126 results on '"Lu, Zhen"'
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2. Blockchain technology in maritime supply chains: applications, architecture and challenges
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Jiaguo Liu, Lu Zhen, and Huimin Zhang
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,Service (systems architecture) ,021103 operations research ,Blockchain ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,Supply chain ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Heterogeneous information ,Architecture ,Telecommunications ,business - Abstract
As an essential carrier of cross-border trade, the maritime supply chain has always been plagued by long service cycles, complex structures, and heterogeneous information from multiple sources. In ...
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- 2021
3. Artesunate alleviates the inflammatory response of ulcerative colitis by regulating the expression of miR-155
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Quan Chen, Jian-Dong Lin, Lu-Zhen Qiu, and Zhao-Bin Yang
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Lipopolysaccharides ,Male ,microrna ,Inflammatory response ,Anti-Inflammatory Agents ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Artesunate ,Gene Expression ,Chronic inflammatory disease ,030226 pharmacology & pharmacy ,01 natural sciences ,miR-155 ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Drug Discovery ,microRNA ,Medicine ,Animals ,nf-κb ,Pharmacology ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,business.industry ,lcsh:RM1-950 ,natural plant extracts ,NF-κB ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Ulcerative colitis ,cellular molecular mechanism ,0104 chemical sciences ,010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry ,MicroRNAs ,RAW 264.7 Cells ,lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,chemistry ,Cancer research ,Molecular Medicine ,Colitis, Ulcerative ,business - Abstract
Context Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a recrudescent and chronic inflammatory disease. Artesunate (ART) has shown its anti-inflammatory and antioxidative properties in severe diseases, including UC. Objective The present study investigates the molecular mechanisms for effects of ART on UC, and the role of miR-155 in this process. Materials and methods The in vitro UC model was established by using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced RAW264.7 cells. For BALB/c mice model, different concentrations/doses of ART were treated once a day for 7 days. The apoptosis and viability were measured by CCK-8 and flow cytometry assay, respectively. The expressions and concentrations of inflammatory factors were detected by qRT-PCR and ELISA, respectively. Colon tissues of mice were used for detecting the activity of MPO, and the histological changes were observed by H&E staining. Results The IC50 of ART for RAW264.7 cells was 107.3 μg/mL. In LPS-induced cells, ART treatment inhibited the cell apoptosis and promoted cell viability compared with the model group. Besides, ART treatment also reduced the expressions of pro-inflammatory factors and miR-155. However, overexpression of miR-155 showed opposite effects and attenuated the effects of ART. Meanwhile, inhibiting miR-155 expression also improved the inflammatory response induced by LPS. In UC mice model, ART treatment also alleviated the mice’s survival and alleviated the inflammatory response. In addition, the expression of p-NF-κB was suppressed by ART. Conclusion ART reduced the inflammatory response by inhibiting the expression of miR-155 in UC to inhibit the NF-κB pathway. This research showed ART might have potential in UC treatment.
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- 2021
4. Effective Treatment of NSCLC with Surgery After Nivolumab Combined with Chemotherapy: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature
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Liang-Chen Zhao, Lu-Zhen Li, Cantu Fang, and Ting Chen
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,case report ,Pharmacology (medical) ,non-small cell lung cancer ,nivolumab ,Cisplatin ,Chemotherapy ,neoadjuvant immunotherapy ,Lung ,business.industry ,Therapeutic effect ,Cancer ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Dissection ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Mediastinal lymph node ,Nivolumab ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Introduction Immuno checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) including anti-PD-L1 antibody have shown certain therapeutic effects on various cancer types. Here, we reported a case of the patient with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) showing a complete response to nivolumab combined with chemotherapy. Patient information A 66-year-old male was diagnosed with stage IIIA large cell lung cancer, cT2N2M0, who was considered impossible to have a tumor resection due to his right hilar node enlargement. The diameter of the neoplasms was 22mm, and the patient wanted to get the chance of surgery. Light of all, surgery was the only radical treatment option and therefore planned. Interventions After administering 2 cycles of nivolumab combined with paclitaxel and cisplatin, the second chest computed tomography (CT) after the first scanning revealed the tumor apparent shrinking and vascular compression was disappeared than before. We performed a right upper lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection. Pathologically, we confirmed no large cell lung cancer cells in the resected lung specimen. Outcomes The follow-up showing that patient remains alive without recurrence to these days. Conclusion This case report may provide a clue to the future development of induction therapy using nivolumab and surgery. The combined treatment of nivolumab and chemotherapy is likely to be considered as an optional management of resectable NSCLC.
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- 2020
5. Routing Optimization with Generalized Consistency Requirements
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Kai Wang, Shuaian Wang, Jun Xia, Roberto Baldacci, Lu Zhen, Wang, Kai, Zhen, Lu, Xia, Jun, Baldacci, Roberto, and Wang, Shuaian
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Multiple days ,Computer science ,business.industry ,service efficiency ,Transportation ,Travel cost ,generalized consistency requirement ,Consistency (statistics) ,Vehicle routing problem ,exact method ,Service efficiency ,Routing (electronic design automation) ,business ,vehicle routing ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,Computer network - Abstract
The consistent vehicle routing problem (ConVRP) aims to design synchronized routes on multiple days to serve a group of customers while minimizing the total travel cost. It stipulates that customers should be visited at roughly the same time (time consistency) by several familiar drivers (driver consistency). This paper generalizes the ConVRP for any level of driver consistency and additionally addresses route consistency, which means that each driver can traverse at most a certain proportion of different arcs of routes on planning days, which guarantees route familiarity. To solve this problem, we develop two set partitioning-based formulations, one based on routes and the other based on schedules. We investigate valid lower bounds on the linear relaxations of both of the formulations that are used to derive a subset of columns (routes and schedules); within the subset are columns of an optimal solution for each formulation. We then solve the reduced problem of either one of the formulations to achieve an optimal solution. Numerical results show that our exact method can effectively solve most of the medium-sized ConVRP instances in the literature and can also solve some newly generated instances involving up to 50 customers. Our exact solutions explore some managerial findings with respect to the adoption of consistency measures in practice. First, maintaining reasonably high levels of consistency requirements does not necessarily always lead to a substantial increase in cost. Second, a high level of time consistency can potentially be guaranteed by adopting a high level of driver consistency. Third, maintaining high levels of time consistency and driver consistency may lead to lower levels of route consistency.
