Color harmonies in packaging

The goal of this research was to determine whether or not there was a difference between consumer preferences for color harmonies for products where external labels and visible product existed simultaneously. Using established color theory, transparent packages containing visible products with colored labels were evaluated. Eye tracking metrics and overall preference testing were used to assess these products. Eye tracking data yielded quantitative data that was statistically analyzed using analysis of variance. A post experiment survey was given to participants to collect demographics and additional data was completed through chi‐squared tests for association. No significant difference was found between color harmonies and preference, nor was there significance for the eye tracking metrics. These results of no significance are ideal for designers because it gives them the freedom to use their judgment when designing packaging labels. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 42, 50–59, 2017     

A class of multi-period semi-variance portfolio for petroleum exploration and development

Variance is substituted by semi-variance in Markowitz's portfolio selection model. For dynamic valuation on exploration and development projects, one period portfolio selection is extended to multi-period. In this article, a class of multi-period semi-variance exploration and development portfolio model is formulated originally. Besides, a hybrid genetic algorithm, which makes use of the position displacement strategy of the particle swarm optimiser as a mutation operation, is applied to solve the multi-period semi-variance model. For this class of portfolio model, numerical results show that the mode is effective and feasible.     

活性炭吸附原子吸收光度法测定铅锑精矿中金的含量

通过在铅锑精矿焙烧时加入一定量的氧化锌或氧化钙，使铅锑精矿在灼烧过程中的单质硫、有机质、硫化物、碳充分焙烧，然后采用王水分解矿样，活性炭动态吸附富集金，灰化除碳，王水溶解，原子吸收光度法测定铅锑精矿中金含量，方法快速、准确，同时适用于含碳、硫较高焙烧时易结块的精矿样品。     

干制麻辣鸡肉丝研制

以开发旅游休闲小食品干制麻辣鸡肉丝为目标,对干制鸡肉丝生产工艺进行研究,通过感官评分,确定其最佳生产工艺。研究结果表明:鸡肉丝的大小以切成3~4cm×0.5cm×0.5cm左右的细丝较为适宜;其工艺条件以先切丝后卤制再炒制烘烤为佳;卤制条件为先大火30~40min后小火1~2h,炒制烘烤条件为炒制15min左右,然后在50~60℃烘烤1~3h。     

The provably good parallel seeding algorithms for the k-means problem with penalties

As a classic NP-hard problem in machine learning and computational geometry, the k-means problem aims to partition the given points into k sets to minimize the within-cluster sum of squares. The k-means problem with penalties (k-MPWP), as a generalizing problem of the k-means problem, allows a point that can be either clustered or penalized with some positive cost. In this paper, we mainly apply the parallel seeding algorithm to the k-MPWP, and show sufficient analysis to bound the expected solution quality in the case where both the number of iterations and the number of points sampled in each iteration can be given arbitrarily. The approximate guarantee can be obtained as , where is a polynomial function involving the maximal ratio M between the penalties. On one hand, this result can be viewed as a further improvement on the parallel algorithm for k-MPWP given by Li et al., where the number of iterations depends on other factors. On the other hand, our result also generalizes the one solving the k-means problem presented by Bachem et al., because k-MPWP is a variant of the k-means problem. Moreover, we present a numerical experiment to show the effectiveness of the parallel algorithm for k-means with penalties.     

An evaluation of enhanced oil recovery strategies for a heavy oil reservoir after cold production with sand

Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is the process of choice for unconsolidated heavy oil reservoirs with relatively high gas content. The key challenge of CHOPS is that the recovery factor tends to be between 5% and 15%, implying that the majority of the oil remains in the ground after the process is rendered uneconomic. Continued cold production (without sands) is not productive for a post‐CHOPS reservoir because of the low oil saturation and depleted reservoir pressure in the wormhole regions. There is a need to develop viable recovery processes for post‐CHOPS reservoirs. Here, different follow‐up processes are examined for a post‐CHOPS heavy oil reservoir. In post‐CHOPS cold water flooding, severe water channeling is ineffective at displacing high viscosity heavy oil. Hot water flooding improves the sweep efficiency and produces more oil compared with cold water flooding. However, the swept region is limited to the domain between the neighboring wormhole networks, and the energy efficiency of the process is relatively poor. Compared with the hot water flooding case, steam flooding achieves higher oil production rates and lower water use. A cyclic steam stimulation strategy achieves the best performance regarding oil production rates and water usage. Based on our results, it is observed that thermally based techniques alone are not capable to recover the oil economically for post‐CHOPS reservoirs. However, it is suggested that techniques with combined use of thermal energy and solvent could potentially yield efficient oil recovery methods for these reservoirs. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

宝钢厚板高敏感性裂纹钢切割裂纹机理研究

针对高裂纹敏感性钢,以耐磨钢为例,研究了耐磨钢板的显微组织,带温和非带温切割条件下硬度的变化,确定了火切端部裂纹形成与扩展机制。结果表明,带温切割条件下火切热影响区硬度梯度变化明显变缓,产生裂纹等缺陷风险大幅降低。对实际生产具有十分重要的实际应用意义。     

基于变步长差分迭代方法的河道水面线计算

在计算天然河道水面线时，由于河道的不规则性，导致计算断面间距往往是不相等的。为此，依据水力学能量方程，建立了变步长差分迭代的水面曲线模型。该数学模型简单易行，适应性强，便于程序化实现。通过对河南省南部某河道治理工程水面线的推求验证，证明该方法可有效解决非等间距断面的水面线推求问题，且计算效率和精度较高，可为计算类似工程问题提供参考。