Optimal shift partitioning of pharmacies

The pharmacy service requires that some pharmacies are always available and shifts have to be organized: a shift corresponds to a subset of pharmacies that must be open 24 hours a day on a particular week. Under the requirement that each pharmacy belongs to exactly one shift and the assumption that users minimize the distance to the closest open pharmacy during each shift, we want to determine a partition of the pharmacies into a given number of shifts, such that the total distance covered by users is minimized. It may be also required that shift cardinalities are balanced. We discuss different versions and the related computational complexity, showing that the problem is NP-hard in general. A set packing formulation is presented and solved by branch-and-price, together with a fast solution technique based on a tabu search. They have been applied to real and random instances showing that (i) the set packing formulation is very tight and often exhibits no integrality gap; (ii) the branch-and-price solves problems of practical relevance to optimality in a reasonable amount of time (order of minutes); (iii) the tabu search finds optimal or near-optimal solutions in order of seconds.     

打造自己最新版本的集成安装软件

主要阐述了软件与补丁程序的整合方法.     

一种用于微波射频识别卡的圆极化微带天线

本文设计了一种用于微波非接触式射频识别卡的圆极化微带天线 ,采用AnsoftEnsemble7.0和Optimetrics模块分别进行仿真和优化 ,使输入、输出端口驻波比 ,左、右旋圆极化隔离度等参数满足系统性能要求。对加工的样品进行测试 ,结果显示 ,天线中心谐振频率为 5 .8GHz,左、右旋圆极化隔离度约 2 0dB ,天线有效方向角6 0° ,天线增益为 5dBi,达到实用化要求     

Relationships between urbanization and the oak resource of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan area from 1991 to 1998

Urbanization was associated with loss and transformation of the oak forest in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) metropolitan area (TCMA) over a recent 7-year interval. Between 1991 and 1998, urbanization increased based on several indicators: population density, area of developed land, and area of impervious surface—total impervious area and area within three classes of increasing degree of imperviousness (protected, affected, and degraded). We quantified relationships between changes in urbanization and changes in several parameters describing the oak forest at the scale of ecological subsection. Increased total and affected impervious area were strongly correlated with decreased area of oak forest when changes of the urbanization indicators and oak were expressed as percentages of the subsection area. Relationships were reversed when changes were expressed as percentages of the 1991 values. Increased population density was strongly correlated with increased loss in numbers and increased isolation of oak patches, but weakly correlated with loss of oak forest area. This is the first study to quantify relationships between changes in urbanization and changes in a specific forest cover type. Our results demonstrate complexities of urbanization impacts on a metropolitan forest resource, and highlight the importance of selected variables, spatial and temporal scales, and expressions of change when quantifying these relationships.     

From the individual element test to finite element templates: Evolution of the patch test

This paper starts a sequence of three articles that follow an unconventional approach in finite element research. The ultimate objective is to construct high-performance elements and element-level error estimators for those elements. The approach takes off from our previous work in high-performance elements and culminates with the development of finite element templates. The present paper concentrates on the patch test and evolved versions of the test that have played a key role in this research. Following a brief review of the historical roots, we present the Individual Element Test (IET) of Bergan and Hanssen in an expanded context that encompasses several important classes of new elements. The relationship of the IET to the multielement forms A, B and C of the patch test and to the single-element test are investigated. An important consequence of the IET application is that the element stiffness equations decompose naturally into basic and higher-order parts. The application of this decomposition to the “sanitization” of the non-convergent BCIZ element is described and verified with numerical experiments. Two sequel papers in preparation are subtitled ‘the algebraic approach’ and ‘element-level error estimation’. These apply the fundamental decomposition to the derivation of templates for specific mechanical elements and to the construction of element-level error estimators, respectively.     

扫描式X光机及DDS在其运动控制中的应用

扫描式X光机是一种高精度，高性能的新型医疗设备，其显著优点在于大大降低了患者所受X光辐射剂量，可直接得到患者清晰的X光数字图像，缩短出片时间，X光片资料存储方便，便于实现远程诊断，该设备对运动控制部分的匀速性，平稳性和多次扫描的位置重复性的要求均很高。本文主要针对其运动控制部分的结构特点，分析了影响运动性能的主要原因，并将直接数字频率合成器应用于调速，从而实现了对其运动控制部分的要求。     

Analysis of information exchange activities to actualize and validate situation awareness during shift changeovers in nuclear power plants

Shift work situations occur in almost all safety‐critical organizations, and the investigations of some catastrophes like Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, and the Gol/Legacy mid‐air collision indicated that shift work information exchange played an important role during the evolution of the situation before the accidents. Inadequate communications during shift changeovers challenged operators' work in the moments that preceded these accidents, because they got inadequate information about the current situation. Our research focuses on the information exchange activities (verbal, written, and nonverbal) of nuclear power plant control operators during shift changeovers. Our aim is to investigate how verbal exchanges and other representations enable operator crews to share information regarding the events that occurred in the previous shift to achieve adequate situation awareness. Our findings indicated the importance and richness of the information exchange during the shift changeover process to update and validate individual and collective situation awareness, showing that information adequately shared enables the ad hoc configurations of regulation loops and a safer use of simplified strategies that can be understood and be validated by other operators, reducing the occurrence of cognitive overloads and contributing to the construction of a common cognitive ground that enhances system resilience. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

WSUS补丁分发系统在医院内网中的应用

针对与互联网物理隔离的医院内网计算机操作系统无法自动更新的问题,提出应用微软的免费软件WSUS来实现医院内网计算机补丁自动更新。通过对WSUS系统在医院内网中的部署和应用的详细介绍,为有效地避免因系统漏洞引起的病毒爆发和恶意攻击提供了一种思路,在减少维护工作量的同时也提高了医院内网的安全性。     

与低计算复杂度解映射相结合的16APSK星座优化

提出一种在新的简化的解映射方法下,以星座图上所有信号点距离解映射门限的最小距离的最大化为目标函数的星座图优化方法。仿真比较了在优化设计的星座映射下,传统的解映射算法和所提出的解映射的误码性能。仿真结果表明,所提出的星座图优化设计方法在简化的解映射方法下具有良好的性能;简化的解映射算法在大大降低计算复杂度的情况下,在误比特率为10-4时,SNR损失了约1 d B。     

工业变换炉最佳催化剂粒度

本文在建立数学模型的基础上，用计算机模拟变换炉的操作工况，考察改变催化剂粒度对经济效益的影响，从而得到工业变换炉催化剂颗粒最佳尺寸，开发了以经济效益为考察依据，工业反应器中催化剂颗粒最佳尺寸的计算方法。