巴西油气合同模式与财税政策新动向

巴西Lula油田的发现证实了桑托斯盆地世界瞩目的勘探潜力,巴西政府调整油气战略,针对盐下地区的核心资源推出了产品分成合同。随着2015年以来巴西经济衰退与腐败丑闻的冲击,巴西政府为吸引国际投资,在财税政策上做出了部分让步,废除了巴西国家石油公司在盐下地区强制作业者权力和至少30%权益的保障、延长了"REPETRO"免税机制20年、大幅降低了本地化采购比例的要求,促进了2017年深水勘探区块的招投标。通过合同模式的对比发现,政府能够在产品分成合同获取更高的分成比例,加强了盐下核心资源的控制。通过对本地化采购要求和间接税体制的解剖,深入认识到采购策略、本地化采购要求和间接税纳税筹划三者之间紧密相连,为中国油公司在巴西油气项目的招投标、并购和运作提出了合适的建议。     

Graph-based video fingerprinting using double optimal projection

A double optimal projection method that involves projections for intra-cluster and inter-cluster dimensionality reduction are proposed for video fingerprinting. The video is initially set as a graph with frames as its vertices in a high-dimensional space. A similarity measure that can compute the weights of the edges is then proposed. Subsequently, the video frames are partitioned into different clusters based on the graph model. Double optimal projection is used to explore the optimal mapping points in a low-dimensional space to reduce the video dimensions. The statistics and geometrical fingerprints are generated to determine whether a query video is copied from one of the videos in the database. During matching, the video can be roughly matched by utilizing the statistics fingerprint. Further matching is thereafter performed in the corresponding group using geometrical fingerprints. Experimental results show the good performance of the proposed video fingerprinting method in robustness and discrimination.     

Content adaptive video denoising based on human visual perception

In this paper, we propose content adaptive denoising in highly corrupted videos based on human visual perception. We introduce the human visual perception in video denoising to achieve good performance. In general, smooth regions corrupted by noise are much more annoying to human observers than complex regions. Moreover, human eyes are more interested in complex regions with image details and more sensitive to luminance than chrominance. Based on the human visual perception, we perform perceptual video denoising to effectively preserve image details and remove annoying noise. To successfully remove noise and recover the image details, we extend nonlocal mean filtering to the spatiotemporal domain. With the guidance of content adaptive segmentation and motion detection, we conduct content adaptive filtering in the YUV color space to consider context in images and obtain perceptually pleasant results. Extensive experiments on various video sequences demonstrate that the proposed method reconstructs natural-looking results even in highly corrupted images and achieves good performance in terms of both visual quality and quantitative measures.     

石墨烯对搅拌摩擦加工铝基复合材料性能的影响

采用结合粉末工艺的两步法搅拌摩擦加工制备石墨烯增强铝基复合材料,研究了石墨烯添加量对复合材料力学性能和导电性能的影响。结果表明,石墨烯的添加对铝基复合材料性能有明显的影响,随石墨烯添加量增加,复合材料的硬度逐渐提高、塑性持续下降,而抗拉强度和电导率均呈先增后减的趋势。石墨烯体积分数为3.7%时,复合材料的抗拉强度最高,达到146.5 MPa,与同等加工条件下的纯铝相比,提高了78.7%,而石墨烯体积分数为1.3%时,复合材料的电导率最高,达到30.62 MS/m,较同等加工条件下的纯铝基体提高了53.4%。     

Towards efficient device-to-device multicast content delivery with social awareness

Frequent content retrieval leads to significant energy consumption in cellular networks. Thereby, device-to-device (D2D) communication is used for proximal content delivery. Be aware that social friends may have common content interests, D2D content delivery is further improved by considering social network. However, how to implement efficient D2D multicast with the aid of social relationship needs further consideration. In this paper, with a proposed architecture on combined networks, the cooperation range of content sharing is investigated for D2D multicast to minimize the average energy consumption of serving a content request. Based on combined networks, a cooperation group formation scheme is proposed. Simulation results verify our analyzes and the advantage of proposed scheme.     

Fe含量对热挤压再生铝合金组织和性能的影响

采用光学显微镜、扫描电镜、万能拉伸机、显微硬度计等手段研究了不同Fe含量对热挤压再生铝合金组织和性能的影响,并探讨富Fe相形态演变机制。结果表明,Fe含量的增加有利于抑制再生铝晶粒尺寸的长大。随着Fe含量增加,晶粒尺寸逐渐减小,减小幅度达25%。热挤压后再生铝中富Fe相发生了折断和破碎,并沿着挤压方向呈带状分布。随着Fe含量增加,富Fe相的面积分数和平均长度均逐渐提高,当Fe含量分别为0.10%~1.24%时,面积分数和平均长度增长最快;而富Fe相的圆整度则随Fe含量的增加稍有降低。同时,再生铝的抗拉强度、屈服强度和伸长率均随着Fe含量的增加呈现逐渐降低的趋势,最大降低幅度分别为10.4%、23.2%和46.0%,而显微硬度则逐渐提高,最大提高幅度为21.7%。断口形貌也由纯韧性断裂转变为混合型断裂模式。     

Muzzling social media: The adverse effects of moderating stakeholder conversations online

Many organizations struggle to meaningfully engage with their stakeholders on political, societal and environmental topics via social media. Often such discourses unravel into splintered and negative conversations, raising the question whether organizations can and should exercise some level of control and ‘steering’ in these conversations and, if so, how stakeholders would react to such ‘top down’ moderation. Existing studies lack empirical insights into the impacts of different levels of moderation in social media conversations on stakeholder attitudes. Two experimental studies were developed to test the effect of different levels of organizational moderation on stakeholder attitudes towards organizations. We show that increased levels of moderation negatively affect attitudes towards an organization, satisfaction with an organization's performance, and trust in the organization. Increased moderation also significantly undermines beliefs in the commitment of the organization to its stakeholders and control mutuality. This paper extends recent qualitative attempts to build new theory around stakeholder dialogues on social media by testing the effects of varying levels of moderation in such dialogues.     

东南亚南传佛教壁画考察与述略

南传佛教是泰、缅、柬、老等东南亚国家以及我国傣族地区具有主体地位的宗教形态,普及面广、信徒众多、影响深刻。作为其重要组成部分的南传佛教壁画,可谓是中南半岛上最具典型意义的美术形式。它既是信奉南传佛教信众的情感流露和心灵写照,又是其精神世界与审美理想的表征。本文依托田野考察所获取的一手资料及相关文献,对东南亚南传佛教壁画的历史沿革、内容题材、形式风格、表现手法和发展现状等进行了梳理与分析。