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Research on mine MES system based on ArchestrA architecture

Aimed at “isolated information resources” problem Chinese mine enterprises meet in production automation construction process, this paper puts forward a platform solving strategy. It establishes a mine MES system by ArchestA architecture design method, mainly studies the integrated automation system in mine production process, analyzes its structure and functions and discusses how to take full advantage of ArchestrA industrial automation and information software architecture to integrate mine automatic control system, establish a MES system, coordinate various links in production, optimize control and carry out comprehensive management. This system takes Yunnan Chihong Co.,Ltd. Smelting Works MES system as an example to realize the optimal control, operation and management of production process and achieve remarkable application effects.
Focusing property of the phase modulated radially polarized beam

The wavefront phase of incident radially polarized beam is modulated into two portions, the center circle portion and outer annular portion. The radially polarized and longitudinally polarized fields in focal region were investigated theoretically. Increasing the radius of the center circle with Π phase shift, the radially polarized field shows ring shape, and one ring pattern evolves to two-ring, and then three-ring pattern. The longitudinally polarized field turns into one spot, which splits into two spots, and then combines back into one spot with increasing the radius of the center circle. Maximum intensity ratio of longitude polarized to radially polarized fields increases, decreases, and then increases with the increasing radius. The effect of phase of the center portion affects the radially polarized and longitude polarized fields considerably. And the maximum intensity ratio evolution principle with increasing phase of the center circle portion differs considerably for different radius of the inner portion.
Joint modeling a primary endpoint and longitudinal data

In many studies the association of longitudinal measuremen ts of a continuous response and a primary endpoint are often of interest. A convenient fr amework for this type of problems is joint models, which are formulated to investigate th e association between a primary endpoint and features of longitudinal measurements throug h a common set of latent random effects. The joint model, which is the focus of this article, is a logistic regression model with covariates defined as the individual–specific random ef fects in a non–linear random effects model for the longitudinal measurements. We discuss d ifferent estimation procedures, which include two-stage, best linear unbiased predictors, and various numerical integration techniques. The proposed methods are illustrated using a re al dataset where the objective is to study the association between longitudinal hormone le v ls and the pregnancy outcome
Smart Indoor Positioning System for Situation Awareness in Emergency Situations

In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning system for situation awareness in emergency situations. We consider a system that uses inertial sensors to provide positioning information in environments without GNSS coverage. We present the overall system architecture with the special emphasis on a smartphone application for indoor positioning and a mapping web portal where authorized personnel is given access to the positioning data.
A Tutorial in Spatial Sampling and Regression Strategies for Microarchitectural Analysis

We present a new simulation paradigm for microarchitectural design evaluation and optimization. This paradigm counters increasing simulation costs attributed to the exponentially increasing size of design spaces and the need for more thorough, comprehensive studies when evaluating increasingly diverse design options. We present a tutorial for (1) obtaining a more comprehensive understanding of the design space by (2) selectively simulating a modest number of designs from that space and then (3) more effectively leveraging that simulation data using techniques in statistical inference. We survey techniques in spatial sampling to obtain designs for simulation. We also detail the statistical techniques required to derive efficient and robust models, interleaving code segments from scripts performing these analyses. The predictive ability and computational efficiency of these regression models enable new capabilities in microarchitectural design space studies. Collectively, our experiences with this paradigm suggest significant potential for accurate, efficient statistical inference in the microarchitectural domain.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