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- 2022
6. Coordinated Multi-Point Transmissions Based on Interference Alignment and Neutralization
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Jia Liu, Zhao Li, Kang G. Shin, Lu Zhen, Jie Chen, and Sha Cui
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Computer science ,business.industry ,Applied Mathematics ,Transmitter ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,Spectral efficiency ,Interference (wave propagation) ,Topology ,Upper and lower bounds ,Precoding ,Computer Science Applications ,Base station ,Single antenna interference cancellation ,Telecommunications link ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Overhead (computing) ,Wireless ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Interference alignment - Abstract
Both interference alignment (IA) and interference neutralization (IN) are exploited for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) communications. With the cooperation of the base station (BS), a transmit precoder and a receive filter are jointly designed, and concurrent transmissions of multiple data streams are then enabled. In the design of a precoder, the IN is applied to the interferences carrying the same data so as to align the interfering signals in the opposite direction in a subspace. On the other hand, for interferences carrying different information, IA is employed to align them in the same direction in a subspace, thus reducing the interference signal observed at the receiver side. Based on different precoding schemes at the transmitter’s side, receivers adopt zero forcing (ZF) so as to recover the desired data. The proposed IA- and IN-based CoMP (IAN-CoMP) mechanism can achieve effective interference cancellation and suppression by exploiting limited and flexible collaboration at the BS side. It can also make a flexible tradeoff between the cooperation overhead and the system’s achievable degrees of freedom (DoFs). We extend the mechanism to general cases where the antenna configurations at both the transmitter and receiver sides, the number of transmitters participating in CoMP, and that of simultaneously served users are variable. Moreover, we discuss both single-location and multi-location-based realizations of the IAN-CoMP. Finally, by defining the average transmit and receive cooperation order, we analyze the upper bound for IAN-CoMP. Our in-depth simulation shows that the IAN-CoMP can significantly improve the spectral efficiency (SE) for cell-edge users.
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- 2019
7. Modeling Changes to Survey Response Items Over Time in a Britain Financial Literacy Education Study
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Koo Chun Kwong, Valerie Farnsworth, Xin Shi, Lu Zhen, Pauline Prevett, Feng He, Wanggen Wan, and Qingqing Zhai
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Economics and Econometrics ,Longitudinal study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,Sample (statistics) ,financial capability education ,Literacy ,0502 economics and business ,050207 economics ,personal finance ,Monte Carlo ,Financial services ,media_common ,Medical education ,Item analysis ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,longitudinal study ,Educational research ,050902 family studies ,Financial literacy ,Attitude change ,sense organs ,0509 other social sciences ,Psychology ,business ,Finance - Abstract
This study develops a general method for modeling changes in response to items relating to students perceptions of personal finance and financial products. The new method is illustrated to analyze data from a sample of 1,250 students aged 16–18 who participated in a financial capability education study in the UK. We demonstrate how a quantitative indicator of the changes in students' responses can be applied in various educational research projects, particularly as a measure of program effectiveness. Predictions are based on prior survey responses, which are taken as relevant historical information for a cohort of students. We find significant changes in the responses of students toward reported career choice following the Financial Literacy Education course at national colleges in the UK.
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- 2019
8. Inspection routing problem for coal mine safety personnel in underground mines
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Miao Li, Lu Zhen, Bochen Wang, Lin Huang, and Wencheng Wang
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021103 operations research ,General Computer Science ,Artificial neural network ,Computer science ,business.industry ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,General Engineering ,Coal mining ,02 engineering and technology ,Civil engineering ,Tabu search ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Routing (electronic design automation) ,business ,Integer programming - Abstract
Coal mine safety is the foundation of coal mine enterprise development, and inspections performed by safety personnel are an indispensable part of ensuring the production of coal mines. The complex network of tunnels in underground mines restricts the efficiency of safety inspection routes; therefore, planning these routes is critical. This study investigates a routing problem in which safety personnel start from multiple sites to inspect a set of sites. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is formulated to optimize the inspection routes. Three methods are used to address the problem: a local branching (LB)-based solution method, a tabu search-based solution method and a back propagation (BP) neural network method. Numerical experiments are conducted to assess the efficiency of the methods on different scales.
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- 2019
9. Initial structure of large aperture diffractive telescope
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陆子凤 Lu Zi-feng, 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, 刘 华 Liu Hua, 王 新 Wang Xin, and 赵 维 Zhao Wei
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Telescope ,Physics ,Optics ,business.industry ,law ,Structure (category theory) ,Large aperture ,business ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,law.invention - Published
- 2019
10. MiR-155 aggravated septic liver injury by oxidative stress-mediated ER stress and mitochondrial dysfunction via targeting Nrf-2
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Hui-Ping Chen, Jian-Dong Lin, Lu-Zhen Qiu, Shu-Xian Cai, Wen-Wen Chen, and Zhao-Bin Yang
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Necrosis ,Lipopolysaccharide ,NF-E2-Related Factor 2 ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Mitochondria, Liver ,Pharmacology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Sepsis ,medicine ,Animals ,Antagomir ,Molecular Biology ,Liver injury ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,business.industry ,Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress ,medicine.disease ,MicroRNAs ,Oxidative Stress ,030104 developmental biology ,Cytokine ,Liver ,chemistry ,Apoptosis ,Unfolded protein response ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Oxidative stress - Abstract
Objective Liver is uniquely vulnerable during sepsis. MicroRNA-155 (miR-155) is confirmed to play crucial roles in septic liver injury. The present study aims to investigate the mechanisms of miR-155 in septic liver injury. Methods The sepsis model was established by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mice. Mice were divided into four groups: Vehicle, miR-155 antagomir, LPS, LPS+ miR-155 antagomir. The survival rate and body weight were monitored. Liver injury was assessed by H&E staining. The levels of serum ALT and inflammatory cytokines were determined by ELISA kits. Oxidative stress was detected by MDA and SOD detection kits. The miR-155, Nrf-2, and markers related to oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, mitochondrial injury and apoptosis were detected by western blotting and qPCR. Apoptosis in liver tissues was detected by TUNELstaining. Results MiR-155 antagomir alleviated liver injury as evidenced by enhancing survival rate and body weight, inhibiting inflammatory cell infiltration, liver cells necrosis and decreasing ALT level. The productions of TNF-α, IL-6 were suppressed, while anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 was promoted by miR-155 antagomir. Oxidative stress was inhibited by miR-155 antagomir via enhancing nuclear factor, erythroid 2-like 2 (Nrf-2) expression. ER stress and Cytochrome C (Cyto-C) release were restrained by miR-155 antagomir. Sepsis-induced apoptosis was repressed by miR-155 antagomir as manifested by the decreased levels of Bax, cleaved caspase-12, 9 and 3, and increased levels of Bcl-2 and uncleaved PARP. Conclusion MiR-155 antagomir relieved septic liver injury through inhibiting oxidative stress-mediated ER stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis via targeting Nrf-2, suggesting miR-155 as a therapeutic target for septic liver injury.
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- 2018
11. Subsidy design in a vessel speed reduction incentive program under government policies
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Lu Zhen, Shuaian Wang, Dan Zhuge, and Gilbert Laporte
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Public policy ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,Ocean Engineering ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Profit (economics) ,Modelling and Simulation ,Incentive program ,Green transportation ,Tax policy ,Finance ,Government ,air emission taxes ,business.industry ,subsidy game ,vessel speed reduction incentive program ,Subsidy ,sharing subsidy ,Port (computer networking) ,green port and shipping ,Sustainability ,Modeling and Simulation ,Economic interventionism ,Business - Abstract
As a green port and shipping-related policy, the vessel speed reduction incentive program (VSRIP) involves using a subsidy to induce ships to reduce their speed in a port area so that the emissions can be reduced at the port. However, this program may attract new ships to visit the port because of the subsidy; in this case, the port's profit will grow due to more ship visits, but its total emissions may also increase, which is counter to the original intention of the subsidy. The government could then intervene by providing part of the subsidy for the VSRIP or by collecting air emission taxes for the increased emission at the port. This paper studies how to design suitable subsidies for ships participating in a VSRIP. Two bilevel subsidy design models are formulated based on a Stackelberg game to maximize the port's profit (related to the profits from original and new ships, the subsidy provided by the port, and air emission taxes) and to minimize the government's cost (related to the damage cost of air emissions, the subsidy provided by the government, and air emission taxes). We determine which policy (including a sharing subsidy policy, no government intervention, and an air emission tax policy) should be implemented by the government in different cases and how much subsidy should be provided by the port under each government policy. We find that these decisions are affected by several practical factors, such as the damage cost of air emissions per ton of fuel and the subsidy sensitivities of original and new ships. We also outline several meaningful insights based on the analysis of these practical factors.
