The Buck Stops Where?

SUMMARY

University students-whether adult, distance learner, or traditional age-need access to university services and quick accurate answers to their questions beyond traditional “business” hours. Students' busy schedules and changing life patterns dictate that university services meet their needs. At DePaul University in Chicago, student focus groups repeatedly pointed to the need for one central place to get an answer or solve a problem. DePaul Central was created as an information and referral service to satisfy that student need, at the same capitalizing on the value of the librarian skill set.     

More of the Same? Understanding Transformation in Tablet-based Academic Library Instruction

Academic librarians have shared their experiences with tablet computers, but few examine how librarians use tablets in their instruction design. While the education literature provides technology integration models, the nature of library instruction requires adapting these models to the library classroom. After reviewing literature related to tablets in library instruction and a number of technology integration frameworks, this article demonstrates an application of the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition framework to analyze observations of an iPad-equipped classroom at a university library. Demonstrating this use of a framework provides an approach to technology integration and continues the discussion about tablets’ potential to promote innovative pedagogy.     

Stability and control of nonlinear systems described by retarded functional equations: a review of recent results

This paper reports on recent results in a series of the work of the authors on the stability and nonlinear control for general dynamical systems described by retarded functional differential and difference equations. Both internal and external stability properties are studied. The corresponding Lyapunov and Razuminkhin characterizations for input-to-state and input-to-output stabilities are proposed. Necessary and sufficient Lyapunov-like conditions are derived for robust nonlinear stabilization. In particular, an explicit controller design procedure is developed for a new class of nonlinear time-delay systems. Lastly, sufficient assumptions, including a small-gain condition, are presented for guaranteeing the input-to-output stability of coupled systems comprised of retarded functional differential and difference equations.     

多媒体教学资源库的设计初探

随着网络技术的发展,多媒体教学资源库的构建已经成为现代教育技术的重要内容。该文论述了多媒体教学资源库构建的必要性,资源库的组成及其建设的建议。     

用GEP实现传感器网络多源时域数据融合

本文提出了一种基于基因表达式编程GEP的多源时域数据融合模型GEP-MSDA,该模型可以在无任何先验知识的情况下自动对多源数据进行融合。实验表明,基于GEP的融合模型较传统方法能滤除更多的冗余数据,有效节省通信开销,并保持较高的精度。     

RAZUMIKHIN-TYPE THEOREMS OF NEUTRAL STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

The stability of stochastic functional differential equation with Markovian switching was studied by several authors,but there was almost no work on the stability of the neutral stochastic functional differential equations with Markovian switching.The aim of this article is to close this gap.The authors establish Razumikhin-type theorem of the neutral stochastic functional differential equations with Markovian switching,and those without Markovian switching.     

构件测试元数据及其提取与展现技术

构件具有的封装性给构件测试带来了困难,而目前构件包含的元数据尚不完整。为了充分利用构件元数据进行构件自动化测试,从构件使用者和测试者的角度设计了内涵丰富的构件元数据,并且针对COM构件,通过访问类型库来自动获取构件结构信息元数据,按层次提取并用XML形式化描述类型信息,得到了COM构件辅助测试规格说明。实例表明,该方法能直接操纵COM构件,自动获取元数据,便于测试脚本自动生成。     

面向离散型制造业的MES的研究与设计

针对离散型制造业的行业特点,分析了MES的体系架构,利用J2EE的分布式多层应用开发与部署平台,构建具有多层结构的制造执行系统。提出了适合离散型制造业的功能模块。介绍了该系统的设计与应用。     

HClO对贻贝粘附单元DOPA氧化的理论研究

采用量子化学密度泛函理论(DFT)研究贻贝粘附单元DOPA(3,4-二羟基苯丙氨酸)的结构与性质,得分子的几何构型、原子电荷分布、反应活性及热力学等参数,表明:DOPA苯环易与HClO(次氯酸)发生亲电取代反应(1),生成3-氯4,5-二羟基苯丙氨酸,阻碍生成贻贝内超强粘附单元DOPA二联体,降低粘附蛋白间粘性;DOPA侧链易与HClO发生亲电亲核反应(2),促使DOPA侧链的断裂,降低粘附蛋白内粘性;在相同温度下,反应(1)和反应(2)的△G<0,且△G(1)<△G(2),反应(1)较易发生.     

面向短文本的命名实体识别

针对短文本命名实体识别这项紧缺任务,提出了一种面向短文本的快速有效的命名实体识别方法。该方法主要分成三步：第一步,针对短文本表达不规范特性对命名实体识别的干扰,采取去干扰字符,化繁为简等规范化操作。第二步,针对短文本语意不完整特性,提出用HMM（隐马尔可夫模型）以词性做观察值进行初步命名实体识别。第三步,据初步识别结果,构建拼音同指关系库来识别潜在实体。在由8464篇短文本构成的测试集上运行的实验表明,该方法能较好地进行短文本命名实体识别。