An approach to reduce energy consumption and performance losses on heterogeneous servers using power capping

Journal of Scheduling - Rapid growth of demand for remote computational power, along with high energy costs and infrastructure limits, has led to treating power usage as a primary constraint in...     

High-thermal conductivities of epoxy composites via p-phenylenediamine interfacial modification and process intensification

High loadings of fillers are usually needed to achieve high-thermal conductivity (TC) of polymer-based composites, which inevitably sacrifices processability and meanwhile causes high-cost. Therefore, it is of great significance to achieve high-TC composites under low-filler loading. Here, a novel p-phenylenediamine (PPD) modified expanded graphite (EG-PPD)/epoxy (EP) composite with high TC and low-filler content was successfully prepared via pre-dispersion and vacuum assisted mixing strategy. With the improved interfacial compatibility between EG and EP by PPD, the prepared EG-PPD/EP composite exhibited excellent thermal management performance, resulting in the TC of which reached 4.00 W·m⁻¹·K⁻¹ with only 10 wt% (5.59 vol%) of EG-PPD, which is approximately 19 times higher than that of pure EP. Meantime, the interface thermal resistance of EG-PPD/EP composite between EG-PPD and EP is reduced by 33% compared with EG/EP composite. This composite with excellent TC property is expected to be used in thermal management field.     

中医针灸临床治疗专家系统的研究与实现

中医针灸是国之瑰宝,构建中医针灸专家系统是本研究和实践的目标。在《中医针灸信息库》原系统基础上,结合穴位和疗法的有限可枚举性,提出映射样本穴位疗法为二进制串、一种改进的距离函数和一种通过阈值作为收敛标准的K-means聚类算法,为实践目标奠定基础。运用一种评估聚类算法效果设计平衡点的策略,为6万余例针灸治疗案例构建知识库。实践结果表明,该知识库能满足"依病求医"、"依医问病"和知识更新等核心应用需要,查全和查准率好,也能很好地为中医针灸治疗咨询和教学科研提供辅助决策依据。     

混合总体最小二乘的迭代解算算法

总体最小二乘估计能够同时顾及线性模型中系数矩阵[WTHX]A和观测向量L的 误差,平差理论相对更为严密。如果系数矩阵[WTHX]A[WTBZ]的部分元素没有误差,这种总体最小二乘模 型为混合总体最小二乘模型。针对混合总体最小二乘(Least squares total least squares, LS TLS)解算问题,应用测量平差中 的 原理和方法,推导了混合总体最小二乘的迭代逼近解算公式,通过与奇异值分解法分析比较 ,分析了两种解算方法具有等价性,最后通过实验数据分析得出迭代算法的有效性 和合理性。     

Socio-Cultural Connections and Ruptures: Social Roles of Older Adults in Chile

This research focused on determining the sociocultural factors that build the social perception of the social roles of senior citizens in Chile in the 2002–2012 period. For this purpose, public opinion was studied in newspapers El Mercurio and La Cuarta. Specialized opinion included the Senior Citizen Program of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the National Service for Senior Citizens, the Social Observatory for Aging and Old Age of Universidad de Chile, and the Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology of Chile. A comprehensive methodology was used, along with a bibliographical four-stage design. The following ten sociocultural factors were identified: Health and Quality of Life, Studies and Data, Social Images of Aging, Gerontological Concepts and Sociopolitical Participation, Gerontological Policies, Plans and Principles, Aging, Production and Gender, Institutionalization, Demographic Growth, Gerontological Training, and Exclusion and Old Age. This work suggests modifying the conceptual premise that emphasizes the inexistence of a social role for elderly people with a vision centered on the heterogeneity of social roles under permanent sociocultural construction.     

Biofilm development during the start-up of a sulfate-reducing down-flow fluidized bed reactor at different COD/SO4(2-) ratios and HRT

In sulfate-reducing reactors, it has been reported that the sulfate removal efficiency increases when the COD/SO4(2-) ratio is increased. The start-up of a down-flow fluidized bed reactor constitutes an important step to establish a microbial community in the biofilm able to survive under the operational bioreactor conditions in order to achieve effective removal of both sulfate and organic matter. In this work the influence of COD/SO4(2-) ratio and HRT in the development of a biofilm during reactor start-up (35 days) was studied. The reactor was inoculated with 1.6 g VSS/L of granular sludge, ground low density polyethylene was used as support material; the feed consisted of mineral medium at pH 5.5 containing 1 g COD/L (acetate:lactate, 70:30) and sodium sulfate. Four experiments were conducted at HRT of 1 or 2 days and COD/SO4(2-) ratio of 0.67 or 2.5. The results obtained indicated that a COD/SO4(2-) ratio of 2.5 and HRT 2 days allowed high sulfate and COD removal (66.1 and 69.8%, respectively), whereas maximum amount of attached biomass (1.9 g SVI/L support) and highest sulfate reducing biofilm activity (10.1 g COD-H2S/g VSS-d) was achieved at HRT of 1 day and at COD/sulfate ratios of 0.67 and 2.5, respectively, which suggests that suspended biomass also played a key role in the performance of the reactors.     

