected equipment models,the number of equipment units of each model,the age of each unit,as well as the quantity of waste removed.A numerical example of application was provided to demonstrate the feasibility and merits of the algorithm.
基金the Power Systems Engineering Research Foundation (PSERC)the US National Science Foundation (1128325)
文摘The installation of vast quantities of additional new sensing and communication equipment, in conjunction with building the computing infrastructure to store and manage data gathered by this equipment, has been the fi rst step in the creation of what is generically referred to as the "smart grid" for the electric transmission system. With this enormous capital investment in equipment having been made, attention is now focused on developing methods to analyze and visualize this large data set. The most direct use of this large set of new data will be in data visualization. This paper presents a survey of some visualization techniques that have been deployed by the electric power industry for visualizing data over the past several years. These techniques include pie charts, animation, contouring, time-varying graphs, geographic-based displays, image blending, and data aggregation techniques. The paper then emphasizes a newer concept of using word-sized graphics called sparklines as an extremely eff ective method of showing large amounts of timevarying data.
基金Project (No. M603034) supported by the Natural Science Foundationof Zhejiang Province, China
文摘Conventional color-printing systems often use inks of three hues, such as CMY, CMYK and CMYKLcLm, but in order to obtain more realistic color reproductions, the ink set of more than three hues has been adopted by some color-printing systems. It is difficult, however, to model the composed color with the multiple inks when the number of the output ink hues exceeds three due to the none-unique mapping between the color spaces of the CIE Lab and the multi-color printing device. In this paper, we propose a fine color-printing method for multi-color printing device with the ink set of more than three hues. The proposed approach has good color expression ability and provides fine control of the printed color. By dividing the output color space into several subspaces, our method allows one-to-one mapping between the standard color space and the multi-color output color space. It has been proved effective when applied to the digital inkjet printer—Mutoh8000.
基金NationalKeyTechnologiesR&DProgram (No .2 0 0 1BA10 2C)
文摘This paper describes the design and development of a wireless LAN (WLAN) access point based on Bluetooth and uClinux. To make the best use of high-speed serial communication capability, several methods such as modifying baud-rate of serial port driver, utilizing buffer area and adding flow-control were adopted. After analysis of scheduling and interruption handling, modifying the timer's parameters was put forward as a method to control the timer interrupt. In this way, data throughput and system stability were enhanced. Meanwhile, migration of the Bluetooth protocol stack was detailed and some successful applications of LAN access point were presented.
基金Supported by the Ministry of Educationin China (No.104086)
文摘To provide the right services or information to the right users, at the right time and in the right place in ubiquitous computing environment, an Indoor Ubiquitous Computing Environment based on Location-Awareness, IUCELA, is presented in this paper. A general architecture of IUCELA is designed to connect multiple sensing devices with locationaware applications. Then the function of location-aware middleware which is the core componnet of the proposed architecture is elaborated. Finally an indoor forum is taken as an example scenario to demonstrate the security, usefulness, flexibiltity and robustness of IUCELA.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No.61172073)Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University( No.W200906)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Beijing Jiaotong University
文摘Wireless location technology is used to locate,track and monitor the location of given target using devices such as the radio frequency identification(RFID) based on WiFi technology and the sensors. And such applications as long term evolution(LTE) ,wireless local area networks(WLAN) ,RFID and location based service(LBS) are essential in today's wireless communications industry. In this paper,both wireless location technology and its application are proposed,where our experimental research results and theoretical innovation are included.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 20176037)
文摘From the measurement of liquid flow field on a large plate by a hot-film anemometer, three different regions on the large plate were presented, including a liquid circulation area near the inlet down-comer, a region with very slow moving or stagnant liquid on the side of the tray and an active flow region at the center of the plate. According to the contribution of the three regions, the tray efficiency for large plates was proposed. The prediction plate efficiency by the present model are compared with the experimental data in the literature and those calculated by other models. It is shown that the present model is more accurate for prediction of efficiency of large plates, and the calculation is simpler.
