三甘醇脱水填料塔计算方法适用性分析

塔径计算是进行三甘醇填料脱水塔设计的首要工作,为了选用准确适用的塔径计算方法,详细介绍了多种塔径计算方法。以两个实际项目的数据为计算案例,分别采用贝恩-霍根(Bain-Haugen)关联式、通用压降关联图法(GPDC)、塔负荷系数法、Aspen HYSYS软件等不同方法计算三甘醇填料脱水塔的塔径,并进行了计算结果偏差分析和计算方法适用性分析。结果分析表明,塔负荷系数法、通用压降关联图法(GPDC)、Aspen HYSYS软件计算结果相近,经圆整后的塔径一致。贝恩-霍根(Bain-Haugen)关联式算出的结果偏差较大,过于保守,分别为11.11%和8.73%。由于通用压降关联图法(GPDC)的计算结果受GPDC关联图内数据点影响准确度不易保证,建议选用塔负荷系数法和Aspen HYSYS软件进行三甘醇脱水填料塔塔径的计算。      

E?cient Video Cutout by Paint Selection

Video cutout refers to extracting moving objects from videos, which is an important step in many video editing tasks. Recent algorithms have limitations in terms of e?ciency, interaction style, and rob...     

Mathematical representation of radiality constraint in distribution system reconfiguration problem

Distribution systems are most commonly operated in a radial configuration for a number of reasons. In order to impose radiality constraint in the optimal network reconfiguration problem, an efficient algorithm is introduced in this paper based on graph theory. The paper shows that the normally followed methods of imposing radiality constraint within a mixed-integer programming formulation of the reconfiguration problem may not be sufficient. The minimum-loss network reconfiguration problem is formulated using different ways to impose radiality constraint. It is shown, through simulations, that the formulated problem using the proposed method for representing radiality constraint can be solved more efficiently, as opposed to the previously proposed formulations. This results in up to 30% reduction in CPU time for the test systems used in this study.     

Robust skin detection in real-world images

Human skin detection in images is desirable in many practical applications, e.g., human–computer interaction and adult-content filtering. However, existing methods are mainly suffer from confusing backgrounds in real-world images. In this paper, we try to address this issue by exploring and combining several human skin properties, i.e. color property, texture property and region property. First, images are divided into superpixels, and robust skin seeds and background seeds are acquired through color property and texture property of skin. Then we combining color, region and texture properties of skin by proposing a novel skin color and texture based graph cuts (SCTGC) to acquire the final skin detection results. Comprehensive and comparative experiments show that the proposed method achieves promising performance and outperforms many state-of-the-art methods over publicly available challenging datasets with a great part of hard images.     

初创型团队异质性与团队创新的关系:基于团队外部知识网络的视角

目的探索基于团队外部知识网络视角来考察年龄异质性和专业异质性对初创型异质性团队创新的作用。方法采用问卷调查的方法。对102个初创型团队进行调查。结果在初创型团队中,年龄异质性和专业异质性均能提升团队创新,外部知识网络利用强度和广度在年龄异质性促进团队创新的过程中承担中介作用,外部知识网络利用强度在专业异质性促进团队创新的过程中承担中介作用。结论在初创型团队中,年龄异质性通过提升外部知识网络利用促进团队创新,专业异质性通过提升外部知识网络利用强度促进团队创新。     

Integrating Variable Reduction Strategy With Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Equations Systems

Nonlinear equations systems (NESs) are widely used in real-world problems and they are difficult to solve due to their nonlinearity and multiple roots. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are one of the methods for solving NESs, given their global search capabilities and ability to locate multiple roots of a NES simultaneously within one run. Currently, the majority of research on using EAs to solve NESs focuses on transformation techniques and improving the performance of the used EAs. By contrast, problem domain knowledge of NESs is investigated in this study, where we propose the incorporation of a variable reduction strategy (VRS) into EAs to solve NESs. The VRS makes full use of the systems of expressing a NES and uses some variables (i.e., core variable) to represent other variables (i.e., reduced variables) through variable relationships that exist in the equation systems. It enables the reduction of partial variables and equations and shrinks the decision space, thereby reducing the complexity of the problem and improving the search efficiency of the EAs. To test the effectiveness of VRS in dealing with NESs, this paper mainly integrates the VRS into two existing state-of-the-art EA methods (i.e., MONES and DR-JADE) according to the integration framework of the VRS and EA, respectively. Experimental results show that, with the assistance of the VRS, the EA methods can produce better results than the original methods and other compared methods. Furthermore, extensive experiments regarding the influence of different reduction schemes and EAs substantiate that a better EA for solving a NES with more reduced variables tends to provide better performance.      

Regional characteristics and the decision to innovate in a developing country: A multilevel analysis of Ecuadorian firms

This is the first study that uses multilevel modelling to analyse regional influence on the decision to invest in innovation activities of firms in a single developing country, Ecuador. Our results indicate that the decision to invest in R&D and in other innovation activities are conditioned by the region in which the firm is located. Regional loan volume, orientation towards knowledge exploitation and intra-regional-sectorial R&D spillovers are positively associated with both types of innovation activities, while regional levels of co-operation and inter-regional R&D spillovers are only positively associated with the probability of investing in other innovation activities.     

面向可解释性的物体拓扑结构骨架表征方法

目的 模式识别中，通常使用大量标注数据和有效的机器学习算法训练分类器应对不确定性问题。然而，这一过程缺乏知识表征和可解释性。认知心理学和实验心理学的研究表明，人类往往不使用代价如此巨大的机制，而是使用表征、归纳、推理、解释和约束传播等与符号主义人工智能方法类似的手段来应对物体识别中的不确定性并提供可解释性。因此本文旨在从传统的符号计算出发，利用骨架拓扑结构表征提供一种可解释性的思路。方法 以骨架树为基本手段来形成物体拓扑结构特征和几何特征的形式化表征，并基于泛化框架对少量同类表征进行知识抽取来形成关于物体类别的知识概括显式化表征。结果 在形成物体类别的概括表征实验中，通过路径重建直观展示了同类属物体上得到的最一般表征的几何物理意义。在可解释性验证实验中，通过跨数据的拓扑应用展示了新测试样本相对于概括表征的特定差异，表明该表征具有良好的可解释性。最后在形状补全的不确定性推理实验中，不仅可以得到识别结论，而且清晰展示了识别背后做出的判断依据，进一步验证了该表征的可解释性。结论 实验表明一般化的形式表征能够应对尺寸、颜色和形状等不确定性问题，本文方法避免了基于纹理特征所带来的不确定性，适用于任意基于基元的表征方式，具有更好的鲁棒性、普适性和可解释性，计算代价更小。     

基于Citespace的我国稀土出口研究进展与热点分析

随着战略性新兴产业的兴起发展，稀土作为战略资源的重要地位不断凸显，作为公共产品供给，稀土出口问题备受国内外关注。文章运用CiteSpace软件并基于文献计量与知识图谱分析方法，以CNKI文献资料为数据源，对1993~2019年稀土出口研究相关文献从发文量、作者群体、发文机构、关键词、突现词及时间线方面进行分析，以探讨国内稀土出口领域研究的演进趋势与发展热点。结果表明：近年来稀土出口领域文献整体呈增长趋势，但是文献发表具有明显的波动性和政策关联性。作者群体和发文机构主要集中在具有科研优势或资源优势地区的高校，研究团队之间合作程度较低。稀土产业、出口管制、出口配额、出口定价、出口政策等成为文献关键词和高频词。未来的稀土出口领域的研究方向主要集中在出口定价、可持续发展、本土稀土产业链发展和稀土产业资本出口四个方面。