On effective offloading services for resource-constrained mobile devices running heavier mobile internet applications

Rapid advances in wireless mobile network technologies and mobile handsets (MHs) facilitate ubiquitous infrastructure that can support a range of mobile services and applications in addition to conventional mobile Internet access. One recent trend is to effectively run desktop PC-oriented heavier applications on MHs. However, due to their miniature, portable size, MHs are resource-constrained and therefore, running these applications directly on an MH is not satisfactory given a user's expectations. To cope with this problem, this article proposes a novel offloading service that can seamlessly offload some of the tasks of a mobile application from an MH to nearby, resource-rich PCs (called surrogates). The system architecture and key components of the proposed offloading service are presented, prototyped, and evaluated. The results of experiments and simulations have demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of this offloading service for mobile applications.     

柘林电站第二溢洪道砼鼻坎截水墙施工

柘林水电站第二溢洪道,在鼻坎先于下部截墙施工中,为了满足当年泄洪,施工先沿截墙自上而下挖掘交通竖井,支撑牢固,安设好提升设备并打通墙底导洞后,再自下而上分层扩挖及浇筑砼.开挖采用登渣作业,出渣用可伸缩手柄架子车经吊篮提升.墙顶砼浇筑,通过预留在鼻坎内的下料小井进料.     

Numerical characterization of a microscale solid-oxide fuel cell

In this study, a single unit of planar micro-solid-oxide fuel cell (μSOFC) is investigated numerically to evaluate the influences of flow channel design, oxygen composition, and thermal operating conditions on cell performance. Four flow channel designs are examined under the co-flow configuration: serpentine, double serpentine, rod bundle, and oblique rib. For all designs, the contacts areas of interconnect to electrodes are kept consistent to maintain the ohmic losses at the same level. To characterize the mass transport effects, there are three different compositions, 100% O₂, 50% O₂/50% N₂ and air, fed to the cathode inlet. Different thermal conditions, adiabatic and isothermal, are applied to the outer boundary of the μSOFC and the results are compared. The outcomes suggest that both thermal conditions and oxidant composition show remarkable influences on μSOFC performance. Under adiabatic conditions, the rise of cell temperature causes a decrease in reversible voltage, deteriorating the overall cell competence. When oxygen is diluted with nitrogen, local gas diffusion becomes dominant to the cathode reaction. Bulk flow, on the other hand, plays a minor role in cell performance since there is little deviation in the polarization curves for all flow channel designs, even at high current densities. For comparison, the flow visualization technique is employed to observe the transport phenomena in various flow channel designs. The flow patterns are found to resemble the concentration distribution, providing a useful tool to design μSOFCs.     

下河沉积型瓷石的工艺特性与开发应用的探讨

本文论述了新近在江西下河发现的沉积型瓷石的地质特点、矿石特征、精泥性能、成瓷工艺及其开发应用前景。     

Precise localization of eye centers with multiple cues

Automatic detection and precise localization of human eye centers are the essential processes in photo related multimedia applications. Since eye center points are used as reference base points for further intelligent processing, precise eye center localization is very important. In face recognition the accuracy of localization of eye centers directly influences the identification accuracy. A multiple stage approach with multiple cues for detection and precise localization of eye centers is presented in this paper. Multiple scopes searching strategy is used for correctly extracting eye patch images from the background. Dedicated gradient based features and curvelet based features are constructed and used for comprehensively revealing the intensity distribution characteristics and the edge based texture around eye centers. A rebuilt score calculation mechanism is proposed and the rebuilt scores are used as a specific measurement index reflecting the matching accuracy. The final localizations of eye centers are determined with integrating the gradient based scores and curvelet based scores. The experiment results testing on public face datasets show that the localization accuracy of proposed approach outperforms the accuracy with other state of the art methods.     

Thermal and crystallization characteristics of poly(ethylene terephthalate) with poly(oxybenzoate‐p‐trimethylene terephthalate) copolymer

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was blended with two different poly(oxybenzoate‐p‐trimethylene terephthalate) copolymers, designated T28 and T64, with the level of copolymer varying from 1 to 15 wt %. All samples were prepared by solution blending in a 60/40 (by weight) phenol/tetrachloroethane solvent at 50°C. The crystallization behavior of the samples was studied by DSC. The results indicate that both T28 and T64 accelerated the crystallization rate of PET in a manner similar to that of a nucleating agent. The acceleration of PET crystallization rate was most pronounced in the PET/T64 blends with a maximum level at 5 wt % of T64. The melting temperatures for the blends are comparable to that of pure PET. The observed changes in crystallization behavior are explained by the effect of the physical state of the copolyester during PET crystallization as well as the amount of copolymer in the blends. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 86: 1599–1606, 2002     

Ti和V对Fe中氢与位错交互作用的影响

研究了Fe-0.5wt-%Ti和Fe-0.5wt-%V合金中由氢与位错交互作用所形成的氢致冷加工内耗峰(H-CWP)。实验结果表明:合金元素对H-CWP、对氢与位错之间的交互作用有显著的影响,与氢作用愈强的元素,对H-CWP的影响愈大,内耗实验结果与力学性能之间存在着一定的联系.     

Uncertain term structure model of interest rate

Term structure models describe the evolution of the yield curve through time, without considering the influence of risk, tax, etc. Recently, uncertain processes were initialized and applied to option pricing and currency model. Under the assumption of short interest rate following uncertain processes, this study investigates the term-structure equation. This equation is first derived for valuing zero-coupon bond. Finally, analytic solutions of the uncertain interest rate equation are given when the process of interest rate is assumed to be the uncertain counterparts of the Ho-Lee model and Vasicek model, respectively.     

基于完全加权关联规则挖掘和查询扩展的信息检索

将完全加权关联规则挖掘技术应用于信息检索,提出一种基于完全加权关联规则挖掘和查询扩展的信息检索模型,重点阐述模型的设计思想及其算法和实现的关键技术.实验结果表明,该模型有效,能提高信息检索性能,有很高的实际应用价值和推广前景.     

双目定位在数码相机图像标定中的应用

数码相机定位是计算机图形学中的一个重要课题,在图像处理等方面有着广泛的应用,对数码相机进行合理建模分析,并利用双目视觉原理对图像进行标定,最后例证了此方法的有效性和精确性。