Improving the performance of Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLTs) have been recently introduced as an extension of traditional Bloom filters. IBLTs store key-value pairs. Unlike traditional Bloom filters, IBLTs support both a lookup operation (given a key, return a value) and an operation that lists out all the key-value pairs stored. One issue with IBLTs is that there is a probability that a lookup operation will return “not found” for a key. In this paper, a technique to reduce this probability without affecting the storage requirement and only moderately increasing the search time is presented and evaluated. The results show that it can significantly reduce the probability of not returning a value that is actually stored in the IBLT. The overhead of the modified search procedure, compared to the standard IBLT search procedure, is small and has little impact on the average search time.     

混凝土构件的涂装保护

分析了自然环境对混凝土构件的影响，简述了混凝土构件涂装对防腐蚀涂料的要求及常规涂装保护措施。     

半刚性钢-混凝土组合节点受弯承载力的计算

在半刚性钢 -混凝土组合框架中 ,混凝土板中的纵向钢筋增加了节点的强度和刚度 ,但是 ,传统的设计方法往往忽略纵向钢筋的作用而采用简化的计算模型。因此 ,出于经济效益考虑 ,应该根据半刚性组合节点的实际受力性能建立更加准确的计算方法。这里详细介绍了考虑混凝土板纵向钢筋作用的半刚性组合节点受弯承载力的计算方法 ,计算结果表明 ,建议的公式与试验结果吻合良好 ,可供规范制定和工程应用参考。     

Gemini表面活性剂的结构特点及在采油中的应用

文章简要地介绍了Gemini表面活性剂的结构特点；从表面活性剂的作用原理出发，介绍了Gemini表面活性剂的优良性能：如表面张力、泡沫力、润湿力、优异的协同效应、耐温抗盐性等；在此基础上，阐述了该类表面活性剂在油田三次采油上的应用前景。     

Relationship of threshold diameter and Darcean permeability in unconsolidated porous structures

Experiment was conducted on the threshold pressure for atmospheric air through unconsolidated narrow size distributed mini sphere and sand particles at low flow rates. The threshold diameter calculated from measured threshold pressure showed that it does not follow the traditional similarity theory. This is consistent with our experiment on accurate permeability measurement, and can be explained as a result of gas slip flow within such micro pore structure. Our current work tend to find the method to predict the permeability-threshold pressure relationship for unconsolidated porous structures.     

Investigation of the effect of surface phosphate ester dispersant on viscosity by coarse-grain modeling of BaTiO slurry

To understand the role of phosphate ester dispersant, we investigated the rheology of a BaTiO slurry. For the model case, a coarse-grain molecular dynamics (CGMD) simulation was performed with the butyral polymer didodecyl hydrogen phosphate (DHP) in the toluene/ethanol solvent. By systematically analyzing the effect of DHP from an atomic-scale first principle and from all-atom MD to microscale CGMD simulation, we investigated how the adsorption of a DHP dispersant on a BaTiO surface affects the microstructure rheology of a BaTiO slurry. The first-principle and all-atom MD simulation suggests that DHP molecules prefer to locate near the BaTiO surface. CGMD simulation shows a reduction in viscosity with an increase in dispersants, suggesting that the dispersant population near the BaTiO surface plays a key role in controlling the rheology of the BaTiO slurry. In this study, we propose an approach for understanding the BaTiO slurry with molecular-level simulations, which would be a useful tool for efficient optimization of slurry preparation.     

Discovering social structures of local influence by using tweetStimuli

Information diffusion in large-scale networks has been studied to identify the users influence. The influence has been targeted as a key feature either to reach large populations or influencing public opinion. Through the use of micro-blogs, such as Twitter, global influencers have been identified and ranked based on message propagation (retweets). In this paper, a new application is presented, which allows to find first and classify then the local influence on Twitter: who have influenced you and who have been influenced by you. Until now, social structures of tweets’ original authors that have been either retweeted or marked as favourites are unobservable. Throughout this application, these structures can be discovered and they reveal the existence of communities formed by users of similar profile (that are connected among them) interrelated with other similar profile users’ communities.     

Group‐in‐a‐Box Meta‐Layouts for Topological Clusters and Attribute‐Based Groups: Space‐Efficient Visualizations of Network Communities and Their Ties

An important part of network analysis is understanding community structures like topological clusters and attribute‐based groups. Standard approaches for showing communities using colour, shape, rectangular bounding boxes, convex hulls or force‐directed layout algorithms remain valuable, however our Group‐in‐a‐Box meta‐layouts add a fresh strategy for presenting community membership, internal structure and inter‐cluster relationships. This paper extends the basic Group‐in‐a‐Box meta‐layout, which uses a Treemap substrate of rectangular regions whose size is proportional to community size. When there are numerous inter‐community relationships, the proposed extensions help users view them more clearly: (1) the Croissant–Doughnut meta‐layout applies empirically determined rules for box arrangement to improve space utilization while still showing inter‐community relationships, and (2) the Force‐Directed layout arranges community boxes based on their aggregate ties at the cost of additional space. Our free and open source reference implementation in NodeXL includes heuristics to choose what we have found to be the preferable Group‐in‐a‐Box meta‐layout to show networks with varying numbers or sizes of communities. Case study examples, a pilot comparative user preference study (nine participants), and a readability measure‐based evaluation of 309 Twitter networks demonstrate the utility of the proposed meta‐layouts.