Economic assessment of climate adaptation options for urban drainage design in Odense, Denmark

Climate change is likely to influence the water cycle by changing the precipitation patterns, in some cases leading to increased occurrences of precipitation extremes. Urban landscapes are vulnerable to such changes due to the concentrated population and socio-economic values in cities. Feasible adaptation requires better flood risk quantification and assessment of appropriate adaptation actions in term of costs and benefits. This paper presents an economic assessment of three prevailing climate adaptation options for urban drainage design in a Danish case study, Odense. A risk-based evaluation framework is used to give detailed insights of the physical and economic feasibilities of each option. Estimation of marginal benefits of adaptation options are carried out through a step-by-step cost-benefit analysis. The results are aimed at providing important information for decision making on how best to adapt to urban pluvial flooding due to climate impacts in cities.     

Exploring context and content links in social media: a latent space method

Social media networks contain both content and context-specific information. Most existing methods work with either of the two for the purpose of multimedia mining and retrieval. In reality, both content and context information are rich sources of information for mining, and the full power of mining and processing algorithms can be realized only with the use of a combination of the two. This paper proposes a new algorithm which mines both context and content links in social media networks to discover the underlying latent semantic space. This mapping of the multimedia objects into latent feature vectors enables the use of any off-the-shelf multimedia retrieval algorithms. Compared to the state-of-the-art latent methods in multimedia analysis, this algorithm effectively solves the problem of sparse context links by mining the geometric structure underlying the content links between multimedia objects. Specifically for multimedia annotation, we show that an effective algorithm can be developed to directly construct annotation models by simultaneously leveraging both context and content information based on latent structure between correlated semantic concepts. We conduct experiments on the Flickr data set, which contains user tags linked with images. We illustrate the advantages of our approach over the state-of-the-art multimedia retrieval techniques.     

Tracking mobile users in wireless networks via semi-supervised colocalization

Recent years have witnessed the growing popularity of sensor and sensor-network technologies, supporting important practical applications. One of the fundamental issues is how to accurately locate a user with few labeled data in a wireless sensor network, where a major difficulty arises from the need to label large quantities of user location data, which in turn requires knowledge about the locations of signal transmitters or access points. To solve this problem, we have developed a novel machine learning-based approach that combines collaborative filtering with graph-based semi-supervised learning to learn both mobile users' locations and the locations of access points. Our framework exploits both labeled and unlabeled data from mobile devices and access points. In our two-phase solution, we first build a manifold-based model from a batch of labeled and unlabeled data in an offline training phase and then use a weighted k-nearest-neighbor method to localize a mobile client in an online localization phase. We extend the two-phase colocalization to an online and incremental model that can deal with labeled and unlabeled data that come sequentially and adapt to environmental changes. Finally, we embed an action model to the framework such that additional kinds of sensor signals can be utilized to further boost the performance of mobile tracking. Compared to other state-of-the-art systems, our framework has been shown to be more accurate while requiring less calibration effort in our experiments performed on three different testbeds.     

AHB-PCI桥的设计及其验证方法

本文首先简要介绍了AMBA总线和PCI总线的协议特点，并在此基础上详述了AHB-PCI桥的功能及其设计思路，文章最后是关于AHB—PCI桥的一种验证方案。本设计采用TSMC0．25μmCMOS工艺进行逻辑综合，总电路规模约为35230门。目前本设计已嵌入到SoC设计中并通过了FPGA原型验证。     

一种用于小目标检测的可配置二维自适应预测器设计

分析了用于图像中小目标检测的自适应预测器的支撑区域与其检测性能之间的关系 ,认为支撑区域应按照被处理图像统计特性进行设置 ,以正确区分图像中的目标与背景成分 .在此基础上 ,提出了一种基于 TDNL MS(Two Di-m ensional Normalized L east Mean Square)算法的支撑区域可配置的自适应预测器结构 ,通过设置适当的支撑区域 ,该预测器不仅可用于处理具有不同统计特性的图像 ,而且可以在一定程度上保持对成像面积逐渐变化的小目标的检测能力 .本文提出的预测器结构 ,只需要在每个抽头内部增加简单的控制逻辑 ,就可以实现支撑区域的任意配置 ,是一种较为理想的设计方案     

TeO2晶体位错腐蚀形貌与晶体对称性

用化学腐蚀的方法研究TeO2晶体(110)面和(001)面位错蚀坑的形貌，结合晶面极图，并运用对称群理论进行分析论证，理论分析与实验结果相一致．实验结果同时显示，TeO2晶体位错腐蚀坑面由{110}面族构成，即{110}面族是晶体的习性面．     

Continuous measurement of the arrival times of x-ray photon sequence

In order to record x-ray pulse profile for x-ray pulsar-based navigation and timing, this paper presents a continuous, high-precision method for measuring arrival times of photon sequence with a common starting point. In this method, a high stability atomic clock is counted to measure the coarse time of arrival photon. A high resolution time-to-digital converter is used to measure the fine time of arrival photon. The coarse times and the fine times are recorded continuously and then transferred to computer memory by way of memory switch. The pulse profile is obtained by a special data processing method. A special circuit was developed and a low-level x-ray pulse profile measurement experiment system was setup. The arrival times of x-ray photon sequence can be consecutively recorded with a time resolution of 500 ps and the profile of x-ray pulse was constructed. The data also can be used for analysis by many other methods, such as statistical distribution of photon events per time interval, statistical distribution of time interval between two photon events, photon counting histogram, autocorrelation and higher order autocorrelation.     

An accurate analytical approach to electron crystallography

A much more accurate analytical expression of dynamical electron diffraction than the phase object approximation (POA) formula has been derived in this paper which decreases the restriction of sample thickness up to almost one order of magnitude compared to POA theory. The importance of the new expression is twofold. First, a sample with such a thickness that new expression remains valid can be prepared experimentally. Second, the new expression reveals a clear and straightforward relationship between the wave function and crystal potential. In the expression, the effect of dynamical diffraction on wave function can be simply attributed to two factors TP(D) = (sin(lambda pi zg2))/(4pi2g2) and TA(D) = [1 - cos(lambda pi zg2)]/4pi2g2. Compared to the effect of transfer functions of an electron microscope on wave function, we found that TP(d) and TA(d) play the same role as transfer function but are independent of the instrument.For this reason, we here call the former as "extrinsic transfer functions" and the latter as "intrinsic" ones. In principle, one should correct not only extrinsic transfer functions but also intrinsic ones if one desires to achieve higher resolution.     

改性聚苯板与传统聚苯板的性能特点分析

解释了膨胀聚苯乙烯泡沫板(EPS板)、石墨模塑聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料板(SEPS板)和热固性改性聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料板(热固性EPS板)的定义,对6个不同厂家生产的EPS板、SEPS板、热固性EPS板的主要物理性能进行了研究,得出了一些有实用价值的结论。