Recovery of online service: Perceived justice and transaction frequency

Recovery of online service is an issue in need of study. The current study empirically examines (1) the relationships among perceived justice, satisfaction with recovery of online service and repurchase intention of online service/failure encounters; and (2) the moderating effects of transaction frequency on these relationships. The current study collects 187 self-administered questionnaires to gather customers’ perceptions of actual online service/failure encounters. Research findings demonstrate that distributive justice, interactional justice and procedural justice can positively lead to satisfaction with recovery of online service and repurchase intention toward online service. These results further show that customers with low transaction frequency tend to focus more on interactional justice to establish their satisfaction with recovery of online service. On the other hand, customers with high transaction frequency focus more on procedural justice.     

Structured learning with constrained conditional models

Making complex decisions in real world problems often involves assigning values to sets of interdependent variables where an expressive dependency structure among these can influence, or even dictate, what assignments are possible. Commonly used models typically ignore expressive dependencies since the traditional way of incorporating non-local dependencies is inefficient and hence leads to expensive training and inference. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, this paper presents Constrained Conditional Models (CCMs), a?framework that augments linear models with declarative constraints as a way to support decisions in an expressive output space while maintaining modularity and tractability of training. The paper develops, analyzes and compares novel algorithms for CCMs based on Hidden Markov Models and Structured Perceptron. The proposed CCM framework is also compared to task-tailored models, such as semi-CRFs. Second, we propose CoDL, a?constraint-driven learning algorithm, which makes use of constraints to guide semi-supervised learning. We provide theoretical justification for CoDL along with empirical results which show the advantage of using declarative constraints in the context of semi-supervised training of probabilistic models.     

Satisfying quality requirements in the design of a partition‐based,distributed stock trading system

Although quality requirements (QRs) have become a major drive in today's software development, there have been very few real‐world examples in the literature that demonstrate how to meet these requirements. This paper presents such an example. Specifically, the paper describes the design of a partition‐based distributed stock trading service system that satisfies a set of QRs related to resource utilization, performance, scalability and availability. The paper evaluates this design through detailed experiments and discusses some design alternatives and the lessons learned. Central to this design are a static load distribution strategy and a dynamic load balancing strategy. The first strategy is to achieve an initial balanced workload on the system's server cluster during the system initialization time, whereas the second strategy is to maintain this balanced workload throughout the system execution time. Together, these two strategies work in unison to ensure that the server resources are efficiently utilized; the user requests are processed with the required speed; the application is partitioned with sufficient room to scale; and the system is highly available. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Probing and diagnosis of slider–disk interactions in nanometer clearance regime using artificial neural network

This paper addresses the issue of system identification for an active-head slider used to form a stable and reliable head–disk interface with a spacing of sub 3?nm. A new identification method is proposed to fit the highly non-stationary and highly nonlinear slider dynamics. The estimated model can be used for design of a model based nonlinear controller to control the flying height within the desired range. The effectiveness of the proposed system identification method is verified with simulation examples.     

Fabrication of a high aspect ratio nanoporous array on silicon

In this study, a simple method for the fabrication of high aspect ratio silicon nanoporous arrays is developed. A N-type silicon wafer is used as the substrate material. A micro-scale pattern of the desired porous array is transferred to the front surface of the silicon wafer by photolithography after which the wafer is placed in a home-made fixture to efficiently expel the etching generated air and promptly hold the back-side illumination light. A halogen lamp is used as the light source for backside illumination to enhance the electron–hole pair generation. An anodization process is then carried out using a new etchant consisting of hydrofluoric acid and mixed EtOH and EMSO surfactant to effectively polish the pore surfaces and sharpen the tips of the etched pores. A nanochannel array with a nano-tip of 61.4?nm is obtained.     

一种新的混响时间计算方法

施罗德混响时间估计是基于房间冲激响应平方的反向积分算法,而房间冲激响应依赖于声源及接收器位置。这样得到的混响时间与声源(或接收器)位置是否有关是一个值得研究的问题。施罗德方法估计的混响时间依赖于声源(或接收器)的位置,因此提出了对施罗德混响时间估计方法的改进算法:在进行冲激响应平方反向积分的算法前先去掉冲激响应的前三个最大主脉冲,然后基于施罗德方法估计混响时间。仿真实验表明,这种改进可以有效地降低接收器(或声源)位置对混响时间估计的影响。     

Research of {0001} crystal orientation for magnesium alloys solidified in a fashion of cellular crystals

The magnesium alloy grew in a fashion of cellular crystals during the process of unidirectional solidification, and the {0001} crystal face orientation in the cast ingot of the magnesium alloy was studied. The theoretical model and methodology were set up, and a corresponding experiment was carried out to verify the theoretical analysis results. The experimental results indicate that the {0001} crystal face of magnesium crystals parallels to the width direction for the thin-plate cast ingot when the magnesium grows in a manner of cellular crystals. The separation angle between the {0001} crystal face of magnesium crystals and the vertical axis line of the cast ingot is about 62° for the circular column cast ingot, which distributes in cone-type. The theoretical analysis results are basically in agreement with the experimental ones of previous literatures and this paper.     

听力理解失败者元认知探讨

听力理解作为二语习得中的重要的组成部分已受到越来越多的关注。文章从心理学元认知理论出发,通过英语听力理解认知心理过程分析,揭示听力理解失败者的元认知特点及其原因,旨在探究如何提高听力理解失败者的元认知能力的具体策略。     

地震概查在快速找煤中的应用效果

地震概查一般在煤田预测的基础上进行,主要是通过稀疏的地震勘探线控制预测含煤区域,并对工作区有无进一步工作价值作出评价。以内黄隆起区进行地震概查工作为例,论述了地震概查在快速找煤中的应用及效果,在本次概查成果的基础上结合区内以往钻探资料,在较短的时间内实现了豫北地区找煤工作的重大突破,为河南提供了4处大型煤炭开发后备基地。同时,在工作过程中引入了“三边”工作制度及专家监审机制,保证了地震概查在快速找煤中的应用效果。