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- 2021
12. Ablation Therapy Combined with EGFR TKIs in the Treatment of Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
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Hui-Si Hong, Jiaming Wu, Juan-Na Zhuang, Lu-Zhen Li, Hua-Tang Zhang, Ting Chen, Ao Zhang, Cantu Fang, and Liang-Chen Zhao
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Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Article Subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MEDLINE ,Cochrane Library ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,Other systems of medicine ,0302 clinical medicine ,Text mining ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Lung cancer ,Chemotherapy ,business.industry ,Ablation ,medicine.disease ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Meta-analysis ,business ,RZ201-999 ,Research Article - Abstract
Objective. Systematically evaluate the efficacy of physical ablation combined with TKI in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods. We performed a comprehensive search of databases including OVID, PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and three Chinese databases (China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Database, and Chongqing Weipu Database). The aim was to identify randomized controlled trials (RCT) investigating physical ablation as the treatment for advanced NSCLC. We also evaluated the methodological quality of the included studies and summarized the data extracted for meta-analysis with Review Manager 5.3. Results. A total of 9 studies, including 752 patients, were evaluable. The meta-analysis results show that the complete response rate (CRR) (RR: 2.23, 95% CI: 1. 46 to 3.40, P 0.01), partial response rate (PRR) (RR: −2.25, 95% CI: 1.41 to 3.59, P 0.01), and disease control rate (DCR) (RR: −2.80, 95% CI: 1.64 to 4.80, P < 0.01) of patients with advanced NSCLC who received physical ablation combined with TKI therapy were higher than those who did not receive physical ablation therapy. The control groups from seven of the studies had a total of 606 patients with targeted therapies and chemotherapy. The complete response rate was (CRR) (RR: 2.48, 2.4895% CI: 1.55 to 2.47, P 0.01), partial response rate (PRR) (RR: −1.66, 95% CI: 1.20 to 2.31, P < 0.01), and disease control rate (DCR) (RR: −2.68, 95% CI: 1.41 to 5.06, P < 0.01) for patients with advanced NSCLC who had received physical ablation combined with targeted therapies and chemotherapy, compared to patients who had not received physical ablation therapy. This difference was statistically significant. Above all, these results showed that the clinical efficacy of physical ablation combined EGFR-TKIs therapy (regardless of whether it was combined with chemotherapy) was better than that of EGFR-TKIs therapy alone. Conclusion. Physical ablation combined with TKI treatment in patients with advanced NSCLC can improve efficacy.
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- 2021
13. Design of Distance Multimedia Physical Education Teaching Platform Based on Artificial Intelligence Technology
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Lu-zhen Mo, Zhu-zhu Li, and Yun-fei Qin
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Artificial neural network ,Multimedia ,Computer science ,business.industry ,System hardware ,computer.software_genre ,Physical education ,Controllability ,Order (business) ,Educational resources ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Software design ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer - Abstract
The traditional neural network-based education platform has the problem of slow access to resources, which affects teaching efficiency. To this end, artificial intelligence technology is introduced for the design of distance multimedia sports teaching platforms. Through system hardware and software design, enhance the integration capability of the teaching platform, improve the controllability of the teaching platform, help the physical education platform to obtain more educational resources, accelerate the processing and integration analysis of educational information, and better assist teachers in developing physical education jobs. In order to verify the effectiveness of the method in this paper, the method in this paper is compared with the teaching platform based on neural network,the experimental results show that the platform can obtain resources quickly and has broad application prospects.
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- 2020
14. Design of Data-Driven Visualization Teaching System for Preschool Basketball Courses
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Lu-zhen Mo, Yun-fei Qin, and Can Chen
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Basketball ,Multimedia ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Design systems ,computer.software_genre ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Visualization ,Data-driven ,Software ,Social relationship ,Systems design ,business ,computer ,Social time - Abstract
Some studies have shown that basketball can promote the development of young children’s nervous system, exercise their physical coordination ability, allow young children to have a team awareness, increase young children’s social time, and establish social relationships. However, there is a problem of high system resource consumption level in the traditional visualized teaching system for infant basketball courses. Therefore, a data-driven visualized teaching system design for infant basketball courses is proposed. The hardware part adopts the intelligent display terminal DMT80480507OSW to realize human-computer interaction, which allows children to increase learning interest through human-computer interaction. The software part uses data compression algorithms to compress basketball course resource data. After testing, the feasibility of the design system was proved to provide richer teaching resources for children’s basketball courses.
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- 2020
15. Taichi: Signal Dodging and Interference Guiding
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Lu Zhen, Bigui Zhang, Jia Liu, Yang Xu, Liyuan Xiao, and Zhao Li
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Computer science ,business.industry ,Spectral efficiency ,Interference (wave propagation) ,Signal ,Term (time) ,Interference (communication) ,Telecommunications link ,Electronic engineering ,Wireless ,Network performance ,business ,Interference alignment ,Data transmission - Abstract
With the rapid development of wireless technologies, interference has become a main impediment to network performance, making interference management (IM) a critical issue that warrants a thorough investigation. In this paper, we propose a novel IM technique, called signal dodging and interference guiding (SDIG). With this method, we first intellectually move the data transmission away from the interference, hence can partially avoid the influence of disturbance to the desired signal. Then, we employ existing IM method, including zero-forcing (ZF) reception, interference alignment (IA), interference steering (IS), and etc., to further eliminate the interference. The SDIG consists of two phases, the first one is modifying the desired signal while the second is mitigating the interference. This is similar to the idea of Taichi in that both involve the actions of passive defense and active attack. Therefore, we also use the term Taichi as an equivalent for SDIG. Our in-depth simulation has shown that with the proposed scheme, both the interfered user's and the system's spectral efficiency can be significantly improved.
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- 2019
16. Grating diffractive behavior of surface plasmon wave on meta-surface
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王雪飞 Wang Xue-fei, 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, 鱼卫星 Yu Wei-xing, and 王泰升 Wang Taisheng
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Surface plasmon wave ,Surface (mathematics) ,Optics ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Grating ,business ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics - Published
- 2018
17. Emerging approaches applied to maritime transport research: Past and future
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Shuaian Wang, Lu Zhen, Ran Yan, and Gilbert Laporte
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TA1001-1280 ,Digitalization in the maritime industry ,Process (engineering) ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Management science ,Deep learning ,Transportation ,Port (computer networking) ,Transportation engineering ,Shipping ,Globalization ,Maritime transport ,Port ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Data-driven modeling ,Decision Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Artificial intelligence ,business - Abstract
Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and globalization. Maritime transport research can be roughly divided into two categories, namely the shipping side and the port side. Most of the classic approaches adopted to address practical problems in these research topics are based on long-term observations and expert knowledge, while few of them are based on historical data accumulated from practice. In recent years, emerging approaches, which we refer to as machine learning and deep learning techniques in this essay, have been receiving a wider attention to solve practical problems. As a relatively conservative industry, there are some initial trials of applying the emerging approaches to solve practical problems in the maritime sector. The objective of this essay is to review the application of emerging approaches to maritime transport research. The main research topics in maritime transport and classic methods developed to solve them are first presented. The introduction of emerging approaches and their suitability to be applied in maritime transport research is then discussed. Related existing studies are then reviewed according to problem settings, main data sources, and emerging approaches adopted. Challenges and solutions in the process are also discussed from the perspectives of data, model, users, and targets. Finally, promising future research directions are identified. This essay is the first to give a comprehensive review of existing studies on developing machine learning and deep learning models together with popular data sources used to address practical problems in maritime transport.