worker," and thus a renewed kind of struggle. The double-pronged theoretical approach ofautonomism is subsequently applied to this renewed form of conflict in what are perhaps Dyer-Witheford's most convincing chapters, entitled "Circuits" and "Planets". The circuit of capitalist production originally described by Marx is examined, yet in the analysis of the already observable emerging patterns of struggle along the various parts of the circuit attention is given to those parts which Marx himself largely overlooked. In the next chapter, Dyer-Witheford suggests an alternate view ofglobalization, one in which he quickly points out that capital's stealthy restructuring has created the conditions for a series of impressively documented new oppositional alliances. These have been Formed using the very networks necessary to capital's imperatives of expansion and consolidation. Presumably in the spirit of creating new alliances once thought of as impossible, Dyer-Witheford then moves on to suggest, along the lines of what Jameson and Harvey have already attempted, possible areas of theoretical reconciliation between marxism and postmodernism. The process, already undertaken on the part of marxism, of a paradoxical "detotalizing totalizatioff', is capable, according to Dyer-Witheford, o f recontextualizing ". some of the important postmodern insights into contemporary conditions of communications. " (p. 190) Yet he saves an even more ambitious move for the end, where in the spirit ofpraxis the last two chapters ("Alternatives" and "Intellects") are dedicated to both delineating the rough form that an initial alternative to capitalism might take and discussing a more organic role for academia to play in the transformative process suggested. Dyer-Witheford's book is a compelling attempt to resuscitate marxism fi'om its often stagnant status within social theory and apply an under-theorized and potentially useful version of it to the dramatic technological restructuring we have been witnessing for decades. While at times autonomous marxism can appear overly eager to celebl~te the (allegedly intrinsical) revolutionary potential offered by capitalist communications technology, a degree of optimism cannot but be welcome in any critical analysis of the subject. The year this book was published did, after all, witness a mass protest against the WTO which was largely coordinated and made successfifl thanks to "alternative" uses of information technology. The fact that Dyer-Witheford's book enumerates the many movements coordinated in much the same way (and their varying degrees of success) indicates that the perspective here adopted has more than just a transient ability to explain the dynamic of social struggle between capital and labour, as well as the role that information technology now plays in the process.
Implementation of IT/IS in Indian SMES: Challenges and Opportunities

Globalisation has forced SMEs to think beyond the traditional methodology, in the present scenario Indian SMEs are facing competition from within the country as well as from other developing countries. Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a crucial role to play because of their potential contributions to employment creation, improvement of income distribution, poverty reduction, growth of exports of manufactured products, and development of entrepreneurship, manufacturing industry, and rural economy. It is widely stated in the literature that SMEs in developing countries are important. IT/IS play decisive role in increasing the profitability of the organization. Competitiveness among the SMEs is makes them to think about the use of current available technology. Becoming an inherent part in large organisations, IT is a mechanism that enables SMEs to respond to customer requirements efficiently by enabling information to be transmitted. SMEs endeavour to manage the knowledge sharing process and inter-organizational knowledge. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is best and effective available technology that can be adopted by Indian SMEs to survive the competition. This paper will focus on the available technologies that can be adopted by SMEs for maximizing benefits by taking quick and accurate decision such as ERP.
Employee Engagement

There is clear and mounting evidence that employee engagement keenly correlates to individual, group, and corporate performance in areas such as retention, productivity, customer service, and loyalty. This timely treatment provides a comprehensive framework, language, and process that genuinely connects People strategy with Business strategy. It offers a research-based blueprint for looking at employee engagement with the same regularity and importance as any other aspect of the organization.
Alignment Across Oriental and Indo-European Languages

The linguistic characteristics of Oriental languages and Indo-European languages are very different. Using purely length-based algorithm could not produce high performance on aligning texts. This paper investigates the effectiveness of critical part-of-speech (POS) criterion on alignment under conditions of different search strategies and different register texts. Two metrics, recall and precision, are defined for performance evaluation. The experimental results show that the critical POSes criterion has the uniform behavior on different search strategies and on different register texts and is superior to the length-based criterion. Subject Areas: Bilingual Texts, Alignment, Texts Processing.
Title Semi-global stabilization of linear time-delay systems with inputenergy constraint

This paper is concerned with semi-global stabilization of linear systems with actuator delay and energy constraints. Under the condition of null controllability by vanishing energy, the parametric Lyapunov equation based L2 low gain feedback is adopted to solve the problem. If the delay in the system is exactly known, a delay-dependent controller is designed and if the delay in the system is either time-varying or not exactly known, a delay-independent controller is established. The proposed approach is used in the linearized model of the relative motion in the orbit plane of a spacecraft with respect to another in a circular orbit around the Earth to validate its effectiveness.
Employee retention : a multiple case study of South African national government departments

