Assessing students' conceptual understanding using an online three‐tier diagnostic test

When solving a mathematical problem, students who do not have sufficient conceptual understanding may perform poorly and exhibit misconceptions. This study was aimed to examine students' conceptual understanding and significant misconceptions when solving number sense‐related problems. An online three‐tier diagnostic test was administered to 125 fifth‐grade students with varied socio‐economic backgrounds in Hong Kong. Only 14.40% of the students exhibited high performance with high confidence, indicating that these students had a profound conceptual understanding of number sense. In addition, the majority of the students (66.40%) did not demonstrate number sense; these students exhibited several significant misconceptions and could solve the questions only by using a rule‐based method or guessing. Accordingly, most students performed unsatisfactorily on number sense‐related problems. This study is imperative in identifying early predictors and provides information for further compatible interventions in the teaching and learning of number sense in Hong Kong in particular and worldwide in general.     

期刊稿件网络采编系统的建立

《中国冶金》杂志社全面启用的科技期刊稿件采编系统是以Internet为载体，具有作者在线投稿、在线查询、上传校样、专家在线审理稿件、提交审稿意见、上传审改稿、编辑在线加工处理稿件等作用，完全实现了稿件从收稿到发稿的全程数字化管理，同时建立了数据齐全、操作简便的作者、审稿专家和稿件的数据库，改进了传统的操作方法和管理模式，提高了工作效率。杂志社采用该系统还可以进行网刊发布、管理以及期刊征订和发行处理。     

Multivariability speaker recognition database in Indian scenario

In this paper we describe the collection and organization of the speaker recognition database in Indian scenario named as IITG Multivariability Speaker Recognition Database. The database contains speech from 451 speakers speaking English and other Indian languages both in conversational and read speech styles recorded using various sensors in parallel under different environmental conditions. The database is organized into four phases on the basis of different conditions employed for the recording. The results of the initial studies conducted on a speaker verification system exploring the impact of mismatch in training and test conditions using the collected data are also included. A copy of this database can be obtained from the authors by contacting them.     

混沌精英哈里斯鹰优化算法

针对哈里斯鹰优化（HHO）算法存在的收敛精度低、收敛速度慢、易于陷入局部最优的不足,提出了一种混沌精英哈里斯鹰优化（CEHHO）算法。首先,引入精英等级制度策略,以充分利用优势种群来增强种群多样性以及提升算法收敛速度和精度;其次,利用Tent混沌映射调整算法关键参数;然后,使用一种非线性能量因子调节策略来平衡算法的开发与探索;最后,使用高斯随机游走策略对最优个体施加扰动,并在算法停滞时,利用随机游走策略使算法有效跳出局部最优。通过对20个基准测试函数在不同维度下进行仿真实验,来评估算法的寻优能力。实验结果表明,改进算法的表现优于鲸鱼优化算法（WOA）、灰狼优化（GWO）算法、粒子群优化（PSO）算法和生物地理优化（BBO）算法,性能较原始HHO算法有明显提升,验证了改进算法的有效性。     

多元醇胺对钢铁渣粉溶解特性的影响

为了解决钢铁渣粉溶解性差所引起的活性低的问题,研究了三乙醇胺( TEA)、三异丙醇胺( TIPA)和二乙醇单异丙醇胺( DEIPA)对钢铁渣粉在碱性环境下溶解的影响规律,通过电导率仪、酸度计、电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱仪( inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy,ICP-AES)和八通道微量热仪对钢铁渣粉的溶解特性进行了表征。结果表明：多元醇胺降低了钢铁渣粉液相的pH并提高了液相电导率,主要表现为增加了液相中Fe、Ca、Al元素的质量浓度,其中TEA和DEIPA的影响效果大于TIPA;多元醇胺提高了钢铁渣粉早期的溶解热和最大水化热峰值,进一步证实了多元醇胺对钢铁渣粉具有增溶作用。     

Compensation of hysteresis in piezoelectric actuator with iterative learning control

This paper presents the application of iterative learning control (ILC) to compensate hysteresis in a piezoelectric actuator. The proposed controller is a hybrid of proportional-integral-differential (PID) control, whose main function is for trajectory tracking, and a chatter-based ILC, whose main function is for hysteresis compensation. Stability analysis of the proposed ILC is presented, with the PID included in the dynamic of the piezoelectric actuator. The performance of the proposed controller is analysed through simulation and verified with experiment with a piezoelectric actuator.     