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- 2021
18. Production stage allocation problem in large corporations
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Sheng Lei Zhu, Dan Zhuge, and Lu Zhen
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Mathematical optimization ,021103 operations research ,Information Systems and Management ,Operations research ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Automotive industry ,Scheduling (production processes) ,Particle swarm optimization ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Decision problem ,Diseconomies of scale ,Stochastic programming ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,Revenue ,Fixed cost ,business - Abstract
This paper studies a strategic-level decision problem on assigning production stages to geographically distributed subsidiaries in a large corporation so as to minimize the fixed cost and the expected value of the production/transportation costs under stochastic demands of customers. The influence of the economies and diseconomies of scale on unit production cost is considered. A nonlinear mixed integer programming model is designed for this problem. A local branching based solution method and a particle swarm optimization based solution method are developed for solving the model. Computational tests on real world data of Shanghai Volkswagen Auto Corp. are conducted. The results show that the proposed model can save about 2.5% of its revenue by comparing with the current decisions.
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- 2017
19. Ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and foldable containers
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Shuaian Wang, Kai Wang, Lu Zhen, and Xiaobo Qu
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Network simplex algorithm ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Operations research ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Transportation ,02 engineering and technology ,Type (model theory) ,Flow network ,EMPTY CONTAINER ,Transport engineering ,0502 economics and business ,Business and International Management ,business ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
This paper addresses a problem of ship type decision considering empty container repositioning and foldable containers, which determines the capacity of ships deployed in a given shipping route at a tactical level and empty container repositioning between ports at an operational level. It considers the use of foldable containers and aims to find under what conditions, a shipping liner needs to use the foldable containers. To solve the problem, we formulate a network flow model with a revised network simplex algorithm, based on which an exact solution approach is designed to determine the optimal ship type.
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- 2017
20. Preface: Advance Analytics in Maritime Systems
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Lu Zhen
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Engineering ,business.industry ,Analytics ,Ocean Engineering ,Management Science and Operations Research ,business ,Data science - Published
- 2021
21. Crowdsourcing mode evaluation for parcel delivery service platforms
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Yiwei Wu, Wen Yi, Shuaian Wang, and Lu Zhen
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Flexibility (engineering) ,Economics and Econometrics ,Service (systems architecture) ,021103 operations research ,Computer science ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Mode (statistics) ,02 engineering and technology ,E-commerce ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Crowdsourcing ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Data science ,Maturity (finance) ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Task (project management) ,Competition (economics) ,0502 economics and business ,business ,050203 business & management - Abstract
The fast-growing practice of e-commerce implies a strong increase in the urban parcel delivery, which in turn creates significant pressure on last-mile city logistics. Because the crowdsourced delivery offers greater flexibility and requires less capital investment than traditional delivery methods, it has been playing a more crucial role when faced with the growing demand for the urban parcel delivery. With the increasing maturity of the crowdsourced delivery and the fierce competition among platforms, the evaluation of different crowdsourcing modes for the urban parcel delivery becomes important. This study proposes six mathematical models to evaluate different operation modes of the crowdsourced delivery in a quantitative way. Several realistic factors, such as the latest service time for each task, task cancellation rate and range distribution of tasks, are also analyzed in this paper. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and to analyze the impact of different modes. Some managerial implications are also outlined on the basis of the numerical experiments and sensitivity analysis to help crowdsourced companies to make scientific decisions.
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- 2021
22. Dynamic programming for optimal ship refueling decision
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Shuaian Wang, Dan Zhuge, and Lu Zhen
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Water transport ,Operations research ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Transportation ,02 engineering and technology ,Optimal control ,Port (computer networking) ,Dynamic programming ,0502 economics and business ,Fuel efficiency ,Probability distribution ,Business and International Management ,business ,Liner shipping ,Civil and Structural Engineering ,Optimal decision - Abstract
This study investigates an optimal control policy for a liner ship to decide at which ports and how much fuel the liner ship should be refueled under stochastic fuel consumption in each leg and stochastic fuel price at each port. Based on some properties proved in this study, a dynamic programming algorithm is then designed to obtain some important threshold values, which are used in the optimal control policy for ship refueling decision. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method can obtain the optimal decision within a reasonable time (about 170 s) for various scales of problem instances (up to 30 ports) as well as various settings of probability distributions. In addition, some comparative experiments also show that the proposed optimal decision policy can save at least 8% fuel consumption cost by comparing with some relatively simple rules and save about 1% cost on average by comparing with some brilliantly-designed rules.
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- 2017
23. A two-stage decomposition method on fresh product distribution problem
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Hongtao Hu, Lu Zhen, and Ye Zhang
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Mathematical optimization ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Job shop scheduling ,Heuristic (computer science) ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Refrigerator car ,Particle swarm optimization ,02 engineering and technology ,Energy consumption ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,0502 economics and business ,Shortest path problem ,Vehicle routing problem ,Decomposition method (constraint satisfaction) ,business - Abstract
Refrigerator cars are widely used for fresh product distribution. The energy consumption of these vehicles is sensitive to the environment temperature, and changes continuously due to fluctuations of the environment temperature. As a result, the total refrigeration cost is influenced by the car’s departure time. To reduce operation costs of third-party transportation providers, the refrigerator car scheduling problem is addressed in this research. A time-dependent mixed-integer programming model is established to reduce total operation costs, including routing, time penalty, cargo damage and refrigeration costs. An adaptive heuristic method is proposed by combining the variable neighbourhood search and particle swarm optimisation. To improve the algorithm quality, a two-stage decomposition method is developed. The problem is divided into two echelon sub-problems. One is the shortest path problem, and the other is the departure time scheduling problem. A feedback strategy is utilised to avoid local optimal...
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- 2017
24. Cruise service planning considering berth availability and decreasing marginal profit
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Kai Wang, Lu Zhen, Xiaobo Qu, and Shuaian Wang
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,Mathematical optimization ,021103 operations research ,Marginal profit ,Operations research ,business.industry ,Logistics & Transportation ,05 social sciences ,Cruise ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Transportation ,Time horizon ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Nonlinear programming ,Network planning and design ,0502 economics and business ,business ,Greedy algorithm ,Decision model ,Integer programming ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper addresses a decision problem on planning cruise services for a cruise ship so as to maximize the total profit during a planning horizon. The service is a sequence of ports (harbor cities) that the cruise ship visits. In this decision problem, the constraint about the availability of berths at each port is taken into account. In reality, if a cruise service is executed by the ship repeatedly for several times, the profit earned by the cruise service in each time decreases gradually. This effect of decreasing marginal profit is also considered in this study. We propose a nonlinear integer programming model to cater to the concavity of the function for the profit of operating a cruise service repeatedly. To solve the nonlinear model, two linearization methods are developed, one of which takes advantage of the concavity for a tailored linearization. Some properties of the problem are also investigated and proved by using the dynamic programming (DP) and two commonly used heuristics. In particular, we prove that if there is only one candidate cruise service, a greedy algorithm can derive the optimal solution. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and the efficiency of the proposed linearization methods. In case some parameters needed by the model are estimated inexactly, the proposed decision model demonstrates its robustness and can still obtain a near-optimal plan, which is verified by experiments based on extensive real cases.
