Exploring Statistical Arbitrage Opportunities Using Machine Learning Strategy

Computational Economics - Arbitrage opportunity exploration is important to ensure the profitability of statistical arbitrage. Prior studies that concentrate on cointegration model and other...     

Surface Energy and Surface Stability of Ag Nanocrystals at Elevated Temperatures and Their Dominance in Sublimation‐Induced Shape Evolution

The surface energy and surface stability of Ag nanocrystals (NCs) are under debate because the measurable values of the surface energy are very inconsistent, and the indices of the observed thermally stable surfaces are apparently in conflict. To clarify this issue, a transmission electron microscope is used to investigate these problems in situ with elaborately designed carbon‐shell‐capsulated Ag NCs. It is demonstrated that the {111} surfaces are still thermally stable at elevated temperatures, and the victory of the formation of {110} surfaces over {111} surfaces on the Ag NCs during sublimation is due to the special crystal geometry. It is found that the Ag NCs behave as quasiliquids during sublimation, and the cubic NCs represent a featured shape evolution, which is codetermined by both the wetting equilibrium at the Ag–C interface and the relaxation of the system surface energy. Small Ag NCs (≈10 nm) no longer maintain the wetting equilibrium observed in larger Ag NCs, and the crystal orientations of ultrafine Ag NCs (≈6 nm) can rotate to achieve further shape relaxation. Using sublimation kinetics, the mean surface energy of Ag NCs at 1073 K is calculated to be 1.1–1.3 J m^?2.     

Isolation and characterization of seven quorum quenching bacteria for biofouling control in MBR

Recently, interspecies quorum quenching (QQ) by bacteria has been reported as a novel approach in biofouling control in membrane bioreactor (MBR) for wastewater treatment. In this study, seven QQ bacteria, named RO1 to RO7, were isolated from fouling reverse osmosis (RO) membrane and were encapsulated in the microbial filters for biofouling control in MBR. Results showed that all isolates have extracellular QQ activity, and RO1 to RO6 were characterized as heat-stable enzymatic degradation of N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs), while RO7 was mainly pH-dependent. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene indicated that RO7 was a species of Pseudomonas sp., others belonged to the species of Bacillus, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Delftia tsuruhatensis, respectively. Then, the microbial filters encapsulated each isolate were applied in a laboratory-scaled MBR and proved the substantial inhibition effect on membrane biofouling except for RO7, indicating that QQ bacteria employing enzymes to degrade AHLs have great potential in biofouling control in MBR.     

A two-step approach to synthesis of Co(OH)<Subscript>2</Subscript>/γ-NiOOH/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for high performance supercapacitors

A two-step approach was reported to fabricate cobaltous hydroxide/γ- nickel oxide hydroxide/reduced graphene oxide (Co(OH)₂/γ-NiOOH/RGO) nanocomposites on nickel foam by combining the reduction of graphene oxide with the help of reflux condensation and the subsequent hydrothermal of Co(OH)₂ on RGO. The microstructural, surface morphology and electrochemical properties of the Co(OH)₂/γ-NiOOH/RGO nanocomposite were investigated. The results showed that the surface of the first-step fabricated γ-NiOOH/RGO nanocomposites was uniformly coated by Co(OH)₂ nanoflakes with lateral size of tens of nm and thickness of several nm. Co(OH)₂/γ-NiOOH/RGO nanocomposite demonstrated a high specific capacitance (745 mF/cm² at 0.5 mA/cm²) and a cycling stability of 69.8% after 1000 cycles at 30 mV/cm². γ-NiOOH/RGO//Co(OH)₂/γ-NiOOH/RGO asymmetric supercapacitor was assembled, and maximum gravimetric energy density of 57.3 W?h/kg and power density of 66.1 kW/kg were achieved. The synergistic effect between the highly conductive graphene and the nanoflake Co(OH)₂ structure was responsible for the high electrochemical performance of the hybrid electrode. It is expected that this research could offer a simple method to prepare graphene-based electrode materials.     

开关磁阻电机稳态特性的等效磁网络模型分析方法Ⅰ.数学模型

本文利用开关磁阻电机的等效磁网络模型,推导出了电机绕组满足的以绕组磁链为状态变量的微分方程,建立了电机稳态运行分析的数学模型。本文成功地将非线性磁参数法的思想从单相电流系统推广到了多相电流系统,对开关磁阻电机的理论研究具有重要的意义。     

Abrogation of p53 function affects gadd gene responses to DNA base-damaging agents and starvation

The tumor suppressor p53 is required for induction of its downstream effector genes such as GADD45 and CIP1/WAF1 by ionizing radiation (IR). This response is probably mediated through defined p53 binding sites located in the promoter of CIP1/WAF1 and in the third intron of GADD45. In contrast, the gadd gene stress response to base-damaging agents, such as methylmethane sulfonate (MMS) or UV radiation, or medium depletion (starvation) occurs in all mammalian cells examined to date regardless of p53 status for both GADD45 and also GADD153, which is not IR-responsive in many lines with functional p53. These agents strongly induce the p53 protein and raise the possibility that, although p53 is not required for the typical "gadd" response to these agents, p53 may contribute to these non-IR stress responses. This possibility was confirmed by the finding that disruption of p53 function by transfection with dominant-negative vectors expressing HPV E6, mutant p53, or SV40 T Ag reduced the induction of GADD45 and GADD153 as measured by increases in mRNA and protein levels in human lines with wild-type p53. Similarly, induction of these genes by MMS or UV radiation was consistently stronger in the parental mouse embryo fibroblasts compared to cells derived from mice where both p53 alleles had been deleted. Similar qualitative responses were also seen for CIP1/WAF1. In agreement with reduced induction of p53-regulated genes, the G1 checkpoint activated by MMS or UV radiation was markedly abrogated in p53-wt human MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells by E6 expression. Interestingly, induction of reporter constructs driven by the GADD45 or GADD153 promoters was substantially reduced in human cells transfected with mutant p53 or E6 expression vectors or in cells lacking p53 following treatment with MMS, UV radiation, or starvation. Because neither promoter is inducible by IR, and neither contains a strong p53 binding site, these results indicate that p53 has a synergistic or cooperative role in these non-IR stress responses for both GADD45 and GADD153, and that this role is not mediated through identifiable p53-binding sites.     

Dependency mining-based causal message logging

In fault-tolerant computing, the approach of causal message logging provides on-demand stable logging and enables the independent recovery of nodes. It imposes the requirement that the dependency between non-deterministic events needs to be known for nodes. The dependency information is disseminated through messages. A central problem in traditional causal message logging is that if the message logging progress of nodes cannot be effectively tracked, some redundant dependency information will be piggybacked on the messages. In this paper, a dependency mining based approach is proposed. It tries to detect the message logging progress of nodes only from the dependency between non-deterministic events, without needing to piggyback an additional dependency vector or dependency matrix on each message.     

企业对标管理信息系统的应用研究

对某炼化企业的对标管理信息系统的应用进行研究分析,从系统模型、逻辑流程、系统功能设计等进行了深入的分析,并对此系统为企业管理带来的影响进行了全面讨论,肯定了该系统在企业对标管理过程中的重要作用.