基金The National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFB1802400)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61571123)the Research Fund of National M obile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University(No.2020A03)
文摘To solve the problem of variations in radio frequency characteristics among different devices,transfer learning is applied to transform device diversity to domain adaptation in the indoor localization algorithm.A robust indoor localization algorithm based on the aligned fingerprints and ensemble learning called correlation alignment for localization(CALoc)is proposed with low computational complexity.The second-order statistical properties of fingerprints in the offline and online phase are needed to be aligned.The real-time online calibration method mitigates the impact of device heterogeneity largely.Without any time-consuming deep learning retraining process,CALoc online only needs 0.11 s.The effectiveness and efficiency of CALoc are verified by realistic experiments.The results show that compared to the traditional algorithms,a significant performance gain is achieved and that it achieves better positioning accuracy with a 19%improvement.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.61173169,61103204,and 61402542)the open funding of Science and Technology on Information Transmission and Dissemination in Communication Networks Laboratory(Grant no.ITDU14010/KX142600017)the Postgraduate Innovative Research Project of Hunan Province(No.CX2012B065)
文摘The conservative Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease mechanism of traditional TCP causes the link under-utilization in the Wide Area Networks(WANs) due to the WANs' intrinsic nature of high latency and high packet loss.To alleviate the problem,we present the design and implantation of STAG,an Acceleration Gateway with Split-TCP in the paper.STAG is built on embedded network equipment and acts as a transparent proxy.In STAG,a new improved congestion control method named Rapid TCP is adopted,which determines whether or not to decrease the congestion window based on the packet loss trend.In particular,in the fast recovery phase,it chooses different window adjustment strategies based on the current size of congestion window to achieve higher utilization.The performance validation of STAG is done on both our emulation testbed and the real wide area network.The results show that STAG with Rapid TCP effectively adapts to the high loss network environment and significantly speeds up the applications without loss of fairness.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10971247 and 10905016Hebei Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.F2009000311 and A2010000344 the Key Project of Science and Technology Research of Education Ministry of China under Grant No.207011
文摘We present a two-step deterministic remote state preparation protocol for an arbitrary qubit with the aid of a three-particle Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state. Generalization of this protocol for higher-dimensional Hilbert space systems among three parties is also given. We show that only single-particle yon Neumann measurements, local operations, and classical communication are necessary. Moreover, since the overall information of the quantum state can be divided into two different pieces, which may be at different locations, this protocol may be useful in the quantum information field.
文摘The satisfactory performance of electrical equipments depends on their operating temperature. In order to maintain these devices within the safe temperature limits, an effective cooling is needed. High heat transfer rate of compact in size and reliable operation are the challenges of a thermal design engineer of electronic equipment. Then, it has been simulated the transient a three-dimensional model to study the heating phenomenon with two assumption values of heat generation. To control for the working of this equipment, cooling process was modeled by choosing one from different cooling technique. Constant low speed fan at one direction of air flow was used for cooling to predict the reducing of heating temperature through working of this equipment. Numerical Solution of finite difference time domain method （FDTD） has been utilized to simulate the temporal and spatial temperature profiles through two processes, which would minimize the solution errors.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41471176 and41130530)
文摘Plant growth contributes to mineral weathering, but this contribution remains poorly understood. Weathering rates in an aggrading forested watershed in subtropical China were studied by means of geochemical mass balance. Rainfall, dry deposition, and streamwater were monitored from March 2007 to February 2012. Samples of vegetative components, rainfall, dry deposition, streamwater, representative soils, and parent rock were collected and determined for mass balance calculation and clarifying plant-driven weathering mechanisms stoichiometrically. Ignoring biomass, weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, Na^＋, and Si were 25.6, 10.7, 2.8, and 51.0 kg ha^-1 year^-1, respectively. Taking biomass into consideration, weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, and Si and the sum of weathering rates of Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, Na^＋, K^＋, and Si were 2.6, 1.8, 1.2, and 1.5-fold higher than those ignoring biomass, respectively. This is attributed to plant-driven weathering due to the nutrient （e.g., Ca^2＋, Mg^2＋, and K^＋） absorption by vegetation and substantial proton production during assimilation of these nutrients, with the former acting as a pump for removing weathering products and the latter being a source of weathering agents solubilizing mineral components. The same pattern of weathering, i.e., higher rates of weathering with than without including biomass in mass balance calculation, was reported in previous studies; however, the extent to which plants drive weathering rates varied with vegetation types and climatic zones. The documented biological weathering driven by plants is expected to play a critical role in regulating nutrient cycling and material flows within the Earth＇s Critical Zone.