现代战争模拟研究的新方向：社会仿真

随着世界社会经济和科技水平的不断发展,特别是现代信息技术的发展,社会因素对战争的影响越来越突出,因此,战争模拟应该把视野扩展到传统研究之外的社会领域.主要阐述社会仿真概念的基本内涵,建模仿真基本方法,然后重点介绍社会仿真研究领域的基础设施建模研究、大规模群体行为建模研究以及国内外典型的大规模社会仿真系统,最后,介绍在该领域开展的部分研究工作,并指出我国在该领域展开研究工作的重要意义.     

基于SWARM的虚拟社会经济系统建模与仿真

经济系统是虚拟社会中的重要组成部分,通过研究虚拟社会中政治、军事、外交等危机事件对经济系统整体及内部组成因素的影响,为决策者提供一种近似实际的较为逼真的训练环境,达到在不同条件下进行战略决策综合演练,提高战略决策者处理危机事件能力的目的.主要阐述了一种基于SWARM的经济建模与仿真方法,概括总结了该方法的建模思路与仿真步骤,运用该方法对虚拟社会的经济系统进行了建模,重点描述了模型的结构及各类Agent的属性和行为,并给出了虚拟社会经济系统的仿真框架,最后以某一地区的宏观经济情况为研究背景做了初步实验,得到了初步的实验结果.     

Casein kinase 2 down-regulation and activation by polybasic peptides are mediated by acidic residues in the 55-64 region of the beta-subunit. A study with calmodulin as phosphorylatable substrate

The noncatalytic beta-subunit is responsible for the latency of casein kinase 2 (CK2) activity toward calmodulin. Twenty-one mutants of the beta-subunit bearing either deletions or Ala substitutions for charged residues in the 5-6, 55-70, and 171-178 sequences have been assayed for their ability to substitute for wild-type beta-subunit as a suppressor of activity toward calmodulin. The only mutations that reduced the ability of the beta-subunit to suppress calmodulin phosphorylation activity, though being compatible with normal reconstitution of CK2 holoenzyme, were those affecting Asp55, Glu57 and the whole triplet Glu59-Asp-Glu61. The activity of CK2 holoenzyme, either native or reconstituted, toward calmodulin can be elicited by a variety of polybasic effectors, including polylysine, polyarginine, salmine, and histones H4, H3, and, to a lesser extent, H2a and H2b. Histone H1 and polyamines are conversely ineffective. The latent "calmodulin kinase" activity of CK2 can also be specifically unmasked by a peptide (alpha[66-86]) reproducing a basic insert of the catalytic subunit. This effect is reversed by equimolar addition of a peptide (beta[55-71]) including the 55-64 acidic stretch of the beta-subunit. Comparable polylysine stimulation was observed with the holoenzymes reconstituted with either beta wt or the beta mutants capable of assembling with the alpha-subunit, with the notable exception of those bearing Ala substitutions for acidic residues at positions 55, 57, and 59-61. These were nearly insensitive to 42 nM polylysine, which conversely promotes a more than 10-fold increase of calmodulin phosphorylation with wild-type beta.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

基于贝叶斯压缩感知的子空间拟合离格DOA估计

针对传统的基于稀疏贝叶斯学习（Sparse Bayesian Learning,SBL）的波达方向估计算法对噪声鲁棒性不高的问题,提出了一种基于SBL的子空间拟合离格波达方向(Direction of Arrival,DOA)估计方法。首先对接收数据的协方差矩阵进行特征分解,获得信号的加权子空间,构造等价信号的稀疏表示模型并利用贝叶斯学习算法进行参数求解。同时对于网格划分带来的建模误差问题,采用了离格贝叶斯推导（Sparse Bayesian Inference,SBI）算法进行求解,利用期望最大化算法迭代更新相应的参数。仿真结果表明,相对于传统的DOA方法,该方法具有更好的估计精度。