The purpose of the research is to identify key factors influencing employee retention in the South African national government departments as a guide towards developing effective employee retention strategies. The research was conducted in three phases. For the determination of employee turnover rates and benchmarks, 33 national departments were classified into three homogenous subgroups with respect to their number of employees (Phase one). Thereafter the employee turnover rates for each department and benchmarks for each subgroup were determined (Phase two). These employee turnover statistics were analysed for all 33 national departments in the three subgroups and used as guidelines for the selection of cases for the multiple case (Phase three). Four departments were selected from each subgroup for the case study where selection was based on a department‟s turnover rate relative to the benchmark rate. These departments participated in a cross sectional survey. The data from the survey was analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The analysis confirmed a significant relationship between employee turnover rates and responses for the combined subgroups of selected small, medium and large departments. Significant relationships were also observed for the subgroups of small and large departments. Employee turnover has a significant impact on business performance primarily due to the fact that it takes too long to fill vacant posts together with uncompetitive salary scales and the lack of skilled candidates. Further, the lack of human resourcing strategies, recruitment difficulties, problems related to monitoring and measuring of employee turnover and employee retention difficulties were important issues that influence employee retention. Future research on knowledge and systems for managing employee turnover is recommended.
A Comprehensive Multi-criteria Model for High Cartographic Quality Point-Feature Label Placement

The lettering process, including assigning names to point features, is an essential part of map production. While there have been numerous and varied research efforts to automate point-feature label placement (PFLP), none of them seems to have taken into account the many well-established cartographic precepts for point-feature annotation used by human cartographers. As a result, current fully automated solutions are limited in their expressive power. The PFLP problem is still vital, therefore, and solving it is a compelling challenge. This article presents a comprehensive multi-criterion model that complies with almost all well-defined cartographic placement principles and requirements for PFLP, allowing for a significant increase in toponym density without affecting legibility. The proposed model, expressed as a qualityevaluation function, can be used by any mathematical optimization algorithm to resolve the automated label-placement problem. Through an application of the proposed model tested on volunteered geographic (VGI) data and the creation of sample parameter settings, the article illustrates that a high level of cartographic quality for PFLP can be achieved through the integrated approach, comparable to the lettering produced by an expert cartographer.
PlantNATsDB: a comprehensive database of plant natural antisense transcripts

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs), as one type of regulatory RNAs, occur prevalently in plant genomes and play significant roles in physiological and pathological processes. Although their important biological functions have been reported widely, a comprehensive database is lacking up to now. Consequently, we constructed a plant NAT database (PlantNATsDB) involving approximately 2 million NAT pairs in 69 plant species. GO annotation and high-throughput small RNA sequencing data currently available were integrated to investigate the biological function of NATs. PlantNATsDB provides various user-friendly web interfaces to facilitate the presentation of NATs and an integrated, graphical network browser to display the complex networks formed by different NATs. Moreover, a ‘Gene Set Analysis’ module based on GO annotation was designed to dig out the statistical significantly overrepresented GO categories from the specific NAT network. PlantNATsDB is currently the most comprehensive resource of NATs in the plant kingdom, which can serve as a reference database to investigate the regulatory function of NATs. The PlantNATsDB is freely available at http://bis.zju. edu.cn/pnatdb/.
The role of thermodynamics in disc fragmentation

Thermodynamics play an important role in determining the way a protostellar disc fragments to form planets, brown dwarfs and low-mass stars. We explore the effect that different treatments of radiative transfer have in simulations of fragmenting discs. Three prescriptions for the radiative transfer are used: (i) the diffusion approximation of Stamatellos et al.; (ii) the barotropic equation of state (EOS) of Goodwin et al. and (iii) the barotropic EOS of Bate et al. The barotropic approximations capture the general evolution of the density and temperature at the centre of each proto-fragment but (i) they do not make any adjustments for particular circumstances of a proto-fragment forming in the disc and (ii) they do not take into account thermal inertia effects that are important for fast-forming proto-fragments in the outer disc region. As a result, the number of fragments formed in the disc and their properties are different, when a barotropic EOS is used. This is important not only for disc studies but also for simulations of collapsing turbulent clouds, as in many cases in such simulations stars form with discs that subsequently fragment. We also examine the difference in the way proto-fragments condense out in the disc at different distances from the central star using the diffusion approximation and following the collapse of each proto-fragment until the formation of the second core (ρ≃ 10−3 g cm−3). We find that proto-fragments forming closer to the central star tend to form earlier and evolve faster from the first to the second core than proto-fragments forming in the outer disc region. The former have a large pool of material in the inner disc region that they can accrete from and grow in mass. The latter accrete more slowly and they are hotter because they generally form in a quick abrupt event.
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers

