Properties of poly(n‐butyl methacrylate) prepared by reverse atom transfer radical polymerization in an aqueous dispersed system

Reverse atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of n‐butyl methacrylate (BMA) in waterborne media using Cu(II) complexes with azo initiators (i.e., reverse ATRP) was conducted. The influence of several factors, such as surfactant, catalyst, and reaction time, on the stability of the emulsion, the particle size, the morphology of the emulsion particles, and the control of the polymerization was investigated. The results showed great differences between ATRP and conventional emulsion polymerization, especially the nucleation mechanism and the kinetics. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 89: 1542–1547, 2003     

Potential thread-level-parallelism exploration with superblock reordering

The growing number of processing cores in a single CPU is demanding more parallelism from sequential programs. But in the past decades few work has succeeded in automatically exploiting enough parallelism, which casts a shadow over the many-core architecture and the automatic parallelization research. However, actually few work was tried to understand the nature, or amount, of the potentially available parallelism in programs. In this paper we will analyze at runtime the dynamic data dependencies among superblocks of sequential programs. We designed a meta re-arrange buffer to measure and exploit the available parallelism, with which the superblocks are dynamically analyzed, reordered and dispatched to run in parallel on an ideal many-core processor, while the data dependencies and program correctness are still maintained. In our experiments, we observed that with the superblock reordering, the potential speedup ranged from 1.08 to 89.60. The results showed that the potential parallelism of normal programs was still far from fully exploited by existing technologies. This observation makes the automatic parallelization a promising research direction for many-core architectures.     

Electrodeposition of Ni-transition alloys for the oxygen evolution reaction

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the anodic reaction in several industrial electrolytic processes. The objective of this work was to develop a new electrocatalytic material for long-lasting and economical high performance electrodes. New electrodes were prepared by electrodeposition of nickel, nickel-ruthenium and nickel-iridium alloys. They were then activated by anodic polarization at 100 mA cm^–2 to form an oxide layer. The electrocatalytic activity was characterized for the OER in 5M KOH solution. The results show that nickel-iridium alloys provide greater electrocatalytic activity for the OER and better corrosion resistance than nickel-ruthenium in alkaline solution. The effects of transition elements on improving the performance of the nickel electrode are then discussed.Notation b Tafel slope - i _ex exchange current density - i _dp electrodeposition current density - i _OER oxygen evolution reaction current density - C _dl double-layer capacity - o₂ oxygen overpotential     

Determinants of users’ continuance of social networking sites: A self-regulation perspective

Social networking sites (SNS) have transformed how individuals interact, build and maintain social relationships. We proposed a research model on the determinants of user continuance using Bagozzi's framework of self-regulation as the theoretical foundation. Following the process of appraisal → emotional reactions → coping responses, we developed the model by leveraging findings from social presence and IS continuance research. Based on survey data from Facebook users, we found that appraisal factors (pleasure, awareness, connectedness, and system quality) were strong determinants of emotional reaction (user satisfaction and sense of belonging). User satisfaction and sense of belonging together positively influenced continuance intention.     

A parallel algorithm with enhancements via partial objective value cuts for cluster-based wireless sensor network design

In this paper, we develop a parallel algorithm for the solution of an integrated topology control and routing problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). After presenting a mixed-integer linear optimization formulation for the problem, for its solution, we develop an effective parallel algorithm in a Master–Worker model that incorporates three parallelization strategies, namely low-level parallelism, domain decomposition, and multiple search (both cooperative and independent) in a single Master–Worker framework.     

Building Technical Trading System with Genetic Programming: A New Method to Test the Efficiency of Chinese Stock Markets

Testing whether technical trading rules can beat buy-and-hold strategy is a common approach to study the efficiency of stock markets. Noticing that the common approach of evaluating popular technical trading rules’ profitability would result in the biases of data snooping and incomplete test, we build a technical trading system with genetic programming to test the efficiency of Chinese stock markets. This system takes historical prices and volumes as inputs, randomly generates treelike structured technical trading rules composed of basic functions, and optimizes the rules using genetic programming according to the inputs. Using daily prices and volumes of Shenzhen Stock Exchange 100 index from January 2, 2004 to March 12, 2010, we find out that the optimal technical trading rules generated by our technical trading system have statistically significant out-of-sample excess returns compared with buy-and-hold strategy considering realistic transaction costs. Therefore, we conclude that Chinese stock markets have not achieved weak-form efficiency.     

高柔韧性聚氨酯丙烯酸酯的合成及应用

选用不同结构的多元醇作骨架，合成一系列高性能的聚氨酯丙烯酸树脂，并通过对聚氨酯丙烯酸树脂性能的对比研究，发现以聚丁二烯二元醇为骨架的聚氨酯丙烯酸酯树脂具有极佳的柔韧性和优异的低温耐曲折性。     

二维多层次的云服务可靠性评估方法研究

针对云服务业务流程管理的特点, 给出了云服务的组合实现框架; 依据随机Petri网的建模理论, 探讨了组合云服务流程网模型的细粒度建模方法; 根据动态多变的用户需求, 设计了二维多层次的云服务组合可靠性动态评估框架, 并给出了马尔可夫过程和等值约简的两种可靠性计算方法。应用示例分析结果表明, 该方法具有较好的动态适应性和灵活性, 能有效满足云服务的可靠性评估需求。     

基于BACnet/IP的设备与实时数据库通信实现

针对不同厂商、不同系统的楼宇自控设备互操作、互通信的局限性,分析了BACnet/IP技术和实时数据库,设计开发了一种基于BACnet/IP技术的实时数据库DasRdb的设备驱动程序。该设备驱动程序采用UDP通信方式,通过调用每个BACnet/IP设备的标准接口函数来驱动实时数据库DasRdb分别进行写操作和读操作,能够有效地实现BACnet/IP设备与实时数据库DasRdb之间的通信,从而使楼控设备的互操作成为可能。现场工程应用表明,该程序的运行契合BACnet的一致性要求,具有简单、高效、精确度高、实时性好的特点。     

基于CPLD的光电编码器角位移拟合测速法

针对常用的M法和T法无法满足增量式光电编码器整个测速范围内误差要求的问题,提出了对码盘信号进行角位移拟合求采样时刻即时速度的新方法,在匀加速条件下对这3种方法进行了仿真实验,比较了测速误差。实验结果表明,角位移拟合法在整个速度范围内都能获得很高的测速精度和误差一致性。最后用CPLD对该方法加以实现,给出了Verilog硬件描述语言的设计程序和3种方法的实验结果比较。基于CPLD的实现方法电路简单,运行稳定可靠,处理速度快,为角位移拟合法提供了一种非常好的实现方法。