Integrated Data Management for a Fleet of Search‐and‐rescue Robots

Search‐and‐rescue operations have recently been confronted with the introduction of robotic tools that assist the human search‐and‐rescue workers in their dangerous but life‐saving job of searching for human survivors after major catastrophes. However, the world of search and rescue is highly reliant on strict procedures for the transfer of messages, alarms, data, and command and control over the deployed assets. The introduction of robotic tools into this world causes an important structural change in this procedural toolchain. Moreover, the introduction of search‐and‐rescue robots acting as data gatherers could potentially lead to an information overload toward the human search‐and‐rescue workers, if the data acquired by these robotic tools are not managed in an intelligent way. With that in mind, we present in this paper an integrated data combination and data management architecture that is able to accommodate real‐time data gathered by a fleet of robotic vehicles on a crisis site, and we present and publish these data in a way that is easy to understand by end‐users. In the scope of this paper, a fleet of unmanned ground and aerial search‐and‐rescue vehicles is considered, developed within the scope of the European ICARUS project. As a first step toward the integrated data‐management methodology, the different robotic systems require an interoperable framework in order to pass data from one to another and toward the unified command and control station. As a second step, a data fusion methodology will be presented, combining the data acquired by the different heterogenic robotic systems. The computation needed for this process is done in a novel mobile data center and then (as a third step) published in a software as a service (SaaS) model. The SaaS model helps in providing access to robotic data over ubiquitous Ethernet connections. As a final step, we show how the presented data‐management architecture allows for reusing recorded exercises with real robots and rescue teams for training purposes and teaching search‐and‐rescue personnel how to handle the different robotic tools. The system was validated in two experiments. First, in the controlled environment of a military testing base, a fleet of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles was deployed in an earthquake‐response scenario. The data gathered by the different interoperable robotic systems were combined by a novel mobile data center and presented to the end‐user public. Second, an unmanned aerial system was deployed on an actual mission with an international relief team to help with the relief operations after major flooding in Bosnia in the spring of 2014. Due to the nature of the event (floods), no ground vehicles were deployed here, but all data acquired by the aerial system (mainly three‐dimensional maps) were stored in the ICARUS data center, where they were securely published for authorized personnel all over the world. This mission (which is, to our knowledge, the first recorded deployment of an unmanned aerial system by an official governmental international search‐and‐rescue team in another country) proved also the concept of the procedural integration of the ICARUS data management system into the existing procedural toolchain of the search and rescue workers, and this in an international context (deployment from Belgium to Bosnia). The feedback received from the search‐and‐rescue personnel on both validation exercises was highly positive, proving that the ICARUS data management system can efficiently increase the situational awareness of the search‐and‐rescue personnel.     

Network State Estimation and Prediction for Real-Time Traffic Management

Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) have the potential to contribute to the solution of the traffic congestion problem. DynaMIT is a real-time system that can be used to generate guidance for travelers. The main principle on which DynaMIT is based is that information should be consistent, and user optimal. Consistency implies that the traffic conditions experienced by the travelers are consistent with the condition assumed in generating the guidance. To generate consistent user optimal information, DynaMIT performs two main functions: state estimation and prediction. A demand simulator and a supply simulator interact to perform these tasks. A case study demonstrates the value of the system.     

Development and performance characterization of a new standard mercury manometer

A new standard mercury manometer has been developed to calibrate low vacuum gauges in the range from atmospheric pressure to 1 mbar. It consists of a cistern that is a small stainless steel container used as mercury reservoir and also as the first Hg column connected to a long glass tube used as the second Hg column. Manometer scale covers the difference in Hg heights in two columns up to the length equivalent to 1000 mbars. This is a novel low cost manometer with simple design, compact fabrication, better accuracy, easy operation, low vibration, and thermal stability. In order to evaluate the performance of the equipment, its generated pressures are compared with those of secondary standard, i.e., calibrated capacitance diaphragm gauge, giving the average correction factor 0.998. Different uncertainties of the generated pressures are discussed in detail along with the evaluation of correction factors. The relative uncertainty in the higher pressure side is found to be in the range of 10(-4) which is within the limit (approximately 10(-4)).     

基于S3C6410的DMA数据跟踪技术在TD-LTE中的实现

基于TD-LTE系统中数据跟踪技术的研究与DMA获取系统总线的不同模式,设计并分析比较了在S3C6410上通过DMA实现原语跟踪的两种方案。根据TD-LTE无线综合测试仪中的设计要求,选择了中断标志查询模式获取系统总线的方案,实现了TD-LTE系统原语的实时跟踪,满足了系统对CPU资源利用率以及数据传输速度和准确性的要求。