Pricing strategies with reference effects in competitive industries

This paper examines the effect of reference prices on companies operating within competitive industries. We confirm that even with competition, firms optimally price high in the short term to generate a high reference price and then decrease this price over time. Competitors' prices converge toward each other over time, emphasizing the short‐term nature of reference prices. We then show that pricing optimally to take advantage of reference prices generates a positive externality for other firms in an industry, such that competitors may generate higher profit. The longer the focus of a given firm, the more profit the firm generates, but less relative to its competitors. This arises because the externalities created through pricing high to increase reference prices outweigh the benefits of the higher reference prices themselves. If pricing managers are compensated relative to their competition, this suggests that short‐termism may be implicitly encouraged to the detriment of profit.     

大直径筒仓中无粘结预应力混凝土结构的应用

大直径混凝土筒仓采用普通钢筋混凝土结构设计时，常常需要较大幅度地增加钢筋用量，有时甚至加大钢筋用量仍无法满足规范对裂缝宽度的要求。故采用无粘结预应力混凝土结构筒仓，可有效地控制裂缝的出现，并减小钢筋用量，取得了良好的效果。以工程实例对无粘结预应力混凝土结构筒仓的设计、施工作了介绍。     

网络机房服务器监控平台的构建

利用开源软件Nagios构建服务器性能监控平台,对高校机房服务器的网络。关键应用和硬件主要指标进行Web可视化监控,把故障信息通过电子邮件和手机短信实时通知系统管理员。重点介绍了监控平台实现的基本原理和安装配置,并结合本校实际给出案例。     

NGF型生料均化库装备技术的开发及应用

南京院开发的小型NGF型系列连续重力充气搅拌式生料均化库，已成功用于多条2500—10000t／d水泥熟料生产线。文章介绍了该库的均化工作原主要由三部分完成：一是库顶多点下料生料分配器；二是内、外充气系统；三是库底卸料装置及充气计量仓系统。同时详细分析了该库的结构组成和结构特点；还作了其中的二个应用实例及其效果。运行结果表明，该库的装备技术安全可靠，造价合理寿命长，均化原理先进，运行电耗低，均化效果好，达到国内外同类产品的先进水平。     

大直径浅圆仓缩尺模型试验研究

大直径浅圆仓在生产过程中,由于仓底的偏心卸料使筒仓仓壁产生不均受力,会给筒仓结构的使用带来安全隐患。通过对浅圆仓缩尺模型试验,模拟筒仓生产过程的卸料状况,并对筒仓仓壁及仓底廊道顶部进行压力测试,将测试结果与理论计算进行对比,从而得出偏心卸料与静载状态的超压系数,为大直径浅圆仓设计提供依据。     

短纤维-橡胶复合材料在输送带中的应用

介绍了以不连续的聚酯短纤维群为骨架材料，ＮＲ／ＳＢＲ为基质胶的定向短纤维橡胶复合材料（ＯＳＦＲＣ）在输送带中的应用。结果表明，ＯＳＦＲＣ输送带与棉帆布芯输送带相比，使用寿命提高１倍，带体综合物理性能好，在应力作用下不脱层，无受潮霉烂现象，输送平稳且不打滑，适宜在苛刻条件下使用。     

提高电力变压器抗短路能力的方法与措施

电力变压器是电力系统中关键的设备之一,阐述了电力变压器发生短路故障时产生过电流的危害性。通过对电力变压器绕组中短路电动力的分析,提出了电力变压器在设计、工艺、结构、选型和运行方面提高抗短路能力的方法与措施。     

料仓结构设计中的贮料压力计算分析

料仓贮料压力计算是料仓结构设计中的重要一环,其计算方式分为深仓和浅仓两种。本文通过具体算例分析,对钢筋混凝土料仓和钢料仓在贮料压力计算中应注意的压力复核问题进行了总结,提出了较实用的解决办法。     

基于形状记忆合金的TMD半主动控制

针对建筑结构在随机荷载或风荷载作用下可能发生的频率不确定问题,特别是结构自振频率会随振幅的大小而发生漂移的非线性振动问题,提出性能可靠、构造简单的形状记忆合金SMA-TMD自适应半主动控制系统.从理论上探讨形状记忆合金在变刚度TMD控制装置中的应用,并进行相应的参数设计.同时,在研究随机荷载作用下TMD系统动力特性的基础上,结合短时傅里叶变换(STFT)设计出该系统的自适应半主动控制算法.算例表明,SMA-TMD自适应控制系统能较好地识别结构系统的时频特性,并进行有效的控制,具有性能可靠和自适应能力强等特点.该自适应控制系统较传统的TMD被动控制减震效果更好,鲁棒性更强.     

Support vector machine forecasting method improved by chaotic particle swarm optimization and its application

By adopting the chaotic searching to improve the global searching performance of the particle swarm optimization (PSO), and using the improved PSO to optimize the key parameters of the support vector machine (SVM) forecasting model, an improved SVM model named CPSO-SVM model was proposed. The new model was applied to predicting the short term load, and the improved effect of the new model was proved. The simulation results of the South China Power Market’s actual data show that the new method can effectively improve the forecast accuracy by 2.23% and 3.87%, respectively, compared with the PSO-SVM and SVM methods. Compared with that of the PSO-SVM and SVM methods, the time cost of the new model is only increased by 3.15 and 4.61 s, respectively, which indicates that the CPSO-SVM model gains significant improved effects. Foundation item: Project(70572090) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China