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- 2017
25. Multi-period distribution center location and scale decision in supply chain network
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Shucheng Yu, Dan Zhuge, Lu Zhen, and Weirong Wang
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Distribution center ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Mathematical optimization ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,General Computer Science ,Scale (ratio) ,business.industry ,Multi period ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,General Engineering ,Perfect information ,02 engineering and technology ,Facility location problem ,Stochastic programming ,0502 economics and business ,Programming paradigm ,Supply chain network ,business - Abstract
This study extends a problem on locating distribution centers under uncertainty.The decision on facility size is considered.This study is oriented to multiple period decision contexts.A mixed-integer programming model as well as lower, upper bounds are developed. This study extends a traditional problem on locating distribution centers (DC) under uncertain demands, and proposes a stochastic programming model on locating DCs, determining their suitable scales, as well as adjusting DCs so as to adapt to the dynamically changing demands at the sites of retailers. Some lower and upper bounds are also designed to analyze the values of the perfect information, stochastic solution, and the DC adjustments. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model.
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- 2016
26. Multi-period yard template planning in container terminals
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Zhou Xu, Kai Wang, Yi Ding, and Lu Zhen
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Truck ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,Mathematical optimization ,021103 operations research ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Particle swarm optimization ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,Transportation ,02 engineering and technology ,Decision rule ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Port (computer networking) ,Yard ,Traffic congestion ,0502 economics and business ,Container (abstract data type) ,business ,Integer programming ,Simulation ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
This paper is about yard management in container ports. As a tactical level decision-making tool in a port, a yard template determines the assignment of spaces (subblocks) in a yard for arriving vessels, which visit the port periodically. The objective of yard template planning is to minimize the transportation cost of moving containers around the yard. To handle yard template planning, a mixed integer programming model is proposed that also takes into account traffic congestion in the yard. A further complication is that the cycle time of the vessels' periodicities is not uniform and varies among them, perhaps being one week, ten days, or two weeks, etc. However, this multiple cycle time of the periodicities of vessel arrival patterns, which complicates the yard template decision, is also considered in the model. Moreover, a local branching based solution method and a Particle Swarm Optimization based solution method are developed for solving the model. Numerical experiments are also conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, which can save around 24% of the transportation costs of yard trucks when compared with the commonly used First-Come-First-Served decision rule. Moreover, the proposed solution methods can not only solve the proposed model within a reasonable time, but also obtain near-optimal results with about 0.1–2% relative gap.
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- 2016
27. A Sonar Image Segmentation Algorithm based on Two-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Fuzzy Entropy
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Zhang Tiedong, Lu Zhen, Chen Yuchao, and Yu Jun
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Computer science ,business.industry ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,Motion detection ,Pattern recognition ,Image segmentation ,Grayscale ,Sonar ,Computer Science::Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Histogram ,Entropy (information theory) ,Segmentation ,Artificial intelligence ,Underwater ,business - Abstract
Firstly, this article introduces a two-dimensional fuzzy entropy threshold segmentation method, taking characteristics of underwater sonar image of moving target into account, the concept of time in the traditional frame difference motion detection method is used. To determine the grayscale image segmentation threshold, a two-dimensional spatio-temporal fuzzy entropy algorithm is established. The algorithm is used in forward-looking sonar image threshold segmentation to verify the applicability and good performance. Compared to other threshold algorithms, the algorithm of this article can obtain better segmentation threshold value and have more advantages in the processing of sonar image which contains more noise.
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- 2018
28. Data-Driven Intelligent Port Management Based on Blockchain
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Maria Attard, Lu Zhen, Shuaian Wang, and Liyang Xiao
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Government ,021103 operations research ,Blockchain ,Computer science ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Ocean Engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Port (computer networking) ,Data-driven ,0502 economics and business ,Port management ,Telecommunications ,business - Abstract
This paper proposes a blockchain-based framework to improve the efficiency of ship traffic in port. In the framework, ship agents, terminals, tug company, pilot station, and government share information and the information is stored in a blockchain. Based on the shared information, we discuss three categories of data-driven models that can improve the operations management of the above five parties. The first category is decisions made by a single party. The second category involves decisions of at least two ship agents. The third category relates to multi-party decision-making under uncertainty. This study hopes to stimulate maritime practitioners to embrace blockchain technology and data-driven approaches to enhance the competitiveness of the industry.
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- 2020
29. Supply chain optimization in context of production flow network
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Dan Zhuge, Lu Zhen, and Jingqi Lei
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Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Operations research ,business.industry ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Context (language use) ,02 engineering and technology ,Finished good ,Flow network ,Stochastic programming ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Multinational corporation ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Production (economics) ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Supply chain network ,Supply chain optimization ,business ,Information Systems - Abstract
For large multinational companies, the complex production process of their finished goods usually contains plenty of stages, which constitute a production flow network. Each production stage in the production flow network can be undertaken by one or more suppliers. This study proposes a stochastic programming model for the production flow network oriented supply chain network design problem, which optimizes the decision of allocating stages to suppliers with the objective of minimizing the total expected costs of production and transportation among suppliers under uncertain demands of customers. A local branching based solution method is developed to solve the model. A case study on applying this model to a large automobile company is performed. In addition, some numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the efficiency of the proposed solution method.
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- 2016
30. Modeling of yard congestion and optimization of yard template in container ports
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Lu Zhen
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Truck ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Operations research ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Probabilistic logic ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,Transportation ,Context (language use) ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Yard ,Traffic congestion ,0502 economics and business ,Container (abstract data type) ,Programming paradigm ,business ,Integer programming ,Simulation ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
As a tactical-level plan, a yard template determines the assignment of spaces in a container port yard for arriving vessels. This paper investigates the concept of yard congestion quantitatively in the context of yard truck interruptions, and develops a combination of probabilistic and physics-based models for truck interruptions. The above work enables us to exactly evaluate the expected link travel time, which then acts as the basis for proposing a mixed-integer programming model that minimizes the total expected travel time of moving containers around the yard. A Squeaky Wheel Optimization based meta-heuristic is developed to solve the model. Experiments are also conducted to validate the effectiveness of the model and the solution method.