A number of recent events in the United States attest to a "globalization backlash" in opposition to continued liberalization of trade, foreign direct investment, and immigration. This backlash has been commonly characterized as reflecting the interests of small groups whose diverse agendas have very little connection, if any, to the economic consequences of policy liberalization.The authors of this book argue that this characterization is wrong. The backlash reflects widespread skepticism among US citizens about globalization, and these perceptions seem to be closely connected to the labor-market pressures that globalization may be imparting on US workers. The empirical case for the book's argument is based on three key findings. First, a wide range of public opinion surveys indicates that US citizens recognize both the costs and benefits of integration with the world economy, but they tend to weigh the costs more than the benefits. Second, these policy preferences cut most strongly across labor-market skills. Less-skilled workers are much more likely to oppose freer trade and immigration than their more-skilled counterparts. Third, this skills-preferences gap may reflect very different wage-growth levels across skill groups in the US labor market since the early 1970s. Less-skilled US workers--a group that still constitutes the majority of the US labor force--have had close to zero or even negative real wage growth and have also seen sharp declines in their wages relative to more-skilled workers.While concerns about the impact of globalization on the environment, human rights, and other issues are an important part of the politics of globalization, it is the link between policy liberalization, worker interests, and individual opinions that forms the foundation for the backlash against liberalization in the United States.
Molecular gas freeze-out in the pre-stellar core L1689B

C 1 7 O J = 2 → 1 observations have been carried out towards the pre-stellar core L1689B. By comparing the relative strengths of the hyperfine components of this line, the emission is shown to be optically thin. This allows accurate CO column densities to be determined and, for reference, this calculation is described in detail. The hydrogen column densities that these measurements imply are substantially smaller than those calculated from SCUBA dust emission data. Furthermore, the C 1 7 O J = 2 → 1 column densities are approximately constant across L1689B, whereas the SCUBA column densities are peaked towards the centre. The most likely explanation is that CO is depleted from the central regions of L1689B. Simple models of pre-stellar cores with an inner depleted region are compared with the results. This enables the magnitude of the CO depletion to be quantified and also allows the spatial extent of the freeze-out to be firmly established. We estimate that within about 5000 au of the centre of L1689B, over 90 per cent of the CO has frozen on to grains. This level of depletion can only be achieved after a duration that is at least comparable to the free-fall time-scale.
A scheduling algorithm combined with zero-forcing beamforming for a multiuser MIMO wireless system

In this paper, we introduce a scheduling algorithm over a MIMO broadcast channel. Given a set of users, the sched- uler selects more than one user and transmits independent data to them simultaneously by using zero-forcing beamforming. Taking computational complexity into account, a greedy method finding the best and most orthogonal channel vectors is proposed. Addi- tionally, considering fairness among asymmetric users, we also propose an asymptotically fair scheduling algorithm.
Dissimilarity of Ant Communities Increases with Precipitation, but not Reduced Land-Use Intensity, in Indonesian Cacao Agroforestry

Land-use degradation and climate change are well-known drivers of biodiversity loss, but little information is available about their potential interaction. Here, we focus on the effects of land-use and precipitation on ant diversity in cacao agroforestry. In Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, we selected 16 cacao agroforestry plots with a shaded vs. unshaded plot in each of eight villages differing in precipitation (1032–2051 mm annual rainfall). On each plot, 10 cacao trees with similar size and age (7–10 years) were selected for hand collection of ants on each cacao tree and the soil surface. In total, we found 80 ant species belonging to five subfamilies. Land-use intensification (removal of shade trees) and precipitation had no effect on species richness of ants per cacao tree (alpha diversity) and, in an additive partitioning approach, within-plot beta diversity. However, higher precipitation (but not shade) significantly increased ant species dissimilarity across cacao trees within a plot, with ant species showing contrasting responses to precipitation. Reduced precipitation causing drought stress appeared to contribute to convergence of ant community structure, presumably via reduced heterogeneity in cacao tree growth. In conclusion, reduced precipitation greatly influenced ant community dissimilarity and appeared to be more important for ant community structure than land-use intensification.