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- 2016
31. A Crowdsourcing Matching and Pricing Strategy in Urban Distribution System
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Lu Zhen, Zhi-hong Jin, Xin Lin, Yu-hang Chen, and Zhan Bian
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Matching (statistics) ,Roulette ,060102 archaeology ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Total cost ,Sample (statistics) ,06 humanities and the arts ,010501 environmental sciences ,Crowdsourcing ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,01 natural sciences ,Task (project management) ,Modeling and simulation ,Crowds ,0601 history and archaeology ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The vigorous development of O2O e-commerce promote the appearance of many small orders, increasing the stresses on logistics operators to carry out city distribution. However, a crowdsourcing joined to release these stresses is a new try and become more popular. This paper focuses on matching of the crowds and tasks from crowdsourcing platform for city distribution. To address exploring the impact of time, space and efficiency on the task matching in crowdsourcing platform, a bi-objective matching and differentiated pricing model creates to achieve the highest efficiency and the lowest total cost in urban distribution system. For solving the model, a two-dimensional and multi-stage roulette algorithm has been designed, with combining modeling and simulation method. The proposed method takes full use of economic development of the region where the task is located and the space-time efficient distance and space-time reachable distance. To illustrate the effectiveness and validity of the proposed method, a sample test is conducted with the actual operating data of a company in the PRD region, and the results show that 719 tasks out of 746 matching pairs are executed, the task matching rate is 89.4%, the completion rate is 86.1% and the total task price 39140 RMBs. Compared with the original matching situation, the total price increases at 3.90%, while the task completion rate is improved at 37.7%, which greatly enhance the efficiency of crowdsourcing platform member matching. The matching of the participants and tasks of the city distribution crowdsourcing platform, which combines with the measurement of differential pricing and crowds’ credibility, can be applied in this problem successfully.
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- 2018
32. Design and diffraction intensity test of toothed occulter
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孙明哲 Sun Ming-zhe, 张红鑫 Zhang Hong-xin, 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, and 卜和阳 Bu He-yang
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Diffraction ,Materials science ,Optics ,business.industry ,business ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Intensity (physics) - Published
- 2015
33. When and how much to neutralize interference?
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Kang G. Shin, Lu Zhen, and Zhao Li
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060102 archaeology ,Computer science ,business.industry ,ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS ,Transmitter ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,06 humanities and the arts ,02 engineering and technology ,Spectral efficiency ,Transmitter power output ,Interference (wave propagation) ,Transmission (telecommunications) ,Interference (communication) ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Key (cryptography) ,Electronic engineering ,Wireless ,0601 history and archaeology ,Telecommunications ,business ,Communication channel - Abstract
Interference management (IM) is essential to wireless communication networks, but interference suppression, a key component of IM, is known to degrade users' achievable spectral efficiency (SE). It is thus important to select an appropriate IM method with optimal operating parameters according to diverse network deployments, transmit power differences of various communication equipments, and dynamically changing channel conditions so as to balance the benefits brought by and the cost of IM. Interference neutralization (IN) has recently been receiving considerable attention, with which a duplicate of interference of the same strength and opposite phase w.r.t. the original interfering signal is generated to neutralize the disturbance at the intended receiver. However, to the best of our knowledge, all existing IN schemes assume that interference is completely neutralized without accounting for their power consumption. To remedy this deficiency, we propose a novel scheme, called dynamic interference neutralization (DIN). By intelligently determining the appropriate portion of interference to be neutralized, we balance the transmitter's power used for IN and the desired signal's transmission. We then present a new way to adaptively select one of DIN and other IM methods by taking into account the cost of multiple IM methods and their benefits. Our analysis has shown that DIN can include complete IN and non-interference management (non-IM) as special cases. The proposed strategy is shown via simulation to be able to make better use of the transmit power than existing IM methods, hence enhancing users' SE.
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- 2017
34. Cruise itinerary schedule design
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Kai Wang, Shuaian Wang, Lu Zhen, and Xiaobo Qu
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050210 logistics & transportation ,Engineering ,021103 operations research ,Operations research ,GeneralLiterature_INTRODUCTORYANDSURVEY ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Cruise ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Port (computer networking) ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Dynamic programming ,0502 economics and business ,business ,Itinerary planning - Abstract
© 2017 "IISE". The Cruise Itinerary Schedule Design (CISD) problem determines the optimal sequence of a given set of ports of call (a port of call is an intermediate stop in a cruise itinerary) and the arrival and departure times at each port of call in order to maximize the monetary value of the utility at ports of call minus the fuel cost. To solve this problem, in view of the practical observations that most cruise itineraries do not have many ports of call, we first enumerate all sequences of ports of call and then optimize the arrival and departure times at each port of call by developing a dynamic programming approach. To improve the computational efficiency,we propose effective bounds on the monetary value of each sequence of ports of call, eliminating non-optimal sequences without invoking the dynamic programming algorithm. Extensive computational experiments are conducted and the results showthat, first, using the bounds on the profit of each sequence of ports of call considerably improves the computational efficiency; second, the total profit of the cruise itinerary is sensitive to the fuel price and hence an accurate estimation of the fuel price is highly desirable; third, the optimal sequence of ports of call is not necessarily the sequencewith the shortest voyage distance, especially when the ports do not have a natural geographic sequence.
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- 2017
35. Container yard template planning under uncertain maritime market
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Lu Zhen
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Engineering ,Schedule ,business.industry ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,Transportation ,Shipyard ,Port (computer networking) ,Scheduling (computing) ,Yard ,Transport engineering ,Traffic congestion ,Maritime industry ,Container (abstract data type) ,Business and International Management ,business ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
A yard template determines the assignment of spaces in a yard for arriving vessels. Fluctuation of demand for freight transportation brings new challenges for making a robust yard template when facing uncertain maritime market. A model is proposed for yard template planning considering random numbers of containers that will be loaded onto vessels that visit the port periodically. Traffic congestions and multiple schedule cycle times for vessel arrival patterns are also considered. Moreover, a meta-heuristic method is developed for solving the model in large-scale cases. Numerical experiments are conducted to validate effectiveness and efficiency of the model.
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- 2014
36. A three-stage optimization model for production and outsourcing under China’s export-oriented tax policies
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Lu Zhen
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Optimization problem ,Supply chain management ,Operations research ,business.industry ,Supply chain ,Transportation ,Context (language use) ,Knowledge process outsourcing ,Outsourcing ,Microeconomics ,Economics ,Production (economics) ,Business and International Management ,business ,Decision model ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
This paper studies an integrated optimization problem on outsourcing and production decisions in the context of the global supply chain and China’s export-oriented tax policies. A three-stage decision model is proposed for this integrated optimization problem. A cross-entropy-based solution method is also developed to solve the three-stage decision model. Numerical experiments are performed to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the efficiency of the proposed method. Additionally, some managerial insights are drawn from these experiments.
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- 2014
37. Task assignment under uncertainty: stochastic programming and robust optimisation approaches
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Lu Zhen
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Linear bottleneck assignment problem ,Mathematical optimization ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Strategy and Management ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Stochastic programming ,Task (project management) ,Probability distribution ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer ,Assignment problem ,Generalized assignment problem ,Software project management ,Weapon target assignment problem - Abstract
The assignment of tasks to teams is a challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. The uncertainty in the tasks’ execution processes further complicates the assignment decisions. This study investigates a variant of the typical assignment problem, in which each task can be divided into two parts, one is deterministic and the other is uncertain with respect to their workloads. From the stochastic perspective, this paper proposes both a stochastic programming model that can cope with arbitrary probability distributions of tasks’ random workload requirements, and a robust optimisation model that is applicable to situations in which limited information about probability distributions is available. An example of its application in the software project management is given. Some numerical experiments are also performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and the relationships between the two models.
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- 2014
38. A novel hybrid multiple criteria decision making model for material selection with target-based criteria
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Xiao-Jun Fan, Jian-Xin You, Lu Zhen, and Hu-Chen Liu
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Engineering ,Operations research ,Uncertain data ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Multiple-criteria decision analysis ,Interdependence ,Material selection ,Multiple time dimensions ,Engineering design process ,business ,Decision-making models ,media_common ,Decision analysis - Abstract
In engineering design, the decision to select an optimal material for a particular product is a problem requiring multi-criteria decision analysis that involves both qualitative and quantitative factors. The evaluation of alternative materials may be based on imprecise information or uncertain data. Furthermore, there can be significant dependence and feedbacks between the different criteria for material selection. However, most existing decision approaches cannot capture these complex interrelationships. In response, this paper proposes a general framework for evaluating and selecting the best material for a given application. A novel hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) model combining DEMATEL-based ANP (DANP) and modified VIKOR is used to solve the material selection problems of multiple dimensions and criteria that are interdependent. Moreover, target-based criteria as well as cost and benefit criteria can be addressed simultaneously in the proposed model. Finally, an empirical case concerning the bush material selection for a split journal bearing is presented to illustrate the potential of the new model. The results show that the proposed method for material selection is effective and provides meaningful implications for designers and engineers to refer.
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- 2014
39. A simulation optimization framework for ambulance deployment and relocation problems
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Dao-Fang Chang, Kai Wang, Hongtao Hu, and Lu Zhen
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Simulation optimization ,Engineering ,General Computer Science ,Operations research ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,General Engineering ,Plan (drawing) ,Transport engineering ,Software deployment ,Traffic conditions ,Genetic algorithm ,Service control ,business ,Relocation - Abstract
This paper studies ambulance deployment and relocation problems, which are two of the core decisions faced by emergency medical service control centers in metropolis. The challenge in the problems is to estimate the operational performance of a deployment plan under stochastic environments. More specifically, the stochastic and dynamic nature of request arrivals, fulfillment processes, and complex traffic conditions as well as the time-dependent spatial patterns of some parameters complicate the decisions in the problems. This paper proposes a simulation optimization method that enables evaluating the operational performance of deployment plans through a detailed simulation model. For guiding the search process in the simulation optimization method, the genetic algorithm is employed in this study. On the basis of the deployment decisions, a mathematical model on ambulance relocation is also proposed for adapting to the dynamic changing environments along the time. To illustrate the proposed method’s usage in practice, a demo example about its application in Shanghai is given. Some numerical experiments are also performed to validate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed methods.
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- 2014
40. A Review on Yard Management in Container Terminals
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Xinjia Jiang, Lu Zhen, Loo Hay Lee, and Ek Peng Chew
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Transport engineering ,Yard ,Engineering ,business.industry ,Container (abstract data type) ,ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING ,Global shipping network ,General Social Sciences ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,business ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,Port (computer networking) ,Bottleneck - Abstract
With advancements of quay side equipments and technologies, the bottleneck of port operations has moved from quay side to yard side. The yard management of a port has significant influences on the competitiveness of a port in the global shipping network. The research area of yard management has attracted a lot of attentions from both the academia and the industrial practitioners. This paper gives a comprehensive review for the studies on the yard management in container terminals. From three aspects, i.e., yard cranes management, yard vehicles management, and yard spaces management, this paper reports the advances in these three areas. Some future directions on the yard management researches are also discussed. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate more practically relevant researches in this emerging area.
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- 2013
41. Empirical Study upon Management Collaboration in Construction Projects
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Yan Bin Zhang, Jian Ru Jian, and Zhi Lu Zhen
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Interpersonal relationship ,Engineering ,Multivariate statistics ,Hierarchy ,Multivariate analysis ,Empirical research ,Knowledge management ,business.industry ,Management styles ,Organizational culture ,General Medicine ,business ,Information exchange - Abstract
To study what and how factors impact on inter-organizational and inter-divisional collaboration in construction projects, a management collaboration model was established, and eight indicators of the model were figured out. A questionnaire including 20 questions designed and delivered to 488 participants from 85 projects, the data of samples analyzed and the correlation of variables calculated by multivariate software named R. Results show that 92.70 percent of respondents suggest that the different project objectives, the different organizational culture and the poor information exchange and communication are the core factors leading to conflict between the participant organizations. Multivariate statistical analysis results show that greater inter-divisional collaboration, more harmonious interpersonal relationship, slighter sense of hierarchy, stronger orientation of democratic management style, and better information exchange and communication can generate less conflicts and better inter-organizational collaboration.
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- 2013
42. State-of-the-Art of Seismic Response of Utility Tunnel
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Lu Zhen Jiang
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Statement of work ,Engineering ,Computer simulation ,business.industry ,Vibration control ,General Medicine ,Structural engineering ,Utility tunnel ,Civil engineering ,Experimental research ,Seismic analysis ,Earthquake simulation ,State (computer science) ,business - Abstract
A state-of-the-art review of the seismic response of utility tunnels is presented. The objectives of the review are to present a view of current state of utility tunnel and to examine trends in the future. The review includes: the theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and experimental research on the utility tunnel under earthquake wave excitation. Based on the review, the future scope of work on the subject is outlined.
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- 2013
43. Research on the Migration and Law of Development in Sanqin Region
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Ya Ran Guo and Lu Zhen Jiang
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Politics ,Geography ,Development (topology) ,Qualitative analysis ,Line chart ,Ancient city ,business.industry ,Distribution (economics) ,General Medicine ,Historical maps ,Economic geography ,business ,Demography - Abstract
Based on historical maps and literatures, the appearance, quantity, distribution and development of city are first analyzed by quantitative and qualitative analysis method. Then, a line chart method, which reflects the evolution characteristic of ancient city in Sanqin, is proposed. Further, it is found that there are two peak times and two troughs during the development of cities in Sanqin. Finally, the trend of development and migration of cities in Sanqin is estimated, and the influence of nature, politics, military affairs, economy and transportation on the development of cities are summarised.
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- 2013
44. A design of knowledge management tool for supporting product development
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Jian-Guo Li, Lu Zhen, and Lin Wang
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Descriptive knowledge ,Knowledge management ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Knowledge engineering ,Knowledge value chain ,Library and Information Sciences ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Knowledge acquisition ,Computer Science Applications ,Knowledge sharing ,Knowledge-based systems ,Media Technology ,Personal knowledge management ,Domain knowledge ,business ,Information Systems - Abstract
New Product Development (NPD) is one of the most important activities for companies. The NPD activities get to depend on knowledge more and more. Therefore, Knowledge Management (KM) has become a key issue and a hot topic in the fields of NPD researches. This paper proposes a new design of an effective NPD-support KM tool for facilitating the knowledge sharing and acquisition among collaborative NPD team members. The KM tool mainly contains two channels for knowledge acquisition: knowledge query and knowledge recommendation. The former one is the basic function for all types of KM tools, and also acts as the basis for the latter one. This paper proposes two types of knowledge recommendation ways: one is a vector-based way; the other is a phrase-based way. Key techniques for implementing the KM tool are elaborated. A demo example is also illustrated to show the functions of the proposed KM tool.
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- 2013
45. A multi-stage fluctuation smoothing method for multiple bottlenecks in wafer fabrication
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Lu Zhen, Hongtao Hu, Zhuo Sun, and Huai Zhang
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Engineering ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Distributed computing ,Real-time computing ,Scheduling (production processes) ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Bottleneck ,Computer Science Applications ,Multi stage ,Wafer fabrication ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS ,business ,Software ,Smoothing - Abstract
The performance of a wafer fabrication system is constrained by its bottlenecks, which is often affected by the system fluctuations and unpredicted events, e.g., machine breakdown. Considering the re-entrant process flow in wafer fabrication, we propose a scheduling method that divides the process flow into several stages and protects the bottleneck step at each re-entrant stage from the system fluctuations. Furthermore, due to the multiple bottlenecks in wafer fabrication system, we identify the bottlenecks by sensitivity analysis on machines’ capacity. Then, during the real-time scheduling, the bottlenecks with stronger constraints are assigned with higher priority than the bottlenecks with weaker constraints. Finally, a set of simulation experiments are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- 2013
46. Progress in design and fabrication of artificial compound eye optical systems
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孙强 Sun Qiang, 张红鑫 Zhang Hong-xin, 沈宏海 Shen Hong-hai, 鱼卫星 Yu Wei-xing, 巩宪伟 Gong Xian-wei, and 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu
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Fabrication ,genetic structures ,Computer science ,business.industry ,General Engineering ,Compound eye ,eye diseases ,law.invention ,Lens (optics) ,Surface micromachining ,Machining ,law ,Point (geometry) ,Computer vision ,Research development ,sense organs ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Microfabrication - Abstract
This paper overviews the research situation and development prospects of artificial compound eye optical systems on the basis of their advantages of small volumes,light weights,large field-of-view and high sensitivity.It introduces the structures and classification of insects′ compound eyes,and describes the research development of artificial compound eyes according to the design of artificial imaging systems with curved and plane surfaces.Then,it gives structures,models and imaging abilities of typical compound eye imaging systems at home and abroad,and summarizes their usages and merits in different fields.Finally,the preparing techniques of artificial compound eyes are analyzed.Analyzed results point out that the functions of compound eye optical systems are dependent on the fabrication of the microelements,the super fine machining is a fine and effective micromachining method and it has the potentials to fabricate higher accuracy lens arrays and improve application abilities.
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- 2013
47. A New Kind of Hadamard Transform Spectrometer
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卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, 党博石 Dang Boshi, 刘华 Liu Hua, 许家林 Xu Jialin, and 王晓朵 Wang Xiaoduo
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Physics ,Spectrometer ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,business.industry ,Imaging spectrometer ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Luminous flux ,Optics ,Hadamard transform ,Focal length ,Cylindrical lens ,Spectral resolution ,business ,Image resolution - Abstract
In order to overcome the shortcoming that the luminous flux of the classical spectrometer is small due to the occlusion of the entrance slit,a design concept of the new kind of Hadamard transform spectrometer is proposed.A method of shaping the beam by a cylindrical lens is given.Using theoretical calculations of the spectral resolution ability and the pixel resolution ability of the spectrometer,containing a digital micromirror array,he limit class of the spectrometer resolution can be determined.Based on the geometric theory of optical imaging,an optimization program of the more focal length of the imaging lens is proposed,which is able to obtain the higher spectral resolution and the more beneficial to the mechanical alignment.The advantages of the new Hadamard transform spectrometer are that it has a high luminous flux,the signal-to-noise ratio is 5times more than that of traditions,and the smaller spectral bandwidth is 3.5nm,providing convenient conditions for the detection of weak spectral signal.In addition,the near-infrared detector selected by the spectrometer needs no refrigeration,which will cut the production costs of the Hadamard transform spectrometer,with a stronger market competitiveness.
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- 2013
48. Nanogap measurement by using surface plasmon resonance sensor
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王二伟 Wang Er-wei, 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, 王成 Wang Cheng, and 鱼卫星 Yu Wei-xing
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Phase difference ,Diffraction ,Measurement method ,Materials science ,Surface plasmon resonance sensor ,Optics ,Optical diffraction ,business.industry ,General Engineering ,Reflector (antenna) ,Surface plasmon resonance ,business ,Sensitivity (electronics) - Abstract
An optical method for the nanogap measurement beyond the optical diffraction limit was reported.The function relationship between the nanogap width and the phase difference was built.Based on the high sensitivity of a surface plasmon resonance(SPR) sensor,the nanogap width between a light transmitting mirror and a reflector could be measured by detecting the phase difference between p-and s-polarizations of the light.Numerical simulation shows that the phase difference shifts from 150° to-150° by changing the nanogap width from-0.5 to 0.5 μm and the measured sensitivity of nanogap width is better than 1 nm.This nanogap measurement method can realize the measurement for the smallest gap below 10 nm and provides a simple and real-time operation beyond the physical diffraction limit.
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- 2013
49. Suppresion of stray light ghost image in internally occulting refractive ground-based coronagraph
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孙明哲 Sun Ming-zhe, 卢振武 Lu Zhen-wu, 张红鑫 Zhang Hong-xin, and 卜和阳 Bu He-yang
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Masking (art) ,Physics ,business.industry ,Aperture ,Image quality ,Stray light ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,General Engineering ,Field of view ,F-number ,law.invention ,Lens (optics) ,Optics ,law ,business ,Coronagraph - Abstract
In order to improve the imaging quality of coronagraphs,the ghost image caused by multi-reflection light from an objective lens for the internally occulting refractive ground-based coronagraph is analyzed at a band from 530 nm to 555 nm.The coronagraph with an aperture of 120 nm shows its main specifications in a field of view of 1.1 to 3R⊙,a resolution of 13.5 μm,and F number of 8.2.The paper analyzes its imaging theory and establishes a model for the ghost image.Then,it presents the structure masking measures and performs an experimental demonstration.The experiment result shows that the masking structure is effective on the elimination of ghost image.In addition,the intensity of ghost image and the intensity of diffracted light of objective lens edge are basically the same.The experiment also illuminates that the size of ghost image is the same as the simulation result of 0.9 mm.The ghost image suppressing further improves the capability of elimination of stray light and the image quality of the coronagraph achieves the effective observation of the solar corona.
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- 2013
50. Recommender systems for personal knowledge management in collaborative environments
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Jun-Tao He, Lu Zhen, and Hai-Tao Song
- Subjects
Knowledge management ,Computer science ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Control (management) ,General Engineering ,Recommender system ,Computer Science Applications ,Knowledge sharing ,World Wide Web ,Artificial Intelligence ,New product development ,Personal knowledge management ,Key (cryptography) ,Personal knowledge base ,business ,Function (engineering) ,media_common - Abstract
Personal knowledge management (PKM) is different from the traditional centralized knowledge management (KM) modes. The PKM is suitable for distributed collaborative KM environments. This paper makes an explorative study on the PKM, and analyzes various forms of personal knowledge resources in the product development process. Then a model of recommender systems for PKM is proposed for knowledge sharing among members in the collaborative environment. The key function of the PKM recommender systems is to supply potentially useful personal knowledge resources from the sites where these knowledge resources are created to the sites where the members may need the knowledge. The PKM is in a mode of distributed control rather than a mode of centralized control, which is widely used by traditional KM methods and tools. This study paves a way for developing an advanced mode of KM platforms for PKM sharing in collaborative environments.
- Published
- 2012
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